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Title: [French] - Hiver à Sokcho

Author: Elisa Shua Dusapin

Narrator: Aoife Hinds

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A Sokcho, petite ville portuaire proche de la Corée du Nord, une jeune Franco-coréenne qui n'est jamais allée en Europe rencontre un auteur de bande dessinée venu chercher l'inspiration depuis sa Normandie natale. C'est l'hiver, le froid ralentit tout, les poissons peuvent être venimeux, les corps douloureux, les malentendus suspendus, et l'encre coule sur le papier, implacable : un lien fragile se noue entre ces deux êtres aux cultures si différentes. Ce roman délicat comme la neige sur l'écume transporte le lecteur dans un univers d'une richesse et d'une originalité rares, à l'atmosphère puissante. Née en 1992 d'un père français et d'une mère sud-coréenne, Elisa Shua Dusapin est diplômée de l'Institut littéraire suisse de Bienne. Hiver à Sokcho est son premier roman.

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Title: The Katherine Mansfield Special Collection

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Erin White, Lyndal Curran Doolan, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller, Amy Soakes, Susannah Fullerton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 28 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Between 1922 and 1923, Katherine Mansfield wrote four volumes of short stories: The Garden Party and Other Stories Bliss and Other Stories In a German Pension The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories This recording includes all sixty-three stories from the four collections, including a number of incomplete stories collated after Mansfield’s death. This recording also includes an introduction written and narrated by Australian literary scholar Susannah Fullerton.

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Title: Forever Island

Author: Patrick D. Smith

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-old Seminole man. Unlike the younger American Indians who have adopted white civilization, Charlie and his wife cling to the old ways, hunting and fishing in the great swamp and farming a tiny plot of higher ground. Charlie has been diligently teaching his grandson, Timmy, about the swamp and its creatures. But their simple existence is suddenly threatened when a large tract of swamp is bought by a corporation, and Charlie is told that he will have to leave. From his youth, Charlie remembers the slaughter of egrets and alligators by the white man and the logging of the giant cypress. Rather than surrender the land that is his life to this final indignity, Charlie decides to fight back. It is an uneven contest. First come the great machines that silt up the streams; then the workmen inadvertently poison the marsh; and, attempting to sabotage the construction equipment, Charlie's best friend is killed. Realizing that there can be no compromise with the white man who destroys all he touches, Charlie leaves his family and feels into the swamp, seeking the lost island known in the Seminole legends as Forever Island.

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Title: In Quest of the Pearl

Author: Sydney Banks

Narrator: Janice Ryan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Release date: June 24, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Richard searches for a deeper understanding of his miraculous healing in the sequel to Second Chance Richard returns to Maui where he reunites with Johnathan and Mamma Lila. Once again, he finds their wisdom intellectually contradictory, but most intriguing. In Quest of the Pearl, like Second Chance, is a simply told, very moving story bringing the reader into a world of soft tropical beauty, where undiscovered depths of feeling are waiting to be discovered.

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Title: [Spanish] - Circe

Author: Madeline Miller

Narrator: Sonia Román

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

CIRCE. UNA HEROÍNA. UNA HECHICERA. UNA MUJER QUE ENCUENTRA SU PODER. CAERÁS BAJO SU HECHIZO. En el palacio de Helios, dios del sol y el más poderoso de los titanes, nace una niña. Pero Circe es una niña rara: carece de los poderes de su padre y de la agresiva capacidad de seducción de su madre. Cuando acude al mundo de los mortales en busca de compañía, descubre que sí posee un poder, el poder de la brujería, con el que puede transformar a sus rivales en monstruos y amenazar a los mismísimos dioses. Temeroso, Zeus la destierra a una isla desierta, donde Circe perfecciona sus oscuras artes, doma bestias salvajes y se va topando con numerosas figuras célebres de la mitología griega: desde el Minotauro a Dédalo y su desventurado hijo Ícaro, la asesina Medea y, por supuesto, el astuto Odiseo. Pero también la acecha el peligro, y Circe concita, sin saberlo, la ira tanto de los humanos como de los dioses, por lo que acaba teniendo que enfrentarse con uno de los olímpicos más imponentes y vengativos. Para proteger aquello que ama, Circe deberá hacer acopio de todas sus fuerzas y decidir, de una vez por todas, si pertenece al mundo en el que ha nacido o al mundo mortal que ha llegado a amar. Repleta de personajes de una intensidad inolvidable, con un estilo cautivador y un suspense apasionante, 'Circe' es todo un logro narrativo, una embriagadora épica de las rivalidades familiares, las intrigas palaciegas, el amor y la pérdida, así como una celebración de una fuerza femenina indómita en un mundo de hombres.

