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ID: 732197

Title: Principles of (E)motion

Author: Sara Read

Narrator: Marni Penning

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary, Family Life, Feminist Fiction

Summary:

Lessons in Chemistry meets advanced mathematics in a heartwarming, STEMinist novel about a female genius who solves a famously elusive problem known as 'the Impossible Theorem' only to struggle with anxiety and the prejudices of her field when challenged to prove that the proof is her own.

A brilliant mind needs a strong heart.

Mathematical genius Dr. Meg Brightwood has just completed her life's work -- a proof of a problem so impenetrable it's nicknamed the Impossible Theorem. Reclusive and burdened by anxiety, Meg has long since been dismissed by academia. Now everyone wants to get their hands on what she alone possesses -- especially her own mathematician father.

Having grown up a prodigy in a field plagued by sexism and plagiarism, Meg opts for a public presentation so there will be no doubt of her authorship. But a panic attack obliterates her plans. In defeat, she goes home and locks away the one and only manuscript of her proof.

Then chance sends her the unlikeliest of allies: Isaac Wells -- carpenter, high school dropout, in trouble with the law. And the one love of Meg's life. Fifteen years ago, they did little more than hold hands. Now, they find a tenuous space where they can love and be loved for who they are -- not who the world expects them to be.

But when Meg goes to retrieve the Impossible Theorem, she finds it missing. Her fight for the achievement of the century will test the limits of her brilliance and the endurance of two vulnerable hearts.

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ID: 717444

Title: Kilt Trip

Author: Alexandra Kiley

Narrator: Angus King, Vanessa Johansson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:51:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Rom-Com, Contemporary, Family Life

Summary:

Ready or Scot...

Globe-trotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world anywhere but Scotland. But when shes sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company in the Highlands and save her own job Addie packs away her emotional baggage and turns on the professional charm.

Logan Sutherlands as rugged as the land he loves and his greatest joy is sharing the beauty of Scotlands hidden gems...even if it means a wee bit of red ink on the companys bottom line. The last thing Logan wants is some American ‘expert’ pushing tourist traps and perpetuating myths about the Loch Ness Monster especially when Addie never leaves her desk to experience the country for herself.

As they wage an office war, Logan discovers Addies secret connection to Scotland: a handful of faded Polaroids of her late mother. Hoping for a truce, he creates a private tour to the places in the pictures to help Addie find closure and appreciate the enchantment in less-traveled destinations, never expecting the off-limits attraction sparking between them. But Addies contract is almost up, and magic wont pay the bills. They cant afford distractions, but how can Addie do her job if she hasnt explored all Scotland and Logan has to offer?

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ID: 701673

Title: Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis

Author: Gregor Craigie

Narrator: Gregor Craigie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:00:57

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Public Policy, Business Development

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, by Balsillie Prize finalist and CBC Radio host Gregor Craigie, Our Crumbling Foundation offers real-life solutions from around the world and hope for new housing innovation in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles.

Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. Although house prices in major Canadian cities appear to have topped out in early 2023, new housing isn’t coming onto the market quickly enough. Rising interest rates have only tightened the pressure on buyers, and renters, too, as rising mortgage rates cost landlords more, which are passed along to tenants in rent increases. Even with the recent federal budget commitment to bring more housing online by 2030, there will still be a shortfall of 3.5 million homes by 2030.

Gregor Craigie is a CBC journalist in Victoria, one of the highest-priced housing markets in the country. On his daily radio show On The Island he's been talking for over 15 years to local experts and to those across the country about housing. Craigie has travelled to many of the places he profiles in the book, and in his interviews with Canadians he presents the human face of the shortfall as he speaks with renters, owners and homeless people, exploring their varying predicaments and perspectives. He then shows, through comparable profiles of people across the globe, how other North American and international jurisdictions (Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Helsinki, Singapore, Ireland, to name a few) are housing their citizens better, faster and with determination—solutions that could be put into practice here.

