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ID: 591747

Title: Crops, People, Money and You

Author: Dr. Kate Burke

Narrator: Dr. Kate Burke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:54:07

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

If you are in agriculture, read this book on how to steer a farm business. Kate tells us, with absolute clarity, when to turn right, left or straight ahead its better than any GPS you will ever have on your farm. Ron Storey, Veteran Grains Analyst of Mallee farming origin

The world is a bit crazy right now, but despite uncertainty and a volatile climate, there is a way to farm that generates profit, builds a legacy and involves less stress. The Art of Excellent Framing starts with making first-rate choices about yourself so that you can make the best decisions about crops, people and money.

About the Author:

Dr Kate Burkes practical and pragmatic approach to farming is based on thirty years of experience as an agricultural scientist in the dryland cropping sector. She knows how to connect the dots of science, people and money.

With a unique blend of evidence, insight and empathy, Kate encourages readers to clear the fear and take the steering wheel toward Excellent Farming.

Reviews:

This book is full of valuable insights and advice that you can only write after closely observing agriculture for a few decades. It is a unique, chatty and enjoyable read, with useful truths about making a good go of farming that are priceless.

Professor Bill Malcolm, Department of Agricultureand Food Sciences, The University of Melbourne

Kate captures and holds the readers imagination as she shares her own story and insights gained throughout her career. She challenges farmers to better themselves, their business, their industry and, by extension, their families and communities. Kate demonstrates that success is a process, not an event and generously sets out that process for the readers to follow and succeed, should they choose.

Liam Lenaghan, Managing Director, goFARM Australia

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ID: 555797

Title: My Ackee Tree: A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen

Author: Suzanne Barr

Narrator: Suzanne Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:29:24

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-22

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Women

Summary:

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARDS* NOMINATED FOR THE 2023 HERITAGE TORONTO AWARDS

For fans of The Measure of My Powers and Notes from a Young Black Chef, a memoir about food, family, and the recipes that brought one woman home when she needed it the most.

Suzanne Barr’s journey to become a chef started when she was 30. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer and she moved home to Florida to take care of her. Suzanne escorted her mother to doctor’s appointments, bathed her, and kept her company, but the hardest part of the experience was that she didn’t know how to cook for her. She didn’t even know where to begin.

Fast-forward to the summer of 2017 when Suzanne became the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. She wanted to create a menu that represented who she was as a chef and it emerged as a love letter to her mother. Her Rite of Passage Menu, as she called it, changed her. It started her on a journey that has brought her closer to her mother, to her ancestors, and to her Jamaican heritage.

But a lot has happened before and since.

My Ackee Tree tells the story of a woman who is always on the move, always seeking; who battles the stereotypes of being a Black female cook to become a culinary star in an industry beset by dated practices and landlords with too much power. From the ackee tree in front of her childhood home, through New York City, Atlanta, Hawaii, the Hamptons, and France, Suzanne takes us on her unpredictable journey, and at every turn, she finds light and comfort in the kitchen. Told in a voice as fresh and honest as her cooking, My Ackee Tree is a celebration of creativity, soul searching, and motherhood that asks, “How can I keep the things I love?”

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ID: 568617

Title: Good-Enough Life

Author: Avram Alpert

Narrator: William Hope

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:14:39

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by William Hope explains how an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society

We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possiblea good-enough life for all.

Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, damage to our relationships, widespread political and economic inequality, and destruction of the natural world. He describes how to move beyond greatness to create a society in which everyone flourishes. By competing less with each other, each of us can find renewed meaning and purpose, have our material and emotional needs met, and begin to lead more leisurely lives. Alpert makes no false utopian promises, however. Life can never be more than good enough because there will always be accidents and tragedies beyond our control, which is why we must stop dividing the world into winners and losers and ensure that there is a fair share of decency and sufficiency to go around.

Visionary and provocative, The Good-Enough Life demonstrates how we can work together to cultivate a good-enough life for all instead of tearing ourselves apart in a race to the top of the social pyramid.

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ID: 533255

Title: Unthinkable Thing

Author: Nicole Lundrigan

Narrator: Nicolas Van Bureck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:38:41

Language: English

Release date: 04-12-22

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Contemporary Women

Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL

A tragedy brings a young boy into the home of a 'perfect' family—one whose dark secrets begin closing in, until a horrifying moment changes everything.

