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Title: Kite Spirit

Author: Sita Brahmachari

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-13

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the award-winning author of Artichoke Hearts.

During the summer of her GCSEs, Kite's world falls apart. Her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide after a long struggle with feeling under pressure to achieve.

Kite's dad takes her to the Lake District, to give her time and space to grieve. In London, Kite is a confident girl, at home in the noisy, bustling city, but in the countryside she feels vulnerable and disorientated.

Kite senses Dawn's spirit around her and is consumed by powerful, confusing emotions - anger, guilt, sadness and frustration, all of which are locked inside. It's not until she meets local boy, Garth, that Kite begins to open up - talking to a stranger is easier somehow.

Kite deeply misses her friend and would do anything to speak to Dawn just once more, to understand why... Otherwise how can she ever say goodbye?

A potent story about grief, friendship, acceptance and making your heart whole again.

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Title: Liner Notes

Author: Emily Franklin

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Side A: Laney's Going Solo

Laney has just finished graduate school in California and sees her cross-country drive as the perfect chance to reflect on the past before facing her future back East. With 3,000 miles ahead of her and a box of mix tapes as her only companion, she envisions a trip spent reminiscing; whether it's her first camp kisses, high school parties and crushes, or college loves and losses, Laney's most treasured memories - good and bad - are all just a song away.

Side B: A Change of Tune

Laney's mother, in town for graduation, thinks a mother-daughter road trip sounds like much more fun than going it alone - and Laney can hardly refuse. Soon, she's giving her mother a crash course not only in pop music of the '70s and '80s but also in her own life... for somehow Mom doesn't know her daughter as well as she'd like to. Together, as America whizzes by, Laney and her mother are turning up the volume of their relationship... and learning that there's nothing more revealing than the soundtrack of our lives.

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Title: South Street

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: David Bradley

Narrator: Rob Cleveland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A poet in search of reality finds a world of hookers, street preachers, blue-collar workers, and small time hoods that changes him and his outlook

Philadelphia's South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; Working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin' Ed's bar. But the streetwalkers are nearing retirement, the gangsters are unemployed, and a community is thriving in and around a place written off by officials and politicians as blighted.

Black poet Adlai Stevenson Brown makes his way to South Street in search of authenticity in the form of a neighborhood to save. But the world of South Street - beyond its grit and danger - is more than the cultured young fish out of water ever expected... and a lot more than he can handle.

PEN/Faulkner Awardwinner David Bradley's marvelous debut novel is riotously funny and keenly insightful in equal measure. South Street is a magnificent evocation not only of a vanished time, but of an American archetype in Adlai - a man in search of someone to save, unaware that he himself may need saving.

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Title: An Urban Affair

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Daniel Stern

Narrator: Caroline Shaffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It was in New York that he discovered Sarah.

As Simon recovers from a professional disaster - and escapes Chicago for New York - he is drawn to the beautiful, exciting, and mysterious Sarah. Even though the forty-year-old Simon has a wife and child, he falls madly in love with Sarah. Devoting themselves with abandon to the pursuit of happiness, the lovers tour New York, Paris, Venice, and beyond. Their journey takes them deep within their emotions, and reveals dangerous secrets in Sarahs past. Simon wants to save her, but is that possible? And does she really want to be saved?

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Title: Bellman & Black

Author: Diane Setterfield

Narrator: Daniel Philpott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games.

And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed, to be a man blessed by fortune. Until tragedy strikes, and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed.

Desperate to save the one precious thing he has left, he enters into a bargain. A rather strange bargain, with an even stranger partner, to found a decidedly macabre business. And Bellman & Black is born.

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Title: A Woman Named Drown

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Padgett Powell

Narrator: A.T. Chandler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Hailed by Time as an extravagantly comic novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through Americas South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cumpool shark.

On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a woman named Drown.

He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, theyre heading farther south together - to Florida - where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from lifes laboratory are about to get quite contradictory.

Richly influenced by offbeat literary giant Donald Barthelme, Padgett Powells A Woman Named Drown offers readers a smorgasbord of literary strangeness - a surreal series of adventures in which nothing much - and yet everything - happens at once.

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Title: Right to Die

Author: Jeremiah Healy

Narrator: Andy Caploe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

While guarding an activist from an assassin, Cuddy makes himself the target.

