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ID: 374544

Title: Life Ruins

Author: Danuta Kot

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:27:54

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-19

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Police Stories

Summary:

'A powerful, thought-provoking story, which perfectly evokes the bleak Yorkshire landscape ... a vital read for any crime fan?'  Kate Rhodes, author of Hell Bay

Life Ruins combines haunting landscapes with a gripping plot that will appeal to readers of Peter May and Ann Cleeves.

Three very different people, connected by a thread of violence  ... and hope.

Kay, recently widowed and coming to terms with life on her own, feels she has hit rock bottom. For years she and her husband fostered difficult children – including Becca, whom trouble follows like a stray puppy. And now Becca seems to be in the worst trouble of her life. 

A girl has been attacked so savagely she can’t be identified. She’s alive, but only just. Becca, tossed out of university and just let go from her dead-end job, is certain she knows who the victim is. But no one will believe her.

A body, briefly glimpsed at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft, vanishes when the police investigate. Jared, recovering from an almost fatal injury and addicted to painkillers, knows he saw something terrible in that mine… but he has no evidence, and fears he’s losing his grip on reality.

And then Jared and Becca meet. Becca, strong-minded and fiercely independent, is confident they can figure out what’s going on. She pulls Kay into the mix, knowing they’ll need all the help they can get … because the police don’t believe them. And more girls are vanishing ...

Can these three help each other to rebuild their lives from the ruins of the past? 

'Life Ruins has all the elements I love in a novel - complex characters, an insidious underlying menace, and haunting landscapes. This dark story will suck you in from the first page' Stephen Booth, author of Fall Down Dead

'Explores real issues, from the perspective of real, damaged people, and told with a real warmth and understanding. Danuta Kot raises the bar for all crime writers' Michael Jecks, author of Pilgrim's War

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ID: 374867

Title: Summer at the Kindness Cafe: The heartwarming, feel-good read of the year

Author: Victoria Walters

Narrator: Heather Long

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:46:01

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-19

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

'ONE OF THE GENRE'S STANDOUT STARS - THERE IS SO MUCH HEART IN THIS BOOK!' heat 

Escape to the beautiful town of Littlewood with this heart-warming read, perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley, Holly Hepburn and Jo Thomas.

Welcome to Brew, a cafe where kindness is almost as important as coffee... almost!

Abbie has fled London and the humiliation of not being able to make rent after being made redundant. Her sister, Louise, unlucky in love, has thrown herself into her career at the local hospital. And Eszter, who has travelled from Hungary with her daughter Zoe, is hoping to fulfil her husband's dying wish: to reunite his family.

This summer, three very different women are inspired by the random acts of kindness written up on the Kindness Board at Brew, and decide to make a pact to be kinder to others and to themselves.

Can a little bit of kindness really change your life? Eszter, Abbie and Louise are about to find out!

**Summer at the Kindness Cafe was previously published as a four-part serial titled Random Acts of Kindness. This is the complete story in one package.**

Your favourite authors LOVE Summer at the Kindness Cafe:

'A heart-warming read - cosy and comforting. I loved it!' HEIDI SWAIN

‘Utterly gorgeous, a totally heart-warming, beautiful story. I loved every single page!’ HOLLY MARTIN

'A really lovely story - heart-warming and life affirming' JO THOMAS

‘Warmth and kindness on every page’  SHEILA O'FLANAGAN

‘I adored Summer at The Kindness Café - it's such a cosy, heart-warming read’ JENNIFER JOYCE

'Summer at the Kindness Cafe ticks all the feel-good boxes' HOLLY HEPBURN, author of A Year at the Star and Sixpence

‘An entertaining and timely reminder that a random act of kindness can change not only someone's day, but also someone's life’ PENNY PARKES, author of Best Practice

‘Such an uplifting, warm story, with characters I already feel like I know. I loved every minute of it!’ CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN

‘Victoria Walters has such a wonderful, fresh voice and the characters really do leap off the page. The perfect pick-me-up, and a timely reminder of the importance of kindness in every part of life’ PHOEBE MORGAN

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ID: 388255

Title: Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

Author: Jordan Hudgens

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:14:24

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Computers

Summary:

This is an all-purpose toolkit for your programming career. It has been built by Jordan Hudgens over a lifetime of coding and teaching coding. It helps you identify the key questions and stumbling blocks that programmers encounter, and gives you the answers to them! It is a comprehensive guide containing more than fifty insights that you can use to improve your work, and to give advice in your career.

