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ID: 504714

Title: Butter Honey Pig Bread

Author: Francesca Ekwuyasi

Narrator: Amaka Umeh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:10:32

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Feminist Fiction, Sagas

Summary:

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST

Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize

An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.

Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family.

Francesca Ekwuyasi's debut novel tells the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother, Kambirinachi. Kambirinachi feels she was born an Ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in childhood to cause its mother misery. She believes that she has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family and now lives in fear of the consequences of that decision.

Some of Kambirinachi's worst fears come true when her daughter, Kehinde, experiences a devasting childhood trauma that causes the family to fracture in seemingly irreversible ways. As soon as she's of age, Kehinde moves away and cuts contact with her twin sister and mother. Alone in Montreal, she struggles to find ways to heal while building a life of her own. Meanwhile, Taiye, plagued by guilt for what happened to her sister, flees to London and attempts to numb the loss of the relationship with her twin through reckless hedonism.

Now, after more than a decade of living apart, Taiye and Kehinde have returned home to Lagos to visit their mother. It is here that the three women must face each other and address the wounds of the past if they are to reconcile and move forward.

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ID: 506029

Title: Pawsitively Swindled

Author: Melissa Erin Jackson

Narrator: Victoria Villarreal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:22:12

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Appearances can be deceiving.

Amber Blackwood, Edgehills secret resident witch, recently found her parents grimoires and the powerful time spells within. The malevolent Penhallow clan has been ruthlessly seeking the grimoires so they can travel back in time to undo their clans cursed magic. Because the Penhallows will stop at nothing, Amber must find an impregnable hiding place for the grimoires, though she has no clue where to start looking. When her cousin Edgar suggests the game of Magic Cache, a magic-infused version of geocaching played by witches all over the world, Amber agrees to learn how to play. After all, a weird plan is better than no plan.

When the magical search leads her to the neighboring town of Marbleglenthe safest town in OregonAmber assumes her only problem will be dealing with its snooty residents. Instead, she gets caught up in a murder investigation where one man is dead and a second one framed for the crime. To complicate matters, the framed mans condescending daughter, Bianca, wants Ambers helpand Bianca just happens to chair Marbleglens Floral Frenzy Flower Festival Committee, the rival to Edgehills own Here and Meow Festival Committee. The two women are thrown into an uneasy alliance.

Joined by her new frenemy, her growing inner circle, and Edgehills Chief Brown, Amber works to unravel the mystery to ensure the right culprit ends up behind bars and Marbleglens safety is restored. But Amber knows that even if Marbleglens mystery is resolved, a bigger danger lurks in the shadows. If the Penhallows claim the grimoires of Ambers late parents, theyll use the books time-reversal spells to try to stop the curse from ever having poisoned their clanand, in the process, possibly rewriting history.

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ID: 518758

Title: Don't Fight Mad: A Black Belt's Quest to Recapture Joy

Author: Cindy Villanueva

Narrator: Cindy Villanueva, James Owen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:20:18

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-21

Publisher: Audiobooks Unleashed

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Golden girl Cindy Villanueva left home for UCLA, full of promiseand one year later was an unwed teen mom and college dropout. After suffering domestic abuse and two divorces, she was on the ropes. Dont Fight Mad describes her journey back to the joy-filled life she enjoyed as a child.

Through deeply personal stories, Cindy shares how martial arts became a metaphor for recapturing her strength, identity, and joy. She offers a candid and authentic blueprint for those who long to rekindle the wonder of awell-lived existence

Whether you are an avid martial artist or you assiduously avoid exercise, Dont Fight Mad has an inspiring message of fighting for joy and living in grace.

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ID: 390581

Title: Paris Affair

Author: Pip Drysdale

Narrator: Pip Drysdale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:01:08

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-21

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

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

Summary:

She thinks love can kill you. It turns out she might be right. The dark and sexy new thriller from the bestselling author of The Sunday Girl and The Strangers We Know. 

Harper Brown is an expert at picking locks, breaking her way out of car boots, talking her way out of trouble and she could run a masterclass on escaping relationships - her record for losing a guy is three minutes flat. She’s addicted to true crime podcasts and is the genius behind a micro-column called ‘How to not get murdered’.

After having her heart broken helping her ex follow his dreams, Harper has moved to Paris to fulfill hers. She’s talked her way into a job as an arts journalist, a stepping stone to her dream role as an investigative journalist. All she has to do is whatever it takes to get there. But then one night she meets the artist Noah X, and everything she thinks she knows is turned upside down.

Soon Harper finds herself entangled in a web of lies, hot on the trail of a murderer and the scoop of a lifetime. This is the story that could make her career - if the killer doesn’t catch her first.

