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ID: 653571

Title: Seven Mercies

Author: Elizabeth May, Laura Lam

Narrator: Christina Traister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:22:34

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

The second book in a feminist space opera duology that follows the team of seven rebels who will free the galaxy from the ruthless Tholosian Empire--or die trying.

After an ambush leaves the Novantae resistance in tatters, the survivors scatter across the galaxy. Wanted by two great empires, the bounty on any rebel's head is enough to make a captor filthy rich. And the seven devils? Biggest score of them all. To avoid attacks, the crew of Zelus scavenge for supplies on long-abandoned Tholosian outposts.

Not long after the remnants of the rebellion settle briefly on Fortuna, Ariadne gets a message with unimaginable consequences: the Oracle has gone rogue. In a planned coup against the Empire's new ruler, the AI has developed a way of mass programming citizens into mindless drones. The Oracle's demand is simple: the AI wants its daughter back at any cost.

Time for an Impossible to Infiltrate mission: high chance of death, low chance of success. The devils will have to use their unique skills, no matter the sacrifice, and pair up with old enemies. Their plan? Get to the heart of the Empire. Destroy the Oracle. Burn it all to the ground.

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ID: 540201

Title: Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Author: Sofi Thanhauser

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:13:10

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Non-Fiction, World, Business Development, Architecture & Design

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

A finely spun history of clothes and where they come from

Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser illuminates the world we inhabit in a startling new way, travelling from China to Cumbria to reveal the craft, labour and industry that create the clothes we wear.

From the women who transformed stalks of flax into linen to clothe their families in 19th century New England to those who earn their dowries in the cotton spinning factories of South India today, this book traces the origins of garment making through time and around the world. Exploring the social, economic and environmental impact of our most personal possessions, Worn looks beyond care labels to show how clothes reveal the truth about what we really care about.

© Sofi Thanhauser 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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ID: 547919

Title: Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

Author: David J. Chalmers

Narrator: Grant Cartwright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:12:29

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Philosophy, Computers

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just escapism? In a highly original work of 'technophilosophy', Chalmers argues categorically, no: virtual reality is genuine reality. Virtual worlds are not second-class worlds. We can live a meaningful life in virtual reality - and increasingly, we will.

What is reality, anyway? How can we lead a good life? Is there a god? How do we know there's an external world - and how do we know we're not living in a computer simulation? In Reality+, Chalmers conducts a grand tour of philosophy, using cutting-edge technology to provide invigorating new answers to age-old questions.

Drawing on examples from pop culture, literature and film that help bring philosophical issues to life, Reality+ is a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it.

© David J. Chalmers 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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ID: 653572

Title: Easy Street: A Story of Redemption from Myself

Author: Maggie Rowe

Narrator: Maggie Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:42:13

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

A moving and offbeat story of unlikely friendship, the cost of ambition, and what happens when the things you’ve always run away from show up on your doorstep.

To most, Maggie Rowe appears to live on Easy Street. Her stylish home is in a fashionable Los Angeles neighborhood. She has a kind husband who makes her laugh. And after years of struggle, she is finally making a name for herself in Hollywood. But the agreeable, confident persona she presents to the world often feels like a deception to Maggie, who’s long grappled with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy.

Enter Joanna Hergert, a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who lives with her elderly mother. Maggie’s husband, Jim, introduces her to the pair after meeting them at a local charbroiled chicken franchise. Over the next several years, she forms a friendship with Joanna and her mother—despite Joanna’s robust romantic fixation on Jim. What begins as a mild curiosity soon blooms into a complicated and intimate friendship that will challenge Maggie to confront her mental health issues and the trade-offs she’s made to live life on her own terms.

Engrossing, moving, and wickedly funny, Easy Street is a midlife coming-of-age buddy comedy about embracing the strength of the families we fashion, finding peace with the choices we make, and, above all, learning to be compassionate with ourselves.

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ID: 574119

Title: Devereaux Affair

Author: Adele Clee

Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:45:51

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Two lonely children form a bond.

As the daughter of a famed courtesan, Julianna de Lacy had seen more than her share of heartbreak. As a child, her own heart was broken the night her mother dragged her from the Marquess Devereauxs mansion and forced her into a strangers carriage. It was not the fear of meeting her mothers new lover that had Julianna sobbing, but the fact she was leaving Bennet Devereauxthe marquess young son and Juliannas only friend.

Two promises made and broken.

Someone is trying to kill Bennet Devereaux. The twenty-seven-year-old marquess has received copies of his obituary, witnessed two staged murder scenes and fears the third might be his last. Desperate to uncover the culprit, he seeks to hire an enquiry agent. Imagine his surprise when the only available agent is a womana woman who was once his childhood friend and confidante.

Two people thrown together by fate.

Bennet and Julianna must find the villain before its too late. But the deep bond they forged as children quickly develops into an intense attraction. How will they navigate these uncharted waters when Julianna refuses to be any mans mistress? What options are left for Bennet when he cant make a courtesans daughter his wife?

