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Title: Problem IX. Violet’s Own

Author: Anna Katharine Green

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 40 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 11th, 1846.Anna’s initial ambition was to be a poet. However that path failed to ignite any significant interest and she turned to fiction writing. She published her first―and most famous work in 1878―‘The Leavenworth Case’. Wilkie Collins praised it and it sold extremely well.It led to Anna writing 40 novels and to becoming known as ‘the mother of the detective novel.’In helping to shape the genre she brought many other innovations including a series detective: her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, another innovation and a prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and others. She also invented the 'girl detective': in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth. Anna’s other innovations included the now familiar dead bodies in libraries, newspaper clippings as "clews," the coroner's inquest, and expert witnesses. Yale Law School once used her books to demonstrate how damaging it can be to rely on circumstantial evidence.Her career was now well advanced and she was much admired. On November 25, 1884, Green married the actor and stove designer, and later noted furniture maker, Charles Rohlfs, who was seven years her junior. They had three children; Rosamund, Roland and Sterling.Although Anna was a progressive she did not approve of many of her feminist contemporaries, and was opposed to women's suffrage.On November 25, 1884, Anna married the actor and noted furniture maker, Charles Rohlfs, who was seven years her junior. They had three children; Rosamund, Roland and Sterling.Anna Katharine Green died on April 11, 1935 in Buffalo, New York, at the age of 88.

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Title: A Good Indian Girl

Author: Mansi Shah

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

From the bestselling author of The Direction of the Wind and The Taste of Ginger comes an immersive, fun and heartfelt novel about a disgraced Indian American divorcée who spends a summer in Italy, reconnecting with her passion for cooking and reckoning with cultural expectations to make the choice of a lifetime. Life's more fun when you ditch the recipe. Jyoti is the “perfect” Indian American daughter: She stayed out of trouble, looked after her younger sisters, and married a man her parents approved of. So when her husband, Ashok, pushes her to quit her dream job as head chef to focus on conceiving, she obliges, knowing this will please her parents—only for Ashok to leave her when she cannot carry to term. Now unemployed, childless, and divorced, a disgrace to her Gujarati family, Jyoti books a ticket to Tuscany for the summer to visit her best friend (and fellow social outcast), Karishma. Carbs, chianti, and la bella vita slowly restore Jyoti’s confidence, inspiring her to experiment with Indian-Italian fusion recipes. But when she unexpectedly goes viral for her impromptu cooking vlogs—and candid vent sessions—her gossiping aunties have a field day. And when a shocking reveal comes to light, Jyoti must choose between family acceptance, a fulfilling career, and even motherhood, all before the summer ends… Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: [German] - Nachricht von Dad (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Matt Haig

Narrator: Benjamin Vinnen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Release date: September 2, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Der wunderbar einfühlsam erzählte Roman vom Autor des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers und der TikTok-Sensation Die Mitternachtsbibliothek Ein kleiner Junge, eine Nachricht aus dem Jenseits und ein ungewöhnlicher Auftrag ... Philip Noble ist erst elf Jahre alt, doch sein Leben ist voller Probleme. Sein Vater ist bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen und seine Mutter lässt sich auf die Annäherungsversuche seines schmierigen Onkels ein. Als Philip der Geist seines verstorbenen Vaters erscheint und ihm eröffnet, dass er ermordet wurde, ist Philip endgültig überfordert. Ausgerechnet der Onkel soll schuld sein und sein Vater verlangt, dass Philip ihn rächt. Aber wie soll ein elfjähriger Junge das hinbekommen? Entdecken Sie auch die anderen Hörbücher von Matt Haig bei Argon: Die Mitternachtsbibliothek, Der fürsorgliche Mr. Cave und Für immer, euer Prince

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Title: Fool Me Twice

Author: Nona Uppal

Narrator: Nona Uppal

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Release date: August 27, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Since school, Sana has been the popular girl with excellent grades, beloved by both teachers and parents, living an enviable life. Sana and Ashish have been dating since the eleventh grade, sharing the kind of teenage romance that makes it to the bestsellers list, sells out theatres and causes their loveless friends to gag. Nothing, not even long-distance, can tear the two apart.Except, maybe, a handsome, overachieving, book-reading senior from Sana’ s college?Pranav is the typical ‘ cool guy’ sought after by the entire college. He also happens to be Sana’ s new friend, Aanchal’ s, brother. But he’ s nothing more than a friend! Sana already has the best boyfriend in the world!Correction: had, before a drunk driver on New Year’ s Eve obliterated her happiness.Set in New Delhi, Fool Me Twice is an unconventional story that will stump readers expecting a good, old romance trope. We meet and fall in love with a young couple planning their futures together when life rudely hijacks the steering wheel. Exploring the ways a twenty-year-old navigates grief and life after a loss that shatters most fifty-year-olds, Fool Me Twice looks at the complexity of falling in love 'again' at an age where most are falling for the first time, and what it feels like to move on from mourning one great love to make room for another.

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Title: Blue Graffiti

Author: Calahan Skogman

Narrator: Calahan Skogman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

'An emotional and utterly romantic—in the truest sense of the word—debut.' —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story Living in the home he inherited from his mother and abandoned by his father, painter and construction worker Cash has never known anything beyond the fields of Johnston, Wisconsin—never particularly wanted to, either. Why would he when his friends are there, his work is there, his history is there? He loves Johnston. But when an emerald-eyed stranger named Rose blows into town one summer evening in his favorite local bar, everything changes. It's love at first sight. For Cash, anyway. What follows is an intimate reflection on the love, faith, and tragedy that courses through the blood of America's backbone. Cash and his closest friends find themselves vital threads in the fabric of their community, the memory of those forgotten, and partners in a new enterprise. A bluesey ode to the Beat generation for the modern era, Blue Graffiti is writer Calahan Skogman's poetic debut brimming with an essential freedom, romance, and longing for a bygone era.

