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ID: 548831

Title: Stone Diaries

Author: Carol Shields

Narrator: Deborah Drakeford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:55:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and unconventional life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.

In The Stone Diaries, one of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, Carol Shields weaves the strands of Daisy’s life together in a rich, sensuous, and poignant work that delivers lasting insights into the nature of life—and fiction.

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ID: 590252

Title: Scenes from My Life: A Memoir

Author: Michael K. Williams

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:50:17

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

The New York Times BESTSELLER

A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back – from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft Country.

'Narrator Dion Graham’s deep voice and emotionally fueled performance beautifully portray Michael K. Williams’s journey from outsider to actor to activist...Graham channels Williams, in part, by pitching his voice low and adding a bit of gravel and a slight New York accent...Graham’s powerful performance pays tribute to William’s impactful and tragic life.' - AudioFile

When Michael K. Williams died on 6 September 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. From his star turn as Omar Little in The Wire to Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire to Emmy-nominated roles in HBO’s The Night Of and Lovecraft Country, Williams inhabited a slew of indelible roles that he portrayed with a rawness and vulnerability that leapt off the screen. Beyond the nominations and acclaim, Williams played characters who connected, whose humanity couldn’t be denied, whose stories were too often left out of the main narrative.

At the time of his death, Williams had nearly finished a memoir that tells the story of his past while looking to the future, a book that merges his life and his life’s work. Mike, as his friends knew him, was so much more than an actor. In Scenes from My Life, he traces his life in whole, from his childhood in East Flatbush and his early years as a dancer to his battles with addiction and the bar fight that left his face with his distinguishing scar. He was a committed Brooklyn resident and activist who dedicated his life to working with social justice organisations and his community, especially in helping at-risk youth find their voice and carve out their future. Williams worked to keep the spotlight on those he fought for and with, whom he believed in with his whole heart.

Imbued with poignance and raw honesty, Scenes from My Life is the story of a performer who gave his all to everything he did – in his own voice, in his own words, as only he could.

'Immensely inspiring and candid' - Publishers Weekly

'Soul-baring' - The Washington Post

'A gripping, revelatory memoir' - NPR

'William's cool rasp leaps off every page, his story told in the direct yet impassioned language that defined his greatest characters' - Vulture

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ID: 616580

Title: Less Mess, Less Stress: The No-Shame Guide to a Cleaner Home

Author: Rachel Hoffman

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller, Patricia Rodriguez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:47:47

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Home & Garden

Summary:

Looking for a cleaner home without the upkeep taking over your whole life?

Those of us living in the real world know that it can be challenging to keep a clean and tidy home. Busy lifestyles, shared housing, physical limitations or mental health issues can all contribute to making a once calm environment feel daunting and stressful.

The Unf*ck Your Habitat system in Less Mess, Less Stress works with you, not against you, and shows how just thirty minutes (including a ten minute break!) can transform any space. With low-effort, high-reward tricks, tips, lists and challenges, Rachel Hoffman's reassuring guide is full of no-nonsense advice and practical help on things you can do today for a less messy tomorrow.

While this book won’t wash your dishes or fold your laundry, it will give you all the tools you’ll need to stay on top because everyone deserves – and can have – a home with less mess and less stress.

Previously published as Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better than Your Mess

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ID: 615767

Title: Olive Tree

Author: Lucinda Riley

Narrator: Harry Whittaker, Lucinda Riley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:53:26

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Holiday, Contemporary, Family Life

Summary:

A summer in Cyprus reveals many secrets in The Olive Tree, the number one international bestseller from Lucinda Riley, author of the bestselling Seven Sisters series.

Read by the author and her son, Harry Whittaker.

A magical house. A momentous summer.

As a young woman, Helena spent a magical holiday at Pandora, a beautiful house in Cyprus – and fell in love for the first time. Now, twenty-four years later and following the loss of her godfather, she has inherited Pandora. And, though it is a crumbling shadow of its former self, Helena returns with her family to spend the summer there.

When, by chance, Helena meets her childhood sweetheart, her past threatens to collide with her present. She knows that the idyllic beauty of Pandora masks a web of secrets that she has kept from her husband and thirteen-year-old son. And that, once its secrets have been revealed, their lives will never be the same . . .

'It will whisk you away to the glorious sunshine of Cyprus . . . refreshingly different' – Daily Express

This title has been published outside the UK under the title Helena's Secret.

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ID: 599717

Title: Love and the Dream Come True

Author: Tammy L. Gray

Narrator: Alex Boyles, Erica Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:16:44

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, Religious & Inspirational, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Their faith will face its toughest test yet.

Four years after getting the biggest break of his life, Cameron Lees music career has taken a nose dive, leaving him two options: become a sellout or give up on his lifelong dream. He reluctantly returns home for his sisters wedding, hoping to avoid his past and find his love for music again.

