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ID: 789240

Title: Lush Lives

Author: J. Vanessa Lyon

Narrator: Elle Cleviden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:03:56

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

For Glory Hopkins, inheriting her Aunt Lucille's Harlem brownstone feels more like a curse than a blessing. As a struggling artist, Glory doesn't have the money, time or patience to look after the aging house of an aunt she barely knew. But when she stumbles into Parkie de Groot, a savvy, ambitious auction house appraiser, her unexpected inheritance begins to look more promising. Glory and Parkie form an unlikely alliance and work to unearth the origins of a rare manuscript hidden in the brownstone's attic.

Undeniable as their connection may be, complications arise that threaten to tear apart their newly forged relationship. Between Parkie's struggle to overcome both heartache and professional problems, and Glory's unbridled and all-consuming ambition, they begin to keep secrets from each other. The deeper they dig into the mysteries of the Harlem brownstone, the more fraught their relationship becomes.

Lush Lives is an unforgettable novel of queer love, ambition and the forgotten histories that define us.

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ID: 795336

Title: Berlin Duet

Author: S.W. Perry

Narrator: Esther Wane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:10:09

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

From silent era Hollywood and the nightclubs of pre-war Vienna to the ruins of Soviet Berlin, discover a moving, ambitious story of an enduring love amidst the devastation of war . . .

In 1938, English spy Harry Taverner and Jewish photographer Anna Cantrell spend the night dancing at Berlin's most elegant hotel. Anna is married to another man, the Nazi shadow is rising over Europe and neither expects to ever meet again.

But once peace is declared, they reunite in the ruins of Berlin, where Anna is searching for her missing children. With the blockade tightening and the Soviets set on conquest, Harry and Anna walk a treacherous line between love and duty, integrity and survival, loyalty and betrayal. And as the Cold War dawns, they are bound together by a secret that will only be revealed decades later, as Berlin finds itself on the cusp of another transformation...

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ID: 791645

Title: Seven Wherewithal Way #3: Over the Mountains and Through the Desert

Author: Samantha-Ellen Bound

Narrator: Georgia Maguire

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:52:01

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Celeste Barden is about to face her biggest challenge yet.

Celeste, Esme, Logan and Ferd are summoned to the Realm of Mountains to answer for the part they've played in the growing rebellion, and Celeste soon finds herself in a brand-new kind of trouble. Separated from her cousin and forced to work with the trickster Pan, Celeste must navigate the wild landscape, dodge dangerous creatures, find Ferd, save a Guardian, recover a hagstone and rescue a friend. No pressure.

And this adventure is just the beginning. A shocking discovery in the Realm of Mountains changes everything, and when Wherewithal seeks allies in the Realm of Desert, they find the outpost in chaos and a deadly creature on the prowl. The Realms have never been so perilous and Celeste has never had quite so much to lose.

Return to the Realms of Seven Wherewithal Way in this magical and action-packed third instalment in Samantha-Ellen Bound's epic portal fantasy series.

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ID: 791372

Title: Forged in Fire

Author: Scott Ryder

Narrator: David Tredinnick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:48:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Military

Summary:

Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos.

Garry made a report on the radio: 'I see around 200 women and children heading north up the valley.' Less than 400 metres below us, a steady stream of women and kids were hurrying away in single file.

'Where are all the men?' I asked Garry. 'Waiting for us,' he responded, with a look of concern I had not seen on his face before. My heart skipped a beatwe were on.

From the age of 12, Scott Ryder knew he wanted to join the army, and he signed up as soon as he could. After serving as a paratrooper and in East Timor with 3 RAR, he wanted more. He trained all summer and took the gruelling selection course for the commandos, earning the prized green beret on his second attempt.

Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the commandos. Ryder shares battlefield stories from his tours to Afghanistan, where his regiment saw some of the heaviest fighting Australian forces have experienced since the Vietnam War. After being seriously injured in a shocking Black Hawk helicopter crash in Kandahar, he was the only survivor to return to active service.

Frankly written, with self-deprecating humour, it reveals the qualities of strength and mental resilience that characterise special forces operators.

'Scott is not famous; his chest is not bedecked with the grandest tin and ribbon. His voice is from among us rather than up on high. And his account of the DNA of the commando, the lesser sung super-soldier, is all the better for it.' - from the foreword by Chris Masters, author of Flawed Hero

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ID: 793416

Title: Bucket List

Author: Russell Jones

Narrator: Paula Masterton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:53:26

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Dot is a lonely pensioner. Max is a young offender. But a chance meeting in their local park changes everything for this unlikely duo. They soon find they share a wicked sense of humour and a penchant for petty crime.

When Dot wins the lottery, Max helps her make a bucket list of all the things she's always wanted to do but never had the chance.

