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Title: There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories

Author: Brad Watson

Narrator: John Mclain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

'Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page,' Joy Williams writes in her introduction to this selection of Brad Watson's published and unpublished stories: 'excellent, assured, funny, startling, heartbreaking, wild,' full of 'freakish flair' and 'melancholy realism.' Brad Watson was a master of dark comedy, extraordinary lyricism, appalling grotesquerie, and unabashed vulnerability; a sublime prose stylist whose novels and stories drew upon the fecundity and moodiness of the South. Male meltdown is a theme, as is young love and its disillusionment, as are strange neighbors who cannot be understood. A leopard that consumes its zookeeper, pronghorn antelope tenderly transporting the poop of their young, insufferably articulate birds and restless, tolerant dogs—this is also eco-fiction of a very peculiar sort, in which nature reassures, transcends, and finally escapes judging or being judged by us. Roller-coastering from the mournful to the comical, Watson's work is both embedded in a literary heritage tied to place and at home in a universal literature of the absurd. His stories waltz with lovely and strange melancholy, infused with wit and astonishing beauty. There Is Happiness embodies the twisted hilarity and undeniable grace of an underrecognized literary genius.

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Title: Not Even the Dead

Author: Juan Gomez Barcena

Narrator: Andre Bellido

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is one of so many soldiers without glory who roam like beggars for the land they helped subdue. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who's called the Father and who preaches a dangerous heresy, he understands that this may be his last chance to carve himself the future he's always dreamed of. But as he goes deep into the unexplored lands of the north following the Father's trace, he will discover the footprints of a man who seems not only a man, but a prophet destined to transform his time and even the times to come. Not Even the Dead is the story of a persecution that transcends territories and centuries; a path pointing northward, always northward, that is to say, always toward the future, on a hallucinated journey from the sixteenth century New Spain to today's Trump wall. Old conquerors on horseback and migrants riding the roofs of the Beast, rebellious Indians and peasants waiting patiently for a better world, Mexican revolutionaries who take their rifles and women murdered in the desert of Ciudad Juárez, all pass by it. All of them share the same landscape and the same hope, the arrival of the Father who will bring justice to the oppressed.

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Title: One Day

Author: David Nicholls

Narrator: Annabel Scholey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Release date: July 11, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A brand-new recording narrated by Annabel Scholey, star of Being Human and Walking on Sunshine. TWENTY YEARS, TWO PEOPLE, ONE DAY 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? 'A wonderful, wonderful book' THE TIMES 'Perfect' NEW YORK TIMES 'A modern classic' DAILY MIRROR 'You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy' INDEPENDENT 'Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable' NICK HORNBY

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Title: [Spanish] - Mala letra

Author: Sara Mesa

Narrator: Marta Martín Jorcano

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Release date: July 10, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

La autora de este libro coge mal el lápiz. Lo ha cogido mal desde niña, cuando algunos profesores se empeñaban en corregirla porque «hay que escribir como Dios manda», e, incapaz de aprender, ha seguido cogiéndolo mal hasta el día de hoy, con todas las consecuencias. Porque... ¿puede acaso salir buena letra de un lápiz torcido? Ésta es una de las cuestiones que planean sobre este conjunto de cuentos: la de la escritura indócil, libre y acelerada, la escritura que araña y rasga la memoria, que destroza los recuerdos y hace de ellos otra cosa. Las historias que aparecen en este volumen abordan temas como la culpa y la redención, la falta de libertad y esos «pequeños instantes, epifanías, revelaciones, imágenes que se abren, palabras que se desdoblan», cuando «algo se quiebra, y todo cambia». Niños que se resisten a obedecer y que viven con asombro y soledad el difícil proceso de crecer; chicas rebeldes cuya rebeldía es subterránea, rabiosa y poco aprovechable; seres atormentados –o no– por los remordimientos y las dudas; picabueyes y nutrias que representan agresión o consuelo; el desconcierto de vidas en apariencia normales que a veces encierran crímenes y otras únicamente el deseo de cometerlos. Sara Mesa ha construido un conjunto sólido y coherente de voces con su ya peculiar estilo tensado y sin artificios, que se revela aún más depurado en el manejo de las formas cortas. La finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela 2012 con Cuatro por cuatro y autora de Cicatriz, perturbadora novela que obtuvo un notable éxito entre los lectores y la crítica, entrega ahora su libro quizá más personal e intimista. Este libro confirma los diagnósticos de Rafael Chirbes: «Sara Mesa levanta una literatura de alto voltaje trabajada con precisión de orfebre», y Marta Sanz: «Una escritura desnuda y fría, repleta de imágenes poderosas que desasosiegan en la misma medida que magnetizan.»

