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ID: 379980

Title: Rush Home Road

Author: Lori Lansens

Narrator: Rachael Crawford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:35:58

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-19

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

Lori Lansens became one of Canada’s most sought after writers more than a year before her internationally heralded first book, Rush Home Road, would see publication in April 2002. So immediately and passionately was her novel embraced that it was already front-page arts news back in April 2001. Knopf Canada was the first publisher to buy this extraordinary debut novel, but just before the 2001 London Book Fair, Little, Brown US bought the rest of the world rights for a major six-figure sum (for Rush Home Road and the author's yet-to-be-written second novel), and rights have now been sold in numerous countries.

The Globe and Mail reported the record-breaking news with full, front-page coverage, and Little, Brown International Rights Director Linda Biagi found herself talking of nothing else in London; she sold Rush Home Road to a further 9 territories with the manuscript still unedited. Biagi likened the book to some of the most important literary achievements of our time, saying, “It’s as if John Irving had written The Color Purple.” Louise Dennys, the Executive Publisher of Knopf Canada, describes it as “a novel of startling beauty and great heart that will immediately find a place within that small, special tribe of books beloved by readers the world over.”

The untold story of the descendants of the Underground Railroad

Heartbreaking and wise, Rush Home Road tells the life story of Adelaide Shadd, who finds redemption in old age, and Sharla, a five-year-old mixed race girl abandoned to Addy’s care by her white mother. Born in the first decade of the 20th century in Rusholme (inspired by the real town of Buxton), in southwestern Ontario, an all-black community settled by fugitive slaves, Addy Shadd is raped as a teenager and forced to flee the family home. She makes her way on foot to Detroit, where she becomes the housekeeper for an elderly man and his grown son, both of whom develop a crush on her. When misfortune strikes again, she sets off to make a new life for herself in Canada. Thrown off the train at Keating, not far from her birthplace, she meets and eventually marries the train porter, the wonderful Mose, with whom she has a daughter. But when tragedy strikes, Addy is left alone.

Now an old woman, she lives a quiet existence in a trailer park near Chatham. Her whole world changes when a young mother asks her to babysit her daughter, as it soon becomes clear that the mother is never coming back. Addy is glad of the company, but not sure if she’s up to the job of mothering this sweet, awkward five-year-old. Nor is she sure how much longer she’ll be around to do so. How she manages is part of the story of this brilliantly captivating novel.

Written with verve, grace and unflinching emotional acuity, Rush Home Road is an epic story that explodes our notions of identity, justice, and heroism, penetrating one of our darkest periods with profound insight and humanity. Addy Shadd is a protagonist like no other -- full of quiet, steely bravery and tenderness of heart. This spellbinding novel will leave no reader untouched.

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ID: 369220

Title: Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

Author: Joshua Specht

Narrator: John Chancer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-19

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science

Summary:

In this audiobook, John Chancer narrates the story of how beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complex

By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nations rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs.

Joshua Specht puts people at the heart of his storythe big cattle ranchers who helped to drive the nations westward expansion, the meatpackers who created a radically new kind of industrialized slaughterhouse, and the stockyard workers who were subjected to the shocking and unsanitary conditions described by Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle. Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots in the streets of New York. He shows how the enduring success of the cattle-beef complexcentralized, low cost, and meatpacker dominatedwas a consequence of the meatpackers ability to make their interests overlap with those of a hungry public, while the interests of struggling ranchers, desperate workers, and bankrupt butchers took a backseat. Americaand the American tablewould never be the same again.

Compelling and unfailingly enjoyable, Red Meat Republic reveals the complex history of exploitation and innovation behind the food we consume today.

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ID: 351103

Title: Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Author: Casey Cep

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:17:15

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-19

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary, North America

Summary:

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook

New York Times Best Seller

 

“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was one of your favorite books growing up, you should add Furious Hours to your reading list today.” —Southern Living

 

Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend.

 

Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more years working on her own version of the case.

Now Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country’s most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity.

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ID: 366023

Title: Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father

Author: Murray Howe

Narrator: Murray Howe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:18:23

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-19

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Other

Summary:

A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER

As a child, Murray Howe wanted to be like his father. He was an adult before he realized that didn't necessarily mean playing hockey.

