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ID: 590303

Title: Nature of Blood

Author: Caryl Phillips

Narrator: Allen Lewis Rickman, Elizabeth Knowelden, Julian Elfer, Kevin Kenerly, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Yelena Schmulenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:55:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

In this ambitious novel, Phillips creates a dazzling kaleidoscope of historical fiction, one that illuminates the dark legacy of Europes obsession with race and blood. At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp survivor, devastated by the loss of everyone she loves. Her story is interwoven with a cast of characters from both the present and past: her uncle Stephan, Othello the Moorish general, three Jews in fifteenth-century Venice, and an Ethiopian Jew struggling for acceptance in contemporary Israel. Tracing these characters through disparate lands and centuries, Phillips creates an unforgettable group portrait of individuals overwhelmed by the force of European tribalism.

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ID: 588015

Title: Her Perfect Secret

Author: T. J. Brearton

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:38:49

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The perfect fiancé or a murderers son?

Its him. Tom. I helped put his mom in prison for life. She killed his father. I recognize the sharp nose and flare to the nostrils. His thick eyebrows and defined cheekbones. But mostly its the eyes. Sea green.

But my daughter, Joni, keeps calling him Michael. And theyre here at the lake house telling us theyre getting married. She loves him. But I know hes lying. It must be him. But what do I say?

Suddenly Im thrust back fifteen years, looking through photos of a violent and bloody murder scene. We havent been the perfect family. But we got through it together. I will do anything to protect us, to protect the life weve fought for.

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ID: 622413

Title: Door with Seven Locks

Author: Edgar Wallace

Narrator: John Rayburn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:37:15

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Classics, Paranormal

Summary:

Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him from a conversation with librarian Sybil Lansdown to a meeting with a Doctor Stalletti, who will become a key figure. Along the way, Martin becomes involved with a small-time crookan expert at picking lockswho tells him about a recent lock-picking job that has made him quite nervous. But before he can pass along details, the lock-picker is murdered.

Next, the retiring detective gets involved in a couple of seemingly unrelated incidentsthe theft of an obscure book, and an assignment to chase after a very rich and very elusive young heir who is rarely seen. In the midst of all the chasing about, there is a desperate search underway for seven individual keys which, when all used together, can open a mysterious door in a familys tomb.

Doctor Stalletti is involved, clearly an unsympathetic and sinister character, suspected of carrying out unethical medical experiments, to say the least. There are glimpses of some powerful and dangerous creatures who may or may not be linked to the doctor. In addition, well hear of librarian Lansdowns unfortunate habit of getting herself into dangerous situations.

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ID: 644143

Title: Keeper of Stories

Author: Sally Page

Narrator: Jessica Whittaker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:16:48

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Contemporary Women

Summary:

A charming, uplifting debut novelfull of humor and depththat has taken readers around the world by surprise.

Everyone has a story to tell. But does Janice have the power to unlock her own?

She cant recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they had always done so, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her

Cleaner Janice knows that it is in peoples stories that you really get to know them. From recently widowed Fiona and her son Adam to opera-singing Geordie, the quiet bus driver Euan, and the pretentious Mrs. YeahYeahYeah and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her.

When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs. Ba shrewd and prickly woman in her ninetiesshe finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesnt have a story to tell. At least, not one she can share.

Mrs. B is no fool and knows there is more to Janice than meets the eye. What is she hiding? After all, doesnt everyone have a story to tell?

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ID: 616421

Title: Bequest

Author: Joanna Margaret

Narrator: Kimberly M. Wetherell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:17:34

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories

Summary:

After her professors suspicious death, a PhD student uncovers dark machinations among her academic associates in this richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable (Joyce Carol Oates) Gothic mystery set between Scotland, Italy, and France.

Fleeing a disastrous affair with a colleague in Boston, Isabel Henley moves to Scotland to begin a PhD with a renowned feminist professoronly to learn, upon arrival, that her advisor has suffered a deadly fall. Soon after, Isabel is informed that another scholar at the university is about to publish a book on her dissertation topic, leaving her disconcerted and in search of a new subject, all while struggling to acclimate to her new home abroad.

Isabel needs a good friend during such a rocky start, and finds one when she reconnects with Rose Brewster, her charismatic classmate from undergrad. But when Rose confides to Isabel that she is in trouble, and then goes missing, Isabels already-unsteady life is sent into a tailspin. A suicide note surfaces, followed by a coded message: Rose is alive but, unless Isabel can complete the research begun before her friends disappearance, both women will be killed by her captors.

As Isabel follows the Roses paper trail from Genoa to Florence and, finally, to Paris, she uncovers family secrets, the legend of an enormous cursed emerald, and a chain of betrayal and treason which parallels her own perilous present. If she can put the pieces together soon, she could solve a 400-year-old mysteryand save her and her friends lives in the process.

Combining epistolary elements, Gothic suspense, and an atmospheric dark academia setting, The Bequest is a gripping literary thriller that will appeal to fans of Alex Michaelides The Maidens and Donna Tartts The Secret History.

