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ID: 574488

Title: Fortunes of Jaded Women

Author: Carolyn Huynh

Narrator: Vyvy Nguyen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:29:18

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Asian American Literature

Summary:

For fans of Amy Tan and Kevin Kwan, this sharp and tender debut follows a family of estranged Vietnamese women – cursed to never know love or happiness – as they reunite when a psychic makes a startling prediction.

 

Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. Their ancestor Oanh dared to leave her marriage for true love – and was cursed for it: her descendants are doomed never to find love or happiness, and to give birth only to daughters, never sons.​

 

Oanh’s current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. She’s divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she’s estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Pham (the middle and the mediator) and Khuyen Lam (the youngest who swears she just runs humble coffee shops and nail salons … not Little Saigon’s underground). Mai’s three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thuy and Thao, are successful in their careers, but the same can’t be said for their love life.

 

Desperate for guidance, she consults Auntie Hua, her trusted psychic, who delivers an unexpected prediction: this year, her family will witness a marriage, a funeral and the birth of a son. This prophecy will reunite estranged mothers, daughters, aunts and cousins – for better or for worse.

 

Filled with joy and humour, The Fortunes of Jaded Women is about mourning, meddling, celebrating and healing together as a family.

‘Written with crackling humour and a shrewd, intimate understanding of Vietnamese American family life … A funny, sharp, and insightful look at family bonds and the effects of tradition on modern life.’ Kirkus Reviews

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ID: 621954

Title: Chimera: Living Through Leukaemia, A Memoir

Author: Jody White

Narrator: Jody White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:53:05

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

Being forced to confront death is a profound opportunity to explore what it means to be alive.

'An extra-ordinary book, which has been by my side in my own journey through cancer.' - Ian Marchant, Author of A Hero For High Times and The Longest Crawl

Jody White's eighteenth year of life filled his heart with young love only to break him apart. Diagnosed with a rare form of Acute Leukaemia, he was given just two weeks to live.

With intelligence, nuance, and sensitivity, Jody White draws the reader into the intimate whirlwind of treatment that followed. The stylistically golden story captivates and inspires, gathering wisdom out of what was a dark, dark time.

A fascinating and inventive must-read, this deeply moving memoir masterfully challenges some of the received wisdoms on how illness should be written.

Chimera is an absolutely inspiring page-turner.

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ID: 622108

Title: Seeing with Fresh Eyes

Author: John W. Bullock

Narrator: John W. Bullock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:33:18

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-22

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Do you long to know God? Not just head knowledge, but to really know God as a friend? Are you willing to risk what you think you know about God to dig deeper into His Word? In Seeing with Fresh Eyes, John Bullock dares to ask the hard questions that had been troubling him, and lets the Bible answer them without the preconceived impressions he carried from his fundamentalist upbringing.

In this journey to deeper faith, in which no sincere query is off the table, the author approaches Scripture as though having never read it before and conducts the reader beyond the familiar to new insights into how amazing, personal, and present God is. In Seeing with Fresh Eyes readers will discover that:

God is more good than they've been told,

His salvation is more thorough than they've imagined, and

the source of all truth is God, who unlocks wisdom, life, and freedom for all who search with an open heart

Bullock writes for Christians longing for a deeper relationship with God--those who are willing to risk what they think they know to discover what the Bible really says. He also speaks to those who have become disenchanted with the Christianity they see around them that doesn't match what the Bible describes. Beginning in Genesis, Bullock wrestles with his questions and digs deep to uncover scriptural truths. Seeing with Fresh Eyes is a thought-provoking read suitable for personal or group study.

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ID: 653032

Title: You Get What You Give: a retro romantic comedy

Author: Karen Grey

Narrator: Jack Calihan, Maxine Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:27:14

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, New Adult

Summary:

From insta-lover to insta-enemy. All that, and a bag of chips.

It's just a regular old night in my coastal hometownthe place outsiders call the Hollywood of the Eastwhen an impulsive rendezvous with a handsome stranger not only rocks my world, it turns it upside down.

Because the next day, just as I'm contemplating the possibility of a rerun, the guy turns up like a bad penny to open a casting company in direct competition to mine.

Right. Next. Door.

He may have the backing of a deep-pockets LA family that's been in the movie biz since the pictures were in black and white, but I've got the loyalty of the locals. And just enough Southern charm to destroy him.

He can steal my clients, but you can bet your britches he ain't gonna steal my heart.

Fans of 1990's shows like Dawson's Creek and Friends will love this rivals-to-lovers, new-in-town, one night stand romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Karen Grey.

Fun, flirty, fantastic. Can't wait for more in this series. - LA Loves Romcoms

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ID: 616405

Title: Legend of Hobart

Author: Heather Mullaly

Narrator: Christopher Barton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:57:20

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Humor

Summary:

Tired of being teased about his name and his stutter, twelve-year-old Hobart sets out to do a few heroic deeds and earn a place in knight school. But the local damsels he tries to save all know martial arts. The runaway bull he tries to catch wears him like a hat. And don't even ask about the ogre. Finally in desperation, Hobart sets out on the most daring quest he can think of--he will slay a dragon. Or that's his plan anyway.

