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ID: 710813

Title: Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives

Author: Alice Loxton

Narrator: Alice Loxton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:26:41

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science

Summary:

Read by the author, Alice Loxton.

Biggest books to look out for in 2024 – The Guardian

'Loxton is the next big thing in history' – Dan Snow

At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague.

From a young Elizabeth Tudor, the orphan facing deadly intrigue at court, to a teenage Richard Burton, the rugby-obsessed son of a Welsh miner, historian Alice Loxton explores Britain’s past through the lives of eighteen figures at this crucial age.

How do you make a living in Georgian London with no arms or legs? What would you do if a world war interrupted your university studies? With plenty of wit and insight, Eighteen invites readers to join an eclectic cast of young Britons across the nation and throughout its history, to find out what makes us who we are.

Filled with fascinating stories of royalty, explorers, writers and entertainers, Eighteen asks what lessons we can learn for modern Britain.

'A whirlwind of historical energy . . . one of the brightest new stars of popular history' – Dan Jones

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ID: 800380

Titre: Tuer le temps

Auteur: Paul Joubert

Narrateur: Violaine Fumeau

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4:29:59

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-15-24

Éditeur: Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Résumé:

Tuer le temps, le premier roman de Paul Joubert alias Grosso Modo

Et si en finir avec la vie n'était pas mourir mais changer d'époque ?

C'est ce que découvre Édith quand elle décide de mettre fin à ses jours mais qu'elle se réveille dans un lit d'hôpital en... 1905, plus de 150 ans avant sa naissance. À peine remise de son passage à l'acte qu'Alfred de Crancy, héritier d'un empire industriel, lui propose d'intégrer l'entreprise familiale à de hautes fonctions en échange de ses connaissances sur les innovations futures.

Alors qu'elle est choyée comme un être précieux, les discours autour d'elle sont de plus en plus ambigus. Tandis que certains l'acclament comme une visionnaire, d'autres, comme ce magnat des affaires qu'on surnomme ' l'Oncle ', semblent connaître son secret. Et si elle était loin d'être la seule dans son cas ?

Dans ce roman, plongez dans une véritable machination où les époques s'entremêlent et même la vérité prend des allures de mensonge.

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ID: 800372

Title: Women of Good Fortune

Author: Sophie Wan

Narrator: Catherine Ho

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:33

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

A reluctant bride and her two best friends plot to steal all the gift money from her glitzy high-society wedding in this dazzling, heartfelt, funny novel for fans of Crazy Rich Asians

'A glittering debut. Delightful.' --Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After

Bride-to-be Lulu is about to marry Shanghai's most eligible bachelor. She just has one secret: she isn't in love with him and is only marrying him to fix her family's financial issues. But for Lulu and her two best friends, her upcoming nuptials may offer a different opportunity entirely...

It will be the social event of the season, lavish and over the top, but the three women's focus will be on one thing: the red envelopes filled with cash gifts, stored in an elaborate safe at the center of the ballroom. More than enough money to solve all their problems and transform their lives.

Friends who steal together, stay together.

With the help of a mysterious luxury goods counterfeiter and a snarky getaway driver, the friends forge a brilliant plan to lift all the red envelopes on the big day. But as their plot grows increasingly complicated and relationships are caught in the cross fire, they're forced to face that having it all might come at a steep price.

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ID: 800383

Titre: Duel

Auteur: Frank Leduc

Narrateur: Thomas Alonso

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 7:20:52

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-15-24

Éditeur: Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Résumé:

Immersif et choc, un thriller haletant, par une nouvelle et puissante voix du genre. À chaque page qui se tourne, un mécanisme diabolique s'installe, et la vie de ces enfants menace de basculer dans le néant... Saurez-vous garder la tête froide ?

Un fait divers sans précédent ébranle la France. Voilà une semaine que deux cars scolaires ont disparu, avec à leur bord soixante-six enfants qui partaient en classe de neige. Aucune trace, aucune piste, rien.

Pour les chaînes d'info, cette affaire hors normes est du pain bénit. Pour le commissaire Shepherd, chargé de l'enquête, c'est une énigme qui défie la raison. Jusqu'à cet appel du ravisseur.

Affable, séducteur, ce dernier ne veut parler qu'à la négociatrice Talia Sorel, nouvelle recrue du Raid Une exigence qui ne plaît pas aux équipes de police, en particulier à Shepherd. Cette jeune femme sans expérience a-t-elle les épaules pour mener une telle affaire ? Saura-t-elle déjouer les pièges de ce manipulateur dangereux et parfaitement organisé qui tient toute l'opinion publique dans sa main ? Et d'ailleurs, qui peut garantir que Sorel n'est pas une taupe ?

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ID: 800373

Title: This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

Author: Andrea Di Robilant

Narrator: Liam Gerrard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:36:31

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

During the Age of Discovery a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously assembled and edited three volumes - over two million words - that revealed our world as never before. It was, to use a current expression, the biggest Wikileak of the Renaissance.

