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ID: 696240

Title: On the Brink: The Grange Complex Book 3

Author: Joanna Mazurkiewicz

Narrator: Billie Belford, Jameson Black

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:22:30

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-23

Publisher: Whole Story QUEST

Genres: Romance, Romantica

Summary:

Gina Martinez doesn't have time to date. She's too busy working hard, raising her siblings, and trying to take her pole dancing business to the next level. Gina harbours deep-seated trust issues, but that's her secret to keep.

However, when it comes to Harry Erskine nothing makes perfect sense anymore. As soon as they're introduced her rules fly by the wayside. The man is pure sex-on-a-stick; a professional boxer, a hot blooded Scott and ex-military. Harry also carries a few secrets of his own.

Fate brings them together when Gina ends up designing a marketing campaign for his new business. The moment they lay eyes on each other, things get out of control; rules are broken and sexual chemistry makes them inseparable.until secrets threaten their future together.

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ID: 695649

Title: Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

Author: Holly Ringland

Narrator: Emmanuelle Mattana

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:07:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-23

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura's disappearance, Esther's family struggles to live with their loss.

To seek the truth about her sister's death, Esther reluctantly travels from Tasmania to Copenhagen, and then to the Faroe Islands. On her journey, Esther is guided by the stories Aura left behind in her treasured journal; seven fairy tales about selkies, swans and women, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body.

The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is about the far-reaches of sisterly love, the power of wearing your heart on your skin and the way life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy.

Another spell is cast by Holly Ringland. I was swept away by this triumphant and luminous story.' Myfanwy Jones

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ID: 696246

Title: Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

Author: Antonia Fraser

Narrator: Penelope Wilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:39:35

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-23

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. She spoke French and German fluently, knew Greek and Latin, and sketched impressive portraits. As the niece of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, she was already well connected, and her courtly skills resulted in her marriage to the Hon. William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne) at the age on nineteen. For a few years they enjoyed a happy marriage, despite Lamb's siblings and mother-in-law detesting her and referring to her as 'the little beast'.

In 1812 Caroline embarked on a well-publicised affair with the poet Lord Byron - he was 24, she 26. Her phrase 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' became his lasting epitaph. When he broke things off, Caroline made increasingly public attempts to reunite. Her obsession came to define much of her later life, as well as influencing her own writing - most notably the Gothic novel Glenarvon - and Byron's.

Antonia Fraser's vividly compelling biography animates the life of 'a free spirit' who was far more than mad, bad and dangerous to know.

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ID: 696244

Title: Tuscan Warlord: Sir John Hawkwood Book 5

Author: Griff Hosker

Narrator: Marston York

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:30:31

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-23

Publisher: Whole Story QUEST

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Sir John Hawkwood has almost all that he needs. He is the most respected and feared mercenary leader in Italy but he is surrounded by those who would do him and his family harm. He faces betrayal from friend and foe alike. His constants are his company and the leaders who fight for him. Treading a tightrope between warring factions that include the Pope and the Lord of Milan, Sir John Hawkwood decides to make the White Company into a warband and he becomes a warlord.

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ID: 695655

Title: Art of Breaking Ice

Author: Rachael Mead

Narrator: Jessica Douglas-Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-23

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, wife of expedition leader Phillip Law. She would make history by becoming the first Australian woman to set foot on the icy continent, but it was her art that would change everything.

Though a talented artist, Nel has always been defined by her role as the explorer's wife', but in the clear expanse of the Southern Ocean, her true self is finally allowed to emerge. Despite misogyny from the all-male crew and increasing resentment from her mercurial husband, Nel's art begins to flourish. Her new friend, a gentle ornithologist, encourages her to explore, but as the ship ploughs on towards Antarctica, rumours swirl, threatening her marriage and the tenuous peace between the controlling Phillip and his crew. In the clear, white light of the south, Nel will be forced to confront the truth of herself and the man to whom she has dedicated her life.

This stunning reimagining of Nel Law's life reveals a ground-breaking artist searching for freedom in a world where women's lives were still defined by their husbands.

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ID: 695654

Title: Broke

Author: Sam Drummond

Narrator: Tim Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:07:05

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-23

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

A memoir about downward mobility, disability and the power of hope.

Sam always knew he was starting life on the back foot. When his parents split, Sam, his mother and his brother had to learn to survive in a world not built for single-parent families. Add to that Sam's diagnosis with a form of dwarfism and the odds seemed stacked against them. As surgeons kept breaking and resetting Sam's legs in attempts to keep him walking, disability and poverty collided, and it took all the family's strength not to crumple in the impact.

With each change in circumstance jobs gained and lost, relationships starting and ending, moving between city and country and from school to school Sam tried to make sense of the adult decisions that kept shaking his world. Armed with hope, the support of friends and teachers, and the unwavering love of his mum, he began to claw his way to a brighter future.

