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ID: 602821

Title: Names in a Jar

Author: Jennifer Gold

Narrator: Elana Dunkelman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:09:35

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

When you change your name, do you change who you are?

Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa's bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge they have is used to help their neighbors through the illnesses caused by starvation and war.

With no hope in sight and supplies dwindling, Anna finds herself taking care of an orphaned baby. With a courage she didn't know she had, Anna and the baby leave behind all they know and go into hiding with a Catholic family, changing their names to hide their identity, but Lina is not so lucky and winds up in the infamous Treblinka Camp. Can Lina survive and find her way back to Anna? Will the two sisters even recognize each other after such a long time?

A story filled with hope, courage and reconciliation.

Content Advisory: rape, sexual assault

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ID: 596615

Title: Mink Eyes

Author: Dan Flanigan

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:55:47

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

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

Summary:

The year is 1986the tarnished heart of the 'Greed is Good' decade.

Private detective Peter OKeefe, aphysically scarred and emotionally batteredVietnam vet, is hired by childhood friend and attorney Mike Harrigan to investigate what appears to be a petty mink farm Ponzi scheme in the Ozarks. But quickly OKeefe finds himself snared in a vicious web of money laundering, cocaine smuggling, and murderall at the behest of a mysterious mobster only referred to as Mr. Canada. Also caught up in Mr. Canadas illicit network is the exquisite Tag Parker, who seems to dance between roles as the woman of OKeefes dreamsand his nightmares.

From start to finish Mink Eyes deliversclassic noir crime fictionat its finest. In a category filled with formulaic and predictable characters and plot lines, reviewers are calling Mink Eyes absolutelyunique and unexpected.

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ID: 600026

Title: Genius: How to Thrive at the Edge of Chaos

Author: Bruce Whitfield

Narrator: Bruce Whitfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:35:06

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Business & Economics, Sales & Retail

Summary:

'South Africa and its fraught political economy provide a fascinating case study into how it takes a particular brand of genius to thrive in a difficult domestic environment and to take the ideas and the businesses that deliver them from local to global. Genius tells the stories of some of the extraordinary individuals, companies and industries whose ideas, products and raw materials solve problems and add value across the globe.

Greatness comes from acting on purpose, and there is a generation of South Africans solving problems for the future. Learn how Pratley beat Armstrong to the moon, how a former Eskom quantity surveyor capitalised on Britains obsession with meerkats to create the UKs most visible price comparison website, how to take a Mediterranean-style food concept to the Mediterranean, and how a device designed to beat diamond smuggling made it from the set of a popular US hospital drama into emergency rooms and pathology labs across the US.

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ID: 547911

Title: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

Author: Shyam Selvadurai

Narrator: Rehan Mudannayake

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:08:12

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-22

Publisher: Tundra Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Amrith comes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of Call Me By Your Name.

Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In his first young adult novel, now with a new cover, he explores first love with clarity, humor and compassion.

 

The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life “before,” when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith’s holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his school’s production of Othello and he is learning to type at Uncle Lucky’s tropical fish business. Then, like an unexpected monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith’s ordered life is storm-tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.

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ID: 609652

Title: House of Bastiion

Author: K.L. Kolarich

Narrator: James Wolven

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:16:30

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

The SeriesHouse of Bastiionis the award-winning first installment in the epic fantasy series, The Haidren Legacy. An immersive adventure armed with dark politics, sharp objects, and bickering characters, this treacherous saga packs a legendary punch for adult and NA readers alike. Perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson, John Gwynne, and Sabaa Tahir, this savage series is not for the faint of heart.

BEHIND THE MASK OF DUTY AND POWER, NO ONE IS WHO THEY SEEM...Centuries after the Forgotten Wars ravaged the world and turned it to ash, the Houses of Pilar, Darakai, Boreal, and Bastiion forged an accord with the royal line of Thoarne, founding a Quadren of advisory to the throne of Orynthia. Every generation, a single haidren from each of the four Houses is appointed to this coveted chair.

Upon her Ascension to adulthood, Luscia Tiergan takes her seat at court as alhaidren to the House of Boreal and is quickly drawn into a maze of political traps and dark secrets. As she adjusts to her new life, Luscia uncovers a pattern of forgotten children, slain in the streets of Bastiion.

