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ID: 549725

Title: Scoundrel: How a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment and the courts to set him free

Author: Sarah Weinman

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:03:01

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-22

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Law & Politics

Summary:

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC AND ESQUIRE

A true-crime masterpiece, this is a story of wrongful exoneration about killer Edgar Smith and the prominent crusaders who fell prey to his charm.

Having spent almost half his lifetime in California's state penitentiary system, convicted killer Edgar Smith died in obscurity in 2017 at the age of eighty-three—a miracle, really, as he was meant to be executed nearly six decades earlier. Tried and convicted in the state of New Jersey for the 1957 murder of fifteen-year-old Victoria Zielinski, Smith was once the most famous convict in America.

    Scoundrel tells the true, almost-too-bizarre story of a man saved from Death Row by way of an unlikely friendship—developed in nearly 2000 pages of prison correspondence—with National Review founder William F. Buckley, Jr., one of the most famous figures in the neo-conservative movement. Buckley wrote articles, fundraised and hired lawyers to fight for a new trial, eventually enlisting the help of Sophie Wilkins, a book editor with whom Smith would have a torrid epistolary affair. As a result of these friends' advocacy, Smith not only gained his freedom, he vaulted to the highest intellectual echelons as a bestselling author, an expert on prison reform, and a minor celebrity—only to fall, spectacularly, back to earth, when his murderous impulses once more prevailed.

     Weinman's Scoundrel is a gripping investigation into a case where crime and culture intersect, where recent memory begins to slide into history and where the darkest of violent impulses meet literary ambition, human ego and hunger for fame.

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ID: 595324

Title: Welfare Grind

Author: Kendall Banks

Narrator: Rhyan Neco

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:35:02

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Black Literature

Summary:

Cold-hearted Keema takes the world by storm as she navigates her way through every trick and scam she can pull off. With four kids in tow, living off the welfare system had become her life along with the extra cash, sex, and violence her gangsta boyfriend Dupree brought into her life.

Soon, chaos erupts, causing Keemas secret past to become a problem. When the chips fall, they fall hard, leaving Keema willing to do whatever it takes to keep money in her pocket. Shes willing to go that extra mile, even if it means selling her kids or setting up her man.

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ID: 595328

Title: Filthy Rich: Part 2

Author: Kendall Banks

Narrator: Khalid Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:05:58

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Black Literature

Summary:

After an unsuspected raid destroys the Bishop family empire, many hands fight to take over the territory now up for grabs.

While Nessa thinks shes won against her cheating, womanizing ex-man, Luke plays a few chess moves of his own. His plan to win at a game his father instilled in him, while testifying against those he once loved, backfires terribly. Chetti simply isnt having it, and shell do whatever it takes to remain in control and live in the lap of luxury, while taking down her very own family.

Betrayal runs deep and love seems to have no meaning. As new enemies emerge, lives are lost and truth becomes eminent. Nessa, Luke, and Chetti involve themselves in a treacherous game that could leave everyone theyve ever loved dead.

This second installment of the Filthy Rich series is sure to have readers thrilled until the audiobook is complete.

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ID: 527874

Title: They

Author: Kay Dick

Narrator: Isabel Adomakoh-Young

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:48:24

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-22

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, LGBTQ+

Summary:

“A masterwork of English pastoral horror.” —Claire-Louise Bennett

“Creepily prescient . . . Insidiously horrifying!” —Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)

“I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.” —Lauren Groff

“Lush, strange, hypnotic, compulsive.” —Eimear McBride

'Crystalline . . . The signature of an enchantress.' —Edna O’Brien

'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' —Emily St John Mandel

Kay Dick's radical dystopian masterpiece, lost for forty years—with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.

   Published to some acclaim in 1977 but swiftly forgotten, Kay Dick's They follows a nameless, genderless narrator living along the lush but decimated English coast, where a loose cohort of cultural refugees live meditative, artistic, often polyamorous lives. But this rustic tranquility is punctuated by bursts of menace as they must continually flee a faceless oppressor, an organization known only as “They,” whose supporters range the countryside destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. As the menacing “They” creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out.

    An electrifying literary artefact—a lost dystopian masterpiece and overlooked queer classic—They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual.

