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ID: 710812

Title: None but the Dead

Author: Lin Anderson

Narrator: Sally Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:16

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Police Stories

Summary:

None but the Dead is the thrilling eleventh book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod.

Sanday, one of Britain's northernmost islands, inaccessible when the wind prevents the ferry crossing from the mainland, or fog grounds the tiny, island-hopping plane.

When human remains are discovered to the rear of an old primary school, forensic expert Dr Rhona MacLeod and her assistant arrive to excavate the grave. Approaching midwinter, they find daylight in short supply, the weather inhospitable and some of the island's inhabitants less than co-operative. When the suspicious death of an old man in Glasgow appears to have links with the island, DS Michael McNab is dispatched to investigate. Desperately uncomfortable in such surroundings, he finds that none of the tools of detective work are there. No internet, no CCTV, and no police station.

As the weather closes in, the team including criminal profiler and Orkney native Professor Magnus Pirie are presented with a series of unexplained incidents, apparently linked to the discovery of thirteen magic flowers representing the souls of dead children who had attended the island school where the body was discovered. But how and in what circumstance did they die? And why are their long forgotten deaths significant to the current investigation?

As a major storm approaches, bringing gale-force winds and high seas, the islanders turn on one another, as past and present evil deeds collide, and long buried secrets break the surface, along with the exposed bones.

Follow Rhona MacLeod in more forensic thrillers with Follow the Dead, Sins of the Dead and Time for the Dead.

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ID: 688238

Title: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Author: Naomi Klein

Narrator: Naomi Klein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-23

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Politics, Science & Technology, Current Affairs, History & Culture

Summary:

#1 NATIONAL BESTELLER • Winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction • Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism • Shortlisted for the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 • Vulture’s #1 Book of 2023 • A Guardian Best Ideas Book of 2023

What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against?

Not long ago, Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were similar enough to her own that many people confused her for the other. For a vertiginous moment, she lost her bearings. And then she got interested, in a reality that seems to be warping and doubling like a digital hall of mirrors. It’s happening in our politics as New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers find common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting “the children”). It’s happening in our culture as AI gobbles up music, paintings, fiction and everything in between and spits out imitations that threaten to overtake the originals. And it’s happening to many of us as individuals as we create digital doubles of ourselves, filtered and curated just so for all the other duplicates to see.

    An award-winning journalist, bestselling author, public intellectual and activist, Naomi Klein writes books that orient us in our time. She has offered essential accounts of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Now, as liberal democracies teeter on the edge, Klein takes aim at absurdist authoritarianism, using a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the doubles that haunt us. Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Doppelganger invites readers on a wild ride, smashing through the mirror world, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity.

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ID: 699964

Title: Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges

Author: Dennis S. Charney, Jonathan M. Depierro, Steven M. Southwick

Narrator: Kaliswa Brewster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:56:11

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age, Mental Health

Summary:

Life presents us all with challenges. Most of us at some point will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, or a natural disaster. What differentiates us is how we respond. In this important book, three experts in trauma and resilience answer key questions such as What helps people adapt to lifes most challenging situations?, How can you build up your own resilience?, and What do we know about the science of resilience? Combining cutting-edge scientific research with the personal experiences of individuals who have survived some of the most traumatic events imaginable, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a practical resource that can be used time and time again. The experts describe ten key resilience factors, including facing fear, optimism, and role models, through the experiences and personal reflections of highly resilient survivors. Each resilience factor will help anyone to adapt and grow from stressful life events and will bring hope and inspiration for overcoming adversity.

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ID: 656731

Title: Changing Man

Author: Tomi Oyemakinde

Narrator: Diana Yekinni

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:52:19

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old legend, in this debut speculative mystery by Tomi Oyemakinde.

Just because they let you in . . . it doesn't mean they'll let you out.

When Ife joins Nithercott School through its prestigious Urban Achievers Program, she knows immediately that she doesn't fit. Wandering its echoing halls, she must fend off cruel taunts from the students and condescending attitudes from the teachers. When she finds herself thrown into detention for the foreseeable future, she strikes up an unlikely alliance with Ben, a troublemaker with an annoyingly cute smile. They've both got reasons to want to get out of Nithercott - Ben's brother is missing, and no one seems to be bothering to find him.

