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ID: 536609

Title: Forbidden Series Box Set

Author: Suzana Thompson

Narrator: Kalena Schubert, Lauren Sweet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:02:43

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, New Adult

Summary:

Get both books in this enemies to lovers series!

Book One: Heartless

I can't stand my best friend's crush, but now I have to live with him. It's a good thing that I'm not attracted to him, because that would make everything so much worse.

Book Two: Breathless

Cade wants a second chance, but Lexie doesn't want to get burned again. Her attraction to him is just as strong as ever, and he knows it. He'll use every dirty trick in the book to win, but Lexie has learned how to play his game too.

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ID: 525080

Title: Case of the Burgled Bundle

Author: Michael Hutchinson

Narrator: Kaniehtiio Horn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:18:59

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

The Mighty Muskrats, four cousins from the Windy Lake First Nation, are back for another adventure!

The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats-cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day-long ceremony, is taken, the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake's reputation!

What's worse, prime suspect Pearl takes off to the city with her older brother and known troublemaker, Eddie. If they have the burgled bundle with them, the Mighty Muskrats fear it may be lost for good. With clues pointing in too many different directions, the cousins need to find and return the missing bundle before the assembly comes to an end. The history and knowledge passed down to each generation through the bundle is at stake.

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ID: 525081

Title: Act: The Modern Actor's Handbook

Author: David Rotenberg

Narrator: David Rotenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:20:43

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:

A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art of acting from a master teacher.

Act: The Modern Actor's Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America's most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most talented screen actors. This is a full tour through the concepts at the heart of Rotenberg's techniques: states of being, primaries and secondaries, images that you elaborate up or distill down, modifiers, actions and beats, and more. Although his methods loosely draw on the great acting teachers like Hagen and Meisner back to Stanislavski, he teaches new techniques suited to the best of today's screen actors. This is a major new work in the actor's library and will be pulled off the shelf time and again to find that key into a scene, to prepare for an audition, or to find that right technique to make the art come alive again.

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ID: 546610

Title: Gorgeous War: The Branding War between the Third Reich and the United States

Author: Tim Blackmore

Narrator: Simon Curwen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:27:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-21

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Military, Social Science

Summary:

Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When the United States military tried to answer Nazi displays of graphic power, it failed. In the end the best graphic response to the Nazis was produced by the Walt Disney Company.

Using numerous examples of US and Nazi military heraldry, Gorgeous War compares the way the American and German militaries developed their graphic and textile design in the interwar period. The book shows how social and cultural design movements like modernism altered and were altered by both militaries. It also explores how nascent corporate culture and war production united to turn national brands like IBM, Coca-Cola, and Disney into multinational corporations that had learned lessons on propaganda and branding that were being tested during the Second World War.

What is the legacy of apparently toxic signs like the swastika?

The answer may not be what we hoped. Inheritors of the post-Second World War world increasingly struggle to find an escape from an intensely branded environment-to find a place in their lives that is free of advertising and propaganda. This book suggests that we look again at how it is our culture makes that struggle into an appealing Gorgeous War.

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ID: 525075

Title: Black Like Who?: 20th anniversary edition

Author: Rinaldo Walcott

Narrator: Nigel Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:57:09

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused an uproar upon its publication. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music, and electronic media, Walcott's book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As erudite on the issue of American super-critic Henry Louis Gates' blindness to black Canadian realities as he is on rap, Walcott's essays are thought-provoking and always controversial in the best sense of the word. They have added and continue to add immeasurably to public debate.

Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

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ID: 538896

Title: Don't Miss It: Four Seasons of Stories that Spark Enjoyment and Reflection

Author: David Dalke

Narrator: David Dalke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:35:41

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

Get a warm beverage, a comfortable chair, and enjoy the reflective and blessed insights that these short stories offer.

(From the Summer story, 'Harboring a Fugitive')

Several years earlier, as Brad cowered out of sight, I surreptitiously pulled down a slat of the window shade only to see four men in suits intently approaching the church building. I remembered asking Brad what he had done. Today, I continued to look at him, with those memories of yesteryear pounding away. On that day, he had said, 'Thanks for letting me hide out'. But, on this day, with head down and words struggling to be spoken, he said, 'I need to confess something to you. i was the one who took your VW out of your driveway the first Sunday you were here. I stole some beer from a liquor store, took a buddy with me, and we drove crazy through lots of different muddy fields. We were really reckless. I am very sorry. Please forgive me.'

There was only one thing for me to say.

Don't Miss It explores the truths that lie hidden inside of us. Written by a master storyteller, each tale is a must read for all ages. Don't miss it.

Total running time: 04:35:38

ISBN: 9781735732329

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ID: 504778

Title: Woman of Intelligence

Author: Karin Tanabe

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:15:14

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

An exhilarating tale of one remarkable woman’s journey to find her purpose, and herself, in post-war America. Hailed as ‘whip smart’ by Australian Women’s Weekly.

New York, 1954. A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons and the ideal husband: what looks like a perfect life for Katharina Edgeworth is anything but.

