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ID: 428414

Title: Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

Author: Lorna Crozier

Narrator: Lorna Crozier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Women

Summary:

A Globe and Mail 100 Best Book

Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Finalist, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

A deeply affecting portrait of a long partnership and a clear-eyed account of the impact of a serious illness, writing as consolation, and the enduring significance of poetry from one of Canada's most celebrated voices.

When we ran off together in 1978, abandoning our marriages and leaving wreckage in our wake, I was a 'promising writer,' Patrick had just won the Governor General's Award. I was so happy for him, and I've continued to be every time an honour comes his way, but I knew if I didn't grow, if I remained merely someone who showed potential, we wouldn't last. I swore I wouldn't play the dutiful wife, cheerleader, and muse of the great male writer, and he didn't envision a partner like that. We aspired to flourish together and thrive in words and books and gardens.

When Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane met at a poetry workshop in 1976, they had no idea that they would go on to write more than forty books between them, balancing their careers with their devotion to each other, and to their beloved cats, for decades. Then, in January 2017, their life together changed unexpectedly when Patrick became seriously ill. Despite tests and the opinions of many specialists, doctors remained baffled. There was no diagnosis and no effective treatment plan. The illness devastated them both.

During this time, Lorna turned to her writing as a way of making sense of her grief and for consolation. She revisited her poems, tracing her own path as a poet along with the evolution of her relationship with Patrick. The result is an intimate and intensely moving memoir about the difficulties and joys of creating a life with someone and the risks and immense rewards of partnership. At once a spirited account of the past and a poignant reckoning with the present, it is, above all, an extraordinary and unforgettable love story.

Told with unflinching honesty and fierce tenderness, Through the Garden is a candid, clear-eyed portrait of a long partnership and an acknowledgement, a tribute, and a gift.

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ID: 409892

Title: Two Reasons to Run

Author: Colleen Coble

Narrator: Devon O'day

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:19:42

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Romance, Religion & Spirituality, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, General, Detective Stories, Religious Fiction

Summary:

The gripping second installment of the Pelican Harbor series from USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble! Police Chief Jane Hardy has only just been reunited with her long-lost son when she learns of an impending terror attack that threatens everything she holds dear.

A lie changed her world. Police Chief Jane Hardy is still reeling from the scandal that rocked her small-town department just as she took over for her retired father—the man who wrecked her life with one little lie. Now she’s finally been reunited with her presumed-dead fifteen-year-old son, Will, and his father, documentarian Reid Dixon.

When a murder aboard the Gulf Coast oil platform Zeus exposes an environmental terrorist’s plot to flood Mobile Bay with crude oil, Jane and Reid must put their feelings for each other aside and work together to prevent the looming sabotage.

When the terrorist puts Will’s life on the line, protecting him could be the common ground Jane and Reid need . . . until ghosts from the past threaten to ruin their fragile relationship for good.

Jane has plenty of reasons to run. But what if she stays?

Praise for Two Reasons to Run:

“Colleen Coble’s superpower is transporting her readers into beautiful settings in vivid detail. . .Add to that the suspense that keeps you wanting to know more and characters that pull at your heart.”—Terri Blackstock, USA TODAY bestselling author of If I Run

“Colleen Coble’s latest has it all: characters to root for, a sinister villain, and a story that just won’t stop.”—Siri Mitchell, author of State of Lies

- Full-length romantic suspense

- Part of the Pelican Harbor series

- Book one: One Little Lie

- Book two: Two Reasons to Run

- Book three: Three Missing Days

- Characters from the Pelican Harbor series make cameo appearances in the Tupelo Grove series, coauthored with Rick Acker. Book 1: What We Hide.

- Perfect for fans of Allison Brennan, Terri Blackstock, and Dani Pettrey

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ID: 409901

Title: My Life as a Human Hockey Puck

Author: Bill Myers

Narrator: Bill Myers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:26:45

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Kids, Religious & Inspirational, Humor

Summary:

Classic stories from the Wally McDoogle series now in audio.

Wally McDoogle, klutz-extraordinaire, has stumbled his way into sports stardom. But only Wally could end up playing hockey goalie against the monstrous Mad Dog Miller while being trapped in a chicken suit. Before his misadventures end, Wally finally learns the real dangers of jealousy and envy, and the true value of aspirin.

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ID: 442161

Title: He, She and It

Author: Marge Piercy

Narrator: Lyssa Browne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:24:53

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions - and the ability to kill...

From the critically acclaimed author of Woman on the Edge of Time, comes another stunning novel of morality and courage. A Pygmallion tale for the modern age, this classic feminist speculative novel won the Arthur C Clark Award.