Gordie Howe may have been the greatest player in the history of hockey, but greatness was never defined by goals or assists in the Howe household. Greatness meant being the best person you could be, not the best player on the ice.

     Unlike his two brother, Murray Howe failed in his attempt to follow in his father's footsteps to become a professional athlete. Yet his failure brought him to the realization that his dream wasn't really to be a pro hockey player. His dream was to be his father. To be amazing at something, but humble and gracious. To be courageous, and stand up for the little guy. To be a hero. You don't need to be a hockey player to do that. What he learned was that it was a waste of time wishing you were like someone else.

     When Gordie Howe passed away in 2016, it was Murray who was asked to deliver the eulogy. Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father takes the reader through the hours Murray spent writing the words that would give shape to his father's leagcy--the hours immediately after his hero's death, as he gathers his thoughts and memories, and makes sense of what his remarkable father meant to him. The result is nine pieces of wisdom, built out of hundreds of stories, that show us the man behind the legend and give us a glimpse of what we can learn from this incredible life.

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ID: 382834

Title: Why Rock the Boat When You Don't Know How to Swim?

Author: Daniel Sebata

Narrator: Malika Ndlovu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:38:39

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-19

Publisher: Audioshelf (PTY) Ltd.

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Dolly believed that she was stalked from Zimbabwe via South Africa to Bournemouth in the United Kingdom, what was she smoking?

I am sitting at the back seat of a police car taking me to Bournemouth police station in England and wondering about the direction my life is taking. Running from the police was not the right thing to do - it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Thirty weeks pregnant and running a heptathlon, what kind of woman does that? The short woman with puppy eyes is turning me into Olympian Jessica Ennis! Am I pregnant of a human or animal?

Who knows what happened that night at the Limpopo River, as I lay unconscious. Male genitals were written all over the back of the hyena looking after its cubs. So, who knows, it could have made me pregnant! The police lock me in a cell saying I could choose to be seen by female officers only. They also inform me that a psychiatrist will see me soon.

The alarm bells start ringing! I saw a witch doctor to avoid seeing a psychiatrist, but his concoction has delivered me into the hands of a psychiatrist. A few days ago my uncle told me that my mother was discharged from hospital, but she was still in a vegetative state. I wish she were here and tell them that I am not insane. While still feeling sorry for myself, the police return and lead me into a room to meet a psychiatrist.

A white short bald man, five foot five or so, introduces himself as Dr. Whitehead, the psychiatrist. He has a hairless scalp, save for a street tree like thin line of hair on each side of the scalp running through the back of his head. He flattens the thin hair over his naked scalp. There is no hint that once upon a time there was healthy hair at the center of his head. I feel intimidated by his thin hairline. Does he keep it to distract his patients so that they don't pay attention to his questions in order to find a reason to lock them up in hospital? He has two companions - a male GP and a woman social worker; both are white.

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ID: 381327

Title: Hobson's Folley: Full Circle

Author: Janice Bridges

Narrator: Markham Anderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:04:51

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Lord Hobart Lonsdale, also known as Hobson, watched the woman deal the cards. He knew she was cheating but was yet to figure out how? He was about to call it a night when he caught sight of the lad, in one small bevel of the large mirror that hung at the back of the bar. When he found the same lad, badly beaten at the rear of the hotel, he discovered the truth; he, was really a she, and she was about to be sold to the highest bidder. Incensed, Hobson rescues her and they disappear. At the other end of town, a large shipping vessel slides against the pier of Boston Harbour. Aboard that ship is the reigning King of Scotland, along with his two younger brothers. They have travelled halfway across the world in search of a man called Mouse, whom they believe had something to do with the kidnapping of the heir to the Scottish throne. There is no love loss between the English, Hobson and the Scottish King, or his brothers, for they can barely tolerate the other. So when Hobson warns the King to watch his back, the Royal leader is furious.

