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Title: [Russian] - Одиночество Мередит

Author: клэр александер

Narrator: варвара шалагина

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Мередит привыкла быть одна. Она три года не выходит из дома, не разговаривает с матерью и старшей сестрой и старается не вспоминать о прошлом. Мередит ни в чем не нуждается. Она достаточно зарабатывает и заказывает все необходимое с доставкой. Регулярно занимается спортом. Содержит дом в идеальной чистоте. Вкусно и много готовит. Читает, смотрит старые фильмы, собирает паззлы, любуется вишневым деревом в соседском дворе. На Рождество наряжает елку и кладет под нее подарки. Мередит не чувствует себя одинокой. Ведь у нее есть подруга Сэди, которая приезжает в гости с детьми и рассказывает о своей бурной личной жизни. Есть чудесный рыжий кот Фред, который уютно сворачивается клубком на коленях. Есть даже психолог, которая раз в неделю дает странные «домашние задания». Мередит не хочет ничего менять, ведь перемены еще ни разу не принесли ей счастья. Но даже в четырех стенах она не может полностью контролировать свою жизнь. В ней появляются новые люди, планы и надежды, ради которых Мередит все же попробует переступить порог своего дома.

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Title: Allow Me To Introduce Myself

Author: Onyi Nwabineli

Narrator: Nneka Okoye

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Every second of Anuri's life has been documented on social media. Now, it's time to take back control. Anuri's stepmother, Ophelia, is the ultimate 'mumfluencer'. Throughout Anuri's childhood, she catalogued every minute, milestone and carefully curated family outing on social media, cultivating a devoted - and sizeable - following. Now twenty-five years old, life looks pretty perfect on the outside. Ophelia's fans could be forgiven for wondering why Anuri spends much of her time insulting men online for money, battling the call of alcohol, running from a PhD application, and reminding herself that she is now allowed to choose her own outfits. But when she sees her little sister being pushed down the same rocky path by Ophelia, she decides to take back control. Her stepmother, however, isn't giving up without a fight. Put away your phone and get ready to rethink your 'harmless' social media habit, in this darkly hilarious page-turner from an exciting new voice. 'Nwabineli is magic with words' Bolu Babalola 'Nwabineli is one to watch' Red Magazine

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Title: The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Author: Julia Alvarez

Narrator: Alma Cuervo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling that will be an instant classic. Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener as Alma's characters unspool their secret tales. Among them: Bienvenida, the abandoned second wife of dictator Rafael Trujillo, consigned to oblivion by history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States. The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories. Readers of Isabel Allende's Violeta and Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead will devour Alvarez's extraordinary new novel about beauty and authenticity, and will be reminded that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.

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Title: O Russet Witch!

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Kenneth Elliot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

O Russet Witch! - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 'Tales of the Jazz Age' (1922).  This story was written just after the author completed the first draft of his second novel. However it may seem, the story was supposed to be in the present time/tense. It was published in the 'Metropolitan'. At the end of the story, Merlin deeply regrets not following his dreams. Caroline represents the life that Merlin always wanted, but he chooses to ignore these dreams. Merlin convinces himself that Caroline is nothing more than a witch that appears only to tempt him away from the safe life he has chosen. However, as soon as this false illusion of Caroline is shattered, Merlin falls apart. As an old man, Merlin finally realizes that he has not pursued any of his dreams and therefore his whole life has been a waste.

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Title: The Lees of Happiness

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Kenneth Elliot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 47 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The Lees of Happiness - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 'Tales of the Jazz Age' (1922).  A newlywed young woman named Roxanne and her short story-writing husband Jeffery begin married life in a home of their own, looking forward to many years of happiness and success. However, sudden tragedy strikes when Jeffery becomes blind and paralyzed due to a blood clot in his brain. Roxanne faithfully nurses him to no avail, supported by her Chicago friend Harry Cromwell. When Jeffery finally passes, Harry and Roxanne lean on each other for support as their lives take on new directions.

