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ID: 627421

Title: Memories in Focus

Author: Pinchas Gutter

Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Pinchas Gutter, Stephen Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:06:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-23

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, History & Culture

Summary:

Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to become almost invisible. But after liberation, his photographic memory won’t let his past fade away, and Pinchas struggles to deal with nightmares and flashbacks while raising a family and trying to heal his emotional scars. As he journeys from England to France, Israel, Brazil and South Africa, Pinchas searches for belonging before finally finding his true home in Canada. A poignant reflection on suffering, injustice and trauma, Memories in Focus also offers hope and faith in the future.

Introduction by Stephen Smith.

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ID: 642133

Title: Begin Again

Author: Emma Lord

Narrator: Georgina Sadler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:51:13

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

Filled with a friend group that feels like family, an empowering journey of finding your own way, and a Just Kiss Already! romance, Begin Again is an unforgettable novel of love and starting again.

As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: transfer to the hyper competitive Blue Ridge State and chase her lifelong goal of becoming an iconic self-help figure. All it will take is ruthless organization, hard work, and her trademark unrelenting enthusiasm to pull it all together.

But the moment Andie arrives, her plans go off the rails. Her rocky relationship with her boyfriend Connor only gets more complicated and she meets Milo who disrupts all her ideas about love and relationships.

Sometimes, when all your plans are rubble at your feet, you find out what you're made of.

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ID: 605390

Title: Heartbroken: Field Notes on a Constant Condition

Author: Laura Pratt

Narrator: Laura Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:40:09

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Psychology, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

Imbued with longing, erudition and hard-earned wisdom, Heartbroken dares to delve into a universal ordeal—perhaps the one that makes us the most human of all.

When Laura Pratt’s long-distance partner of six years tells her “it’s over” at a busy downtown train station, she is sent reeling, the breakup coming out of the blue. He, meanwhile, closes himself off, refusing to acknowledge Laura and her requests for explanation.

In the following days, months and then years, Laura struggles to make sense of this sudden ending, alone and filled with questions. A journalist, she seeks to understand the freefall that is heartbreak and how so many before her survived it, drawing on forces across time and form, and uncovers literary, philosophical, scientific and psychological accounts of the mysterious alchemy of how we human beings fall in love in the first place, and why, when it ends, some of us take longer to get over it, or never do. She weaves this background of cultural history with her own bracing story of passionate love and its loss, and offers some hope for arriving—changed, broadened, grateful—on the other side.

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ID: 610706

Title: Available Wife: Part 2

Author: Carla Pennington

Narrator: Adah King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:56:08

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Six months after her husband Germaine ran off with her two boys, Niquole Wright has a sweet tooth for revenge. Even more selfish and devious than before, Niquole will stop at nothing to get her kids back and make her husband suffer. Her street savvy personality mixed with her no-nonsense attitude has Niquole believing she has free reign to screw anyone who gets in her way. Soon, someone unexpected re-enters Niquoles life and seems to be one of the many obstacles slowing her down and threatening to ruin her plans. Will the grimy road that Niquole travels finally cut her off for good? Or will she thrive amongst those who pretend to love her?

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ID: 597778

Title: Killjoy

Author: Ann Cleeves

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:19:23

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, General

Summary:

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again

Killjoy is the fourth mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

The youth theatre cast are in their places but Gus Lynch’s female lead is missing, that is, until she’s found in the boot of his car . . .

Detective Inspector Stephen Ramsay and Sergeant Gordon Hunter are assigned to head the murder enquiry, meanwhile violence is escalating on the Starling Farm Estate as police battle to contain the latest outbreak of joyriding. Is the death of Gabriella connected to the events at Starling Farm?

When another death occurs, investigations suggest a possible link, and Ramsay realizes what could have provoked someone to kill . . . and kill again.

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ID: 582960

Title: How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Productivity in Anxious Times

Author: Chris Bailey

Narrator: Chris Bailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:03:34

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

How to Calm Your Mind offers a toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies that reveal how the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, runs directly through calm.