To impress his girlfriend and remind himself of his long-neglected athleticism, John Francis Cuddy is training to run the Boston marathon. But the private detectives fitness regimen goes on the back burner when an old friend approaches him with a dangerous assignment. Euthanasia advocate Maisy Andrus has been receiving death threats, and the police are helpless to protect her. As he tries to keep the crusading lawyer alive, Cuddy realizes that the question isnt who wants Andrus dead, but who doesnt.

Protecting the right-to-die advocate dredges up painful memories of Cuddys wife, who died a slow death from brain cancer. The closer he gets to unmasking the would-be assassin, the more his old wounds open. When the killer starts taking potshots at him, as well as his client, Cuddys marathon training will come in handy.

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Title: The General Zapped an Angel

Author: Howard Fast

Narrator: Dena Pacitti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"The General Zapped an Angel was written for fun, and offers me a chance to smile at the absurdity of human existence. Therefore, these stories of fantasy and science fiction are among the most serious writing I have done." (Howard Fast)

Nearly forty years after the publication of his first story, "The Wrath of Purple," in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Howard Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears to be an angel, a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the next day's Wall Street Journal, and a group of alien beings bestow a mouse with human thought and emotion. Fast, one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century, skewers war hawks, oil speculators, and profit-at-all-costs capitalism, issues that are still relevant today.

Editorial Reviews:

American novelist and television writer Howard Fast alleged that man is the only creature who "refuses to grow up", and he embodies this theory in his collection of science fiction and fantasy. Published in 1970, The General Zapped an Angel has already proven its staying power. With a light-hearted tone, Dena Pacitti's enthusiastic performance adds fun to this audiobook. Meanwhile, she captures the sense of wonder present in each bizarre story, punctuating Fast's imaginative conceptions with thoughtful pauses. Her exciting interpretation surely would have made Fast proud.

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Title: Blood Sport

Subtitle: A Journey Up the Hassayampa

Author: Robert F. Jones

Narrator: Jack Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

If outdoor literature has its cult novel, Blood Sport is it. Robert Jones has created a new world, in which a mythical river and wilderness become the setting for a father and son journey like no other. In one of the earliest examples of magical realism in an American novel, Jones takes readers deep into the heart of darkness. The intensity, the suspense, and the mind-bending adventure still place Blood Sport in a category all its own.

Editorial Reviews:

First published in 1974,Blood Sport: A Journey up the Hassayampa by Robert F. Jones, with appropriately gritty narration by Jack Marshall, is both a family story about the origins of masculinity, and a psychedelic book that is one of the earliest examples of American magical realism. This cult classic takes the listener into the deep heart of the wilderness, with suspense and beautiful detail. Marshalls articulation of this trippy book hits all the right notes, keeping the listener's ears glued to the story.

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Title: The Lion of Venice

Author: Mark Frutkin

Narrator: David DeSantos

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This magical new audiobook by Governor General and Trillium Prize nominee Mark Frutkin, set in 13th century Venice and Cathay, is a dazzling fresco of shimmering language, brimming with golden tableaus of arid deserts and cobblestone alleys, the wafting scent of cardamom and the mystical trill of a praying friar. It is the story of Marco Polo, as he is about to set sail on an arduous and lengthy pilgrimage with his father, uncle, and faithful guide across the sun-soaked silk route - the rich path of the carpet-makers and the black seas of the Indian Ocean.

Doggedly pursued by a vengeful assassin of the Venetian Doge, Marco is eager to arrive in the promised land of the mighty Kublai Khan and bask in the safety offered by his royal legions. But while enjoying the myths of the new land, Polo is haunted by the recurring appearance of a winged lion, lurking behind his dreams and roaming the palace of his heart. Even upon his return to Venice, a naval battle, and capture by their rival Genoa - even as he languishes in an enemy jail cell recounting his trials to an incredulous inmate - there is always the heartbeat of the lion.

Editorial Reviews:

With a winged lion haunting his dreams, young Marco Polo moves through a gorgeous and magical 13th-century Venice as he prepares for a journey to Cathay and battles against an always-pursuing assassin in The Lion of Vencie by award-winning Canadian author Mark Frutkin. Actor David DeSantos conjures the world of this enchanting story with expert characterization and a loving treatment of Frutkin's colorful, extensive descriptions. Listeners will smell the salt air, see the maritime light reflecting off the magnificence of Venice, and feel the suspense of Marco Polo's dilemma.

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