'Marge Piercy is every bit as imaginative as H. G. Wells or Isaac Asimov or any of the great fantasists, but she is also a fierce and devoted activist who wants us to be more than passive readers.' (GLORIA STEINEM)

'A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down. Every new novel by Marge Piercy is cause for celebration' (Alice Hoffman)

'Piercy's vision of a post-greenhouse-effect, nuclear-blasted world interlaced with the Prague ghetto of 1600, and the efforts of certain people to stay human in both, is threaded with the questions: What is it to be human? What does `life' mean? What are the limits of creativity? As always, Piercy writes with high intelligence, love for the world, ethical passion and innate feminism' (Adrienne Rich)

'HE, SHE AND IT, a ground-breaking example of Jewish feminist fabulation, is a triumph' (AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW)

'One of our boldest writers...like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, He, She and It finds disturbing trends in contemporary culture.' (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

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ID: 452325

Title: New Wilderness

Author: Diane Cook

Narrator: Stacey Glemboski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:45:49

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR 2020 BOOKER PRIZE

From an acclaimed Guardian First Book Award finalist comes a debut novel.

Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home is ravaging her lungs. Bea knows she cannot stay in the City, but there is only one alternative: The Wilderness State. Mankind has never been allowed to venture into this vast expanse of untamed land. Until now.

Bea and Agnes join eighteen other volunteers who agree to take part in a radical experiment. They must slowly learn how to live in the unpredictable, often dangerous Wilderness, leaving no trace on their surroundings in their quest to survive. But as Agnes embraces this new existence, Bea realises that saving her daughter's life might mean losing her in ways she hadn't foreseen.

At once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary, urgent novel from a celebrated new literary voice.

Cook's is a fresh and vivid voice; it's unsurprising the likes of Miranda July and Roxane Gay are fans. OBSERVER

The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure. EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL, author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel

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ID: 423266

Title: Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit

Author: Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre

Narrator: Chris Devon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:29:13

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Welcome to another brilliantly quirky adventure story from creative powerhouse Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre.

Bumbleford has been hit by a series of biscuit thefts. All the clues lead straight to the only roly-poly flying pony in town, and Max's best friend, KEVIN!

Max and Kevin are forced to go on the run. Will they find the real culprit before Kevin ends up in pony prison?

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ID: 442153

Title: Ten Short Lessons in Space Travel

Author: Paul Parsons

Narrator: David Vickery

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:40:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Science & Technology, General

Summary:

In an era of rapidly developing technology and renewed ambition, the twenty-first century has ushered in an exciting new age of space flight. But what has brought us to this point in our exploration of the universe? And what does the future of space travel hold? From the amazing technology that has enabled us to look beyond the clouds to the possibilities of space tourism, 10 Short Lessons in Space Travel takes a timely look at the essential lessons learned from our voyages into outer space.

Extremely authoritative. The best book on space travel since Arthur C. Clarke's classic, The Promise of Space. MARCUS CHOWN

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ID: 440897

Title: Sealand: The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation

Author: Dylan Taylor-Lehman

Narrator: Mark Elstob

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:01:39

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: History, World

Summary:

In 1967, retired army major and self-made millionaire Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand on a World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea, off the East Anglian Coast and began the peculiar story of the world's most stubborn micronation. Having fought off attacks from the British government and armed mercenaries for half a century and thwarted an attempted coup that saw the Prince Regent taken hostage the self-proclaimed independent nation still stands. It has its own constitution, national flag and anthem, currency, and passports and offers the esteemed titles of Lord' or Lady' to its loyal patrons.

Incorporating original interviews with surviving members of the principality's royal family, Sealand recounts the outrageous attempt to build a sovereign kingdom by a family of rogue, larger-than-life adventurers on an isolated platform in the freezing waters of the North Sea.

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ID: 435794

Title: Mission House

Author: Carys Davies

Narrator: Raj Ghatak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:59:30

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

From the prize-winning author of West, a collision between old and new, east and west, in a former British hill station in contemporary South India.

Fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, a hill station in South India. There he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing.

The Padre is concerned for Priscilla's future, and as Hilary's friendship with the young woman grows, he begins to wonder whether his purpose lies in this new relationship. But religious tensions are brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems.

The Mission House boldly and imaginatively explores post-colonial ideas in a world fractured between faith and non-belief, young and old, imperial past and nationalistic present. Tenderly subversive and meticulously crafted, it is is a deeply human fable of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world.

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ID: 431511

Title: Zombierella

Author: Joseph Coelho

Narrator: Joseph Coelho

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:53:14

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The first in a funny, deliciously dark, three-part series of twisted classics, written in verse by award-winning poet Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Freya Hartas. A yellow moon hangs in a satin sky the night Cinderella, barefoot and in hand-me-downs, slips at the top of the stairs ... and dies. But not for long. The Shadow of Death arrives to breathe life back into her bones and, for three nights only, Cinderella goes forth as ZOMBIERELLA. With her skin as cold as ice and her faithful horse Lumpkin back by her side, can she seek revenge on her three cruel, fake sisters, once and for all? Crawl out of the grave and step into your mushroom carriage for this haunting and humorous adventure of the undead girl searching for her happily ever after.

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