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ID: 572951

Title: Mindful New Mom: A Mind-Body Approach to the Highs and Lows of Motherhood

Author: Caroline Boyd

Narrator: Zoe Zak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:38:42

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Mindfulness & Meditation, Parenting

Summary:

A month-by-month resource offering stage-specific wellness practices to help new mums care for themselves through the first year.

A natural, supportive, empowering start to motherhood - for mental, emotional and physical wellness when you need it most.

Your new baby is here! Your world has turned upside down! And with all your focus on your precious little one, it's easy to forget to look after yourself properly. But natural, holistic self-care has never been more important than it is now.

As you move through your first year as a new mother, Mindful New Mum gives you the curated wellness practices you need to care for yourself with the same compassion and commitment that you give to your growing baby.

Find natural remedies to help manage interrupted sleep and strong emotions, healthy foods to boost energy and improve low mood, visualizations and affirmations to soothe and support, mini-meditations and longer meditative practices to calm and centre you, and to share with your baby. Enjoy gentle, targeted yoga, with your baby and alone, to ease the aches and pains of early motherhood and build strength and flexibility. Use mindful massage to bond with your baby and nourish your body.

Feel supported and cared for as you begin this new chapter of your life, with encouraging expert psychological advice and practical self-care techniques that will help you to embrace motherhood with confidence and cherish yourself and your baby.

Author

Clinical psychologist Dr Caroline Boyd has an MA in classics, an MSc in psychology, and a doctorate in clinical psychology. She has over 10 years’ experience working in the NHS and mental health settings, and specializes in supporting new parents in her independent psychology practice, Parent Therapy Hub. Caroline works with parents around all aspects of the transition – from pregnancy to childbirth and beyond. She adopts a holistic approach to wellbeing, and her published research explores mothers’ experiences of intrusive thoughts about their babies. Caroline speaks at conferences, including the annual Birth Trauma conference, and shares psychology ideas on Instagram, her blog, and podcasts such as Motherkind to help parents feel more connected – to themselves and their children – and less alone.

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ID: 580981

Title: Lady of the Two Lands: The Amarna Age #5

Author: Kylie Quillinan

Narrator: Catherine Bilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:32:58

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical

Summary:

Ankhesenamun finally has the Eye of Horus although she has given up almost everything to secure it. She returns to Egypt to reclaim her throne and restore a more humane monarchy.

But she underestimates the power of the Eye. It wont be content with a queen.

The Eye wants more.

It wants everything.

The only thing Ankhesenamun has left to give is herself.

Blending history and fantasy, The Amarna Age series is set in 18th Dynasty Egypt where the old gods have been worshipped for thousands of years and magic is a matter of belief. For readers of historical fantasy who enjoy magical realism and an ancient world setting.

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ID: 580814

Title: Sticky Icky Vicky: Choosing to Be Myself

Author: Alysia Ssentamu, Michael Ssentamu

Narrator: Senn Annis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:10:47

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Sticky Icky Vicky thinks playing in mud is fununtil someone tells her it isnt.

Sticky Icky Vicky is a fun-loving girl who cant get enough of playing in the mud and dirt. That is, until she is teased for being dirty. Suddenly, Vicky finds herself withdrawing from friends and mud play altogether.

When she learns about the upcoming International Mud Day, Vicky wants nothing more than to get in on the mud-tastic fun. But will Vicky find the courage to ignore the Negative Ned voice in her head and value herself over the opinions of others?

In Sticky Icky Vicky: Choosing to Be Myself, the second book in the award-winning Sticky Icky Vicky™ series, authors Alysia and Michael Ssentamu again provide readers with a motivating character and some important life lessons, such as:

- Courage

- Self-confidence

- Honouring ones self

Aimed primarily at readers aged six to ten, Sticky Icky Vicky: Choosing to Be Myself is another important reading experience that will inspire kids everywhere to choose to be themselves.

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ID: 568616

Title: Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Author: Carolyn Chen

Narrator: Jennifer Lim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:36:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-22

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Lim explores how tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity

Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.

Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before. They are also leaving churches, synagogues, and temples in drovesbut they have not abandoned religion. Carolyn Chen spent more than five years in Silicon Valley, conducting a wealth of in-depth interviews and gaining unprecedented access to the best and brightest of the tech world. The result is a penetrating account of how work now satisfies workers needs for belonging, identity, purpose, and transcendence that religion once met. Chen argues that tech firms are offering spiritual care such as Buddhist-inspired mindfulness practices to make their employees more productive, but that our religious traditions, communities, and public sphere are paying the price.

We all want our jobs to be meaningful and fulfilling. Work Pray Code reveals what can happen when work becomes religion, and when the workplace becomes the institution that shapes our souls.

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ID: 524315

Title: Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Author: Sarah Polley

Narrator: Sarah Polley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:56:24

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-22

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE 2022 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE * NOMINATED FOR THE 2023 HERITAGE TORONTO AWARDS * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, and AV Club

“A visceral and incisive collection of six propulsive personal essays.” —Vanity Fair

“[A] roving, psychologically probing memoir in essays . . . On the page, Polley turns out to be as brave, funny, and unself-serious as she is on the screen.” —The New Yorker

From the Academy Award-nominated director of Women Talking, Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present.

