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ID: 547345
Title: Treasure Hunters: Ultimate Quest: (Treasure Hunters 8)
Author: James Patterson
Narrator: Bryan Kennedy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:03:19
Language: English
Release date: 06-09-22
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Kids, Humor
Summary:
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Dodge missiles, map undersea caves, outrun secret agents, and uncover the ultimate treasure? That's a day in the life of the Kidds!
The Kidd family is on an exciting new mission: using the augmented reality gear their parents created to uncover long-lost treasure. But then their ship, The Lost, explodes in a ball of fire!
Now Bick, Beck, Tommy and Storm are stranded on a raft in the Mediterranean Sea, and their parents have been kidnapped by maniacal treasure hunters. It's up to the Kidd siblings to follow clues around the globe to uncover the ancient treasure and save their parents . . . before they lose everything!
© James Patterson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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ID: 514273
Title: Sugar
Author: Bernice L. McFadden
Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:44:05
Language: English
Release date: 09-16-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Black Literature
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Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the small southern town of Bigelow with the hope of starting over. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears she can't hide from her past. Until, that is, she meets Pearl, her next-door neighbour. Over sweet-potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, transforming both women's lives - and the life of an entire town.
Vividly bringing 1950s Deep South America to life, with its flowering magnolia trees, lingering scents of jasmine and honeysuckle, and white picket fences that keep strangers out - but ignorance and superstition in, Sugar takes us on a journey through loss and suffering to a place of forgiveness, understanding, and grace.
© Bernice McFadden 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 523090
Title: Made for Love
Author: Alissa Nutting
Narrator: Suzanne Elise Freeman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:19:00
Language: English
Release date: 06-24-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction
Summary:
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Now an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with Hazel's father is strained at best, but it's got to be better than her marriage to dominating tech billionaire, Byron Gogol. For over a decade, Hazel has been quarantining in Byron's family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. So when Byron demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips, turning Hazel into a human guinea pig, Hazel makes a run for it. Will Hazel be able to free herself from Byron's virtual clutches before he finds her?
A gloriously absurd and hugely entertaining satire about intimacy and love from the provocative writer of the acclaimed novel Tampa.
'Exudes valiant charm' New Yorker
'Blisteringly smart and feverishly inventive' Garth Greenwell
'Brilliant... hilarious... both satisfying and unexpected' Roxane Gay
© Alissa Nutting 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 350787
Title: This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
Author: Gabourey Sidibe
Narrator: Gabourey Sidibe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:54:20
Language: English
Release date: 05-27-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Women
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The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny.
This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe's life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, her gifted mother who fed the family by busking on the subway, and the psychic who told her she'd one day be 'famous like Oprah'.
Gabby shows us round the Harlem studio apartment where she grew up, relives the debilitating depression that hit her at college, and reminisces about her first ever job as a phone sex 'talker' (less creepy than you'd think).
With exhilaratingly honest (and often hilarious) dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight, This Is Just My Face will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different - and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true.
'Frank, funny, and insanely charming' Lena Dunham
'A read that lives up to the unforgettable attitude of its name' Glamour
'You're the BOMB, girl!' President Barack Obama
© Gabourey Sidibe 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 511702
Title: Out Stealing Horses: WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE
Author: Per Petterson
Narrator: Richard Poe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:09:55
Language: English
Release date: 05-06-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General
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In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father.
The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever.
An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond bruised and puzzled by his friend Jon's sudden breakdown. The tragedy which lies behind this scene becomes the catalyst for the two boys' families gradually to fall apart. As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 brings the painful memories of that year flooding back, and will leave Trond even more convinced of his decision to end his days alone.
© Per Petterson 2003 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 499047
Title: After the Quake
Author: Haruki Murakami
Narrator: Adam Sims, Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:20:33
Language: English
Release date: 03-11-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Fairy Tales & Folklore
Summary:
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For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago.
Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm.
'When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes,' says Frog. 'And right now he is very, very angry.'
© Haruki Murakami 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 499048
Title: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Author: Haruki Murakami
Narrator: Eric Loren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:33:50
Language: English
Release date: 03-11-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
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Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch.
Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.