Tommie Ware’s life is turned upside down the summer of 1958, just after his eleventh birthday. When his beloved aunt—the woman who raised him—doesn’t return after her shift as a night nurse and is later found murdered, there is only one place left for Tommie to go: “home” to the mother who handed him over the day he was born.

     All is not as it seems behind the hedgerow surrounding the lavish Henneberry estate where Tommie’s mother, Esther, works as live-in housekeeper. Her employers have agreed he can stay until she “sorts things out,” but as she's at the family’s beck and call around the clock, Tommie is mostly left on his own to navigate the grounds, the massive house, and the twisted family inside.

     Soon he is enmeshed in the oppressive attentions of matriarch Muriel, who is often heavily medicated, and of fifteen-year-old Martin, who treats Tommie sometimes like a kid brother, sometimes like a pawn in a confusing game. While Dr. Henneberry mostly ignores Tommie, he also seems eager for him to be gone. Then there’s the elderly neighbour, who may know more about the family's past than anyone else will say.

     By summer's end, the secrets and games tighten around Tommie and his mother, until a horrific crime is discovered and we are faced with an unthinkable question: could an eleven-year-old boy really have committed cold-blooded murder?

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ID: 568623

Title: In Praise of Good Bookstores

Author: Jeff Deutsch

Narrator: Ako Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:02:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-22

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Criticism

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell provides an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores

Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutschthe director of Chicagos Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the worldpays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predictsperhaps audaciouslya future in which the bookstore not only endures, but realizes its highest aspirations.

In exploring why good bookstores matter, Deutsch draws on his lifelong experience as a bookseller, but also his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew. This spiritual and cultural heritage instilled in him a reverence for reading, not as a means to a living, but as an essential part of a meaningful life. Central among Deutschs arguments for the necessity of bookstores is the incalculable value of browsingsince, when we are deep in the act of looking at the shelves, we move through space as though we are inside the mind itself, immersed in self-reflection.

In the age of one-click shopping, this is no ordinary defense of bookstores, but rather an urgent account of why they are essential places of discovery, refuge, and fulfillment that enrich the communities that are lucky enough to have them.

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ID: 754499

Title: Fledgling

Author: Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Narrator: Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:16:12

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Travel, Africa

Summary:

Read the powerful account of one woman’s fight to reshape her identity through connection with nature when all normality has fallen away.

When lifelong bird-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor moved with her husband to Ghana seven years ago she couldn’t have anticipated how her life would be forever changed by her unexpected encounters with nature and the subsequent bonds she formed.

Plucked from the comfort and predictability of her life before, Hannah struggled to establish herself in her new environment, striving to belong in the rural grasslands far away from home.

In this challenging situation, she was forced to turn inwards and interrogate her own sense of identity, however in the animal life around her, and in two wild birds in particular, Hannah found a source of solace and a way to reconnect with the world in which she was living.

Fledgling is a portrayal of adaptability, resilience and self-discovery in the face of isolation and change, fuelled by the quiet power of nature and the unexpected bonds with animals she encounters.

Hannah encourages us to reconsider the conventional boundaries of the relationships people have with animals through her inspiring and very beautiful glimpse ofwhat is possible when we allow ourselves to connect to the natural world. 

Full of determination and compassion, Fledgling is apowerful meditation on our instinctive connection to nature. It shows that even the tiniest of birds can teach us what is important in life and how to embrace every day.

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ID: 568619

Title: Joy of Science

Author: Jim Al-Khalili

Narrator: Jim Al-Khalili

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:25:11

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-22

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Philosophy

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get the most out of life

Todays world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically.

In this brief guide to leading a more rational life, acclaimed physicist Jim Al-Khalili invites readers to engage with the world as scientists have been trained to do. The scientific method has served humankind well in its quest to see things as they really are, and underpinning the scientific method are core principles that can help us all navigate modern life more confidently. Discussing the nature of truth and uncertainty, the role of doubt, the pros and cons of simplification, the value of guarding against bias, the importance of evidence-based thinking, and more, Al-Khalili shows how the powerful ideas at the heart of the scientific method are deeply relevant to the complicated times we live in and the difficult choices we make.

