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ID: 608222

Title: Slay the Dragon

Author: William McGinnis

Narrator: Tristan Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:44:56

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-22

Publisher: Authors Republic

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

Summary:

Want to understand what is going on right now between China and America? A murder investigation exposes systemic deception, crime, election rigging, information dominance, mass manipulation, corruption and outright theft at the highest levels of China and the United States. This gripping, thoroughly researched, Literary Titan Gold award-winning novel revealsas sometimes only fiction can the raw, excruciating truth behind todays headlines.

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ID: 578650

Title: Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp

Author: Colin Burgess

Narrator: Steve Shanahan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:55:48

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: History, Military, Australia & Oceania

Summary:

The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand.

It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that city’s infamous Fresnes Prison, they were about to face evacuation into the blackest, bloody heart of Germany and experience the most acute evil of the war. Amid great secrecy, those 168 airmen – including several from Australia and New Zealand – were transported on a filthy, overcrowded nightmare train journey which ended at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, accompanied by orders for their execution. At Buchenwald they witnessed extreme depravity that would haunt them to the end of their days. Yet, on returning home, they were confronted by decades of denials from their own governments that they had ever been held in one of Hitler’s most vile concentration camps.

In conducting his original deep research for this book – now completely expanded and updated – Colin Burgess personally interviewed or corresponded with dozens of the surviving airmen from a number of nations, including their valorous leader, New Zealand Squadron Leader Phil Lamason. Destination Buchenwald tells a compelling story of extraordinary bravery, comradeship and endurance, when a group of otherwise ordinary servicemen were thrust into an unimaginable Nazi hell.

'This was the first book to provide an insight into our experiences as a group of captured allied airmen, betrayed to the Gestapo, tortured and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. I consider it to be one of the best interpretations of the events as it reflects the voices of the survivors and their challenges to stay alive in such dehumanising circumstances.' Sqn Ldr Stanley Booker, RAF (Rtd.), MBE, Légion D'Honneur: Last surviving member of the Buchenwald airmen

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ID: 578300

Title: Women I Know

Author: Katerina Gibson

Narrator: Madeleine Levins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:03:50

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Feminist Fiction, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing

SMH Best Young Australian Novelist of 2023

Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.

‘My God darling—the women I know.’

A young woman tries to cheat her algorithm, creating a wholesome online persona while her ‘real’ life dissipates. A grandmother speaks to her granddaughter through the fog of generations. Two lovers divide over alternative meat options. A factory worker fits eyes in companion dolls until she is called on to install her own.

The women I know are sharp, absurd, sly, wrong, wry, repressed, hungry, horny, bold, envious, dominating, uncertain, overdetermined, underpaid, bored, smart, crystalizing, themselves.

 

A burning talent with growing international recognition, Katerina Gibson’s work has appeared in Granta, Kill Your Darlings, Overland and elsewhere. She is the Pacific regional winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and recipient of the Felix Meyer Scholarship.

‘Smart, gleeful, savage, funny and genuinely brilliant. I kept wanting to cry out with joy! Katerina Gibson is a superstar.’ Miles Allinson, author of In Moonland and Fever of Animals

‘[These stories] demonstrate an intellectual and imaginative power in their fearless probing into corners of the human world we didn’t even think existed until now. ... an author prepared to question and disrupt everything. This is an assured collection, audacious, dark, comic, and full of surprises – it demands to be reread, several times.’ Debra Adelaide, ABR

'Women I Know is a rich, contemporary blend of inventive and entertaining writing. Dark and funny, Katerina Gibson’s stories are sparkling with ideas – it’s thrilling that the future of Australian fiction is held in such talented hands.' Ben Walter, author of What Fear Was 

'Come for the bold conceits, stay for the savage disaffection. These mind-bending stories startle, surprise, beguile and devastate. Gibson’s talent, in striking out from the shores of realism, is to bring us closer to the truths of contemporary life.' Jo Lennan, author of In the Time of Foxes

‘[T]he pieces in Gibson’s fiction debut create an elegant and subtle whole, with delicate prose that moves the reader as expertly as it disturbs them.’ Georgia Brough, Books+Publishing

‘Katerina Gibson is a serious writer whose talent is going to envelop the whole world--you heard it here first. Reading this book made me genuinely excited and genuinely appalled by the depth of Gibson's promise.' Ellena Savage, author of Blueberries

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ID: 589835

Title: Cold, Cold Bones

Author: Kathy Reichs

Narrator: Linda Emond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:31:20

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, International Mystery

Summary:

#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases.