'A book that both utilises and critiques the trope of the murdered woman in the crime genre. . . . this was a thought provoking and difficult to put down novel that I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to a friend.' The AU Review

'The tension and pace escalate . . . and all the red-herrings and breadcrumbs subtly dropped along the journey coalesce, delivering a gripping conclusion. An entertaining tale of mystery and suspense' Booklover

'A fast-paced and heart-stopping ride, packed with plenty of twists and turns that will keep you on your toes right to the end. Gripping, suspenseful and seriously addictive, The Paris Affair is yet another tantalising page-turner from the wonderful Pip Drysdale.' Better Reading

'The Paris Affair is not a simple whodunnit, nor a mere romance, nor is it a run-of-the-mill book about a young woman in Paris. Pip Drysdale has very cleverly turned these situations on their heads . . . showing us the complexities of love, sex, and romance' Glam Adelaide

'An entertaining crime thriller recommended for fans of savvy characters, art, journalism and all things Parisian.' Carpe Librum

 

'There are plenty of twists, turns and danger . . . I found myself holding my breath with my heart pounding as I turned the pages. The Paris Affair is another sharply plotted page turner from Pip Drysdale' The Burgeoning Bookshelf

 

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ID: 466812

Title: Silent Listener

Author: Lyn Yeowart

Narrator: Annie Maynard, Anthony Gooley, Jessica Bell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:25:13

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

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

Summary:

Propelling the reader back and forth between the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s, The Silent Listener is an unforgettable literary suspense novel set in the dark, gothic heart of rural Australia.

In the cold, wet summer of 1960, 11-year-old Joy Henderson lives in constant fear of her father. She tries to make him happy but, as he keeps reminding her, she is nothing but a filthy sinner destined for Hell . . .

Yet, decades later, she returns to the family's farm to nurse him on his death bed. To her surprise, her 'perfect' sister Ruth is also there, whispering dark words, urging revenge.

Then the day after their father finally confesses to a despicable crime, Joy finds him dead - with a belt pulled tight around his neck . . .

For Senior Constable Alex Shepherd, investigating George's murder revives memories of an unsolved case still haunting him since that strange summer of 1960: the disappearance of nine-year-old Wendy Boscombe.

As seemingly impossible facts surface about the Hendersons - from the past and the present - Shepherd suspects that Joy is pulling him into an intricate web of lies and that Wendy's disappearance is the key to the bizarre truth.

****

'A deftly wrought suspense novel from a remarkable new literary talent. Lyn Yeowart's work plumes themes of inherited violence, denial and atonement.' J P Pomare, author of Call Me Evie

'Intense, intricate, emotionally devastating. This is proper Australian gothica.' Liam Pieper, author of Sweetness and Light

'A cracking thriller with heart. It intrigues, it twists and turns, it deftly combines the muddy domestic details of life on a Victorian farm with a black, Gothic sensibility of lies and violence and the heartbreaking fantasy world of a young child.' Jane Sullivan

'A heartbreaking, terrifying and stunningly accomplished novel that had me holding my breath. Yeowart instantly pulled me into the life of a rural family dominated by an angry, insecure despot from its unnerving beginnings to its shocking end.' Kirsten Alexander, author of Half Moon Lake

'Steeped in atmosphere and with taut, intricate plotting, The Silent Listener, contrary to its title, had me audibly gasping throughout.' Benjamin Stevenson, author of Either Side of Midnight

'An ingenious form of storytelling archaeology: down through layers of family trauma, the truths are finally brought to light.' Jock Serong, author of The Rules of Backyard Cricket

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ID: 466813

Title: Listen, Layla

Author: Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Narrator: Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:13:17

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Exploring the diaspora experience, race, politics and identity, Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an own voices novel for young readers, which bursts with passion, humour and truth.

Layla has ended the school year on a high and can't wait to spend the holidays hanging out with her friends and designing a prize-winning Grand Designs Tourismo invention. But Layla's plans are interrupted when her grandmother in Sudan falls ill and the family rush to be with her.

The last time Layla went to Sudan she was only a young child. Now she feels torn between her Sudanese and Australian identities. As political tensions in Sudan erupt, so too do tensions between Layla and her family. Layla is determined not to lose her place in the invention team, but will she go against her parents' wishes? What would a Kandaka do?

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ID: 466824

Title: Moroccan Daughter

Author: Deborah Rodriguez

Narrator: Dahlia Salem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:26:23

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

From the twisted alleyways of the ancient medina of Fs to a marriage festival high in the Atlas Mountains, Deborah Rodriguez's entrancing new bestseller is a modern story of forbidden love set in the sensual landscape of North Africa. Author of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and The Zanzibar Wife.

Amina Bennis has come back to her childhood home in Morocco to attend her sister's wedding. The time has come for her to confront her strict, traditionalist father with the secret she has kept for more than a year - her American husband, Max.

