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ID: 650151

Title: Sea Change

Author: Gina Chung

Narrator: Jeena Yi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:14:42

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary

Summary:

For fans of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea

‘Absolutely stunning . . . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!’ – Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face

Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars.

Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro’s only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro’s last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.

When Dolores is sold to a wealthy investor intent on moving her to a private aquarium, Ro finds herself on the precipice of self-destruction. Wading through memories of her youth, Ro has one last chance to come to terms with her childhood trauma, recommit to those around her, and find her place in an ever-changing world.

‘Utterly original‘ – Bryan Washington, author of Memorial

‘Sea Change stole my big weirdo heart‘ - Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl

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ID: 648045

Title: Crow Trap

Author: Ann Cleeves

Narrator: Janine Birkett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:06:03

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

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

Summary:

Introducing Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.

The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves Vera Stanhope series which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera.

Everyone has something to hide . . .

Three very different women come together at an isolated cottage on the North Pennines to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . .

Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman, hiding plenty of her own secrets.

Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, but when she gets there she is shocked to discover an apparent suicide. But then another death occurs, and a fourth woman enters the picture the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these womens tangled lives . . .

Enjoy more of Vera Stanhopes investigations with Telling Tales, Hidden Depths, and Silent Voices.

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ID: 647182

Title: Victor, the Wolf with Worries

Author: Catherine Rayner

Narrator: Stephen Mangan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:06:50

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

A beautiful story with a gentle and encouraging message to help children deal with their worries – from the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner Catherine Rayner, and read by Stephen Mangan.

Victor the wolf has lots of worries. He worries that he isn't brave enough, that he isn't big enough and that he isn't fierce enough. In fact, Victor feels anxious about almost everything. But when Victor shares his concerns with his best friend Pablo, he starts to feel a bit better. And with Pablo's help, Victor learns even more ways to deal with those pesky worrying thoughts. And as the worries grow smaller, Victor feels a bit bigger, a bit braver, and bit fiercer inside!

Victor, The Wolf With Worries is a comforting and reassuring tale that is especially helpful for little ones who have trouble talking about their feelings.

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ID: 646647

Title: Follow the Sun

Author: Liz Locke

Narrator: Victoria Carr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:54:55

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Contemporary Women

Summary:

“Locke's novel is a travelog of epic proportions, an enticing love story and an emotionally resonant tale of the empowerment of following one's dreams that is as sleek and chic as an episode of Mad Men.” —Entertainment Weekly

For fans of Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins, Follow The Sun paints a portrait of the 1960s International Jet Set Era through the eyes of an aspiring singer-songwriter, desperate to forge her own path in music and in love. Readers will delight in this sun-drenched trip through a world of fashion, film, and sixties pop culture, written with an emotional, heartbreaking voice reminiscent of Chanel Cleeton.

For socialite Caroline Kimball, travel has become an escape—a way to run from her adult responsibilities while hiding her musical ambitions from her disapproving mother. When she meets handsome magazine photographer Jack “Tex” Fairchild beside a hotel pool in Acapulco, everything changes. His encouragement shows her she could have a life beyond that of a beautiful, bored heiress, and he convinces her that maybe her childish daydreams aren’t so impossible after all.

Realizing she no longer fits inside her golden cage, Caroline leaves it all behind and runs away with Tex to a small Spanish island, where she finally confronts the tragic death of her father. But when her mother's hidden secrets catch up to her, and a ghost from her past makes a surprising reappearance, Caroline will find herself torn between her whirlwind relationship with Tex, pursuing her music career, or saving her family from financial destitution.

Across the stunning beaches of Acapulco and down the powdered ski slopes of Gstaad, Follow the Sun will take readers from the turquoise waters of Formentera to the Sunset Strip, telling a captivating story about following your dreams to discover the person you were always meant to become.

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ID: 646649

Title: Damages

Author: Genevieve Scott

Narrator: Ewa Wolniczek

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:01:52

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a student during an ice storm, and explores themes of memory, trauma, friendship, and identity.

What I remember best about that week in January is trying to keep track of all the lies I told.

1997: For Ros, starting university at Regis is an opportunity for reinvention—a chance to be seen as interesting, to be accepted by the in-crowd, and maybe even get a boyfriend. But when she meets her roommate, Megan, with her pleated jeans and horse-print bedding, she sees her as a social liability. Outside of their dorm room, Ros distances herself from Megan and quickly befriends the cool kids, seeking status at all costs. Just after winter break, an intense ice storm hits campus, triggering a reckless, days-long dorm party, during which Megan goes missing. Ros is blamed for the incident and abruptly dropped by her social circle, casting a shadow over the next two decades of her life.

2020: Ros’s former partner, Lukas, the father of her eleven-year-old son, is accused of a sexual assault. The accusation brings new details of an old story to light, forcing Ros to revisit a dark moment from her past. Ros must take a hard look not only at the father of her child, but also at her own mistakes, her own trauma, and at the supposed liberal period she grew up in.

