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Title: A Taste of Honey & more: Eight BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions

Author: Shelagh Delaney

Narrator: Linda Polan, Brooke Vincent, Daniel Hanbridge, Nicola Gardner, Thomas Sangster, Kay Purcell, Eileen O'brien, Beth Squires, Susan Twist, Barbara Marten, Siobhan Finneran, Full Cast

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of plays by the trailblazing dramatist Shelagh Delaney 'The fact is, Miss Delaney is not only a shrewd and penetrating observer; she is a very delicate artist.' Bernard Levin Shelagh Delaney was just 19 when her debut play, A Taste of Honey, premiered in 1958. One of the great ‘kitchen sink dramas’, it was ground-breaking in its portrayal of working-class Northern women, gay and Black men, and influenced popular culture from The Smiths to Coronation Street. A huge hit in the West End and on Broadway, it was made into a BAFTA-winning film starring Rita Tushingham. This collection opens with a 2004 radio production of A Taste of Honey, starring Beth Squires as the pregnant teenager trading insults and repartee with her mother (Siobhan Finneran). It is followed by seven dramas specially written for BBC Radio, all showcasing Delaney’s extraordinary gift for depicting the experiences and emotions of ordinary women and children. In the trilogy Sweetly Sings the Donkey, Tell Me a Film and Baloney Said Salome, we follow the friendship of four women across the decades, from their childhood meeting in a Blackpool convalescent home to their 60th birthday reunion, and their fond farewell to one of their number. Beth Squires, Barbara Marten, Kay Purcell, Susan Twist and Eileen O’ Brien star in these funny, moving plays. Country Life and its sequel, Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life, centre around Rose, whose peaceful life on a remote Yorkshire smallholding is disrupted by her moody nephew, her film-star brother and her embittered ex-sister-in law. This witty, poignant double bill about parenting, rural life and family ties stars Barbara Marten as Rose. Starring Daniel Hanbridge and Brooke Vincent, the rite-of-passage drama Out of the Pirate’s Playhouse sees five eleven-year-olds celebrating the start of the holidays by going to their favourite activity centre: only to be told they are too old to play there. Our final play, So Does the Nightingale, is set during another period of transition, as middle-aged Alice prepares for her father’s impending death – and reveals her shocking plans for a new, independent life… Linda Polan stars, with a cast including Barbara Laurenson and Margot Boyd. Production credits Text copyright © Shelagh Delaney 1959 (A Taste of Honey),1980 (So Does the Nightingale), 2000(Sweetly Sings the Donkey), 2003 (Tell Me a Film, Out of the Pirate’s Playhouse), 2004 (Baloney Said Salome), 2007 (Country Life), 2010 (Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life) All rights reserved First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 20 Nov 1980, 18 Dec 2000, 6 Mar 2003, 22 Jul 2004, 7 Nov 2004, 22 Mar 2007, 18 Oct 2010, © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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Title: [Romanian] - Megan În Excursie Cu Școala

Author: Owen Jones

Narrator: Gabriela Abaluta

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Release date: January 31, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

În Megan în excursie cu școala, personalul școlii organizează o excursie școlara, iar elevii pot vota unde doresc să meargă. Megan este confuză în legătură cu primul ei vot, dar reușește să ajungă unde vrea ea. Îi place călătoria și explorează situl preistoric al peșterii împreună cu Grrr, prietena ei tigru fantomă. Ea pare să fie transportată înapoi în acele vremuri străvechi, dar nu i se pare înfricoșător pentru că prietena ei este alături de ea. Mai târziu, ea discută despre experiența ei cu Ghidul ei Spiritual, Wacinhinsha.Seriile Psychic Megan Un Ghid Spiritual, Un Tigru Fantomă Și O Mamă Înfricoșătoare! Seriile Psychic Megan constă în douăzeci și patru de nuvele despre conștientizarea din ce în ce mai mare a unei fete că este capabilă să facă lucruri pe care nimeni din familia ei nu le poate face. Megan are doisprezece ani în primul volum. Ea are două probleme aparent insurmontabile. Mama ei este speriată de abilitățile latente ale fiicei sale și nu numai că nu o va ajuta, dar o descurajează activ; și nu poate găsi un profesor care să o ajute să-și dezvolte puterile supranaturale, spirituale. Căci ea nu vrea doar să știe ce este posibil să facă și cum să facă, ci și la ce sa își folosească aceste abilități speciale. Megan este o fată bună, așa că ar părea evident că tinde să-și folosească puterile pentru a face bine, dar nu este întotdeauna ușor să faci ceea ce trebuie, chiar dacă știi ce înseamna asta. Aceste povești despre Megan vor atrage pe oricine are un interes pentru puterile extrasenzoriale, supranaturale și paranormale și este pentru vârste cuprinse între zece și o sută de ani. În Megan în excursie cu școala, personalul școlii organizează o excursie școlara, iar elevii pot vota unde doresc să meargă. Megan este confuză în legătură cu primul ei vot, dar reușește să ajungă unde vrea ea. Îi place călătoria și explorează situl preistoric al peșterii împreună cu Grrr, prietena ei tigru fantomă. Ea pare să fie transportată înapoi în acele vremuri străvechi, dar nu i se pare înfricoșător pentru că prietena ei este alături de ea. Mai târziu, ea discută despre experiența ei cu Ghidul ei Spiritual, Wacinhinsha. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: Frost in May

Author: Antonia White

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail.' —Hermione Lee, Observer Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient, and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes. Convent life is perfectly captured—the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentricities of Nanda's school friends.

