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ID: 572620

Title: Local Gone Missing

Author: Fiona Barton

Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister, Jayne Entwistle, Nicholas Guy Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-22

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Detective Elise King investigates a man’s disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other in this suspenseful new novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Widow.

Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing—the weekenders renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes. 

 

Elise can only guess what really happens behind closed doors. But Dee Eastwood, her house cleaner, often knows. She’s an invisible presence in many of the houses in town, but she sees and hears everything. 

 

The conflicts boil over when a newcomer wants to put the town on the map with a giant music festival, and two teenagers overdose on drugs. When a man disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work and starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it's full of secrets and hidden connections that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.

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ID: 568618

Title: What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures

Author: Amos Oz

Narrator: Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:06:14

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-22

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow and Eric Meyers brings alive revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz

In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in English for the first time, painting an illuminating and disarmingly intimate portrait of a towering literary figure.

In frank and open exchanges that are by turns buoyant, introspective, and argumentative, Oz explains what impels him to begin a story and shares his routines, habits, and challenges as a writer. He discusses the tectonic changes he experienced in his lifetime in relationships between women and men, and describes how his erotic coming of age shaped him not only as a man but also as an author. Oz reflects on his parents, his formative years on a kibbutz, and how he dealt with and learned from his critics, his students, and his fame. He talks about why there is more humor in his later books and gives his exceptional take on fear of death.

Resonating with Ozs clear, honest, and humorous voice, What Makes an Apple? offers unique insights about Ozs artistic and personal evolution, and enables readers to explore his work in new ways.

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ID: 572621

Title: Bit Much

Author: Sarah Jackson

Narrator: Alison Deon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:56:43

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-22

Publisher: Penguin Canada

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

Summary:

For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complexity of friendships, the agony of insecurity, and the beautiful and embarrassing nature of loving someone.

Alice is twenty-four and falling apart. She’s lost her job, her appetite, her ability to sleep. And now she’s worried she’s going to lose Mia, her closest friend, who’s being treated for a serious illness. On the days Alice can get herself out of bed, she visits Mia at the hospital. While they sink into familiar patterns—Alice makes Mia laugh, Mia tells Alice she needs to get laid—they know their friendship is changing, and they can’t control what will happen in the days ahead.

Still focused on Mia, while trying to convince others she’s a stable, happy person, Alice meets her neighbour James—someone she used to try to avoid. They’re interested in each other, but Alice, who is a lethal combination of judgmental and insecure, is hesitant; she has never had luck with dating, and she thinks now is a weird time since Mia needs her. And Alice figures he probably sucks anyway. Mia encourages Alice to be social, while attempting to hide her own loneliness and fear as her body breaks down. But as Alice tries to push herself to do more, including allowing herself to get close to James, she struggles to move forward knowing Mia can’t.

 

A Bit Much takes an intimate look at female friendships, new relationships, and the disorienting times in which we live. Brilliantly caustic and strangely funny, it introduces Sarah Jackson as a captivating new voice in Canadian literature.

 

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ID: 605333

Title: Weaving Words: Women about Women

Author: Adelaide Hunter, Conchita Garsantiago, Irina Gladuschenko, Joanna Makris, Maree Walk, Maria Issaris, Maria P Frino, Marjorie Banks

Narrator: Alice Ansara, April Pressler, Caroline George, Janine Penfold, Paul Capsis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:21:01

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Contemporary Women

Summary:

'The premise is simple, the execution is passionate: thirteen short stories of fiction from eight emerging women writers. This anthology is a wonderful example of women lifting up other women, of writers supporting writers, of a community coming together to fulfil ambitions and dreams,' writes Cass Moriarty, in the Foreword for Weaving Words.

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ID: 598110

Title: Throne of Leaves

Author: Ashley Capes

Narrator: Joshua Macrae

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:50:44

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

The Burnished King has escaped his tomb.

In the demi-god's wake, a stone-plague creeps across the lands and Never must stop the ancient decay before it swallows everyone he cares for.

Despite his determination, there is no cure and no guarantee that even his Amouni blood will be enough. Never's search for the means to fight back leads him to the Amber Isle once more, where the island continues to hold its secrets close.

But it is there that Never encounters the beautiful and mysterious Rikeva, a Quisoan Weaver on her own quest, and realises that together, there might be a way to stop the plague after all...

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ID: 592414

Title: How to Garden When You Rent: Make It Your Own *Keep Your Landlord Happy

Author: Matthew Pottage

Narrator: Matthew Pottage

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:32:04

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Home & Garden

Summary:

Turn the outdoor space you may not own into one that makes you feel at home.

A gardening book unlike any other, RHS How to Garden When You Rent brings together projects, inspiration, and handy know-how specifically tailored to people who rent. With chapters designed around lease lengths, readers will find something for their outdoor space, whether they plan to rent for just a few months or expect to stay in their home for a several years or more.

