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ID: 589916

Title: Very Good Hats

Author: Emma Straub

Narrator: Kevin R. Free

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:03:35

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Humor

Summary:

The first picture book by bestselling novelist Emma Straub, adapted for audio, this joyous and inventive listen will inspire kids to see ordinary objects in a whole new way.

Some people think hats are fancy things you can buy at a dressy store, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In this audiobook, acorns and raspberries are snug hats for your fingers, and an empty pudding cup is a good hat for a stuffed bear. Pajama pants make dangly hats, books can be dramatic hats, and bubbles make very fine hats as well (if temporary). Listeners will be delighted to discover that anything can be a hat if you believe it is. Hats are everywhere you look!

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ID: 588806

Title: Mount Misery: A Novel

Author: Samuel Shem

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21:28:26

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological

Summary:

From the Laws of Mount Misery:

There are no laws in psychiatry.

Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery is a prestigious facility set in the rolling green hills of New England, its country club atmosphere maintained by generous corporate contributions. Dr. Roy Basch (hero of The House of God) is lucky enough to train there *only to discover doctors caught up in the circus of competing psychiatric theories, and patients who are often there for one main reason: they've got good insurance.

From the Laws of Mount Misery:

Your colleagues will hurt you more than your patients.

On rounds at Mount Misery, it's not always easy for Basch to tell the patients from the doctors: Errol Cabot, the drug cowboy whose practice provides him with guinea pigs for his imaginative prescription cocktails . . . Blair Heiler, the world expert on borderlines (a diagnosis that applies to just about everybody) . . . A. K. Lowell, née Aliyah K. Lowenschteiner, whose Freudian analytic technique is so razor sharp it prohibits her from actually speaking to patients . . . And Schlomo Dove, the loony, outlandish shrink accused of having sex with a beautiful, well-to-do female patient.

From the Laws of Mount Misery:

Psychiatrists specialize in their defects.

For Basch the practice of psychiatry soon becomes a nightmare in which psychiatrists compete with one another to find the best ways to reduce human beings to blubbering drug-addled pods, or incite them to an extreme where excessive rage is the only rational response, or tie them up in Freudian knots. And all the while, the doctors seem less interested in their patients' mental health than in a host of other things *managed care insurance money, drug company research grants and kickbacks, and their own professional advancement.

From the Laws of Mount Misery:

In psychiatry, first comes treatment, then comes diagnosis.

What The House of God did for doctoring the body, Mount Misery does for doctoring the mind. A practicing psychiatrist, Samuel Shem brings vivid authenticity and extraordinary storytelling gifts to this long-awaited sequel, to create a novel that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, terrifying, and provocative. Filled with biting irony and a wonderful sense of the absurd, Mount Misery tells you everything you'll never learn in therapy. And it's a hell of a lot funnier.

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ID: 651856

Title: Rebecca: The Sound of Applause

Author: Jacqueline Dembar Greene

Narrator: Carlotta Brentan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

In this first book of her series, Rebecca Rubin was born for the stage. If only her very traditional family understood this!

When her cousin Ana’s family needs money to leave Russia, Rebecca puts on a sidewalk show, but all she earns is a scolding. Once Ana arrives in New York, Rebecca shares her room and her clothes and helps her cousin learn English. But when Ana is assigned to sing with her in a school program, Rebecca’s heart sinks. Ana’s Russian accent will ruin the show! Rebecca realizes her performance is one thing she does not want to share with her cousin. But how can she explain that to Ana?

This audiobook includes a historical “Looking Back” section.

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF containing a glossary of foreign words heard throughout the story.

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ID: 578883

Title: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Author: Heather Fawcett

Narrator: Ell Potter, Michael Dodds

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:05:31

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Romantasy

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.

“A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, PopSugar, Polygon, The Globe and Mail, She Reads

Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people.

So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her.

But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart.

Book One of the Emily Wilde Series

Don’t miss any of Heather Fawcett’s charming Emily Wilde series:

EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES • EMILY WILDE’S MAP OF THE OTHERLANDS • EMILY WILDE’S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES

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ID: 587672

Title: Bad Cree: A Novel

Author: Jessica Johns

Narrator: Tanis Parenteau

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:14:18

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Multicultural & Interracial

Summary:

In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.

'A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart.' —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club

When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears.   

Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family’s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too—a murder of crows stalks her every move around the city, she wakes up from a dream of drowning throwing up water, and gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina—Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone.