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Title: [Spanish] - Obscuro como la tumba en la que yace mi amigo

Author: Malcolm Lowry

Narrator: Juan Manuel Vargas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

«La capacidad de Lowry para entroncar con la emoción trágica primitiva sólo conoce dos grandes rivales en la primera mitad del siglo XX: Thomas Mann y James Joyce.» -Julián Herbert Sigbjørn Wilderness, famoso alter ego de Malcolm Lowry, emprende un viaje a México junto con su esposa, Primrose, en busca de su amigo Fernando Martínez. Su visita a Oaxaca y Cuernavaca es también un viaje iniciático entre cantina y cantina, donde la desolación y la muerte acechan al protagonista hasta llegar a un final inesperado. Considerada como la continuación de Bajo el volcán, Obscuro como la tumba en la que yace mi amigo es una obra póstuma, editada en su forma actual por Margerie Bonner, viuda del autor, y su biógrafo Douglas Day.

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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: June 20, 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: Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking

Author: Han Smith

Narrator: Louise Williams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The almost daughter is almost normal, because she knows how to know and also not know. She knows and does not know, for instance, about the barracks by the athletics field, and about the lonely woman she visits each week. She knows - almost - about ghosts, and their ghosts, and she knows not to have questions about them. She knows to focus on being a woman: on training her body and dreaming only of escape. Then, the almost daughter meets Oksana. Oksana is not even almost normal, and the questions she has are not normal at all. Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking is a story of seeing and part-seeing, of silence and speaking out, of conformation and confrontation, by an exhilarating new voice in fiction.

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Title: Northern Boy

Author: Iqbal Hussain

Narrator: Sid Sagar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Release date: June 19, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Joyful, defiant and dazzling, this is the story of Rafi Aziz – a Northern boy dreaming of his name up in lights. It's 1981 in the suburbs of Blackburn and, as Rafi's mother reminds him daily, the family moved here from Pakistan to give him the best opportunities. But Rafi longs to follow his own path. Flamboyant, dramatic and musically gifted, he wants to be a Bollywood star. Twenty years later, Rafi is flying home from Australia for his best friend's wedding. He has everything he ever wanted: starring roles in musical theatre, the perfect boyfriend and freedom from expectation. But returning to Blackburn is the ultimate test: can he show his true self to his community? Navigating family and identity from boyhood to adulthood, as well as the changing eras of ABBA, skinheads and urbanisation, Rafi must follow his heart to achieve his dreams.

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Title: Secrets of the Italian Island

Author: Barbara Josselsohn

Narrator: Jennifer Woodward

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Release date: June 18, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

WWII secrets, forbidden love, and one terrible mistake... When Mia discovers an old letter, she sets out on a mission to uncover the truth about her grandmother's past. With the help of brooding local guide Leo, they sneak into the closed-off Isola di Parissi, where Mia falls in love with both the country and her guide. But as they uncover hidden and handwritten notes, Mia learns of a heartbreaking mistake her grandmother made during WWII that tore apart the island community. Will Mia be forced to leave Italy and her newfound love forever? An epic, heart-wrenching tale based on the incredible true story of an island at war. Fans of Lucinda Riley, Fiona Valpy and Victoria Hislop will be utterly gripped. Barbara Josselsohn is an award-winning journalist and novelist. She is the author of the 'Lake Summers' series set in the fictional town of Lake Summers, nestled in the Adirondacks Mountains, which includes the books 'The Lilac House' and 'The Bluebell Girls'.