Amina's best friend, Charlie, and Charlie's feisty grandmother, Bea, have come along for moral support, staying with Amina and her family in their palatial riad in Fs and enjoying all that the city has to offer. But Charlie is also hiding someone from her past - a mystery man from Casablanca.

And then there's Samira, the Bennis's devoted housekeeper for many decades. Hers is the biggest secret of all - one that strikes at the very heart of the family.

As things begin to unravel behind the ancient walls of the medina, the four women are soon caught in a web of lies, clandestine deals and shocking confessions . . .

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ID: 447351

Title: Last Convict

Author: Anthony Hill

Narrator: Julian Garner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:29:30

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

'It's a good story, Samuel. You're a piece of living history.'

Oxford 1863: Young Samuel Speed sets a barley stack alight in the hope it will earn him a bed in prison for the night. He wants nothing more than a morsel of food in his belly and a warm place to sleep off the streets. What he receives is a sentence of seven years' servitude, to be served half a world away in the penal colony of Fremantle, Western Australia.

When Samuel boards the transport ship Belgravia, he is stripped of his clothing and even his name, and given regulations of when to rise, eat, clean and sleep. On arrival at Fremantle Prison, hard labour is added to the mix and he wonders if life can get any worse. The only solace he finds is a love of reading, which allows the likes of Tom Sawyer and Oliver Twist to become his lifelong friends.

Samuel is granted a ticket of leave in 1867 and full freedom in 1871, but what sort of life can a man forge for himself in the colony, with no skills, no money and no family? Will it be the beginning of the life he has always dreamed of, or do some sentences truly never end?

A colourful recreation of the life and times of the last known convict to be sent to Australia, The Last Convict is a moving study of old age and loneliness, as one social outcast finds meaning in his impoverished life through the power of literature. Meticulously researched and brilliantly woven into an engaging fictional account, it is an unforgettable story by an award-winning writer and historian.

'A story of hardship and privation, alongside high adventure, a fresh start in the colonies, and the protagonist's enduring solace in discovering the delights of literature. A ripping yarn.' The Age

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ID: 466811

Title: Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

Author: Christopher Scanlon, Kasey Edwards

Narrator: Kasey Edwards, Michael Edwards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:01:39

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

Nearly one in five girls aged 16-17 years meet the clinical criteria for depression.

One in fourteen young Australians (7%) aged 4-17 experienced an anxiety disorder.

These figures only get worse as our girls age with one in three women in Australia experiencing anxiety.

This indispensable guide will provide the tools to raising a girl who is happy and confident. Because when you raise a girl who likes herself, everything else follows.

> She will strive for excellence because she has faith in her ability to achieve it and the

confidence to pick herself up.

> She will nurture her physical and mental health because it's natural to care for something you love.

> She will insist on healthy relationships because she believes she deserves nothing less.

> She will be joyful and secure, knowing that her greatest friend and most capable ally is herself.

Packed with practical, evidence-based advice, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves details the seven qualities that enable girls to thrive and arm themselves against a world that tells them they are flawed.

1. A girl who likes herself has a power perspective

2. A girl who likes herself has body confidence

3. A girl who likes herself owns her body

4. A girl who likes herself is calm

5. A girl who likes herself is independent and masterful

6. A girl who likes herself has strong relationships

7. A girl who likes herself is herself

Free of parental guilt and grounded in research, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves is imbued with the warmth and wit of a mum and dad who are in the same parenting trenches as you, fighting for their daughters' futures.

'Relatable + Practical + Real.' DANA KERFORD, URSTRONG

'A remarkable resource for mums and dads alike.' SARAH MCMAHON, BODYMATTERS AUSTRALASIA

'An indispensable guide.' BETTER READING

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ID: 502154

Title: Desert Fire, Mountain Rain

Author: Amy Schisler

Narrator: Erin Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:38:17

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: Audiobooks Unleashed

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Mystery, Contemporary

Summary:

Andi Nelsons dream was to go to the Naval Academy and serve her country. As an intelligence commander with SEAL Team Three, her life is what she always imagined until a lapse in intelligence leads to the death of her team and the man she loves. Plagued with survivors guilt, Andi returns to her hometown in the Arkansas Ozarks only to discover that Buffalo Springs is as depressed and broken as she is. Wade Montgomery, a mover and shaker in New York Citys world of finance, has closed his heart to the possibility of love. When he returns to Buffalo Springs to care for his ailing mother, Wade accepts the position of mayor and the task of helping the town to die gracefully. Succumbing to the pitfalls of pride, he closes his eyes to the illegal dealings within the towns government, plunging the town and Wade into a pit of lies and deceit that may destroy them both. Will restoring the town provide the purpose Andi needs to continue living? Will Andis determination to save the town open Wades eyes and his heart?

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