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Title: In Tongues: A Novel

Author: Thomas Grattan

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Time, Bloomberg, and Electric Literature. RuPaul and Eric Cervini's Allstora Book Club Pick for June. 'Thomas Grattan is a master of plot—that rare ability—which makes In Tongues a real roller coaster: funny, sad, shocking, and, finally, quite moving.' —Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance 'An amiable, zippy novel that also smuggles in a sharp analysis of family, class and the intergenerational inheritance of gay men.' ―The Washington Post A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery. It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself. A lush, heart-quickening novel about family and art, sex and class, and the terror of self-discovery, Thomas Grattan’s In Tongues chronicles Gordon’s perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to New York and, later, to Europe and Mexico City. As he floats further into Phillip and Nicola’s exclusive universe, and as lines blur between employee, muse, lover, and mentor, Gordon’s charm, manipulation, and growing ambition begin to escape his own control, in turn threatening to unravel the lives, and lies, of those around him. Anchored by winsome lyricism, glinting intellect, and a main character whose yearnings and mistakes come to feel like our own, In Tongues crackles with fierce longing and pointed emotion, further confirming Grattan as a rare chronicler of young adulthood’s joys and devastations. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Title: The Astronaut from Bear Creek

Author: Nick Allen Brown

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Release date: August 27, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Ten years ago, retired astronaut Jim Mayfield closed himself up inside Bear Creek Inn, and he hasn't been seen since. Just when the small town of Bear Creek had almost forgotten about their reclusive and mysterious resident, a man from out-of-town flies in on a private jet to meet with the astronaut. The visit prompts the good people of the small town to begin asking questions. Who is Jim Mayfield? Why did he lock himself away? And who is the stranger that visited him? While the small town asks these questions, the most puzzling thing of all occurs when Bear Creek Inn takes in two guests for the first time in ten years.

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Title: What I'd Rather Not Think About

Author: Jente Posthuma

Narrator: Sophie Roberts

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Release date: August 22, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them? This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly.

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Title: Mater 2-10

Author: Hwang Sok-Yong

Narrator: Yong Kim

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Release date: August 22, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a powerful account that captures a nation's longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South, a magical-realist novel that manages to reflect the lives of modern industrial workers, and a culmination of Hwang's career ? a masterpiece thirty years in the making. A true voice of a generation, Hwang shows again why he is unmatched when it comes to depicting the grief of a divided nation and bringing to life the cultural identity and trials and tribulations of the Korean people.

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Title: [German] - Ein glückliches Tal - Die Geschichte einer Landärztin (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Polly Morland

Narrator: Sandrine Mittelstädt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Release date: August 16, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Der britische Buchhändlerliebling: Eine Liebeserklärung an das einfache Leben, an menschliche Nähe und an die Schönheit der Natur Als Polly Morland das Haus ihrer Mutter ausräumt, findet sie eine alte Ausgabe von John Bergers Buch 'A Fortunate Man', das von einem Landarzt erzählt, der in einem abgelegenen Tal arbeitete. Berührt von seiner Geschichte begibt sich Morland auf die Reise, die Frau kennenzulernen, die heute seine Praxis betreibt. Sie begegnet einer Ärztin, die eine Seltenheit ist in der modernen Medizin: Sie kennt ihre Patienten in- und auswendig, und ihre Geschichten sind eng mit ihren eigenen verwoben. Morlands Bericht ist eine bewegende Liebeserklärung an eine besondere Landschaft, an eine Gemeinschaft und vor allem eine wunderschöne Meditation darüber, was es bedeutet, eine gute Ärztin und ein guter Mensch zu sein. Das Hörbuch wird mit ruhiger Ausdruckstiefe von Sandrine Mittelstädt gelesen.

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Title: [German] - Unser Buch der seltsamen Dinge (Ungekürzt)

Author: Jennie Godfrey

Narrator: Jodie Ahlborn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Miv und ihre beste Freundin Sharon sind unzertrennlich. Als Mivs Vater mit der Familie wegziehen möchte, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Eine brutale Mordserie hält Yorkshire in Atem, doch ihr Zuhause und Sharon hinter sich zu lassen, kann Miv sich trotzdem nicht vorstellen. Egal, wie seltsam es dort auch geworden ist, seitdem ihre Mutter aufgehört hat zu sprechen und Tante Jean sich nun um alles kümmert. Was wäre, wenn der Mörder gefasst würde? Könnte Miv dann bleiben? Also beginnen die beiden Mädchen, auf eigene Faust die Menschen in ihrer Nachbarschaft zu beobachten - und setzen dabei Dinge in Gang, die alles verändern werden. Einfühlsam und klug erzählt Jennie Godfrey von Familie, Freundschaft und Zusammenhalt und eröffnet ein weites Gesellschaftspanorama, voll ergreifender Schicksale und liebenswerter Figuren.