‘Kathy Reichs has written her masterpiece’ MICHAEL CONNELLY

Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe’s place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.

GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens.

There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except that each mimics in some way a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze. Who or what is targeting her, and why?

Helping Tempe search for answers is detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit—and still displaying his gallows humor. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe’s Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective.

Could this elaborately staged skein of mayhem be the prelude to a twist that is even more shocking? Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on…and then her daughter disappears.

At its core, Cold, Cold Bones is a novel of revenge—one in which revisiting the past may prove the only way to unravel the present.

Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. Cold, Cold Bones is Kathy’s twenty-first entry in her series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Kathy was also a producer of Fox Television’s longest running scripted drama, Bones, which was based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Kathy divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal, Québec. Visit her at KathyReichs.com or follow her on Twitter @KathyReichs.

 

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ID: 611341

Title: His Private Dancer

Author: Karyn Langhorne

Narrator: Karyn Langhorne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:45:43

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Mystery, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary

Summary:

One of the few dancers of color to rise to the top, ballerina Alicia Kinkaid earned her place in the spotlightonly to have it snatched away by a jealous, powerful man. To avoid the long-reach of his empire, Alicia surrendered her dreams and disappeared, re-emerging under a new name. The last thing on Alicias mind was loveand certainly not with another man with her exs money and power. Money and power, after all, had ruined her life.

Fate, however, had other plans.

When Hugh Lindsay first crosses her path, he seems to be a sexy, quirky stranger who is as reclusive and mysterious as Alicia herself. But Hugh is dancing away from his own lonelinessand hiding from the responsibility of helming one of the worlds most beloved tech companies. When their identitiesand their deep attraction to each other--are revealed, both their lives are upended.Alicia must fight to free herself from the terrors of her pastand Hugh must fight to persuade her that hes differentand that becoming his private dancer wont mean repeating the same mistakes.

From the author of the ground-breaking 2004 novelA PERSONAL MATTER, HIS PRIVATE DANCER is a sexy, page-turning tale of love, sex, dance and tech.

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ID: 586946

Title: Utopia PR

Author: Adam Bender

Narrator: Tristan Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:29:30

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

IndieReader Discovery Awards 2021 Winner for Humor

Utopia PR is a sci-fi satire about seeking work-life balance while doing public relations for an authoritarian president.

PR extraordinaire Blake Hamner (the n is silent) put off his honeymoon for his big break: joining a major political campaign for president. Now, the 'Hammer' struggles to make time for his marriage as Crisis Communications Manager for Our Leader, who since taking power has become increasingly mad and totalitarian.

The Hammer starts to reconsider his career choices when one of Our Leader's savage steel hounds attacks the Comms team at a press conference. He'd love to talk about his erratic job with his wife, Triple-N news anchor Maria Worthington, but they have a rule: the broadcast journalist doesn't ask Blake for inside information about his work, and the spin doctor doesn't use their relationship as leverage on what Maria reports. They say you shouldn't keep things from each other in a marriage, but it's OKthe only secrets between Blake and Maria are professional.

When a revolutionary levels grave allegations against Our Leaderand accuses Blake of distributing disinformation and propaganda to cover it upthe PR rep who thought he could talk his way out of any crisis finds himself utterly trapped in a dystopian job.

'In a tale thats reminiscent of political farces such as the HBO TV series Veep, Bender employs a smooth, amusing, and straightforward prose style thats briskly paced,' says Kirkus Reviews. 'Its tone is irreverent, and readers looking for a quick chuckle will likely enjoy Benders winking comedy, which is punctuated with genuinely sweet, sincere moments.'

'Sharp and witty, the novel Utopia PR is a free range political send-up set in a chaotic, perplexing, and familiar future world,' says Foreword Reviews (Clarion).

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ID: 602824

Title: Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City

Author: Perry King

Narrator: K.C. Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:51:44

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.

"The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop." For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. It's a story that plays out in sport after sport - team and individual, youth and adult, men's and women's. While the dazzle of pro athletes may command our attention, grassroots sports build the bridges that link city-dwellers together in ways that go well beyond the physical benefits. The pandemic and heightened awareness of racial exclusion reminded us of the importance of these pastimes and the public spaces where we play. In this closely reported exploration of the role of community sports in diverse cities, Toronto journalist Perry King makes an impassioned case for re-imagining neighbourhoods whose residents can be active, healthy, and connected.

