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Title: The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier: A Novel

Author: Rosalind Brackenbury

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Release date: June 12, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

What do you do when you’ve lost the love of your life? Seb Fowler has arrived in Paris to research his literary idol, Henri Fournier. It begins with an interview granted by a woman whose affair with the celebrated writer trails back to World War I. The enchanting Pauline is fragile, but her memories are alive—those of an illicit passion, of the chances she took and never regretted, and of the twists of fate that defined her unforgettable love story. Through Pauline’s love letters, her secrets, and a lost Fournier manuscript, Seb will come to learn so much more—about Pauline, Henri, and himself. For Seb, every moment of Pauline’s past proves to be more inspiring than he could have imagined. She’s given him the courage to grab hold of whatever life offers, to cherish each risk, and to pursue love in his life. Intimately epic, The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier spans generations to explore every beautiful mystery of falling in love, being in love, and losing a love—and, most important, daring to love again and discovering just how resilient the human heart can be.

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Title: Smoke and Ashes: ‘A brilliantly conceived murder mystery’ C.J. Sansom

Series: #3 of Wyndham and Banerjee series

Author: Abir Mukherjee

Narrator: Simon Bubb

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Release date: June 7, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee, read by Simon Bubb. **From the winner of the 2017 CWA Historical Dagger Award** India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he’s seen this before. Last night, in a drug addled haze, he stumbled across a corpse with the same ritualistic injuries. It seems like there’s a deranged killer on the loose. Unfortunately for Sam, the corpse was in an opium den and revealing his presence there could cost him his career. With the aid of his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, Sam must try to solve the two murders, all the while keeping his personal demons secret, before somebody else turns up dead. Set against the backdrop of the fervent fight for Indian independence, and rich with the atmosphere of 1920s Calcutta, Smoke and Ashes is the brilliant new historical mystery in this award-winning series. ‘Smoke and Ashes is Abir Mukherjee's best book yet; a brilliantly conceived murder mystery set amidst political and social turmoil – beautifully crafted.’ CJ SANSOM

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Title: First Snow, Last Light

Author: Wayne Johnston

Narrator: Ryan Wells, David Ferry, Mary Lewis, Gordon Pinsent

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the critically acclaimed, prizewinning and internationally bestselling The Colony of Unrequited Dreams comes an epic family mystery with a powerful, surprise ending, which features the return of the ever-fascinating Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable characters in fiction. Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the chill hush that precedes the first storm of the winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car missing, and his parents gone without a trace. From that point on, his life is driven by the need to find out what happened to the Vanished Vatchers. His father, Edgar, born to a poor family of fishermen, had risen to become the right-hand man to the colony's prime minister, then suffered an unexpected fall from grace. Were he and his wife murdered? Was it suicide? Had they run away? If so, why had they left their only child behind?     Ned soon finds himself enmeshed in another family, that of his missing father and the poverty from which the man somehow escaped. His grandparents, Nan and Reg, his Uncle Cyril and others, are themselves haunted by the inexplicable disappearance of a third Vatcher, a young man who was lost at sea on a calm and sunny day years earlier. Two other people loom large as Ned becomes Newfoundland's first media mogul, building an empire to insulate him from loss: a Jesuit priest named Father Duggan, and Sheilagh Fielding, a boozy giantess who, while wandering the city streets at night, composes satiric columns that scandalize the rich and powerful. In Ned, Fielding sees a surrogate for her two lost children, the secret that dogs her life, while Ned believes the enigmatic Fielding to be his soulmate.      The novel builds to a spectacular resolution of the mystery of all the Vanished Vatchers. Only Wayne Johnston could create such larger-than-life, mythic characters embroiled in events that leave us contemplating not only their tragedies and triumphs, but the forces that compel us all to act in ways that surprise and sometimes terrify us.

