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ID: 622338

Title: Into the Night: A Year with the Police

Author: Matt Lloyd-Rose

Narrator: Nneka Okoye, Simon Lawson, Theo Solomon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:05:34

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, History & Culture

Summary:

A former carer, primary school teacher and education researcher, Matt Lloyd-Rose became a volunteer police officer to try to understand the challenges facing young people in Brixton, the place he lived and taught. He got more than he bargained for. Each Friday evening, he put on the uniform and policed South London: racing through it on blue lights, patrolling its streets, entering a parallel version of a place he thought he knew.

Into the Night takes the listener on a journey to the heart of our society’s most complex and controversial institution, showing the best and worst of ordinary policing: from macho thrill-seeking and shocking misogyny to quiet moments of kindness and care. Its pages are filled with the homeless, the lonely, the sick and the angry, with teenage gang members, confused drunks, violent partners, runaway dogs and an illegal hot-dog vendor who won’t take no for an answer. Through a blend of immersive action and lyrical reflection, Lloyd-Rose grapples with some of the most profound and unresolved issues facing our society: How do we build strong, inclusive communities? How do we break cycles of damaging behaviour? How do we bring marginalized groups to the centre of our communal life? And what is the role of the police in all of this?

At its heart, Into the Night is an exploration of what it would mean to reframe policing as a caring, rather than enforcement, role. It is also a luminous portrait of South London, the epicentre of Britain’s struggle against racist policing, surfacing hidden histories of resistance and abuse. Provoking outrage and empathy in equal measure, this is an urgent audiobook for troubled times, exploring how we got here and where we might go next.

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ID: 629889

Title: Fractal Noise

Author: Christopher Paolini

Narrator: Jennifer Hale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

Fractal Noise is the thrilling prequel to the masterful space opera To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by internationally bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini.

On the planet Talos VII, twenty-three years before the events of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, an anomaly is detected: a vast circular pit, with dimensions so perfect that it could only have been the result of conscious design. So a small team is assembled to learn more perhaps even who built the hole and why. Their mission will take them on a hazardous trek to the very edge of existence.

For one explorer, this is the opportunity of a lifetime. For another, a risk not worth taking. And for xenobiologist Alex Crichton, its a desperate attempt to find meaning in an uncaring universe. But every step they take towards that mysterious abyss is more punishing than the last. Ultimately, no one is prepared for what they will encounter.

Praise for To Sleep in a Sea of Stars:

'Big and fun the book Paolini fans have been waiting for' John Scalzi

'A fun, fast-paced epic that science fiction fans will gobble up' Kirkus Reviews

'An epic tale of first contact, travels to the edge of the galaxy, and just maybe the fate of all humankind' Goodreads

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ID: 690124

Title: Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet

Author: Carl H. Nightingale

Narrator: Jennifer Woodward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32:09:55

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Public Policy

Summary:

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the worlds cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new consequences and opening prospects for new hope. In Earthopolis we peek into our cities homes, neighborhoods, streets, shops, eating houses, squares, marketplaces, religious sites, schools, universities, offices, monuments, docklands, and airports to discover connections between small spaces and the largest things we have built. The book exposes the Urban Planets deep inequalities of power, wealth, access to knowledge, class, race, gender, sexuality, religion, and nation. It asks us to draw on the most just and democratic moments of Earthopoliss past to rescue its future.

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ID: 685314

Title: Your Child is Not Broken: Parent Your Neurodivergent Child Without Losing Your Marbles

Author: Heidi Mavir

Narrator: Heidi Mavir

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:05:12

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases

Summary:

This audiobook is passionately and evocatively read by the author, Heidi Mavir.

An updated edition of the Sunday Times bestseller.

Your Child Is Not Broken is THE book for parents who need permission to do things differently.

An unapologetic, deeply moving manual for parents of neurodivergent children from Heidi Mavir, a late-identified, neurodivergent adult and parent to an autistic/ADHD teenager.

This updated edition includes information on Pathological Demand Avoidance, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, an interview with Heidi's son Theo and more.

Follow Heidi's irreverent and brutally honest story of her fight to be seen, heard and supported, while swimming against a tide of parent blame, ableist stereotypes and the weight of other people’s opinions.

Your Child Is Not Broken is a call to arms for parents and carers of autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent children. It is the book that no one has dared to write but every parent needs to read. Heidi’s hilarious anecdotes and heartbreaking storytelling offer validation, comfort, reassurance and wisdom to parents who need it the most.

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ID: 622344

Title: For the Culture: The Power Behind the World's Most Successful Brands, From Apple to Beyoncé

Author: Marcus Collins

Narrator: Cary Hite

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

From Marcus Collins, strategist to Apple, Nike and Beyoncé, discover the powerful force behind what we buy, what we do, and who we want to be . . .

'Compelling and vivid' – Robert Cialdini, author of Pre-Suasian

We all try to influence others in our daily lives. We are all marketers, whether you are a manager motivating your team, an employee making a big presentation, an activist staging a protest or a company executive selling the next big thing. In For the Culture, Marcus Collins argues that the most powerful vehicle for influencing behaviour is true cultural engagement. To inspire communities, we first need to think hard about how we appeal to their values and what we will contribute to their culture.

With a deep perspective based on a century’s worth of data, Collins breaks down the many ways in which culture influences behaviour. Using captivating stories from his own life as a top marketer – including spearheading digital strategy for Beyoncé, working with iTunes and Nike+ on their collaboration, and designing ads for McDonalds – he shows readers how they can do the same. Full of memorable examples, from 1960s hippy culture to the enduring success of Patagonia, For the Culture offers the essential tools for creating lasting engagement and influence.