The Legend of Hobart is a hilarious, heart felt adventure, for the would be hero in all of us.

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ID: 614921

Title: Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf

Author: Sina Queyras

Narrator: Sina Queyras

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:07:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, General, Literary Criticism

Summary:

From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind

Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.

Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virignia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf's A Room of One's Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one's own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.

How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and on social media.

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ID: 642935

Title: Disrupting Sacred Cows: Navigating and Profiting in the New Economy

Author: Garrett Gunderson

Narrator: Garrett Gunderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-22

Publisher: G&D Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Personal Finance, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

During the 2008 financial crisis, wealth strategist Garrett Gunderson made his timely debut into the literary world with his ground breaking book, Killing Sacred Cows, where he exposed the ingrained fallacies and destructive myths surrounding money and wealth. This New York Times Bestseller provided a fresh and thoughtful approach to debunking many of our archaic beliefs and misguided traditions within the world of personal finance at a time when our trust and comfort in the status quo had been severely fractured.

Now 13 years later - on the heels of both a global pandemic and technological revolution, he returns with his highly anticipated follow-up, Disrupting Sacred Cows

Disruptive events have the power to alter even the most basic assumptions we have about our lives and profoundly change the way we live them. To many, such dramatic and sudden shifts can create chaos, confusion, and fear. However, Garrett asserts that disruption while sometimes painful in its abruptness can also be a time rife with opportunity for incredible growth and transformation by allowing it to shake us out of what he calls a losing game.When disruption happens, we create a space to play a new game, a winning game, one that can create more wealth, deepen relationships, increase contribution to society, and make life more fulfilling.

In his thought-provoking book, Garrett reveals:

The presence of Sacred Cows not only in your finances but also your relationships, and the sinister role they play in keeping you from reaching your full potential

How disrupting those Sacred Cows can unlock your true potential New ways to play the Game of Life, and how to move from a losing game (filled with sacrifice) to a winning game

Why the Consumer Condition is a zero-sum game that enslaves us to the Sacred Cows of our society and, more importantly, how to break free from it

How Blockchain technology is poised to become the next great digital disruption How Cryptocurrency is becoming the greatest wealth accumulation opportunity of our generation, and how to glean insight from the internet revolution as a roadmap to success

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ID: 614928

Title: Dandelion

Author: Jamie Chai Yun Liew

Narrator: Jennifer Hui

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:27:10

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily's previously stateless father wanted to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua's disappearance, Lily's family is stubbornly silent to her questioning. But eventually, an old family friend provides a clue that sends Lily to Southeast Asia to find out the truth.

Winner of the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, Dandelion is a beautifully written and affecting novel about motherhood, family secrets, migration, isolation, and mental illness. With clarity and care, it delves into the many ways we define home, identity, and above all, belonging.

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ID: 683143

Title: Shadows and Vines

Author: C.D. Britt

Narrator: Savannah Gilmore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:05

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy

Summary:

Everything you know about the gods of Ancient Greece is a lie.

Zeus.

Hades.

Poseidon.

They do not exist as youve been told.

For centuries, Persephone, the true Ruler of the Underworld, has watched humanity destroy themselves and the world around them. Known for centuries as her alter ego, Hades, she has guarded the souls under her care, her only interaction outside of her realm as C.E.O. of the largest financial company in the world, Cerberus Financial. She is content with this, except a soul has called to her and her alone for thousands of years. One that she finds herself bound to in more ways than one.

Devon Aideonous was murdered, his killer unknown, his past as a mercenary haunting him in the afterlife. He is sent to the Underworld, but not as a soul meant to live out eternity there. He is something far more powerful, and the more he learns about his new power, the more secrets are uncovered from his past.

This is book one in the Reign of Goddesses series.

Warning: Adult Content and Triggering situations such as PTSD, Trauma, Thoughts of suicide, Filicide (not happening in present), and rape (not happening in present).

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ID: 617911

Title: Native Stranger

Author: Elizabeth Bell

Narrator: Dallin Bradford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:23:27

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, General, Sagas

Summary:

Since girlhood, Clare Stratford has dreamt of marrying David Lazareuntil she meets the brother he left for dead on the Oregon Trail.

Charleston, South Carolina, 1859. After earning his medical degree in Paris, David returns home to discover that the impish girl he remembers has blossomed into a beautiful young woman. A young woman who proposes marriage. David longs to have Clare by his side and in his bedbut if he lets her that close, shell discover his secrets.

Then Davids greatest secret returns from the dead. Thoroughly Cheyenne in spite of his blond hair, Ésh has come East seeking answers. He finds not only the brother who abandoned him as a baby but also the woman hes seen in visions.

Desperate to escape her father, Clare is torn between the childhood friend she thought she knew and the stranger whos capturing her heart one secret riding lesson at a time.

Native Stranger is the third book in the Lazare Family Saga quartet. If you like character-rich dramas, vivid period detail, and heart-wrenching choices, then youll be swept away by this epic series, perfect for fans of The Thorn Birds and Outlander. The saga begins with Necessary Sins.

Selected as an Editors' Choice by the Historical Novel Society.

This series is intended for mature audiences.

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