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ID: 604531

Title: Next 365 Days

Author: Blanka Lipinska

Narrator: Maya Starling

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:14:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Romance, Romantica

Summary:

The global phenomenon and bestselling inspiration behind the Netflix film of the same name – the 365 Days series – continues as it follows the sizzling story of Laura and Massimo.

As the wife of Don Massimo Torricelli, one of the most dangerous Mafia bosses in Sicily, Laura’s life is a roller coaster. She is often at risk, the potential target of Massimo’s unscrupulous enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the powerful man. And when Laura is seriously injured in an attack, pregnant and fighting to survive, Massimo faces the toughest decision of his life. What will his life be without Laura? Will he be able to raise their child alone? What will the fate of his family be, and whose 365 days may come to a close?

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ID: 614929

Title: Shimmer

Author: Alex Pugsley

Narrator: Alex Pugsley, Fiona Highet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:06:56

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age

Summary:

In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other's lives.

Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesn't seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars try to decide if the affair they're having might mean they like each other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes, posts a question on a guitar website, he ends up meeting Jessica as well, a woman with her own difficult music. And when the snide and sharp-tongued Twyla agrees to try therapy, not even she would have imagined the results.

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ID: 617196

Title: Dormant Age

Author: Kaitlyn Lansing

Narrator: Kaitlyn Lansing

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:11:34

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Selected to perform as the Queen of the Wilis in the ballet, Giselle, Dawn Hayes is determined to prove to the other dancers that she is the most worthy of a professional career in ballet. Her dance teacher has trained her up to this point to use her body as it was meant to beto show off its lines and curves of delicate bone beneath taut skin gracefully. The unspoken essence of classical ballet was taught as a set of purposeful movements aimed at ennobling Man.

But when a new teacher enters the studio, Madame Angulaire opens up a peculiar world of modern ballet and what it preaches. Wrapped up in a sheet, Dawn finds herself rocking back and forth to the tap of her teachers foot, trapped in movements that feel bizarre and unnatural, all the while wondering if this foreign movement could be considered ballet.

Through a series of uncomfortable pushes and pulls between teachers of varying esthetic beliefs and an unexpected friendship blossoming with an older dancer, Dawn must learn to choose which artistic interpretation of ballet is the correct one, even if it may cost her a career as a professional ballerina.

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ID: 522921

Title: Boy from Boomerang Crescent

Author: Eddie Betts

Narrator: Luke Carroll

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:15:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports

Summary:

It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG.

Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards, Social Impact Book of the Year

Longlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards

Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of the Year for 2023

How does a self-described ‘skinny Aboriginal kid’ overcome a legacy of family tragedy to become an AFL legend? One thing’s for sure: it’s not easy. But then, there’s always been something special about Eddie Betts.

Betts grew up in Port Lincoln and Kalgoorlie, in environments where the destructive legacies of colonialism – racism, police targeting of Aboriginal people, drug and alcohol misuse, family violence – were sadly normalised. His childhood was defined by family closeness as well as family strife, plus a wonderful freedom that he and his cousins exploited to the full – for better and for worse.

When he made the decision to take his talents across the Nullarbor to Melbourne to chase his footballing dreams – homesickness be damned – everything changed. Over the ensuing years, Betts became a true giant of the sport: 350-plus games, 600-plus goals, multiple All-Australian nods and Goal of the Year awards, and a league-wide popularity rarely seen in the hyper-tribal AFL.

Along the way, he battled his demons before his turbulent youth settled into responsible maturity. Today, the man the Melbourne tabloids once dubbed ‘bad boy Betts’ is a dedicated husband and father, a respected community leader and an increasingly outspoken social activist.

Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic and always honest – often laceratingly so – The Boy from Boomerang Crescent is the inspirational life story of a champion, in his own words. Whether he’s narrating one of his trademark gravity-defying goals from the pocket, the discrimination he’s faced as an Aboriginal person or the birth of his first child, Betts’s voice – intelligent, soulful, unpretentious – rings through on every page.

The very human story behind the plaudits is one that will surprise, move and inspire.

Cover image © Kristina Wild

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ID: 586486

Title: Recipe for Family

Author: Tori Haschka

Narrator: Claire Lovering, Emma Leonard, Gail Knight

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:47:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

Perfect for fans of Meg Mason and Sally Hepworth; a powerful and heart-rending story about how food connects us and assumptions divide us – and how true family can come from where you least expect it.

Things are getting slippery for Stella. With her husband away she’s juggling a full-time job, a tricky stepdaughter and a relentless four-year-old – all while trying to find her footing in her spouse’s shiny world. Joining the throng of local mothers, she reluctantly hires an au pair in the hope that it will lighten the load.

Stella’s mother-in-law, Elise, thinks this is a rotten idea. An industrial chemist and staunch feminist, she finds the ethical murkiness surrounding the au pair solution difficult to swallow. But she’s promised her son not to meddle, has her own career battles to slay and ghosts of her own past to contend with.

For Ava, life in Sydney as an au pair could help fill the void left by the loss of her mother. With her family recipes in her hand and hope in her heart, she sets off to reinvent herself in a place far away.

Three women, drawn together by impossible circumstances, will discover that the greatest comfort can often be found in the mess.

