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ID: 769419

Title: Trust and Safety

Author: Eve Gleichman, Laura Blackett

Narrator: Kelly Burke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:57

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Newlywed Rosie has grown disenchanted with NYC. Inspired by Instagram ads, she starts thirsting for a rural life upstate one full of beauty and simplicity. Willing to do anything for Rosie's happiness, her tech-bro husband, Jordan, acquiesces to her vision for the future, and they offer well above asking price on a beautiful, historic fixer-upper in the Hudson Valley. But when Jordan suddenly loses his job on the day they close the deal, the couple is forced to rent out the property's dilapidated outbuilding.

Enter Dylan and Lark: an incredibly attractive and handy queer couple who offer to rent the outbuilding and help Rosie and Jordan with repairs. They're living the life Rosie had envisioned for herself: hand-built furniture, herbal tinctures, guinea hens, and hand-dyed linens. Rosie grows increasingly infatuated with their new tenants, especially with model-esque and charismatic Dylan to Jordan's increasing distress.

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ID: 765812

Title: Day of Reckoning: How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy

Author: Mike Wendling

Narrator: Mike Wendling

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:39:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: American Politics

Summary:

The United States has become an almost unrecognizable countrywith millions in thrall to conspiracy theories, toxic populism, and the far right edging closer to total powera dire threat to civil society and democratic institutions. While the MAGA movement was in remission due to Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, the fascist fringes have not just survived but have continued to thrive and burrow into the mainstream. The January 6th Capitol Riot prosecutions have done little to curb their enthusiasm for mayhem.

Trump's base in the Republican Party is committed to their candidate like never before. The institutionalization of racist voter suppression and the outdated logic behind the Electoral College means he could take back the White House. Apocalyptic messaging ensures the alt-right, anti-government, anti-LGBT, and white nationalist groups see the next election as a life-or-death struggle and are uniting to back the one person they can all agree on guaranteeing another chaotic election.

In this chilling exposé, Wendling encounters Capital rioters, Covid deniers, QAnon supporters, and Proud Boys and uncovers the roots of a movement that threatens to shatter the foundations of democracy.

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ID: 760830

Title: Story Thief

Author: Kyra Geddes

Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:57:36

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Her family's story made Henry Lawson famous. But was it his story to tell?

Fact and fiction meld into one in this stirring family saga set against shifting landscapes and pivotal moments in Australian history. Lillian was born in 1892, the same year Henry Lawson wrote 'The Drover's Wife' and cemented his place in Australia's literary canon.

When Lillian reads the short story as a teenager, she is convinced that it is based upon her own family and becomes determined to prove it. But as the years pass, the truth becomes more problematic, and Lillian must decide what is more important: holding onto the past or embracing the future.

The Story Thief is about mothers and daughters, love, loss and the power of words. Ultimately it is about how each of us must find our own way to live.

Brimming with evocative, authentic detail, The Story Thief brings a fresh, feminist perspective to Australian literature and art. Australian historical fiction at its finest.' LIANE MORIARTY

A richly textured and immersive novel filled with defining moments, minute detail and compelling insights into the meaning of loss, love and family.' NICOLE ALEXANDER

Vividly drawn a delightful book.' WENDY SHARPE, multi-award winning Australian artist

The Story Thief is a finely wrought historical novel about those who have been seen, but not seen, in Australian literature and in life. RYAN O'NEILL, author of The Drover's Wives

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ID: 769376

Title: Cemetery of Untold Stories

Author: Julia Alvarez

Narrator: Alma Cuervo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:48:23

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

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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ID: 744859

Title: Dracula Park

Author: Dana Grigorcea

Narrator: Sophie Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:38:02

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

In post-Communist Romania, on the border with Transylvania, the sleepy little town of B. is losing its young people to the West.

A young painter returned from Paris and her eccentric great-aunt seem unconcerned with the decline of the town, until a mutilated corpse is found in the family crypt of Prince Vlad the Impaler, better known as Dracula.

