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Title: The Still Point

Author: Tammy Greenwood

Narrator: Vanessa Johansson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Release date: February 20, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Ever, Lindsay, and Josie have ushered their daughters—Bea, Olive, and Savvy—through years of dance classes. They've tended bloodied feet, stitched ribbons to countless pairs of pointe shoes, and forged friendships that seem to transcend rivalry. But now Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, has come to their conservatory. Not only will he direct this year's production of The Nutcracker, but he's brought along a film crew to document his search for one special student who will receive a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie. For the girls, this is the chance to fulfill lifelong dreams. For Ever, recently widowed and struggling financially, it may be the only way to keep Bea dancing. And Bea is a truly gifted dancer. Lindsay, meanwhile, frets that Olive is growing tired of the punishing reality of training, while Josie has no such qualms about Savvy, who is a powerhouse of ambition. From auditions to casting to rehearsals, the cameras capture the selection process, with its backstabbing and jealousy, disappointment and triumph. But it's behind the scenes that Bernay's arrival will yield the most shocking revelations, exposing secrets and lies of all three families.

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Title: [Spanish] - Las tribulaciones de Wilt

Series: #3 of The Wilt Series

Author: Tom Sharpe

Narrator: Pepe Ocio

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Release date: February 18, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Una de las más brillantes e irreverentes farsas del autor, una sátira orgiástica donde el horror arranca carcajadas y en la que nadie se salva del ridículo, ya sea de izquierdas o de derechas, ecologista o partidario de la energía atómica, esposo fiel o donjuán irredento: ¡temblad, temblad, malditos! En esta novela, Wilt vive con su mujer, la inefable Eva, entregada a sus sucesivas pasiones alternativas, medicinales, nutritivas, religiosas, etc., y con sus temibles cuatrillizas... El sufrido Wilt alarga sus jornadas en el Politécnico para huir del tumultuoso gineceo que le espera en casa. Hasta que un día Eva alquila una habitación en la planta alta a una estudiante alemana de sólidos encantos, y Wilt comienza a padecer la tortura del amor imposible y la lujuria frustrada. Que, por cierto, no es nada comparado con los sufrimientos que le esperan cuando descubra que la guapa alemana es una despiadada terrorista internacional y reaparezca en su vida el temible inspector Flint... Ilustraciones de cubierta: María Corte

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Title: The Kamogawa Food Detectives

Series: #1 of A Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel

Author: Hisashi Kashiwai

Narrator: Hanako Footman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Release date: February 13, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility. A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.

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Title: [Spanish] - El lector fiel

Author: Max Seeck

Narrator: Marta García

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Release date: February 7, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Jessica Niemi, inspectora del Departamento de Homicidios de Helsinki, tiene que investigar un caso de asesinato fuera de lo común. Parece que la esposa del famoso escritor Roger Koponen ha sido asesinada en un extraño ritual. A medida que ocurren más asesinatos, la inspectora está convencida de que persigue a un asesino en serie. Pero las víctimas no son aleatorias, siguen un patrón inspirado en la trilogía más vendida de Roger. ¿Se trata de un fan perturbado o de una venganza personal? ¿Cómo puede detener a un criminal que conoce cada detalle de las novelas incluso mejor que el propio autor? Comienza entonces una persecución que lleva a Jessica hasta su misterioso pasado en la ciudad de Venecia. Una novela que es un éxito internacional y se publica en 40 países. Desde La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert, ninguna novela había conseguido un nivel de suspense tan excepcional como El lector fiel.

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Title: Good Material: A Read with Jenna Pick: A novel

Author: Dolly Alderton

Narrator: Vanessa Kirby, Arthur Darvill

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • From the best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both “Like Nora Ephron, with a British twist….Delivers the most delightful aspects of classic romantic comedy—snappy dialogue, realistic relationship dynamics, humorous meet-cutes and misunderstandings—and leaves behind the clichéd gender roles and traditional marriage plot.” —The New York Times Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . Without a home Waiting for his stand-up career to take off Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story… In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.

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Title: Harbor Lights

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Matt Pittenger, Alan Carlson, Zac Aleman, Ali Andre Ali, Leon Nixon, Michael David Axtell, Gary Furlong, Kaleo Griffith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Release date: January 23, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her university-professor father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose “Western hero” façade hides darkness. An oil rig worker witnesses a horrific attack on a local village while on a job in South America and seeks justice through one final act of bravery. With his nuanced characters, lyrical prose, and ability to write shocking violence in the most evocative settings, James Lee Burke’s singular skills are on display in this superb anthology. Harbor Lights unfolds in stories that crackle and reverberate as unexpected heroes emerge.