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Title: Tarquin of Cheapside

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Kenneth Elliot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 15 minutes

Release date: June 4, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Tarquin of Cheapside - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 'Tales of the Jazz Age' (1922).  This short story is told in narrative style. As the story opens the invisible narrator and reader are in the home of Wessel Caster. Wessel is reading The Faerie Queen when he is suddenly disturbed by frantic pounding at his front door. When Wessel opens the door he finds a man exhausted and frightened. The man, called 'Soft shoes' by the narrator, quickly explains he is running for his life and needs a place to hide. Although Wessel has his concerns he decides to help Soft shoes into hiding and awaits the pursuers... All the while wondering what has caused this man to flee. Once the pursuers are gone the man demands the stranger explain, which he does in written form that Wessel begins to read aloud as the story comes to a close.

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Title: Jemina, The Mountain Girl

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Kenneth Elliot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 9 minutes

Release date: June 4, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Jemina, The Mountain Girl - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 'Tales of the Jazz Age' (1922).  In the story of 'Jemina, The Mountain Girl', Jemina Tantrum is a teenage girl who lives on a mountain. She takes care of her 'pappy' and 'mappy' and basically runs the family business. Thing is, there's a feud between her family and the family who lives across the stream. A long time ago, one of Jemina's ancestors and one of the Doldrum's (the family across the stream) ancestors fought over a card game. Their families have hated each other ever since. Anyways, one day a stranger came to the Tantrum's house to attempt to buy it. Gold was found on their property and the stranger wanted to buy it...  Just a few of the themes found in 'Jemina' are ignorance, nature, the power of tradition, and of course, love.

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Title: Mr. Icky

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Kenneth Elliot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 14 minutes

Release date: June 4, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Mr. Icky - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 'Tales of the Jazz Age' (1922).  Mr. Icky is a whimsical and lighthearted play written by F. Scott Fitzgerald centered around a man named Mr. Icky. In a quick and droll manner, interactions between the cast summarize several pivotal moments in Mr. Icky's life. The story starts with Mr. Icky beginning to converse with a young boy, and shortly after, a suitor searching for Mr. Icky's daughter arrives on the scene desiring her hand in marriage.

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Title: No More Parades

Series: #2 of Parade's End Tetralogy

Author: Ford Madox Ford

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Release date: June 4, 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 No More Parades is the second of four in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, a work that Ford hoped would contribute to the obviating of all future wars. The novel follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his unfaithful wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and the new reality of a world marred by war, the novel details Tietjens' turmoils in both his personal life and on the warfront—and what follows when those struggles become one and the same. 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: The Watsons: A fragment by Jane Austen and concluded by L. Oulton 

Author: L. Oulton, Jane Austen

Narrator: Linda Barrans, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Denis Daly, Catherine Bilson, A Full Cast

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Release date: June 4, 2024

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Jane Austen probably commenced writing The Watsons in 1803 and discontinued it after her father’s death in 1805. The original text contains no chapter divisions. It was first published in 1871 as an appendix to A Memoir of Jane Austen, by the novelist’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh. The story concerns the young and vivacious Emma Watson, one of six children of a widowed clergyman. Emma has spent most of her life under the care of a wealthy aunt of liberal views, and has received a good education. However, when her aunt enters into a second marriage, Emma is forced to return to the family home, where she is affronted by the crass hunting for husbands undertaken her sisters, Penelope and Margaret. Emma herself attracts the notice of local nobleman, Lord Osborne, and also of Mr. Howard, vicar of the nearby parish church. The sisters are invited to visit the home of their brother, Robert, an attorney in Croydon, but Emma refuses to join them. The original text concludes at this point. Several completions of the novel have been composed after the author’s death. The first appeared in 1850, and was written by her niece, Catherine Hubback, who expanded the story into a three volume novel entitled, The Younger Sister. In 1923, the completion by L. Oulton was published. And in 1928, another completion appeared, this time written the granddaughter of Catherine Hubback, Emily Brown, and her husband Francis Brown. In the version completed by Oulton, the narrative concludes with a resolution fairly typical of an Austen novel. However, the full text is considerably shorter than any of the novels completed by the Austen. There has been much speculation as to why Austen discontinued writing the novel. One surmise is that the author may have felt the narrative was uncomfortably close to the events of her own life.