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Title: And Marvel

Series: #2 of Tales for WellDressed Cynics and Optimistic Ragamuffins

Author: Cathleen Davies

Narrator: Rj Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Release date: May 22, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Death is hard. It’s as inevitable as manipulation and misogyny; as inevitable as love, conflict, insanity, sleep-deprivation, and broken hearts. It’s coming. It’s here. On the 28th April 2018, a young poet called Dan “DC” Collins was found dead in the woodlands by his home in Birmingham. He’d taken his own life. This was done, at least in part, because I had made the incredibly selfish decision to stop being his girlfriend. This decision would go on to affect the rest of my adult life. I decided to escape from this reality by moving away to Basque Country, hoping to Eat, Pray, Love my way out of the survivor’s guilt and PTSD. This did not work. Instead, I had a nervous breakdown. Away from all the people who loved me, un-medicated, and isolated in a country where I didn’t speak the language, I managed to incredibly successfully push myself over the edge. It was a bad decision. I did however, manage to keep a diary of this inevitable mental decline. That diary is And Marvel. I wanted to show this reality from the perspective of a flawed, grieving person. I wanted, most importantly, to keep DC alive in the only way I could. This book contains candid discussions of suicide and the ways the world holds women responsible for the actions of their partners.

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Title: Cheeky, Bloody Articles

Series: #1 of Tales for WellDressed Cynics and Optimistic Ragamuffins

Author: Cathleen Davies

Narrator: Rj Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 0 minutes

Release date: May 22, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Acid trips, terrorists, and one hundred birthday candles. Icy baths, burning bodies, and everything in between. This thought provoking debut short story collection from Cathleen Davies pulls no punches. Expertly skewering readers' expectations on failing relationships, cabin fever, police violence, feminism, loss, and loyalty, each unique character tells a tale of the dissatisfied, the angst-laden, and the justifiably outraged. Elder members of the LGBTQ+ community lament simpler times. Young women in foster care construct a death pact because #promises. A cult dismembers their followers to prove more than loyalty. In a place where horror straddles humor, Cheeky, Bloody Articles dares to answer questions like: What if you lived to be 100 years old but absolutely hated your family? And: Exactly how long does it take for a rat to decompose? This poignant yet provocative collection is terrible, wonderful, but most of all insightful. Every story of this anxiety-ridden tongue-in-cheek romp challenges our bonds with romantic partners, family, friends, and our entire view of the complicated universe we share. "In a world of smartphones and speculation, Cathleen Davies proves in this often gory but always beautiful compilation of wonderfully transgressive fiction that there are still stories we haven't heard, but need to." -Brandon Mead, Author of Eggplant from Vagabonds Vol. 8 "Expect to take breaks to regain your emotional equanimity or maybe just your faith in humanity. But just wait for the next story--redemption may be found within. Probably not, but one can hope." -Editor Jenifer Paquette, PhD Cheeky, Bloody, Articles explores a place where all of us are bitter. Some of us just don't shut up about it.

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Title: [German] - Durch das große Feuer

Author: Alice Winn

Narrator: Sebastian Fischer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

England, 1914: Die Eliteschüler Henry Gaunt und Sidney Ellwood führen ein behütetes Internatsleben auf dem Land. Die Ereignisse des Ersten Weltkrieges scheinen noch ganz weit weg. Dabei führt Gaunt bereits seinen ganz privaten Kampf. Er verzehrt sich heimlich nach seinem charmanten Freund Ellwood, fürchtet aber die Konsequenzen einer solchen verbotenen Liebe. Dann müssen beide an die Front … 'Durch das große Feuer' ist ein fesselnder Roman über die verheerenden Tragödien des Krieges, aber auch die ergreifende Geschichte zweier Menschen, deren bedingungslose Liebe alle Hindernisse überwindet.

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Title: Black Foam: A Novel

Author: Haji Jabir

Narrator: Youssif Kamal

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: February 7, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

From award-winning Eritrean author Haji Jabir comes a profoundly intimate novel about one man’s tireless attempt to find his place in the world. Dawoud is on the run from his murky past, aiming to discover where he belongs. He tries to assimilate into different groups along his journey through North Africa and Israel, changing his clothes, his religious affiliations, and even his name to fit in, but the safety and peace he seeks remain elusive. It seems prejudice is everywhere, holding him back, when all he really wants is to create a simple life he can call his own. A chameleon, Dawoud—or David, Adal, or Dawit, depending on where and when you meet him—is not lost in this whirl of identities. In fact, he is defined by it. Dawoud’s journey is circuitous and specific, but the desire to belong is universal. Spellbinding to the final page, Black Foam is both intimate and grand in scale, much like the experiences of the millions of people migrating to find peace and safety in the twenty-first century.

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Title: When I First Held You

Author: Anstey Harris

Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown, Helen Lloyd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Silence tore them apart. Can the truth bring them back together? 'Marvellous” —Lesley Pearse 'A hauntingly beautiful novel' —Imogen Clark 'Gripping, heart rending and extremely satisfying” —Katie Fforde In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors’ squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers’ home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief. More than half a century later, Judith’s Mending Shop restores broken treasures, just as Judith herself has been bound back together by her late, much-missed partner, Catherine. But her tranquillity is shattered when Jimmy—so different and yet somehow the same—reappears, yearning to unpick the painful past. Realising they each know only half of the other’s story, Jimmy and Judith finally break the silence that tore apart what might have been their family. Amid heartbreak and hope, how much can now be mended?

