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Title: Gone Tomorrow

Author: Gary Indiana

Narrator: Lee Osorio

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Release date: December 26, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in a film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogotá, only to witness a policeman beat a beggar half to death, it becomes clear that this will not be the story of gritty bohemians triumphing against the odds. The director, Paul Grosvenor, seems more interested in manipulating his cast than in shooting film. The cult star, Irma Irma, is a vamp too bored and boring to draw blood. And the beautiful, nymph-like Michael Simard doesn't seem to be putting out. Meanwhile, the film's shady financier is sleeping with his mother, while a serial killer skulks about the area killing tourists. Everything comes to a head when the carnaval celebration begins. But once the fiesta is over, all that's left are ghostly memories and the narrator's insistence on telling the tale. 'Unlike the majority of pointedly AIDS-era novels,' writes Dennis Cooper, 'Gone Tomorrow is neither an amoral nostalgia fest nor a thinly veiled wake-up call hyping the religion of sobriety. It's a philosophical work devised by a writer who's both too intelligent to buy into the notion that a successful future requires the compromise of collective decision and too moral to accept bitterness as the consequence of an adventurous life.'

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Title: After Elias

Author: Eddy Boudel Tan

Narrator: Caleb Summers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Release date: December 19, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction—Finalist A modern queer tragedy about a pilot's last words, an interrupted celebration, and the fear of losing everything. 'Utterly engrossing. Coen is a hero for our era, darkly struggling amid the aftershocks of loss, but doing so with dignity, humanity, and passion.' —Timothy Taylor, author of The Rule of Stephens When the airplane piloted by Elias Santos crashes one week before their wedding day, Coen Caraway loses the man he loves and the illusion of happiness he has worked so hard to create. The only thing Elias leaves behind is a recording of his final words, and even Coen is baffled by the cryptic message. Numb with grief, he takes refuge on the Mexican island that was meant to host their wedding. But as fragments of the past come to the surface in the aftermath of the tragedy, Coen is forced to question everything he thought he knew about Elias and their life together. Beneath his flawed memory lies the truth about Elias—and himself. From the damp concrete of Vancouver to the spoiled shores of Mexico, After Elias weaves the past with the present to tell a story of doubt, regret, and the fear of losing everything.

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Title: Lord Jim at Home

Author: Dinah Brooke

Narrator: Ottessa Moshfegh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Release date: December 19, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

'A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.' —Illustrated London News When Dinah Brooke's second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as 'squalid and startling,' 'nastily horrific,' and a 'monstrous parody' of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day—like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic Lord Jim—commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty 'in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.'

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Title: The Shining Mountains: A Novel

Author: Alix Christie

Narrator: Kate Zane

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Release date: December 19, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1838. A young Scotsman forced from his homeland arrives at Hudson's Bay. Angus McDonald is contracted to British masters to trade for fur. But the world he discovers is beyond even a Highlander's wildest imaginings: raging rivers, buffalo hunts, and the powerful daughter of an ancient and magnificent people. In Catherine Baptiste, kin to Nez Perce chiefs, Angus recognizes a kindred spirit. The Rocky Mountain West in which they meet will soon be torn apart by competing claims: between British fur traders, American settlers, and the Native peoples who have lived for millennia in the valleys and plateaus of the Shining Mountains' western slopes. In this epic family saga, the real history of the American West is revealed in all its terror, beauty, and complexity. The Shining Mountains brilliantly limns a world now long forgotten: of blended cultures seeking allies, trading furs for guns and steel, and a way of life in collision with westward colonial expansion.

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Title: From From: Poems

Author: Monica Youn

Narrator: Monica Youn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Release date: December 19, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY 'Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?' It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of 'authenticity,' no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners' ideas about Asians? Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt. In this dazzling collection, one sequence deconstructs the sounds and letters of the word 'deracinations' to create a sonic landscape of micro- and macroaggressions, assimilation, and self-doubt. A kaleidoscopic personal essay explores the racial positioning of Asian Americans and the epidemic of anti-Asian hate. Several poems titled 'Study of Two Figures' anatomize and dissect the Asian other: Midas the striving, nouveau-riche father; Dr. Seuss and the imaginary daughter Chrysanthemum-Pearl he invented while authoring his anti-Japanese propaganda campaign; Pasiphaë, mother of the minotaur, and Sado, the eighteenth-century Korean prince, both condemned to containers allegorical and actual.

