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ID: 710954

Title: Mastering Executive Transitions: The Definitive Guide

Author: Navid Nazemian

Narrator: Navid Nazemian

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Business & Economics, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

Would it surprise you to learn that 40% of executive transitions fail during the first 18 months? With more executives facing exponential challenges, a crisis is imminent and the consequences for organizations and executives alike are severe and far-reaching.

Mastering Executive Transitions: The Definitive Guide, by Navid Nazemian, explores the intersection between executive leaders and their career transitions, the research of transitions versus the reality of it, and the increased complexity and demands from executives coupled with shorter tenure and executive overwhelm.

This book demonstrates how the biggest transition mistakes can be avoided and provides a proven framework to transition most successfully. It is an invaluable resource for:

- Executives who are about to transition professionally

- Human Resources leaders and talent directors who are keen to support their leaders with their transition, and enhance their existing executive transition (onboarding) process

- Executive coaches who have specialized in leadership transitions

Through authentically demonstrated experience and key insights into the challenges that the modern executive faces,Mastering Executive Transitions: The Definitive Guideaims to bend executive transitionsaway from failure andtowardsthe masterful and successfully crafted.

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ID: 707168

Title: Where There Was Fire

Author: John Manuel Arias

Narrator: Adriana Sananes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:25:02

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, General, Paranormal

Summary:

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde’s family is changed for ever.

Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family’s rupture, steeped in machismo, jealousy and greed.

Brimming with ancestral spirits, omens and the forces of nature, John Manuel Arias’s extraordinary debut novel weaves a brilliant tapestry of love – lost and found again – and, ultimately, redemption.

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ID: 676235

Title: Landbridge: life in fragments

Author: Y-Dang Troeung

Narrator: Chris Patterson, Christine L. Nguyen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:10:14

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Canada as a baby, escaping war in Cambodia.

In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to relocate to Canada. As the final arrivals, their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the PM shaking Y-Dang's father's hand, reaching out to pat baby Y-Dang's head. Forty years later, in her brilliant, astonishing book, Y-Dang returns to this moment, and to many others before and after, to explore the tension between that public narrative of happy “arrival,” and the multiple, often hidden truths of what happened to the people in her family.

    In precise, beautiful prose, Y-Dang weaves back and forth in time to tell stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide, about the lives of her grandparents and extended family, about her own childhood in the refugee camps and in rural Ontario, and eventually about her young son’s illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. Through it all, Y-Dang looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence, refusal of gratitude, becoming a scholar, and love.

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ID: 652823

Title: Gonzo Capitalism: How to Make Money in an Economy that Hates You

Author: Chris Guillebeau

Narrator: Chris Guillebeau

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:23:18

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

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

Summary:

Read by the author, Chris Guillebeau.

From Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to thrive in today's turbulent global economy.

'A must-read guide to the new economy. This book will help you navigate emerging paths to prosperity that you didn’t even know existed!'

Ozan Varol, bestselling author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist

Burdened with piling student debt, stagnant wages, and a rising cost of living, a growing number of enterprising individuals are abandoning the traditional nine-to-five model of modern work. Instead, they’re turning to an ecosystem of unregulated, decentralized platforms to build their own version of success.

In Gonzo Capitalism, serial entrepreneur and self-help expert Chris Guillebeau explores this brave new world – from the tech workers working multiple jobs at once to the British teenager who earned $500,000 naming other people’s babies, to the global community of online gamers getting ‘paid to play’. Along the way, he shows you how our turbulent economy really works, and how to come up with your own unconventional ways to turn your time and talents into a better way of living.

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ID: 652826

Title: Learned By Heart: From the award-winning author of Room

Author: Emma Donoghue

Narrator: Shiromi Arserio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:49:14

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Coming of Age

Summary:

'A rich and spellbinding 19th-century story of forbidden love' – Independent

'Donoghue evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching.' – The Guardian

The heartbreaking story of the love of two women – Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her first love, Eliza Raine – from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.

In 1805, at a boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-old girls first meet.

Eliza Raine, the orphan daughter of an Indian mother, keeps herself apart from the other girls, tired of being picked out for being different. Anne Lister, a gifted troublemaker, is determined to conquer the world, refusing to bow to society’s expectations of what a woman can do.

As they fall in love, the connection they forge will remain with them for the rest of their lives.

