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ID: 689759

Title: On Earth as It Is on Television

Author: Emily Jane

Narrator: Hayden Bishop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:25:30

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

In Emily Jane's rollicking debut, when spaceships arrive and then depart suddenly without a word, the certainty that we are not alone in the universe turns to intense uncertainty as to our place within it. 'Weird and sweet like a 2020s White Noise: loud and colorful Americana with a sprinkle of apocalyptic doom.'Edgar Cantero 'Heartfelt, witty, and secretly romantic a delightful and poignant story about what it is to be human, and what we owe each other.' Christina Lauren Since long before the spaceships' fleeting presence, Blaine has been content to go along with the whims of his supermom wife and half-feral, television-addicted children. But when the kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, and his wife drags them all on a surprise road trip to Disney World, even steady Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather floats in a Malibu pool and watches the massive ships hover overhead. Maybe her life is finally going to start. For her, the arrival heralds a quest to understand herself, her accomplished (and oh-so-annoying) stepfamily, and why she feels so alone in a universe teeming with life. Suddenly conscious and alert after twenty catatonic years, Oliver struggles to piece together his fragmented, disco-infused memories and make sense of his desire to follow a strange cat on a westward journey. Embracing the strangeness that is life in the twenty-first century, On Earth as It Is on Television is a rollicking, heartfelt tale of first contact that practically leaps off the planet.

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ID: 621005

Title: Maddalena and the Dark: A Novel

Author: Julia Fine

Narrator: Sophie Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Mexican Gothic, a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager

A sumptuous feast of a novel, rich and strange and heady. Julia Fine is an extraordinary writer. Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get In Trouble

'Julia Fine's lyrical prose borders on the poetic, while Roberts invests each girl with complicated emotions, allowing their confused feelings to permeate this sinister tale of love and magic.'- AudioFile

Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls orchestra and become a protégé of the great Antonio Vivaldi. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena.

After a scandal threatens her noble familys reputation, Maddalena is sent to the Pietà to preserve her marriage prospects. When she meets Luisa, Maddalena feels the stirrings of a friendship unlike anything she has known. But Maddalena has a secret: she has hatched a dangerous plot to rescue her future her own way. When she invites Luisa into her plans, promising to make her dreams come true, Luisa doesnt hesitate. But every wager has its price, and as the girls are drawn into the decadent world outside the Pietàs walls, they must decide what it is they truly wantand what they will do to pay for it.

Lush and heady, swirling with music and magic, Maddalena and the Dark is a Venetian fairytale about the friendship between two girls and the boundless desire that will set them free, if it doesnt consume them first.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

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ID: 618144

Title: First Bright Thing

Author: J.R. Dawson

Narrator: Petrea Burchard, Tim Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:56:03

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, General, Historical

Summary:

If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?

'This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life.'Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway

'With earnestness that matches the author's poignant story, narrator Petrea Burchard introduces listeners to the Circus of the Fantasticals.' - AudioFile

Ringmaster Rin, to those who know her best can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. And the circus they lead is a rare home and safe haven for magical misfits and outcasts, known as Sparks.

With the world still reeling from World War I, Rin and her troupe the Circus of the Fantasticals travel the midwest, offering a single night of enchantment and respite to all who step into their Big Top.

But threats come at Rin from all sides. The future holds an impending war that the Sparks can see barrelling toward their show and everyone in it. And Rin's past creeps closer every day, a malevolent shadow she cant fully escape.

It takes the form of another circus, with tents as black as midnight and a ringmaster who rules over his troupe with a dangerous power. Rin's circus has something he wants, and he won't stop until it's his.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

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ID: 625422

Title: Speak of the Devil: A Novel

Author: Rose Wilding

Narrator: Colleen Prendergast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:03:50

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect one another in this electrifying debut thriller.

New Years Eve, 1999.

Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. But in order to protect one another, they have to find out who did.

The ex, who drowns her darkest secret in a hip flask as the woman she loves drifts further away.

The wife, living out her fairytale marriage in a house tucked into woods so thick no one can hear a scream.

The widow, praying to a past she no longer knows whether she can trust.

The teenager, whose wide-eyed crush has trapped her in an unrecognizable future.

The mother figure, battling nature versus nurture under the weight of her own guilt.

The friend, forced to choose sides over and over, until she learns the price of choosing wrong.

And the journalist, who brought them all togetherbut underestimated how far one of them would go to keep believing the story theyd been told.

Against the ticking clock of a murder investigation, each womans secret is brought to light as the connections between them converge to reveal a killer. Marking the debut of an extraordinary new talent, Speak of the Devil explores the roles into which women are cast in the lives of terrible menand the fallout when they refuse to play pretend for one moment longer.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

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ID: 625427

Title: Return to Valetto: A Novel

Author: Dominic Smith

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

'Edoardo Ballerinis adroit narration conveys the subtle changes in

the family, set against the splendor of Valettos changing landscape.'- Bookpage

From the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smiths Return to Valetto tells of a nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II.

On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving villageand a hub of resistance and refuge during World War IIcenturies of earthquakes, landslides, and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafinothree eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian motherwho live quietly in their medieval villa. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns.

But someone else has arrived before him, laying claim to the cottage where Hugh spent his childhood summers. The unwelcome guest is the captivating and no-nonsense Elisa Tomassi, who asserts that the family patriarch, Aldo Serafino, a resistance fighter whom her own family harbored, gave the cottage to them in gratitude. But like so many threads of history, this revelation unravels a secreta betrayal, a disappearance, and an unspeakable act of violencethat has impacted Valetto across generations. Who will answer for the crimes of the past?