With passion, knowledge and vigour, Craigie explains how Canada reached this critical impasse and will convince those who may not yet recognize how badly our entire country is in need of change. Our Crumbling Foundation provides hope for finding our way out of the crisis by recommending a number of approaches at all levels of government. The prescription for how we’re going to house ourselves, and do so equitably, requires not just a business solution, nor simply a social solution, but rather a combination of both, working hand-in-hand with all levels of government, and quickly, in order to catch up with and outpace the needs of Canadians in this ever-intensifying crisis over a basic human right.

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ID: 646651

Title: Afterpains

Author: Anna Julia Stainsby

Narrator: Diana Pou, Dianne Aguilar, Hailey Gillis, Rebecca Auerbach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:24:17

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD

“Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book.” —Reema Patel, author of Such Big Dreams

Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland—told in the voices of four distinct narrators.

Nearly twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy is still reeling from all that she's lost. Desperate to repair the connections to the family she does have—her husband, Desmond, and her eighteen-year-old son, Eddie—she's determined to lay her grief to rest by the twentieth anniversary of her daughter’s death.

At the same time, Isaura dreads what may be coming for her teenage daughter, Mivi. For centuries in her homeland of Honduras, the young women in Isaura's family have been subjected to a curse of teenage motherhood and the untimely death of the men they loved. But even after moving thousands of miles away from Pespire to Toronto, Isaura fears that her daughter will not be spared.

Soon, Rosy and Isaura, essentially strangers, become connected in a way neither of them could predict. As they try to look to their future and their children’s, they struggle to put the past behind them—all while Eddie and Mivi contend with the weight of their mothers’ pain and guilt.

Tender and compassionate, The Afterpains is a moving debut novel on motherhood, grief, identity, and belonging.

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ID: 730145

Title: On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake

Author: Gregor Craigie

Narrator: Gregor Craigie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:48:22

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Social Science

Summary:

Finalist, Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and Victoria Butler Book Prize

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book

The Big One and what we can do to get ready for it.

Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world’s biggest earthquakes and tsunamis. In the eastern part of the continent, small cities and large, from Ottawa to Montréal to New York City, sit in active earthquake zones. In fact, more than 100-million North Americans live in active seismic zones, many of whom do not realize the risk to their community.

For more than a decade, Gregor Craigie interviewed scientists, engineers, and emergency planners about earthquakes, disaster response, and resilience. He has also collected vivid first-hand accounts from people who have survived deadly earthquakes. His fascinating and deeply researched book dives headfirst into explaining the science behind The Big One — and asks what we can do now to prepare ourselves for events geologists say aren't a matter of if, but when.

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ID: 732196

Title: Run Baby Run

Author: Melissa Lenhardt

Narrator: Alex Picard, Courtney Patterson, Natalie Duke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A mother, a daughter and a road trip thats about to take a hard left turn in this heartfelt and witty story about the sacrifices we make for love.

Darcy Evans is getting married. In a week. To a man who is her childhood dream come true. But a late-night confession from her best friend changes everything and before she even has time to unpack it, she must endure a road trip to the ceremony with her estranged mother, Marja. It was always the two of them against the world...until Marja ghosted Darcy three years ago. No car in the world has enough room for all of their baggage.

The drive from Austin to Chicago is nostalgic, claustrophobic, incredibly messy and exactly what both women need. As they each find themselves at a crossroads in their lives, long-held secrets are revealed ones that reshape Darcys memories of the past and forever alter the future shed recently been so certain of. She hadnt known what a reunion with her mother might bring, but sometimes following your heart means taking a path you never planned...and finding a love you never imagined.

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ID: 742666

Title: Magic Study

Author: Maria V. Snyder

Narrator: Kristin Atherton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:27:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

You know your life is bad when you miss your days as a poison taster . . .

With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she'd been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can't help feeling isolated in Sitia. Her Ixian background has changed her in many ways -- and her newfound friends and relatives don't think it's for the better . . .

Despite the turmoil, she's eager to start her magic training -- especially as she's been given one year to harness her power or be put to death. But her plans take a radical turn when she becomes involved with a plot to reclaim Ixia's throne for a lost prince -- and gets entangled in powerful rivalries with her fellow magicians.

