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ID: 507886

Title: Garden of Hopes and Dreams

Author: Barbara Hannay

Narrator: Caroline Craig

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:20:07

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

Can love and friendship blossom on a rooftop?

The residents in Brisbane's Riverview apartment block barely know each other. They have no idea of the loneliness, the lost hopes and dreams, being experienced behind their neighbours' closed doors.

Vera, now widowed, is trying her hardest to create a new life for herself in an unfamiliar city environment. Unlucky-in-love Maddie has been hurt too many times by untrustworthy men, yet refuses to give up on romance. Ned, a reclusive scientist, has an unusual interest in bees and worm farms. Meanwhile, the building's caretaker Jock has all but given up hope of achieving his secret dream.

When a couple of gardening enthusiasts from one of the apartments suggest they all create a communal garden on their rooftop, no one is interested. Not at first, anyway. But as the residents come together over their budding plants and produce, their lives become interconnected in ways they could never have imagined.

From award-winning novelist Barbara Hannay, The Garden of Hopes and Dreams is a timely and uplifting story about the importance of community and the healing power of connection.

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ID: 599432

Title: Snow Globe Travelers: Samuels Legacy

Author: K.A. Cummins

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:54:48

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

A tween travels to a parallel Earth via snow globe in Cummins's entertaining debut novel. Publishers Weekly

In the heart of Vienna, twelve-year-old Sarah Ann Reisende wanders into a mysterious shop where snow globes double as portals to other worlds. After breaking the globe tethered to Earth, she discovers a cryptic note scribbled on the back of a photograph. The note links her father, who left before her third birthday, to a place called Elohi. Could this be a chance to find her father at last?

Unable to return home, Sarah follows the lead into the world of Elohi. But an army of vicious hybrids led by a genetically engineered warrior named Malvine now rules the once peaceful planet, and she becomes a target as Malvine wants to use the shops connections to wage war.

Can Sarah uncover the truth behind her father leaving and find a way home before Malvine gains control of the shop?

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ID: 590686

Title: First Robot President

Author: Robert Carlyle Taylor

Narrator: Brenda Ernst

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:23:51

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-21

Publisher: Big Happy Family Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Satire

Summary:

Third Edition of Robert Carlyle Taylor's Award-Winning Debut Novel The First Robot President combines science fiction with political satire, making fun of Democrats and Republicans in equal measure. The novel centers around Thomas Jenkins, a lobbyist, and his robot wife whose political ambitions land her on the Green Party's 2520 Presidential ticket.

- Gold prize for humor in the 2020-2021

- Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Awards

- Silver prize in the 2020-2021 Nautilus Awards

- Finalist in the 15th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards

"The First Robot President's dialogue, which composes much of the text, is riveting and realistic ... An informative afterward offers convincing data on population projections for the next several centuries ... Robert Carlyle Taylor's skill in writing dialogue and exploring the ethics of having a robot as president make this novel an intriguing dive into pertinent topics." IndieReader

"... a perfect combination of science fiction and politics." Paige Loveitt for Reader Views

"...an entertaining science fiction satire made fascinating because of its behind-the-scenes looks at the bruising world of modern politics." Foreword Clarion Reviews

"... Taylor's easy-to-read prose may remind many readers of mainstream authors treading in unfamiliar SF territory ... In this enjoyable story, ultralogical but humane machine niceness prevails over two-party idiocy and scheming." Kirkus Reviews

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ID: 536538

Title: Tiny Lights for Travellers

Author: Naomi K. Lewis

Narrator: Naomi K. Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:17:05

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Travel, Europe

Summary:

Why couldn't I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here, and this sidewalk belongs to me?

When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa's escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his journey to freedom. Travelling alone from Amsterdam to Lyon, she discovers family secrets and her own narrative as a second-generation Jewish Canadian. With vulnerability, humour, and wisdom, Lewis's memoir asks tough questions about her identity as a secular Jew, the accuracy of family stories, and the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations.

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ID: 513621

Title: Forever, Interrupted

Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:10:18

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-21

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

From the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an all-new audio production read by Julia Whelan, including a bonus conversation with Julia Whelan and Taylor Jenkins Reid, recorded exclusively for this edition. 

Soon to be a Netflix limited series starring Laura Dern and Margaret Qualley.

'Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like that ... in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime.'

Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year’s Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn’t expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they’ve eloped.

Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met – and who doesn’t even know Elsie exists.

Interweaving Elsie and Ben’s charmed romance with Elsie and Susan’s healing process, Forever, Interrupted shows us that there’s more than one way to find a happy ending.

‘Touching and powerful ... Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn't let go. A stunning first novel.’ Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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ID: 536531

Title: Day for Night: A Novel

Author: Jean McNeil

Narrator: Clive Walton, Mia Fothergill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:42:36

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

From the author of Ice Diaries, winner of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize, praised by the New York Times as "stunningly written" and a Guardian Best Book of 2018.

