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ID: 549963

Title: Fatherhood by Papa B: A Game-changing Guide for Parents, Father Figures and Fathers-to-be

Author: Bode Aboderin

Narrator: Bode Aboderin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:49:14

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

A relatable and practical guide, shaking up the narrative on what it means to be a present-day father

Father of three, Motivational Speaker and Influencer Bodé Aboderin (AKA Papa B) is on a mission to show the world that Black fatherhood is not only compatible with ambition, but can inspire, nourish and amplify it too.

Doing away with the negative stereotypes associated with being a Black dad in Britain, Papa B is using his natural flair for motivational speech to share the joyful and transformative journey of starting a family, including the challenges involved and the opportunities to grow along the way.

Bodé reflects on how his own upbringing, alongside stigmas about fatherhood, race, and masculinity, have impacted his experiences of being a father, and talks candidly about how to overcome challenges commonly experienced by parents - from breaking generational cycles and adapting to modern-day family dynamics to communicating with your child and achieving a healthy work-life balance.

Bodé Aboderin is a Motivational Speaker and Influencer. Recently bestowed with the honour of being the only male speaker at Pregnant Then Screwed, a festival celebrating mothers with careers, Papa B is going from strength to strength. Whether he's empowering his viewers to overcome their hurdles on his IGTV series 'Papa Don't Preach!', or tackling the thought-provoking issues of the day with his wife, Candice Brathwaite, on their weekly podcast 'Pillow Talk', Papa B is shifting the narrative on what it means to be a father. @iam_papab

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ID: 620691

Title: Antimagic

Author: Stephen Hayes

Narrator: Nick Flint

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:40:28

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

After having been on the back-foot for some time, John and his circle of friends now have an opportunity to end the war once and for all.

But the new ruler of the world has other ideas entirely as he works tirelessly to consolidate his power at every possible point of infiltration.

With the stakes rising ever higher, our heroes must consider the unthinkable: that magic itself must be destroyed in order to save humanity from it.

Only when the world itself is on the brink of destruction is the darkest hour upon them, and yet there remains one last possibility for salvation.

But can our heroes harness a power so great that it can literally bend fate itself to their will? Or will such an attempt doom them once and for all?

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ID: 592416

Title: Opera: The Definitive Story

Author: Alan Riding, Leslie Dunton-Downer

Narrator: Charles Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:24:48

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:

Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world's most celebrated operas and discover the fascinating stories behind them. Explore the lives of singers such as Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Jonas Kaufmann. Meet composers like Mozart, Wagner, and Britten, and the librettists with whom they collaborated to create the magical blend of words and music that make up opera.

From its origins in the 17th-century courts of Italy to live screenings in public spaces today, Opera: The Definitive Story follows the history of opera from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, to Cosi fan Tutte, La Bohème, and modern operas such as Brokeback Mountain. It explains musical terminology, traces historical developments, and sets everything in cultural context.

It also explores the great opera houses of the world, such as La Scala, Milan, the Met in New York, and the Sydney Opera House. Opera: The Definitive Story is the essential audiobook for anyone who wants to understand and enjoy the constantly evolving world of this beloved art form.

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ID: 602904

Title: Why Am I So Anxious?: Powerful Tools For Recognizing Anxiety and Restoring Your Peace

Author: Tracey Marks

Narrator: Tracey Marks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:52:19

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Mental Health

Summary:

A practical guide from respected therapist and popular YouTube star Dr. Tracey Marks that will help readers recognize the common signs and symptoms of anxiety and anxiety-related mood disorders, and then help them develop coping skills using self-guided solutions or help them decide on other treatment options.

Take control of your anxiety and take back your life!

Anxiety seems to be everywhere in today's world. But how do you know if you're experiencing anxiety, or something else? And what can you do to fix it? Renowned therapist and YouTube star Dr. Tracey Marks is known for her friendly, relatable style that helps followers of her YouTube channel recogize what's bothering them and then guides them to practical solutions that will help them manage their mental health issues. In Why Am I So Anxious?, Dr. Marks' will help you understand many of the most common sources of anxiety, help you identify what type of anxiety you may be experiencing, and give you helpful insight on how you can self-manage your anxiety before deciding if additional treatment options are the best choice. You don't need to let anxiety control your life!

