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Title: The House on Via Gemito: A Novel

Author: Domenico Starnone

Narrator: Paul Bellantoni

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Release date: November 26, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR —the Washington Post & Kirkus Reviews A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction. A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a studio. Drying canvases moved from bed to floor each night. Federí, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced that he possesses great artistic promise. If it weren't for the family he must feed and the jealousy of his fellow artists, nothing would stop him from becoming a famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, talented but also arrogant and resentful, Federí is scarred by constant disappointment. He is a larger-than-life character, a liar, a fabulist, and his fantasies shape the lives of those around him, especially his son, Mimi, who will spend a lifetime trying to get out from under his father's shadow.

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Title: Broke Heart Blues: A Novel

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Barton Caplan, Vas Eli, Finlay Stevenson, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Brittany Pressley, Linda Jones, Fred Berman, Cassandra Campbell, Joyce Carol Oates

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 36 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy—already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley—who will claim the town itself. It is John Reddy who will arouse the desire of Willowsville’s teenage girls and the worship of its boys, the fear and envy of its men, and the yearning of its women. And it is John Reddy who will capture the town’s soul forever on the night a prominent citizen is shot dead in Dahlia Heart’s bedroom—and a statewide manhunt sweeps Willowsville’s rebel outlaw into the realm of living myth. Over the course of thirty years, Broke Heart Blues charts the rise and fall—and the ultimate call to reckoning— of John Reddy Heart, through the myriad voices of those who find him their whipping boy, savior, dream lover, and confessor. At once a scathing indictment of the cultlike nature of fame and celebrity in America and a deeply moving mediation on human need and longing, the novel explores loneliness, and the profound price we pay for our desires and dreams.

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Title: Requiem for a Dream

Author: Hubert Selby

Narrator: William DeMeritt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A tale of four people trapped by their addictions—the basis for the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film—by the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming of escape. When their heroin supply dries up, all three descend into an abyss of dependence and despair, their lives, like Sara’s, doomed by the destructive power of drugs. Tragic and captivating, Requiem for a Dream is one of Selby’s most powerful works and an indelible portrait of the ravages of addiction.

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Title: The Axeman's Carnival

Author: Catherine Chidgey

Narrator: Nic Sampson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Release date: November 7, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION AT THE 2023 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humor Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. “If it keeps me awake,” says Marnie's husband Rob, a farmer, “I'll have to wring its neck.” But with Tama come new possibilities for the couple's future. Tama can speak, and his fame is growing. Outside, in the pines, his father warns him of the wickedness wrought by humans. Indoors, Marnie confides in him about her violent marriage. The more Tama sees, the more the animal and the human worlds—and all the precarity, darkness and hope within them—bleed into one another. Like a stock truck filled with live cargo, the story moves inexorably towards its dramatic conclusion: the annual Axeman's Carnival.

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Title: Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop: The ultimate gift for cosy fiction lovers

Author: Kenji Ueda

Narrator: Kenichiro Thomson, Hanako Footman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Release date: November 7, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

From the publishers of the international bestseller Days at the Morisaki Bookshop comes a new book about the beauty of humble objects, the power of writing, and reconnecting with those you have lost. Write a letter, heal your heart . . . Hidden away in a corner of the Ginza neighbourhood is a venerable stationery shop. To venture inside is to find everything your stationery-loving heart desires, from the most delicate paper to fountain pens that fit exactly to the shape of your hand to gorgeously coloured inks. The shop owner intuits your every need, inviting you to take a seat at a small wooden table on the top floor, where you'll find the words flowing, helping you unlock repressed memories, secret longings and your own mysteries. To this shop comes a young company employee, uncertain in his career and needing a connection back to his past; the hostess of an elegant club; the vice-captain of a high-school archery team, an ageing businessman and a formerly homeless sushi chef. With impeccable manners and a warm demeanour, the shop owner helps each of them with more than just their stationery needs.

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Title: Queen Macbeth

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Lesley Harcourt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Release date: September 24, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Britain’s reigning “Queen of Crime” (The Scotsman), internationally bestselling and award-winning author Val McDermid has ensnared audiences worldwide for more than thirty years with her thrilling and masterfully plotted crime oeuvre. Now, in this radical, rip-roaring counternarrative drawing on the historical record, McDermid peels back the patriarchal prejudices of history and delivers an illuminating portrait of Shakespeare’s most famous villain, and the treacherous pursuit of ambition that made her legendary: Lady Macbeth.A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions—a healer, a weaver, and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her—because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth. As the net closes in, what unfurls is a tale of passion, forced marriage, bloody massacre, and the harsh realities of medieval Scotland. At the heart of it is one strong, charismatic woman, who survived loss and jeopardy to outwit the endless plotting of a string of ruthless and power-hungry men. Her struggle won her a country. But now it could cost her life.Immersive and utterly riveting, Queen Macbeth is an electric reimagining of one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated tragedies and reaffirms McDermid as one of the preeminent writers of our day.'A page-turning tale of adversity and adventure, laughter and love, death and defiance.'—The Scotsman (UK)

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Title: Seek the Singing Fish

Author: Roma Wells

Narrator: Sharmila Devar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Release date: September 24, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Growing up in the lagoon town of Batticaloa, a young girl with an unquenchable curiosity and love of the natural world, is entangled in the trauma and turmoil of the Sri Lankan civil war. Uprooted from everything she holds dear, tragedy and betrayal set in motion an unforgettable odyssey. Torn from east to west, struggling with what it means to belong, she desperately seeks a way home to the land of the singing fish.

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Title: Death in the Air

Author: Ram Murali

Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Release date: September 19, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Ro Krishna has it all – rakish charm, an Oxford education, perfect hair. He's the kind of guy who's equally at home in London's poshest clubs and on the squash court, with enviable wit and style to match. When he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job that he loves, he decides it's time to check in for some much-needed R&R at Samsara, a world-class spa for the global cosmopolitan elite nestled in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, where all your wishes are just a gilded notecard away. But it's not just heiresses, white yoga instructors, and Bollywood stars-to-be that have checked in to Samsara: Christmas is approaching, and death is on its way…

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Title: Elaine

Author: Will Self

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet—a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author’s mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desireWILL SELF is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed “the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation” by The Guardian. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this … it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that places her marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril. Based on the intimate diaries Self’s mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer’s attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm: a parent’s interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Will Self working in an exciting new dimension, employing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.

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Title: [French] - Attentat

Author: Amélie Nothomb

Narrator: Violaine Fumeau

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Epiphane Otos serait-il condamné, par sa laideur, à vivre exclu de la société des hommes et interdit d'amour ? Tour à tour martyr et tortionnaire de ses contemporains, il sera ambassadeur de la monstruosité internationale, juré d'un concours de beauté au Japon, mais aussi et surtout, amoureux. Car que peut une âme sensible enfermée dans un corps disgracié, sinon vénérer l'absolu sous les traits d'une femme ? Amélie Nothomb, à travers ces confessions, décline avec ce mélange d'humour, de tendresse et de cruauté qui, d'Hygiène de l'assassin aux Catilinaires et à Peplum, ont imposé son talent corrosif, une histoire d'amour aussi infernale qu'impossible.