30 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out January 5 - 11

In Beginners, author Tom Vanderbilt (Traffic, You May Also Like) looks into the science of learning new things, whether a musical skill, athletic activity, or some other hobby. What he finds is that old dogs can learn new tricks (over a year he tries singing, drawing, and juggling, among other things) and that learning at any age feels great and is good for us if it’s not stifled by unrealistic expectations or a fear of failure. As we head into 2021 and toward the 1-year mark of life under this pandemic, it’s heartening to know that the science of psychology is on our side if we want to finally try our hand at sourdough, or follow our Netflix-inspired interest in chess.

Black Buck is the satirical debut of novelist Mateo Askaripour, in which we follow the story of Darren, a young man with high potential and low ambition. Darren’s happy pouring coffee for a living and eating the dinners his mother makes. But Darren’s mother wants to see him realize the dreams she had for him when he was a high-achieving high school student. When Darren gets the chance to join the sales team at a red-hot tech startup, as its sole Black employee, he comes up with a plan to reinvent himself -- and ends up upending the entire working world along the way. Readers who loved the squirm-inducing humour of Paul Beatty’s Booker Prize-winning The Sellout will find a lot to enjoy in this razor sharp book.

More books coming out January 5 - 11

💭 Big Ideas

• Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age by Sanjay Gupta, M.D.
• White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
• Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You by Christopher Hadnagy
• Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt

🗣 True Stories

• The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child: How Persistence, Grit, and Faith Created a Reluctant Healer by Tana Amen
• Dirty Sexy Money: The Unauthorized Biography of Kris Jenner by Dylan Howard
• James Acaster’s Findings by James Acaster

💘 Romance

• Shielding Jayme by Susan Stoker
• A Co-Worker's Crush by Piper Rayne
• Ice Maiden by Dale Mayer
• Only One Night by Natasha Madison
• Active Defense (Danger Never Sleeps Book #3) by Lynette Eason

🗡️ Thrillers, Action, and Crime fiction

• American Traitor by Brad Taylor
• Their Frozen Graves by Ruhi Choudhary
• Lost in Las Vegas by Kristen Painter
• The Coffinmaker’s Garden by Stuart MacBride
• Snakes and Ladders by Adam Croft

🖊️ Literary Fiction

• The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
• Influence by Sara Shepard
• Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
• The Awakening of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
• One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite
• Outlawed by Anna North

✨ Fantastical tales of Other Worlds and Other Times

• Knight by Karen Lynch
• Siege of Rage and Ruin by Django Wexler
• Treoir Dragon Chronicles of the Belador World: Book 4 by Dianna Love
• Lore by Alexandra Bracken
• Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland
• Persephone Station by Stina Leicht
• Deuces Down by George R. R. Martin

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