Full of passion and heartbreak, evocative and wholly unique, Learned by Heart is the beautiful and moving new historical novel from acclaimed author Emma Donoghue.

Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize

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ID: 696923

Title: In Another Place, Not Here

Author: Dionne Brand

Narrator: Angelique Lazarus, Emerjade Simms

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:07:26

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-23

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, LGBTQ, Black Literature

Summary:

Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.

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ID: 676232

Title: Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime

Author: Padma Viswanathan

Narrator: Padma Viswanathan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:54:20

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person—all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story.

Padma Viswanathan was staying on a houseboat on Vancouver Island when she struck up a friendship with a warm-hearted, working-class queer man named Phillip. Their lives were so different it seemed unlikely to Padma that their relationship would last after she returned to her usual life. But, that week, Phillip told her a story from his childhood that kept them connected for more than twenty years.

Phillip was the son of a severe, abusive man named Harvey, a miner, farmer and communist. After Phillip’s mother left the family, Harvey advertised for a housekeeper-with-benefits. And so Del, the most glamorous and loving of stepmothers, stepped into Phillip's life. Del had hung out with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Mexico City before the Cuban revolution; she was also a convicted bank robber who had violated her parole and was suspected in her ex-husband’s murder. Phillip had long since lost track of Del, but when Padma said she’d like to write about her and about his own young life, he eagerly agreed. Quickly, though, Padma’s research uncovered hidden truths about these larger-than-real-life characters. Watching the effects on Phillip as these secrets, evasions and traumas came to light, she increasingly feared that when it came to the book or the friendship, only one of them would get out of this process alive. 

In this unforgettable memoir, Padma reflects on the joys and frictions of this strange journey with grace, humour and poetry, including original readings of Hans Christian Andersen fairytales and other stories that beautifully echo her characters’ adventures and her own. Like Every Form of Love is that rare thing: an irresistible literary page-turner that twists and turns, delivering powerful revelations, right to the very end.

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ID: 676230

Title: I'm a Fan

Author: Sheena Patel

Narrator: Sheena Patel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:31:22

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody

Summary:

'A fast, fizzing cherry bomb of a debut . . . I'm a Fan will stick with you for a very long time.' —The Observer

Astounding, addictive, and screaming with originality, I'm a Fan is a blisteringly smart novel on obsession and privilege.

I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am.

The unnamed narrator in I’m a Fan is obsessed; obsessed with the married man she is sleeping with and with one of his other lovers who is an influencer.

Through the prism of this unequal, unfaithful relationship, she examines the complexities of desire and privilege. With an unforgiving eye, the narrator relentlessly dissects the behaviour of all involved in the entanglement, herself included, and makes startling connections between the power struggles at the heart of human relationships and those of the wider world. I’m a Fan offers an incandescent critique of class, race, social media, patriarchy’s hold on us, and our cultural obsession with status and how that status is conveyed.

In this gripping debut, Sheena Patel announces herself as a dynamic new voice in literature, capable of rendering a rollercoaster of emotions viscerally on the page.

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ID: 601216

Title: Masters of Death

Author: Olivie Blake

Narrator: Steve West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy

Summary:

Vampires, ghosts and death itself - from the international bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Masters of Death by Olivie Blake is a spellbinding, page-turning and queer fantasy.

'Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent' - Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights

This book is about an estate agent. Only she’s a vampire, the house on sale is haunted, and its ghost was murdered.

When Viola Marek hires Fox D’Mora to deal with her ghost-infested mansion, she expects a competent medium. But unbeknownst to Viola, Fox is a fraud – despite being the godson of Death.

As the mystery unfolds, Viola and Fox are drawn into a quest that neither wants nor expects. They'll need the help of a demonic personal trainer, a sharp-voiced angel and a love-stricken reaper. And it transpires that the difference between a mysterious lost love and a dead body isn’t nearly as distinct as you’d hope.

If you enjoyed Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, you will adore this book - Starburst Magazine

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ID: 691000

Title: After You'd Gone: A Novel

Author: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrator: Lesley Mackie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:04:09

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-23

Publisher: PGRH Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological, Family Life

Summary:

After You’d Gone is the groundbreaking debut novel from National Book Critics Circle Award winner Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. A stunning, bestselling novel of wrenching love and grief.

Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice's family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, After You'd Gone is a novel of stunning psychological depth, marking the debut of a major literary talent.

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