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Title: The Merqueen

Series: #3 of Witching World

Author: Lucia Ashta

Narrator: Sasha Higgins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Release date: November 12, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A demonic satyr. Rogue pixies. Diminutive dragons. Phoenixes and imps. No one ever said magic would be boring. Clara barely survived the dark force that attacked Irele Castle. One of her teachers didn't. But the number of dark magicians hunting her and her friends has only increased. She still doesn't understand the extent of her powers, and her foes are cutting off every opportunity for her to discover it. As if the immortal count weren't terrifying enough, now Clara's former fiancé and a magician she believed dead have combined their efforts to kill her. And it gets worse. The Merqueen's already stolen three years of Clara's life. But she wants more, and she's as powerful as the count. They're racing to claim her soul. Will Clara, who's still new to the magical world, be able to find the way to stop them in time, when the many forces of darkness are converging on her?

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Title: Only Here, Only Now: A Novel

Author: Tom Newlands

Narrator: Amelia Leith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Release date: November 12, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

“Only Here, Only Now heralds the arrival of an urgent and unique new voice, as engaging and as startling as Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Morvern Callar or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.”—David Peace A brilliant new talent writing from lived experience makes his debut with this irresistible and original story in the vein of Young Mungo and Hang the Moon, that pierces the beautiful, brilliant, and lightning-quick mind of a teenage girl growing up with undiagnosed ADHD in working-class Scotland. In the blazing hot summer of 1994, there’s nothing for Cora Mowat to do but hang around in empty parking lots. Stuck in her Mom’s small house and tired of her own restless mind, she’s desperate to break free of the limits of Fife but unsure of what the future holds—if it holds anything at all for a girl like her trying to find her way in the world. After her mother invites a new man to live with them, tensions quickly rise in the cramped house. Gunner is kind but strange, too—a one-eyed shoplifter with more than a few hidden secrets. But when tragedy strikes shortly after, Cora rebels against her small-town existence in search of love, acceptance, and a path to something good. If only she can learn to navigate her grief and everything she thinks she knows about who she is and what she might be capable of, she may finally find the way forward. In this extraordinary debut, drawn from experience but written with riotous imagination, Tom Newlands explores a teenage girl’s coming-of-age in post-industrial Scotland and what it means to yearn for a life that feels out of reach. Vibrant, lyrical and fiercely funny, Only Here, Only Now is a story of identity and family that shines with hope and resilience.

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Title: The Sweetest Knockout

Author: B. Love

Narrator: Daryl Okene, Simone Rothschild

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

For teenagers Angel, Rahsaan, and Kahmeer, the summer before their last year of high school is the time for unadulterated fun. What they don’t expect is for a party to lead to a shootout that changes the trajectory of their summer and their lives permanently. Cousins Imani and Darla, don’t expect connecting with Angel and Rahsaan to reshape their hearts and lives, but it does. They learn quickly that the only thing stronger than love is hate, and the only person they can trust is themselves. The Sweetest Knockout is told through the lens of five teenagers from seventeen to twenty-two as they navigate lust, love, life, and, unfortunately, death. It is book one of a four book standalone series. While The Sweetest Knockout ends with a cliffhanger, the rest of the books will not.

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Title: The Party

Author: Tessa Hadley

Narrator: Tessa Hadley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires. Evelyn had the surprising thought that bodies were sometimes wiser than the people inside them. She’d have liked to impress somebody with this idea, but couldn’t explain it. On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, sisters Moira and Evelyn, on the cusp of adulthood, go to an art students’ party in a dockside pub; there they meet two men, Paul and Sinden, whose air of worldliness and sophistication both intrigues and repels them. Sinden calls a few days later to invite them over to the grand suburban mansion Paul shares with his brother and sister, and Moira accepts despite Evelyn’s misgivings. As the night unfolds in this unfamiliar, glamorous new setting, the sisters learn things about themselves and each other that shock them, and release them into a new phase of their lives. ‘Tessa Hadley is my favourite author’ KATE ATKINSON ‘Few writers give me such consistent pleasure’ ZADIE SMITH ‘Hadley’s extraordinary skill [is] making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive’ COLM TÓIBÍN ‘Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book’ HILARY MANTEL © Tessa Hadley 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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Title: An Undeniable Voice

Author: Tania Blanchard

Narrator: Emma Woods

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Release date: October 30, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Now is the time to fight to be heard ... A gripping, uplifting story of love, change and hope at one of the most turbulent times in history - and the battle that changed the future for women forever, inspired by a true story. 1907, London. As the winds of change sweep across the world in the new century, Hannah Rainforth and her friends take to the streets to fight for the vote for women. Now is not the time for quiet argument - the country will only listen when it's forced to, and the women join the suffragette movement, putting their bodies, reputations and personal safety on the line to achieve lasting change for women. But dark clouds of war and sinister forces are gathering on the horizon and Hannah is desperate to protect those she loves the most. Faced with the loss of her home, her livelihood and even her family, Hannah risks everything to ensure their survival - and to achieve the vote for women, which is now a matter of national urgency. As the country is plunged into war and deadly bombs are devastating the city and the north, Hannah and women across the nation join the home war effort to galvanise the nation - their worth cannot be challenged now and their fight for recognition will transform the future forever. PRAISE FOR A WOMAN OF COURAGE 'Galvanising historical fiction that spotlights women's resilience and resistance' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

