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ID: 409054

Title: Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

Author: Archie Roach

Narrator: Archie Roach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:12:26

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Winner of the 2021 ABIA Audiobook of the Year

A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader.

Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach – stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader – but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he really was.

Roach was only two years old when he was forcibly removed from his family. Brought up by a series of foster parents until his early teens, his world imploded when he received a letter that spoke of a life he had no memory of.

In this intimate, moving and often shocking memoir, Archie’s story is an extraordinary odyssey through love and heartbreak, family and community, survival and renewal – and the healing power of music. Overcoming enormous odds to find his story and his people, Archie voices the joy, pain and hope he found on his path through song to become the legendary singer-songwriter and storyteller that he is today – beloved by fans worldwide.

Tell Me Why is a stunning account of resilience and the strength of spirit – and of a great love story.

Winner of the 2020 Indie Book of the Year Non-Fiction

Winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing

Shortlisted for the 2020 ABIA Biography Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Non-Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booksellers' Choice 2020 Book of the Year Awards, Non-Fiction 

Archie Roach was the 2020 VIC Australian of the Year

'Tell Me Why is an extraordinary odyssey and offering. Archie has come through snares, pits and suffering to bring us an inspiring tale of survival, grace and generosity. This book should be in every school.' Paul Kelly

‘Just like his early songs, Tell Me Why was written with empathy as its impetus and that intent shines through on every page. This is a phenomenal work by one of the most articulate and recognisable members of the Stolen Generations. It will be read, studied and discussed for many years to come.’ The Australian

‘Beautiful, gut-wrenching and compelling memoir’ Sydney Morning Herald

‘Archie’s deeply resonant voice sings out – of a broken country and a life renewed. The voice of Australia.’ Daniel Browning, ABC journalist and producer

‘Roach is honest and humble in his oft-heartbreaking retelling of his search for identity, belonging and purpose’ Courier Mail

‘Best book of 2019: Tell Me Why by Archie Roach, a beautifully written autobiography that captures one of the most remarkable lives in Australian music’ Weekend Australia

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ID: 396685

Title: Fourteen: My year of darkness, and the light that followed

Author: Shannon Molloy

Narrator: Shannon Molloy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:03:42

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Biography & Memoir, General

Summary:

The bestseller optioned for a major film and adapted to the stage, Fourteen is this generation’s Holding the Man – a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man’s search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school.

This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland. It was a year in which I started to discover who I was, and deeply hated what was revealed. It was a year in which I had my first crush and first devastating heartbreak. It was a year of torment, bullying and betrayal – not just at the hands of my peers, but by adults who were meant to protect me.

And it was a year that almost ended tragically.

I found solace in writing and my budding journalism; in a close-knit group of friends, all growing up too quickly together; and in the fierce protection of family and a mother’s unconditional love. These were moments of light and hilarity that kept me going.

As much as Fourteen is a chronicle of the enormous struggle and adversity I endured, and the shocking consequences of it all, it’s also a tale of survival.

Because I did survive.

Longlisted for the 2021 ABIA Biography Book of the Year

‘Teenagers should read this book, parents should read this book. Human beings, above all, should read this book.’ Rick Morton, bestselling author of One Hundred Years of Dirt

 

‘I love this book … a beautifully written account of a young man struggling with his sexuality, overcoming shocking abuse and finding his way to pride.’ Peter FitzSimons, bestselling author

 

‘Shannon is unflinching in recounting the horror, but he is also funny, empathetic and, above all, full of courage.’ Bridie Jabour, author of The Way Things Should Be   

 

‘A slice of life as experienced quite recently in the “lucky country”.’ The Hon Michael Kirby, AC CMG

‘Shannon's bitter struggle is painfully recognisable and happening in playgrounds around the world. But he not only triumphs, he relives his past using his best weapon: beautiful words.’ Australian Women’s Weekly

 

‘A stunning memoir about heartbreak and acceptance … a unique, hilarious and bittersweet insight into the heart of a boy, the courage of survival, and the fierce love of a mother.’  Frances Whiting, Courier Mail

 

‘Australia hasn’t changed all that much from what Shannon describes in Fourteen. Marriage equality isn’t the end; there is still such a long way to go, and books like this are an important part of that journey.’ FIVE STARS. Good Reading

‘Intensely raw and incredibly moving.’ OUTinPerth

'A book in which many will undoubtably see themselves and take solace' The Age

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ID: 447435

Title: Half a Dream: A Renaissance Fantasy Thriller

Author: E.P. Clark

Narrator: E.P. Clark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:54:36

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical

Summary:

Shadow is strong. Is courage stronger?