In Broke, lawyer and disability advocate Sam Drummond weaves a poignant, stirring and deeply compassionate tale of life on the fringes. It's a story of broken families, broken bodies and a broken system that constantly lets vulnerable Australians down.

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ID: 696245

Title: Flags on the Bayou

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Dana Gourrier, James Lee Burke, January Lavoy, Macleod Andrews, Marin Ireland, Michael Crouch, Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:51:20

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-23

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in the maelstrom.

In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The retreating Confederate army is being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom.

When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous.

Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed-and did-as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah.

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ID: 690580

Title: Biomimetics: How Lessons From Nature Can Transform Technology

Author: Brian Clegg

Narrator: Mark Peachey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-23

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Science & Technology, General

Summary:

An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.

Biomimetics literally means emulating biology - and in a broader sense the term covers technological advances where the original inspiration came from nature. The Earth is a vast laboratory where the mechanisms of natural selection have enabled evolutionary solutions to be developed to a wide range of problems.

Science writer Brian Clegg looks at how humans have piggybacked on natural experimentation, redeploying a solution to create things that make our lives easier. He looks at how the hooks on burdock seeds inspired the creation of Velcro, how the stickiness of the feet of geckos and frogs has been used to create gripping surfaces, such as tyre treads, and how even the most basic optical enhancement in the form of spectacles is itself a form of biomimetics.

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ID: 695644

Title: Lankavatara Sutra

Author: D.T. Suzuki

Narrator: Ratnadhya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:45:59

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-23

Publisher: Dharma Audiobooks from W. F. Howes Ltd

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

The Lankavatara Sutra, dating from the early years of the Common Era, sometime before 443, is one of the most important Mahayana Buddhist texts, not least because of its influence on later Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism. One of its possible early translators in the 8th century was Gunabhadra who is sometimes regarded as the first father of Zen in China.

The Sutra takes the form of a dialogue between the Buddha in his cosmic form (as opposed to the historical figure of the Pali Canon) and the Bodhisattva or Great Being', Mahamati. The Bodhisattva, as represented by Mahamati, is the enlightened presence in the world, foregoing the bliss of Nirvana and enlightenment for the sake of oneself alone, in order to lead all beings to that state of liberation, of complete non-attachment, as taught by the Buddha.

The Sutra is especially concerned with the teaching of Emptiness', or Sunyata' in the Sanskrit, the letting go of all concepts and constructs, through which we label' the world around us, thus perpetuating that duality of self and other, which, according to the Buddha's teaching, lies at the root of the world's suffering. This is what is meant in the Sutra by the discriminating consciousness', through which we make logical sense of the world on a relative basis and which is distinguished from Transcendental Knowledge which allows us to enter into absolute reality. Much of the Sutra is concerned with the way this is brought about through the workings of our inner consciousness.

The Buddha, prompted by Mahamati's questions, reiterates again and again that this world of particulars' as perceived by the non-enlightened, is devoid of an ego-substance and is illusory, like Maya' or a visionary flower in the air. It is because of our persistent need to hold onto some sense of a fixed self or soul' that we perpetuate the rounds of rebirth in this samsaric world, or world of suffering.

This recording includes the Sagathakam' (or one with verses), a later addition to the Sutra which contains many references to the Sutra itself and may well have been intended as an aide-memoire' for those trying to learn sections of the Sutra.

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ID: 690577

Title: Unlock Your Menopause Type

Author: Heather Hirsch

Narrator: Heather Hirsch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:44:18

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-23

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Health & Wellness, Women's Health

Summary:

Given that millions of women have entered menopause each year since the dawn of time, it's crazy that menopause still feels like uncharted territory for the women who are going through it. Dr. Heather Hirsch is committed to changing that. Unlocking Your Menopause Type helps women cut through the informational noise and learn how to manage their symptoms most effectively by identifying their personal Menopause Type(s).

This is not a one-size fits all solution. Unlocking Your Menopause Type features a helpful quiz to identify women's individual Menopause Type(s) such as:

-Premature

-Sudden

-Full-Throttle

-Mind-Altering

-Seemingly Never-ending

-Silent

Each type gets a full prescription for exercises, diet and strategies to regain mental focus and make menopause a regulation part of maturity rather than a rollercoaster ride of unexpected symptoms and discomfort.

The book also includes:

-The last word on whether to replace declining hormones (the answer is custom-built)

-What to do if you're a combination of types

-How to get on top of (as it were) changes in your sex life

-Crowd-sourced tips and tricks from Dr. Hirsch's friend group and patients

Dr. Hirsch addresses the physical and emotional challenges of menopause and provides solutions from her years of practice. With knowledge, priorities, and a plan, you can feel great through midlife and beyond.

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