As a single girl in 1940s Manhattan, Katharina was a translator at the newly formed United Nations, devoting her days to her work and the promise of world peace – and her nights to cocktails and the promise of a good time.

Now the wife of a beloved pediatric surgeon and heir to a shipping fortune, Katharina is trapped in a gilded cage, desperate to escape the constraints of domesticity. So when she is approached by the FBI and asked to join their ranks as an informant, Katharina seizes the opportunity. A man from her past has become a high-level Soviet spy, but no one has been able to infiltrate his circle.

 

Enter Katharina, the perfect woman for the job.

Navigating the demands of the FBI and the secrets of the KGB, she becomes enthralled by her secret mission. But as those closest to her lose their covers, and their lives, Katharina’s secret soon threatens to ruin her.

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ID: 501957

Title: Australia's Dambusters: Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron

Author: Colin Burgess

Narrator: Steve Shanahan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:45:33

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: History, Military, Australia & Oceania

Summary:

A truly comprehensive account of 617 Squadron, RAF, ​who carried out one of the most dangerous and audacious aerial bombing raids of World War II.

It was the evening of 16 May 1943. Nineteen modified Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron RAF, under the command of youthful Wing Commander Guy Gibson, roared into the night sky from their Lincolnshire base. They were on a top-secret Bomber Command mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, now regarded as one of the most dangerous and audacious bombing raids of World War II – an attack on the formidable, well-defended dams of Germany’s Ruhr Valley. Slung beneath the belly of each aircraft was one of the war’s greatest secrets – a bouncing bomb. Against the odds, and flying straight and level into the teeth of terrifying enemy fire, they succeeded in breaching the two principal dams. Many of the 133 airmen involved that fateful night hailed from Australia, and several would be counted among the 56 who would not return to base next morning.

The Dams Raid led to the men of this gallant company – often referred to as a suicide squadron – taking on even more hazardous operations in the final two years of the war. Under valorous leadership, and now armed with massive Tallboy and Grand Slam ‘earthquake’ bombs, they obliterated vital Nazi installations, destroying such defiant targets as the heavily defended Kembs Barrage and the German battleship Tirpitz, often at a terrible cost in lives.

First published in 2003, this deeply researched, revised and updated edition of Australia’s Dambusters offers a truly comprehensive account of the most famous bombing raid of the war through the words and stories of the courageous Australian airmen and others who flew on this and later perilous missions, remembered and forever immortalised as the Dambusters.

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ID: 501956

Title: Catch Us the Foxes

Author: Nicola West

Narrator: Jessica Tovey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:50:52

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Twin Peaks meets The Dry in a deliciously dark and twisted tale that unravels a small Australian country town.

 

Ambitious young journalist Marlowe ‘Lo’ Robertson would do anything to escape the suffocating confines of her small home town. While begrudgingly covering the annual show for the local newspaper, Lo is horrified to discover the mutilated corpse Lily Williams – the town's reigning showgirl and her best friend.

Seven strange symbols have been ruthlessly carved into Lily’s back. But when Lo reports her grisly find to the town’s police chief, he makes her promise not to tell anyone about the symbols. Lo obliges, though it’s not like she has much of a choice – after all, he is also her father.

 

But when Lily’s murder makes headlines around the country and the town is invaded by the media, Lo seizes the opportunity to track down the killer and make a name for herself by breaking the biggest story of her life.

 

What Lo uncovers is that her sleepy home town has been harbouring a deadly secret, one so shocking that it will captivate the entire nation. And it will change the course of her life forever.

 

‘Addictive … West has a clear ability to spin a complex and compelling thriller. One to watch.’ Australian

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ID: 502190

Title: Coffin Confessor

Author: Bill Edgar

Narrator: Bill Edgar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:42:36

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Social Science

Summary:

Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace. Now imagine there's a man who can take care of all that, who has no respect for the living, who will do anything for the dead.

Bill Edgar is the Coffin Confessor - a one-of-a-kind professional, a man on a mission to make good on these last requests on behalf of his soon-to-be-deceased clients. And this is the extraordinary story of how he became that man.

Bill has been many things in this life: homeless street-kid, son of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters, maximum-security prisoner, hard man, family man, car thief, professional punching bag, philosopher, inventor, private investigator, victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and an activist fighting to bring down the institutions that let it happen. A survivor.

As a little boy, he learned the hard way that society is full of people who fall through the cracks - who die without their stories being told. Now his life's work is to make sure his clients' voices are heard, and their last wishes delivered: The small-town grandfather who needs his tastefully decorated sex dungeon destroyed before the kids find it. The woman who endured an abusive marriage for decades before finding freedom. The outlaw biker who is afraid of nothing . . . except telling the world he is in love with another man. The dad who needs to track down his estranged daughter so he can find a way to say he's sorry, with one final gift.

The Coffin Confessor brings these stories of the dead to life, all while sharing his own extraordinary journey. Confronting and confounding, heartwarming and heartbreaking, this is a story of survival and redemption, of a life lived on the fringes of society, on both sides of the law - and what that teaches you about living your best life . . . and death.

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