Its been four years since Giacomo, bodyguard to Prince Luca of Fiori, followed his charge down into the shadowy world of forbidden magic. When Luca disappears once again, Giaco must cast aside his disbelief and delve into the world of fortune-telling and shadow-walking in order to find Luca and bring him back to safety.

And beyond that, he must face up to his own worst fears. Everyone considers Giaco to be a hero, but he is about to learn the true meaning of heroism. More than his own life depends on it.

Set in a magical world inspired by Renaissance Florence, this fantasy thriller will appeal to fans of dark and historical fantasy, as well as paranormal and occult suspense. This is the second book in the Giaco & Luca series, but can be listened to as a standalone.

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ID: 609713

Title: Christmas Portrait

Author: Phyllis Clark Nichols

Narrator: Phyllis Clark Nichols

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:39:44

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Holidays

Summary:

Will young Kate find a way to send her late mother a special Christmas gift in heaven?

When a young patient grieving the death of her sister recognizes the man in a portrait hanging in her office, Dr. Kate Harding, a licensed clinician, is startled but not entirely surprised. The face in the painting takes her back twenty years to snow-covered Cedar Falls, Kentuckyand to her first Christmas without her mother.

As Christmas approached, young Kate struggled to adjust to lifes changes following the death of her mother. When a conversation with Granny Grace convinced Kate that there was Christmas in heaven, she was determined to get her mother a present, a special gift that would make her mother happy forever. No one could tell Kate how to get her gift to heavennot her daddy, not Uncle Luke the medical student, not Aunt Susannah Hope, and not even Pastor Simmons who she was most certain would have the answer.But Kate devises and executes a Christmas Eve plan that forever impacts her life. Kates Christmas is filled with surprises: taking in a runaway girl, a tender exchange of Christmas presents, a meeting with the mysterious Mr. Josh, and finally, a beautiful family Christmas portrait.

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ID: 414798

Title: Conspiracy of Bones

Author: Kathy Reichs

Narrator: Linda Emond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:58:44

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Number One New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her nineteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her phone number.

It’s sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she’s anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her.

An identified corpse soon turns up, only partly answering her questions.

To win answers to the others, including the man’s identity, she must go rogue. With help from a number of law enforcement associates including her Montreal beau Andrew Ryan and the always-ready-with-a-smart-quip, ex-homicide investigator Skinny Slidell, and utilizing new cutting-edge forensic methods, Tempe draws closer to the astonishing truth.

But the more she uncovers, the darker and more twisted the picture becomes ...

Praise for Kathy Reichs:

'Kathy Reichs writes smart—no, make that brilliant—mysteries that are as realistic as non-fiction and as fast-paced as the best thrillers about Jack Reacher or Alex Cross' James Patterson

'Kathy Reichs continues to be one of the most distinctive and talented writers in the genre. Her legions of readers worldwide will agree with me when I declare that the more books she writes, the more enthusiastic fans she’ll garner' Sandra Brown

'Each book in Kathy Reichs’s fantastic Temperance Brennan series is better than the last. They’re filled with riveting twists andturns. No matter how many novels she writes, I just can’t get enough!' Lisa Scottoline

'Reichs always delivers a pulse-pounding story' Publisher’s Weekly

'Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden' The New York Times Book Review

'Bloody good beach reading!' USA Today

'Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs' Daily News

'This is Kathy Reichs as maybe you’ve never read her before. The story starts like a pistol shot and fires nonstop through over three hundred layered pages. The twists are meticulously planned and thrown like bamboozling curves on the edge of the plate. But you will see new layers to the brilliant Tempe Brennan that may surprise you. Read this book. It was created by a master of the genre who knocks it out of the park.' David Baldacci, bestselling author of One Good Deed and Redemption

'Nobody writes a more imaginative thriller than Kathy Reichs or crafts a better sentence. Her latest forensic investigation, A Conspiracy of Bones, rivets with its non-stop pursuit of some of the vilest villains ever.' Clive Cussler, bestselling author of Night Probe and Sahara

'Sinister and chilling. In Tempe Brennan’s riveting return to the investigative trail, she suddenly finds herself caught in a tangled web. Who can she trust? Maybe not even herself.

