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ID: 518020

Title: Neat Nick's Big Mess

Author: Chad Otis

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

A rambunctious pet dog helps an introverted, anxious boy leave his comfort zone in this endearing and very funny picture book—adapted for audio.

Nick has always been neat. That’s what makes him comfortable. Any kind of mess or noise or other havoc makes him anxious, and often that means he chooses to be alone in his own carefully controlled bedroom. But suddenly a big, drooly, energetic dog has joined the family, and as much as he tries there’s nothing Nick can do to control the doggy mess. And so, he decides he would rather avoid the pup altogether. Or would he?

This story of coping with anxiety and learning how to compromise is as big-hearted and laugh-filled as it is delightfully messy.

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ID: 528958

Title: Regeneration

Author: Pat Barker

Narrator: Simon Russell Beale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:52:23

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

 'The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts' –Pat Barker

The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nominee

 

In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified 'mentally unsound' and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's 'sanity' and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim.

 

One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regneration has been hailed by critics across the globe.  As August 2014 marks the 100-year anniversary of World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.

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ID: 569514

Title: To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

Author: Robin Coste Lewis

Narrator: Robin Coste Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:24:18

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

A genre-bending exploration of poetry and human migration—another revelatory expedition from the National Book Award–winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure. • Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

Twenty-five years ago, after her maternal grandmother’s death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs in an old suitcase under her bed, filled with everything from sepia tintypes to Technicolor Polaroids. Lewis’s family had survived one of the largest migrations in human history, when six million Americans fled the South, attempting to escape from white supremacy and white terrorism. But these photographs of daily twentieth-century Black life revealed a concealed, interior history. The poetry Lewis was inspired to create stands forth as an inspiring alternative to the usual ways we frame the old stories of “race” and “migration,” placing them within a much vaster span of time and history.

In what she calls “an origin myth for the future,” Lewis reverses our expectations of poetry: “Black pages, black space, black time––the Big Black Bang.” From glamorous outings to graduations, birth announcements, baseball leagues, and back-porch delight, Lewis creates a lyrical documentary about Black intimacy. Instead of colonial nostalgia, she offers us “an exalted Black privacy.” What emerges is a dynamic reframing of what it means to be human and alive, with Blackness at its center. “I am trying / to make the gods / happy,” she writes. “I am trying to make the dead / clap and shout.”

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ID: 577605

Title: Royals Upstairs

Author: Karina Halle

Narrator: Alex C. Stewart, Cassandra York

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:05:55

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Romance, General, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

He’s the royal bodyguard. She’s the royal nanny. The annoyingly hot attraction that simmers between them—that’s a royal pain.

James Hunter has made a tactical error. His new role as protection officer to Prince Magnus of Norway was supposed to be an exciting change. Instead he’s marooned on a royal estate in the middle of nowhere charged with chasing after demon children and dodging the machinations of meddling staff. And the crowning jewel in this little drama—the children’s nanny is none other than Laila Bruset. The woman whose heart he broke. The woman who still holds his.

When Laila took the job as a nanny for the Norwegian royal children in order to be closer to her ailing grandmother in Oslo, the last thing she expected was to have her life turned upside down—again. But as much as James gets on her nerves, he's also getting under her skin, and the tension between them sizzles just as devastatingly as before.

As undeniable sparks turn James and Laila’s battle royal into a more serious game of hearts, nanny and bodyguard will have to decide just how much they’re willing to risk for a second chance at love.

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ID: 783928

Title: Destroyer Captain: The Life of Ernest E. Evans

Author: David J. Hornfischer, James D. Hornfischer

Narrator: David J. Hornfischer, Lou Del Bianco

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:00:36

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, North America, Military

Summary:

From James D. Hornfischer, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers, a riveting account of the life of WWII hero Commander Ernest E. Evans and his heroics and sacrifice during the Leyte Gulf Battle of Samar.

For the first time ever, acclaimed naval historian James D. Hornfischer, “the dean of World War II naval history,' writing with his son David J. Hornfischer, explores Capt. E. Evans’s incredible story, from his humble upbringing as a child of a Cherokee and Creek family in Pawnee, Oklahoma, and his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1931, to his service on fighting ships during the Pacific War and his selfless bravery and cool command during a valiant faceoff with the pride of the Japanese Navy.

 

Interspersed with impeccable research, interviews with men who fought alongside Capt. E. Evans, and thrilling anecdotes about United States Navy experiences during WWII, Destroyer Captain provides insight into an incredible man who spent his life beating the odds through courage, ability, and sheer determination. Never were these attributes better on display than on the morning of October 25, 1944, when, in the waters off Samar, a small flotilla of US Navy ships encountered a Japanese fleet superior in both vessels and firepower. Aboard the USS Johnston, Capt. Ernest E. Evans seized the moment, ordering his destroyer to steam forward and attack. Heavily outgunned, Evans and his sailors fired torpedo after torpedo, all the while maneuvering to dodge enemy shells, as two other American destroyers joined the fight. It was a valiant last stand for Capt. E. Evans, one of the toughest warriors in the Navy, but thanks to his bravery and steadiness under fire, these dogged Americans routed one of the most powerful naval forces that Tokyo had ever put to sea.

 

A remarkable story of patriotism and courageousness, Destroyer Captain honors a singular American hero whose name shall never be forgotten.

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ID: 721844

Title: Liars: A Novel

Author: Sarah Manguso

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:07:49

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

An “eviscerating” (The New York Times) novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from the author of Very Cold People and 300 Arguments

“Is divorce the new marriage plot? . . . [Liars] pulses with a rare kind of anger, making it a compulsive, unforgettable read. Love stories, it seems, are out. Divorce as liberation? Very much in.”—Vogue

“A tour de force . . . Liars makes an old story fresh.”—NPR

“A bracing story of a woman on the verge.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I’d always known that. But I’d never suspected how easily I’d fall into one anyway.

