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ID: 262918

Title: Last Days of Summer

Author: Vanessa Ronan

Narrator: Barbara Barnes, Becca Stewart, Kristin Atherton, Stuart Milligan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:21:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-16

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Last Days of Summer by Vanessa Ronan. Read by Stuart Milligan, Barbara Barnes, Kristin Atherton and Becca Stewart.

'Vivid storytelling. ... makes your fingers tremble when you turn the pages. The terror and the pity of it will stay with you for a long time.' Sunday Times

Mid-July in Texas. Cicadas shed their dry summer skins, the scent of roses hangs heavy in the still air, and a woman sits alone on her porch at dusk, watching the empty, merciless prairie, its light falling to darkness. He's coming home.

Upstairs, Lizzie knows, her daughters are safe in their beds. Joanne, still young enough to smile at strangers, one last summer of childhood left in her. Katie, already a beauty, the first flush of womanhood blooming on her skin. Both sleeping soundly. But out beyond the boundary of their land, the townspeople sleep fitfully. Too many have heard that Jasper is coming back - folk who know him of old, who remember what he did - men who will make it their business to see he doesn't stay too long round these parts ...

'With a blistering ending that leaves you racing to its conclusion ... an exciting new talent' Stylist

'A tense, atmospheric, intriguing read' Liz Nugent, author of Richard and Judy Spring Book Club 2017 winner, Lying in Wait

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ID: 331304

Title: Warhorses of Letters: Complete Series 1-3: The poignant BBC Radio 4 comedy

Author: Marie Phillips, Robert Hudson

Narrator: Daniel Rigby, Full Cast , Stephen Fry, Tamsin Greig

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-16

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

Stephen Fry, Daniel Rigby and Tamsin Greig star in all three series of the poignant BBC Radio 4 comedy drama.

Warhorses of Letters is the world's finest and best-loved equine, military, epistolary romance, comprising the newly-discovered love letters between two horses united by passion but cruelly divided by conflict.

Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, these twelve episodes introduce us to Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's frisky young racehorse, and his hero Marengo, the seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of Emperor Napoleon.

From the early days of the Peninsular Campaign to the Battle of Waterloo and its aftermath, we follow our horse heroes as their romance blossoms, their fortunes fluctuate and uncertainty and jealousy put strains on their burgeoning relationship. Can they ever be truly together, or are they doomed to remain sundered by fate?

Written by Robert Hudson and Marie Phillips, this moving, surreal comedy stars Stephen Fry as Marengo and Daniel Rigby as Copenhagen, with Tamsin Greig as the Narrator. Totally unique and utterly entertaining, it will appeal to all lovers of horses, history and humour. Duration: 2 hours 50 mins approx.

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ID: 316423

Title: Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran

Author: Barry Meier

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:26:03

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-16

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Global Politics

Summary:

In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States. Barry Meier, an award-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times, draws on years of interviews and never-before-disclosed CIA files to weave together a riveting narrative of the ex-agent's journey to Iran and the hunt to rescue him. The result is an extraordinary tale about the shadowlands between crime, business, espionage, and the law, where secrets are currency and betrayal is commonplace. Its colorful cast includes CIA operatives, Russian oligarchs, arms dealers, White House officials, gangsters, private eyes, FBI agents, journalists, and a fugitive American terrorist and assassin.  

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ID: 315939

Title: Auctioneer: Adventures in the Art Trade

Author: Simon De Pury, William Stadiem

Narrator: Ralph Lister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:29:51

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-16

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Just as William Goldman, the ultimate screenwriter, took us inside Hollywood, Simon de Pury, the ultimate art player, will take us inside an even more secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front page news almost every day. The former Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, the former owner of Sotheby's rival Phillips de Pury, and currently a London-based dealer and advisor to great collectors around the world, Simon has one of the highest profiles of any non-artist in the art world. Even though he has an ancient title and the aura of an elegant Swiss banker, Simon is famous as an iconoclast and is known as "The Mick Jagger of Auctions" for his showmanship and exuberance. His whole life in art has been devoted to bringing art to the public and to the juxtaposition of high and low. Movie stars, musicians, and athletes compete with hedge funders and billionaires for the great art, and Simon is their pied piper; he wants to turn the world to art and this book will be his message.

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ID: 315648

Title: Yoga of Max's Discontent

Author: Karan Bajaj

Narrator: Neil Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:34:44

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-16

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Max Pzoras is the poster child for the American Dream. The child of Greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous New York housing project, he triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful Wall Street analyst. On the frigid December night he's involved in a violent street scuffle, Max begins to confront questions about suffering and mortality that have dogged him since his mother's death. His search takes him to India, where he encounters a mysterious night market, almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas, and finds himself in an ashram in a drought-stricken village. As Max seeks answers to questions that have bedeviled him-can yogis walk on water and live for 200 years without aging? Can a flesh and blood man ever achieve nirvana?-he struggles to overcome his skepticism and the pull of family tugging him home. In an ultimate bid for answers, he embarks on a dangerous solitary meditation in a freezing Himalayan cave, where his physical and spiritual endurance is put to its most extreme test. By turns a gripping adventure story and a journey of tremendous inner transformation, The Yoga of Max's Discontent is a contemporary take on man's classic quest for transcendence.