Find out in The Devereaux Affair - Ladies of the Order Book 1

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ID: 548597

Title: Mark Anchovy: Pizza Power (Mark Anchovy 3)

Author: William Goldsmith

Narrator: Kris Dyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:04:52

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-22

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

Genres: Kids, Mystery & Fantasy, Humor

Summary:

The outrageously funny adventures of Mark Anchovy, pizza delivery boy and private detective, continue in his third mission - to Japan.

As a pizza detective, Colin Kingsley AKA Mark Anchovy has survived murderous criminals, bloodthirsty henchmen, and some questionable modes of transport. He now has a much more worrying problem: his younger sister is working as his apprentice.

Coaching seven-year-old Alicia for her exams to join the Golden Spatula League would be challenging enough. But the siblings must head to Japan to track down the missing English eccentric Lord Bobo - former host of the hit 90s gameshow, 'Battered by the Butler' - before he winds up dead.

Their search takes them from the bright lights of Tokyo to the eerie calm of Kirajima Island, where an exclusive school for billionaires may hold the key. As disasters mount, the pair are threatened with expulsion from the G.S.L. Standing in their way are a trio of assassins, a pernickety PA, and a killer robot fridge.

Fantastically funny and clever, the third in the hapless young detective's adventures.

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ID: 537965

Title: Cyclops on a Mission (Monster Doughnuts 2)

Author: Gianna Pollero

Narrator: Rosie Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:35:47

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-22

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Humor

Summary:

'Delicious, dastardly and diabolically delightful' JACK MEGGITT-PHILLIPS, author of THE BEAST AND THE BETHANY

Monsters + (secretly highly dangerous) doughnuts = all the ingredients for an explosively funny read!

Tenth-generation monster-hunter Grace has a unique way of bumping off monsters. She and her sister run a bakery, Cake Hunters, where they make fabulous creations full of a special exploding baking powder that will get rid of any troublesome monster!

And now Grace has a new and unlikely partner in crime - 360-year-old cyclops Mr Harris. They have a new and perilous mission from the Secret Service - to rid the city of a pesky Bottom-Biter who is causing havoc. If only Mr Harris would stop just eating the monsters and honing his advanced patisserie skills in Grace's bakery, what a team they'll make!

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ID: 545050

Title: Good Son

Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:32:45

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

From one of America’s most acclaimed storytellers comes a powerful, emotionally charged novel of family, redemption and a mother’s love.

What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognisable to you? For Thea, the answer is simple and agonising: you keep loving him somehow.

Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Belinda, a crime he has no memory of committing. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda’s mother, once Thea’s good friend, galvanises the community to rally against him. Neighbours, employers, even some members of Thea’s own family turn away.

Meanwhile Thea struggles to understand her only son and begins to suspect darker forces are at play. If there is so much she never knew about Stefan, what other hidden secrets has she yet to uncover especially the shocking truth about the night Belinda died?

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ID: 539439

Title: Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China

Author: Jing Tsu

Narrator: Jing Tsu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:18:40

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: History, Asia, Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

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A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a super-power in the process

What does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?

China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, left behind in the wake of Western technology. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu shows that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: to make the formidable Chinese language - a 2,200-year-old writing system that was daunting to natives and foreigners alike - accessible to a globalised, digital world.

Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese script - and the value-system it represents - to the technological advances that would shape the 20th century and beyond, from the telegram to the typewriter to the smartphone. From the exiled reformer who risked death to advocate for Mandarin as a national language to the imprisoned computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup, generations of scholars, missionaries, librarians, politicians, inventors, nationalists and revolutionaries alike understood the urgency of their task and its world-shaping consequences.

With larger-than-life characters and a thrilling narrative, Kingdom of Characters offers an astonishingly original perspective on one of the 20th century's most dramatic transformations.

© Jing Tsu 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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ID: 564233

Title: Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

Author: Paul Kenyon

Narrator: Paul Kenyon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:38:21

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-22

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen.

'A witty and page-turning narrative full of grotesque characters' Misha Glenny

'Kenyon relates all this with verve [and] humour ... He patiently untangles the complicated webs of loyalty and enmity' Literary Review

'Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in Romania past and present' John Simpson

Balanced precariously on the shifting fault line between East and West, Romania's schizophrenic, often violent past is one of the great untold stories of modern Europe.

The country that gave us Vlad Dracula, and whose citizens consider themselves descendants of ancient Rome, has traditionally preferred the status of enigmatic outsider. But this beautiful and unexplored land has experienced some of the most disastrous leaderships of the last century.

After a relatively benign period led by a dutiful King and his vivacious British-born Queen, the country oscillated wildly. Its interwar rulers form a gallery of bizarre characters and extreme movements: the corrupt and mentally unbalanced King Carol; the fascist death cult led by Corneliu Codreanu; the vain General Ion Antonescu, who seized power in 1940 and led the country into a catastrophic alliance with Nazi Germany. After 1945 power was handed to Romania's tiny communist party, under which it experienced severe repression, purges and collectivisation.

Then in 1965, Nicolae Ceau?escu came to power. And thus began the strangest dictatorship of all.

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