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Title: A River of Crows

Author: Shanessa Gluhm

Narrator: Lu Banks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Release date: January 23, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

In 1988, Sloan Hadfield's brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. Ridge's body was never recovered, and Sloan's mother—a brilliant ornithologist—slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive. Now, twenty years later, Sloan's life is unraveling. In the middle of a bitter divorce, she's forced to return to her rural Texas hometown when her mother is discharged from a mental health facility. Overwhelmed by memories and unanswered questions, Sloan returns to the last place her brother was seen all those years ago: Crow's Nest Creek. There, she is shocked to hear a crow muttering the same syllable over and over: Ridge, Ridge, Ridge. When the body of another boy is found, Sloan begins to question what really happened to her brother all those years ago. What she discovers will shock her small community and turn her family upside down. A River of Crows is a tale of family secrets, deception, and revenge perfect for fans of Julia Heaberlin and Jennifer Hillier.

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Title: Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge: A Novel

Author: Lizzie Pook

Narrator: Genevieve Gaunt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Release date: January 16, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A young woman searches for the truth about her sister, who boarded a ship headed to the frozen Arctic and never returned in this “engrossing historical mystery” (The Washington Post). Twenty-year-old Constance Horton has run away from her life in Victorian London, disguising herself as a boy to board the Makepeace, an expedition vessel bound for the icy and unexplored Northwest Passage of the Arctic. She struggles to keep her real identity a secret on the ship, a feat that only grows more difficult when facing the constant dangers of the icy North. Even more dangerous than the cold, the storms, and the hunger, are some of the men aboard—including the ship’s scientist Edison Stowe. He’s watching Constance, and she knows that his attention could be fatal. In London two years later: Maude Horton is searching for the truth. After being told by the British Admiralty that her sister’s death onboard the Makepeace was nothing more than a tragic accident, she receives a diary revealing that Edison Stowe had more of a hand in Constance’s death than the returning crew acknowledged. In order to get the answers she needs, Maude shadows Edison. She joins him on a new venture he’s started to capitalize on the murder mania that has all of London in a frenzy—a travel company that takes guests around the country via train to witness public hangings—to extract the truth from him in any way possible. Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge is a “brilliant” (Publishers Weekly), “addictive” (Emilia Hart, New York Times bestselling author of Weyword), “utterly compulsive” (Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters) novel about the lengths we will go to for justice—and for love.

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Title: Ivan and Phoebe

Author: Oksana Lutsysyna

Narrator: Allyson Voller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Release date: January 16, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Ivan and Phoebe chronicles the lives of several young people involved in the Ukranian student protests of the 1990's, otherwise known as the Revolution On Granite or the 'First Maidan.' The story bounces between politically charged cities like Kyiv and Lviv, and protagonist Ivan's small, traditional hometown of Uzhgorod. As characters come to exercise their rights to free speech and protest, they must also reevaluate the norms of marriage, family, and home life. While these initially appear to be spaces of peace and harmony, they are soon revealed to be hotbeds of conflict and multigenerational trauma. Married couple Ivan and Phoebe grapple with questions about family, trauma, and independence. Although Ivan tells the story, Phoebe's voice rings through the text as she divulges her own traumas through poetic monologues. The two reflect on the traumatic aftermath of revolution: torture at the hands of the KGB and each other. While Ivan refuses to talk about his pain, Phoebe describes her past through poetic monologues. Lutsyshyna's poetic form allows her to experiment with characterization and genre, creating her own category. Through her characters' vivid voices, Lutsyshyna creates a his- and her-story of Ukraine: a panoramic view of post-Soviet society and family life through social, political, and economic crises.

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Title: Orlando: A Biography

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Release date: January 16, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

“I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply in love with a Russian princess, and becomes an ambassador to Constantinople, but at his heart all Orlando ever wants to be is a great writer (and living at the same time as Marlowe, Donne, and Shakespeare, this is no easy thing). But while living in Constantinople, one evening Orlando is transformed into woman, though she retains all her memories and personality; the only thing that changes about Orlando is her body. Now as a woman, she must navigate complex and exclusionary legal systems throughout the ages, her own previous views on gender, society’s expectations of marriage, and her own ambitions as a poet—not to mention having to grapple with a seemingly immortal lifespan. An unusual and profound examination of gender roles, expression, and identity, Orlando is one of Woolf’s best known and best loved works, and it remains just as relevant and revolutionary today as when it was first published.