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ID: 564853

Title: Mothertongues

Author: Ceridwen Dovey, Eliza Bell

Narrator: Aimee Horne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:18:10

Language: English

Release date: 04-12-22

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

This audiobook includes an exclusive conversation between authors Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell and their composer Keppie Coutts.

After sharing their artistic frustrations at the school gate, two women decide to take a risk: to co-write a book about early motherhood. Off-colour, offbeat, off their heads, they begin - but then, what is motherhood if not messy, non-linear, multi-authored and potty mouthed?

Together they gather scenes and songs, poems and text messages, insights and ephemera, alive to both the playfulness and the danger of co-creation. From the salvaged scraps of their daily lives they make an intimate collage of absurd mothering, failing mothering and moving mothering, imagining themselves into a future where women don't always have to choose between art and motherhood.

After all: these mothers are tired. They are busy. They are lucky. They talk. Perform. Categorise. Clown. They do sad dinner cabaret. They do heroic odyssey. They do motherhood the musical. No bells and whistles, no false cheer. They do it badly, they do it well, they do it and they do it, and they keep on doing it as women do: comically, communally, creatively.

Funny, thoughtful, vulnerable and disturbingly familiar, Mothertongues up-ends ideas of genre and speaks motherhood anew.

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ID: 586258

Title: Your Worthy Body: Find Freedom in Health by Breaking All the Rules

Author: Amy Connell

Narrator: Amy Connell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:43:24

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Discover the joy of empowering and loving your worthy body

No pain, no gain. Carbs are the enemy. Walking isnt real exercise. I have to work off dessert.

What do all of these statements have in common? They are all believed to be hard and fast health rules. They are also false.

When it comes to our health and fitness, we attempt to follow a lot of rules that pit us against our own bodies. Why? Because its what we constantly see and hear on TV, on Pinterest, from our culture, and even from other women in our lives.

Amy Connell wants to change all that. Instead, she wants you to live a life of balance, freedom, and grace by breaking the rules and reframing the way you think about your health. In Your Worthy Body, she empowers you to:

- base your goals on Gods calling rather than your insecurities, someone elses expectations, or whats trendy at the moment

- balance healthy eating with enjoying the full range of delicious and nutritious foods God has given us

- develop a personalized fitness plan that takes into account your current ability level, future objectives, and stage of life

- and much more!

Filled with engaging anecdotes from her personal experience as a wife, mom, friend, and certified personal trainer and nutrition coach, this book also includes dozens of chapter-end resources like workouts, recipes, and journal prompts so you can put Amys insight into practicestarting today!

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ID: 591315

Title: Developmental Trauma - The Causes - The Experience - The Recovery: A gentle journey from trauma to ease

Author: Brigid Walsh Byrne

Narrator: Brigid Walsh Byrne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:46:19

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

This book may be for you if:

- You experienced shocks while your mom was carrying you inside, you were hospitalised or had surgery when very young, or if you experienced a loss or bereavement at a tender age.

- Maybe you were living in an environment that was apparently functioning, where anxiety was the familiar state of the parent, or where due to previous unresolved trauma the caregiver could look after your physical needs, but could not emotionally connect. Or,

- You grew up in a household with visible dysfunction, substance abuse, violence or severe mental illness.

Or like me, maybe you:

- Are one the difficult clients from the point of view of health practitioners you keep coming back but nothing ever works.

- Are very earnest in your desire to grow and change, and in spite of your best efforts, are stuck in patterns that don't resolve with the usual approach.

- Feel there must be something fundamentally wrong with you, and had this feeling compounded with each further failed endeavour at healing or growth.

- Despair of anything ever changing for the better.

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ID: 586676

Title: Book of Grief and Hamburgers

Author: Stuart Ross

Narrator: Stuart Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:14:38

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Social Science, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet

A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and "real" in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves and what it means to go on living in the face of an enormous accumulation of loss. Written during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after the sudden death of his brother left him the last living member of his family and as a catastrophic diagnosis meant anticipating the death of his closest friend, this meditation on mortality - a kind of literary shiva - is Ross's most personal book to date. More than a catalogue of losses, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers is a moving act of resistance against self-annihilation and a desperate attempt to embrace all that was good in his relationships with those most dear to him.

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ID: 646680

Title: Cat's Paw

Author: Louise Clark

Narrator: Rebecca H. Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:28:55

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Christy Jamieson has just confronted the person who murdered her husband Frank, when Frank's wealthy Aunt Ellen arrives unexpectedly, suitcase in-hand. Ellen's home has become a crime scene and she intends to stay with Christy. No one is happy, but the most furious member of the Jamieson household is Stormy the Cat.

Wanting the woman out of her hair, Christy investigates with journalist-friend Quinn, only to discover the body on Aunt Ellen's terrace was the woman who alibied the person complicit in Frank's murder.

But the deeper Christy and Quinn dig into the connection between the dead woman and Aunt Ellen, the clearer it becomes that the only one who can unravel the truth is Stormy the Cat.

