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Title: The Quality of Silence

Author: Rosamund Lupton

Narrator: Rachel Atkins, Harriet Carmichael

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Set in the extreme landscape of Alaska, The Quality of Silence follows the story of Yasmin and her deaf daughter, Ruby. Yasmin arrives in Alaska to be told her husband, Matt, is dead, the victim of a catastrophic accident. Yasmin, unable to accept this as truth, sets out into the frozen winter landscape, taking Ruby with her, in search of answers.

But as a storm closes in, Yasmin realises that a very human danger may be keeping pace with them. And with no one else on the road to help, they must keep moving, alone and terrified, through an endless Alaskan night.

In a story that explores the very limits of human resilience, The Quality of Silence is as much about a mother learning to hear her deaf daughter as it is about their journey across the vastness of Alaska, and proves, once again, that Rosamund Lupton is a storyteller of class and elegance.

Critic Reviews:

"Like a breath of icy air, this relentlessly tense thriller is also a child's-eye family drama like none other. Not since Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow have I shivered like this." (Emma Donoghue)

"Masterful pacing, riveting plotting. The Quality of Silence will have your heart thumping. Absolutely gripping." (Louise Penny)

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Title: Summary & Analysis of Sejal Badani's Trail of Broken Wings

Author: Instaread

Narrator: Jason P. Hilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-15

Publisher: Instaread

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Trail of Broken Wings is a novel by Sejal Badani. The novel follows the story of a family who immigrated to California from India, focusing mainly on three sisters who suffered incredible abuse at the hands of their father, Brent. When Sonya, the youngest, arrives home shortly after her father falls into a coma, the three women and their mother are forced to confront the abuse and the ways in which it altered their lives.

Upon Sonya's arrival in California, the family has dinner together at her middle sister Trisha's house. Sonya is briefly confronted by her sisters for not being present or active in the family since she left home after her college graduation. Afterward Sonya goes to stay at her mother Ranee's house but must barricade herself in her bedroom in order to feel safe.

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Title: Mislaid

Author: Nell Zink

Narrator: Laurence Bouvard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-15

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know." (Jonathan Franzen)

Virginia, 1966. The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, is determinedly fondling Peggy, an ingénue freshman with literary pretensions, in his canoe. So begins a long affair, but the two are mismatched from the start.

The story that follows rocks the boat in every sense. Nell Zink's hugely entertaining, totally unique Mislaid explodes the nuclear family and topples every foundation of identity - black and white, gay and straight, "normal" and very very strange....

Critic Reviews:

"Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know. You might not want to believe this, but her sentences and stories are so strong and convincing that you'll have no choice." (Jonathan Franzen)

"Nell Zink might be the best living writer you haven't heard of yet." (Emily Gould, author of Friendship)

"One of the most exciting debut novels that will be published this year." (Guardian)

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Title: Passport to Happiness

Author: Debbie White

Narrator: Cathy Schrecongost

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-15

Publisher: Debbie White

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

To escape the often lonely and boring reality of living in a small rural town, Jessica finds comfort in reading about the many places that exist beyond her small corner of the Earth.

When she joins the State Department and travels abroad, looking for adventure, she gets more than she imagined was ever possible.

Passport to Happiness is a story of strength and determination while exploring new places. It is also about finding love and happiness - no matter where you hang your hat.

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Title: The Man in the Wooden Hat

Author: Jane Gardam

Narrator: Bill Wallace

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Filth (Failed in London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate, and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions.

But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions....

How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering, makes for a pause-resisting plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricities for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous.

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Title: The Loved Ones!

Author: Mary-Beth Hughes

Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The nationally best-selling Hughes returns with a darkly brilliant Mad Men-esque drama of family secrets and professional lies reminiscent of Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road and James Salter's Light Years.

From the outside in, the Devlin family lead almost-perfect lives. Dashing father Nick is a successful businessman long married to sweetheart Jean, who upholds the family home and throws dinner parties while daughter Lily attends Catholic school and is disciplined into modesty by the nuns. Under the surface, however, the Devlins are silently broken by the death of their little boy.

