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Title: Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow: A Novel

Author: Damilare Kuku

Narrator: Weruche Opia

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Release date: July 30, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A “wise, funny, irresistible” (Shelf Awareness) debut novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts, from the author of the internationally bestselling story collection Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad. In Nigerian families, none of your business is private. Not even if it's about your bumbum. Freshly out of Obafemi Awolowo University, 20-year-old Temi has a clear plan for her future: she is going to surgically enlarge her backside like all the other Nigerian women, move from Ile-Ife to Lagos, and meet a man who will love her senseless. But when she finally finds the courage to tell her mother, older sister, and aunties, her announcement causes an uproar. As each of the other women try to cure Temi of what seems like temporary insanity, they begin to spill long-buried secrets, including the truth of Temi’s older sister’s mysterious disappearance five years earlier. In the end, it seems like Temi might be the sanest of them all… In Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow, Damilare Kuku brings her signature humor, boldness, and compassion to each member of this loveable but exasperating family, whose lives reveal the ways in which a woman’s physical appearance can dictate her life and relationships and show just how sharp the double-edged sword of beauty can be.

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Title: Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp

Author: Michelle Moran

Narrator: Natasha Soudek, Eileen Stevens

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Release date: July 30, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before. “As immersive, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive as the musical . . . This one is not to be missed.”—Allison Pataki, author of Finding Margaret Fuller In the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of a woman named Maria von Trapp. He’s intrigued to learn that she was once a novice who hoped to live quietly as an Austrian nun before her abbey sent her away to teach a widowed baron’s sickly child. What should have been a ten-month assignment, however, unexpectedly turned into a marriage proposal. And when the family was forced to flee their home to escape the Nazis, it was Maria who instructed them on how to survive using nothing but the power of their voices. It’s an inspirational story, to be sure, and as half of the famous Rodgers & Hammerstein duo, Hammerstein knows it has big Broadway potential. Yet much of Maria’s life will have to be reinvented for the stage, and with the horrors of war still fresh in people’s minds, Hammerstein can’t let audiences see just how close the von Trapps came to losing their lives. But when Maria sees the script that is supposedly based on her life, she becomes so incensed that she sets off to confront Hammerstein in person. Told that he’s busy, she is asked to express her concerns to his secretary, Fran, instead. The pair strike up an unlikely friendship as Maria tells Fran about her life, contradicting much of what will eventually appear in The Sound of Music. A tale of love, loss, and the difficult choices that we are often forced to make, Maria is a powerful reminder that the truth is usually more complicated—and certainly more compelling—than the stories immortalized by Hollywood.

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Title: The Nightingale's Castle: A Novel of Erzsebet BAthory, the Blood Countess

Author: Sonia Velton

Narrator: Elinor Coleman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Release date: July 30, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circe—with a touch of Dracula—a propulsive, feminist reimagining of the story of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat known as the “Blood Countess”, who was rumored to have murdered hundreds of peasant girls and bathed in their blood. In 1573, Countess Erzsébet Báthory gives birth to an illegitimate child. Secretly taken to a peasant family living in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, the infant girl is raised as their own. Years later, a young woman called Boróka—ignorant of her true history—is sent to join the Countess’s household. Terrified of the Countess’s murderous reputation and the brutally cruel women who run the castle, Boróka struggles to find her place. Then plague breaches the castle’s walls, and a tentative bond unexpectedly forms between the girl and the Countess. But powerful forces are moving against the great lady whose wealth and independence threatens the king. Can the Countess trust the women seemingly so close to her? And when the show trial begins against the infamous “Blood Countess” where will Boróka’s loyalties lie?