'Some people seem to intuitively ‘get it.’ Most do not. Collins articulates ‘it’ for the rest of us and provides not just an understanding, but a guide for how to actually engage and influence culture' – Steve Huffman, co-founder and CEO, Reddit

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ID: 529937

Title: Virgin Cure

Author: Ami McKay

Narrator: Aidan Desalaiz, Martha Irving, Sofia Banzhaf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:10:03

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

The much-anticipated follow-up to The Birth House, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most powerful storytellers.

 

'I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.'

The Virgin Cure begins in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. A series of betrayals lead Moth, at only twelve years old, to the wild, murky world of the Bowery, where eventually she meets Miss Everett, the owner of a brothel simply known as 'The Infant School.' Miss Everett caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for companions who are 'willing and clean,' and the most desirable of them all are young virgins like Moth.

 

While Moth's housemates risk falling prey to the myth of the 'virgin cure'—the belief that deflowering a girl can heal the incurable and tainted—her new friend Dr. Sadie warns Moth to question and observe the world around her so she won't share the same fate. Still, Moth dreams of answering to no one but herself. There's a high price for such independence, though, and no one knows that better than a girl from Chrystie Street.

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ID: 638829

Title: Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food

Author: Chris van Tulleken

Narrator: Chris van Tulleken, Xand Van Tulleken

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:35:47

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Business & Economics, Health & Wellness, Diet & Nutrition, Business Development

Summary:

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • The bestselling and eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and impact of ultra-processed food.

With a new Afterword by the author.

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • The Economist • The Times • The New Yorker • Smithsonian • Daily Mail • The Guardian • Financial Times • and more!

It's not you, it's the food.

How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not meet traditional definitions of “food”? Chances are, if you’re eating something that came wrapped in plastic and contains a funky ingredient you don’t have in your kitchen, it's most likely—almost definitely—ultra-processed food, or UPF. More than the principal obstacle to “eating right,” UPF has been linked to metabolic disease, depression, inflammation, anxiety, and cancer, while the production, distribution, and disposal of UPF and related products globally is known to cause devastating environmental damage. At the same time, UPF represents the dominant, nigh-unavoidable food culture for millions upon millions of eaters.

Medical doctor and broadcaster Chris van Tulleken has spent his career trying to reframe the conversation around eating right, balancing the hard (and sometimes shocking) facts about what we're putting into our bodies with empathy for the natural desire to keep eating what we like, have time for, and can afford. As he argues in this book, we are all participants in an experiment we didn't consent to, one to determine how to get us to buy as much ultra-processed food as possible. It’s not as simple as stumbling across the right diet trend, finding time to meal plan, or avoiding over-indulging in sugar, fat, or carbs or any other culprit. Nor is it a matter of individual will. It’s about learning to live in “the third age of eating”—defined by the overwhelming abundance of ultra-processed eating options—and arming yourself with the simple and not-so-simple facts that will help you make the choices that are right for you.

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ID: 629576

Title: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Sing along with Floella

Author: Floella Benjamin

Narrator: Floella Benjamin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:19:15

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under

Summary:

Enjoy a family singalong with Baroness Floella Benjamin, including favourites such as 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes', 'Incy Wincy Spider' and 'Round and Round the Garden'!

This brilliant audiobook features 15 familiar action songs and rhymes to enjoy. You can also learn about Floella's own childhood memories and traditions, and join in with her on every song.

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ID: 637958

Title: Breakfast Club Adventures: The Ghoul in the School

Author: Marcus Rashford

Narrator: Kenton Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:48:47

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Humor

Summary:

Marcus and the Breakfast Club Investigators are back in The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Ghoul in the School! From #1 bestselling author Marcus Rashford comes another exciting adventure full of fantastic friendships, high-stakes mysteries and strange goings-on! Written with Alex Falase-Koya, it's the perfect audiobook for children aged 8-11.

There’s something strange going on at school . . .

The Breakfast Club Investigators haven't managed to solve a mystery in months and Marcus is worried that the group is going to break up! So when Gbenga, the captain of the school basketball team, comes to ask for their help Marcus knows this might just be the Investigator's last chance to prove themselves.

The basketball team have had a streak of bad luck, and Marcus and his mates are sure there's more going on than meets the eye. As the mystery deepens and they uncover one surprising clue after another, they discover that someone – or something – has cursed the basketball team! Can Marcus and his friends solve the mystery in time?

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ID: 678884

Title: Sans Souci: And Other Stories

Author: Dionne Brand

Narrator: Andrea Holstein, Emerjade Simm, Jessica Powell, Patrice Henry, Sashoya Simpson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:13:36

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Black Literature

Summary:

The breathtaking debut short story collection—first published in 1989—from one of Canada's most original and influential writers. Newly available in a special reissue edition from Knopf Canada.

“This is political art at its searing best.”—The Women's Review of Books

Since her the appearance of her novel In Another Place, Not Here, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, award-winning author Dionne Brand has become one of the most revered figures in Canadian fiction. Sans Souci is Brand’s bold fiction debut, collecting eleven stories that breathe life and language into the lives of women in the Caribbean and the Black diaspora, often dealing with the process—and aftermath—of transit and arrival. Brand’s fiction dissects sexual violence, racial prejudice, and war, while attending to the full spectrum of experiences of those who live in the shadow of a shared colonial past—experiences encompassing both joy and sorrow, release and constraint. Now available for the first time in more than a decade, Sans Souci and Other Stories is a foundational work from one of our most cherished literary artists and thinkers.

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