Read this book and discover the joy of science. It will empower you to think more objectively, see through the fog of your own preexisting beliefs, and lead a more fulfilling life.

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ID: 538655

Title: Dread Wood

Author: Jennifer Killick

Narrator: Marlowe Chan-Reeves

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:41:19

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-22

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spookyCrater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stines Goosebumps

Deliciously scary and hilarious comedy-horror, perfectly pitched for eight-plus.

The Guardian

Jennifer Killicks talent for horror and humour is blended brilliantly here as the spiky dialogue, unstoppable pace and genuinely menacing atmosphere build to a tremendous climax Daily Mail

A heart-stopping thrill ride of a book. M.G. Leonard, author of Adventures on Trains series

BRILLIANT! Vashti Hardy, author of Brightstorm

WINNER of the Young Reader category in the Childrens Literature Festivals Book Awards 2023!

It's basically the worst school detention ever. When classmates (but not mate-mates) Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to school on a SATURDAY, they think things cant get much worse. But theyre wrong. Things are about to get seriously scary.

What has dragged their teacher underground? Why do the creepy caretakers keeping humming the tune to Itsy Bitsy Spider? And what horrors lurk in the shadows, getting stronger and meaner every minute . . .? Cut off from help and in danger each time they touch the ground, the gangs only hope is to work together. But its no coincidence that they're all there on detention. Someone has been watching and plotting and is out for revenge . . .

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ID: 549966

Title: Garden for the Senses: How Your Garden Can Soothe Your Mind and Awaken Your Soul

Author: Kendra Wilson

Narrator: Phyllida Nash

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:10:31

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Home & Garden

Summary:

A celebration of the senses with practical advice on how to enhance sensory experience in your garden

Step outdoors and let your space nourish all of your senses and settle a busy mind.

Discover how to garden to enliven all five senses - touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste - to build a connection with the world around you and bring joy and wonder into the everyday. Find out how simply being outside can help to ground and calm you, and learn what plants to grow to nourish both your mental and physical wellbeing.

Ideas on planting and maintaining your garden, which you can put into practice quickly and easily, show how you can improve the sensory enjoyment of your outside space - no matter where you live and no matter what size your plot.

Whether you want to fill a space with an uplifting fragrance, create a calming colour scheme, grow richly aromatic herbs, or select trees and shrubs for their soothing sounds, you can turn your plot into a sensory delight as a way to connect to the natural world around you.

Kendra Wilson is a UK-based gardening writer. She writes regularly for magazines including Gardens Illustrated and The Telegraph, and also contributes to House & Garden magazine. She is a longtime contributor to the American style blog Gardenista. Her first book, My Garden is a Car Park and other Design Dilemmas, was released in 2017.

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ID: 528956

Title: Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir

Author: Emma Healey

Narrator: Emma Healey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:15:40

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-22

Publisher: Random House Canada

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

Summary:

Wry, inventive, and relentlessly honest, a memoir of trying to make a living without compromising your truth.

Emma Healey just wants to be a writer, but that’s more a journey than a job, and the journey isn’t free. As a teenager, she begins her adventures in precarious employment when introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of “standardized patient,” performing illness as a living training dummy for medical students. In university, she joins a creative writing program, cultivating a poet’s interest in language while learning lessons about the literary world that have more to do with survival than art. Through her twenties, she writes software manuals for the world’s leading producer of online pornography, masters search engine optimization for a marketing firm run out of a bedroom by two Phish-loving brothers, narrowly escapes death as a research assistant for a television drama, and works the night shift captioning daytime TV. Along the way, as she navigates dating apps, tumultuous relationships, and the evolution of a voice that she is slowly learning to trust, she begins writing personal essays for money—and finds herself embroiled in a content economy that blurs the boundaries between day job and making art even further. 

     Through the stories of several very odd jobs, each related to—but also achingly far from—the job she really wants, poet and essayist Emma Healey creates a unique snapshot of the gig economy that is also a timeless meditation on identity, value, and language.

    For a writer trying to pay the bills, life can be a work in progress.

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