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Title: [Spanish] - Manual de pintura y caligrafía

Author: José Saramago

Narrator: Víctor Velasco

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Release date: December 7, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

2022: AÑO SARAMAGO Una novela sobre la vida y el arte. Una reflexión sobre la escritura, la ética y el compromiso «“¿Quién es este hombre?”. Ésta es precisamente la pregunta que ningún pintor debe hacerse a sí mismo, y yo la hice». H., pintor de obras por encargo, acepta realizar un retrato de S., administrador de una poderosa compañía. Dolorosamente consciente de sus limitaciones como artista, de la mediocridad de sus telas y de la banalidad de la vida que lleva, comienza a interrogarse sobre el sentido de su propia existencia, sus relaciones personales y sus debilidades estéticas. Como fruto de esta reflexión, H. empieza a realizar en secreto, en la intimidad de su taller, un segundo retrato de S. —menos convencional y, por tanto, más real—, al tiempo que decide escribir un diario que le ayuda a conocerse mejor a sí mismo. Este proceso de autodescubrimiento, que concluye simbólicamente con la caída del poder fascista en Portugal y el comienzo de la Revolución de los Claveles, lleva al protagonista a plantearse unos nuevos objetivos vitales, a descubrir el verdadero amor y, como consecuencia de todo ello, a conseguir su ansiada libertad como artista y como persona. Manual de pintura y caligrafía constituye una reflexión sobre el arte, la escritura, el papel de la crítica, el compromiso del ciudadano, la ética del intelectual y la mediocridad de la vida cotidiana. En definitiva, José Saramago nos ofrece una de las mejores novelas que se han escrito sobre la vida y el arte, la ética y la estética. La crítica ha dicho: «Saramago vuelve comprensible una realidad huidiza, con parábolas sostenidas por la imaginación, la compasión y la ironía». Comité Nobel «Un hombre con una sensibilidad y una capacidad de ver y de entender que están muy por encima de lo que en general vemos y entendemos los comunes mortales». Héctor Abad Faciolince «Saramago es un ejemplo, un estilo dignísimo de vida y literatura, que demuestra la posibilidad de navegar a contracorriente [...]. Su palabra tiene el valor de un anticongelante, de un remedio personal contra los vendavales de cinismo que nos envuelven». Luis García Montero «Yo no sé, ni quiero saberlo, de dónde ha sacado Saramago ese diabólico tono narrativo, duro y piadoso a un tiempo, [...] que le permite contar tan cerca del corazón y a la vez tan cerca de la historia». Luis Landero «Saramago escribe novelas sobre los mitos para desmitificarlos, [...] siempre para abordar la realidad que le rodea, para tratar de los problemas actuales que son de todos, y para que todo quede claro desde el principio». Rafael Conte, Babelia «Como Günter Grass o Cees Nooteboom, Saramago aspira a enlazar con un público que desborde límites nacionales». El País

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Title: Is Mother Dead

Author: Vigdis Hjorth

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Release date: November 28, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will and Testament 'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought about a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonious absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother's house.

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Title: Is Shakespeare Dead?

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Phyllis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Release date: November 22, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Explore the witty and thought-provoking world of Mark Twain with 'Is Shakespeare Dead?' In this audiobook, Twain embarks on a delightful literary investigation, challenging the authenticity of Shakespeare's authorship. With his trademark humor and incisive wit, Twain raises questions about the identity of the Bard and presents a humorous yet compelling case against the traditional attribution of Shakespeare's works. Join Twain on a journey of literary intrigue and irreverent humor as he explores one of literature's greatest mysteries.

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Title: Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Embark on a literary journey with 'Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii,' a fascinating collection of writings that reveal a lesser-known side of the iconic author. In this audiobook, you'll discover Twain's firsthand accounts and observations as he explores the enchanting landscapes and cultures of Hawaii during his travels. Through his witty and insightful letters, Twain provides a unique perspective on the Hawaiian islands, blending humor, adventure, and keen observations. This audiobook is a delightful voyage into the mind of a literary giant, offering a captivating glimpse into his adventures and the timeless allure of Hawaii.

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Title: [Spanish] - Los monstruos

Author: Dave Eggers

Narrator: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Release date: November 16, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Divertida, oscura y vital, Los monstruos nos narra la historia de un niño solitario a punto de abandonar el terreno emocional de la infancia. En una versión libre del cuento clásico infantil de Maurice Sendak y a partir del guión de Dave Eggers y Spike Jonze basado en él, Los monstruos es una novela sobre la confusión de un niño, Max, que se abre paso en un mundo que no puede controlar. Su padre se ha marchado, su madre pasa el tiempo con su joven novio y su hermana está entrando en la adolescencia y ya no se interesa por él. Al mismo, Max se descubre capaz de asombrosos actos de rebeldía: se disfraza de lobo y muerde a su madre, y no siempre logra dominar sus arrebatos. Durante una pelea en casa, Max huye corriendo al bosque. Allí encuentra una barca, sube a bordo y acaba en mar abierto, a la deriva. Desembarca en la isla de los monstruos y pronto se convierte en su rey. Pero las cosas se complican cuando Max comprende que los monstruos esperan tanto de él como él de ellos.