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Title: [Spanish] - tentación de ser felices

Author: Lorenzo Marone

Narrator: Joan Mora

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Cesare Annunziata un personaje irreverente, enojón y ocurrente de setenta y siete años, viudo y padre de dos hijos adultos. Hace un balance de su vida y se da cuenta que ha desperdiciado grandes momentos por no saber elegir en los momentos más importantes. Su existencia podría seguir su rumbo hasta su previsible y universal final entre vasos de vino con Marino, el viejecito neurótico de la segunda planta; las charlas no deseadas con Eleonora, la loca de los gatos del vecindario; y fogonazos de pasión carnal con Rossana. Pero un día llega a su edificio la joven y enigmática Emma, casada con un individuo siniestro con el que no parece tener nada en común. Cesare no tarda en darse cuenta de que en esa pareja hay algo que no funciona, y sin duda no se implicaría si no fuera por la silenciosa llamada de socorro que lanzan los tristes ojos de Emma…Los secretos que Cesare descubre sobre su vecina, pero sobre todo sobre sí mismo, conformarán la trama de esta novela formidable, capaz de dibujar un personaje en el que conviven, en alegre contradicción, el cinismo más feroz y la más profunda humanidad.

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Title: Brought To Battle: A Novel of World War II

Author: J. Scott Payne

Narrator: John Mclain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.29 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A young sergeant, recovered from battle against Rommel's Afrika Korps, is appointed leader of a dozen know-it-all draftees being poured into the Army’s replacement pool. He toughens them into an effective team. As they land at Utah Beach, the Wehrmacht hands out its own bloody lessons. In minutes, one is dead and a second wounded, the onset of a pitiless 10-month ordeal. In horrific combat from Normandy through the Bulge to the Elbe River, they learn to defeat a skilled and hardened enemy. All pay a steep price.

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Title: [Spanish] - ladrón de vírgenes

Author: David De Juan Marcos

Narrator: Juan Enchinique

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2018

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Cómo iba a saber que aquel hombre traía la muerte consigo. Debí darme cuenta por su olor a cebolla rancia. Debí darme cuenta cuando la leche cuajaba a su paso en los cubos de metal. Cuando las palomas morían desplumadas por la tiña,, o porque allá por donde pasaba doblaba los racimos y dejaba una pestilencia a plomo de preludios de tormenta de verano. He de reconocer que en nuestras pesadillas siempre supimos que volvería, que algún día subiría el caminito en forma de culebra cercado de castaños y sus botas embarradas cruzarían con un ímpetu desordenado la única puerta de la casa por donde entraba el sol. Se sentaría en la mesa de tarugos sin pulir con la cuchara de latón y esperaría a que se le sirviera de comer como si nada hubiera pasado. Como si no nos hubiera arrancado la alegría del pecho. Era mi padre. Después de quince años de misteriosa ausencia, Andrés Pajuelo regresa a su casa para proyectar el robo de una serie de valiosas obras de arte religioso. Para ello necesitará la ayuda de sus dos hijos, del melindroso prometido de su hija y de un enigmático gigante experto en teología y en arte sacro. Cuando todo parece estar listo para ejecutar el último y más lucrativo de los robos, es acusado de varios asesinatos. Para sorpresa de toda su familia, Andrés reconocerá al instante su culpa ahorcándose en público. El ladrón de vírgenes es una reflexión sobre las mentiras que encierra toda religión y sobre la importancia de la religiosidad en la condición humana. Un análisis sobre los límites de la traición, la lealtad y la fuerza de las promesas. Un certero homenaje a la tradición oral de contar historias.

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Title: [Spanish] - duenos del viento

Author: Patxi Irurzun

Narrator: Carlos Pando

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2018

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

La famosa caza de brujas en Zugarramurdi, el auto de fe de Logroño de 1610, las cárceles secretas de la Inquisición, los bucaneros de La Española, los Hermanos de la Costa y la república libertaria que intentaron crear en la isla Tortuga, los corsarios vascos del mar Caribe… Joanes de Sagarmin, protagonista y narrador de esta novela vivirá todas estas peripecias tras huir de la pequeña aldea navarra de Zugarramurdi. Perseguido por la Inquisición, encontrará refugio junto a otros huérfanos y huidos de la justicia, primero en el sur de Francia, junto a los terribles corsarios vascos, y después en el Nuevo Mundo, donde se convertirá en músico de una tripulación pirata. A lo largo de su agitada vida, el destino de Joanes permanecerá siempre unido al de un encantador y cruel filibustero, Kuthun, y al de la misteriosa Morguy, la joven vidente y ayudante del inquisidor Lancre. Entre los tres se establece un triángulo de amor y odio, en cuyo centro permanece la búsqueda de una libertad que el destino y la cuna parecen haber negado a quienes tienen como única posesión el viento y esperan que alguna vez sople a su favor.