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Title: [German] - Donnerstags im Café unter den Kirschbäumen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Michiko Aoyama

Narrator: Tim Gössler, Jana Kozewa

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Ein Café unter Kirschbäumen. Ein magischer Ort. Eine Einladung an das Leben. Das Café Marble liegt beschaulich an einem kleinen Fluss im Schatten der Kirschbäume in einem Vorort von Tokio. Mit seinen drei Tischen aus unbehandeltem Holz ist es eine Oase der Ruhe. Hier arbeitet der junge Wataru, der stets einen klugen Rat für seine Gäste hat. Heimlich schwärmt er für die junge Frau, die jeden Donnerstag bei ihm eine Tasse heißen Kakao trinkt. Jede Woche sitzt sie an ihrem Stammplatz und schreibt Briefe. Es sind Luftpostbriefe, verfasst in englischer Sprache. Manchmal hat sie dabei ein Lächeln im Gesicht, manchmal eine Träne. Wataru würde gerne mehr von ihr erfahren. Neben der geheimnisvollen Briefeschreiberin empfängt er aber auch noch weitere Gäste. Da ist der unglücklich verliebte Verkäufer, die erfolgreiche Unternehmerin, die mit ihrer Mutterrolle hadert, oder die junge Kindergärtnerin mit unkonventionellen Arbeitsmethoden ... Sie alle kommen, um in dem Café einen Moment innezuhalten. Und die meisten Besucher brauchen mehr als nur eine heiße Schokolade, um ihrem Leben eine neue Wendung zu verleihen.

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Title: [German] - Reichskanzlerplatz (Ungekürzt)

Author: Nora Bossong

Narrator: Cédric Cavatore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Release date: August 7, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Berlin, 1919: Als Hans die junge Stiefmutter seines Schulfreunds Hellmut Quandt kennenlernt, ahnt er nicht, welche Rolle Magda in seinem Leben spielen wird - für ihn persönlich, aber auch Jahre später als fanatische Nationalsozialistin und Vorzeigemutter des Dritten Reichs. Noch ist die Weimarer Republik im Aufbruch und Hans hoffnungslos in Hellmut verliebt. Doch nach einem Unglücksfall beginnen Hans und Magda eine Affäre, von der sie sich Trost und Vorteile versprechen: Sie will aus ihrer Ehe ausbrechen, er seine Homosexualität verbergen. Als Magda Joseph Goebbels kennenlernt und der NSDAP beitritt, kommt es zwischen ihnen zum Bruch.

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Title: Last Post

Series: #4 of Parade's End Tetralogy

Author: Ford Madox Ford

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden Last Post is the fourth and final installment of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, a work that Ford hoped would contribute to the obviating of all future wars. The story follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop. The final entry of Parade's End continues to depict the challenges of navigating a social and political landscape utterly upended by the Great War. Through the eyes of multiple characters, Last Post contextualizes or re-contextualizes the events of previous installments—particularly those surrounding Armistice Day. Unique among other literary works depicting the Great War, the Parade's End tetralogy privileges not the conflict of World War I itself, but the impact the war had on its participants and upon society writ large. It is often referred to as one of the greatest 20th century novels, and one of the best depictions of war in literature. The 2012 television adaptation, written by Tom Stoppard and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and seven BAFTA Television Awards.

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Title: Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov

Author: Kenji Miyazawa

Narrator: James Takahashi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories which focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice and faith which were near and dear to his heart. 'The Nighthawk Star' follows an lowly bird as he struggles to transform himself into something greater, a constellation in the night sky; 'Signal & Signal-less' depicts a pair of star-crossed train signals who dream of eloping to the moon; and 'Night on the Galactic Railroad,' Miyazawa's most famous work, tells the story of two boys as they journey upon a train that traverses the cosmos, learning the true meaning of friendship, happiness and life itself along the way.