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Title: Goyhood: A Novel

Author: Reuven Fenton

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Release date: July 30, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Reuven Fenton's novel Goyhood is a brilliant debut about a devoutly Orthodox Jewish man who discovers in middle age that he's not, in fact, Jewish, and embarks on a remarkable road trip to come to grips with his fate. When Mayer (née Marty) Belkin fled small-town Georgia for Brooklyn nearly thirty years ago, he thought he'd left his wasted youth behind. Now he's a Talmud scholar married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world. But his mother's untimely death brings a shocking revelation: Mayer and his ne'er-do-well twin brother David aren't, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft, Mayer's only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim? So begins the Belkins' Rumspringa through America's Deep South with Mom's ashes in tow, plus two tagalongs: an insightful Instagram influencer named Charlayne Valentine and Popeye, a one-eyed dog. As the crew gets tangled up in a series of increasingly surreal adventures, Mayer grapples with a God who betrayed him and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn who has yet to learn her husband is a counterfeit Jew.

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Title: Slow Dance

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Release date: July 30, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Rainbow Rowell is back with her first adult novel in ten years in this uplifting novel about star-crossed lovers and the power of second chances Discover the big, beaming power ballad of a novel about a love so true it refuses to be forgotten . . . Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary. They were just friends. Best friends. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh’s porch steps, dreaming about the future. Shiloh was going to become an actress, and Cary was going to join the Navy. And nothing was ever going to change between them – Shiloh made him promise. Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. But, somehow, everything changed. Now it’s been fourteen years since Shiloh last spoke to Cary. She’s been married and divorced. She has two kids. And she’s back in north Omaha living in the same house she grew up in. Her life is nothing like she planned. When Shiloh gets invited to an old friend’s wedding, all she can think about is whether Cary will be there – and whether she hopes he will be. Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. And what will happen when they try to make their way back to each other. 'Sexy, sweet, wise and nostalgic – Jane Austen’s Persuasion for our times’ Gabrielle Zevin ‘A gorgeous book . . . a beautiful, believable love story between two slightly broken people. So sweet, but never sentimental. I yearned for them to be happy and I miss it now it's over’ Marian Keyes 'Deeply human, profoundly romantic. Rowell will break your heart and you’ll thank her for it' Leigh Bardugo ‘Who can deny the absolute, dizzy pleasure of loving a novel so much . . . I loved every page of Slow Dance, a book that is romantic to its core, and as funny and smart as its wonderful characters' Emma Straub 'A will-they, won't-they second chance romance for the ages, this one is poised to be one of summer's breakout hits' People ‘A powerful and poignant tale of first love . . . Rich, real, and emotionally raw, this satisfying contemporary is sure to impress’ Publishers Weekly © Rainbow Rowell 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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Title: [Spanish] - La historia del amor

Author: Nicole Krauss

Narrator: Daniel Ortiz, Javier Portugués (portu), íñigo álvarez De Lara, Sheila Blanco

