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Title: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Novel

Author: Arundhati Roy

Narrator: Arundhati Roy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 22

Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times Best Seller Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Amazon, Kirkus, The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Hudson Group A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things   The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope. The tale begins with Anjum—who used to be Aftab—unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her—including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo’s landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs’ Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi. As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy’s storytelling gifts.

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Title: The Hidden School: Return of the Peaceful Warrior

Series: #3 of Peaceful Warrior

Author: Dan Millman

Narrator: Dan Millman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

In the long-awaited conclusion to the international bestselling Peaceful Warrior saga, Dan Millman takes us on an epic spiritual quest across the world as he searches for the link between everyday life and transcendent possibility. Picking up where his journey ended in Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman moves from Honolulu to the Mojave Desert, and from a bustling Asian city to a secluded forest, until he uncovers the mystery of The Hidden School. While traversing continents, he uncovers lessons of life hidden in plain sight—insights pointing the way to an inspired life in the eternal present. Along the way, he encounters remarkable characters and brushes with mortality as he explores the nature of reality, the self, death, and finally, a secret as ancient as the roots of this world. Awaken to the hidden powers of paradox, humor, and change. Discover a vision that may forever change your perspectives about life’s promise and potential.

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Title: Swell: A Novel

Author: Jill Eisenstadt

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Thirty years after From Rockaway ('A great first novel', Harper's Bazaar), Jill Eisenstadt returns with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city and a family at their most vulnerable. When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home, Sue relents, after years of resisting, and agrees to convert to Judaism. In return, Sue's father-in-law, Sy, buys the family -- Sue, Dan, and their two daughters -- a capacious but ramshackle beachfront house in Rockaway, Queens, a world away from the Glassmans' cramped Tribeca apartment. The catch? Sy is moving in, too. And the house is haunted. On the weekend of Sue's conversion party, ninety-year-old Rose, who (literally) got away with murder on the premises years earlier, shows up uninvited. Towing a suitcase-sized pocketbook, having escaped an assisted living facility in Forest Hills, Rose seems intent on moving back in. Enter neighbor Tim -- formerly Timmy (see From Rockaway), a former lifeguard, former firefighter, and reformed alcoholic -- who feels, for reasons even he can't explain, inordinately protective of the Glassmans. The collective nervous breakdown occasioned by Rose's return swells to operatic heights in a novel that charms and surprises on every page as it unflinchingly addresses the perils of living in a world rife with uncertainty.

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Title: North Haven

Author: Sarah Moriarty

Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Sarah Moriarty’s stunning debut is a portrait of the family scars and faults passed along the generations, brilliantly capturing life on the Maine coastline, where time seems to stand still even as the waters never stop moving. On an island in Maine, four siblings arrive at their sprawling, old summer place for the Fourth of July. It’s the Willoughbys’ first summer without their parents, and their beloved house is falling apart. When a substantial offer is made on the estate, the two brothers and two sisters are forced to confront issues they had hoped to keep hidden. An homage to the layers and limits of the family bond, North Haven explores the shifting allegiances between siblings as they contend with their inheritance, the truth of family lore, and even the veracity of their own memories. This lyrical and moving novel delves into the secret world that exists between parents, one their children don’t fully understand, much as they may think they do.

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Title: Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography; A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters

Author: Walt Whitman

Narrator: Jon Hamm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

In 1852, young Walt Whitman—a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn—was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Grass. The other, a novel, would be published under a pseudonym and serialized in a newspaper. A short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and adventure in New York City, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle appeared to little fanfare.   Then it disappeared.   No one laid eyes on it until 2016, when literary scholar Zachary Turpin, University of Houston, followed a paper trail deep into the Library of Congress, where the sole surviving copy of Jack Engle has lain waiting for generations. Now, after more than 160 years, the University of Iowa Press is honored to reprint this lost work, restoring a missing piece of American literature by one of the world’s greatest authors, written as he verged on immortality. Read by Jon Hamm, with an afterword written and read by Zachary Turpin

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Title: A Good Country: A Novel

Author: Laleh Khadivi

Narrator: Assaf Cohen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A timely novel about the radicalization of a Muslim teen in California—about where identity truly lies, and how we find it Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Reza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza—now Rez—feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict parents comes easily. But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and his girlfriend are making their way to Syria to be part of a Muslim nation rising from the ashes of the civil war. Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all modern souls: Do we decide how to live, or is our life decided for us?

