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ID: 429797

Title: Days 54 to 61: Mass Extinction Event Book 5

Author: Amy Cross

Narrator: Andy Ingalls, Jessica Preddy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:06:09

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-20

Publisher: Whole Story QUEST

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Having been rescued from the forest, Elizabeth is shocked to find herself living with a small group of survivors. But when she's plunged into an unlikely reunion, she begins to realize that the task of saving humanity might require difficult decisions. Meanwhile, Thomas discovers the truth about another group of survivors. Old alliances are destroyed and new alliances are formed, but finally Thomas is forced to make a stand.

Days 54 to 61 is the fifth book in the Mass Extinction Event series, continuing the story of a worldwide apocalypse seen from the eyes of two very different people in two very different parts of the US.

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ID: 430686

Title: Little Eyes

Author: Samanta Schweblin

Narrator: Bea Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:06:33

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale.

They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're not pets, nor ghosts, nor robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without you knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, untraceable. The characters in Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls but they also expose the ugly truth of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures, but what if it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? Schweblin has created a dark and complex world that is both familiar but also strangely unsettling, because it's our present and we're living it we just don't know it yet.

Embedded within this novel of international interconnectivity are questions of the exhibitionism and voyeurism tied up in our use of technology. Expect echoes of the Wachowskis' Sense8, except told with what has been characterized as Schweblin's 'neurotic unease.' THE MILLIONS

Samanta Schweblin will injure you, however safe you may feel. JESSE BALL

Samanta Schweblin is one of the most promising voices in modern literature. MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

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ID: 438047

Title: Hinton

Author: Mark Blacklock

Narrator: Sam Devereaux

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:07:34

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Howard Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. Hinton's obsession is his work, his voyages into mathematical pure space, into the fourth dimension, but also his wife and sons, each of whom are entangled in the strange and unknown landscapes of Hinton's science fictions.

In a bravura and startling meeting of real and philosophical elements, Mark Blacklock has created a ravishing period piece of late-Victorian social, scientific and domestic life. Hinton is about extraordinary discoveries, and terrible choices. It is about people who discover and map other realms, and what the implications might be for those of us left behind.

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ID: 390179

Title: Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's Not Taking Over Our Country

Author: Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Narrator: Samara Naeymi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:44:29

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Beacon Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Law

Summary:

A direct counterpoint to fear mongering headlines about shariah law—a Muslim American legal expert tells the real story, eliminating stereotypes and assumptions with compassion, irony, and humor

Through scare tactics and deliberate misinformation campaigns, anti-Muslim propagandists insist wrongly that shariah is a draconian and oppressive Islamic law that all Muslims must abide by. They circulate horror stories, encouraging Americans to fear the “takeover of shariah” law in America and even mounting “anti-shariah protests” . . . . with zero evidence that shariah has taken over any part of our country. (That’s because it hasn’t.) It would be almost funny if it weren’t so terrifyingly wrong—as puzzling as if Americans suddenly began protesting the Martian occupation of Earth.

Demystifying Shariah explains that shariah is not one set of punitive rules or even law the way we think of law—rigid and enforceable—but religious rules and recommendations that provide Muslims with guidance in various aspects of life. Sumbul Ali-Karamali draws on scholarship and her degree in Islamic law to explain shariah in an accessible, engaging narrative style—its various meanings, how it developed, and how the shariah-based legal system operated for over a thousand years. She explains what shariah means not only in the abstract but in the daily lives of Muslims. She discusses modern calls for shariah, what they mean, and whether shariah is the law of the land anywhere in the world. She also describes the key lies and misunderstandings about shariah circulating in our public discourse, and why so many of them are nonsensical.

This engaging guide is intended to introduce you to the basic principles, goals, and general development of shariah and to answer questions like: How do Muslims engage with shariah? What does shariah have to do with our Constitution? What does shariah have to do with the way the world looks like today? And why do we all—Muslims or not—need to care?