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Title: Pyramidia

Author: Stephanie Sanders-Jacob

Narrator: Eve Passeltiner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Release date: July 9, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

When Harriet moves to Bentwood to teach gifted students, her life doesn't go as planned. Between her haunted rental and her oddball neighbor, Lucy—who literally won't go away—Harriet is left questioning her own sanity. The beautiful Kelsey, whom she meets at the farmers market, offers the distraction she needs. Well, that, and the town's Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)—or pyramid—scheme. The enigmatic group of women selling wellness in the form of Serenitea, with their perfect hair, flawless skin, and piercing eyes. She is drawn to the tea, the wellness, the tranquility . . . So what if she has to sell a few bags of tea? You have a new descendant. Sinking deeper into Serenitea, Harriet can't stop drinking the tea. She keeps getting emails about new descendants—whatever the hell that means—and the gym teacher, Harold, is giving serious pervy vibes. Even Lucy joins the MIM despite claiming the women are vampires. None of that matters, though, because Serenitea makes her feel . . . well. Tranquil. Until Lucy disappears and Harriet's world begins to crumble. Is Serenitea really a bunch of beautiful vampires? So what if they are? How far will Harriet go for tranquility? Are you well?

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Title: My Death

Author: Lisa Tuttle

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Release date: July 9, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre parallels between her life and her subject's—in this chilling and singularly strange novella by a contemporary master of horror and fantasy. The narrator of Lisa Tuttle's uncanny novella is a recent widow, a writer adrift. Not only has she lost her husband, but her muse seems to have deserted her altogether. Her agent summons her to Edinburgh to discuss her next book. What will she tell him? At once the answer comes to her: she will write the biography of Helen Ralston, best known, if at all, as the subject of W.E. Logan's much-reproduced painting Circe, and the inspiration for his classic children's book, Hermine in Cloud-Land. But Ralston was a novelist and artist in her own right, though her writing is no longer in print and her most radical painting, My Death, deemed too unsettling—malevolent even—to be shown in public. Over the months that follow, Ralston proves an astonishingly cooperative subject, even as her biographer uncovers eerie resonances between the older woman's history and her own. Whose biography is she writing—really?

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Title: I Will Crash

Author: Rebecca Watson

Narrator: Rebecca Watson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Release date: July 4, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

It was a peace offering, I knew that you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Alright unless you want to make amends It's been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought. Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother. She's spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood. Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves. Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace - to forgive, to be forgiven - when the past she's worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present? From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.

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Title: The Second Coming

Author: Garth Risk Hallberg

Narrator: Gail Shalan, Ari Fliakos

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 35 minutes

Release date: July 4, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A luminous novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, addiction, redemption and connection. When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has always struggled to see past himself. But then a call from his ex makes him fear their daughter's in deeper trouble than anyone realises. Believing he's the only one who can save her, he decides to return to New York with a gift: the whole of his life, its hard-won triumphs and harrowing mistakes... So begins the intimate epic of Jolie and Ethan: child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same. Their journey toward each other will face opposition from grandparents and siblings and friends. It will strain connections with roommates and benefactors and a probation officer desperate to help. It will push Jolie out past her depth with a mysterious admirer, and Ethan in over his head with his first love, Jolie's mom. But as father and daughter struggle to find their footing, new vistas beckon: from a surf break in mid-'90s Delaware to group therapy during the Great Recession, from an encampment at Occupy Wall Street to a HoJo on Maryland's Eastern Shore, from the heights of the Brooklyn Bridge to horizons seldom seen in fiction. The Second Coming is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: can we ever really outrun the past, stay true to ourselves while still chasing something new? Full of music and pathos and passion, this beautifully attuned work of fiction makes good Garth Risk Hallberg's extraordinary promise.