Here's what you'll find inside:

- Detailed explanations for many of the most common anxiety disorders people struggle with in today's times, all written in Dr. Marks' soothing and relatable style

- Tips for managing mild to moderate anxiety, with recommendations that go beyond just therapy and medication and help eader decide what treatment option is best for them

- Helpful guidance for recognizing and preventing situations where anxiety may be triggered

- Simple exercises that will help readers recognize their symptoms and triggers, so they can better manage their anxiety

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ID: 581144

Title: Utopia: A Novel

Author: Heidi Sopinka

Narrator: Jordan Claire Mccraw, Katie Rich, Lauren Ezzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:57:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-22

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women

Summary:

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022

Out of the explosive 1970s L.A. art scene comes a riveting novel about creativity, death, and reinvention that follows two artists—one dies mysteriously, and the other takes her place

Paz, an ambitious young artist, is drawn to Romy, one of the only women to break into the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California. She is also drawn to Romy’s husband, Billy, an enigmatic art star. When Romy dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances, Billy is left unmoored, caring for their newborn.

Leaving New York and grad school behind, Paz takes on the mantle of Romy’s life and steps into a ghostly love triangle. When Paz attempts to claim her creative life, strange things start to happen—photographs move, an unexplained postcard arrives, and an unsettling journal entry begins to blur the line between art and life.

As Paz becomes increasingly obsessed with the woman she has replaced and the absent man she has married, a disturbing picture begins to emerge, driving her deep into the desert to uncover the truth.

Astonishing and profound, Utopia affirms Heidi Sopinka as one of the most exhilarating voices in Canadian literature. A propulsive mix of desire, friendship, and betrayal, Utopia illuminates a crucible moment for art and feminism, which still reverberates today. This is both a visionary love story and a feminist manifesto that will leave you altered.

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ID: 615134

Title: Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation

Author: Tim Birkhead

Narrator: Tim Birkhead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:32:43

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-22

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed ornithologist Tim Birkhead traces the history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans

Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to the Renaissance fascination with woodpecker anatomyand from the Victorian obsession with egg collecting to todays fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.

Spanning continents and millennia, Birds and Us chronicles the beginnings of a written history of birds in ancient Greece and Rome, the obsession with falconry in the Middle Ages, and the development of ornithological science. Moving to the twentieth century, the book tells the story of the emergence of birdwatching and the field study of birds, and how they triggered an extraordinary flowering of knowledge and empathy for birds, eventually leading to todays massive worldwide interest in birdsand the realization of the urgent need to save them.

Weaving in stories from Birkheads life as scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating book is an unforgettable account of how birds have shaped us, and how we have shaped them.

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ID: 597237

Title: How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More.

Author: Veronica Dearly

Narrator: Isabelle Farah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:14:31

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Life doesn't come with a manual but this guide to navigating its ups, downs and WTFs is the next best thing.

With her trademark humor and engaging frankness, Veronica Dearly guides us on a journey into the parts of life that often leave us floundering. Taking inspiration from the popular Wheel of Life coaching tool, How To Do Hard Things explores key areas in turn, from mental health, mindset and the dangers of overthinking, through fitness and body image, career, love, spirituality, family, money, fun and friends, to finding your direction, setting your own goals and preparing for change. Veronica combines accessible guidance with uplifting pockets of inspiration and simple activities throughout to encourage self-reflection, provide instant pick-me-ups and help you realize that you really can do hard things.

While acknowledging that real life is never perfect, this relatable, down-to-earth book shows how it is still possible to find the positives and make it a little bit better every day.

Veronica Dearly is an illustrator, creator and owner of her eponymous brand veronicadearly.com, where she sells stationery, gifts and prints of her pastel-colored artworks. The smart, funny, and honest advice she incorporates into her work has built up a loyal fan base. When not scribbling down ideas from the constant source of inspiration that is actual real life, Veronica can be found desperately trying to juggle running a business, raising children, and making up songs about her little dog, Fang.