The book is split up into three topic areas: Coder Skills, Freelancer Skills, and Career Skills, each containing a wealth of practical advice. Coder Skills contains advice for people starting out, or those who are already working in a programming role but want to improve their skills. It includes such subjects as how to study and understand complex topics, and getting past skill plateaus when learning new languages. Freelancer Skills contains advice for developers working as freelancers or with freelancers. It includes such subjects as knowing when to fire a client, and tips for taking over legacy applications. Career Skills contains advice for building a successful career as a developer. It includes such subjects as how to improve your programming techniques, and interview guides and developer salary negotiation strategies.

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ID: 390489

Title: Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup 2nd Edition

Author: Brad Feld, David Cohen

Narrator: Edward Bauer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:05:52

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

Refreshed, updated, and expanded. Do More Faster provides time-tested advice, tips, and experiences by founders and mentors of Techstars to help entrepreneurs succeed!

David Cohen and Brad Feld, leading advocates for entrepreneurs and startups, team up to provide first-time entrepreneurs with the tools, insights, and experiences to help them do more faster. The authors share their decades of experience working with thousands of startup founders and have enlisted the advice of dozens of Techstars startup founders and mentors. Contributors include Tim Ferriss, Eric Ries, Matt Mullenweg (WordPress), Isaac Saldana (SendGrid), and other successful entrepreneurs.

Cofounders of Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, Cohen and Feld recognize the daunting task of creating a sustainable business and have seen first-hand the common mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make over and over. The authors take the complexity and uncertainty of starting a business and distill the critical factors into seven themes: Ideas and Vision, People, Working Effectively, Product, Fundraising, Legal and Structure, and Work and Life Harmony. They share their hard-won successes, failures, and advice for anyone with an idea who wants to create a business.

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 390487

Title: Silva Ultramind Systems Persuasive Thoughts: Have More Confidence, Charisma, & Influence

Author: Ed Bernd Jr., Jose Silva Jr., Katherine Sandusky

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:54:06

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

José Silva, Jr.'s thirty-day plan shows you how to program your brain and mind for greater success.

Week 1: Start using the Alpha Brainwave Level relieve stress for relaxation and good health; strengthen your willpower with imagination; turn difficult problems into creative solutions; and develop a leadership mindset

Week 2: Gain control of your subconscious mind; eliminate limiting beliefs, fears, and phobias; convert self-doubt to confidence and optimism; employ dreams to find solutions to problems; and win praise and gain more respect

Week 3: Guiding principles for success; guidance and help from a higher power; the Universal Laws of Programming; how José Silva programmed to acquire money; and discover and fulfill your life purpose

Week 4: Increasing your power to influence; your aura is your invisible persuader; overcome deep-rooted problems at Theta; unleash the genius potential in your child; and be recognized as a visionary and a leader

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ID: 390490

Title: Swim!: How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, and Next Level Success

Author: Walter Bond

Narrator: David Sadzin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:03:40

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Written as an engaging parable, Swim!: How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, and Next Level Success brings to life real-world challenges (and their solutions) and presents them in simple, yet powerful terms. The book explores the vital importance of networking, explores the steps that lead to successful networking, and explains why we need it.

Swim! dives deep into the concepts of mentorship and the power of human connection. While too many business leaders spend their time obsessing about facts, figures, and the bottom line, it is more important for them to learn to manage relationships. Once attention shifts to relationships, businesses and careers can reach the next level of success. Written by a leading motivational speaker, this book offers ideas that can be applied to both personal and business life. This book will allow you to understand the importance of establishing habits and rituals; tap into the power of a positive mindset; discover the value of teamwork; and learn to use intentional language about workplace culture.

Swim! is an entertaining book that highlights the significant concept of connecting and building relationships and includes the tools needed to become more self-aware about our roles and contributions in our industries.