© Haruki Murakami 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 499049
Title: Sputnik Sweetheart
Author: Haruki Murakami
Narrator: Adam Sims
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:06:57
Language: English
Release date: 03-11-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ, Coming of Age
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Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.
Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.
Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...
© Haruki Murakami 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 498539
Title: Fates and Furies: New York Times bestseller
Author: Lauren Groff
Narrator: Julia Whelan, Will Damron
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:00:03
Language: English
Release date: 03-04-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Family Life
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**Now available to pre-order, MATRIX, the remarkable new novel from Lauren Groff**
'A really powerful novel' BARACK OBAMA
'Enough betrayal, vengeance and sex to read like one of the Greek tragedies' OBSERVER
'Rich, lyrical and rewarding.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, Guardian Books of the Year
Every story has two sides.
Every relationship has two perspectives.
And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.
At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but more complicated than it seems from the outside.
As the years pass, stunning revelations threaten to destroy everything they've built together; but the strongest marriages are those that survive the greatest blows. Some secrets are better left in the dark. Others must be torn into the open, no matter how dangerous they are.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AMAZON.COM's 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A lyrical and, at times, astonishingly beautiful account of how little it is possible to know about those closest to us.' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Addictive to read ... Groff has drawn a woman so complex it seems that with every chapter a new layer is revealed, each as deliciously intriguing as the next ... The result is a compelling portrait of an unconventional marriage across two decades.' STYLIST
'[A] stunning achievement. The plotting is elegant, intricate and assured . . . it will give you much to savour.' INDEPENDENT
'Absorbing and beautifully written, this is a riveting study of love, power and creativity.' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A truly special novel ... if you haven't read her before, I'm delighted to take the credit for introducing you to one of your new favourite authors.' THE POOL
'A searing exploration of how far a person will go for love, loyalty and revenge.' TIME
'Rare and impressive... Groff has created a novel of extraordinary and genuine complexity ... The word 'ambitious' is often used as code for 'overly ambitious', a signal that an author's execution has fallen short. No such hidden message here. Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers - with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.' NEW YORK TIMES
© Lauren Groff 2015 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 495567
Title: Diana Chronicles
Author: Tina Brown
Narrator: Rosalyn Landor
Format: Unabridged
Length: 21:22:29
Language: English
Release date: 02-11-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, History & Culture, Women
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More than twenty years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she 'the people's princess,' who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?
The Diana Chronicles parts the curtains on Diana's troubled time in the mysterious world of the Windsors, as she breaks out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect.
Knowing Diana personally, Tina Brown understands her world, understands its players and has-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. Meet the formidable female cast and get to know the society they inhabit, as you never have before.
© Tina Brown 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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ID: 425766
Title: Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Author: Haruki Murakami
Narrator: Rupert Degas
Format: Unabridged
Length: 26:07:29
Language: English
Release date: 10-29-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore
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Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
© Haruki Murakami 1994 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 425763
Title: Kafka on the Shore
Author: Haruki Murakami
Narrator: Oliver Le Sueur, Sean Barrett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19:08:00
Language: English
Release date: 10-29-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction
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Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.
'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail
'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times
'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph
© Haruki Marakami 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 452667
Title: Native Son
Author: Richard Wright
Narrator: Peter Francis James
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17:41:49
Language: English
Release date: 10-01-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics, Black Literature
Summary:
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WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GARY YOUNGE
Reckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause célèbre in an ever-narrowing endgame.
First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.
'[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction' Ralph Ellison
'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James Baldwin
© Richard Wright 1940 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 446412
Title: I Can't Breathe: The Killing that Started a Movement
Author: Matt Taibbi
Narrator: Dominic Hoffman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:50:48
Language: English
Release date: 08-04-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science
Summary:
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The incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement and the new fault lines of race, protest, policing and the power of the people.
On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died in New York after a police officer put him in a 'chokehold' during an arrest for selling bootleg cigarettes. The final moments of his life were captured on video and seen by millions - his agonised last words, 'I can't breathe,' becoming a rallying cry for the nascent Black Lives Matter protest movement.
