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| | May Flowers Soon To Bloom
by Ellen Abrams | March 10, 2017 | | |
|  As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “What potent blood hath modest May.” And that is so true this May, with powerful audiobooks to be released then. In comemoration of President John F. Kennedy’s 100th birthday, JFK: A Vision for America, a collection of his greatest and most important speeches, with observations from historians, writers, and current politicians will thrill political junkies and history fanatics; the true story of Silicon Valley’s little-known women geniuses and entrepreneurs, Geek Girl Rising, will put paid to the notion that girls and women aren’t sharp, tech-savvy, and ready to seize a challenge; listeners might want to take the time to check out their self-awareness IQ with Insight, which suggests that this is one of the key skills that everyone should attempt to develop today, in order to thrive among the clueless tomorrow; Crimes Against a Book Club shows how good intentions and a chemistry degree can turn riotously wrong; Becoming Bonnie is a historical novel of how Clyde Barrow’s distaff half devolved from teenaged bride into part of one of the most notorious outlaw duos of the 1930s; and the “Muslim Bridget Jones,” of Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged, although unlucky in love, is very lucky in how entertaning her story is to listen to. |
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|  Literary Guinea Pigs, Secret Lives of Grannies | Fiction Audio Coming in May
Campbell, Michelle. It’s Always the Husband. Macmillan Audio. ISBN 9781427286147. Reader TBA.
Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, despite being as different as three women could be. Kate was beautiful, wild, wealthy, and damaged. Aubrey, on financial aid, came from a broken home, and wanted more than anything to distance herself from her past. And Jenny was a striver―brilliant, ambitious, and determined to succeed. As an unlikely friendship formed, the three of them swore they would always be there for each other. But twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone is urging her to jump.... |
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| |  Odd But True History | Nonfiction Audio Coming in May
Bass, Jonathan, S. He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty. Tantor Audio. ISBN 9781515965565. Read by Mirron Willis. digital download.
Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was finally released in 1972, his story is the kind that pervades the history of American justice. |
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| |  Sisters, Lies, & Dreams | YA Audio Coming in May
Bialik, Mayim. Girling Up: How To Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular. Listening Library. ISBN 9781524780401. Read by Mayim Bialik. digital download.
Gr 9 Up—Actress and Ph.D. Bialik knows that growing up as a girl in today’s world is no easy task. Juggling family, friends, romantic relationships, social interests, and school…sometimes it feels like you might need to be a superhero to get through it all! But really, all you need is little information. Want to know why your stomach does a flip-flop when you run into your crush in the hallway? Or how the food you put in your body now will affect you in the future? What about the best ways to stop freaking out about your next math test? Using scientific facts, personal anecdotes, and wisdom gained from the world around us, Bialik, a star of The Big Bang Theory, shares what she has learned from her life and her many years studying neuroscience to tell you how you grow from a girl to a woman biologically, psychologically and sociologically. |
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| |  Kings of the Court & Loving Lizards | Middle Grade Audio Coming in May
Anderson, John David. Posted. Harper Audio. ISBN 9780062682468. Read by Patrick Lawler. digital download only.
Gr 3-7—When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes—although for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one. In the middle of this, a new girl named Rose arrives at school and sits at Frost’s lunch table. Rose is not like anyone else at Branton Middle School, and it’s clear that the close circle of friends Frost has made for himself won’t easily hold another. As the sticky-note war escalates, and the pressure to choose sides mounts, Frost soon realizes that communication has gotten way out of hand. |
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| |  Amos McGee & More | Early Reader Audio Coming in May
Jules, Jacqueline. Freddie Ramos Rules New York. Oasis. ISBN 9781613759486. Reader TBA.
Gr 1-3—Freddie and his mom are visiting Uncle Jorge in New York City. Just before they leave, Mr. Vaslov gives Freddie a new pair of zapatos to replace the ones that were getting too small. But Freddie wonders if his new zapatos will work as well as his old ones. Will Freddie be able to save the day when Uncle Jorge misplaces an engagement ring in the middle of a New York City traffic jam?
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