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Title: One Day We're All Going to Die: one of the most addictive and bestselling Australian debuts of 2023, and shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year 2024

Author: Elise Esther Hearst

Narrator: Elise Esther Hearst

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A tender story about family, love, intergenerational grief, living up to family expectations and making your own way'. Nicole Abadee, Sydney Morning Herald Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming-of-age novel about a 27-year-old single Jewish woman in Melbourne who must learn to reconcile family expectations, cultural constraints and inter-generational trauma with her own desires. A coruscating new voice. 'A remarkable debut from an enthralling storyteller. I didn't want it to end.' Sarah Krasnostein At 27, Naomi is just trying to be a normal person. A normal person who works at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, who cares for lost things, found things, sacred things and her family. A person who finds herself going on bad blind dates, having cringe-worthy sex, a tumultuous, toxic affair, and falling for a man called Moses. Being a normal person would be easy and fine if she didn't bear the weight of the unspoken grief of Cookie, her Holocaust-survivor grandmother. It would all be fine if she just knew how to be, without feeling the pull of expectation, the fear of disappointing others (men, friends, her parents, humanity), and that pesky problem of being attracted to all the wrong people (according to her parents, anyway). By endlessly trying to please everyone around her, Naomi can't seem to figure out what she wants for herself, or how to get it. With echoes of the dead and dying all about her, in objects, in story, in her grandmother's firm grasp, Naomi isn't quite sure she knows how to be a normal person, but she is going to try. This fiercely honest, funny and fearless novel is a deep dive into the complex questions that surround culture, identity politics and generational trauma in contemporary Australia. Both a sadly affectionate and brilliantly unsparing examination of the glorious, awkward, messiness of life. 'A compelling, immersive, utterly absorbing read. Hearst's arrival on the literary scene is a triumphal one. I cannot wait to see what she writes next.' Dr Lee Kofman.

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Title: Sincerely, Willis Wayde

Author: John P. Marquand

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 47 minutes

Release date: August 22, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The unforgettable journey of an American businessman—from his humble origins to his extraordinary successes—and the compromises he made along the way When Willis Wayde first lays eyes on the Harcourt mansion near Clyde, Massachusetts, he is fifteen years old. His father is an engineer at Harcourt Mill, and Willis is awestruck by the family's wealth and power. Seeking guidance from Henry Harcourt, Willis meets Bess, the old man's granddaughter. Their friendship eventually blossoms into love as the elder Harcourt takes the young man under his wing, recognizing in Willis a kindred spirit whose instinct for making money matches his own. Pleased with his good fortune, Willis is nevertheless acutely aware of the great social gulf that separates the Waydes from the Harcourts. Determined to make his own way, he sets out on a path that will take him far beyond New England and the insular, old-money world of Henry and Bess. Then the Depression hits, wiping out the Harcourt family fortune. When he comes back into their life, Willis has the power to rescue the last vestige of the family's prestige: the mill. Torn between his nostalgia for a simpler, more sentimental time and his sharply honed business acumen, Willis must make a fateful decision.

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Title: The Kudzu Queen

Author: Mimi Herman

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Fifteen-year-old Mattie Lee Watson dreams of men, not boys. So when James T. Cullowee, the Kudzu King, arrives in Cooper County, North Carolina, in 1941 to spread the gospel of kudzu—claiming that it will improve the soil, feed cattle at almost no cost, even cure headaches—Mattie is ready. Mr. Cullowee is determined to sell the entire county on the future of kudzu, and organizes a kudzu festival, complete with a beauty pageant. Mattie is determined to be crowned Kudzu Queen and capture the attentions of the Kudzu King. As she learns more about Cullowee, however, she discovers that he, like the kudzu he promotes, has a dark and predatory side. When she finds she is not the only one threatened, she devises a plan to bring him down. Based on historical facts, The Kudzu Queen unravels a tangle of sexuality, power, race, and kudzu through the voice of an irresistibly delightful (and mostly honest) narrator.

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Title: Before We Were Innocent

Author: Ella Berman

Narrator: Kate Handford

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Release date: August 10, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The truth depends on who you ask... Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their best friend Evangeline's death. But that didn't stop the media from calling them everything under the sun. Now Joni is tangled up in a crime in LA eerily similar to that one fateful night, and when she turns up at her old friend's doorstep asking for an alibi, Bess has no choice. She still owes her. They say the truth will set you free but can Bess face up to what happened that night? She should know by now. you can't be an innocent woman when everyone wants you to be guilty.

