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ID: 665630

Title: How to Feel Better: A Guide to Navigating the Ebb and Flow of Life

Author: Cathy Rentzenbrink

Narrator: Cathy Rentzenbrink, Lucy Price-Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:12:53

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

'A tender appreciation of life’s beauty' Matt Haig, The Guardian

This audio edition is read by the author, Cathy Rentzenbrink.

In How to Feel Better, bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shares the advice that has seen her through life's ups and downs. From her etiquette for bad news to the words of wisdom she would like to pass onto her son, How to Feel Better is full of warm, gentle guidance and comfort for when you need it most.

Previously published as A Manual for Heartache, this revised edition contains a new introduction from Cathy and an inspiring addendum of advice from other authors on what they do to feel better, whatever the world throws their way.

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ID: 605389

Title: Far Cry

Author: Alissa York

Narrator: Hailey Gillis, Sturla Alvsvaag

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:40:41

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+

Summary:

In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most distinctive writers, evokes an era of unspoken desires in which pain and longing are braided together along treacherous lines.

It's 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden buildings strung along the rocks of Rivers Inlet on the northwest coast of British Columbia. The time has come for Anders Viken, storekeeper and honorary uncle to the recently orphaned Kit, to give an account of his secret self—from his first home in Norway, another land of islands and fjords, to his escape from his family's loving grip, to his wide-open years of rough living and impossible love.

As the sockeye flood up the inlet, Anders sets his secrets down for 18-year-old Kit, the only member of his chosen family he has left after her mother, Bobbie, scandalized Far Cry by running off with the camp's handsome Chinese cook, and her father, Frank, was found drowned alongside his own boat. While Anders does his reckoning, Kit fends off the attentions of the cannery manager and tries to earn her keep. Oars in hand, she glides her skiff out over the great returning school and casts her net. This, at least, makes sense to her, as opposed to the convoluted workings of love.

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ID: 651128

Title: Winnie-the-Pooh and Me: A Winnie-the-Pooh adventure in rhyme, featuring A.A Milne's and E.H Shepard's beloved characters

Author: Jeanne Willis

Narrator: Alfred Enoch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:10:25

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, General, Classics

Summary:

Winnie-the-Pooh and Me is a brand-new rhyming Winnie-the-Pooh adventure, featuring the best-loved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood.

Someone has come along to join Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin on their adventure, but who could it be? It can't be Kanga and Roo – they're sailing a boat – and it can't be Owl, because he's at home. Could it be Heffalumps who want to eat Pooh's beloved honey? Or perhaps Pooh and Christopher Robin are accompanied by a pair of friends who are never far away on a sunny day.

With gentle rhyming verse by bestselling author Jeanne Willis, inspired by A. A. Milne's classic poem 'Us Two' from Now We Are Six, and charming illustrations by Mark Burgess, in the style of E. H. Shepard, this authorised sequel is the perfect gift for anyone who loves the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh and friends.

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ID: 622341

Title: How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration

Author: Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:16:35

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

Best Books of 2023 in The Financial Times

Shortlisted for Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023

‘Important, timely, instructive and entertaining’ – Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

'Entertaining . . . compelling . . . there are lessons here for managers of all stripes' – The Economist

Megaproject expert Bent Flyvbjerg and bestselling author Dan Gardner reveal the secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious projects on any scale.

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant new reality. Think of how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to an enormously successful product launch in eleven months. But such successes are the exception. Consider how London’s Crossrail project delivered five years late and billions over budget. More modest endeavours, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why?

Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg. In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors that lead projects to fail, and the research-based principles that will make yours succeed:

- Understand your odds. If you don’t know them, you won’t win.

- Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it’s wrong.

- Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.

- Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.

- Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can’t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.

Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House to the making of Pixar blockbusters, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done – on time and on budget.

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ID: 611445

Title: Bloody Martini: A Felonious Monk Mystery

Author: William Kotzwinkle

Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:02:07

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Award-winning and bestselling author William Kotzwinkle is back with the second in the darkly comedic Felonious Monk series featuring Tommy Martini, a Benedictine monk with an anger management problem. Felonious Monk was praised as amiably satirical (Washington Post) and a whiplash adventure (Wall Street Journal).

Coalville is on firefrom below. The old mines are burning, and everyone has poison gas in their brain. Maybe thats why the town is so corrupt. Now that hes a Benedictine monk, Tommy Martini never wants to see the place againhell-raisers there hold a grudge till they die, and hes on their wish list. But a girl he once loved has gone missing, and his best friend from childhood has been murdered. Among the living is a shy girl from Tommys past, who wants to help. Together, they learn the secret of the elephants graveyard, and its not in Africa.

At the heart of Coalville is Parade Square, with plenty of pigeons, drugs, and child prostitution. Its the new small-town America, where Dionysus is dancing once again. William Kotzwinkles insight into this paradigm shift is shot through with the humor he is famous for, and the result is a spicy brew, a bloody martinijust one sip may keep you up all night.

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ID: 605386

Title: VenCo

Author: Cherie Dimaline

Narrator: Michelle St. John

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:09:46

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

From the bestselling author of Empire of Wild, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise—a book that only the supremely gifted storyteller Cherie Dimaline could write.

Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella, are about to be evicted from their apartment. Bad to worse in a heartbeat. Then one night, doing laundry in the building's dank basement, Lucky feels an irresistible something calling to her. Crawling through a hidden hole in the wall, she finds a tarnished silver spoon depicting a story-book hag over letters that spell out S-A-L-E-M.

 

Which alerts Salem-born Meena Good, finder of a matching spoon, to Lucky's existence. One of the most powerful witches in North America, Meena has been called to bring together seven special witches and seven special spoons—infused with magic and scattered to the four directions more than a century ago—to form a magic circle that will restore women to their rightful power. Under the wing of the international headhunting firm VenCo, devoted to placing exceptional women in roles where they can influence business, politics and the arts, Meena has spent years searching out witches hiding in plain sight wherever women gather: suburban book clubs, Mommy & Me groups, temp agencies. Lucky and her spoon are number six.

 

With only one more spoon to find, a very powerful adversary has Meena's coven in his sights—Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as witchcraft itself. As the clock ticks toward a now-or-never deadline, Meena sends Lucky and her grandmother on a dangerous, sometimes hilarious, road trip through the United States in search of the seventh spoon. The trail leads them at last to the darkly magical city of New Orleans, where Lucky's final showdown with Jay Christos will determine whether the coven will be completed, ushering in a new beginning, or whether witches will be forced to remain forever underground.

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ID: 654450

Title: Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers

Author: Marissa A. Harrison

Narrator: Katherine Fenton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:39:59

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

Youve heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some of the most disturbing serial killings ever seen in the United States. Yet scientific inquiry, criminal profiling, and public interest have focused more on their better-known male counterparts. As a result, female serial killers have been misunderstood, overlooked, and underestimated. In this riveting account, Dr. Marissa A. Harrison draws on original scientific research, various psychological perspectives, and richly detailed case studies to illuminate the stark differences between female and male serial killers backgrounds, motives, and crimes. She also emphasizes the countless victims of this grisly phenomenon to capture the complexity and tragedy of serial murder. Meticulously weaving data-based evidence and insight with intimate storytelling, Just As Deadly reveals how and why these women murderand why they often get away with it.

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ID: 638823

Title: Western Lane: A Novel

Author: Chetna Maroo

Narrator: Maya Saroya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:21:26

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-23

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life

Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.

'Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.' —The Times

Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo.

But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.

An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.

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ID: 617394

Title: Motivation: How to get it, how to use it and how to keep it

Author: Stefan Falk

Narrator: Eric Yang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:48:17

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Health & Wellness, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

A legendary performance coach shares his simple, proven and fun methods for cultivating motivation and keeping it.

Doing something for its inherent satisfaction – rather than external rewards – is the key to success and satisfaction in any endeavour. Motivation is the essential and comprehensive guide to how you can achieve this. Filled with practical methods and techniques Stefan Falk developed at McKinsey & Company, and through twenty-five years as a senior executive and performance coach working with elite athletes, top executives, special operators in the armed forces, and leaders from all walks of life.

To satisfy our psychological needs in today’s professional world, we must pursue them consciously and purposefully – but unfortunately, most of us don’t know how to do so effectively. The true solution to becoming happier, healthier and more productive is to become intrinsically motivated: to stop wasting time on activities that don’t really contribute to our careers or our company’s success, eschew the dog-eat-dog culture of modern business, and find ways to take pleasure in what we do –and to do it well. This ground-breaking audiobook will revolutionize your approach to success at work and beyond.

Published as Intrinsic Motivation in the United States.

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ID: 622343

Title: Sorry, Bro

Author: Taleen Voskuni

Narrator: Christine Mirzayan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:33

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Rom-Com

Summary:

From new best friend to girl of her dreams. Sorry, Bro is an #ownvoices debut rom-com - a bisexual My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

When Nar’s boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her a San Francisco bar, she realizes it’s time to find someone who shares her idea of romance.

Enter her mother who wants Nar to settle down with a nice Armenian boy. Armed with a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked men, she convinces Nar to attend 'Explore Armenia', a month-long festival of events in the city. But it’s not the parentally-approved playboy doctor or wealthy engineer who catches her eye - it’s Erebuni, a cool and intriguing young woman fully intouch with her heritage. Suddenly, with Erebuni as her guide, the events feel like far less of a chore, and much more of an adventure.

Erebuni helps Nar see the beauty of their shared culture and makes her feel understood in a way she never has before. But there’s one teeny problem: Nar’s not exactly out as bisexual.

A funny, heartfelt and deeply relatable rom com about family, cultural identity, queer love, and the process of self-discovery that continues into adulthood as identities evolve, all in a fresh, humorous voice.

Praise for Sorry, Bro:

'As I read [Sorry, Bro], I kept cackling out loud, I sometimes couldn't because I would be laughing so hard. But underneath the humour is such an important story of love between two women and the journey to rediscovering Armenian culture and heritage.' - Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties

'Sorry, Bro explores bisexuality, culture, and self-discovery through moments that will make you laugh out loud. This new writer brings a fresh take on self-identity, with a story that will capture both your heart and sense of humour.' - Diva Magazine

'With this radiantly ravishing debut, Taleen Voskuni beautifully illustrates the courage it can take to be your own true self and risk everything for love.' - Booklist—Starred Review

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