In an enthralling narrative, Andrea di Robilant brings to vivid life the man who used all his political skill, along with the help of conniving diplomats and spies, to ferret out a remarkable collection of journals, private letters and classified government reports, which, when taken together, showed how the world was much larger than anyone previously imagined.

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ID: 744900

Title: Peggy: A Novel

Author: Rebecca Godfrey

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:01:47

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-24

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Fiction

Summary:

A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself, by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge

'Brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde adventurer Peggy Guggenheim as a feminist icon for our times.' —Jenny Offill

Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here: iconoclast and independent woman.

Rebecca Godfrey’s Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father perishes on the Titanic. His death prompts Peggy to seek a life of passion and personal freedom, and, above all, to believe in the transformative power of art. We follow Peggy as she makes her way through the glamorous but sexist and anti-Semitic art worlds of New York and Europe and meet the numerous men who love her (and her money) while underestimating her intellect, talent, and vision. Along the way, Peggy must balance her loyalty to her family with her need to break free from their narrow, snobbish ways and from the unexpected restrictions that come with vast fortune.

In a tour de force of imagination and insight, Rebecca Godfrey's final book—completed by her friend, the acclaimed writer Leslie Jamison, following Godfrey's death in 2022—brings to life the woman who helped make the Guggenheim name synonymous with art and genius.

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ID: 795341

Title: Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI

Author: Susie Alegre

Narrator: Susie Alegre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:30:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Science & Technology, Computers, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from how we think to who we love.

In this urgent polemic, leading barrister Susie Alegre explores the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights - including the rights to life, liberty and fair trial; the right to private and family life; and the right to free expression - and how we protect those rights.

Touching on the many profound ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies, and full of fascinating case studies, Human Rights, Robot Wrongs is a rallying cry for humanity in the age of AI.

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ID: 800358

Title: D is for Death: An Alphabetical Journey Through Life's Ultimate Enigma

Author: Sophie Duffy

Narrator: Deryn Oliver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:04:28

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

From accidents and bodies to contagion and ghosts, each letter unveils a new facet of our shared human experience with death. Delve into the peculiar choices for the disposal of your corpse, uncover the power of elegies and epitaphs, and venture into the realm of the paranormal. Reflect on the impact of climate change, explore the significance of war and ponder the mysteries that defy explanation. Learn the secrets of the ancient yew tree and celebrate death's place in cultures around the world.

D is for Death is not just a book: it's a captivating and thought-provoking adventure that challenges perceptions and leaves you with a profound appreciation for the one certainty that binds us all the journey from A to Z, where death becomes a quirky guide through life's mysteries.

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ID: 800388

Titre: From the Embers

Auteur: Aly Martinez

Narrateur: Katherine Pageon, Louis Bernard

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 9:24:35

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-08-24

Éditeur: Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Résumé:

' Notre amour est né d'un brasier '

Au lendemain d'une tragédie, les choses dont on se souvient sont étranges.

Le bruit assourdissant de l'explosion de la maison.

La peur paralysante alors que je cherchais ma femme.

La fumée aveuglante qui m'a brûlé les yeux lorsque je l'ai sortie des flammes.

Mais ce qui restera gravé dans mon âme jusqu'à la fin de mes jours, c'est la prise de conscience bouleversante que la personne que je tenais dans mes bras n'était pas ma femme.

Bree et moi étions les seuls survivants - et aucun de nous n'était vraiment vivant après cette nuit-là. En tant que père célibataire n'ayant nulle part où aller, j'ai emménagé dans sa maison d'amis. Et finalement, malgré la culpabilité et le chagrin, nous avons formé une équipe improbable.

Cela a pris des années, mais j'ai assisté au retour progressif de son sourire, une lente réapparition qui a changé ma vie.

Nous pouvions rester tous les deux dehors pendant des heures, à parler de tout et de rien, et cela remplissait d'une vie nouvelle l'énorme trou dans ma poitrine.

Je l'ai peut-être sortie des flammes, mais la vérité, c'est que Bree m'a sauvé.

Alors que nous guérissions, les secrets et les mensonges du passé couvaient dans les cendres, menaçant de s'embraser à nouveau.

Notre amour est né des braises, et ensemble, nous nous enflammerons.

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ID: 800368

Title: Gate to Kagoshima

Author: Poppy Kuroki

Narrator: Jacqui Bardelang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:49:46

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

The only thing to fear about the past is it may destroy the future

2005: While researching her Japanese ancestors, Isla travels from Scotland to Kagoshima. There, a vicious typhoon hurls her through a strange white gate and back to 1877, amid the dawn of the Satsuma Rebellion the conflict that ended the samurai.

When she meets Keiichiro Maeda, a samurai who introduces her to a way of life only previously encountered in books, Isla begins to wonder if she has found her true home. But as the samurai fight a losing battle, she is increasingly distraught. Should she forewarn Keiichiro and save the man she loves or let him die the glorious death he so believes in, proud to the end that he remained a faithful warrior?

And what will come of Isla? Is she willing to leave the past behind, knowing her future will forever be changed?

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