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ID: 708508

Title: Away from the Dead

Author: David Bergen

Narrator: Daniel Michael Karpenchuk

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:10:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

From Giller Prize-winning novelist David Bergen, an electrifying novel set in early-twentieth century Ukraine amidst the chaos of revolution. As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen tells a deceptively stunning story of the restorative power of love amidst the destruction of war.

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ID: 683876

Title: No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works (and why you should care)

Author: Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler

Narrator: Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:52:47

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics, Career Development, Social Science, Public Policy

Summary:

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the news cycle and a bit lost without the background to everything that's going on?

You care what's happening in the world - but you can't help feeling you missed the part where the key stuff got explained. What's a budget deficit? How does voting actually work? What's the deal with the UN? And what does net zero mean again?

Thankfully, No Silly Questions is here to lay out the facts and principles behind the day's headlines. Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski, creators of The Daily Aus - Australia's leading social-first news service - are like your super well-informed mates who you can rely on to quickly bring you up to speed.

They will plug your knowledge gaps with jargon-free explainers on everything from emissions trading and crypto to interest rates and human rights, so you can avoid the anxiety of asking the 'silly' questions and get on with your day feeling more knowledgeable and assured.

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ID: 710902

Title: Lion in the Grass

Author: Mark Zvonkovic

Narrator: Douglas Rye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:34:50

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Set over the course of six decades,A Lion in the Grassdocuments the despair and hope of a spy who suffers the murder of friends and enjoys the success of mentoring protégés.

The story is told through alternative viewpoints of Raymond, his protégés, and the French villain. The novel digs deeply into questions of love, self-doubt and hatred, all foisted upon Raymond during a career from which, he discovers, it is impossible to retire.

An octogenarian at the end, Raymond learns that the Frenchman is planning to kill again. To thwart the Frenchmans plot, the old spy and his protégés must engage in one last mission.

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ID: 673166

Title: Resurrection

Author: Roger Simpson

Narrator: Aimee Horne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:36:58

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-23

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Fans of Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennan novels will love forensic psychiatrist Jane Halifax. In Resurrection, Jane Halifax is back, but after suffering a terrible accident her memories have vanished – and to recover them, she must solve a twenty-year cold case that has haunted her career.

A near-fatal car accident has left Jane in a coma. When she wakes, she has no idea who she is.

Initially comforted by unlikely spectres from past cases, Jane is unaware of everyone else’s concerns: the police who believe she was deliberately run off the road; a lawyer whose files were in her car at the time of the accident – files he should never have lent her; her neurosurgeon who fears a relapse; and her partner, Tim, who has to cope with the fact Jane remembers almost nothing of the last two years – including their relationship.

A young woman called Luna keeps luring Jane back to the present. Linked to a twenty-year-old case from Jane’s past, Luna has a quest of her own she can only solve with Jane’s help.

But if Jane wants to help Luna, she first needs to heal herself, and there just might be reasons beyond the accident that are hampering Jane’s recovery ...

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ID: 676582

Title: Modern

Author: Anna Kate Blair

Narrator: Anthea Greco

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:20:26

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life, LGBTQ+

Summary:

In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things?

Set in the pristine, precarious world of MoMA, The Modern is a brilliantly wry and insightful debut about art, sexuality, commitment and whether being on the right path can lead to the wrong place.

Longlisted for the Australian Book Design Awards 2024

Things seem to be working out for Sophia in New York: having come from Australia to be at the centre of modernity, she’s working at the Museum of Modern Art, living in a great apartment with a boyfriend interviewing for Ivy League teaching positions. They’re smart, serious, dine in the right restaurants and have (a little unexpectedly) become engaged just before he leaves to hike the Appalachian Trail.

Alone in the city, Sophia begins to wonder what it means to be married – to be defined, publicly – in the 21st century. Can you be true to yourself and someone else? In a bridal shop she meets Cara, a young artist struggling to get over her ex-girlfriend, and the two begin a connection that leads Sophia to question the nature of her relationships, her career and the consequences of being modern.

Both playful and profound, inhabiting the gap between what we feel about ourselves and how we behave, Anna Kate Blair’s debut novel is a sparklingly insightful queer exploration of desire, art and her generation’s place in the world. It announces an exceptional new literary voice.

‘Cerebral and sensual … each fork in the road revealing itself with insight and beauty.’ Katerina Gibson, author of Women I Know

‘A dazzling exploration of desire and longing. Anna Kate Blair has given us a new form of fiction – intellectual, yearning, honest and vulnerable.’ Anne Casey-Hardy, author of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls

‘This novel is a work of art ... It made me laugh, feel lucky to be alive, and reminded me of the expansiveness of creativity.’ Laura McPhee-Browne, author of Cherry Beach

‘Blair’s novel expertly blends dark, self-deprecating humour with a quest to know oneself through the lens of art … Sophia is a masterpiece of imperfection and an authentic millennial character.’ ​Books+Publishing

'... a tale of reckoning with oneself and an unshakable external reality.' ArtsHub

'Blair has delivered a stellar debut. It is potent, passionate and illuminating.' The Australian

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ID: 696131

Title: Love Match

Author: Clare Fletcher

Narrator: Jane Mahady

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:22:43

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

In a town like South Star, everyone knows Sarah Childs' name, face, entire history . and the fact she's just been dumped by Johnno West.

