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ID: 675939

Title: Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World

Author: Scott Shigeoka

Narrator: Scott Shigeoka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:13:30

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Social Science

Summary:

'A timely bridge for our divided world' - Adam Grant, bestselling author of Give and Take

Open your mind, heal your relationships, and connect across divides with this groundbreaking guide to deep curiosity from internationally-recognized curiosity expert, Scott Shigeoka.

At a time when tensions over race, religion, gender identity and more have fractured our lives and relationships, curiosity is the key to fostering connection, growth, and healing.

Seek will help you build the courage to be transformed by the people, places and experiences you encounter – unlocking deep curiosity, and strengthening this fundamental human skill.

Using Shigeoka's transformative four-step framework, you will enhance your capacity to:

Detach: Let go of your ABCs (Assumptions, Biases, Certainty)

Intend: Prepare your mindset and environment

Value: See the dignity of every person – including yourself!

Embrace: Welcome the hard times in life as a catalyst for connection and transformation

A must-read for our times, this book will help you to shift your perspective, understand differences and lead a more curious life.

'Energizing, creative and exciting' - Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project

'Scott Shigeoka's exploration into the nature of curiosity and how opening our hearts and minds to the unknown can transform our experience is sure to capture the interest of many readers. - Dr Kristen Neff, bestselling author of Self-Compassion

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ID: 698787

Title: Chicken Run Dawn of the Nugget: The Junior Novel

Author: Amanda Li

Narrator: Aysha Kala

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:23:56

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Humor

Summary:

Ginger and the gang are back in this junior novel of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Chicken Run, the highest-grossing animated movie of all time.

Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream — a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat. For Ginger and her team, even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk — this time, they’re breaking in!

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget – The Junior Novel is based on the eagerly anticipated Netflix sequel from Aardman, creators of Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph. This action-packed and hilarious story, delightfully read by Aysha Kala, is perfect for young listeners and Chicken Run fans of all ages!

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ID: 671013

Title: Musical Tables

Author: Billy Collins

Narrator: Billy Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:39:53

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

"I’ve grown old–

now my own name

rings a bell."

In each of the short poems in Billy Collins’s Musical Tables, the former United States Poet Laureate tempers his characteristically jocular voice with what he calls the “thrill of mortality” – flashes of profundity amongst the mundane, startling reminders of the wonder of being alive.

Through the brevity of these poems, Collins’ knack for coaxing the poetry out of the everyday becomes ever more refined. Whether reflecting on mornings spent in the thicket of Los Angeles traffic, or turning over clichés on the tongue until old metaphors become new again, Musical Tables is Billy Collins at his most meditative: brief, and all the more brilliant for it.

'America’s favourite poet' – Wall Street Journal

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ID: 676904

Title: Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

Author: Ben Mezrich

Narrator: Will Collyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:04:17

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Business Development

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich pulls back the curtain on the most volatile, complex, and bizarre corporate takeover in history: Elon Musk’s acquisition and subsequent occupation of Twitter.

In October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter’s front doors carrying a kitchen sink, tweeting a message to his millions of followers: ‘let that sink in’. His takeover came with the promise of fundamental changes, but nothing could prepare the company for the chaos to come – brutal, sometimes arbitrary mass firings, an exodus of advertisers and ‘blue-tick’ celebrities, and a vicious Shakespearean battle for control.

With unique access to Twitter employees and Musk’s confidants, this is the astonishing story from all sides, revealing a wealth of new details. Follow the darkly comic, self-inflicted, and sometimes frightening events that led Elon into an emotional downward spiral.

The whole world was watching. Breaking Twitter provides ringside seats to one of the most dramatic and compelling business stories of our time. Elon Musk didn’t break Twitter. Twitter broke Elon Musk.

‘Uproarious . . . stimulating enough to keep even an unmedicated narcoleptic awake' – Washington Times on The Accidental Billionaires

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ID: 709239

Title: Every Living Thing: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

Author: James Herriot

Narrator: Nicholas Ralph

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. Charmingly read by Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot in the TV series.

In Every Living Thing James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucrative patient, the delightful Tricki Woo. There are some some new arrivals too, such as the abandoned and terrified mongrol Titch who finds the perfect home with a gruff grocer and feral kittens Olly and Ginny who live in James and wife Helen's back garden. Above all, the veterinary practise in Darrowby is enlivened by a marvelouslly eccentric assistant, Calum Buchanan, who arrives with a pet badger and proceeds to add dogs, owls and a monkey called Mortimer to his growing menagerie.

Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Full of unique characers, funny and touching, Every Living Thing is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.

'I grew up reading James Herriot's books and I'm delighted that thirty years on, they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then' – Kate Humble

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ID: 694992

Title: Bittlemores

Author: Jann Arden

Narrator: Jann Arden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:14:23

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-23

Publisher: PGRH Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Thriller & Horror, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Cozy Mystery, Coming of Age

Summary:

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwriter, member of Canada's Music Hall of Fame and star of her own hit TV sitcom. A little bit All Creatures Great and Small, a little bit Fargo and all Jann Arden!