Single mom Lexie Walters has suffered her fair share of tragedies and setbacks, but she has finally scraped together the money to achieve her dream of going into business with her cousin as an interior designer. When Lexies life is at an all-time high, she runs into her teenage crush, Cameron Lee.

Lost in the emotional turmoil of failure, Cameron is immediately drawn to Lexie and her infectious smile and optimistic spirit. Moreover, he adores her mouthy, no-holds-barred daughter. But fantasies only last so long, and soon Lexie and Cameron must face the real world, the one fraught with heartbreak, disappointment, and questions that sometimes can only be answered by a leap of faith.

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ID: 576907

Title: Till the Wheels Fall Off

Author: Brad Zellar

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:27:08

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Family Life

Summary:

From roller rinks and record players to coin-operated condom dispensers and small-town mobsters, Till the Wheels Fall Off is a novel about an unconventional childhood among the pleasures and privations of the pre-digital era.

Its the late 1980s, and Matthew Carnap is awake most nights, afflicted by a potent combination of insomnia and undiagnosed ADHD. Sometimes he gazes out his bedroom window into the dark; sometimes he wanders the streets of his small southern Minnesota town. But more often than not, he crosses the hall into his stepfather Russs roller rink to spend the sleepless hours lost in music. Russs record collection is as eclectic as it is extensive, and he and Matthew bond over discovering new tunes and spinning perfect skate mixes. Then Matthews mother divorces Russ; they move; the roller rink closes; the twenty-first century arrives. Years later, an isolated, restless Matthew moves back to his hometown. From an unusual apartment in the pressbox of the high school football stadium, he searches his memories, looking for something that might reconnect him with Russ.

With humor and empathy, Brad Zellar (House of Coates) returns with a discursive, lo-fi novel about rural Midwestern life, nostalgia, neurodiversity, masculinity, and family.

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ID: 638918

Title: Reward System

Author: Jem Calder

Narrator: Freddie Gaminara, Olivia Dowd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:19:07

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Knopf Canada

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

Summary:

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian ● Esquire ● The White Review ● NPR

Jem Calder's Reward System is a set of ultra-contemporary and electrifyingly fresh fictions about a generation on the cusp, enmeshed in Zooms and lockdowns, loneliness and love.

Audacious fictions for a generation wondering: What now?

Julia has landed a fresh start at an up-and-coming city restaurant.

'Imagine that,' says her mother.

'I’m imagining.'

Her ex-boyfriend Nick is flirting with sobriety and nobody else. Did you know that adults his age are more likely to live with their parents than with a romantic partner?

Life should have started to take shape by now—but instead we’re trying on new versions of ourselves, swiping left and right, searching for a good answer to the question 'What do you do?'

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ID: 601219

Title: Lesson in Dying

Author: Ann Cleeves

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:34:29

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-22

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

Who hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party?

Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn. Inspector Ramsay is convinced it was the headmaster’s enigmatic wife but Jack Robson, school governor and caretaker, is determined to prove her innocence.

With the help of his restless daughter Patty, Jack digs into the secrets of Heppleburn, and uncovers a cesspit of lies, adultery, blackmail and madness . . .

Continue the detective series with Murder in My Backyard.

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ID: 597796

Title: Murder in My Backyard

Author: Ann Cleeves

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:48:01

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-22

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

Murder in My Backyard is the second mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David’s Eve.

When detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge. Yes, old Mrs. Parry was loved by everyone, but sometimes her kindness had caused trouble. Yes, her two nephews were devoted to her, but they didn’t really want her interfering in their rather complicated personal lives. Even among her neighbours, Alice Parry’s helpfulness had sometimes misfired; and after her death, tension tight as a clenched fist grips the uneasy village.

Meanwhile, the suspects keep rolling in, and Heppleburn’s friendly neighbourhood killer continues his nasty piece of work . . .

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ID: 591669

Title: Sons of Valor II: Violence of Action

Author: Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:34:11

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, War & Military

Summary:

From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson

They train to be the toughest, the smartest, the most covert operators in the worldthey are the Tier One Navy SEALs, led by Lieutenant Commander Keith Chunk Redman.

When a former teammate of Chunks is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core teamSaw, a skilled and lethal sniper; Riker, who has an uncanny ability to escape death; and Whitney Watts, a former CIA analyst who sees patterns everyone else seems to missare mobilized to prosecute the threat.

But this is no ordinary counterattack, because someone posts the details of the hit all over social media, taunting the American SEALs. Worse, the enemy seems prepared to counter all the Tier Ones moves, a dangerous new stage in the war on terror and a troubling sign that whoever is behind the attack is planning something bigger.

Fearing they may have been duped into chasing the wrong target, Chunk and his team embark on a high-stakes cat-and-mouse mission where nothingand no oneis what they expect. And when their enemy finds a way to strike at the heart of whats nearest and dearest to them, it will test not only their bonds but also the personal sacrifices theyve made to keep America safe.

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