For Ife, it's just another strange element of this school that doesn't care about its students. But as more and more people start going missing, including one of Ife's only friends, she starts to feel haunted.

Who is the figure she's started seeing in the shadowy halls, who looks mysteriously like herself? And is there any truth in to the strange urban legend that travels the school like mist . . . the legend of the Changing Man?

'The Changing Man is compulsively readable and utterly thrilling . . . Tomi Oyemakinde is an exciting new voice' - Katherine Webber, author of Twin Crowns

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ID: 676234

Title: Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

Author: Helen Knott

Narrator: Helen Knott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:19:59

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Women

Summary:

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Co-winner of the 2024 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

Shortlisted for the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes (part of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes)

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space.

Helen Knott’s debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and readers alike with its profoundly honest and moving account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, resilience, and survival. Now, in her highly anticipated second book, Knott returns with a chronicle of grief, love, and legacy.

Having lost both her mom and grandmother in just over six months, forced to navigate the fine lines between matriarchy, martyrdom, and codependency, Knott realizes she must let go, not just of the women who raised her, but of the woman she thought she was.

Woven into the pages are themes of mourning, sobriety through loss, and generational dreaming. Becoming a Matriarch is charted with poetic insights, sass, humour, and heart, taking the reader over the rivers and mountains of Dane Zaa territory in Northeastern British Columbia, along the cobbled streets of Antigua, Guatemala, and straight to the heart of what matriarchy truly means. This is a journey through pain, on the way to becoming.

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ID: 676236

Title: Do You Remember Being Born?

Author: Sean Michaels

Narrator: Alex Paxton-Beesley, Lisa Bunting

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:43:24

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION

Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Sean Michaels' luminous new novel takes readers on a lyrical joy ride—seven, epic days in Silicon Valley with a tall, formidable poet (inspired by the real-life Marianne Moore) and her unusual new collaborator, a digital mind just one month old. It's both a love letter to and an aching examination of art-making, family, identity and belonging.

Dear Marian, the letter from the Company begins. You are one of the great writers of this century.

At 75, Marian Ffarmer is almost as famous for her signature tricorn hat and cape as for her verse. She has lived for decades in the one-bedroom New York apartment she once shared with her mother, miles away from any other family, dedicating herself to her art. Yet recently her certainty about her choices has started to fray, especially when she thinks about her only son, now approaching middle age with no steady income. Into that breach comes the letter: an invitation to the Silicon Valley headquarters of one of the world's most powerful companies in order to make history by writing a poem.

Marian has never collaborated with anyone, let alone a machine, but the offer is too lucrative to resist, and she boards a plane to San Francisco with dreams of helping her son. In the Company's serene and golden Mind Studio, she encounters Charlotte, their state-of-the-art poetry bot, and is startled to find that it has written 230,442 poems in the last week, though it claims to only like two of them.

Over the conversations to follow, the poet is by turns intrigued, confused, moved and frightened by Charlotte's vision of the world, by what it knows and doesn't know ('Do you remember being born?' it asks her. Of course Marian doesn't, but Charlotte does.) This is a relationship, a friendship, unlike anything Marian has known, and as it evolves—and as Marian meets strangers at swimming pools, tortoises at the zoo, a clutch of younger poets, a late-night TV host and his synthetic foam set—she is forced to confront the secrets of her past and the direction of her future. Who knew that a disembodied mind could help bend Marian's life towards human connection, that friendship and family are not just time-eating obligations but soul-expanding joys. Or that belonging to one’s art means, above all else, belonging to the world.

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ID: 656726

Title: Wild Fire

Author: Ann Cleeves

Narrator: Kenny Blyth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:43:16

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

A woman's death sees rumours flood the island community – as Inspector Jimmy Perez's life is about to change forever. Wild Fire is the eighth and final Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves.

Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall.

A new English family have moved to Shetland, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny’s body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire.

