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ID: 537137

Title: I Am Not Who You Think I Am

Author: Eric Rickstad

Narrator: Steven Weber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:55:03

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age

Summary:

A New York Times Best Thriller of the Year

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

An Apple Best Book of the Month

A tale not just of profound misunderstanding but dynastic wealth and dysfunction, of how money and power can warp a community[A] shocker of a finale. New York Times

''Wicked and smart. Everything you want in a great thriller.'' Adrian McKinty, New York Times bestselling author of The Chain

One secret.Eight cryptic words.Lifetimes of ruin.

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author

Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Who was his father if not the loving man Wayland knew? Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret, but his reasons for being afraid are just beginning.

Eight years later, Wayland makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and others in his town want to keep buried.

With the help of two friends, Wayland searches for the truth. Together they uncover strange messages scribbled in his fathers old books, a sinister history behind the towns most powerful family, and a bizarre tragedy possibly linked to Waylands birth. Each revelation raises more questions and deepens Waylands suspicions of everyone around him. Soon, hell regret he ever found the note, trusted his friends, or believed in such a thing as the truth.

I Am Not Who You Think I Am is an ingenious, addictive, and shattering tale of grief, obsession, and fate as eight words lead to lifetimes of ruin.

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ID: 567037

Title: Buried Memories

Author: Simon R. Green

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:05:34

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Paranormal

Summary:

Returning to the small town where he crash-landed in 1963, Ishmael Jones is in search of answers. But his investigation is derailed by a brutal murder.

I think something very bad and very dangerous has come to your little town, Inspector

As long-buried memories from his hidden past begin to resurface, Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny feel compelled to return to the small country town where Ishmael crash-landed in 1963; the place where his memories began. Norton Hedley is no ordinary town. Apparitions, sudden disappearances, sightings of unusual beasts: for centuries, the place has been plagued by a series of inexplicable events.

Ishmaels first task is to track down local author Vincent Smith, the one man he believes may have some answers. Ishmael and Penny arent the only ones seeking the mysterious Mr. Smith. When their search unearths a newly dead body in the local mortuarya body thats definitely not supposed to be thereIshmael becomes the prime suspect in the ensuing murder investigation. His only hope of discovering the truth about his origins lies in exposing a ruthless killer.

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ID: 524313

Title: Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different

Author: Douglas Coupland

Narrator: Andrew Moodie, Anna Faris, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Klosterman, Douglas Coupland, Genki Ferguson, Jane Pratt, Jarvis Cocker, Katie Ryerson, Michael Stipe, Salvatore Antonio, Stephanie Belding, Victoria Carr, Will Ferguson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:16:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one.

Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not.

    Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny.

    Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls 'the voice of the people,' inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert.

Featuring stories narrated by:

Victoria Carr; Selena Dhillon; Stephanie Belding; Lorna Wilson; Liz Dunn; Jane Pratt; Charlotte Shaifer; Caleb Stull; Salvatore Antonio; Will Ferguson; Douglas Coupland ; Genki Ferguson; Jarvis Cocker; Chuck Klosterman; Michael Stipe; and Bret Easton Ellis

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ID: 524570

Title: Bewilderment: A novel

Author: Richard Powers

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:51:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General

Summary:

OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE

A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Overstory.

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by New York, Chicago Tribune, BookPage, Literary Hub, The Millions, New Statesmen and Times of London

The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while singlehandedly raising his unusual nine-year-old son, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures of the endangered animals he loves. He is also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face.

What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his troubled son is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? 

With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing visions of life beyond and its account of a father and son's ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers's most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperilled planet?

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ID: 524556

Title: Disorientation: Being Black in the World

Author: Ian Williams

Narrator: Ian Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:31:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Political Advocacy

Summary:

A FINALIST FOR THE 2021 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

 

Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to today's urgent conversation on race and racism in startling, illuminating essays that grow out of his own experience as a Black man moving through the world.

 

    With that one eloquent word, disorientation, Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people—the whiplash of race that occurs while minding one's own business. Sometimes the consequences are only irritating, but sometimes they are deadly. Spurred by the police killings and street protests of 2020, Williams realized he could offer a perspective distinct from the almost exclusively America-centric books on race topping the bestseller lists, because of one salient fact: he has lived in Trinidad (where he was never the only Black person in the room), in Canada (where he often was), and in the United States (where as a Black man from the Caribbean, he was a different kind of 'only').

    Inspired by the essays of James Baldwin, in which the personal becomes the gateway to larger ideas, Williams explores such things as the unmistakable moment when a child realizes they are Black; the ten characteristics of institutional whiteness; how friendship forms a bulwark against being a target of racism; the meaning and uses of a Black person's smile; and blame culture—or how do we make meaningful change when no one feels responsible for the systemic structures of the past. With these essays, Williams wants to reach a multi-racial audience of people who believe that civil conversation on even the most charged subjects is possible. Examining the past and the present in order to speak to the future, he offers new thinking, honest feeling, and his astonishing, piercing gift of language.