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ID: 595325

Title: Filthy Rich: Part 1

Author: Kendall Banks

Narrator: Khalid Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:29:21

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Black Literature

Summary:

Whoever said the king has to be a man? In this gritty tale of money, sex, and mayhem, Chetti Bishop must protect her family empire at all costs, despite the violence launched against her. As a self-proclaimed bitch, her sights are set on becoming untouchable. Nothing gets in her way not even Nessa, a sexy outsider who secretly plots her revenge. The stakes soon become treacherous, while loyalty becomes nonexistent. As unsuspecting enemies emerge, murder is eminent, and the last one standing will walk away with millions.

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ID: 549726

Title: Pure Colour

Author: Sheila Heti

Narrator: Sheila Heti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:51:22

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-22

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER • THE GLOBE AND MAIL • VULTURE • CBC • GLAMOUR • READER'S DIGEST CANADA

“True and newly alive.” —Los Angeles Times

“One-of-a-kind. . . . nothing less than vital.” —The Guardian

A new novel about art, love, death and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?

Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.

    In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.

    Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

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ID: 594805

Title: Heartbreak: The Lenka Trilogy Part 1

Author: John Righten

Narrator: Greg Patmore, Siobhan Waring

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:56:23

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Politics, Political Advocacy, War & Military

Summary:

1990. Lenka Brett, a smart but unworldly young, Irish teacher, volunteers to deliver aid when the world learns of the horrifying plight of children in Romanian orphanages. An English naval officer, Captain Simon Syrianus, volunteers to be her co-driver. Together, they join a convoy of humanitarian aid drivers known as the Rogues, the last hope for those in areas where official charities cannot enter. Lenka falls in love, but when the Rogues become the target of mercenaries, tragedy follows and she discovers her lover is not who he appeared to be.

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ID: 578082

Title: Colony of Unrequited Dreams

Author: Wayne Johnston

Narrator: Colin Furlong, Mary Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:40:55

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-22

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Newly reissued alongside The Custodian of Paradise and the paperback debut of First Snow, Last Light.

A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. In this widely acclaimed novel, Johnston has created two of the most memorable and irreversibly intertwined characters in modern fiction: Joey Smallwood, who claws his way up from poverty to become New Foundland's first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding, who renounces her father's wealth to become a popular columnist and writer, a gifted satirist who casts a haunting shadow on Smallwood's life and career.

A tragicomic elegy for the 'colony of unrequited dreams' that is Newfoundland, Wayne Johnston's masterful tribute to a people and a place established him as a novelist who is as profound as he is funny, with an impeccable sense of the intersection where private lives and history collide.

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ID: 527870

Title: Free Love

Author: Tessa Hadley

Narrator: Abigail Thaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:01:45

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-22

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Romance, Contemporary Women, Feminist Fiction

Summary:

As 1960s London comes alive with the new youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations.

1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy.

But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family’s upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them.

With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters’ inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Daring and sensual, Free Love is an enthralling, irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our lives.

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ID: 524558

Title: Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement

Author: Toufah Jallow

Narrator: Toufah Jallow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:39:21

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-22

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Global Politics, Social Science, Women

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“This powerful story shouldn’t be missed.” Publishers Weekly (starred)

“A fiercely readable, potent memoir of a survivor who refuses to be silenced. . . . An inspirational page-turner.' Kirkus Reviews (starred)

An incandescent and inspiring memoir from a courageous young woman who, after she was forced to flee to Canada from her home in The Gambia, became the first woman to publicly call the country’s dictator to account for sexual assault—launching an unprecedented protest movement in West Africa.

In 2015, Toufah Jallow was a nineteen-year-old dreaming of a scholarship. Encouraged by her mother, she entered a presidential competition designed to identify and support the country’s smart young women, and she won.

Which brought her to the attention of Yahya Jammeh, the country’s dictator, who styled himself as a pious yet progressive protector of women. At first, he behaved in a fatherly fashion towards his winner, but then he proposed marriage. When Toufah turned him down, he drugged and raped her.

She could not tell anyone what happened. Not only was there no word for rape in her native language, if she told her parents, they would take action and incur Jammeh’s wrath. Wearing a niqab to hide her identity, she gave his security operatives the slip and fled to Senegal, eventually making her way to safety in Canada.

Then Jammeh was deposed. In July 2019, Toufah Jallow went home to testify against him in a public hearing, sparking marches of support and a social media outpouring of shared stories among West African women. Each bold decision Toufah made helped secure the future Jammeh had tried to steal from her, and also showed her a new path of leadership and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence.

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