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Title: [Spanish] - Melancolía

Author: Jon Fosse

Narrator: Bernat Quintana

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Release date: July 4, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

El Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023 narra en este maravilloso libro la emocionante y triste historia de Lars Hertervig, un pintor noruego del siglo XIX. Düsseldorf, 1853. El joven artista Lars Hertervig, alumno de Hans Gude en la Academia de Arte de Düsseldorf, está encerrado en su habitación, paralizado por la ansiedad que le provocan las clases de arte y el amor irracional que siente hacia Helene Winckelmann, la hija de su casera. La fijación de Lars por Helene, marcada por alucinaciones y furiosos delirios sexuales, obliga a la familia de la joven a expulsarlo de la habitación donde se hospeda. Sin ningún lugar adonde ir, Hertervig deambula entre un café donde soporta las burlas de sus compañeros de la academia y el apartamento de los Winckelmann, en el que intenta desesperadamente ser admitido de nuevo: una especie de limbo que lo lleva a un inexorable estado de locura. Melancolía es una ficcional, salvaje y febril invocación del artista noruego del siglo XIX Lars Hertervig, que pintó paisajes bañados de luz, sufrió una enfermedad mental y murió pobre en 1902. Galardonada con el Melsom Prize y el Sunnmøre Prize, está considerada una de las grandes novelas de quien ha sido llamado «el Beckett del siglo XXI»( Le Monde). La crítica ha dicho: «Sus innovadoras obras de teatro y su prosa han dado voz a lo impronunciable». Jurado del Premio Nobel «La obra de Fosse es un enigma que da vida y esperanza a quien la lee. Ilumina el alma humana como solo lo hacen los elegidos». Manuel Vilas «Jon Fosse es uno de los más importantes escritores europeos». Karl Ove Knausgård «El Beckett del siglo veintiuno». Le Monde «Se ha comparado a Fosse con Ibsen y Beckett, y es fácil ver que su obra, como la de Ibsen, se enraiza en lo esencial de las emociones. Pero es mucho más. Entre otras cosas, cuenta con una feroz simplicidad poética». Anita Gates, The New York Times «Es desesperadamente conmovedor […]. Una obra esencial para comprender los temas principals y la evolución de la técnica y la vision artística del autor». Rónán Hession, The Irish Times «En Fosse, la fusion de lo cotidiano y lo existencial, junto con sus dramáticas incursions en el pasado, conforman una obra que no puedes dejar de leer». Catherine Taylor, The Guardian «La poesía suena en todos los escritos de Fosse, que busca la esencia y la verdad». Andrea Aguilar, El País «Leer a Fosse desencadena una curiosa euphoria, una fascinación próxima a la que generan las leyendas o los mitos». Pilar Adón

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Title: Concerning the Future of Souls

Author: Joy Williams

Narrator: Joshua Manning

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Release date: July 2, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR “Williams is a writer for our times: both visionary and caustic, knowing yet also full of wonder.”—Catherine Taylor, The Financial Times Returning to her legendary short stories, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams offers a much-anticipated follow-up to Ninety-Nine Stories of God, which The New York Times Book Review called a “treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces.” Concerning the Future of Souls balances the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, as Azrael—transporter of souls and the most troubled and thoughtful of the angels—confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death, and his friendship with the Devil. Over the course of these ninety-nine illuminations, a collection of connected and disparate beings—ranging from ordinary folk to grand, known figures, such as Jung, Nietzsche, Pythagoras, Bach, and Rilke; to mountains, oceans, dogs, birds, whales, horses, butterflies, a sixty-year-old tortoise, and a chimp named Washoe—experience the varying fate of the soul as each encounters the darkness of transcendence in this era of extinction. A brilliant crash course in philosophy, religion, literature, and culture, Concerning the Future of Souls is an absolution and an indictment, sorrowful and ecstatic. Williams will leave you wonderstruck, pondering the morality of being mortal.