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ID: 449525

Title: Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

Author: Lady Colin Campbell

Narrator: Lucinda Bell Howard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:40:42

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

A balanced account of game changes, conflicts and ambitions. The fall from popular grace of the previously adulated brother of the heir to the British throne as a consequence of his marriage to a beautiful and dynamic Hollywood starlet of colour makes for fascinating reading in best-selling royal author Lady Colin Campbell's balanced account. Lady Colin knows her royal history and psychology, and as the first seven years of her adult life were spent in the USA she has a foot in both the American and British camps. With unique breadth of insight she goes behind the scenes, speaking to friends, relations, courtiers, and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic to reveal the most unexpected royal story since the Abdication. She highlights the dilemmas involved and the issues that lurk beneath the surface, as to why the couple decided to step down as senior royals. She analyses the implications of the actions of a young and ambitious couple, in love with each other and with the empowering lure of fame and fortune. She leads the reader through the maze of contradictions, revealing how Californian culture has influenced the couple's conduct. She exposes how they tried and failed to change the royal system by adapting it to their own needs and ambitions, and, upon failing, how they decided to create a new system altogether.

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ID: 432788

Title: Meeting Mungo Thunk

Author: Keith A. Pearson

Narrator: Stewart Crank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:14:08

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-20

Publisher: Whole Story QUEST

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

A laugh-out-loud tale of love, life lessons, and an odd little man named Mungo Thunk.

Bathroom scales were not an appropriate gift for his fiancée's birthday apparently.

Ever since he ate seven pickled gherkins for lunch at school, and subsequently shat himself during a maths lesson, Adam Maxwell has been cursed by a lack of common sense.

Now in his early thirties, that lack of common sense is about to throw Adam's life into turmoil after one particularly ill-judged decision backfires with disastrous consequences.

As Adam begins a rapid descent towards rock bottom, a strange little man by the name of Mungo Thunk enters his life. However, not everything about Mungo Thunk is as it first seems. After insisting Adam can rediscover his common sense by agreeing to an unorthodox brand of therapy, the two set about dealing with a raft of challenges.

Can Adam trust the mysterious stranger to fix his thinking and get his life back on track? Or, will he come to rue the day he invited Mungo Thunk into his life?

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ID: 429799

Title: Operation

Author: Dylan Young

Narrator: Mark Peachey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:56:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-20

Publisher: Whole Story QUEST

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

If your life was on the line, how far would you go?

Surgeon Jacob Thorn isn't worried when the police interview him over nurse Katy Leith's disappearance. She is a co-worker, nothing more. But when a leaked video of him and the missing woman arguing goes viral, the social media reaction is vicious. When harrowing images of the kidnapped woman start to appear on his phone, along with a demand from her abductor that Jake confesses to a crime he has no recollection of committing, he is forced to act or face terrifying consequences. He needs to delve into the past for answers. But time is running out for Katy.

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ID: 438054

Title: Blood Moon

Author: Lucy Cuthew

Narrator: Harrie Dobby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:53:26

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age

Summary:

'Written with humour and understanding, this is the book young people need.' Sara Pascoe

PERIODS, SEX AND ONLINE SHAMING. AN EXTRAORDINARY VERSE NOVEL FROM A BOLD NEW VOICE IN YA FICTION.

During astronomy-lover Frankie's first sexual experience with the quiet and lovely Benjamin, she gets her period. It's only blood, they agree. But soon a graphic meme goes viral, turning their fun, intimate afternoon into something disgusting, mortifying and damaging. As the online shaming takes on a horrifying life of its own, Frankie begins to wonder: is her real life over?

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ID: 440898

Title: Pam Ayres - Down the Line

Author: Pam Ayres

Narrator: Pam Ayres

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:01:49

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Pam Ayres, one of Britain's best loved entertainers, personally presents this audiobook which brings together two of her solo stage shows with live audiences. Pam introduces each recording and then, as a bonus, reads a collection of new and previously unrecorded poems from her two most recent books, You Made Me Late Again and Up In The Attic.

With poems such as My Mother Was Right About You, Geriatric Juliet, Poor Old Father Christmas, and The Hat From Hell, blending Pam's characteristically sharp wit with her warm, comic observations on everyday life, this hilariously funny collection is a must-have for seasoned fans and first time listeners alike. It also includes some of Pam's more reflective poems including the title poem, Down the Line, which she wrote for the 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World War.

Pam Ayres is absolutely essential to British humour. MAIL ON SUNDAY

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ID: 420115

Title: Summer

Author: Ali Smith

Narrator: Juliette Burton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:24:48

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

NOMINATED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE

The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer

In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.

This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?

PRAISE FOR SEASONAL:

'The novel of the year is obviously Autumn' Observer on Autumn

'Masterful... Winter is utterly original' New York Times Book Review on Winter

'Luminous, generous, hope-filled... A dazzling hymn to hope. Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' Observer on Spring

'Smith's seasonal quartet of novels is a bold and brilliant experiment' Independent

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