Matt Taibbi, bestselling author and 'the best polemic journalist in America', tells the full story of the man who inspired a movement - neither villain nor victim, but a fiercely proud individual determined to do the best he could for his family. Featuring vivid vignettes of life on the street, this powerful narrative of urban America is a riveting work of literary journalism and a scathing indictment of law enforcement in the twenty-first century. I Can't Breathe tells the story of one man to tell the story of countless others, and the power of people to rise up against injustice.
'A brilliant work of narrative nonfiction' - Booklist
'Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power' - Bernie Sanders
'A searing exposé' - Kirkus Review
'Taibbi may be the only political writer in America that matters' - Hartford Advocate
© Matt Taibbi 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 443850
Title: Young Skins
Author: Colin Barrett
Narrator: Jack Reynolds
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:26:10
Language: English
Release date: 07-09-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Summary:
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*Winner of the 2014 Guardian First Book Award
*Winner of the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
*Winner of the 2014 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live hard and wear the scars. It matters whose sister you were seen with. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, it matters a very great deal.
Colin Barrett's debut does not take us to Glanbeigh alone; there are other towns, and older characters. But each story is defined by a youth lived in a crucible of menace and desire - and each crackles with the uniform energy and force that distinguish this terrific collection.
© Colin Barrett 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 435744
Title: Rich People Problems
Author: Kevin Kwan
Narrator: Lydia Look
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16:03:03
Language: English
Release date: 06-25-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Asian American Literature
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'Flashy, funny ... Delicious ... A memorable, laugh-out-loud Asian glitz fest that's a pure pleasure to read.' USA Today
Nicholas Young's grandmother Su Yi is on her deathbed. While he rushes to be by her bedside, he's not the only one. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. With all parties vying to inherit a trophy estate in the heart of Singapore, Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of sabotage and scandal.
Taking us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, Kevin Kwan's final installment in this irresistible trilogy reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems.
© Kevin Kwan 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 430520
Title: Man of My Dreams
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrator: Susan Denaker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:39:06
Language: English
Release date: 05-19-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age
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Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling.
Over the next decade and a half, love throws her some complicated questions. At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soulmate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky - or just pathetic?
© Curtis Sittenfeld 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 431482
Title: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Author: David Quammen
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 20:47:10
Language: English
Release date: 04-30-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Science & Technology, Medicine, Social Science
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A gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can tackle a global pandemic.
As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic.
In a journey that takes him from southern China to the Congo, from Bangladesh to Australia, David Quammen tracks these infections to their source, and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth.
As cases of Coronavirus grow across the globe, discover the book that predicted this viral disaster and the science that could stop the next one in its tracks.
A tremendous book...this gives you all you need to know and all you should know Sunday Times
Chilling [A] brilliant, devastating book Daily Mail
(C) David Quammen 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 431658
Title: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Author: Laura Spinney
Narrator: Paul Hodgson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:04:26
Language: English
Release date: 04-30-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: History, World, Science & Technology, Medicine
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With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 19181920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.
In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered; and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test.
Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was as significant if not more so as two world wars in shaping the modern world; in disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts.
'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' Guardian
(C) Laura Spinney 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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ID: 404695
Title: Decisive: How to make better choices in life and work
Author: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:10:43
Language: English
Release date: 01-02-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Negotiation & Communication
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Just making a decision can be hard enough, but how do you begin to judge whether it's the right one? Chip and Dan Heath, authors of #1 New York Times best-seller Switch, show you how to overcome your brain's natural shortcomings.
In Decisive, Chip and Dan Heath draw on decades of psychological research to explain why we so often get it very badly wrong - why our supposedly rational brains are frequently tripped up by powerful biases and wishful thinking. At the same time they demonstrate how relatively easy it is to avoid the pitfalls and find the best answers, offering four simple principles that we can all learn and follow. In the process, they show why it is that experts frequently make mistakes. They demonstrate the perils of getting trapped in a narrow decision frame. And they explore people's tendency to be over-confident about how their choices will unfold.
Drawing on case studies as diverse as the downfall of Kodak and the inspiring account of a cancer survivor, they offer both a fascinating tour through the workings of our minds and an invaluable guide to making smarter decisions.
Winner in the Practical Manager category of the CMI Management Book of the Year awards 2014.
© Chip and Dan Heath 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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