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Title: Medusa

Author: Nataly Gruender

Narrator: Helen Laser

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

An intimate look into the life of a legendary mythical villain who has so often been stripped of her voice and humanity in this debut novel, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe and the works of Jennifer Saint. You know how Medusa’s story ends, but you’ve never heard her tell her own story… until now.   The only mortal daughter of two sea gods, and a priestess of Athena, Medusa was a woman who thought she had found her place in the world. But when Medusa suffers a horrific violation at the hands of Poseidon, Athena is outraged over the desecration of her name and sends a message by transforming Medusa into the snake-haired monster of legend. With one look, any who meet her gaze is turned to stone. Word of her monstrosity travels fast, igniting a king’s fear so greatly that he commands the boy-hero Perseus to bring him her head. With a power that will spare no one, Medusa begins to wonder if this is a blessing or a curse. Medusa only knows that she must leave the city she has come to call home before she harms another soul.  Searching for a haven free from mortals, anger buoying her every step, Medusa journeys across ancient Greece. Her eyes are hidden beneath a blindfold, with nothing but the snakes for company. Through her travels, Medusa discovers solace and understanding in the mythical figures she stumbles upon: A debaucherous wine god, an alluring nymph, and a three-headed dog. But one cannot escape fate forever. As Perseus closes in, Medusa faces a choice: become the monster everyone expects her to be, or cling to the last piece of her humanity.

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Title: Rip Tide: A Novel

Author: Colleen Mckeegan

Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

“Fireworks explode down the shore in Rip Tide, Colleen McKeegan’s absorbing novel. At once an insightful look at tangled family dynamics and a wrenching story of youthful delusion, Rip Tide illustrates that for many women, the past is a ticking time bomb. The deeper we bury it, the bigger the boom. Spread out a blanket, crack open Rip Tide and prepare to be dazzled.”—Jillian Medoff, author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful From the author of The Wild One, a heartfelt and suspenseful novel about two sisters returning to their childhood beachfront home who are forced to confront their traumatic past when a body washes ashore. It’s been fifteen years since Kimmy Devine promised herself she’d never move back to Rocky Cape, the idyllic South Jersey beach town where she grew up. She doesn’t want to relive the crushing heartbreak and scandal that ravaged her world as a teen. Her younger sister Erin shares those feelings, the wounds she caused so many years ago forever binding her and Kimmy. Yet here they are, back in their hometown: Kimmy, floundering after quitting her high-powered finance job in London to help her dad run the family’s hardware stores; Erin, reeling from fertility issues and an ongoing divorce, begging to be taken seriously by her parents. The more time they spend in Rocky Cape, the stronger the pull of nostalgia, and both Erin and Kimmy slip on the past like a pair of last year’s sandals, forgetting about the blisters when worn too long. As the sisters celebrate their homecoming at their parents’ yacht club, a handful of familiar faces arrive to dampen the revelry. The next morning, a body is found floating nearby and long-buried secrets from their adolescence begin to emerge. Someone from the sisters’ past, it seems, is out for revenge. Told in fast-paced, dual timelines, Rip Tide is a steamy, tension-filled tale of suspense about family, friendships broken and repaired, young love lost and rekindled, forgiveness and second chances, taking control of your life, and the dangerous decisions we make when blinded by desire.

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Title: The Dollmakers: A Novel from the Fallen Peaks

Author: Lynn Buchanan

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

In this dark and enchanting stand-alone fantasy from debut author Lynn Buchanan, discover a world centered around destructive, all-consuming monsters; the magical dolls designed to fight this force; and the artisans tasked with creating demon-slaying dolls. A touch cozy fantasy and a touch horror, The Dollmakers is perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli films, the works of TJ Klune and Travis Baldree, and readers of Juniper & Thorn and The Goblin Emperor. In the country called One, dollmakers are vital members of the community. An artisan’s doll is the height of society’s accomplishments, while a guard’s doll is the only thing standing between the people of One and the Shod: vicious, cobbled monstrosities that will tear apart any structure—living or dead, inanimate or otherwise—to add to their horde. Apprentice Shean of Pearl is a brilliant dollmaker. With her clever dolls, she intends to outsmart and destroy the Shod, once and for all—a destiny she’s worked her whole life toward accomplishing. But when the time comes for her dolls to be licensed, she’s told her work is too beautiful and delicate to fight. A statement that wounds and infuriates her; the Shod killed everyone she loved. How could her fate be anything but fighting them? In an attempt to help her see a new path for herself, Shean’s mentor sends her on a journey to the remote village called Web, urging her to glean some wisdom from Ikiisa, a reclusive and well-respected guard dollmaker. But Shean has another plan: if she can convince the village of Web of her talents, the Licensor Guild will have to reconsider and grant her a guard’s license. And what better way to convince them than challenging Ikiisa and instating herself as the official dollmaker of Web? Once she’s done that, proving her dolls’ worth in the fight against the Shod will be simple. As simple, that is, as calling the Shod to Web...