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Title: The Exile

Author: Patrick Worrall

Narrator: Olivia Vinall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Release date: July 25, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. It#039;s 1951 and the servants of Stalin are closing in on the occupied nations of eastern Europe. As the Red Army tightens the net, Greta - best and bravest of freedom fighters - is told to escape to the West and undertake a dangerous mission. Greta#039;s task is to find a missing girl: the precious daughter of a partisan general who was sent into exile in the final days of the war. But the so-called Free World is no place for vulnerable young refugees. Europe is in ruins, the old Empires are dying, and a spectacular cast of spivs, gangsters and rival intelligence agencies are fighting over the scraps. Crossing the Iron Curtain will require nerves of steel as Greta faces down the French mob, ex-Nazis, Soviet spies, all the glamour and temptation of Paris and ultimately, her own demons. The Exile is the stunning prequel to The Partisan, Patrick Worrall#039;s critically-acclaimed debut, which introduced the world to the force of nature that is Greta. This is her white-knuckle ride into the black heart of postwar Europe - a terrifying world in which allies and enemies are impossible to tell apart. Praise for The Partisan #039;Fast-paced, intriguing and deeply atmospheric#039; Tom Bradby #039;Remarkedly assured debut ... the advent of a real talent...One to watch#039; Sunday Times #039;Impressive ... The scene-setting is finely detailed and evocative, the characters skilfully drawn#039; Financial Times #039;Immersive, intriguing, and intelligent - incredibly impressive, up there with the best in the genre#039; Lee Child © Patrick Worrall 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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Title: The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love: Love's Academic Series Book 1

Author: India Holton

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Release date: July 25, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. From the mastermind behind The Dangerous Damsels series, India Holton delivers another fantastical and whimsical story that's perfect to read with a cup of tea . . . Rival ornithologists hunt through Europe for dangerous magical birds in this historical fantasy romance. If Indiana Jones featured manners, tea, and helicopter parasols – this would be it! Two rival ornithologists. Seeking one dangerous, beautiful bird. Is the hunt of their lives also how they find the love of their lives? Professor Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare Deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing both her bird and her imagination. For his part, Devon has never been more smitten than when he first set eyes on Beth. When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, Beth and Devon are forced to team up to have any chance of winning. They're hunting the rarest of species. But will these rivals discover something even more endangered – true love . . . ©2024 India Holton (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: The Modern Fairies: A Novel

Author: Clare Pollard

Narrator: Kathryn Drysdale

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Release date: July 23, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A BookPage Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year • “Artfully composed…keenly alive…this memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives.” —The New York Times Lauren Groff’s Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this wry and “bawdy” (Los Angeles Times) historical novel—inspired by true events—featuring an elite group of Paris intellectuals who perform fairy tales that put both the storytellers and their closely kept secrets in grave danger. Why don’t they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story? At a safe distance from the intrigues of courtly life at Louis XIV’s Versailles, an intellectual crowd of mostly women have been gathering in a Parisian home to share what hostess Marie D’Aulnoy herself has christened contes de fées: fairy tales. Recently ousted from court and still raw from the death of his beloved wife, Charles Perrault finds companionship and creative camaraderie at the salon, where he eagerly joins the storytellers. Their hostess is impressive, fiercely intelligent, but somehow unreadable. She is harboring secrets of her own: sold off as a child in marriage to a brutal baron, imprisonment, scandal. Despite the vicious Versailles gossip, Marie has mysteriously been allowed to return to polite society and establish her salon in the heart of Paris. A devastating winter soon sweeps in, bringing with it all kinds of rumors and fears. A spate of poisonings at Versailles has led to several arrests, and no matter how high born the suspect, it seems no one is safe. Paranoia stokes the King’s insecurities, and there is a wolf among the salon’s members—someone more dangerous than any force they could conjure in their own tales, watching and waiting, reporting on the secret goings-on, and threatening to destroy them one by one. “Clever and glittering” (Kirkus Reviews), witty and wise, Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel of stories within stories, familiar tales spun with fresh and provocative meaning, perfect for fans of Jenny Offill, Italo Calvino, and Angela Carter.