Written by Matthew Pottage, this must-have book combines creative ideas with serious gardening expertise - all without breaking the bank or needing countless hours of hands-on work.

Keep your landlord happy and your garden in good shape with plenty of tips, tricks, and techniques for good garden maintenance, and discover ways of turning even the most unloved balcony, yard, or urban garden into a lush, welcoming space that you, your roommates, and your friends can enjoy for as long as you choose to live there.

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ID: 572596

Title: Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir

Author: Cody Caetano

Narrator: Cody Caetano

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:43:30

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-22

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, History & Culture

Summary:

*WINNER OF THE 2023 INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARD FOR PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH*

*FINALIST FOR THE 2023 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION*

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR*

*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023*

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS*

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice.

The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop origin story, embarks on a series of fraught relationships and fresh starts. His dad, O Touro, a Portuguese immigrant and drifter, falls back into “big do, little think” behaviour, despite his best intentions.

Left alone at the house in Happyland, Cody and his siblings must fend for themselves, even as the pipes burst and the lights go out. His protective big sister, Kris, finds inventive ways to put food on the table, and his stoic big brother, Julian, facilitates his regular escapes into the world of video games. As life yanks them from one temporary solution to the next, they steal moments of joy and resist buckling under “baddie” temptations aplenty.

Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano delivers a fever dream coming-of-age garnished with a slang all his own. Half-Bads in White Regalia is an unforgettable debut that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity.

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ID: 539679

Title: Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain

Author: Hannah Rose Woods

Narrator: Hannah Rose Woods

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:29

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-22

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be...

For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of older national identities, and called for a revival of the 'good old days' - from Margaret Thatcher's desire for a return to 'Victorian values' in the 1980s, to William Blake's protest against the 'dark satanic mills' of the Industrial Revolution that were fast transforming England's green and pleasant land, to sixteenth-century observers looking back wistfully to a 'Merry England' before the upheavals of the Reformation. By the time we reach the 1500s, we find a country nostalgic for a vision of home that looks very different to our own.

Beginning in the present, cultural historian Hannah Rose Woods travels backwards on an eye-opening tour through six centuries of Britain's perennial fixation with its own past, asking why nostalgia has been such an enduring and seductive emotion across hundreds of years of change. Woods separates the history from the fantasy, debunks dangerous and pervasive myths about Britain's past, and explores the ways in which nostalgia has historically been mobilised in Britain across the political spectrum, from the radical left to the nationalist right, for both good and for ill.

Rule, Nostalgia is a timely and illuminating interrogation of national character, emotion, identity and myth making that will help us to understand Britain: past, present and future.

© Hannah Rose Woods 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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ID: 606914

Title: Murder on the Mauretania - The Ocean Liner Mysteries - A captivating Edwardian mystery, book 2

Author: Edward Marston

Narrator: James Langton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:51:53

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-22

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Historical, International Mystery

Summary:

November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool to New York on the maiden voyage of the luxurious Mauretania. Employed by the Cunard Line again as private detectives, they pose as passengers on what proves to be a very eventful crossing.

Dillman is instrumental in rescuing a crew member from being washed overboard in severe weather, but he is unable to save one of the first-class passengers from the same fate. At first, it looks like a case of death by misadventure, but is the presence of a record shipment of gold bullion on board just too great a coincidence? Dillman and Genevieve must fathom the motive for murder before it is too late.

Previously published under the name Conrad Allen, the Ocean Liner series is relaunched for a new generation of readers.

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ID: 549960

Title: Chaotic Happiness: The Psychology of Finding Yourself in a World That's Lost

Author: T.J. Hoegh

Narrator: T.J. Hoegh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:03:50

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Finding happiness in the chaos is one of the hardest things you can do. It's also one of the most important.

Covid, financial insecurity, political division, social unrest, gun violence, climate fears--they've created a chaotic reality that we will be dealing with for years to come. Even long after some of these challenges start to lose their headlines and prime-time news slots, they will continue to occupy space in our minds, keeping us anxious, depressed, and angry, and ultimately keeping us from becoming our happiest selves.

But maybe it doesn't have to be that way.

Chaotic Happiness challenges the notion that we can only work on finding happiness once we've resolved all of the negative events in our lives. In it, licensed therapist and TikTok counselor T.J. Hoegh outlines the Three Rules of Chaotic Happiness:

- Find yourself in every situation

- Find courage in every relationship, and

- Find potential in every plan

With a combination of advice and exercises, you'll discover your 'why' and gain awareness of what's keeping you from it. You'll learn how the quality of your interactions with others impact your relationships. You'll discover how to view time and attention as the investments needed to grow the pursuits and relationships that will help you arrive at your happiest self.

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