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ID: 523152

Title: Denim Diaries 4: Broken Promises

Author: Darrien Lee

Narrator: Ryan Nikko

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:21:58

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

Jumping double-dutch is 12-year-old Tiffanys favorite pastime. Shes the most talented jumper at her school, incorporating flips and stunts into her routine. All that practice has made her the best in the mid-state area, good enough to enter into an upcoming competition. Then suddenly, her demeanor changes and she stops jumping rope altogether.

Her mother, who wasnt thrilled about Tiffanys obsession in the first place, easily accepts her excuse that shes just not feeling well. Tiffanys 16-year-old brother Levar, however, becomes suspicious there is more to the story when he catches her burning her clothes in a dumpster near the house. Unable to get his sister to open up to him, Levar shares his concerns with his friend Denim, who offers to reach out to Tiffany. Unfortunately, Tiffany withdraws even more when the unimaginable darkens Levars door and threatens to rip Tiffanys family apart forever.

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ID: 494241

Title: Centaur's Wife

Author: Amanda Leduc

Narrator: Victoria Carr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:55:16

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures.

Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived.

But the mountain that looms over the city is still green--somehow it has been spared the destruction that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Heather is one of the few who know the mountain, a place city-dwellers have always been forbidden to go. Her dad took her up the mountain when she was a child on a misguided quest to heal her legs, damaged at birth. The tragedy that resulted has shaped her life, bringing her both great sorrow and an undying connection to the deep magic of the mountain, made real by the beings she and her dad encountered that day: Estajfan, a centaur born of sorrow and of an ancient, impossible love, and his two siblings, marooned between the magical and the human world. Even as those in the city around her--led by Tasha, a charismatic doctor who fled to the city from the coast with her wife and other refugees--struggle to keep everyone alive, Heather constantly looks to the mountain, drawn by love, by fear, by the desire for rescue. She is torn in two by her awareness of what unleashed the meteor shower and what is coming for the few survivors, once the green and living earth makes a final reckoning of the usefulness of human life and finds it wanting.

At times devastating, but ultimately redemptive, Amanda Leduc's fable for our uncertain times reminds us that the most important things in life aren't things at all, but rather the people we want by our side at the end of the world.

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ID: 493470

Title: Town Called Solace

Author: Mary Lawson

Narrator: Ian Lake, Maggie Huculak, Tajja Isen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:32:31

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Coming of Age

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC BOOKS AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

 

'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' —Anne Tyler

New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the 'wilderness of the human heart', is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel that is different in subject but just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work.

A Town Called Solace, the brilliant and emotionally radiant new novel from Mary Lawson, her first in nearly a decade, opens on a family in crisis. Sixteen-year-old Rose is missing. Angry and rebellious, she had a row with her mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Left behind is seven-year-old Clara, Rose’s adoring little sister. Isolated by her parents’ efforts to protect her from the truth, Clara is bewildered and distraught. Her sole comfort is Moses, the cat next door, whom she is looking after for his elderly owner, Mrs. Orchard, who went into hospital weeks ago and has still not returned.

 

Enter Liam Kane, mid-thirties, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small northern town, who moves into Mrs. Orchard’s house—where, in Clara’s view, he emphatically does not belong. Within a matter of hours he receives a visit from the police. It seems he is suspected of a crime.

 

At the end of her life, Elizabeth Orchard is also thinking about a crime, one committed thirty years previously that had tragic consequences for two families, and in particular for one small child. She desperately wants to make amends before she dies.

 

Told through three distinct, compelling points of view, the novel cuts back and forth among these unforgettable characters to uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect them. A Town Called Solace is a masterful, suspenseful, darkly funny and deeply humane novel by one of our great storytellers.

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ID: 522586

Title: Science of Pets

Author: Scientific American

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:12:16

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, General

Summary:

In the US, more than half of households have a petusually more than one. Theyre usually considered members of the family, and some of us even call them our furry children. The strength of the human-pet bond tells us as much or more about ourselves as it does about our pets, and in this audiobook, we look at why dogs and cats behave the way they do and what makes our bond with them so strong.

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ID: 521046

Title: Fragile Brain: Neurodegenerative Diseases

Author: Scientific American

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:52:39

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Science & Technology, Medicine, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:

Brain diseases such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons affect an estimated one in six Americans and are increasing in incidence as the population ages. In this audiobook, we examine these and other conditions involving the damage and loss of neurons, including other forms of dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and multiple sclerosis (MS).