If that wasn't bad enough, it appears her brother would love to see her dead. Luckily, Yelena has some old friends to help her with all her new enemies . . .

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ID: 722527

Title: Helios Crowns His Mistress/Leonetti's Housekeeper Bride

Author: Lynne Graham, Michelle Smart

Narrator: Faye Adele

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary

Summary:

Helios Crowns His Mistress - Michelle Smart

From the depths of the palace comes whispers of a threat to Agon. It's public knowledge that Crown Prince Helios is bound to marry the Princess of Monte Cleure but will the discovery of his secret lover, Amy Green, shatter the kingdom?

An exclusive source has revealed that Amy has ended their affair - leaving Helios furious. And we all know he's not a man to be denied! Legally, Helios must wed someone of pure royal blood, so the question remains: will he do as duty commands, or will he risk his crown to marry his mistress?

Leonetti's Housekeeper Bride - Lynne Graham

The last thing Gaetano Leonetti wants is to be shackled in marriage but, to become CEO of his family's bank, his grandfather has decreed Gaetano must find a nice, ordinary woman to wed. Convinced his grandfather is mad, Gaetano sets about proving him wrong with housekeeper Poppy Arnold. With her outspoken nature and unusual dress sense, she's definitely not wife material!

But it's not long before hardworking, self-sacrificing Poppy charms his grandfather and Gaetano's stuck with a union he didn't want and a bride he sinfully craves! Having set her up to fail, can he really take the precious gift of her virginity?

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ID: 758416

Title: Find a Way: One Untamed and Courageous Life

Author: Diana Nyad

Narrator: Diana Nyad

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:15:54

Language: English

Release date: 02-29-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports, Women

Summary:

Read by the author, Diana Nyad.

DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY BEHIND NETFLIX'S BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE NYAD.

After four attempts, sixty-four year-old Diana Nyad finally swam from Cuba to the Florida Keys. She swam for fifty-three hours, across one hundred and ten miles. Find a Way is her account of the epic quest which led to that moment – and a galvanizing call to live life boldly, in the moment and with no regrets.

In the 1970s, Diana Nyad was widely regarded as the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world. She record after world record, circling Manhattan Island and crossing the 102.5 miles between the Bahamas and Florida. But one record continually eluded her: becoming the first woman to swim between Cuba and the Florida Keys without a shark cage. Finally, in September 2013, Diana completed the crossing.

Millions of people watched, cried and cheered for her tenacity and courage. Find a Way recounts this astonishing and hard-won triumph – and Diana's monumental courage in the face of failure. She failed, failed and failed again, but never gave up. With unwavering belief in the face of overwhelming odds, this is a story of perseverance, tenacity and commitment on an epic scale.

Cross Sports International Autobiography of the Year 2017

'When you're facing big challenges in your life, you can think about Diana Nyad . . . and nearly anything else seems doable in comparison' – Hillary Clinton

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ID: 701677

Title: Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

Author: Sima Samar

Narrator: Sally Armstrong, Wajma Soroor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:40:27

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-24

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Military, Women

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.

“I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most persecuted ethnic group in Afghanistan.”

Dr. Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and she had to agree to an arranged marriage if she wanted to go to university. By the time she was in medical school, she had a son, Ali, and had become a revolutionary. After her husband was disappeared by the pro-Russian regime, she escaped. With her son and medical degree, she took off into the rural areas—by horseback, by donkey, even on foot—to treat people who had never had medical help before.

Sima Samar's wide-ranging experiences both in her home country and on the world stage have given her inside access to the dishonesty, the collusion, the corruption, the self-serving leaders, and the hijacking of religion. And as a former Vice President, she knows all the players in this chess game called Afghanistan. With stories that are at times poignant, at times terrifying, inspiring as well as disheartening, Sima provides an unparalleled view of Afghanistan’s past and its present. 

Despite being in grave personal danger for many years, she has worked tirelessly for the dream she is convinced is an achievable one: justice and full human rights for all the citizens of her country.

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