When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including—a few years later—all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it’s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John’s ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.

As Jane’s career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her.

Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.

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ID: 462978

Title: Long Island Compromise: A Novel

Author: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:23:44

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Satire

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • New York Magazine’s Beach Read Book Club Pick • Belletrist Book Club Pick

“Joins the pantheon of great American novels.”—Los Angeles Times

“Exuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.”—The Atlantic

“Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?”

In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.

But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures.

Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family’s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.

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ID: 721822

Title: Whoever You Are, Honey: A Novel

Author: Olivia Gatwood

Narrator: Olivia Gatwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:07:25

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Contemporary Women

Summary:

What happens when what was once considered dystopia is now reality?

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm—“a fever dream for the AI age” (People).

“This book reads like a thriller, but it's also a tender and searching exploration of what it means to inhabit a female body.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

Mitty can’t quite make out the expression on Lena’s face, but she doesn’t look distressed. She looks like nothing at all. She looks like the beginning, before thoughts, a white hallway with no doors, a room so long your voice disappears before it can echo.

On the Santa Cruz, California, waterfront, every house is a flawless glass monolith. Except for one. In a dilapidated bungalow, Mitty and her elderly roommate, Bethel, are the oddball pair who represent the last vestiges of a free-spirited town taken over by the tech elite. But their lives are about to be forever changed when a new couple, Sebastian and Lena, move in next door. 

 

Sebastian is a renowned tech founder and Lena is his spellbindingly perfect girlfriend. But Lena has secrets; she feels uneasy about her oddly spotty memory and is growing increasingly wary of the way Sebastian controls their relationship. Mitty is also hiding something, and the way Lena appears to float through her luxurious life draws Mitty inexorably into her orbit. As the two women begin to form a close friendship, they are finally forced to face their pasts—and the urgent truths that could change everything. 

 

Showcasing Olivia Gatwood’s talent as an essential author for our hyper-digital age, Whoever You Are, Honey is a gripping, seductive, and prescient novel that dissects relationships between women and examines how striving for perfection and desirability plays out in spaces where technology and power intersect.

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ID: 698992

Title: Earthlight

Author: J. Michael Straczynski

Narrator: Brandon Mcinnis, Christopher Smith, David Lee Huynh, Erik Braa, Marc Thompson, Mars Lipowski, Peter Bradbury, Ryan Haugen, Salli Saffioti, Saskia Maarleveld, Stefan Rudnicki, Will Watt, William Demeritt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:53:54

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

An Audiobook Original from Penguin Random House Audio

From the creator of Babylon 5 and Sense8 comes a full-cast action/adventure military audio drama set in the near future, for fans of Tom Clancy and Timothy Zahn.

International tension is rising as the Russian military forms an Eastern Alliance to create a new age of Russian supremacy. The rest of the world is scrambling for a united response.

 

Enter Project Earthlight.

 

Earthlight is a NATO operation under U.S. command based in the ultimate military high ground: space. A group of the best fighter pilots is handpicked from around the world to fly the first generation of advanced planes capable of maneuvering in the vacuum of space and inside the atmosphere.

 

Learning how to fly experimental planes while learning to trust their new squadron, our pilots are plunged into a high-stakes life-and-death mission with everything at risk. Can Commanding Officer Colonel Scott Dane get the other pilots on the same page in time to prevent World War III?

 

With cutting-edge soundscapes and an action-packed plot, EARTHLIGHT will keep listeners on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

Read by Erik Braa, Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, William DeMeritt, Robert Fass, Jeff Gurner, Ryan Haugen, David Lee Huynh, Mars Lipowski, Saskia Maarleveld, Kathleen McInerney, Brandon McInnis, Sean Kenin Elias Reyes, Stefan Rudnicki, Salli Saffioti, Kristen Sieh, Christopher Smith, Marc Thompson, Will Watt, Michael Ann Young, Beka Sikharulidza, Stephanie Walters Montgomery, and Robin Atkin Downes

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ID: 802112

Title: Profitable Hotels and Motels: A Street-Smart Formula

Author: Dilan De Silva

Narrator: Owen Eagles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:25:12

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-24

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

The Must-hear Guide for Owners and Managers of Small to Midsize Tourism Accommodation Businesses. This audiobook is about Owning Your Success in the Tourism Industry.

Profitable Hotels and Motels audiobook equips you with the knowledge and strategies to not only boost profits in your small or mid-sized tourism accommodation business, but also achieve greater freedom and flexibility in your lifestyle.

Packed with street-smart, actionable tips, the book covers the essential aspects of running a successful tourism business, including:

- Gaining a clear understanding of the tourism industry and its intricacies, presented in a simple and digestible way.

- Learning how to implement proven strategies to optimize your operations, attract guests, and maximize revenue.

The audiobook acknowledges that success often requires a blend of entrepreneurial spirit and technical expertise. It caters to both by providing valuable insights and

guidance, regardless of your background.

Stop feeling trapped by low profitability or limited freedom. Take control of your tourism business and achieve your goals with this comprehensive guide.

The author Dilan De Silva thrived in the tourism industry holding senior management positions and subsequently owning and managing accommodation businesses across many continents. He has been a hands-on Hotel General Manager, Business Owner, Consultant, and Board Member. Dilan then became a Tourism Business Broker, and Chief Executive for Tourism Properties.com, a company that specialises in tourism business sales. This book shares Dilans knowledge and experience, offering invaluable support and key strategies for Tourist Accommodation Operators.

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