As Nick's older brother, a man driven by callous and rapacious urges, inducts Nick into the cut-throat world of cosmetics, the Devlin family are further fragmented by betrayals and victims of the cruelest kind of hurt.

In The Loved Ones, Hughes takes her gimlet eye deep into the secret places between men and women to give an incisive portrayal of one family's struggle to stay together against stacked odds of deception, adultery, and loss. Years in the making, this is Hughes' astonishing and compulsively listenable breakout, a sweepingly cinematic novel of relationships defined by an era of glamour and decadence.

Critic Reviews:

"A writer of dexterity and imagination." (New York Times Book Review)

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Title: Adultery

Author: Paulo Coelho

Narrator: Susan Denaker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-15

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again.

Her friends recommend medication. But Linda wants to feel more, not less. And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring and that reawakens a side of her that she - respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared.

Even she can't predict what will happen next...

Critic Reviews:

"Adultery perfectly illustrates the faint line between madness and insanity, happiness and unhappiness as well as the eternal search for our own 'personal legend'." (The Daily Express)

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Title: Elegance

Author: Kathleen Tessaro

Narrator: Elizabeth McGovern

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-15

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

An enchanting novel brimming with poignancy, humour, enchantment, and insight, this is a stunning debut. Imagine an Audrey Hepburn film in the present day....

It was a slim, grey volume entitled Elegance.... Louise Canova is at a crossroads in her life. Her marriage is faltering, and the insecurities of adolescence have returned to haunt her. Browsing in a second-hand bookshop, she stumbles across a faded grey volume.

Written by the formidable French fashion expert Madame Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, Elegance is an encyclopedia of style. It promises to transform plain women into creatures of poise at all times. And from accessories to zippers, there is nothing that Madame Dariaux can't advise upon - including inattentive husbands, false friends, and the powerful bond between mothers and daughters.

When Louise vows to follow Madame's advice, her life is transformed in ways she never imagined. Within the book's pages lie clues to her own past. And as she begins to unravel them, she discovers a courage she never dreamt possible.However, everything, even elegance, has its price.

Starting with A and finishing with Z, Elegance is a unique journey of timeless fashion, true friendship, and the rare, unexpected gift of love.

Critic Reviews:

"Ultra-smart and classily edgy, this is the glitz novel brought up to date." (Sunday Times)

"This debut novel is the perfect summer read - as delightfully fruity as a glass of Pimm's and with a similar kick, one that catches you unawares." (Daily Mail)

"Funny, charming and a certain bestseller." (In Style)

"A perfect pick-me-up." (Cosmopolitan)

"This is a book all women will identify with, and you'll adore Louise, who's every bit as charmingly neurotic and nutty as Bridget Jones." (Glamour)

"A brilliant read with fashion advice thrown in!' (New Woman)

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Title: That Girl from Nowhere

Author: Dorothy Koomson

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Akiya Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-15

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the best-selling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before, and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity, and the meaning of family.

Where are you coming from with that accent of yours? he asks.

Nowhere, I reply. Im from nowhere.

Everyones from somewhere, he says.

Not me, I reply silently.

Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby, and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Clem has no idea that while there she'll meet someone who knows all about her butterfly box and what happened to her birth parents.

As the tangled truths about her adoption and childhood start to unravel, a series of shocking events cause Clem to reassess whether the price of having contact with her birth family could be too high to pay....

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Title: Metamorphosis: Good Girl Gone Bad (Volume 1)

Author: Karen Marie Coleman

Narrator: Donna Havern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-15

Publisher: Karen Coleman

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Katrina McAllister narrowly escaped an abusive husband. Now she must fight to gain custody of her two children. Problem is her in-laws own the town, and everyone in it is on their payroll, including judges, attorneys, politicians, and the police. Forced from her home and stripped of all her cash, who can she turn to for help? After receiving a letter threatening her parental rights, she needs a good attorney. Running out of options, she does what she deems necessary to gain custody of her children. That is until a chance meeting with a total stranger gives her some surprising news.

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