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ID: 785595

Title: What We All Long For

Author: Dionne Brand

Narrator: Angelique Lazarus, Phi Huynh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:18:18

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-24

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Tuyen is an aspiring artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one of their children while in the rush to flee Vietnam in the 1970s. She rejects her immigrant family's hard-won lifestyle, and instead lives in a rundown apartment with friends—each of whom is grappling with their own familial complexities and heartache.

     By turns thrilling and heartbreaking, Tuyen's lost brother—who has since become a criminal in the Thai underworld—journeys to Toronto to find his long-lost family. As Quy's arrival nears, tensions build, friendships are tested, and an unexpected encounter will forever alter the lives of Tuyen and her friends. Gripping at times, heartrending at others, What We All Long For is an ode to a generation of longing and identity, and to the rhythms and pulses of a city and its burgeoning, questioning youth.

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ID: 768351

Title: Knives, Seasoning, and a Dash of Love

Author: Katrina Kwan

Narrator: Alison Deon, Davin Babulal, Derek Kwan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:56:12

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-24

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Rom-Com, Multicultural & Interracial, Asian American Literature

Summary:

In this spicy workplace romance, a hotheaded celebrity chef finds himself drawn to his inexperienced new hire. But when her bubbly attitude collides with his sharp edges, can they handle the heat, or will their love be a recipe for disaster?

Alexander Chen is one of the most talented chefs to ever grace the culinary world of French haute cuisine. He rules his kitchen with an iron fist and fiery temper, so it's no secret that if you can't handle the heat, he'll gladly toss you out with the trash. As one of the first Chinese-American chefs to claw his way to the top, he has a lot to prove and a massive chip on his shoulder.

But he wasn't always like this. Eden Monroe, his newly hired sous chef—who may or may not have (definitely) embellished a lot on her resumé to land herself the job—knew him back when he still went by his real name, Shang. He used to be sweet and helpful and definitely not the second coming of the devil himself.

Eden won't say anything, though, no matter how hot her curiosity burns. Especially if it could cost her this job, which she needs if she has any hope of hiring a private detective to find something she lost long ago.

All she has to do is fly under the radar. It's just a shame that she and her new boss butt heads more often than they fulfill orders. But what happens when things finally boil over, and they discover the feelings between them are spicier than they ever imagined?

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ID: 790639

Title: Talking to Strangers

Author: Fiona Barton

Narrator: Jayne Entwistle, Steve West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:01:07

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-24

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

The new explosive, up-all-night crime thriller from the author of the hit bestsellers The Widow and The Suspect

THREE WOMEN.

When the body of forty-four-year-old Karen Simmons is found abandoned in remote woodland, journalist Kiki Nunn hopes this will be the big break she so desperately needs.

ONE KILLER.

Because she has a head start on all the other reporters. Just a week before Karen was killed, Kiki interviewed her about the highs and lows of midlife romance. Karen told her all about kissing strangers under the stars, expensive meals, roses. About the scammers and the creeps . . . 

ONE CHANCE TO STOP HIM.

While the police appear to be focusing on local suspects, Kiki sets out to write the definitive piece on one woman's fatal search for love. 

But she will soon learn that the search for truth can be just as deadly . . .

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ID: 765423

Title: Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

Author: Dionne Brand

Narrator: Dionne Brand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-24

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, World, Literary Criticism

Summary:

In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of non-fiction since her classic A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed poet and novelist offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and of what remains in the wreck of empire. Blending literary crticism and autobiography-as artifact, Brand reads Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, among other still-widely studied works, to explore encounters with colonial, imperialist and racist tropes from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century—tropes that continue in new forms today. Brand vividly shows how contemporary practices of reading and writing are shaped by the narrative structures of these and related works; and explores how, in the face of this, one writes a narrative of Black life that attends to its own consciousness and expression.

    With the power and eloquence of a great poet coupled with the rigour of a deep and subtle thinker, Brand reveals how she learned to read the literature of two empires, British and American, in an anti-colonial light—in order to survive, and in order to live.

    This is the library, the wreck, and the potential for salvage she offers us now, in a brilliant, groundbreaking and essential work.

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ID: 795344

Title: What I'd Rather Not Think About

Author: Jente Posthuma

Narrator: Sophie Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:32:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them?

This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely.

In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly.

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ID: 800382

Titre: Ma pire ennemie

Auteur: Tara Jones

Narrateur: Fanny Gatibelza, Tanguy Faucon

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 11:16:25

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-22-24

Éditeur: Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Résumé:

Et si la vérité était pire que le mensonge ?

Que feriez-vous si vous étiez la fille d'une tueuse en série ?

Joanna a toujours su que sa mère n'était pas comme les autres. Pas aussi affectueuse ni attentive à son enfant mais quand elle apprend que c'est une criminelle, sa vie s'effondre. Littéralement.

Elle vit maintenant avec ce lourd poids et réorganise son existence. Cela commence par changer de métier : difficile de continuer à enseigner quand on porte le nom d'une meurtrière...