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Title: [German] - Hurricane Heart: The storms we feel | Stürmische Enemies-to-Lovers-Romance, die das Herz erobert

Author: Liv Modes

Narrator: Isabell Korda

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Release date: August 12, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Ein Sturm vor der Küste und ein Hurrikan im Herzen Bree lebt ihren Traum: Sie arbeitet bei der Coast Guard in Seattle und rettet Menschenleben. Doch dann kommt unter ihrer Leitung ein Mensch ums Leben und Bree wird zwangsversetzt – in ein Kaff auf die andere Seite des Landes. Dabei hasst sie Kleinstädte, aus gutem Grund: Prompt entpuppt sich ihr gedankenloser One-Night-Stand in der ersten Nacht als die Schwester ihres neuen Arbeitskollegen Jake Tanner. Und nicht nur deswegen ist Jake wenig begeistert von ihr. Das Letzte, was er gebrauchen kann, ist eine Städterin, die glaubt, alles besser zu wissen. Doch bald zeigt sich, dass die beiden einander mehr brauchen, als sie es je zugeben würden …

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Title: The Spinning Heart

Author: Donal Ryan

Narrator: Gerry Howard, Eva Bartley, Killian Coyle, Toni O'rourke, Ciaran O'brien, Anne Marie Ryan, Roy Mcmillan, Donal Ryan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012 In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds. The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark and sweetly poignant. 'Funny, moving and beautifully written' EDNA O'BRIEN 'Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy ... if it was a song you could sing it' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Donal Ryan is the real deal ... a brilliantly realised, utterly resonant state-of-the-nation landscape' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'I can't imagine a more original, more perceptive or more passionate work than this. Outstanding' JOHN BOYNE 'It's furious, it's moving, it's darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut' NEW YORK TIMES © Donal Ryan 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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Title: [German] - A Beautiful Flaw: Regency meets New-Adult – große Gefühle am Filmset

Series: #1 of Broken Beauties

Author: Ria Radtke

Narrator: Martin Kuupa, Sandra Voss

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Wann ist ein Mensch schön?   Auf den ersten Blick ist Victoria das Ebenbild ihrer Schwester Sam, Star der gefeierten Regency-Soap Silver Lines.  Auf den zweiten Blick haben die Zwillinge nichts gemeinsam: Denn Vic, die mit Make-up-Tutorials im Internet Tausende begeistert, würde ihr Gesicht nie vor einer Kamera zeigen.  Eine Kooperation mit einem Kosmetikkonzern könnte Vics langersehnten Durchbruch bedeuten, doch dafür muss sie ausgerechnet ans Set von Silver Lines reisen. Dort trifft sie neben Sam auch auf Lex, den männlichen Hauptdarsteller der Serie. Vic spürt, dass Lex genau wie sie seine Narben vor der Welt versteckt. Aber die Liste der Gründe, sich von Lex fernzuhalten, ist endlos. Doch dann holt die Vergangenheit die beiden Schwestern ein, und alte Wunden reißen auf …

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Title: 2204 Hunter Lane

Author: Marie-France Leger

Narrator: Isabelle Turner, Nick Mondelli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Marley Matthews screwed up. Following a drunken night of pleasure, she decides to abandon her glamorous New York City lifestyle and move to Nebraska with a man who quickly betrays her, leaving her hopeless with no one to turn to. After driving in the night to escape the life she pursued, Marley ends up stranded in front of a farmhouse owned by the Lanes. Payton Lane, a kind stepmother, takes her in until she gets back on her feet, but her stepson, Hunter, is very reluctant to Marley and does not make it any easier on her when she decides to accept Payton's offer. But there's more to Hunter than what he projects, and Marley begins to think that she may have found someone even more broken than she was. Trigger warnings: drunk driving, loss of a loved one, alcohol abuse, mental health/insecurity, body image and toxic family dynamic.