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Title: Picking up the Pieces

Author: Amanda Prowse

Narrator: Amanda Prowse

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Release date: January 10, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

In this heart-warming story from million copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse, Nora has given up on finding happiness. But has it been waiting for her all along? As Nora and her British Army officer husband, Gordy, pack up yet another home and leave the sun of Cyprus for the drizzle of England, she can’t shake a feeling of regret—at her failure to follow her own dreams, but also, if she’s honest, at having ended up an officer’s wife at all, drifting through a life of temporary homes and temporary relationships. Since losing her parents at a young age, Nora’s life has been lacking an anchor: someone or something to make her feel secure. Her marriage has been her only permanent relationship, and just as even that appears to be fizzling out, a tragedy forces Nora into the role of legal guardian to her seven-year-old nephew, Ted. Faced suddenly with a responsibility she never dreamed of, how can Nora possibly offer the boy the kind of unconditional love he deserves, when she’s never experienced it for herself? But as she navigates the precarious and unfamiliar world of parenthood, Nora begins to see herself through Ted’s eyes, as someone worthy of love and even joy. When she’s welcomed into the previously intimidating huddle of mums at the school gate, she has to wonder: is it too late to smash down the other barriers she’s built—and to have a second chance at a happy marriage with Gordy?

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Title: The Fireballer: A Novel

Author: Mark Stevens

Narrator: Shea Taylor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A poignant story about hopes, dreams, and how far one man’s talent takes him before he realizes it’s about what you do—and how you do it. Frank Ryder is unstoppable on the baseball field—his pitches arrive faster than a batter can swing, giving his opponents no chance. He’s being heralded as a game-changing pitcher. But within the maelstrom of press, adulation, and wild speculation, Frank is a man alone. Haunted by a tragic incident from years past, he yearns to be the best but cannot reconcile the guilt he carries with the man everyone believes him to be. Frank’s path to redemption leads him on a journey back to where his life changed forever, to visit his family, his high school coach, and his brother. Through reconnection and reconciliation with those also deeply affected by the devastating event of Frank’s youth, he finds peace and his place in the world both in and outside the game. The Fireballer is a lyrical, moving story of undeniable talent and the life-changing power of forgiveness and a subtly romantic ode to America’s favorite pastime.

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Title: [German] - Die leise Last der Dinge

Author: Ruth Ozeki

Narrator: Katja Amberger, Martin Valdeig

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 39 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2022

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Ein Jahr nach dem Unfalltod seines Vaters beginnt der dreizehn Jahre alte Benny Oh Stimmen zu hören. Es sind die Stimmen der unbelebten Gegenstände in seinem Zuhause – seine Sneakers, eine zerbrochene Weihnachtskugel, ein Blatt welker Salat. Gleichzeitig beginnt seine Mutter Annabelle, immer mehr Dinge zu horten, bis es kaum mehr einen freien Platz auf dem Fußboden gibt. Mutter und Sohn drohen in ihrem seelischen Chaos den Halt zu verlieren – bis sie auf ein Buch stoßen, das sie womöglich zu retten imstande ist … Mit liebenswerten Figuren, einer fesselnden Geschichte und der Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Trauer, Erwachsenwerden und unser Verhältnis zu materiellen Dingen legt die vielfach preisgekrönte Ruth Ozeki einen klugen, verspielten, mitreißenden, herzerwärmenden und absolut einzigartigen neuen Roman vor.

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Title: [Russian] - Чудесные рассказы + Лекция

Author: анатоль франс, дмитрий быков

Narrator: дмитрий быков

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Release date: September 23, 2021

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Аудиостудия «Ардис» предлагает вашему вниманию сборник рассказов Анатоля Франса. Все новеллы, входящие в сборник «Чудесные рассказы», построены на сказочном или легендарном сюжете. Первые две – «Семь жён Синей Бороды» и «История герцогини де Сиконь и господина Буленгрена» – берут за основу широко известные волшебные сказки Шарля Перро. Мир фантазии переплетается в новеллах с прозой реальной действительности. В «Чуде святого Николая» высмеивается христианская «мудрость» святого, благочестивые иноки в монастыре, похожем на «клетку с обезьянами», религиозные фанатики, феодальные войны и бесчинства. Новелла «Рубашка» представляет собой философскую повесть вольтеровского типа – излюбленный жанр А. Франса.

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Title: [Russian] - Подземная Москва + Лекция

Author: глеб алексеев, дмитрий быков

Narrator: дмитрий быков

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2021

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Аудиостудия «Ардис» предлагает вашему вниманию приключенческий роман Глеба Алексеева «Подземная Москва». Захватывающий и напряженный сюжет романа связан с поисками библиотеки Ивана Грозного – до сих пор не разрешенной тайны русской истории. Завершается аудиокнига лекцией - увлекательным рассказом о прочитанной книге.