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Title: Missing Hancocks: Series 3: Five new recordings of classic 'lost' scripts

Author: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson

Narrator: Andy Secombe, , Kevin Mcnally

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-10-05

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd

Genres: Comedy, General Comedy

Publisher's Summary:

Five more brand new recordings of original Hancock's Half Hour scripts, starring Andy Secombe and Kevin McNally.

One of the first modern sitcoms, Hancock's Half Hour made Tony Hancock a household name and launched the careers of writing partners Galton and Simpson. However, 20 of the original radio shows were wiped or lost from the BBC Sound Archive, so Radio 4 decided to recreate them. This collection contains all five episodes from the third series.

The first three - A Holiday in France, The Racehorse and The Crown Jewels - star Andy Secombe, playing his father Harry (who himself deputised for an absent Tony Hancock in the original run). In A Visit to Swansea and The Three Sons, Kevin McNally resumes the role of Hancock. Among the supporting cast are Simon Greenall, Kevin Eldon and Robin Sebastian.

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and with the classic score performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, these hilarious episodes were recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. A piece of comedy history, they have not been heard since their first broadcast, and are a must-listen for fans of 'the lad 'imself'.

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Title: Guts: The Anatomy of The Walking Dead

Author: Paul Vigna

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-10-03

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Publisher's Summary:

In this first and only guide to AMC’s exceptional hit series The Walking Dead, the Wall Street Journal’s Walking Dead columnist celebrates the show, its storylines, characters, and development, and examines its popularity and cultural resonance.

From its first episode, The Walking Dead took fans in the United States and across the world by storm, becoming the highest-rated series in the history of cable television. After each episode airs, Paul Vigna writes a widely read column in which he breaks down the stories and considers what works and what doesn’t, and tries to discern the small details that will become larger plot points.

So how did a basic cable television show based on a graphic comic series, set in an apocalyptic dog-eat-dog world filled with flesh-eating zombies and even scarier human beings, become a ratings juggernaut and cultural phenomenon? Why is the show such a massive hit? In this playful yet comprehensive guide, Vigna dissect every aspect of The Walking Dead to assess its extraordinary success.

Vigna digs into the show’s guts, exploring its roots, storyline, relevance for fans and the wider popular culture, and more. He explores how the changing nature of television and media have contributed to the show’s success, and goes deep into the zombie genre, delineating why it’s different from vampires, werewolves, and other monsters. He considers why people have found in zombies a mirror for their own fears, and explains how this connection is important to the show’s popularity. He interviews the cast and crew, who share behind-the-scenes tales, and introduces a cross-section of its diverse and rabid viewership, from fantasy nerds to NFL stars. Guts is a must have for every Walking Dead fan.

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Title: We Were Strangers Once

Author: Betsy Carter

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-09-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

For readers of The Nightingale and Brooklyn, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City.

On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous naturalists--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling into the unfamiliar rhythms of upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of fellow immigrants, tenacious men and women drawn together as much by their differences as by their memories of the world they left behind.

They each suffer degradations and triumphs large and small: Egon's terminally acerbic lifelong friend, bestselling author Meyer Leavitt, now wears a sandwich board on a New York street corner; Catrina Harty, the headstrong daughter of a dirt-poor Irish trolley driver, survives heartbreak and loss to forge an unlikely alliance; and Egon himself is forced to abandon his thriving medical practice to become the Cheese Man at a Washington Heights grocery. But their spirits remain unbroken, and when their little community is faced with an existential threat, these strangers rise up together in hopes of creating a permanent home. With her uncanny ability to create indelible characters in unforgettable circumstances, Betsy Carter has crafted a gorgeous novel that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt adrift and longed for home.

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Title: End of the World Running Club

Author: Adrian J. Walker

Narrator: Jot Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-09-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Edgar Hill is thirty-five and caught in his own headlock. Overweight slob, underperforming husband, and reluctant father-for Ed, the world may as well have already ended. So when it does end in a catastrophic asteroid strike and Edgar and his family find refuge in an Edinburgh army barracks, it comes as something of a relief.But nothing's ever that simple. Returning from a salvage run in the city, Edgar finds his family gone, taken to the south coast for evacuation by an international task force. Suddenly he finds himself facing a grueling journey on foot across a devastated United Kingdom. Edgar must race against time and overcome his own shortcomings, not to mention hundred-mile canyons and a heavily flooded west coast, to find the people he loves before he loses them forever.This is a vivid, gripping story of hope, long-distance running, and how we break the limits of our own endurance.