Sarah would happily keep to herself on their property, Dunromin, for the rest of her days. But now her parents are refusing to put her in charge until she spends a year getting more involved in the local community and, yes, dating. Well. She'll show them community spirit. She'll be Miss bloody South Star if that's what it takes. How hard can it be?

Under small-town surveillance Sarah rekindles neglected friendships and throws herself in the dating deep end (recruiting the Bush Telegraph, Mabel Peters, to matchmake for her). She joins a new women's rugby team, the Pink Cockatoos, and even the bristly new cop in town, Sergeant Smith, can't slow Sarah's race to keep up appearances as the perfect daughter, citizen and girlfriend.

As Sarah moves in with Mabel to help catalogue her vast wardrobe - bringing up memories of Mabel's beauty pageant past and long-lost friend Rose - vintage fashion might not be all that comes out of the closet.

Wonderfully funny and very Australian, Love Match is a story about learning a new game, figuring out who you are, and maybe even finding real love.

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ID: 706959

Title: Murder at the Boxing Club: A 1920's Cozy Mystery

Author: Lee Strauss

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:17:58

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Murders a knockout!

Despite her misgivings and general distaste for fighting sports, Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known as Lady Gold, agrees to attend a boxing match to support her adopted sons cousin, a street fighter whos quickly risen in the ranks.

But when his opponent, the presumed champion-to-be, drops out and then drops dead, Ginger and her husband, Basil, a chief inspector at Scotland Yard, investigate. Was the fighter dead because of sports-betting gone awry? Were London gangs involved? And has an old, but newly present danger returned to threaten the Reed family?

When one of their own falls prey, the gloves come off and the fight becomes personal. Can Ginger and Basil save their family and stop a killer before the towel is thrown in the ring?

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ID: 683879

Title: Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent

Author: Gregory Smith

Narrator: Gregory Smith, Stephen James King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:20:32

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-23

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

How do you rebuild a broken life? Where do you begin?

These were the questions Gregory Smith asked himself after stumbling out of a NSW rainforest in 2000, close to death after living as a hermit in the wild.

Determined to turn a wretched life into one worth living, Gregory stripped himself bare emotionally, psychologically and spiritually to undertake an extraordinary personal reconstruction.

Today, with a PhD to his name and a loving family by his side, Gregory has overcome a life of homelessness and despair to become one of society's great teachers. He is a senior lecturer in the social sciences at university, a government policy advisor and an advocate for the dispossessed and downtrodden the world over. And yet he doesn't consider himself to be happy. 'It is far more attainable, satisfying and fulfilling,' says Gregory, 'to simply be contented.'

In this insightful and empowering book, the author of Out of The Forest shares the mental strategies and practical steps he took to go from a friendless and futureless man to 'the most contented person I know', and how they can help you turn your life around, too.

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ID: 668016

Title: Perfect-ish

Author: Jessica Seaborn

Narrator: Chika Ikogwe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:41:24

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-23

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Rom-Com

Summary:

On the cusp of turning thirty, Prue feels like everyone else is living their best life. Her friends are boasting about everything from their wellness achievements and exciting travel plans to their romantic relationships and newborn babies. Prue on the other hand is struggling to recover from a failed marriage engagement and an abandoned university degree, and her job at Love on the Line counselling lonely people only seems to highlight how truly alone she really feels herself.

As Prue finds the courage to make real changes in her life, setting three (rather ambitious) goals to achieve before her milestone birthday, she soon comes to realise that perhaps she has been focusing on the wrong things all along. There's a difference between seeming to have a perfect life and finding your own perfect-ish life, and being far from picture perfect is perfectly okay.

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ID: 702265

Title: Brain Power: Optimize Your Mental Skills and Performance, Improve Your Memory and Sharpen Your Mind

Author: Tony Buzan

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:56:36

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-23

Publisher: G&D Media

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Today brain power is more important than ever. As technology gets faster and faster, our brains need to keep up.

Luckily, the human brain has virtually infinite potential.You just need to tap into it.

Brain Power, written by a master of the mental arts, will show you how to unleash the magnificent abilities that lie in your brain.

Youll learn exciting new techniques that will help you remember more, think more clearly and creatively, solve complex problems, read and study with speed and efficiency, and climb the ladder to success! Youll also learn:

The difference between the left and right sides of the brain, and why it matters.

Why you remember some things better than others.

How to use Mind Maps to think in pictures.

How to manage your life more easily and efficiently.

How to spot logical fallacies.

How to unlock your amazing mathematical capacity.

Youll also learn easy and enjoyable exercises to reinforce your understanding of key concepts and help you master each brain power skill.

Brain Power will help you unleash your extraordinary latent mental capacity.

The late Tony Buzan was a captivating lecturer and seminar leader who, over the course of his life, trained thousands of employees at Fortune 500 companies all around the world.

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