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Title: The Lost Family: A Novel

Author: Jenna Blum

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us creates a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II in this emotionally charged, beautifully rendered story that spans a generation, from the 1960s to the 1980s. In 1965 Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha’s to savor its brisket bourguignon and impeccable service and to admire its dashing owner and head chef Peter Rashkin. With his movie-star good looks and tragic past, Peter, a survivor of Auschwitz, is the most eligible bachelor in town. But Peter does not care for the parade of eligible women who come to the restaurant hoping to catch his eye. He has resigned himself to a solitary life. Running Masha’s consumes him, as does his terrible guilt over surviving the horrors of the Nazi death camp while his wife, Masha—the restaurant’s namesake—and two young daughters perished. Then exquisitely beautiful June Bouquet, an up-and-coming young model, appears at the restaurant, piercing Peter’s guard. Though she is twenty years his junior, the two begin a passionate, whirlwind courtship. When June unexpectedly becomes pregnant, Peter proposes, believing that beginning a new family with the woman he loves will allow him to let go of the horror of the past. But over the next twenty years, the indelible sadness of those memories will overshadow Peter, June, and their daughter Elsbeth, transforming them in shocking, heartbreaking, and unexpected ways. Jenna Blum artfully brings to the page a husband devastated by a grief he cannot name, a frustrated wife struggling to compete with a ghost she cannot banish, and a daughter sensitive to the pain of both her own family and another lost before she was born. Spanning three cinematic decades, The Lost Family is a charming, funny, and elegantly bittersweet study of the repercussions of loss and love.

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Title: There There: A novel

Author: Tommy Orange

Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, Alma Cuervo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Release date: June 5, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 176

Ratings of Narrator: 4.48 of Total 48

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “places Native American voices front and center” (NPR/Fresh Air). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism A book with “so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation” (The New York Times). It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down--full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable. Don't miss Tommy Orange's new book, Wandering Stars!

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Title: Hap and Hazard and the End of the World: A Novel

Author: Diane DeSanders

Narrator: Dara Rosenberg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2018

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

'Diane DeSanders's genius lies in her ability to capture the intimate interiority of a very particular childhood while at the same time interrogating larger questions of class, race, and religion. Hap and Hazard and the End of the World is a gorgeous, profoundly original novel.' —Dawn Raffel, author of Carrying the Body and The Secret Life of Objects'Rollicking, tilted, and transporting. As the young narrator tries to manage her fraying family-war-wounded father, suffering mother, misbehaving relatives galore-DeSanders takes us deeper, always with such tenderness and beautiful observation into the ways we shape a narrative that keeps us whole.' ―Victoria Redel, author of Loverboy and Before EverythingFor Dick and Jane, Dallas after World War II is a place of promise and prosperity: the first home air conditioners are making summertime bearable and Dick’s position at his father’s business, the Cadillac dealership, is assured. Jane has help with the house and the children, and garden parties and holiday celebrations are spirited social affairs. For the oldest of their three daughters, however, life is full of frustrating mysteries. The stories the adults tell her don’t make sense. Too curious for comfort, she finds her questions only seem to annoy them. Why won’t they tell the truth about Santa? What is that Holy Spirit business, and what is the difference between an angel and a ghost? Why is her mother often so tense and sad? And why does her father keep flying into violent rages?Hap and Hazard and the End of the World is an intimate, finely crafted novel about the innocence and vulnerability of childhood and the dangers posed by adults who cannot cope with life’s complexities. It is also about the ingenuity born of loneliness and neglect, and the surprising, strange beauty of the world.