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ID: 572597

Title: We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky

Author: Emma Hooper

Narrator: Alison Deon, Amanda Cordner, Hailey Gillis, Maggie Huculak, Rong Fu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:15:45

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-22

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women

Summary:

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION*

An epic, boundary-pushing tale of five young women rebelling against an era that relies on their submission, from the acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James.

During the golden age of the Roman Empire, five girls enjoy a modest childhood in their small Portuguese village. They race each other through lemon orchards and pick fresh fruit for the commander who overlooks his people from a large house on the hill. Though the girls are all raised by different families, there is one thing they know without a doubt: they are sisters.

What they don’t know is that their simple existence is about to be irrevocably changed. When soldiers abduct them from their village and bring them to the commander, the sisters are suddenly forced to confront long-buried secrets that reveal their lives to be anything but ordinary. Burgeoning on womanhood just as the Empire begins to show signs of crumbling around them, they soon find themselves at the centre of a deadly standoff and must part ways to fight their own battles in order to survive.

One of Emma Hooper’s most compelling novels yet, We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky is bursting at the seams with abstract miracles, devastating tenderness, hope, desire, and treachery—with life and death in all their glory. Demonstrating both the force and fragility of human nature, Hooper urges us to consider how we’ll each face our own final hour, to examine what the end really means: is it something to fear, or is it a daring leap into the blaze of a new beginning?

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ID: 568622

Title: Work Matters: How Parents Jobs Shape Childrens Well-Being

Author: Maureen Perry-Jenkins

Narrator: Katherine Fenton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:09:54

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-22

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton explores how new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare

Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Drawing on years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with the demands of infant care while holding down low-wage, full-time jobs, and she considers how managing all of these responsibilities have long-term implications for child development. She examines why some parents and children thrive while others struggle, demonstrates how specific job conditions impact parental engagement and child well-being, and discusses common-sense and affordable ways that employers can provide support.

In the United States, federal parental leave policy is unfunded. As a result, many new parents, particularly hourly workers, return to their jobs just weeks after giving birth because they cannot afford not to. Not surprisingly, workplace policies that offer parents flexibility and leave time are crucial. But Perry-Jenkins shows that the time parents spend at work also matters. Their day-to-day experiences on the job, such as relationships with supervisors and coworkers, job autonomy, and time pressures, have long-term consequences for parents mental health, the quality of their parenting, and, ultimately, the health of their children.

An overdue look at an important segment of the parenting population, Work Matters proposes ways to reimagine low-wage work to sustain new families and the development of future generations.

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ID: 618706

Title: You Had Me at Hola

Author: Leigh Robshaw

Narrator: Natalie Richy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:09:06

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Travel, General, South America

Summary:

Selling your soul for love is a bad idea especially in South America.

In a market in Buenos Aires, a spirited young Australian woman meets a Peruvian artisan who crafts traditional jewellery. The year is 1995, and she has left home for the first time, determined to travel for as long as it takes for her bones to bend her into a new shape.

Leigh has a desperate need for love, second only to her desire for escape. She is spellbound by the artisan, Gabriel. But shes about to travel Brazil, Bolivia and Peru with her friend Emily and leaves Buenos Aires, vowing to return.

The trip fulfils Leighs dreams to see Iguazu Falls, Rio, the Amazon and Machu Picchu. After three months, she reunites with Gabriel and they fall in love. But Gabriel takes cocaine, and memories of her heroin-addicted father surface. She flees to the UK.

In London, Leigh thinks only of Gabriel. When she begins working with celebrity New Age author Stuart Wilde, she gets a crash course in self-empowerment. But after six months, she is unable to ignore the pull of Gabriels love, and returns to South America.

Leigh and Gabriel live in his family home in Lima, under the watchful eye of his mother. But when Gabriels closest friend dies in a drug-related accident, they must leave. They hit the road, selling jewellery in the streets of South and Central America. When they discover an idyllic village in the Mexican Caribbean, they feel theyve found their home.

But as time passes and Gabriel changes, Leigh grows unhappy. She must face the truth: she does not belong. When Gabriel betrays her, Leigh is crushed.

She faces a bitter choice between her soul mate and her soul. Three years after leaving Sydney, she returns alone, ready to live in her own skin.

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