 

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ID: 524560

Title: Mystery of Right and Wrong

Author: Wayne Johnston

Narrator: Brad Hodder, Frank Cox-O'connell, Kelly Van Der Burg, Patrick Garrow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:49:29

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The Mystery of Right and Wrong is a masterwork from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that is both compulsively readable and heartstopping in the vital truth it unfolds. In a novel that grapples with sexual abuse, male violence and madness, Wayne Johnston reveals haunting family secrets he’s kept for more than thirty years.

Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John’s, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.

 

Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters. Her father, Hans, lived in Amsterdam during the Second World War, and says he was in the Dutch resistance. When the war ended, he emigrated to South Africa, where he met his wife, Myra, had his daughters and worked as an accounting professor at the University of Cape Town. Something happened, though, that caused him to uproot his family and move them all, unhappily, to Newfoundland.

 

Wade soon discovers that Rachel and her sisters are each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldest, Gloria, has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner dealer husband, Fritz, can lay his hands on. Bethany, the most sardonic of the sisters, is fighting a losing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond—an obsession that has deeper and more disturbing roots than Wade could ever have imagined.

 

Confronting the central mystery of his character Rachel’s life—and his own—Wayne Johnston has created a tour-de-force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to foresee. As he writes, “The Mystery of Right and Wrong is a memorialization of the lost, the missing women of the world, and of my world. I see it not as a dark book, but as one that sheds light—a lot of light—on things that, once illuminated, lose their power to distort the truth.”

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ID: 561372

Title: Doll House

Author: Amour

Narrator: Kris Rom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:16:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

In the gritty streets of Toledo, Ohio, Doll finds her world turned upside down. Her mother, April Jones, is back on drugs, and her guardian, Unc, winds up in jail, leaving her to face the world alone. Her first love, Zae, is the father of the baby she miscarried, and he has broken her heart. It seems as if all her friends are jealous and stab her in the back. After all the lies, drama, tears, and betrayals, she decides to move to Atlanta to be with her aunt and her younger sister, Fall.

There she finds the love of her life, but her first love isnt done with her. Zae believes that if he cant have her, then no one will. She soon realizes that Atlanta consists of the same hate Toledo had for her, plus a few deaths. Doll is convinced that shes cursed, because it seems as if she cant get a break to save her life. Will she overcome the misery that wants to accompany her? Only time will tell.

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ID: 561371

Title: Killer Poet

Author: Yoshe

Narrator: Tony Isabella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:04:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Black Literature

Summary:

Growing up in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Brooklyn isnt easy, but for a long time it seemed as if Prince Poet Washington might defy those odds.

Sixteen years ago, his father abandoned the family, so Poet has always felt a sense of responsibility. At twenty years old, he is the man of the house, keeping a watchful eye on his two younger sisters and helping his hardworking mother with the bills. Its not easy, but as a loyal son and brother, Poet feels its his obligation to take care of his family.

His willingness to protect them by any means necessary may seem admirable to most, but when Poet unwittingly goes above and beyond the call of duty, horrible secrets are revealed. Now the trust and the bonds that he worked so hard to build are threatened. Will Poet succumb to the pressure?

The Killer Poet is a poignant story about a misguided young man torn between two factors: his allegiance to his family and doing whatever it takes to survive in the streets. Unfortunately, Poet is forced to make a deadly choicea choice that could cost many lives, including his own.

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ID: 561368

Title: Felonious Monk

Author: William Kotzwinkle

Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Meet Tommy Martini, the monk with an anger management problem. Since killing somebody with a single punch is not a needed talent in a monastery, he spends his time praying, meditating, and taking his anger management medicine. But his meditations are interrupted by a legacy from his uncle, a crooked priest. Arriving in a New Age Arizona town to claim his inheritance, Brother Tommy meets a charismatic, smoking-hot cult leader who claims that women are being impregnated by alien beings while they sleep. Tommys own sleep is disturbedby cartel hitmen, Mafia bill collectors, and women intrigued by his vow of chastity. He loses his anger management medicine in time to deal with the hitmen, but the women present an uphill battle.

William Kotzwinkles quicksilver touch has produced an effervescent piece of entertainment filled with suspense, turns you wont see coming, and the humor for which he is famous.

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ID: 524324

Title: Where Beauty Survived: A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia

Author: George Elliott Clarke

Narrator: George Elliott Clarke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:53:38

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-21

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, North America, History & Culture

Summary:

A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished lineage on his paternal side—great-grandson to William Andrew White, the first Black officer (non-commissioned) in the British army—George felt called to live up to the family name. In contrast, his mother's relatives were warm, down-to-earth country folk. Such contradictions underlay much of his life and upbringing—Black and White, country and city, outstanding and ordinary, high and low. With vulnerability and humour, George shows us how these dualities shaped him as a poet and thinker.

 

At the book’s heart is George’s turbulent relationship with his father, an autodidact who valued art, music and books but worked an unfulfilling railway job. Bill could be loving and patient, but he also acted out destructive frustrations, assaulting George’s mother and sometimes George and his brothers, too.

 

Where Beauty Survived is the story of a complicated family, of the emotional stress that white racism exerts on Black households, of the unique cultural geography of Africadia, of a child who became a poet, and of long-kept secrets.

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