Joanna devient alors serveuse et dissimule sa réelle identité. Quand elle rencontre son nouveau patron, Scott, les débuts sont un peu difficiles : cet homme froid semble enfermé dans son chagrin depuis la mort de sa mère.

Mais très vite, Joanna se plaît à rêver à une nouvelle existence que partagerait Scott.

A-t-elle enfin trouvé le chemin vers le bonheur, loin des crimes de sa mère, sa pire ennemie ?

Elle n'est peut-être pas au bout de ses peines et sa route sera plus tortueuse qu'elle ne le pensait...

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ID: 802998

Title: Higher Duty

Author: Peter Murphy

Narrator: Nick Holbek

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:27:59

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-24

Publisher: Whole Story QUEST

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Legal Thriller

Summary:

Ben Schroeder, a talented young man from an East End Jewish family, has been accepted as a pupil into the Chambers of Bernard Wesley QC. But Schroeder is an outsider, not part of this privileged society, where wealth and an Oxbridge education are essentials. He encounters prejudice, intrigue and scandal.

Kenneth Gaskell, a rising star of Wesley's Chambers has become involved in an affair with a high-profile client and the relationship, if known, could ruin his career, and the careers of all those around him. But Bernard Wesley has some information - he knows about a student prank that went terribly wrong - can he use this knowledge in a desperate gamble to save his Chambers and turn the tables on his old rival, Miles Overton QC?

Ben Schroeder has proved his ability, but he is no more than a pawn in this game. Can he survive in this world where nothing, not even justice, is sacred?

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ID: 706012

Title: Let's See What Happens: The Last Mayor of Bristol

Author: Marvin Rees

Narrator: Marvin Rees

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:59:41

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

'A brutally honest account of power, politics race and class, written by a politician with a remarkable backstory and destined for bigger things.' - David Olusoga, author Black and British

In 2016, Marvin Rees was elected as Mayor of Bristol, the first time a major European city had elected a mayor of Black African heritage. Re-elected in 2021, his eight-year tenure has taken the city through everything from Brexit to Covid, the cost of living crisis to the fall of the Colston statue. With the eyes of the world on Bristol, Rees navigated a high-stakes balancing act to keep the city together – all the while dealing with racist abuse and personal threats.

His rise to political leadership was anything but straightforward. The mixed-race son of a Jamaican father and white single mother, he grew up in a household where money was tight and opportunity lacking. He first found purpose in the boxing ring, then, while at university studying history and politics, he passed the interview board for the Royal Marines, but failed the medical. Instead of the armed forces, he joined an international development agency, before becoming a broadcast journalist at the BBC. However, politics beckoned and, after winning a place at Yale’s prestigious World Fellows Program for rising global leaders, he was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Bristol’s first mayoral election in 2012. And lost.

Let's See What Happens chronicles Marvin Rees’s fall and rise to political success – and how the failures along the way ultimately proved a blessing in what he learned about life. He describes both the challenges and opportunities he faced as a man and as mayor, helping his home city grow to national and international prominence.

Thoughtful, straight-talking, passionate, this is the fascinating story of one of the most charismatic leaders in British politics today.

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ID: 800389

Titre: Les Dessous de la chambre noire

Auteur: Margherita Gabbiani

Narrateur: Jessica Pasarin, Vincent Buisson

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 13:08:32

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-22-24

Éditeur: Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Résumé:

Après l'immense succès de 'Nymphéa et la Chambre rouge', Margherita Gabbiani revient avec un titre spin-off.

Elle est chargée d'assurer sa protection, mais pourra-t-elle le sauver de lui-même ?

Depuis les événements qui ont ébranlé la Galerie six mois auparavant, Anton perd pied et tente d'oublier ses vieux démons en se noyant dans l'alcool et le sexe.

La situation empire lorsqu'un mystérieux corbeau lui envoie des lettres de menace. Pour assurer sa sécurité, il accepte un compromis qui ne l'enchante guère : laisser Helena, la garde du corps et protégée de son père, emménager avec lui.

Mais la jeune femme cache ses propres secrets, et si Anton accepte son aide pour découvrir les dessous de l'affaire, il ne compte pas lui faciliter la tâche. Il la provoque, elle lui résiste Jusqu'au jour où Helena décide de se prêter au jeu.

À mesure que le danger se rapproche, leur attirance se renforce.

Au milieu des ténèbres qui engloutissent Anton, et si c'était elle, la lumière de sa rédemption ?

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ID: 791633

Title: Mater 2-10

Author: Hwang Sok-Yong

Narrator: Yong Kim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:35:48

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a powerful account that captures a nation's longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South, a magical-realist novel that manages to reflect the lives of modern industrial workers, and a culmination of Hwang's career ? a masterpiece thirty years in the making. A true voice of a generation, Hwang shows again why he is unmatched when it comes to depicting the grief of a divided nation and bringing to life the cultural identity and trials and tribulations of the Korean people.

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