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ID: 416801

Title: Origin of Me

Author: Bernard Gallate

Narrator: Thomas Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:59:13

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-20

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age

Summary:

Lincoln Locke's fifteen-year-old life is turned upside down when he's thrust into bachelor-pad living with his father, after his parents' marriage breaks up, and into an exclusive new school. Crestfield Academy offers Lincoln a new set of peers - the crme de la crme of gifted individuals, who also happen to be financially loaded - and a place on the swim relay team with a bunch of thugs in Speedos. Homunculus, the little voice inside his head, doesn't make life any easier; nor does Lincoln's growing awareness of a genetic anomaly that threatens to humiliate him at every turn.

On a search for answers to big LIFE questions, he turns to the school library, where he spies a nineteenth-century memoir, My One Redeeming Affliction by Edwin Stroud, a one-time star of Melinkoff's Astonishing Assembly of Freaks. As Lincoln slowly reads this peculiar, life-changing book, the past reaches into his present in fascinating and alarming ways.

Ways that defy imagination . . .

Audacious, funny and wonderfully inventive, The Origin of Me is a song to friendship, to young love, to the joy of imagination, and to celebrating differences.

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ID: 501894

Title: Payback: A Brooks/Lotello Thriller

Author: Ronald S. Barak

Narrator: Adam James Conner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:50:32

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Legal Thriller, Political Thriller

Summary:

WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE COULD YOU GET INTO AT A FAMOUS WRITERS CONFERENCE?

Thriller Jubilee is a renowned week-long writers conference held every year at the luxurious Hotel Marisol on the sun-drenched island of Punta Maya. Attracting literary luminaries and reading fans alike, this years conference is attended by one guest too many, a writer wannabe whose efforts have not received the recognition the author expectsone might say demands.

As conference officials discover participants are quietly disappearing, they wrestle with the question of whether to disclose that a serial killer may be on the loose, fearing that it could trigger a panic and permanently destroy the eventand the host organization.

Payback, third in the popular Brooks/Lotello Thriller series, is a fantasy murder mystery blended with todays real-world obsession with societys moral decay, for example the college admissions scandal and the failure of sports, academic, and church leaders to expel offenders within their ranks preying on those entrusted to such organizations.

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ID: 425680

Title: When Morning Comes

Author: Arushi Raina

Narrator: Jamie Bloch, John Fleming, Patience Mpumlwana, Tony Ofori

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:20:59

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-20

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

It's 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto: Zanele, a black female student organizer; Meena, a South Asian girl working at her father's shop; Jack, an Oxford-bound white student; and Thabo, a teen-gang member, or tsotsi. From each of their points of view, this book explores the roots of the Soweto Uprising and the edifice of apartheid in a South Africa about to explode.

Introducing readers to a remarkable young literary talent, When Morning Comes offers an impeccably researched and vivid snapshot of South African society on the eve of the uprising that changed it forever.

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ID: 425684

Title: World More Full of Weeping

Author: Robert J. Wiersema

Narrator: Bruce Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-20

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Paranormal

Summary:

Eleven-year-old Brian Page spends every waking moment in the forest behind the house where he lives with his father. But forests are always deeper than anyone can know. Secrets are hidden in the eternal twilight of the trees. Those secrets emerge into light when Brian disappears in the forest, as his father did three decades before. His father, however, came home with no memory of the events in the depths of the forest. What has drawn Brian away? Will he emerge, shuddering and broken, as his father did, or will the forests close around him, as they have done so often before?

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ID: 425681

Title: Little Fish: A Novel

Author: Casey Plett

Narrator: A. Almeida

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:11:13

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-20

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction

Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) -- a devout Mennonite farmer -- might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth. Can Wendy unravel the mystery of her grandfather's world and reckon with the culture that both shaped and rejected her? She's determined to try.

Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited, desperate and mirthful, Little Fish explores the winter of discontent in the life of one transgender woman as her past and future become irrevocably entwined.

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