As the world's attention turns to B., the mayor and his son take advantage and turn the town into a vampire-inspired theme park. Tourists flock, but beneath the surface ancient horrors live on.

This is a breathtaking, atmospheric tale of revenge, extremism and the longing for a strong leader, for a strict, cruel judge - like Dracula.

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ID: 769412

Title: Rabbits

Author: Hugo Rifkind

Narrator: Andrew Watson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:13:07

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

A breathtaking new novel, perfect for fans of Saltburn

Tommo has just started at a new school a training ground for the Scottish elite when his friend Johnnie's brother is found dead in a Land Rover on a Highland farm. There's a shotgun at his feet. Nobody seems clear about what has happened, least of all Tommo.

A child of the middle class, and with new independence thrust upon him, Tommo finds himself invited into fading crumbling houses. It's the early nineties and this elite is struggling for relevance. Alienated from the mainstream, and running low on inherited wealth, his peers have retreated into snobbery and fatalism. Half-remembered traditions mix with decadence and an awful lot of small dead animals. And sometimes, not just animals.

Awed by their poise and seduced by their hedonism, Tommo gradually becomes aware of sinister currents beneath the surface and a suppressed rage that threatens to explode into violence.

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ID: 769394

Title: Cry of the Silkworm

Author: Shi Naseer

Narrator: Louise-Mai Newberry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:01:45

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age

Summary:

Growing up in 1990s China, in a village where failure to observe the rigidly enforced one-child policy is deemed tantamount to a crime, Chen Di must fight to get the education she craves in a world in which boys are prioritized. Following her mother's untimely death, 16-year-old Chen Di's thirst for vengeance against those she holds responsible brings about her transformation from a gutsy, marginalized child into an aikido-practising young woman who braves Shanghai. A startling illumination of the ripple effect of the authoritarian regime's policies still being felt today, this moving debut is perfect for readers of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

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ID: 769426

Title: Morgan's Law

Author: Karly Lane

Narrator: Nicolette Chin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:30:32

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

High flying advertising executive, Sarah Murphy, heads to a small town to fulfil a mysterious last wish of her late grandmother. Her journey leads her to love and greater understanding of both herself and her grandmother.

When Sarah Murphy returns to Australia she desperately needs a break from her high-powered London life. And though mystified by her grandmother's dying wish for her ashes to be scattered under 'the wishing tree' on the banks of the Negallan River, she sets out to do just that.

While searching for the wishing tree, Sarah stays in the small township of Negallan. It's there that she finally has some time to relax and unwind, there that she finds herself drawn to a handsome local farmer, and there that she discovers her enquiries about her grandmother are causing disquiet within the powerful local Morgan family.

Will the Morgans prevent Sarah from discovering the truth about her grandmother? And should she risk her glittering career in the UK for a simpler existence in the country, and the possibility of true love? By the bestselling author of North Star, Morgan's Law takes you on a compelling journey into a young woman's hopes and dreams.

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ID: 690531

Title: Dead Man Driving: The Health of Strangers, Book 5

Author: Lesley Kelly

Narrator: Angela Ness

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:49:57

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Two years on from the start of a devastating pandemic, food shortages are becoming critical, and rationing looms. So it's more than embarrassing when a lorry full of luxury food for Scottish Virus Minister's banquet goes missing. When Bernard and Maitland from the HET team find it, the food is missing but there is a dead body.

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ID: 769397

Title: Happily Never After

Author: Rachel North

Narrator: Jennifer Ness

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A small group of family and friends head to a beautiful, secluded location in the mountains of Mallorca for the wedding of Alex and Maddie. The Finca Incantata is a magical place-a castle with a cobbled courtyard, a deep, cold, fresh-water pool and a high tower that looks out over the surrounding wilderness.

The guests arrive bringing with them their pretty dresses, their smart suits and their private thoughts about the upcoming marriage. Among them is one guest who is determined to ensure the wedding does not take place...

Who is the malevolent presence? Why do they hate so fiercely and so specifically? And just how far will they go to prevent Alex and Maddie tying the knot?

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