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Title: Murder in Cherry Hills

Author: Paige Sleuth

Narrator: Marla Bradeen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-09-01

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Kat Harper has only just returned to her small hometown of Cherry Hills, Washington when she discovers the dead body of her neighbor, Mrs. Tinsdale. Matilda, Mrs. Tinsdale's orphaned rescue cat, just might be the only eyewitness to the murder. But how do you convince a cat to reveal whodunit?

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Title: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Tadhg Hynes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-07-30

Publisher: Big Happy Family Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of Irish society and the Catholic church, ending with his awakening as a poet and writer and self-imposed exile from Ireland.

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Title: Sid

Author: Anita Feng

Narrator: Kitzie Stern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 2017-07-18

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Religious & Inspirational

Publisher's Summary:

Anita Feng has crafted in Sid a delightful jewel that captures both the classic story of the Buddha, as well a deeply personal and familiar reflection of the story in a contemporary retelling.

Sid weaves the traditional tale of Siddhartha, the Buddha-to-be, with the story of Sid, an everyman who finds himself waking up amid the reality of work and family life in the modern world. Returning to the standard tale with careful consideration of the relationships in Buddha's life to his wife, parents, and child Feng's narrative embodies the Mahayana perspective of living one's enlightenment in the world.

Beautifully told in poetic prose, Sid teaches that the key to the story of the Buddha's life is that the story could be about any of us.

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Title: River Under the Road: A Novel

Author: Scott Spencer

Narrator: David Bendena

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-06-27

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Thaddeus Kaufman, the son of booksellers, and Grace Cornell, raised in a basement apartment she longs to escape, meet at a neighborhood art fair in Chicago. Soon after, they head to New York, aloft on the wings of young love. Jennings Stratton, the son of a caretaker, and Muriel Sanchez, the daughter of a cop, meet in a house he is refurbishing in New Mexico, and they, too, head for the big city. In a vast Hudson River estate, the lives of the two couples ultimately intertwine.

Thaddeus has made it big, setting off a chain reaction of envy among his friends and forever changing the dynamic of his marriage. And Jennings, hoping to transcend his reputation as the local Casanova, has ventured into a cycle of theft and betrayal that threatens to destroy the fragile life of his family.

Funny and cutting, River Under the Road is Scott Spencer's masterpiece of all that lies beneath our everyday livesa story about the pursuit of love, art, and money, and the inevitable reckoning that awaits us all.

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Title: Hidden Blessings: Midlife Crisis As a Spiritual Awakening

Author: PhD Jett Psaris

Narrator: Becky Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-06-24

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Publisher's Summary:

Many words have been written about this period of life sometimes called middle age. What makes Hidden Blessings different is its unique blend of psychological and spiritual guidance to help us respond fully to the transformative invitation of midlife. That invitation is to step away from taking life literally and, perhaps, superficially to discover a deep and profound underlying existence.

The transformation that is possible during midlife is more than just a continuation of the developmental arc of the first half of our lives; midlife offers the possibility of metamorphosis into an entirely new life with a vaster perspective than we have enjoyed until now. The midlife passage invites the death of who we have known ourselves to be and promises the birth of our authentic, soul-infused self, long suppressed under years of outward obligations. The more we view midlife as a spiritual rebirth rather than something to get over or simply endure, the less likely we are to settle for trying to repackage what we have lived during the first half of our adult lives and the more likely we are to discover the full range of the blessings that awaits us if we surrender to the challenging process of unraveling and being transformed.

This is a terrific book. It is rich and deeply satisfying, as theauthor carefully and lovingly leads the reader through an in-depthexploration of the midlife passage as an opportunity to live a moreauthentic and fulfilling life.

- John Welwood, author of Toward a Psychology of Awakening

In the middle of our lives, there is a 'dark wood,' as Dante namedit,where each of us must lose our way. The luckiest among us find aguide like Jett Psaris who offers not only an exquisite map, butprofound companionship along the way.

- Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words

HiddenBlessings is the best book on midlife I've ever reviewed.

- Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle

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Title: Awful German Language

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Rainer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-06-14

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

A wonderful book full of satire about the German language. Written by the genius Mark Twain. This comedic gem outlines the pitfalls one will encounter when trying to wrap one's mind around the torturous German cases, adjective endings, noun genders, and verb placement.

This is half German and half English, so it is a great way to pick up on key German words.