Praise for A Recipe for Family

‘A powerful and hilarious take on the many hurdles women face and how we can overcome them together. Brimming with heart and deliciously wise, A Recipe for Family made me want to go back for seconds.’

Sally Hepworth, author of The Younger Wife

 

‘An elegant depiction of three generations of female overwhelm. A Recipe For Family is powerful, slyly funny, and studded with sharp observations about the impossible expectations of contemporary motherhood. The kind of storytelling that elicits affirming nods, snort-laughs, and the occasional tear.’

Holly Wainwright, author of I Give My Marriage a Year

‘Tori Haschka’s A Recipe for Family is an antidote to the rigours of 2020s parenting, filled with solidarity, laugh-out-loud moments, and delectable page-turning tension.’

Victoria Brookman, author of Burnt Out

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ID: 587286

Title: Walking with Barbara: 30 Emails from God

Author: Barbara Hemphill

Narrator: Barbara Hemphill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:05:16

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Christianity, Home & Garden

Summary:

Walking with Barbara: 30 Emails from God is a book that surprises. First, its author, Barbara Hemphill, a feisty organization guru, and international businesswoman, feels instantly like a friend. And, after you read one email, it's impossible not to want to read all 30!

You will be inspired by her candid conversations about faith, God's will, leadership, and how to navigate the challenges of life with grace. You'll learn about yourself and enjoy Barbara's revelations about herself, her life, and values.

You'll smile and perhaps shed a tear or two as you explore this connection with yourself and the author. We all crave this connection in today's distanced and tech-heavy world -- even if we've never realized it until we put this unique book into our hands.

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ID: 616068

Title: Grinders: Baseball's Intrepid Infantry

Author: Chuck Hartenstein, Mike Capps

Narrator: Mike Capps

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:09:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Baseball

Summary:

Baseball is a game of stars, but this is not their story. These are the stories of players who battled their way to a chance in the big leagues and hung on as long as they could Deacon Jones, Brian Mazone, and Lorenzo Bundy. They are tales of a love of the game, passed from father to son. Without the Grinders, without their grit, determination, and persistence, there would be no stars. The Grinders fill every roster at every level, plugging away year after year.

In Grinders: Baseballs Intrepid Infantry, Capps and Chuck Hartenstein chronicle the games foot soldiers. These are the unheralded players who took the hard knocks road, spending their careers bouncing between the Show and obscurity, never quite achieving their dreams, all for a chance to play the game they love.

The rank-and-file players we call Grinders, make upthe biggest percentage of major-league team rosters. Yet unless you're an addicted fan, you might not know much about your team's No. 5 starter, backup catcher, fourth or fifth outfielder or backup infieldersthe Grinders on the team. You might not appreciate thestruggles they've had simply making it to the big leagues. Now you will. Grinders: Baseballs Intrepid Infantry chronicles their stories.

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ID: 614926

Title: Householders

Author: Kate Cayley

Narrator: Kate Cayley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:46:17

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A CBC BOOKS AND QUILL & QUIRE ANTICIPATED FALL BOOK

A LAMBDA LITERARY MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ TITLE

A 49TH SHELF BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters' overlapping lives.

A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. From a university campus to an underground bunker, a commune in the woods to Toronto and back again, the linked stories in Householders move effortlessly between the commonplace and the fantastic. In deft and exacting narratives about difficult children and thorny friendships, hopeful revolutionaries and self-deluded utopians, nascent queers, sincere frauds, and families of all kinds, Kate Cayley mines the moral hazards inherent in the ways we try to save each other and ourselves.

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ID: 615345

Title: Ginger Gold Mysteries Bundle: Books 1-3

Author: Lee Strauss

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:42:51

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Historical

Summary:

The first 3 books of the acclaimed Ginger Gold Mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Lee Strauss.

MURDER ON THE SS ROSA Murder's a pain in the bow!

It's 1923 and young war widow fashionista Ginger Gold makes a cross-Atlantic journey with her companion Haley Higgins to London England to settle her father's estate. When the ship's captain is found dead, Ginger is only too happy to lend her assistance to the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed. Whatever will she wear?

MURDER AT HARTIGAN HOUSE There's a skeleton in the attic!

After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic. Ginger's Boston terrier, Boss, noses out a missing phalange from under the bed. It's a mystery that once again puts Ginger alongside the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed. Who is the victim? And how did she end up in Ginger's home?

MURDER AT BRAY MANOR A poltergeist guilty of murder?

Ginger Gold receives a letter from her sister-in-law, Felicia, requesting Ginger come straightaway to her late husband's family home, Bray Manor. Dowager Lady Gold, Ginger's nervous grandmother through marriage, believes the old manor is haunted.

Ginger doesn't believe in ghosts, but is haunted nevertheless by memories of her husband and the lure of his gravesite she just can't bring herself to visit.

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ID: 617225

Title: On Deadly Ground: A Heroic Last Stand

Author: J. R. Handley, John Mierau, Liska Mccabe, Mathew A. Goodwin, Michael Morton, Nathan Pedde, Paul E Cooley, R Max Tillsley, Theodore Hodges, Tim C. Taylor, Tyler E.C. Burnworth

Narrator: Veronica Giguere

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:58:18

Language: English

Release date: 07-29-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has ten stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they earn a heroic victory amongst the endless eternity of space, or are they doomed to fall into obscurity?

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