"I couldn't stop reading Perry King's Rebound. An evocative essay about the transformative and uniting power of local sports in a city with residents from every country in the world, the book is well researched, entertaining, and informative. It spoke to my own experiences as a young athlete fitting into a new city when I first came to Toronto - and to the importance our city government must place on local recreation and sports if our city is to help all residents reach their potential. A fantastic contribution to understanding Toronto - and to the power of local recreation in any major city." -David Miller, former mayor of Toronto

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ID: 645963

Title: Gunny Mac Private Detective: Trouble in Chinatown

Author: Steven Walker

Narrator: Steven Osarczuk

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:02:30

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Espionage

Summary:

It's 1942, and President Roosevelt fearing Guadalcanal may fall to the Japanese, orders all the money in Hawaii collected, burned, and replaced with money that has Hawaii printed across the back of each bill. Funny money the Japs will not be able to use against the United States.

Anybody who is somebody wants a little of the money for themselves....

Only one tough private detective is standing in the way. He survived Bloody Ridge now he has to survive Chinatown!

Steven Walker takes that historical event and weaves a noir detective tale that captivates readers and holds them on the edge of their seats.

Four badly wounded and medically discharged veterans of the Guadalcanal campaign become private detectives in Chinatown on the island of Hawaii and, by a confluence of events, get involved in fighting corrupt government officials, the mob, and Captain Chin of the Chinatown police.

Gunny Mac, Navy Cross recipient for his bravery on Bloody Ridge, becomes one thing he hated his whole life, a civilian, and must adjust not serving his Marines. He buys a three-dollar book and becomes a private eye.

Gunny Wojohowitz...Mac's best friend needs Mac to help him find the one man he needs to kill.

Lt. Burke...a Naval officer and spoiled blue-blood Harvard graduate, sent to the Marine Corps as punishment, needs Mac to search for redemption.

Lt. McCaffey, Padre of the First Marine Battalion on Guadalcanal and Navy Cross recipient, is not the same Jesuit priest after his head wound. He empties the Naval hospital's psych unit with hilarious results to protect his friend Gunny Mac.

All thrown together for one last fight...one last battle for their friends and their country!

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ID: 602819

Title: Fog

Author: Rana Bose

Narrator: Nicolas Van Burek

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:34:55

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage over Northern Quebec, Canada. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was closed in a rush. A young actor from Montreal dies in Afghanistan, killed by a missile from a drone. His death opens up wounds and discussions that are not in the public domain. These two seemingly disparate events form the backbone of a compelling contemporary "ideas thriller," set in Montreal's Main district and in the blue-green mountains of Kandahar. Past values, local history, neighborhood myths and intense psychosexual vectors are suddenly on a collision course with the current international context of wars, migration, exile, and terror. In the backdrop is the cold case of the airplane sabotage that occurred over a decade ago. Was the plane crash hushed-up? Why? Three friends from Montreal's Plateau and Mile End districts manage to de-freeze the cold case, burn up the fog, and hell breaks loose, not only in their personal lives, but in their own affiliations.

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ID: 602826

Title: Second Substance

Author: Anne Lardeux

Narrator: Trinity Wilcox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:02:20

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Feminist Fiction

Summary:

Squatters at a rural gas station try to find freedom and build something new on the ashes of our petrocivilization in this sensual novel.

A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas station. They spend their days ripping up asphalt, drinking beer and eating hot dogs, and wandering through woods and towns in search of new ways of living. People come and go: a charismatic landscaper, Italian anarchists, a policewoman, travellers. A teenager drifts into homelessness. And The Girl With No Name keeps a journal of her attempts to meet new people and sleep with them, sex that is "not a sideline" but the motivating force in a story she is struggling to understand.

Neighbors grow hostile. An investigation threatens the community. Tension builds between the surface violence of "normal life" and the attempt of these outsiders to experience freedom and build something new on the ashes of our oil-addicted society.

With a character borrowed from Agnès Varda's Vagabond and inspiration taken from Anne Boyer's writings, Anne Lardeux's highly original debut assembles elements of poetry, film, and visual arts into an exuberant choral novel, an ode to the daughters of fire and to the poetry of the body. Often funny, sometimes raunchy, consistently surprising, never flinching, The Second Substance heralds an important new voice in Quebec literature.

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