An unflinching exploration of love and boundaries in Brexit-crazed London.

Richard Cottar is a respected independent film writer and director; his wife, Joanna, is his increasingly successful and wealthy producer. Together they are about to embark on a film about the life of Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish intellectual who killed himself in northern Spain while on the run from the Nazis in 1940. In what looks set to be the last year of Britain's membership of the European Union, Benjamin's story of exile and statelessness is more relevant than ever. But Richard and Joanna's symbiotic life takes a sudden turn when they cast an intelligent, sexually ambiguous young actor in the role of Walter Benjamin. In a climate of fear and a bizarre, superheated year redolent of sex and hidden desire, Richard and Joanna must confront their relationship, Benjamin's tragic history, and the future of their country.

Taking its cue from Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Day for Night is an unsettling, riveting story of reversals - of gender, power, and history.

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ID: 606302

Title: You Spin Me: a nostalgic romantic comedy

Author: Karen Grey

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer, Vanessa Edwin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:07:15

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Historical Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

This author is truly a master at creating likeable, three-dimensional characters. Laurie Reads Romance

Some scars go further than skin deep

1988 doesnt end well for Jessica Abraham. In just one week she turns thirty, loses her day job, and loses the role of Ophelia to a younger actress. Rallying, she goes after a part at a theater outside of the city, but the directors plan to hide her beauty behind hair, makeup and wardrobe from Cosmos Don't'' column shakes her confidence to the core.

For the first time in her acting career, she wont be able to rely on her carefully managed physical charms. Only her craft will count.

On a snowy night in January of 1989, a woman calls into DJ Callihan Alonsos alt-rock radio show at the end of her commute. He asks her to call back the next night, and the next, just so he'll know shes home safe. There's something about her voice that has him wanting more, but the longer they talk, the closer she gets. Compromising each and every wall he's built around his heart.

If two lonely people fall in love over late-night phone calls, will meeting face-to-face make them, or break them?

In this heartfelt, slow-burn retro romcom from USA Today bestselling author Karen Grey, it may be the end of a decade, but its the beginning of a love story.

I loved the book, but the narration is amazing. Vanessa Edwin and Eric Michael Summerer are absolutely perfect as Jess & Cal. They both do a fantastic job with voices, emotions, and accents. Summerers DJ voices are particularly spot on and the impersonation of Bobcat Goldthwaite had me rolling. Rellim Reads

If you're looking for a fun, 80's story with both Sleeping Beauty and Beauty & the Beast vibes, this is the book for you! Goodreads review

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ID: 513624

Title: One True Loves

Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-21

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu and Luke Bracey, a moving love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life. From the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six; now with a bonus conversation with Julia Whelan and Taylor Jenkins Reid, recorded exclusively for this edition.

In her twenties, Emma marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.

 

Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness.

 

That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and all these years he’s been trying to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants.

 

Who is her one true love? Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.

'Earth-shaking romance … you will flip for this epic love story.' Cosmopolitan

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ID: 513622

Title: After I Do

Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:21:48

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-21

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

From the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes an all-new audio production read by Julia Whelan, including a bonus conversation with Julia Whelan and Taylor Jenkins Reid, recorded exclusively for this edition.

When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes.

Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?

After I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an old game – and searching for a new road to happily ever after.

‘A raw, unflinching exploration of the realities of marriage, the delicate nature of love and the enduring strength of family … Heartbreaking and hopeful, Reid has crafted a story of love lost and found that is as timely as it is timeless.’ Katja Millay, author of The Sea of Tranquility

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ID: 522627

Title: Shaula

Author: A. M. Kherbash

Narrator: James Wolven

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:27:28

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Paranormal

Summary:

The sight of the body did not sicken Ben. Not right away. Guilt was what got him: the mounting consequences rising in his throat, and the truth which would inevitably come spilling out.

Sometime after the events at Duncastor, two men are dispatchedto make a delivery. It was a straightforward assignment: take thesealed cargoa container roughly the size of a childs casketanddeliver it to a reclusive specialist residing in a lakeside cabin. Whatthis specialist did or specialized in was never mentioned. Not thatit mattered, when the task was simplesimple enough that even a young and inexperienced bureaucrat like Ben could handle it.If only he werent charged with keeping an eye on his wayward senior.

The lakeside cabin was the last remnant of a closed down resort,which Ben guessed was bought by a dummy corporation belongingto their employer. All the other cabins were torn down, leavingthem with an empty property that served to distance the lakesidecabin from public grounds. Something about it reminded Ben ofthe horticultural practice of pruning spent flowers to furtherenhance the beauty of the crowning blossom. Not that it didanything to improve the cabins appearance he observed, as theystood in front of the stocky wooden building, sheltered underinterlacing branches of towering evergreens. Much like the fadedphotos, an eerie hush permeated the place: no breeze ruffledthe reflected image on the lakes surface, nor susurrated throughthe green needles above. It was all very quiet.

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