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Title: Return to the Dover Cafe: A dramatic and moving WWII historical fiction saga (The Dover Cafe Series Book 4)

Series: #4 of Dover Cafe

Author: Ginny Bell

Narrator: Bea Holland

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Release date: July 23, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

#039;Characters you#039;ll come to love and a story that keeps you turning the page.#039; Rosie Goodwin The fourth book in a dramatic and moving World War II saga series of family, secrets and lies. Perfect for readers of Ellie Dean and Annie Groves and for fans of the Home Fires series. All is not well at Castle#039;s Café. Since the fatal shooting, customers have been staying away, and now Nellie finds herself in debt to the sinister Terence Carter. But when a deadly attack strikes close to home, these troubles pale into insignificance. Meanwhile, Jimmy Castle#039;s relationship with family friend Reenie Turner has deepened, and in the aftermath of the attack that could so easily have killed them, they decide to get married. But the return of an old friend threatens to expose a long-held secret, leaving the wedding teetering on the brink of disaster . . .

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Title: The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia: A novel

Author: Juliet Grames

Narrator: Juliet Grames, Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Release date: July 23, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling—by turns funny and moving—novel about a young American woman turned amateur detective in a small village in Southern Italy (“Terrific” –Boston Globe). Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there’s no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don’t the police come and investigate? When the local priest's housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight—and one of the world’s most ruthless criminal syndicates—The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.

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Title: Talons of Eagles

Series: #2 of Eagles Series

Author: William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone

Narrator: J. Rodney Turner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Release date: July 23, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

'Solid, page-turning entertainment featuring a larger-than-life hero in MacCallister' from the greatest Western writer of the twenty-first century (Booklist). Divided they fall . . . Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister fought his way to manhood on an odyssey that took him from the Alamo to Colorado to the goldfields of California. Now, the United States is divided against itself—North against South, brother against brother, father against son. With his own sons fighting on opposing sides, MacCallister leads his Confederate Marauders into battle from Georgia to Tennessee, from Bull Run to Shiloh. When the guns of war finally fall silent, a vengeful enemy vows to add another chapter to the bloodstained pages of history . . . by hunting down the soldier named Jamie Ian MacCallister. '[A] rousing, two-fisted saga of the growing American frontier.' —Publishers Weekly

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Title: King of Bath: A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom

Author: Arnold Evans

Narrator: Peter Gunn, Alice Arnold, Lynne Seymour, Eiry Thomas, Simon Ludders, David Bamber, Andrew Wincott, Full Cast

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Release date: July 11, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

David Bamber stars in this comedy drama about the adventures and misadventures of 18th-century dandy Richard ‘Beau’ Nash In the fashionable spa town of Bath, one man is the arbiter of taste and the epitome of elegance: the self-proclaimed ‘King of Bath’, Beau Nash. In his capacity as Master of Ceremonies, he presides over the city’s social life, arranging balls and concerts for the ‘ton’, keeping a discreet eye on distinguished visitors and smoothing over any quarrels or disagreements. In these six episodes, he has his work cut out for him, as he saves an heiress from her wealthy aunt’s wrath; comes up against a duelling German Count to avert a looming tragedy; and endeavours to hide his Welsh origins to gain royal approval for his cordial. He also helps his nephew Ambrose realise his dream of running a school, does his best to compromise a Methodist minister; and turns detective to track down a highwayman – only to find that all the clues point to him... Full of farcical fun, this entertaining historical sitcom by Arnold Evans stars David Bamber (Pride and Prejudice, Rome) as Beau Nash, with Eiry Thomas (The Pact) as his loyal housemaid Annie. Production credits Written by Arnold Evans Directed by Alison Hindell Composer: John Hardy Cast Beau Nash – David Bamber Annie – Eiry Thomas Lucy – Lynn Seymour Hazlitt – Peter Gunn Fanny – Alice Arnold Dr Cheyne/Count von Richthofen/Sir Percy – Andrew Wincott Mr Trout/Daniel Brewster – Simon Ludders Fintan Fitzgerald – Richard Nichols Poppy – Lesley Rooney Lady Huntingdon – Rosamund Shelley Pryderi – Iestyn Jones Widow Perkins – Stevie Parry Ambrose – James Westaway Mr Whistle – Brendan Charleson Joshua – James Greene Dr Collins – Patrick Collins Mrs Collins – Manon Edwards Ned – Stephen Thorne Sophia – Claire Cage First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 22 February – 29 March 1999 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.