Dominic Smiths Return to Valetto is a riveting journey into one familys dark history, a page-turning excavation of the ruins of history and our commitment to justice in a fragile world. For fans of Amor Towles, Anthony Doerr, and Jess Walter, it is a deeply human and transporting testament to the possibility of love and understanding across gaps of all kindseven time.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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ID: 621011

Title: Sally Brady's Italian Adventure: A Novel

Author: Christina Lynch

Narrator: Elise Roth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:06:57

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

'Elise Roth makes the transitions smoothly as this novel moves between Sally Brady's life in Depression-era America and the lives of a group of Italians before and during WWII.' - AudioFile

Richly evocative of the charms and contradictions of Italy. Brava!Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author

What if you found yourself in the middle of a war armed only with lipstick and a sense of humor? Abandoned as a child in Los Angeles in 1931, dust bowl refugee Sally Brady convinces a Hollywood movie star to adopt her, and grows up to be an effervescent gossip columnist secretly satirizing Europes upper crust. By 1940 saucy Sally is conquering Fascist-era Rome with cheek and charm.

A good deed leaves Sally stranded in wartime Italy, brandishing a biting wit, a fake passport, and an elastic sense of right and wrong. To save her friends and find her way home through a land of besieged castles and villas, Sally must combat tragedy with comedy, tie up pompous bureaucrats in their own red tape, force the cruel to be kind, and unravel the mystery, weight, and meaning of family.

Heir to Odysseuss wiles and Candides optimism, Sally Brady is a heroine for the 21st century.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martins Press.

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ID: 539736

Title: Know Your Place

Author: Faiza Shaheen

Narrator: Faiza Shaheen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:59:17

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-23

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

The chance of Cameron and Johnson going to Oxford and becoming MPs was one in 10,000, whereas it was close to one in 10 million for me - 10 times more unlikely than getting struck by lightning. Why should anyone have to work 1,000 times harder to do the same thing as anyone else? And why would we set society up to work this way?

Dr Faiza Shaheen is a self-confessed stats geek and social mobility success story: from a working class background, she got into Oxford and is now a leading statistician, ceo of CLASS thinktank, and a visiting professor at NYU. But when her mother died after her benefits were cut by austerity measures, she decided to embark on a career in politics. When she lost in the 2019 election to incumbent Iain Duncan Smith, Shaheen decided to reframe her story, and set her own narrative against the statistics she researches.

The result is Know Your Place: how society sets us up to fail - part memoir, part polemic, this is a personal and statistical look at how society is built, the people it leaves behind, and what we can do about it. For readers of Invisible Women and Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, this is a compelling and insightful read which will change the way we think about opportunity in Britain.

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ID: 631033

Title: No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain

Author: Harry Pearson

Narrator: Simon Slater

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:53:14

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-23

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Non-Fiction, Other, Social Science

Summary:

Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out how and why they have survived and to meet the characters who keep them going.

When Victorian public schoolmasters and Oxbridge-educated gentlemen were taming football, codifying cricket, bringing the values of muscular Christianity to the boxing ring and the athletics field, games that dated back to the pagan era clung on in isolated pockets of rural Britain, unmodified by contemporary tastes, shunned by the media and sport’s ruling elites. 

Here they remain, small, secret worlds, free from media scrutiny and VAR controversies, wreathed in an arcane language of face-gaters, whack-ups, potties, gates-of-hell and the Dorset flop; as much a part of the British countryside as the natterjack toad and almost as endangered. No Pie, No Priest! travels through Britain in search of the nation’s traditional rural sports, seeking out the championship of Knur and Spell (a Viking forefather of golf) on the West Yorkshire moors; watching Irish Road Bowling in County Armagh (once a surprising interest of England cricket captain Mike Brearley), Popinjay at Kilwinning Abbey in Ayrshire, the Aunt Sally competitions of Oxfordshire, and taking in world championship Stoolball (often considered the dairymaid’s form of cricket) and Toad-in-the-Hole in West Sussex.

No Pie, No Priest! combines sports reporting, travelogue and history, and features a cast of bucolic eccentrics and many deeply impenetrable regional accents.

 

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ID: 730837

Title: Call of the Titanic

Author: Lindsay Galvin

Narrator: Isaac Stanmore, Jennifer Woodward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:35:05

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Kids, Historical

Summary:

Young cabin steward, Sid, is proud to be working on the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built. Clara dreams of adventure too, but she's a stowaway in the hold of a much smaller boat, Carpathia. Here she meets the biggest, best dog she's ever known: Rigel, who is on his way to be reunited with his owner. None of them could have imagined how they would need each other one ice-cold terrible night - or that an extraordinary sea creature might also answer their call. . .

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ID: 518081

Title: Sunshine

Author: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Narrator: Jaiden Meltzer, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Noah Rico, Xavier J. Krosoczka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:16:09

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-23

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Genres: Teen, Tough Topics, Non-Fiction

Summary:

The extraordinary - and extraordinarily powerful - follow-up to HEY, KIDDO.

When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp forseriously ill kids and their families. Going into, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such aserious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim?But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets peoplethrough the most troubled of times. Not only was he subject to some of the usual rituals that come with being a camp counselor(wilderness challenges, spooky campfire stories, an extremely stinky mascot costume), but he also got a chance to meet someextraordinary kids facing extraordinary circumstances. He learned about the captivity of illness, for sure . . . but he also learnedabout the freedom a safe space can bring.Now, in his follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Hey, Kiddo, Jarrett brings readers back to Camp Sunshine so we canmeet the campers and fellow counselors who changed the course of his life.

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