Raised on superstitious rumors about Boreals penchant for sorcery, Zaethan Kasim, alhaidren to the House of Darakai, inevitably clashes with Luscia when she arrives in Bastiion. But when his position is threatened by an old rival, Zaethan is forced to set aside his hatred and form an uneasy alliance with the Boreali alhaidren to secure his claim.

Following a disturbing stream of innocent bloodshed across Orynthia, Luscia and Zaethan discover their ideals are far more aligned than they might have imagined. But in a land of war and deceit, the path to peace should never be trusted.

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ID: 591213

Title: Hail, the Invisible Watchman

Author: Alexandra Oliver

Narrator: Alexandra Oliver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:11:11

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry-Oliver's formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation.

The poems in Hail, the Invisible Watchman are as tidy as a picket-fence-and as suggestive. Behind the charms of iambs lurks a dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. Metered rhyme sets the tone like a chilling piano score as insidiousness creeps into the neighbourhood. A spectral narrator surveils social gatherings in the town of Sherbet Lake; community members chime in, each revealing their various troubles and hypocrisies; an eerie reimagining of an Ethel Wilson novel follows a young woman into a taboo friendship with an enigmatic divorcée. In taut poetic structures across three succinct sections, Alexandra Oliver's conflation of the mundane and the phantasmagoric produces a scintillating portrait of the suburban uncanny.

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ID: 591214

Title: Poguemahone

Author: Patrick McCabe

Narrator: Patrick McCabe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:59:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Paranormal

Summary:

A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto

Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother's trials as a call girl. Young Una's search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she'll never get over. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories unspool from Dan's mouth and his own role in the tale grows ever stranger- and more sinister.

A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue, Patrick McCabe's epic reinvention of the verse novel combines Modernist fragmentation and Beat spontaneity with Irish folklore, then douses it in whiskey and sets it on fire. Drinking song and punk libretto, ancient as myth and wholly original, Poguemahone is the devastating telling of one family's history-and the forces, seen and unseen, that make their fate.

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ID: 591212

Title: Affirmations

Author: Luke Hathaway

Narrator: Daniel Cabena, Luke Hathaway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:20:21

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

"...a trans-mystical work of love and change..."-Ali Blythe, author of Hymnswitch

The mystics who coined the phrase 'the way of affirmation' understood the apocalyptic nature of the word yes, the way it can lead out of one life and into another. Moving among the languages of Christian conversion, Classical metamorphosis, seasonal transformation, and gender transition, Luke Hathaway tells the story of the love that rewired his being, asking each of us to experience the transfiguration that can follow upon saying yes-with all one's heart, with all one's soul, with all one's mind, with all one's strength ... and with all one's body, too.

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ID: 591215

Title: On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever

Author: Andrew Potter

Narrator: Tom Lute

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:20:36

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Philosophy

Summary:

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021

What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together?

The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote-and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 "the worst ... ever." Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of public policy Andrew Potter started to wonder: what if The End isn't one big event, but a long series of smaller ones?

In On Decline, Potter surveys the current problems and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it's not great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wreaked by social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various failures of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtues-reason, logic, science, evidence-has run its course, how and why has it happened? And where do we go from here?

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ID: 591217

Title: Music, Late and Soon

Author: Robyn Sarah

Narrator: Robyn Sarah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:31:22

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Women

Summary:

A poet rediscovers the artistic passion of her youth-and pays tribute to the teacher she thought she'd lost.

After thirty-five years as an "on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist," poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late and Soon is the story of her return to studying piano with the mentor of her youth. In tandem, she reflects on a previously unexamined musical past: a decade spent at Quebec's Conservatoire de Musique, studying clarinet-ostensibly headed for a career as an orchestral musician, but already a writer at heart. A meditation on creative process in both music and literary art, this two-tiered musical autobiography interweaves past and present as it tracks the author's long-ago defection from a musical career path and her late re-embrace of serious practice. At its core is a portrait of an extraordinary piano teacher and of a relationship remembered and renewed.

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