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Title: [Spanish] - La Frontera Entre Nosotros

Author: Rudy Ruiz

Narrator: Fernando Monroy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

La Frontera Entre Nosotros es una conmovedora novela de formación escrita por una de las voces más emocionantes de la ficción. Ramón López nació en la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México, pero está decidido a salir y abrazar el sueño americano, y no está seguro si su complicada familia es una ayuda o un obstáculo. Hijo de inmigrantes, a medida que Ramón crece, su admiración por su padre emprendedor se agria al ver cómo sus sueños de éxito se marchitan. Su madre se encuentra constantemente preocupada por su hermano menor, quien lucha contra una discapacidad intelectual. Y el mundo exterior está plagado de peligros y tentaciones que amenazan con descarrilar a Ramón de sus sueños de llegar a Nueva York y triunfar como artista. Mientras sus sueños chocan con la realidad y sus valores luchan contra los deseos, Ramón encuentra el sueño americano a su alcance, pero ¿exigirá un sacrificio demasiado grande? El galardonado autor Rudy Ruiz captura brillantemente la belleza y el peligro de la vida fronteriza mientras Ramón lucha por comprender su hogar y su lugar en el mundo. La Frontera Entre Nosotros es una historia asombrosa y compasiva sobre la tensa relación de un hijo con su padre, los desafíos de seguir una vida creativa cuando se proviene de orígenes humildes y el poder de abrazar la totalidad de lo que uno es.

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Title: In Tongues: A Novel

Author: Thomas Grattan

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Time, Bloomberg, and Electric Literature. RuPaul and Eric Cervini's Allstora Book Club Pick for June. 'Thomas Grattan is a master of plot—that rare ability—which makes In Tongues a real roller coaster: funny, sad, shocking, and, finally, quite moving.' —Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance 'An amiable, zippy novel that also smuggles in a sharp analysis of family, class and the intergenerational inheritance of gay men.' ―The Washington Post A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery. It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself. A lush, heart-quickening novel about family and art, sex and class, and the terror of self-discovery, Thomas Grattan’s In Tongues chronicles Gordon’s perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to New York and, later, to Europe and Mexico City. As he floats further into Phillip and Nicola’s exclusive universe, and as lines blur between employee, muse, lover, and mentor, Gordon’s charm, manipulation, and growing ambition begin to escape his own control, in turn threatening to unravel the lives, and lies, of those around him. Anchored by winsome lyricism, glinting intellect, and a main character whose yearnings and mistakes come to feel like our own, In Tongues crackles with fierce longing and pointed emotion, further confirming Grattan as a rare chronicler of young adulthood’s joys and devastations. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Title: The Border between Us

Author: Rudy Ruiz

Narrator: Eddie Lopez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The Border Between Us is a poignant coming-of-age novel from one of the most exciting voices in fiction. Ramón López was born along the US–Mexico border but is determined to get out and embrace the American dream—and he’s not sure whether his complicated family is a help or a hindrance. As the son of immigrants, as Ramón grows, his admiration for his entrepreneurial father sours as he watches his dad’s dreams of success wither on the vine. Ramón’s mother is constantly preoccupied with his younger brother, who struggles with intellectual disabilities. And the outside world is rife with danger and temptations threatening to distract Ramón from his dreams of making it to New York and succeeding as an artist. As dreams clash with reality and values conflict with desires, Ramón finds the American dream within his reach—but will it demand too big a sacrifice? Award-winning author Rudy Ruiz brilliantly captures the beauty and the danger of border life as Ramón struggles to understand his home and his place in the world. The Border Between Us is a stunning, compassionate story about a son’s fraught relationship with his father, the challenges of pursuing a creative life when you come from humble beginnings, and the power of embracing the whole of who you are.

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Title: The Four: A Novel

Author: Ellie Keel

Narrator: Ell Potter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Release date: August 20, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.57 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

An international bestseller! One secret could destroy them all. The brand new dark academia debut for 2024 and a gripping tale of revenge, guilt, privilege, and loyalty, perfect for fans of The Secret History and If We Were Villains “An intensely gripping, thrilling and darkly beautiful debut. I was hooked.” —Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author  We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms. The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege. And, according to everyone else, we were dangerous. It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed our prefect Genevieve out of our bedroom window that day. Certainly, it would have been tragic. She would have died instantly. But Marta didn’t push her then, or – if you choose to believe me – at any other time. If she had, all of what we went through would not have happened. I’ve told this story as clearly as I could – as rationally as I’ve been able, in the circumstances, to achieve. I don’t regret what we did. And I would do it all again.

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Title: Mina's Matchbox

Author: Yoko Ogawa

Narrator: Nanako Mizhushima

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse. Praise for Mina's Matchbox 'I read Mina’s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.' RUTH OZEKI, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness 'Dreamy and whimsical, Mina’s Matchbox traffics in the themes at which Ogawa always excels: memory, identity, and nostalgia' Esquire, Best Books of the Summer 'A conspicuously gifted writer. . . To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state. . . She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian ©2024 Yoko Ogawa (P)2024 Penguin Audio