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ID: 279614

Title: Thieves Like Us

Author: Edward Anderson

Narrator: Mike Dennis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:10:33

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-16

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Few wrote about the Depression with as much sympathy and insight as Edward Anderson, the author of Hungry Men and Thieves Like Us, yet he received little recognition or financial rewards. Part black-Irish and part-Cherokee, Anderson was born in Weatherford, Texas in 1905. He left school at an early age and took up his father's trade, becoming a printer's apprentice, but moved on to cub reporter for an Oklahoma newspaper. Within just a few years, he'd worked at more than ten newspapers in the Oklahoma-Texas area, but soon tired of journalism. He worked on a freighter for a time, seeking to fulfill his dream of joining the expatriate American writers in Europe, but arrived to find the Lost Generation heading home to America. He headed back to the US and tried prizefighting, and also had a bit of success as a musician playing trombone. Then the Great Depression hit and he took to the road, living the life of a hobo: riding the rails and roaming the roads, sleeping wherever he could, and asking for handouts or work as an itinerant odd-jobber.

His experiences during the depression informed the subject matter of his two novels. His first novel, Hungry Men (1933), is structured as a series of short stories. His second novel, Thieves Like Us (1937), about the exploits of three desperate escaped convicts, was widely acclaimed. It has been adapted to film twice-Nicholas Ray in 1949 and Robert Altman in 1974-and included in the Library of America anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 1940s.

As the titles suggests, Thieves Like Us is about thieves: three bank robbers. At first successful, they buy nice clothes, guns, and faster cars and read about themselves in the newspapers. The central character of the three thieves, Bowie, was serving time for a murder he committed when only 16. Now on the run, he falls in love with Keechie, the cousin of one of his partners, who joins him.

As with Hungry Men, Thieves Like Us was gritty realism. Prohibition may have been repealed, but the Great Depression unleashed an infamous crime spree. Notorious gangsters like Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde made headlines, while across America desperate men felt driven to crime. Anderson interviewed bank robbers in Huntsville prison, noting their speech patterns and recording their stories and perspectives. The result is rich characterizations like T-Dub, who provides the novel's title when he refers to bankers, politicians and the like as "just thieves like us" and uses colourful idioms like "it's raining cats and nigger babies." This depiction of people drawn into illegal activities by a combination of circumstances and their own attitudes is what makes Thieves Like Us a classic hardboiled proletariat novel. Saturday Review of Literature called him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner, while Raymond Chandler declared that Anderson was better than Steinbeck, and Thieves Like Us was "one of the best stories of thieves ever written...one of the forgotten novels of the 30's."

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ID: 262879

Title: Year We Turned Forty

Author: Liz Fenton

Narrator: Lisa Larsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:02:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently? This heartwarming and hilarious novel from the authors of The Status of All Things and Your Perfect Life features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned forty, the year that altered all of their lives in ways big and small-and also get the opportunity to change their future. But it doesn't take long for all three women to learn that re-living a life and making different decisions only leads to new problems and consequences-and that the mistakes they made may, in fact, have been the best choices of all.

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ID: 316481

Title: Ladivine

Author: Marie Ndiaye

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sagas

Summary:

On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivière leaves her husband and young daughter and secretly takes the train to Bordeaux to visit her mother, Ladivine. Just as Clarisse's husband and daughter know nothing of Ladivine, Clarisse herself has hidden nearly every aspect of her adult life from this woman, whom she dreads and despises but also pities. Long abandoned by Clarisse's father, Ladivine works as a housecleaner and has no one but her daughter, whom she knows as Malinka. After more than twenty-five years of this deception, the idyllic middle-class existence Clarisse has built from scratch can no longer survive inside the walls she's put up to protect it. Her untold anguish leaves her cold and guarded, her loved ones forever trapped outside, looking in. When her husband, Richard, leaves her, Clarisse finds comfort in the embrace of a volatile local man, Freddy Moliger. With Freddy, she finally feels reconciled to, or at least at ease with, her true self. But this peace comes at a terrible price. Clarisse will be brutally murdered, and it will be left to her now-grown daughter, who also bears the name Ladivine, to work out who her mother was and what happened to her.  

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ID: 311965

Title: Emperor of the Eight Islands

Author: Lian Hearn

Narrator: Neil Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:27:34

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

In the opening pages of the action-packed Book One of Lian Hearn's epic Tale of Shikanoko a future lord is dispossessed of his birthright by a scheming uncle, a mountain sorcerer imbues a mask with the spirit of a great stag for a lost young man, a stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother, and a powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne, the child who is the rightful heir to the emperor barely escaping the capital in the arms of his sister. And that is just the beginning. As destiny weaves its rich tapestry, a compelling drama plays out against a background of wild forests, elegant castles, hidden temples, and savage battlefields. This is the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, where animal spirits clash with warriors and children navigate a landscape as serene as it is deadly.

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ID: 263473

Title: *Keys of Truth: Unlocking God's Design for the Sexes

Author: Cristie Penn

Narrator: Cristie Penn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-16

Publisher: Christianaudio.com

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

The enemy has lied to us, and we are frustrated, confused, and exhausted. Many men don't think women want them, yet they are wired by God to need to provide for and protect females. Often women are afraid to admit they want and need male masculinity in their lives and are exhausted and aching for the provision and protection men were created to extend to them. God wants to offer freedom to both genders by offering understanding so we can courageously take our positions and thrive!

Take a journey with Cristie Penn as she transparently describes how a misunderstanding of her position almost wrecked her marriage and family. Cristie explains in simple terms the keys of truth God taught her and how she and her husband used them to turn frustration and bitterness into understanding, love, and respect.

Learn how to partner with God by courageously taking your position with and for the opposite gender in your life. No matter the age or stage of life you're in, this book will help you discover how to walk freely and confidently in the position God created you for!

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