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ID: 385668

Title: Expedition: Adventures into Undiscovered Worlds

Author: Steve Backshall

Narrator: Steve Backshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:07:30

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science & Technology, History

Summary:

Penguin presents the audio edition of Expedition, written and read by Steve Backshall.

Shine a light into the unknown

There are still dark corners of our planet that are yet to be explored. In this remarkable book, Steve Backshall offers an unflinching account of his adventures into these uncharted territories around the globe, in search of world firsts. Each location brings its own epic challenges - whether it's the first climb of an arctic ice fall in Greenland, the first recorded navigation of a South American river, or the first exploration of the worlds longest cave system in Mexico. But all of them represent new tests of the limits of human endeavour.

Accompanying a major 10-part series on BBC and Dave, Expedition is a breathtaking journey into the unknown, and a brilliantly written celebration of the pleasures of genuine discovery.

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ID: 370699

Title: Vanishing Hours

Author: Barney Norris

Narrator: Barbara Flynn, Ian Gelder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:56:19

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

'Shot through with compassion . . . this dreamlike, winding tale is a joy.' A. L. KENNEDY

This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined who I was in the end.

At a hotel bar in a quiet English town, two strangers meet by chance and share their stories. Hers is of an inconspicuous life, shaken by heartbreak and scattered with unfulfilled dreams. His is a dizzying tale of an unending quest for someone he lost in his youth.

From the blustery cliffs of Dover to the confines of a dark prison cell; from the courtroom witness box to the West End stage, we join him as he slips through time.

Extraordinary though his story is, what she has to reveal is even more surprising, and will take them to a place neither of them or you expected.

From the bestselling author of FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN comes this captivating novel about love, abandonment, and the power of stories to help us find meaning in a confusing world a world that can sometimes threaten to overwhelm us, but one that is rich with possibility, and always full of wonder.

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ID: 380542

Title: Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival

Author: Cash Carraway

Narrator: Cash Carraway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:12

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

'Everyone has their price. It's just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.'

Single mum. 'Stain on society'. Caught in a poverty trap.

It's a luxury to afford morals and if you're Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survive.

From the creator of HBO and BBC's Rain Dogs, Skint Estate is the hard-hitting, blunt, dignified and brutally revealing debut memoir about impoverishment, loneliness and violence in austerity Britain - set against a grim landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows - skilfully woven into a manifesto for change.

Alone, pregnant and living in a women's refuge, Cash Carraway couldn't vote in the 2010 general election that ushered austerity into Britain. Her voice had been silenced. Years later, she watched Grenfell burn from a women's refuge around the corner. What had changed? The vulnerable were still at the bottom of the heap, unheard. Without a stable home, without a steady income, without family support - how do you survive?

In Skint Estate, Cash has found her voice - loud, raw and cutting. This is a book born straight from life lived in Britain below the poverty line - a brutal landscape savaged by universal credit, zero-hours contracts, rising rents and public service funding cuts. Told with a dark lick of humour and two-fingers up to the establishment, Cash takes us on her isolated journey from council house childhood to single motherhood, working multiple jobs yet relying on food banks and temporary accommodation, all while skewering stereotypes of what it means to be working class.

Despite being beaten down from all angles, Cash clings to the important things - love for her daughter, community and friendships - and has woven together a highly charged, hilarious and guttural cry for change.

'Cash is the definition of edgy, a truly distinctive voice' - Lionel Shriver, bestselling author of We Need to Talk about Kevin

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ID: 387347

Title: Productivity: Get Motivated, Get Organised and Get Things Done

Author: Gill Hasson

Narrator: Rachael Beresford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:55:05

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:

Productivity Is Personal!

When it comes to your own productivity, the smartest thing you can do is to learn what works best for you. Personal development author Gill Hasson helps you to discover how to manage your time and get things done with less stress and more efficiency.

Being productive involves finding your own rhythm and getting things done in a way that works best for you; according to your circumstances, skills, and abilities and the time, energy, and resources you have.

Productivity helps you to identify what might currently be getting in the way of you being more productive. It has plenty of ideas and suggestions, along with tips and techniques to help you get organized and be more productive.

Develop a personal productivity mindset. Identify your optimum times of day. Plan your time purposefully. Manage difficulties and setbacks.

Rather than work harder, work smarter. This book shows you how!

Contact: [email protected]