Traveling north to her rural hometown in Alberta, she finds her family still steeped in the same grief that she ran away to Vancouver to escape. They welcome her back, but their shaky reunion only seems to intensify her dreams—and make them more dangerous.

What really happened that night at the lake, and what did it have to do with Sabrina’s death? Only a bad Cree would put their family at risk, but what if whatever has been calling Mackenzie home was already inside?

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ID: 584569

Title: Spirit of the Place

Author: Samuel Shem

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:10:17

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General

Summary:

From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death... 

Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga instructor and working in Europe, Dr. Orville Rose's peace is shaken by his mother's death. On his return to Columbia, a Hudson River town of quirky people and “plagued by breakage,” he learns that his mother has willed him a large sum of money, her 1981 Chrysler, and her Victorian house in the center of town. There's one odd catch: he must live in her house for one year and thirteen days. As he struggles with his decision—to stay and meet the terms of the will or return to his life in Italy—Orville reconnects with family, reunites with former friends, and comes to terms with old rivals and bitter memories. In the process he’ll discover his own history, as well as his mother’s, and finally learn what it really means to be a healer, and to be healed.

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ID: 651857

Title: Lights, Camera, Rebecca!

Author: Jacqueline Dembar Greene

Narrator: Carlotta Brentan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:53:01

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Holidays

Summary:

Rebecca’s story continues in the second book in her series.

For her tenth birthday, Rebecca is invited to visit her cousin Max’s movie studio! When the cameras begin to roll, she finds herself unexpectedly presented with a part to play. Rebecca doesn’t have the courage to tell her family, but is it wrong to keep such a big secret? Later that summer, on a visit to the factory where her uncle and cousin work, Rebecca is horrified. Is this the life that’s in store for cousin Ana? There must be a way to improve conditions at the factory, and Rebecca is determined to do her part—even if it means marching straight into danger.

This audiobook includes a historical “Looking Back” section.

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF containing a glossary of foreign words heard throughout the story.

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ID: 651460

Title: Kaya: The Journey Begins

Author: Janet Beeler Shaw

Narrator: Kyla Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:59:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Kaya’s adventure begins in the first book in her series.

Kaya knows in her heart that her beautiful Appaloosa mare, Steps High, is the fastest horse in the herd. But when boasting leads to a daring bareback race, Kaya pushes Steps High too hard. She puts herself and the horse in danger and earns a terrible nickname for being untrustworthy. Kaya vows to be a girl her horse and her people can trust. When enemy raiders storm Kaya’s village, she tries to save Steps High but gets taken captive herself, along with her sister. All Kaya can think of is escape, but how?

This audiobook includes a historical “Looking Back” section.

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF containing a glossary of Nez Perce words heard throughout the story.

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ID: 587863

Title: In the Upper Country: A Novel

Author: Kai Thomas

Narrator: Milton Barnes, Tymika Tafari, Wesley French

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:46:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Penguin Audio

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

Summary:

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

*WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTION

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARD

The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.

Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south—whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border.

 

One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman recently arrived via the Underground Railroad. When the old woman, whose name is Cash, refuses to flee before the authorities arrive, the farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before Cash is condemned.

 

But Cash doesn't want to confess. Instead she proposes a barter: a story for a story. And so begins an extraordinary exchange of tales that reveal the interwoven history of Canada and the United States; of Indigenous peoples from a wide swath of what is called North America and of the Black men and women brought here into slavery and their free descendents on both sides of the border.

 

As Cash's time runs out, Lensinda realizes she knows far less than she believed not only about the complicated tapestry of her nation, but also of her own family history. And it seems that Cash may carry a secret that could shape Lensinda's destiny.

 

Sweeping along the path of the Underground Railroad from the southern States to Canada, through the lands of Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black communities of southern Ontario, In the Upper Country weaves together unlikely stories of love, survival, and familial upheaval that map the interconnected history of the peoples of North America in an entirely new and resonant way.

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ID: 636357

Title: All Are Neighbors (An All Are Welcome Book)

Author: Alexandra Penfold

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:04:29

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

When a new family moves in, the whole neighborhood comes together to celebrate their diverse community in this uplifting new book from the bestselling creators of All Are Welcome!

Let’s go walking down our street.

Friends and neighbors here to greet.

There are oh so many folks to meet.

We all are neighbors here.

Moving to a new place can be hard, but when your neighbors welcome you with open arms, there are so many things to discover and celebrate. Come along with the kids from the bestsellers of All Are Welcome and Big Feelings as they introduce the new kid to a community where everyone has a place and is loved and appreciated—no matter what.

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