'Loved the story, loved the mystery and, of course, the cat. I highly recommend this book to cozy mystery lovers.'~Patricia Eroh, eBook Discovery

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ID: 587358

Title: First Tackle

Author: Rikki-Lee Arnold

Narrator: Coco Hannah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:43:31

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Daniella Murphy is on a mission. All she has ever wanted to do is play rugby league, just like her three brothers. However, her grandma says no, her dad stays silent and the school bully just laughs in her face. Their message is clear - girls don't play footy. With the help of an old ally and a newfound hero, she tries to show everybody that they're wrong, but when a scary accident threatens to derail her dreams altogether, even Dani is ready to admit defeat. Will she ever be able to prove that she can do exactly what the boys can do?

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ID: 581949

Title: Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival

Author: David H. Rothman

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:11:01

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Political Thriller, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Drone Childis about family and love in a violent, chaotic society, and the terror you feel when khaki-clad thugs imperil your dearest ones.

Kidnapped for his brilliance, a 15-year-old tech genius must fly deadly drones and fight as a sea-going pirate to keep his parents alive.

Can he escape and also free his twin sister in time from the clutches of a major sex-trafficker?

Earlier he worked as a self-taught Internet expert in the mega-city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while his songbird sister aspired to be a rumba star. But murderous gun-worshippers chloroformed him and whisked him away. Now he must fight for the wrong side.

Performed by the award-winning Dion Graham, the story is told as Lemba Adula's war memoir looking back 25 years earlier in the 2020s.

Junior Boweya and Jean Felix Mwema Ngandu critiqued and fact-checked the book.

Recording of March 2022 version. Mature young adults and older. No obscenity or explicit sex.

PRAISE FOR DRONE CHILD

'A brainy, irresistible hero braves captivity to protect his family in this riveting tale.' - Kirkus Reviews

'Share this action-packed, sensitively rendered audio with fans of Ishmael Beahs A Long Way Gone and Emmanuel Jals War Child. - Library Journal.

A tense narrative in which scenes of degradation and violence are effective without being overly graphic... A compelling story... Interesting choice for book clubs. - BlueInk Review in ALA's Booklist

'The barbarities of the conflict in Ukraine make Drone Child all the timelier.' - The Midwestern Book Review

'A gripping, brutal account... Purifier general 'Demon Killer' is an astonishingly effective portrait of a sociopath...' -BookLife.

'...should be lauded for the frank conversations it has the power to open for younger readers. - Readers Favorite.

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ID: 586670

Title: On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance

Author: Carlyn Zwarenstein

Narrator: Christine Horne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:14:30

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social Science

Summary:

A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user.

Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and "compelling." In 2016, Carlyn Zwarenstein's short narrative on pain made theGlobe and Mail'sTop 100 Books. Now, she returns with a seductive dive into opioids and the nature of dependence.

North Americans are the world's most prolific users of opioid painkillers. InOn Opium, Zwarenstein describes her own use of opioid-inspired medicines to cope with a painful disease. Evoking both Thomas De Quincey and Frida Kahlo, she travels from the decadence of recreational drug use in past eras to the misery and privation of the overdose crisis today.

Speaking with users of prescribed morphine, illicit fentanyl, and smoked opium, Zwarenstein investigates uncomfortable questions about why people use substances and when substance use becomes addiction. And she exposes causes of drug-related harms: the debilitating effects of poverty, isolation, and trauma; the role of race, class, and gender in addressing pain; and a system of prohibition that has converted age-old medicines into taboo substances.

Through all of this, Zwarenstein finds hope. Drawing on solidarity between illicit drug users and people in pain; in a wise understanding of what humans need to be well; and in radical drug policies like legalization and safe supply, she lays out a vision of a world where suffering is no longer lauded, and opioids are no longer demonized.

Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

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ID: 583923

Title: Fighting Dirty: How a Small Community Took on Big Trash

Author: Poh-Gek Forkert

Narrator: Vivian Hisey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:47:26

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Politics, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Political Advocacy

Summary:

Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world's largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek Forkert was part of the adventures and misadventures of their decades-long fight.

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ID: 525828

Title: Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia

Author: Mark Tedeschi

Narrator: Stephen Briggs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:47:25

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi KC is finally able to share all the astonishing details.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Danger Awards

Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families.

Such women are hardly ever among the ranks of the missing. They were not hitchhikers, or associates of drug dealers, or unhappy with their family relationships, or suffering from mental health issues. Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan came from different parts of Sydney, mixed in quite different circles, and led completely different lives. They had never met each other, and if they had, they would have had little in common. But Dorothy and Kerry did have one thing in common – they both knew Bruce Allan Burrell.

The disappearance of these two women without trace led to massive police investigations and resulted in sensational trials that gripped the nation. This book explores the intricacies of those investigations and delves into the twisted, tortuous processes of legal proceedings, while exploring the dark recesses of the mind of Bruce Burrell.

'Gripping writing, from an expert on the inside of some of the state's worst murders and disappearances.' Peter FitzSimons

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