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ID: 605384

Title: Francie's Got a Gun

Author: Carrie Snyder

Narrator: Carrie Snyder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:06:45

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Family Life

Summary:

ONE OF CBC'S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022

A suspenseful and poignant tale from an award-winning writer about a girl navigating chaotic family life in a close-knit small town.

On a June afternoon in a small city, a wild-eyed girl named Francie dashes down a neighbourhood street, clutching a gun. She doesn’t know exactly what she’s running from, and she doesn’t know what she’s heading towards. All she understands is the need to survive. To save herself, she has no choice but to run—and to save those she loves, she must hold tight to that gun.

Swirling around Francie is a chorus of friends, family, and neighbours, each person with a different view of her. As we hear from these voices—Francie’s steadfast best friend, Alice; Alice’s comically unaware mother, Sally, and struggling mathematician father, David; Francie’s distressed and distracted mother, Marietta, and troubled, unwell father, Luce—a fractured portrait emerges of the girl and the village surrounding her. And at last we arrive at a still point in the chaos: a tall tree where Francie takes shelter, and where the meaning of her flight—for herself, and for the people around her—becomes clear.

In Francie’s Got a Gun, award-winning writer Carrie Snyder assembles a chorus of unforgettable characters who are both well-intentioned and flawed. At their centre is Francie, a vulnerable, imaginative girl with surprising attachments to each of them. Here is a propulsive, polyphonic, heart-expanding novel—equal parts sorrow and humour, fear and love, anger and kindness—about social breakdown and the quest for connection in a close-knit community.

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ID: 590255

Title: When You Get The Chance

Author: Emma Lord

Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:17:26

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

When You Get The Chance is a heartwarming listen from Emma Lord, the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club pick You Have a Match.

Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price's dream of becoming a Broadway star. Not her lovable but super introverted dad, who raised Millie alone since she was a baby or her drama club rival, Oliver, who is the very definition of Simmering Romantic Tension. Millie needs an ally. And when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal from 2003, Millie knows just what to do find her mum.

But how can you find a new part of your life and expect it to fit into your old one without leaving any marks? And why is it that when you go looking for the past, it somehow keeps bringing you back to what you've had all along?

Praise for Emma Lord:

'Brimming with energy, rapid-fire banter, and affectionate theater references, this memorable Mamma Mia! retelling . . . thoughtfully pays homage while skillfully modernizing it for today's readers.' - Publishers Weekly

'Chock-full of musical theater references and humor, the novel includes high-stakes emotional drama that is balanced by supportive friendships and strong, deep family connections . . . An entertaining personal journey with plot twists galore.' - Kirkus Reviews

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ID: 590257

Title: Tweet Cute

Author: Emma Lord

Narrator: Dan Bittner, Emily Shaffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:07:59

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

A fresh, irresistible rom-com from Emma Lord, Tweet Cute is about the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love can be found in the opposite place you expected.

Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist and secretly running Big League Burger's massive Twitter account.

Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper's side. When he isn't trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin's shadow, he's busy working in his family's deli and when Big League Burger steals his grandma's iconic grilled cheese recipe, he'll do whatever it takes to take them down, one tweet at a time.

All's fair in love and cheese – that is, until Pepper and Jack's spat turns into a viral Twitter war. Little do they know, while they're publicly duelling it out, they're also falling for each other on an anonymous chat app. As their relationship deepens and their online shenanigans escalate, even these two rivals can't ignore they were destined for the most unexpected, awkward, all-the-feels romance . . .

'Gossip Girl meets Mean Girls mixed with To All The Boys I've Loved Before with a touch of You've Got Mail. It's basically impossible not to like.' — Hypable

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ID: 568528

Title: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Author: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrator: Patrick Radden Keefe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:28:48

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

The New York Times Bestseller

From the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.

'Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting' - The Observer

This audio edition is read by the author, Patrick Radden Keefe.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has been recognized by prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford in the UK, for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. As Keefe observes in his preface: ‘They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.’

Keefe explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines; examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist; spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain; chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant; and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the ‘worst of the worst’, among other bravura works of literary journalism.

The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event; collected here for the first time listeners can hear how his work forms an always enthralling yet also deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up to them.

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ID: 627164

Title: Precious Jules

Author: Shawn Nocher

Narrator: Eva Kaminsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:44:15

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

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

Summary:

A deeply felt family narrative that examines the fine line between selfishness and what passes for love.