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Title: Standard Deviation: A novel

Author: Katherine Heiny

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.13 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

TheSkimm’s Best of Skimm Reads NPR’s Guide to Great Reads The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of the Year Minnesota Public Radio’s The Best Books to Give and Get: Fiction Picks of the Year An uproarious novel ('Both heart-piercing and, crucially, very funny.' —Louise Erdrich, The New York Times) from the celebrated author of Single, Carefree, Mellow about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raising children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not taken. When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfriend, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, Graham learns, life with Audra can also be exhausting, constantly interrupted by chatty phone calls, picky-eater houseguests, and invitations to weddings of people he’s never met. Audra firmly believes that through the sheer force of her personality she can overcome the most socially challenging interactions, shepherding her son through awkward playdates and origami club, and even deciding to establish a friendship with Graham’s first wife, Elspeth.  Graham isn't sure he understands why Audra longs to be friends with the woman he divorced. After all, former spouses are hard to categorize—are they enemies, old flames, or just people you know really, really well? And as Graham and Audra share dinners, holidays, and late glasses of wine with his first wife he starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did I make the right choice? Is there a right choice? A hilarious and rueful debut novel of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami, Standard Deviation never deviates from the superb.

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Title: [Spanish] - El impostor

Author: Javier Cercas

Narrator: Sergio Capelo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

He aquí una fascinante novela sin ficción saturada de ficción; la ficción no la pone el autor: la pone Enric Marco. Premio al Libro Europeo 2016. Las mejores obras de nuestro tiempo en formato audiolibro ¿Quién es Enric Marco? Un nonagenario barcelonés que se hizo pasar por superviviente de los campos nazis y que fue desenmascarado en mayo de 2005, después de presidir durante tres años la asociación española de los supervivientes, pronunciar centenares de conferencias, conceder decenas de entrevistas, recibir importantes distinciones y conmover en algún caso hasta las lágrimas a los parlamentarios españoles reunidos para rendir homenaje por vez primera a los republicanos deportados por el III Reich. El caso dio la vuelta al mundo y convirtió a Marco en el gran impostor y el gran maldito. Ahora, casi una década más tarde, Javier Cercas asedia, en este thriller hipnótico que es también un banquete con muchos platos -narración, crónica, ensayo, biografía y autobiografía-, el enigma del personaje, su verdad y sus falsedades y, a través de esa indagación que recorre casi un siglo de historia de España, bucea con una pasión de kamikaze y una honestidad desgarradora en lo más profundo de nosotros mismos: en nuestra infinita capacidad de autoengaño, en nuestro conformismo y nuestras mentiras, en nuestra sed insaciable de afecto, en nuestras necesidades contrapuestas de ficción y de realidad, en las zonas más dolorosas de nuestro pasado reciente. El resultado es un libro que no habla de Enric Marco sino de usted, lector; también el libro más insumiso y radical de Javier Cercas: un libro asombroso que, con una audacia inédita, ensancha los límites del género novelesco y explora las últimas fronteras de nuestra humanidad. Novela multi galardonada: En Italia: * Premio El Ceppo di Pistoia * Premio de Pordenone «La storia in un romanzo» En Pekín: * Premio a la Mejor Novela Extranjera del Año En España: * Premio «Arzobispo Juan San Clemente» Reseña: «La ficción ha sustituido a la realidad en el mundo que vivimos y los mediocres personajes del mundo real no nos interesan. Los fabuladores, sí.» Mario Vargas Llosa

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Title: [Spanish] - Siddhartha

Author: Herman Hesse

Narrator: Horacio Mancilla

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Escucha la historia de Buda novelada por Herman Hesse. Esta novela, ambientada en la India tradicional, relata la vida de Siddhartha, un hombre para quien el camino de la verdad pasa por la renuncia y la comprensión de la unidad que subyace en todo lo existente. En este audiolibro, podemos escuchar todas las opciones espirituales del hombre que el autor ofrece. Hermann Hesse buceó en el alma de Oriente a fin de aportar sus aspectos positivos a nuestra sociedad. Siddhartha es la obra más representativa de este proceso y ha ejercido una gran influencia en la cultura occidental del siglo XX, escúchala ahora. Los mejores clásicos disponibles en formato audiolibro. Reseña: «Uno de los libros más sencillos, bellos y profundos que haya leído jamás. Siddhartha es para mí una medicina más efectiva que el Nuevo Testamento.» Henry Miller

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Title: House of Names

Author: Colm Tóibín

Narrator: Pippa Nixon, Charlie Anson, Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of House of Names by Colm Tóibín, read by Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson and Pippa Nixon. 'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.' On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act. House of Names is a story of intense longing and shocking betrayal. It is a work of great beauty, and daring, from one of our finest living writers.