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ID: 521048

Title: Unidentified Woman #15

Author: David Housewright

Narrator: Brent Hinkley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:16:11

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

During one of the first heavy snows of the winter, on the Interstate outside the Twin Cities, Rushmore McKenzie is behind a truck behaving erratically when the man in the truck bed dumps a body out onto the road, right in front of McKenzies car. McKenzie avoids hitting the body, a bound woman who is just barely alive, but his stopped car in the middle of the road starts a chain of accidents, resulting in a thirty-seven car pile-up. By the time the police arrive, and the EMTs and ambulances have taken care of the immediate injuries, the truck is long gone.

The injured woman awakens with no memoriesnot of the accident, not of anythingand is labeled by the police as Unidentified Woman #15. With few leads, the detective in charge, McKenzies former partner and old friend Bobby Dunston, turns to McKenzie for a favor. Now McKenzie has to try to identify the grievously injured woman and find out who tied her up and dumped her on the freeway to die. And why.

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ID: 493483

Title: When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away with Murder

Author: Patricia Pearson

Narrator: Sarah Mennell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:10:03

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychology, Social Science

Summary:

In this provocative book, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson argues that our culture is in denial of women's innate capacity for aggression. We don't believe that women batter their husbands or abuse the majority of children in North America. We ignore the 200 percent increase in crime by women in a period when most crime statistics are dropping. Pearson weaves the stories of women such as Karla Homolka and Mary Beth Tinning (who smothered eight of her children) with the results of criminologists and psychiatrists to expose the myth of female innocence.

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ID: 494242

Title: Can You Hear Me Now?: How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live with Passion and Purpose

Author: Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Narrator: Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:43:42

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Women

Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

 

In Can You Hear Me Now?, Celina Caesar-Chavannes digs deep into her childhood and her life as a young Black woman entrepreneur and politician, and shows us that effective and humane leaders grow as much from their mistakes and vulnerabilities as from their strengths.

Celina Caesar-Chavannes, already a breaker of boundaries as a Black woman in business, got into politics because she wanted to make a bigger difference in the world. But when she became the first Black person elected to represent the federal riding of Whitby, Ontario, she hadn't really thought about the fact that Ottawa wasn't designed for someone like her. Celina soon found herself both making waves and breaking down, confronting at night, alone in her Ottawa apartment, all the painful beauty of her childhood and her troubled early adult life. She paid the price for speaking out about micro-aggressions and speaking up for her community and her riding, but she also felt exhilaration and empowerment. As she writes, 'This is not your typical leadership book where the person is placed in a situation and miraculously comes up with the right response for the wicked problem. This is the story of me falling in love, at last, with who I am, and finding my voice in the unlikeliest of places.'

     Both memoir and leadership book, Can You Hear Me Now? is a funny, self-aware, poignant, confessional and fierce look at how failing badly and screwing things up completely are truly more powerful lessons in how to conduct a life than extraordinary success. They build an utter honesty with yourself and others that allows you to say things nobody else dares to say--the necessary things about navigating the places that weren't built for you and holding firm to your principles. And, if you do that, you will help build a world where inclusion is real. Just as Celina is now trying to do, in all her brilliance and boldness.

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ID: 520217

Title: Secrets of Consciousness

Author: Scientific American

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:11:47

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:

Consciousness is more than mere awareness. Its how we experience the world, how we turn input into experience. Once the province of philosophy, religion, or perhaps fantasy, neuroscientists have added a scientific voice to the discussion, using available medical technology to explore just what separates so-called mind from brain. In this audiobook, we look at what science has to say about one of humankinds most fundamental, existential mysteries.

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ID: 491835

Title: This Is Not the Jess Show

Author: Anna Carey

Narrator: Suzy Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:23:02

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:

Black Mirror meets My So-Called Life in this fast-paced, timely YA thriller about separating fact from fictionand how far well go to create our own version of reality.

Like any other teenager, Jess Flynn is just trying to get through her junior year without drama but drama seems to keep finding her. Between a new crush on her childhood best friend, overprotective parents cramping her social life, and her younger sisters worsening health, the only constant is changeand her hometown of Swickley, which feels smaller by the day.

Swickley is getting weirder by the day, too. Half the population has been struck down by a mysterious flu. Conversations end awkwardly when Jess enters the room. And then one day, a tiny, sleek black devicewith an apple logo on itfalls out of her best friends backpack and lands at Jesss feet.

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