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ID: 616325

Title: How to Escape from Prison

Author: Paul Wood

Narrator: Simon London

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:29:20

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

The Remarkable Story of How One Man Defied the Odds

At 18, Paul Wood thought he had lost everything. He had committed an act he knew would send him to prison for many years. To a young man like Paul, it might as well have been for the rest of his life.

Plunged into a nightmarish world of extreme violence, solitary confinement, gang allegiances, drugs, vindictive wardens and regular stabbings, Paul spent the next 11 years confined in some of New Zealand's toughest jails.

Based on an account of his experiences he wrote while still inside, How to Escape from Prison chronicles Paul's road to redemption and a new life as a doctor of psychology, helping others strive to fulfil their potential and develop the resilience to flourish, even in adversity. This is a gripping read about a man who sank to the depths of despair, before scaling the heights of true freedom.

'Paul's transformation is unbelievable. We are sometimes brought up to think a zebra can't change its stripes. Paul Wood's story is proof that anyone can change. It gives you great courage that you can do anything.'

- Sir John Kirwan

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ID: 569268

Title: 27 Letters to My Daughter

Author: Ella Ward

Narrator: Ella Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:34:07

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter.

Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charming raconteurs, letter-writers, storytellers and people who 'quite like giving toasts at parties'. And so, a few years ago, when Ella was 36 years old, with a husband and a young daughter, and was told that she had a rare cancer and might die, she decided that death wasn't going to stand in the way of her mothering her child.

As Ella's treatment for her cancer began, she started drafting letters to her daughter. To tell her about life, love, death, the importance of cotton knickers and - above all - her family. The kind of people who weren't dissuaded by little things like cancer. Or war. Or loss. Or a charging elephant.

This is a story of what we inherit, and how we become ourselves. This is the story of a family - a glorious, funny, exotic and gutsy family - but it's really a story about how your attitude to life, can shape your life. A time-travelling memoir from one mother, and the generations that came before her - these are twenty-seven letters about the good, the bad, the magical and the whole damn thing.

Jaunty, brave, moving and immensely appealing, this is a gloriously endearing inspirational story in the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture ... although with slightly more dry martinis.

'Not many people write hilariously and beautifully about something really intense and life altering. [This book] takes you all the way from heartbreak to hilarity - it will be your best friend for a while.' Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity

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ID: 702728

Title: Australian Code Breakers: Our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich

Author: James Phelps

Narrator: James Saunders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:07:37

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: History, World, Military, Australia & Oceania

Summary:

The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich.

On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret naval codebook. The fledgling Australian Navy had an opportunity to immediately change the course of the war. But what exactly had they found? Enter the Australian code breakers ...

Recruited by savvy top brass, maths whizz and German speaker Frederick Wheatley worked night and day to fathom the basic principles of the code and start tracking the German Navy's powerful East Asia Squadron, led by the brilliant Maximilian von Spee. Soon Melbourne was a hub of international Allied intelligence.

This is the untold story of how a former Australian headmaster and his mostly female team cracked one of Germany's most complex codes, paving the way for the greatest Allied naval victory of World War I.

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ID: 559920

Title: Leonard Girls

Author: Deborah Challinor

Narrator: Pania Mowat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:42:14

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Family Life

Summary:

Rowie's pro-war, her sister Jo's a protester. And they're both in Vietnam.

The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of From the Ashes

In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour of duty. She supports the war and is committed to caring for wounded New Zealand and Australian troops. After a few months, however, she realises that nothing at all about the conflict is as clear-cut as she'd assumed.

Her younger sister, Jo, is the opposite - a student at Auckland University, a folk singer and a fervent anti-war protestor. But when Jo falls for professional soldier Sam Apanui, home on leave to visit his ill father, she finds herself torn between her feelings and her convictions.

As the three of them grapple with love, loss, and the stresses and sorrows of war, each will be forced to confront and question everything they believed.