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Title: Keep This Off the Record

Author: Arden Joy

Narrator: Gail Shalan, Mara Wilson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Abigail Meyer and Freya Jonsson can’t stand one another. But could their severe hatred be masking something else entirely? From the moment they locked eyes in high school, Abby and Freya have been at each other’s throats. Ten years later, when Abby and Freya cross paths again, their old rivalry doesn’t take more than a few minutes to begin anew. And now Naomi, Abby’s best friend, is falling for Freya’s producer and close pal, Will. Both women are thrilled to see their friends in a happy relationship—except they are now only a few degrees of separation from the person they claim to despise…and they can’t seem to avoid seeing one another. Keep This Off the Record is a fun and fresh LGBTQIA+ story about the freedom to be who you are, even if that means falling for the person you hate.

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Title: Ghost Town

Author: Kevin Chen

Narrator: Nicky Endres

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2022 FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend. Told in a myriad of voices, both living and dead, and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures. 'Multidimensional characters, a beautifully realized setting, and an apposite surprise ending . . . This book is excellent.' —Booklist (Starred Review)

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Title: [Catalan] - Ofert a les mans, el paradís crema

Author: Pol Guasch

Narrator: Masumi Mutsuda

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Efervescència i melancolia: una novel·la sobre l'amistat en un món abocat al col·lapse. La Rita viu a la Colònia, dalt d'un cim on homes cansats buiden una mina a punt d'esgotar-se. Des d'allí, contempla el poble enfonsat a la vall, i els boscos que, tot d'una, comencen a cremar. En Líton, que va créixer a ciutat, apaga el foc amb la resta de joves del Servei. Aquesta novel·la ressegueix la història dels dos amics: la infantesa en contextos oposats, el descobriment del desig, els seus amors amb en Fèlix i en René –i la nostàlgia del futur que no serà. Junts viuen l'emancipació i l'efervescència festiva de la vintena, però també les servituds de la família i d'una època marcada per l'extinció: com deu ser el brunzit d'una abella? En un món abocat al col·lapse, allà on la vida es fa impossible de viure, la Rita i en Líton converteixen l'amistat en una confabulació per pensar un univers habitable. Pol Guasch ha escrit un llibre en què cada dosi de dolor té el seu revers fulgurant, i cada desenllaç augura un nou començament. Desordenada com la memòria, fosca i lluminosa alhora, Ofert a les mans, el paradís crema és melancòlica com només ho pot ser assistir a la fosa en negre de la joventut del món. «És un dels joves prodigiosos de la poesia del nostre país» (Pepa Blanes, Cadena SER). «El català de Guasch és actual, bombollejant, capaç de descriure amb llum interna els matisos d'allò real, una prosa que desborda la sensibilitat d'un autor poeta» (Valèria Gaillard, El Periódico). «Una descripció de l'horror feta des de la fascinació que normalment es reserva a la bellesa» (Guillem Gisbert).

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Title: Lola in the Mirror

Author: Trent Dalton

Narrator: Victoria Graves

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Release date: January 18, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

‘A boisterous romp that spotlights serious social issues’ DAILY MAIL 'A Down Under Demon Copperhead… it's more than feel-good, it's feel-everything. What a triumph' A. J. FINN Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, this is the irresistible new novel from the internationally bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat. The girl has no name, but she has a dream – for a life of love, as an artist, outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld and its drug queen 'Lady' Flora Box. There's only one person who can help make her dreams come true: Lola. To find her, the girl with no name must do one of the hardest things we can. She must look in the mirror. Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, LOLA IN THE MIRROR is the irresistible new novel from the international bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES.

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Title: [German] - Julie und Cara: Julie auf Wolke 7

Series: #3 of Julie&Cara

Author: Juliane Ryll

Narrator: Elias Kurzmann, Sebastian Borucki, Sabrina Klüber, Lutz Thase, Juliane Ryll, Karina Klüber, Antje Hartmann, Maria Koschny

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 47 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Julie und Cara ist eine Hörspielreihe für Kinder, die wichtige gesellschaftliche Themen kindgerecht und mit viel Liebe und Humor vermittelt. Jede Episode enthält einen Themenschwerpunkt, wie zum Beispiel Umweltschutz, Diversität oder Familienzusammenhalt.

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Title: House on Burnt Mountain

Author: Kendrick Smith

Narrator: Ryan Haugen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Nolichucky, the house on Burnt Mountain, appears to be a secluded family lake home, forever frozen in the 1930s. But beneath its placid exterior lies a secret history and a mysterious power that profoundly affects young Luke Brooks. After spending a seemingly peaceful weekend there with his father and two teenaged friends, Luke's life is forever changed and he must thereafter confront an unexpected and potentially world-altering destiny.

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Title: Centernia Return to the Castle

Author: Rose Catherine Khan

Narrator: Jamie-Lyn Markos

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A dark and elegant contemporary fantasy novel from the mind of internationally acclaimed fantasy artist Rose Catherine Khan. Artemisa Wynter yearns for the realm of Pennsylvania, a world she has only glimpsed through her mother's bedtime stories. Her deepest desire is to leave Castle Aurumice and embrace a life filled with movies, malls, and microwave burritos. However, Artemisa was blessed with her father's fangs and cat-like eyes, making that plan a forbidden dream for the ailurian mage. Time dances on, and a bitter feud has come to Artemisa's home. Castle Aurumice is now entombed beneath a protective shield fashioned by her father's desperate hand. His act of love condemned the castlefolk to the streets as an insidious cancer overwhelmed his body. Now the only one alive who understands her father's magic, Artemisa must return to her mother's strange realm. She is tasked with retrieving her cousin, Jessica Ravenwolfe, a teen with the key to unraveling the energy barrier.