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Title: But the Girl

Author: Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

Narrator: Nikita Waldron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Release date: August 10, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. A wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me Girl is spending the spring at an artist's residency in Scotland. Far from her home in Australia and her tight-knight Malaysian family, she is meant to be writing a postcolonial novel and working on a PhD on the poetry of Sylvia Plath. But she can't stop thinking about her upbringing and the stories of her parents and grandmother who raised her. How can she reconcile their dreams for her with her lived reality? Did Sylvia Plath have this problem? What even is a 'postcolonial novel'? And what if the story of becoming yourself is not about carving out a new identity but learning to understand the people who shaped you? ©2023 Jessica Zhan Mei Yu (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Who We Are Now: A Novel

Author: Lauryn Chamberlain

Narrator: Brittany Pressley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

One of Skimm's Books We Couldn't Put Down This Year Four friends. Fifteen years. Who We Are Now is a story of Sliding Doors moments, those seemingly small choices of early adulthood that determine the course of our lives.   It is 2006 and Rachel, Clarissa, Dev, and Nate are best friends, seniors on the eve of their college graduation. Their whole lives are before them, at once full of promise and anxiety. Bound to one another as they are, they imagine their closeness will last forever—but things change as they take their first steps away from one another and into adulthood.   Each year is told from one character’s point of view, and in that way, we stride swiftly through their lives. These four friends feel their twenties and thirties flying by, and suddenly small moments fast become regrets or unexpected boons, decisions they’ll spend years wishing they could undo and choices that come to define them. As the foursome endure professional setbacks, deep loss, and creative success, fortunes shift and friendships strain—and it will take a tragic turn of events to bring them together again.    Who We Are Now is a poignant story of epic friendship that jumps boldly through the years, moving at the same unforgiving pace as does that precious, confusing time between college and real life. This novel is perfect for readers who adore tales of friendship, explorations of the second coming of age moment that arrives in our thirties, and fans of Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings or Dolly Alderton’s Ghosts.

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Title: [Spanish] - No Todo el Mundo

Author: Marta Jiménez Serrano

Narrator: Eva Coll

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Una visión caleidoscópica del amor que nace y muere en la gran ciudad Marcelo y Eloísa no lo saben, pero están abocados a dejarlo. Claudia y Fran piensan que esta vez todo será distinto. Nerea cree que no está enamorada de su profesor, y Luis, que se ha enamorado de su alumna. Eva no soporta tener que compartir a Pedro con la pequeña Rita en semanas alternas. Guille no sabe si le gusta Carmen o si la odia… Los relatos de No todo el mundo ofrecen una visión caleidoscópica del amor que nace y muere en la gran ciudad. Entre ilusiones y desengaños, nos sumergimos en una clarividente reflexión sobre la manera en que nos definen las relaciones que mantenemos y cómo encajamos nuestra singularidad en la mirada del otro. Con la elegancia y madurez narrativa que ya demostrara en Los nombres propios, Marta Jiménez Serrano construye en su segundo libro un mapa de la intimidad preciso, minucioso y delicado. Emotivo pero también irónico, unas veces radiante y otras agridulce, No todo el mundo funciona como un espejo en el 1 / 6 que no podemos sino vernos reflejados y nos recuerda que todos, para bien o para mal, en algún momento hemos visto nuestra existencia sacudida por el implacable poder del amor y sus consecuencias.

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Title: [German] - Peter Camenzind: Erzählung

Author: Herman Hesse

Narrator: Johannes Steck

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Hermann Hesses Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Peter Camenzind wird in einem Dorf in den Schweizer Bergen geboren. Er liebt das Bergsteigen und die Beobachtung der Natur. Doch er möchte ein Mann des Verstandes werden und zieht dafür in die große Stadt, wo er als sich als Schriftsteller verdingt. Doch machen ihn das weltmännischen Dasein und die gebildeten Kreise, in denen er nun verkehrt, wirklich glücklich? Wieweit muss man reisen und wie viel muss man sehen, um zu erkennen, wo man hingehört?-

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Title: I Will Greet the Sun Again

Author: Khashayar J. Khabushani

Narrator: Sean Rohani

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium. Lyrical and open-hearted, I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart, and a boy emerging from its ashes. 'I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful. The whole narrative thrums with a bright, warm longing. You can feel the sunshine of LA and Iran, the rhythm of Khashayar J Khabushani's voice. This is a novel to return to again and again.' Caleb Azumah Nelson, award-winning, bestselling author of OPEN WATER ©2023 Khashayar J. Khabushani (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: [German] - Shmutz

Author: Felicia Berliner

Narrator: Simone Terbrack

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Release date: August 2, 2023

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

»Eine dreckige Geschichte mit einem reinen Herzen.« The New York TimesRaizl lebt mit ihrer jüdischen Großfamilie in Brooklyn. Sie teilt sich ein Zimmer mit ihrer kleinen Schwester, sie liebt ihren Großvater über alles und sie unterstützt ihre Mutter im Haushalt. Aber außerhalb der Familie hat Raizl einen Studienplatz, einen Nebenjob und eine Therapeutin. Und da ist noch etwas: Sie liebt Pornos! Bald erlebt sie ein sexuelles Erwachen, lange bevor der Matchmaker den richtigen Ehemann für sie finden kann. Während sie sich heimlich ihrer Sucht hingibt und ein aufregendes Unileben in Manhattan führt, hat sie zuhause in Brooklyn arrangierte Dates und einen Alltag voller Rituale. Raizl ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen der modernen Welt und ihrer Community, die ihr so viel Liebe und Halt gibt.-