When productivity expert Chris Bailey discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard, he realized that he had no right to be giving advice on productivity without learning when and how to rein things in and take a break. Productivity advice works – and we need it now more than ever – but it’s just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don’t just feel more comfortable in our own skin, we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental resources at our disposal not only to do good work, but also to live a good life.

Among the topics How to Calm Your Mind covers are:

- How analogue and digital worlds affect calm and anxiety in different ways;

- How our desire for dopamine breeds anxiety,

- How hidden sources of stress can be tamed by a ‘stimulation fast’;

- How ‘busyness’ is as much a state of mind as it is an actual state of life.

The pursuit of calm ultimately leads us to become more engaged, focused and deliberate – while making us more productive and satisfied with our lives overall. In an anxious world, achieving calm is the best life hack around.

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ID: 578320

Title: Stella Maris

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:54:03

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger.

'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' – New York Times

A mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, and one request. She does not want to talk about her brother.

Stella Maris is book two in a duology, preceded by The Passenger.

Praise for The Passenger:

'What a glorious sunset song . . . It’s rich and it’s strange, mercurial and melancholic' – Guardian

'The Passenger shows that McCarthy belongs in the company of Melville and Dostoevsky, writers the world will never cease to need' – New Statesman

Praise for Cormac McCarthy:

‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren

'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series

'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

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ID: 597759

Title: Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy

Author: Ann Cleeves

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:04:23

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, General

Summary:

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again

A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy is the third mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled . . .

As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorothea’s last hours. He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases – a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care – and even her close family have their secrets to hide. All these people are haunted, in one way or another, by Dorothea’s goodness. But which of them could have possibly wanted her dead?

It is not until a second body is discovered that Ramsay starts to understand how Dorothea lived – and why she died. With the carnival festivities in full swing and dusk falling in Otterbridge, Ramsay’s murder investigation reaches its chilling climax . . .

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ID: 576004

Title: Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan

Author: Michael Livingston

Narrator: Harriet Mcdougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer, Michael Livingston, Rosamund Pike

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:35:02

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series The Wheel of Time, including a biography of Robert Jordan for the first time.

‘Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal’ – New York Times on The Wheel of Time series

Explore never-before-seen insights into The Wheel of Time, including:

- A brand-new, redrawn world map by Ellisa Mitchell using change requests discovered in Robert Jordan’s unpublished notes

- An alternate scene from an early draft of The Eye of the World

This companion to the internationally bestselling series will delve into the creation of Robert Jordan’s masterpiece, drawing from interviews and an unprecedented examination of his unpublished notes. Michael Livingston tells the behind-the-scenes story of who Jordan was (including a chapter that is the very first published biography of the author), how he worked, and why he holds such an important place in modern literature.

The second part of the book is a glossary to the ‘real world’ in The Wheel of Time. King Arthur is in The Wheel of Time. Merlin, too. But so is Alexander the Great and the Apollo Space Program, the Norse gods and Napoleon’s greatest defeat – and so much more.

Origins of The Wheel of Time will provide exciting knowledge and insights to both new and longtime fans looking either to expand their understanding of the series or unearth the real-life influences that Jordan utilized in his world-building – all in one accessible text.

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ID: 629579

Title: All Things Wise and Wonderful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

Author: James Herriot

Narrator: Nicholas Ralph

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:14:55

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

This audio edition is read by Nicholas Ralph, known for his role as James Herriot in the All Creatures Great and Small TV series.

** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 **

Training as an RAF pilot in the smoke and bustle of wartime London is a far cry from James Herriot’s day job as a country vet in the Yorkshire Dales. And whilst he is keen to serve King and country, James cannot help but miss his life in Darrowby – despite frequent arguments between his colleagues Siegfried and Tristan, bad-tempered cattle, opinionated farmers and the continuing saga of Cedric the flatulent dog. But most of all he misses his wife Helen; pregnant with their first child. The question constantly hanging over them is – will he be going to war? And when will he get to go home?

Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Things Wise and Wonderful is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.

Contains Vets Might Fly and Vet in a Spin.

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