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Title: Smothermoss

Author: Alisa Alering

Narrator: Susan Bennett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Set in an isolated 1980s Appalachian community, reeling from the brutal murder of two hikers, Smothermoss is deliciously creepy and unsettling, yet gorgeous and dreamlike in its portrayal of two impoverished girls who must come to terms with what's happening on the sentient mountain they call home and also with themselves as they stand on the cusp of adulthood. 1980s Appalachia. Sheila knows she needs to keep her appetites in check. Isolated and struggling in ramshackle poverty, her desires – for food, for escape, for the perfect girls in the pages of her pilfered magazines – are about the only things she can control. But with every passing day, life with her exhausted mother and her half-feral younger sister Angie feels more like a rope tightening around her neck. When a pair of hikers are brutally murdered on the trail, Sheila and Angie find themselves drawn inexorably into the hunt for the killer. The mountain they live on is ancient and powerful – and it's using them for its own ends. Sheila knows the landscape's folklore is dangerous and unpredictable, but as the ever-present threat of violence looms larger, it might be the only thing that can save her and her sister from the darkness consuming their home… Somewhere between a rural gothic and a dark fairytale, Smothermoss beckons readers into the eerily beautiful woods of the Appalachian Mountains—as well as into a lyrical investigation of girlhood, bodies, class, desire, nature, and the otherworldly. Full of the picturesque dread of an A24 horror movie, it's We Have Always Lived in the Castle meets Winter's Bone, and will appeal to fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Julia Armfield, and Kelly Link.

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Title: The System: The Complete Series 1-3: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Thriller

Author: Ben Lewis

Narrator: Iain De Caestecker, Sienna Kelly, Jack Rowan, Full Cast

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A propulsive thriller starring Jack Rowan, Siena Kelly and Iain de Caestecker. All three series of this fast-paced thriller from award-winning writer Ben Lewis, performed by a stellar cast – it will have you gripped from the first episode. When Jake signs up to a personal training programme that promises to turn the meekest man-boy into an alpha male, he doesn’t have a clue what he’s getting himself into. Two years later, his sister Maya sets out to uncover the truth. Life-changing events come thick and fast as The System’s true intent is revealed. In the shadowy world she uncovers, everything can shift in a heartbeat. Lives become polarized. Can Jake and Maya find it in themselves to resolve their differences and survive when their increasingly divided worlds collide? Time is running out and the siblings find themselves pulled into a fight for survival. For them. And for us. Who is really in charge? And can they stop The System? The System explores the dark fringes of masculinity through a nail-biting, cultish adventure that will have you hooked. Winner of the Prix Europa for Best Radio Series in 2021, this action-packed and engrossing thriller’s cast includes BAFTA nominee Siena Kelly (Adult Material), Jack Rowan (Noughts + Crosses) and Iain de Caestecker (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). Written by Ben Lewis Directed by Kirsty Williams Produced by BBC Scotland Original music and sound design by Danny Krass. Featuring tracks from Equiknoxx music collective Cast Jake - Jack Rowan (Series 1 and 3) / Alex Austin (Series 2) Maya - Siena Kelly Alex - Iain de Caestecker Jerome - Don Gilét Beau - Matthew Needham DI Cohen/Jess - Chloe Pirrie Coyote - Divian Ladwa Grace - Ashna Rabheru Dr Khalid Hassan - Souad Faress Jess - Chloe Pirrie Richard - Pip Torrens Liv - Jemima Rooper Angel Investor/Matt Finch/Control - Rhashan Stone Carly/Amanda - Lois Chimimba Ash/Reggie - Ian Dunnett Jnr Voice of the Game/Robin - Ryan Sampson Wendy - Amelia Bullmore First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 28 May – 2 July 2021 (Series 1), 10 June – 9 July 2022 (Series 2), 15 September – 13 October 2023 (Series 3) ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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Title: Knights of the Alliance

Series: #1 of Alliance

Author: Stefanie Chu

Narrator: Andy Robert, Vicki-Jo Eva, Gary Appleton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Release date: July 31, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A New Adult Speculative Adventure dubbed 'RARE' and 'DAZZLING.' Fans love this original story that intertwines George R. R. Martin’s enthralling world-building with the epic elements of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Step into a world where pulse-pounding action, uproarious humor, and gripping political intrigue collide. Immerse in this heroic tale today! Nineteen-year-old Mirari fears her magical powers more than anything else in the world. They are the reason she ran away and concealed her identity. But when her childhood best friend, Gaven, is framed and sentenced to death, Mirari must strike a deal with the only man who can save him — Lord Fangbane. Fangbane strongly believes that all it will take to end centuries of passive disdain is to establish a nonpartisan selection of fighters whose mission is to enforce unified peace. His efforts lead to the recruitment of elite fighters known as the Knights. Meanwhile, Mirari and Gaven only desire to live their lives in peace, far away from the chaos of the world. Fate, however, has other plans for them as they are forced to reunite and thrust into the midst of Fangbane's quest. As they gather a motley crew of misfits to join their cause, bonds form, and secrets are revealed. The Knights must come together not only to protect the Alliance but also the lives of their new friends. Trust, friendship, and revenge collide in this epic tale of magic, loyalty, and bravery as our heroes fight for their survival and the greater good. Will they rise up as legends or fall as pawns in a dangerous game?