Praise for Deborah Challinor:

'Challinor is a good storyteller ... seamlessly joining fact and fiction and creating a convincing, atmospheric yarn' Bookseller and Publisher

'The perfect blend of fact and fiction' NZ Herald

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ID: 699576

Title: One Bright Moon

Author: Andrew Kwong

Narrator: Jason Chong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:20:52

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Asia, Global Politics

Summary:

Winner of the 2021 Michael Crouch Award, debut category of the National Biography Award: From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia

Andrew Kwong was only seven when he witnessed his first execution. The grim scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his commitment as a revolutionary in Mao's New China. Yet he knew if he devoted himself to the Party and its Chairman he would be saved. That's what his teacher told him.

Months later, it was his own father on trial. This time the sentence was banishment to a re-education camp, not death. It left the family tainted, despised, and with few means of survival during the terrible years of persecution and famine known as the Great Leap Forward. Even after his father returned, things remained desperate. Escape seemed the only solution, and it would be twelve-year-old Andrew who undertook the perilous journey first.

This is the poignant, resonant story of a young boy's awakening – to survival, education, fulfilment, and eventually to a new life of freedom.

PRAISE

'An incredibly powerful book' Benjamin Law

'[A] moving family saga, shot through with yearning and hard-won joy' Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald

'This book will live on in your heart long after you've read the last page' Vicki Laveau-Harvie, author of The Erratics

'Heart-breaking, honest, personal, Andrew Kwong's moving journey from oppression to freedom is inspiring' Susanne Gervay, OAM, author

'A work of startling clarity ... reminiscent of Angela's Ashes' South China Morning Post Magazine

'Deeply moving ... The unique perspective of a child ... places One Bright Moon in the vicinity of Night, Elie Wiesel's pathbreaking memoir of his early life prior to and of his time in German concentration camps' Meenakshi Bharat, IIC Quarterly

'A few pages into this compelling memoir proves it was written by a master storyteller' Sharon Rundle, Australian Book Review

'A profoundly moving and spellbinding story that perfectly illuminates the terror of the times and the irrepressible yearning for something better' Carol Major, author and writing mentor

'One Bright Moon is extraordinary writing that encapsulates long-term hunger as a background feature of daily life in Mao's New China. In the foreground are images of adults and children populating the world of the pre-teenage boy with a photographic memory who would later write of them. The book is rich archival material for the study of China's social history' Mabel Lee, PhD FAHA, writer and translator

'Reading this memoir is a healing experience' Devika Brendon, author and editor

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ID: 588828

Title: Fire

Author: Deborah Challinor

Narrator: Heather Bolton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:35:01

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Set in an unnamed NZ city in 1953, Fire tells the story of four working class friends, all employed at Dawsons, one of the country's most glamorous and sophisticated department stores. An historical romance based on the Ballantynes Department Store Fire in 1947 that killed 41 people, most of them store employees trapped in controversial circumstances.

Set in an unnamed NZ city in 1953, Fire tells the story of four working class friends, all employed at Dawsons, one of the country's most glamorous and sophisticated department stores. The girls are Nancy, a salesgirl in the dress department, Kay who works in lingerie, Louise, a typist in Accounts and Judy, a milliner in the workroom out the back. The story takes place a week before Christmas, in the period leading up to Christmas as the country prepares for a Royal Visit by the young Queen Elizabeth. When the store is full of wealthy shoppers smoke is discovered drifting from the basement lift shaft. While the fire brigade is called, the store owners make a crucial error and decide not to raise a public alarm until it's too late - exits are cut off by the fire and the ground and first floors are ablaze, trapping staff and customers on the upper floors. A powerful and dramatic story from one of our best-selling novelists.

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ID: 616319

Title: Mental Fitness

Author: Paul Wood

Narrator: Christopher Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:10:24

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Science & Technology, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases

Summary:

The bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental strength and fitness to take on all of life's challenges

Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintaining a high level of physical fitness, involves hard work, effort, and consistency. Our level of mental fitness determines how effectively we can flourish through adversity, realise our potential, and be happier with our lives - regardless of what the universe has in store.