On mean Harp Bittlemore’s blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don’t grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away.

     But Willa Bittlemore, just turning 14, is planning her own rebellion. Something doesn’t add up in the story she’s been told about her missing sister, and she's beginning to question if her horrible parents are even her parents at all. Just as things are really coming to a head, a bright young police officer starts investigating a cold case involving a baby stolen from a little rural hospital 28 years earlier, and Willa and the cows find out exactly how far the Bittlemores will go to protect a festering secret.

     Written with Jann’s trademark outrageous humour and full of her down-to-earth wisdom, The Bittlemores is a rural fairytale, a coming-of-age story and a prairie mystery all-in-one, saturated with her observations of the world she grew up in and her deep connection to the animals we exploit. This marvel of a first novel digs into how people come to be so cruel, but it also glories in the miracle of human kindness.

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ID: 722828

Title: Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life

Author: Morgan Housel

Narrator: Chris Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:46:25

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Business & Economics, Personal Finance

Summary:

When planning for the future we often ask, “What will the economy be doing this time next year?” Or, “What will be different ten years from now?”

But forecasting is hard. The important events that will shape the future are inherently unpredictable.

Instead, we should be asking a different question:

What will be the same ten years from now?

What will be the same one hundred years from now?

Knowledge of the things that never change is more useful, and more important, than an uncertain prediction of an unknowable future.

In Same As Ever, bestselling author Morgan Housel shares 24 short stories about the ways that life, behaviour, and business will always be the same.

Armed with this knowledge of the unchanging, you will have a powerful new ability to think about risk, opportunity, and how to navigate the uncertainty of the future.

As you see familiar themes repeat again and again in the years ahead, you’ll find yourself nodding and saying, “Yep, same as ever.”

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ID: 618760

Title: Sons of Valor III: War Machine

Author: Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:28:13

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, War & Military

Summary:

From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson, Sons of Valor III: War Machine sees Chunk and Whitney forced into a deadly match of wits with a terrorist mastermind and a horrifying weapon unlike anything theyve ever encountered.

After a shootout in Dubai left Hamza al-Saud dead and elevated brilliant aeronautical engineer Qasim Nadar to hero status in England, everyone assumes the terrorist threat from al Qadar has been eliminated. Everyone except JSOC counterterrorism analyst Whitney Watts. But when she decides to help MI6 penetrate Nadars secret network, Watts gets a little too close to the truth and finds herself in a deadly situation not even her teammates from Tier One can save her from.

As Lieutenant Commander Keith Chunk Redman and the rest of Tier One fan out across London in search of Watts, Nadar prepares to unleash his most dangerous weapon yetan advanced drone with artificial intelligence and stealth technology. To stop a horrifying attack on London, Chunk and his Navy SEAL brethren must seek help from an unexpected ally and find a way to stop a war machine that was designed to be unstoppable.

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ID: 672440

Title: Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD

Author: Romeo Dallaire

Narrator: Paul Gross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:05:19

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Military

Summary:

Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize: In this piercing memoir, Roméo Dallaire, retired general and former senator, the author of the bestsellers Shake Hands with the Devil andThey Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep into his life since the Rwandan genocide.

At the heart of Waiting for First Light is a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the renewed desire to make a difference in the world.

     Roméo Dallaire, traumatized by witnessing genocide on an imponderable scale in Rwanda, reflects in these pages on the nature of PTSD and the impact of that deep wound on his life since 1994, and on how he motivates himself and others to humanitarian work despite his constant struggle. Though he had been a leader in peace and in war at all levels up to deputy commander of the Canadian Army, his PTSD led to his medical dismissal from the Canadian Forces in April 2000, a blow that almost killed him. But he crawled out of the hole he fell into after he had to take off the uniform, and he has been inspiring people to give their all to multiple missions ever since, from ending genocide to eradicating the use of child soldiers to revolutionizing officer training so that our soldiers can better deal with the muddy reality of modern conflict zones and to revolutionizing our thinking about the changing nature of conflict itself.

     His new book is as compelling and original an account of suffering and endurance as Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and William Styron's Darkness Visible.

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ID: 651844

Title: Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway

Author: Nina Stibbe

Narrator: Nina Stibbe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:03:16

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, General Comedy

Summary:

This brilliant audiobook is wittily and hilariously read by the author, Nina Stibbe.

'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason

'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus

'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls

Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It’s a break from married life back in Cornwall, or even perhaps a fresh start altogether.

Debby does not have many demands – only to water the garden, watch for toads, and defrost the odd pie – so Nina is free to explore the city she once called home. Between scrutinising her son’s online dating developments, navigating the politics of the local pool, and taking detergent advice at the laundrette, this diary of a sixty-year-old runaway reunites us with the inimitable voice of Love, Nina, as the writer becomes, as she puts it, 'a proper adult' at last.

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' - Marian Keyes

'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly' - Katherine Heiny

'So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' - India Knight

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