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Title: [Spanish] - Orfandad

Author: Karina Sosa

Narrator: Karina Sosa

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Release date: October 24, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

«Con su escritura íntima, de una belleza desgarradora, Karina Sosa nos ofrece un testimonio a la vez doloroso y privilegiado de uno de los movimientos sociales que han delineado el rostrodel México contemporáneo.» Fernanda Melchor Una hija descubre la grieta en su familia: sus padres están separados y la casa en la que crecen ella y sus hermanos se va poblando de recuerdos. En junio de 2006, el padre de Karina —la protagonista de esta historia— encabeza una lucha popular para que el gobierno de Oaxaca caiga y se haga justicia. Una lucha que trae consigo el estigma de la cárcel. Una lucha que deja una ciudad en llamas. A la par de lidiar con el abandono paterno y la persecución social, Karina intenta descubrir quién ha sido y quién es ahora como mujer. Traspasa las barricadas de la memoria para llegar a su pasado, a esa infancia inestable y dolorosa: la zona oscura de la que emerge la alargada sombra de un padre totémico. En esta, su segunda novela, Karina Sosa amplifica su talento estilístico y nos regala una historia profunda, nostálgica, herida. Un libro donde somete —con valentía— palabras como amor y libertad. Orfandad nos cuestiona: ¿Se puede escarbar hondo y salir ileso? Y nos responde: De ninguna manera.

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Title: Ouida: A Little Scandal Is An Excellent Thing: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation of Moths, plus a biographical drama

Author: Ouida, Chrys Salt

Narrator: Nicola Pagett, Geoffrey Whitehead, Full Cast, Paul Rhys, Cheryl Campbell, Teresa Gallagher

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Release date: October 24, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A BBC adaptation of Ouida’s landmark novel, along with an original drama and a fascinating documentary exploring her colourful life ‘A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbours.’ - Ouida Ouida – the pseudonym of English novelist Maria Louise Ramé – wrote over 40 novels as well as children’s books, short stories and essays. One of the most popular authors of her day, she achieved fame and fortune with her ‘sensation novels’ which scandalised and intrigued Victorian readers, but her extravagant lifestyle resulted in her dying in poverty in 1908. This collection brings together her pioneering novel Moths with two engrossing biographical portraits of Ouida herself. A Little Scandal Is an Excellent Thing – Romantic novelist Ouida’s life was as flamboyant as her fiction. Born in England with a French father, she lived in luxury at the Langham Hotel, throwing lavish literary soirées with guests including Oscar Wilde, but died alone and penniless in Italy. Cheryl Campbell stars in this moving drama by award-winning poet Chrys Salt. Moths – First published in 1880, this riveting tale of romance and society in 19th-century Europe is widely held as the first novel to portray a divorced woman finding happiness and fulfilment. It tells the story of teenage Vere Herbert, forced by her superficial mother Lady Dolly to wed the brutish Prince Zoroff. Meanwhile, she has fallen in love with an Italian opera singer, Raphael de Correze. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, dare she leave her husband to be with him? Dramatised by Chrys Salt and starring Teresa Gallagher as Vere, with Nicola Pagett, Paul Rhys and Geoffrey Whitehead. Sensational Women: Ouida – Maeve Binchy examines the life and books of Ouida, who never had a lover but caught the public’s imagination with the passionate stories she wrote. Moths first published in 1880 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd ? 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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Title: Three Eight One

Author: Aliya Whiteley

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Release date: October 22, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

In January 2314, Rowena Savalas—a curator of the vast archive of the twenty-first century's primitive internet—stumbles upon a story posted in the summer of 2024. She's quickly drawn into the mystery of the text: Is it autobiography, fantasy, or fraud? What's the significance of the recurring number 381? In the story, the protagonist Fairly walks the Horned Road—a quest undertaken by youngsters in her village when they come of age. She is followed by the 'breathing man,' a looming presence, dogging her heels every step of the way. Everything she was taught about her world is overturned. Following Fairly's quest, Rowena comes to question her own choices, and a predictable life of curation becomes one of exploration, adventure, and love. As both women's stories draw to a close, she realizes it doesn't matter whether the story is true or not: as with the quest itself, it's the journey that matters.

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Title: Wild Spaces

Author: S. L. Coney

Narrator: Nick Mondelli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Release date: October 22, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Nominated for the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award • An Esquire Best of Horror 2023 pick A young boy’s life is upended after the arrival of his grandfather, who is hiding a terrifying secret in this sweltering southern gothic horror, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw and John Langan. An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog, Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels something within him changing?physically?into something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous. Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets Lovecraftian horror in this foreboding, sensual coming-of-age debut in which the corrosive nature of family secrets and toxic relatives assume eldritch proportions.

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Title: Dreaming of Autumn Skies

Series: #3 of The Sutherland Series

Author: V.C. Andrews

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Release date: October 22, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A young girl does whatever’s necessary to take back her agency when she is sent to live with her controlling grandfather in this atmospheric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic and the Landry series—now popular Lifetime movies. With her mother deceased and her father remarried, Caroline is forced to live with her domineering grandfather. But having endured so much loss and cruelty in her young life, she is determined to not let her suffering to have been in vain. Soon, Caroline embarks on a campaign to reclaim her own power and win over the most influential person in her family. She will stop at nothing to build the life—and the independence—she so desperately dreams of.