These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven’t told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry.

Sarah Polley’s work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all of those qualities along with her exquisite storytelling chops to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person you are now but were not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance.”

Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging towards the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run towards the danger.

In this extraordinary book, Sarah Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing.

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ID: 527875

Title: Stray Dogs: And Other Stories

Author: Rawi Hage

Narrator: Antoine Yared

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:24:13

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-22

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

From the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.

In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receives haunting news from the Persian Gulf. And in Berlin, a Lebanese writer forms a fragile, fateful bond with his voluble German neighbours.

The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states—nation-states and states of mind—seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing and often random ways our fragile modern identities are constructed, destroyed, and reborn. Politically astute, philosophically wise, humane, relevant and caustically funny, these stories reveal the singular vision of award-winning writer Rawi Hage at his best.

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ID: 556154

Title: What His Wife Knew

Author: Jo Jakeman

Narrator: Colleen Prendergast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:32:37

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-22

Publisher: Viking Canada

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

Summary:

Nail-biting domestic suspense that puts a contemporary twist on the classic whodunit, from the acclaimed international author of The Exes' Revenge and Safe House.

When the body of Oscar Lomas, an experienced hiker, is found at the bottom of a remote cliff in the Peak District of England called Cloud Drop, all the signs--including the 'Sorry' note he left behind for his wife, Beth--point to suicide.

 

Plans for the funeral begin, but Beth cannot accept that her husband took his own life. As she sets out to discover what really happened, Beth soon realizes that the safe, protected life she thought she had was nothing of the sort, and that Oscar had kept many secrets from her--secrets that involve even close family and old friends. It turns out that he had enemies--and perhaps she did too, even if she didn't know it.

 

As the troubling revelations keep coming, Beth has to focus on solving one mystery if she is to reclaim her own life: who killed Oscar Lomas?

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ID: 554959

Title: Summerset Valley

Author: Jordan Kate Buck

Narrator: Katherine Holt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:49

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

A New Adult scifi, time travel, historical romance. Back To The Future meets Jane Austen's Emma.

When Eleanors grandfather has a change of heart, making her the heir of the Summerset estate, she finds herself overwhelmed by the prospect of a life so far from her home in Australia. But when a mysterious burst of light transports her to the year 1815 into the hands of the estates former owner - Patrick Ainsworth, the stubborn yet charming young Lord of Summerset Manor.

Eleanor must use her skills in mathematics to find away home, but her feelings for Patrick put their love in a paradox pulling her heart into two different centuries. How is she to choose she knows she can't resist and returning to the modern world?

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ID: 537632

Title: Some Call It Devotion

Author: Sarah Peis

Narrator: Mia Madison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:08:06

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

Funny, adorable and instantly has you hooked. I couldnt put it down.

What would you do if you found out that youre married but cant remember your wedding?

Kinsley Fitzgerald thought the hardest part of getting married was planning the wedding. Turns out its getting divorced from the man she cant remember saying yes to.

Tracking down her husband was easy. Getting him to sign the divorce papers isnt.

Because Landon West has an agenda: Hell sign the papers if she lives with him for twenty-one days. If she still wants to get a divorce at the end, hell give it to her. Running out of time and options, she agrees to the deal and realizes her mistake as soon as shes moved in.

Because what if she doesnt want their marriage to end once the twenty-one days are up?

But that isnt an option. Shes engaged to another man, and theyre getting married in less than three months.

She has three weeks to decide, and hes determined not to make it easy.

This is the fourth book in the Sweet Dreams series and can be read as a standalone.

Note from the author: In order not to get kicked out of the good (okay goodish.... fine, sometimes good) girls club, Id like to point out that this is a steamy romcom and my characters use bad language (sometimes) and like to get it on.

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ID: 574154

Title: Spirited Situation

Author: Louisa Masters

Narrator: Nick J. Russo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:09:16

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ

Summary:

When you can talk to ghosts, things are bound to get spirited.

The ghosts have been there since before I can remember. When I was a kid, they doted on me, but as I got older, they got more demanding. Ive spent my whole life seeing and talking to dead people and trying to pretend Im not, because the living just dont understand. Nobody wants to be around the freak who claims to see ghosts.

Until I go to Mannix Estate.

Once a private country home, then a posh hotel, it was closed after a suspicious incident but is now an immersive historic experience. Its also haunted AF, and everyone knows it. Finally, Ive found a place to work and live where I can be useful. Where Im actually wanted.

There are only two problems: I spent a hot, sweaty, satisfying night with Ewan the blacksmith before I knew wed have to work together. Everyone knows sex with colleagues is a bad idea, right? Even if hes the worlds most ripped cinnamon roll.

Plus, the ghosts are keeping secrets. Theres something going on thats not normal, even for a haunted estate. And I suspect that when the truth comes out, Im the one wholl have to deal with it and it wont be good.

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