With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. For him it will mean returning to the islands of his on–off lover and boss Willow Reeves, who will run the case.

Perez is already facing the most disturbing investigation of his career when Willow drops a bomb-shell that will change his life forever. Is he ready for what is to come?

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ID: 711034

Title: Pawprints on the Heart: Healing From Pet Loss Grief and Cultivating the Unbreakable Bond With Your Furry Friend

Author: Nolan Sands

Narrator: Dalan Decker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:04:48

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

The loss of a beloved pet is a hugely challenging emotional journey. When grief takes hold of us, we feel a myriad of feelings, from deep sadness to anger at the unfairness of their departure.

Are you struggling with the heartache and loneliness of losing a cherished pet?

After leaving, they always take a piece of us with them.

We may feel lost and adrift, struggling to find comfort in a world that suddenly feels so empty without their love and unconditional support. This challenge may seem impossible to overcome, but take my word for it:we will do this together.

Through astructured, step-by-step grieving process, diverse perspectives, and heartwarming personal stories from pet parents like yourself, I'll become your trusted companion on the path to healing.

Heres what youll discover:

- Solace and Understanding:Gain insights into the profound human-animal bond and discover why pet loss can be one of the most challenging experiences.

- The Stages of Grief:Explore the different stages and types of grief, allowing you to recognize and process your emotions.

- Personal Stories of Healing:Connect with the experiences of fellow pet parents who have walked a similar path.

- Emotional Resilience:Learn forgiveness and self-compassion as essential components of the healing process.

- Practical Guidance and Resources:Access a wealth of practical advice on topics such as memorializing your pet, self-care during grief, and maintaining daily responsibilities amidst loss.

And so much more!

Pawprints on the Heartis the heartfelt guide youve been searching for, offering the comfort and support you deserve.

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ID: 634271

Title: House Hunt

Author: C. M. Ewan

Narrator: Christopher Bonwell, Tamaryn Payne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:18:54

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

‘So pacy and addictive. Just brilliant!’ – Claire Douglas, author of The Couple at No.9

The House Hunt is a heart-pounding, claustrophobic thriller from C. M. Ewan, acclaimed author of The Interview, A Window Breaks and the half-a-million-copy bestseller Safe House.

Your estate agent calls.

She’s running late and needs you to show a man around your home.

You let him in and begin the tour.

But something about him feels wrong. . .

You ask him to leave and he refuses.

Then he tells you something about you. Something inconceivable.

And then you realize. . .

He doesn't want your house. He wants YOU.

What authors are saying about The House Hunt:

‘The tension mounts with every chapter in this edge-of-the-seat, tense and twisty thriller. Don't miss it!’ – B. A. Paris, author of The Therapist

‘Truly impossible to put down’ – Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End

‘Be prepared to put everything else on hold until you've finished The House Hunt, because once it grips you it doesn't let go’ – Jane Casey, author of Let the Dead Speak

‘Nobody does heart-thumping, dry-mouth, claustrophobic thrillers like C. M. Ewan. The House Hunt is exceptional’ – Sharon Bolton, author of The Pact

‘Unbearably tense, effortlessly plotted and packed with twists’ – Tim Weaver, author of No One Home

What readers are saying about The House Hunt:

‘WOW WOW WOW !! The twists in this story had my head spinning. I had no idea where it was leading. What a brilliant book’

‘I lost so much sleep reading this book but it was so worth it. Brilliant!’

‘The twists and turns are superb and the ultimate unravelling very satisfying. I loved it!’

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ID: 700214

Title: This Must Be the Place

Author: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins, Thomas Judd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:29:02

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Sagas

Summary:

From the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait: an irresistible novel about the collapse—and reawakening—of an unlikely marriage between an American professor and a reclusive actress.

Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on vacation in Ireland when he falls in love with a world-famous actress who has fled fame for a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion—until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and fiercely protected home.

     Shot through with humour and wisdom, This Must Be the Place is a captivating story of love in the twenty-first century from “one of the most exciting novelists alive” (The Washington Post).

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