The pair gradually realise that it's not just expensive gadgets, fast cars and fun fairs that make them happy. And that the secret to living a rich life isn't money . . .

Readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Keeper of Lost Things will love this book.

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ID: 793415

Title: Hazard Night

Author: Laura Vaughan

Narrator: Helen Keeley, Jessica Preddy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:23:08

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

'A delectable slice of dark academia' Times Crime Club

Cleeve College is not for everyone...

When Eve's husband is appointed housemaster at his old boarding school, Cleeve College, she gives up her life in London to join him. But the isolation and loss of autonomy threaten both her happiness and her marriage.

The arrival of Fen, an enigmatic artist and wife of the new Classics teacher, is a welcome distraction. Fen doesn't play by the rules, and she and Eve enter into a game of escalating dares, disrupting the delicate balance of school life.

Then, the morning after Hazard Night, a tradition that allows the students to run wild and play pranks for one day, a body is found. Someone has been murdered. And it seems everyone has something to hide...

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ID: 795347

Title: Smothermoss

Author: Alisa Alering

Narrator: Susan Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:21:28

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age

Summary:

Set in an isolated 1980s Appalachian community, reeling from the brutal murder of two hikers, Smothermoss is deliciously creepy and unsettling, yet gorgeous and dreamlike in its portrayal of two impoverished girls who must come to terms with what's happening on the sentient mountain they call home and also with themselves as they stand on the cusp of adulthood.

1980s Appalachia. Sheila knows she needs to keep her appetites in check. Isolated and struggling in ramshackle poverty, her desires for food, for escape, for the perfect girls in the pages of her pilfered magazines are about the only things she can control. But with every passing day, life with her exhausted mother and her half-feral younger sister Angie feels more like a rope tightening around her neck.

When a pair of hikers are brutally murdered on the trail, Sheila and Angie find themselves drawn inexorably into the hunt for the killer. The mountain they live on is ancient and powerful and it's using them for its own ends. Sheila knows the landscape's folklore is dangerous and unpredictable, but as the ever-present threat of violence looms larger, it might be the only thing that can save her and her sister from the darkness consuming their home

Somewhere between a rural gothic and a dark fairytale, Smothermoss beckons readers into the eerily beautiful woods of the Appalachian Mountainsas well as into a lyrical investigation of girlhood, bodies, class, desire, nature, and the otherworldly. Full of the picturesque dread of an A24 horror movie, it's We Have Always Lived in the Castle meets Winter's Bone, and will appeal to fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Julia Armfield, and Kelly Link.

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ID: 797241

Title: Mrs Plansky's Revenge

Author: Spencer Quinn

Narrator: Petrea Burchard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:11:55

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Mrs Loretta Plansky, a widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn't changed her killer tennis game one bit.

One night Mrs Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam.

By morning, Mrs Plansky has lost everything. Law enforcement announces that Loretta's life savings have vanished, and that it's hopeless to find the scammers behind the heist. First humiliated, then furious, Loretta Plansky refuses to be just another victim.

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ID: 791620

Title: Ransom Canyon

Author: Jodi Thomas

Narrator: Julia Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:18:22

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Coming Soon to Netflix starring Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly!

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas comes the first book in a compelling, emotionally resonant series set in a remote west Texas townwhere family can be made by blood or by choice

Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon's founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O'Gradyor that she has her own secret that no one living knows.

Young Lucas Reyes has his eye on the prizecollege, and the chance to become something more than a ranch hand's son. But one night, one wrong decision, will set his life on a course even he hadn't imagined.

Yancy Grey is running hard from his troubled past. He doesn't plan to stick around Ransom Canyon, just long enough to learn the town's weaknesses and how to use them for personal gain. Only Yancy, a common criminal since he was old enough to reach a car's pedals, isn't prepared for what he encounters.

In this dramatic new series, the lives, loves and ambitions of four families will converge, set against a landscape that can be as unforgiving as it is beautiful, where passion, property and pride are worth fightingand even dyingfor.

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ID: 753938

Title: Act of Disappearing

Author: Nathan Gower

Narrator: Ashley Klanac, Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isnt cutting it and her first book has sold hardly any copies. Shes broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mothers medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, whos now completely ghosted her. Enter Johnathan Aster, world-renowned photographer, with a proposal: he has a never-before-seen photograph of a woman falling from a train bridge, clutching what appears to be a baby. And he wants Julia to research the story.

Alternating between present-day Brooklyn and Kentucky as it enters the 1960s, the story unfolds as Julia races to find answers: Who was the woman in the photograph? Why was she on the bridge? And what happened to the baby? Each detail is more propulsive than the last as Julia unravels the mystery surrounding the Fairchilds of Gray Station and discovers a story more staggering than anything she could have imagined.

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