The Damages is a page-turning, thought-provoking novel about the lies we tell other people and the lies we tell ourselves.

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ID: 634639

Title: Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas

Author: Karen Pinchin

Narrator: Karen Pinchin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:19:19

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Business & Economics, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Business Development

Summary:

Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award • Winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-Fiction • Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize • Winner of the 2023 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Paradigm Prize

The marvelous tale of one fish, the fisherman who first caught her, and how our insatiable appetite for bluefin tuna turned a cottage industry into a massive global dilemma.

In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and tagged one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England's coast. Fourteen years later that same fish—dubbed Amelia for her ocean-spanning journeys—was caught again, this time in a Mediterranean fish trap. 

Over his fishing career, Al marked more than sixty thousand fish with plastic tags, an obsession that made him nearly as many enemies as it did friends. His quest landed him in the crossfire of an ongoing fight between a booming bluefin tuna industry and desperate conservation efforts, a conflict that is once again heating up as overfishing and climate change threaten the fish's fate.

Kings of Their Own Ocean is an urgent investigation that combines science, business, crime, and environmental justice. Through Karen Pinchin's exclusive interviews and access, interdisciplinary approach, and mesmerizing storytelling, readers join her on boats and docks as she visits tuna hot spots and scientists from Portugal to Japan, New Jersey to Nova Scotia, and glimpse, as Pinchin does, rays of dazzling hope for the future of our oceans.

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ID: 665632

Title: Keep Smiling: A story of positivity and kindness from national treasure Dame Floella Benjamin

Author: Floella Benjamin

Narrator: Floella Benjamin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:19:56

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

Keep Smiling is a celebration of the most universal symbol of hope, joy and positivity - a smile! Written and read by Dame Floella Benjamin, the bestselling author of Coming to England.

Vina's Mum has always told her that a smile is the best gift you can give someone. And as Vina loves smiling more than anything else, she gives the gift of her smile to anyone who needs it. But on her first visit to her new school, Vina's own smile gets a bit . . . lost. She can't find it under the slide, or on the climbing frame. Then, a smile appears, in the most unexpected place!

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ID: 644997

Title: Hero Called Wolf

Author: Lucy Rowland

Narrator: Theo Solomon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:16:09

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

A feel-good, rhyming audiobook, with a positive message about being the hero of your own story!

Wolf loves reading. There's just one problem. The more he reads, the more he starts to realize something. . . Every book has a hero; the heroes are handsome, tough and strong; and most importantly, the heroes are never, ever wolves.

But when a giant comes stomping into the library one day, can Wolf find the courage to speak up? Because maybe heroes don't have to be handsome, tough and strong. Maybe true heroes are kind and brave – just like Wolf!

A Hero Called Wolf is an uplifting story set in a magical fairytale world. From Lucy Rowland and Ben Mantle, the creators of Little Red Reading Hood, and The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Book.

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ID: 644996

Title: Little Red Reading Hood

Author: Lucy Rowland

Narrator: Hannah Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:17:46

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Whilst leaving footpaths should never be done,

Straying from stories is all sorts of fun!

Little Red Reading Hood loves reading books and making up stories of her own. When she meets a cunning wolf while on her way to the library, he convinces her to stray from the path and read for a little while. But hasn’t she read this in a story before? Perhaps it’s time she came up with a new ending . . .

This is a contemporary and fun take on the classic fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. With a playful rhyming story by Lucy Rowland, Little Red Reading Hood will inspire children, and adults, about the magic of books and reading.

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ID: 642134

Title: Black Thorn

Author: Sarah Hilary

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:53:15

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Sarah Hilary, Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year winner and author of Fragile, returns with Black Thorn, a slow-burn psychological mystery set against the abandonment of an exclusive housing development and devastation of the families that lived there . . .

'An astonishingly gifted writer' – Marian Keyes

‘Immersive, claustrophobic, unbearably tense and quite brilliant' – Ann Cleeves

How much do you really know about the people next door?

Blackthorn Ashes was meant to be their forever home. For the first six families moving into the exclusive new housing development, it was a chance to live a peaceful life on the cliffs overlooking the Cornish sea, safe in the knowledge that it had been created just for them.

But six weeks later, paradise is lost. Six people are dead. And Blackthorn Ashes is left abandoned and unfinished, its dark shadows hiding all manner of secrets.

One of its surviving residents, exiled to a local caravan park in the wake of the tragedy, is Agnes Gale, an autistic woman trying to survive the fallout with her family. She is determined to find out the truth about what happened. Even if that truth is deadlier than she could have ever believed possible . . .

With a compelling, diverse cast of characters, and moving back-and-forth between time periods with an increasingly pervasive sense of unease, Black Thorn is perfect for book clubs and fans of Belinda Bauer.

‘A creepy and atmospheric tale, beautifully and sensitively written’ – The Guardian

‘This one’s a real cracker’ – Crime Fiction Lover

Readers love Black Thorn:

‘Grips so hard you can't stop reading’

‘Clever, haunting and beautifully written’

‘An author that never puts a foot wrong’

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