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ID: 639380

Title: Veniss Underground

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot, Emily Woo Zeller, Ron Butler, Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:34:24

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeers first novel, Veniss Underground, takes readers on a journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn.

Set in the mysterious and magical city of Veniss, a surreal metropolis that sits over an underground labyrinth of tunnels and mines. In this tale, epic and mythological in scope, VanderMeer takes the reader below the surface of the earth to the dark and decadent future. Its a world where Living Artists craft works out of biological material, and humans are either tossed out or recycled into something wholly unrecognizable.

Told from three distinct viewpointsNicholas, a not-quite-talented-enough Artist; his twin sister, Nicola; and Nicolas former lover, ShadrachVeniss Underground follows these characters as they embark on a journey to hell and back, replete with the blend of horrors (biological, environmental, and ethical) that also animate VanderMeers subsequent blockbuster novels. Veniss Underground explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession in a landscape that defies the boundaries of imagination.

This reissue includes a new introduction by the National Book Awardwinning author Charles Yu and more new material from Jeff VanderMeer.

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ID: 611983

Title: First Love

Author: Gwendoline Riley

Narrator: Esther Wane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Catastrophically ill-suited for each other, and forever straddling a line between relative calm and explosive confrontation, Neve and her husband, Edwyn, live together in London. For the moment they have reached a place of peace in their relationship, but past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that brought her to Edwyn, she describes other loves and other debtsfrom her bullying father and her self-involved mother, to a musician she struggled to forget.

Drawing us into the battleground of this marriage, Gwendoline Riley tells a transfixing story of mistakes and misalliances, of helplessness and hostility, in which both husband and wife have played a part. Could this possibly be, nonetheless, a story of love?

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ID: 613630

Title: Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed

Author: Andrew Koppelman

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:34:06

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:

A lively history of American libertarianism and its decay into dangerous fantasy.

In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department a yearly fee of $75.00. That year, Gene Cranicks house accidentally caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had forgotten to pay his yearly fee, leaving his home in ashes. Observers across the political spectrum agreedsome with horror and some with enthusiasmthat this revealed the true face of libertarianism. But libertarianism did not always require callous indifference to the misfortunes of others.

Modern libertarianism began with Friedrich Hayeks admirable corrective to the Depression-era vogue for central-economic planning. It resisted oppressive state power. It showed how capitalism could improve life for everyone. Yet today, its a toxic blend of anarchism, disdain for the weak, and rationalization for environmental catastrophe. Libertarians today accept new, radical arguments that crumble under scrutiny; justify dishonest business practices; and promote COVID-19 deniers, which includes many who refuse to wear masks in the name of freedom.

Andrew Koppelmans audiobook traces libertarianisms evolution from Hayeks moderate pro-market ideas to the romantic fabulism of Murray Rothbard, Robert Nozick, and Ayn Rand, as well as Charles Kochs promotion of climate change denial. Burning Down the House is the definitive history of an ideological movement that has reshaped American politics.

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ID: 614602

Title: Afterlife: Is There Consciousness After Death?

Author: Daniel Pinchbeck

Narrator: Jordan Byrne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:15:41

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Philosophy, Naturopathy & New Age, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

One of the deepest questions we can ask is: What happens after we die? For the past centuries, with the rise of scientific materialism, the prevailing answer to this has been: nothing.

Our conscious self-awareness is simply an accident of evolution, arising from the increasing complexity of the physical brain. There can be no awareness outside of the brain. However, scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, particularly in physics, flipped this over, supporting what mystics have said throughout time: Consciousness is the underlying reality, the ontological primitive, and the physical universe is a transitory expression of this indivisible, instinctive consciousness.

This revolution in scientific thought gives us reasonable grounds to reconsider a great deal of evidence pointing toward an afterlife. This includes children who spontaneously recall their past lives, mediums able to bring information from the deceased, Indo-Tibetan death meditation practices, and near-death experiences.

In Afterlife: Is There Consciousness After Death?, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pinchbeck (Breaking Open the Head, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl) builds the philosophical foundation for a new understanding and acceptance of our existence as souls and spirits within a larger continuum of consciousness, connecting contemporary scientific knowledge with ancient esoteric and shamanic wisdom traditions.

Changing our relationship to the afterlife will also transform our relationship to this world. As the worldview of monistic or analytic idealism displaces the obsolete model of reductive materialism, the values of our civilization will also change profoundly. Hence, on every level, this is a subject of primary importance for humanitys future.

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ID: 621431

Title: Corrosion

Author: Jon Bassoff

Narrator: Ramiz Monsef

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:55:11

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-22

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Noir

Summary:

A mysterious Iraq war veteran with a horribly scarred face A disturbed young man in a strange mountain town A masked preacher with a terrible secret Amidst a firestorm of violence, betrayal, and horror, their three worlds will eventually collide in an old mining shack buried deep in the mountains.

Corrosion, the shattering debut novel by Jon Bassoff, is equal parts Jim Thompson, Flannery OConnor, and William Faulkner and an unforgettable journey into the underbelly of crime and passion. Drawn from the darkest corners of the human experience, it is sure to haunt listeners for years to come.

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