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Release date: July 18, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Con una sabia mezcla de humor y ternura, Nicole Krauss relata una hermosa aproximación a los temas del amor, la pérdida y la memoria, además de un homenaje a la literatura y a la forma en que los libros pueden cambiar la vida de las personas. «Un libro cautivador, tierno y muy original.» J.M. Coetzee La publicación de La historia del amor, segunda novela de Nicole Krauss, supuso la confirmación del extraordinario talento de esta joven escritora norteamericana, suscitando el elogio entusiasta de críticos y escritores, entre ellos el Premio Nobel de Literatura, J.M. Coetzee. Leo Gursky, cerrajero polaco jubilado en Nueva York, cuya obsesión es «no morirme un día en que nadie me haya visto», recibe misteriosamente el manuscrito de un texto que creía perdido, acompañado de una enigmática carta. Instalado en el ocaso de su vida, esta sorpresa lo lleva a bucear en los recuerdos de su lejana juventud, recuperando emociones que suponía enterradas. No muy lejos de allí, la quinceañera Alma Singer padece los dilemas y conflictos de su edad. Hace ya ocho años que su padre murió de cáncer y ella ha decidido que es hora de que su madre deje de estar triste, o sea, se dispone a encontrarle un nuevo marido. Cuando en su camino aparece La historia del amor, una novela rara, escrita en yidis, publicada en español y comprada por su padre en una librería de Buenos Aires, los interrogantes se suceden. ¿Por qué su padre se la regaló a su madre muy poco después de conocerla? ¿Quién era su autor? ¿Y quién es el misterioso hombre que ha encargado a su madre que traduzca el libro al inglés? Como en una afinada composición musical, la intensidad de la historia va aumentando progresivamente hasta que los pasos del anciano que busca reconciliarse con su pasado y la adolescente que quiere poner remedio a la soledad de su madre se entrecruzan mediante una ingeniosa y compleja trama cuyos hilos convergen en un final inolvidable. Con un tono intimista y envolvente, la autora ha logrado lo más difícil, contar una verdadera historia de amor en el sentido más amplio y profundo de la palabra, una historia llena de pasión y melancolía que conmoverá a todo tipo de audiolectores. La crítica ha dicho... «Un libro bellísimo y vivo, hecho con energía, nervio y habilidad. Te devuelve la confianza en la ficción.» Ali Smith «Brillante. Una original e inusitada obra de ficción. No hay que dejar de leerla.» Kirkus Reviews «Una escritora inteligente y muy interesante.» The Guardian «Un talento prodigioso.» The New York Times «Combinación insólita de madurez estilística, complejidad estructural y talentosísima frescura emocional» Caballo Verde «La delicada y sintética poesía de Krauss, su talento sin lugar a dudas confirmado.» ABC «Exuberancia imaginativa de personajes y momentos mágicos, llenos de una sutil y particular complejidad de matices.» Culturas «La historia del amor es una novela tan conmovedora como inteligente, que coloca a Nicole Krauss en la primerísima línea de la joven narrativa norteamericana.» Babelia «Krauss se aventura en territorio de Paul Auster con una elegante investigación de las relaciones entre la literatura y la vida. Cautivadora, divertida y emocionante.» Booklist «Leo Gursky, con su ironía mordiente y su enorme corazón, es un personaje inolvidable. [...] Krauss escribe con ternura sobre personajes excéntricos, y se vale del sentido del humor para aliviar el dolor y cuestionar el universo.» Publisher's Weekly

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Title: A Thousand Broken Pieces

Author: Tillie Cole

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan, Katie Schorr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Release date: July 18, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. CAN TWO BROKEN HEARTS MAKE A WHOLE . . . ? After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her sister left behind. Seventeen-year-old Cael Woods is angry. One year after losing his older brother his life has spiraled. Once the most promising hockey player in the junior league, Cael can no longer step onto the ice. When his parents sign him up for a trip abroad no part of him wants to go. As Cael and Savannah embark on a journey they begin to find solace in each other. As they start to heal piece by broken piece, could this be the start of a love they never thought they'd feel again? A Thousand Broken Pieces is a beautiful and life-affirming novel about grief, love and friendship from the international bestselling phenomenon Tillie Cole ©2024 Tillie Cole (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: [Russian] - Меган И Грабитель

Author: Owen Jones

Narrator: Tatiana Fedulina

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

В книге «Меган и грабитель» в дом Меган проникает грабитель, пока вся семья находится на пикнике. Сюзанна просто в шоке, обнаружив, что украли часть ее украшений, поэтому Меган намерена применить свои экстрасенсорные способности, чтобы найти вора и вернуть похищенное маме. Однако она понятия не имеет, с чего начать и что делать в случае успеха.В серию книг «Экстрасенс Меган» входит двадцать три новеллы о том, как девочка постепенно начинает понимать, что у нее есть такие способности, каких нет ни у кого больше в ее семье. В первом томе Меган двенадцать лет. У нее есть две, казалось бы, непреодолимые проблемы. Мама напугана скрытыми способностями дочери и не только не помогает ей, но и активно уговаривает ее не пользоваться ими; а Меган не может найти наставника, который помог бы ей развить ее сверхъестественные экстрасенсорные способности. Ей хочется знать не только, что можно делать и как это делать, но и с какой целью она должна использовать свои особые таланты. Меган — хорошая девочка, поэтому вполне очевидно, что она хочет применять свои силы во благо, однако не всегда легко поступать правильно, даже если знаешь это. Эти рассказы о Меган понравятся всем, кто интересуется экстрасенсорными способностями, сверхъестественным и паранормальным, в возрасте от десяти до ста лет. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: [German] - Der Bademeister ohne Himmel (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Petra Pellini