We all know about mental stress (or we think we do). We've definitely all experienced it, and none of us like it. Yet this is not a threat to be avoided. Mental stress is perfectly analogous to physical stress: it is the mind's way of telling us that what we are attempting to perform is challenging our resource. This is a catalyst for growth, and a sign we are pursuing our potential. When we experience stress, we have a choice: we can heed that signal and give up - after all, we're meant to stay in our psychic comfort zone all the time, right? Or we can recognise the discomfort we are feeling is simply nature's way of enabling us to rise to the occasion.

In Mental Fitness you will learn how to:

- Increase your mental fitness, just as you would increase your physical fitness

- Get closer to your potential by working proactively to maintain your mental fitness

- Experience the right level of stress (this is what makes us get fitter)

- Cope effectively for longer before you get fatigued or exhausted (it doesn't mean you don't feel the struggle)

- Pay attention to the indicators of fatigue to avoid burnout and unnecessary misery

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ID: 702727

Title: Inside Man

Author: James Phelps

Narrator: James Saunders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:59:30

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

He's the only one who can stop a massacre ... The unputdownable action thriller from Australia's no.1 true crime writer.

Riley Jax, convicted murderer. Once a promising engineer in the army, he lost everything in a single night when he killed a man – an act he cannot remember.

It's a devastating gap in an otherwise perfect memory.

Now he's facing a new life, one behind bars, where he has to learn a whole different set of rules and only the toughest survive.

And as a series of deadly bombings rocks the outside world, the only man who might be able to find the truth behind the conspiracy ... is on the inside.

Australia's no.1 true crime writer lets his imagination off the leash in this unputdownable action thriller for all fans of Matthew Reilly, Lee Child and David Baldacci.

'An exciting action thriller ... An enjoyable, easy flowing tale that will keep you turning the pages' Canberra Weekly

'A gripping new action thriller ... The story moves along at a lightning-fast pace. [Phelps has] got a knack for bringing you right into the heart of the action, making for some truly tense moments. The Inside Manticks all the boxes when it comes to an action-packed crime novel. If you enjoy authors like Tom Clancy, or are just looking for a thrilling new read, check out The Inside Man. I can't wait to see where Phelps takes this series next.' Better Reading

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ID: 579704

Title: Good Partner

Author: Karen Nimmo

Narrator: Abigail King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:36:33

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

A modern approach to relationships

This book is a transformative, do-it-yourself guide for anyone who wants to do better in love.

It is not about working together with your partner on your issues (so if you're in a relationship, don't let your partner read it over your shoulder!). It's not about bringing out the toolkit and trying to 'fix' yourself (nor is it about pointing the finger at your partner!).

It's about figuring out who you are - or become - when you're in a relationship.

It's about knowing your strengths, triggers, reactions and vulnerabilities.

It's about having tools you can use to cope with challenges, iron out your difficulties and work towards being content and at ease in your relationships, your own unique version of a Good Partner.

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ID: 551405

Title: Vet's Country Holiday

Author: Lily Malone

Narrator: Elizabeth Brennan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:20:49

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

One irrepressible city girl plus a by-the-numbers accountant = a tricky equation...

For city vet Isabella Passmore, the opportunity to pet-sit in the country knocks at the perfect time. Bring on that fresh air! But after three days of holiday bliss, Izzy is bored silly. If the air gets any cleaner, she'll start slinging mud. Then she gets offered work in the second-hand shop. Saved!

Maybe.

It's been years since Elliot Field's parents rolled out the red carpet, but Elliot only needs one day to learn that this welcome mat comes with strings. His parents' new business is sinking, and they expect him to fix their financial problems.

To prepare for the week from hell, he'll need a mug that's not steeped in bad memories, but nothing could prepare him for the employee he encounters at the second-hand shop.

For Izzy, pursuing Elliot is a most welcome diversion from walking another lap of town with the dog. For Elliot, their random encounters add up to the sum of much bigger things.

He's always been a numbers man and he's kept his heart locked away, but in irrepressible Izzy, is Elliot's number finally up?

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