After nearly two hundred years of housing retardants, as they were once known, the Beechwood Institute is closing the doors on its dark history, and the complicated task of reassigning residents has begun. Ella Jules, having arrived at Beechwood at the tender age of eight, must now rely on the state to decide her future. Ellas aging parents have requested that she be returned to her childhood home, much to the distress of Ellas siblings, but more so to Lynetta, her beloved caretaker who has been by her side for decades. The five adult Jules children, haunted by their early memories of their sister, and each dealing with the trauma of her banishment in their own flawed way, are converging on the family home, arriving from the far corners of the countrysecrets in towto talk some sense into their aging parents and get to the root of this inexplicable change of heart.

The Precious Jules examines the thin line between selfishness and what passes for love. This family story asks what is best for one child in light of what is perceived as the greater good, and just what is the collective legacy of buried family secrets, shame, and helplessness. The Precious Jules is a deeply felt family narrative that will make you fall in love with these flawed and imperfect characters standing on the threshold of an awakening they never expected.

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ID: 597800

Title: Cemetery Boys

Author: Aiden Thomas

Narrator: Avi Roque

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:46:58

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Teen, Paranormal, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

Cemetery Boys is an LGBTQIA+ ghost story about magic, acceptance and what it means to be your true self. From the instant New York Times-bestelling author Aiden Thomas.

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.

In an attempt to prove himself a true brujo and gain his family’s acceptance, Yadriel decides to summon his cousin’s ghost and help him cross to the afterlife.

But things get complicated when he accidentally summons the ghost of his high school’s resident bad boy, Julian Diaz – and Julian won't go into death quietly.

The two boys must work together if Yadriel is to move forward with his plan.

But the more time Yadriel and Julian spend together, the harder it is to let each other go . . .

'A celebration of culture and identity that will captivate readers with its richly detailed world, earnest romance, and thrilling supernatural mystery' – Isabel Sterling, author of These Witches Don't Burn

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ID: 597801

Title: My Mechanical Romance: An Opposites-attract YA Romance from the Bestselling Author of The Atlas Six

Author: Alexene Farol Follmuth

Narrator: Amielynn Abellera, Christopher Salazar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:46:05

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

An adorable opposites-attract YA romance, from the TikTok sensation and globally bestselling author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake). Alexene Farol Follmuth's My Mechanical Romance explores the vulnerability of first love . . . while building robots!

'It’s romcom perfection' – Adiba Jaigirdar, author of The Henna Wars

Nerds are so hot. Especially battle–robot–building nerds.

When Bel accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s forced into joining the robotics club. Enter Mateo Luna, perfect on paper – captain of the football team and the robotics club – who recognizes Bel as a potential asset, even if they couldn’t be more different. And as the nights of after–school work grow longer, Bel and Teo realize they've made more than just a combat–ready robot for the championship: they’ve made a connection themselves.

But with graduation approaching, their differences and what they want for their futures, threatens what they’ve built together. Can they survive Nationals without breaking their robots – or their hearts?

'Academic rivals to lovers is one of my favourite tropes and this book delivered it perfectly' - Lottie, NetGalley review

'An adorable, nerdy, feel-good read that will leave you blissfully satisfied' - NetGalley Review

'I sped through this book and loved every minute' - Poppy, NetGalley Review

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ID: 597802

Title: Lost in the Never Woods

Author: Aiden Thomas

Narrator: Avi Roque

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:14:39

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-22

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

From the instant New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas, comes Lost in the Never Woods, an atmospheric, supernatural Peter Pan retelling . . .

It has been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods but, when the towns children start to disappear, the questions surrounding her brothers mysterious circumstances are brought back into the light. Attempting to flee her past, Wendy almost runs over an unconscious boy lying in the middle of the road. . .

Peter, a boy she thought lived only in her stories, asks for Wendys help to rescue the missing kids. But, in order to find them, Wendy must confront whats waiting for her in the woods.

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ID: 625765

Title: Ultimate Classic Collection for Children

Author: Charles Dickens, Charles Perrault, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Zarr, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: A Full Cast, Barbara Rosenblat, Georgia Lee Schultz, Megan Follows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:25:39

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, General, Classics

Summary:

This delightful collection of thirteen childrens classic stories features Alice in Wonderland*, The Bell, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella*, Emily of New Moon, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Scourge of the Desert**, The Secret Garden, Sleeping Beauty*, Snow White*, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

*Awarded Gold (full-cast dramatization) HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival** International Radio Festival Winner

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ID: 597894

Title: Rehearsals for Living

Author: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robyn Maynard

Narrator: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Marcia Johnson, Prince Amponsah, Robyn Maynard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:15:11

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-22

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, History & Culture

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

ONE OF THE CBC'S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.

When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. These letters soon grew into a powerful exchange about where we go from here.

Rehearsals for Living is a captivating and visionary work—part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and reiterating the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment, Maynard and Simpson create something new: an urgent demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up other ways of ordering earthly life.

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