Narrator: Marie-Isabel Walke

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

'Es gibt zwei Menschen, die mich von der Sache mit dem Auto abhalten. Kevin und Hubert. Kevin wohnt um die Ecke, ist voll intelligent und Hubert wohnt im dritten Stock und ist voll dement.' Linda ist fünfzehn und spielt mit dem Gedanken vor ein Auto zu laufen. Doch noch halten zwei Menschen sie davon ab, ihr Vorhaben in die Tat umzusetzen: Ihr einziger Freund Kevin, der daran verzweifelt, dass die Welt am Abgrund steht. Und Hubert, sechsundachtzig Jahre alt, ein Bademeister im Ruhestand, der seine Wohnung kaum mehr verlässt, Karotten toastet und auf seine Frau wartet, die vor sieben Jahren verstorben ist. Dreimal wöchentlich verbringt Linda den Nachmittag mit Hubert, um ihr Taschengeld aufzubessern und die polnische Pflegerin Ewa zu entlasten, die mit durchaus eigenwilligen Mitteln ihren Beruf ausübt. Der Alltag gelingt mal mehr, meist weniger. Mit eigensinnigem Humor und Geschichten aus dem Schwimmbad versucht Linda, die Erinnerungen des alten Bademeisters wach zu halten - an die Sommer im Strandbad oder die Liebe zu seiner Frau Rosalie. Bis das Schicksal Lindas Pläne durchkreuzt ...

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Title: Beyond the Glass

Series: #3 of Clara Batchelor Trilogy

Author: Antonia White

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, and when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks. Beyond the Glass completes the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and The Sugar House. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

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Title: How to Build a Boat

Author: Elaine Feeney

Narrator: Gary Furlong

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year One of the Globe and Mail's 'Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall' One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023 Jamie O'Neill loves the color red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of certain objects, books with dust jackets, rivers, cats, and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he wants most in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind, these things are intimately linked, and at his new school, despite the daily barrage of bullies and cathedral bells, he meets two teachers who might be able to help him, though each struggles against inertias of their own. How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy's irrepressible dream finds expression through a community propelled by love out of grief. Lyrical and compassionate, it's a novel about the courage of conviction and the power of the imagination to transform—and how sometimes the best way to break free of old walls is to build something beautiful within them.

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Title: Just One Taste

Author: Lizzy Dent

Narrator: Sarah Sampino

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

“I love, love, love Lizzy Dent.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author Olive Stone is about to spend four weeks in Italy with the most beautiful man she’s ever hated. When Olive Stone and her Italian pseudo-celebrity chef father fell out fourteen years ago, annoyingly handsome Leo Ricci slipped right in as his surrogate son and sous-chef. No one is more surprised than Olive when her father wills her his beloved (and now failing) restaurant. Or that his dying wish was for Olive and Leo to complete his cookbook…together. She’s determined to sell the restaurant. Leo is determined to convince her not to. As they embark on four weeks in Italy, traveling from Sicily to Tuscany to Liguria, they’ll test each other as often as they test recipes. But the more time Olive and Leo spend together, the more undeniable their attraction grows. Olive finds herself wondering whether selling the restaurant might be running away, and what it might be like to try Just One Taste of Leo Ricci. Because he isn’t who she expected, and this trip might reveal more about who Olive is than she’s ready for.

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Title: The Backtrack

Author: Erin La Rosa

Narrator: Mela Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2024

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Life, rewound… Nearly twenty years ago, Sam Leto left her small hometown of Tybee Island, Georgia, to pursue her dreams of becoming a pilot. While she’d prefer to keep flying away from her painful childhood memories, her beloved grandmother Pearl decides it’s time to sell the family home. Reluctantly, Sam is summoned back to pack up the house. The 2000s nostalgia from Sam’s old bedroom hits immediately: Fall Out Boy posters, drawers of roll-on body glitter and even her favorite CD player with a mixtape from her best friend, Damon Rocha. Damon was always a safe place and Sam often wonders what if her teenage self admitted her feelings for him back then… Mysteriously, the CD player still works all these years later. And somehow it has the power to show Sam an alternate version of her life. Song by song, Sam receives flashbacks from her past—senior prom, graduation, leaving home. But the memories aren’t as she remembers them; they show what could have been. Suddenly, Sam knows exactly what would have happened if she’d taken a chance with Damon—and she can’t help feeling she made a terrible mistake leaving Tybee all those years ago. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. "A perfectly in-tune love story that will be playing on repeat in my mind for a very long time." —Lauren Kung Jessen, author of Red String Theory and Lunar Love "La Rosa shines at genuinely funny and feminist romantic tales, and I'll read every single one of them." —Amy Spalding, bestselling author of For Her Consideration