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ID: 366044

Title: Waiting Hours

Author: Shandi Mitchell

Narrator: Marcia Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:33

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-19

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Family Life

Summary:

“The most impressive trick of this book – and it is a very good one – is the way Mitchell pulls off a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is introspective.” - The Globe and Mail

When you spend your life saving others...who will be there to save you?

When tragedy erupts on a stifling summer night, three ordinary people, with the extraordinary jobs of rescuing strangers, are connected to one another in ways both explicit and invisible. Each is deeply devoted to what they do, but they are all beginning to crack under the immense pressures of their work.

Tough-as-nails Kate, when she's not working with her beloved search-and-rescue dog, Zeus, is a trauma nurse who spends her off-duty hours trying to forget what she has seen. Estranged from her troubled family, she must confront the fact that resolution may elude her forever. Respected police officer Mike is on the edge of burnout and sets himself on a downward spiral that may be impossible to break, fraying the bonds of love that hold his family together. Tamara, an agoraphobic 911 dispatcher, who is trying her hardest to remain as calm and emotionless as an automated message, is propelled into the middle of a story that she can't avoid and must enter the world to find out how it ends.

With a city prickling under a heat wave and a hurricane threatening to make landfall, these responders will be forced to make fateful choices that will alter lives. A storm is coming and nobody is prepared.

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ID: 369218

Title: Will This Be on the Test?: What Your Professors Really Want You to Know about Succeeding in College

Author: Dana T. Johnson, Jennifer E. Price

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-19

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education, Reference & Study Guides

Summary:

This lively and informative audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow is the essential survival guide for college students

Getting into college takes plenty of hard work, but knowing what your professors expect of you once you get there can be even more challenging. Will This Be on the Test? is the essential survival guide for high-school students making the transition to college academics. In this entertaining and informative book, Dana Johnson shares wisdom and wit gleaned from her decades of experience as an award-winning teacher in the freshman classroomlessons that will continue to serve you long after college graduation.

Johnson offers invaluable insights into how college academics differs from high school. She reveals how to maximize what you learn and develop good relationships with your professors, while explaining how you fit into the learning environment of college. Answering the questions that many new college students dont think to ask, Johnson provides tactical tips on getting the most out of office hours, e-mailing your professor appropriately, and optimizing your performance on assignments and exams. She gives practical advice on using the syllabus to your advantage, knowing how to address your instructors, and making sure youre not violating the academic ethics code. The book also offers invaluable advice about online courses and guidance for parents who want to help their children succeed.

Will This Be on the Test? shows you how to work with your professors to get the education, grades, and recommendations you need to thrive in the classroom and beyond.

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ID: 344124

Title: What's Next?: The Journey to Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, and Make a Difference

Author: Chris Hodges

Narrator: Mark Smeby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:34:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-19

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Have you ever felt like something important is missing from your life? Do you feel stuck in a spiritual rut? A deeper and more intimate relationship with God is closer than you think.

At various points along our life's journey, we've all found ourselves asking, 'Which way do I go? Where will this road take me? Is that really where I want to go?'

Pastor and bestselling author Chris Hodges teaches us that at these crossroads, it's essential to pause and remember our priorities. In What's Next, Hodges reveals the four practical steps anyone can use to gain lasting spiritual maturity, helping us:

- know God better than ever

- find freedom in our day-to-day lives

- discover our God-given purposes

- make an impact on everyone we meet

What's Next teaches us that it's time to look beyond what seems logical, convenient, or advantageous. Instead, we need to look to God as our ultimate GPS, our soul's true compass, if we want to live a purposeful, joyful, and significant life for eternity.

Accessible and clear, concise but profound, What's Next? is the guide you need to find your way and discover the joy that comes walking the road of deeper faith--no matter where you are in your journey.

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ID: 388478

Title: Blood Kissed

Author: Keri Arthur

Narrator: Katherine Littrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:08:16

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

In a world where magic and science sit side by side, and powerful witches are considered necessary aides for all governments, Lizzie Grace is something of an outlier. Though born into one the most powerful blue blood witch families, she wants nothing to do with either her past or her magic.

But when she and Belle, her human familiar and best friend, open a small cafe in the Faelan werewolf reservation, she quickly finds herself enmeshed in the hunt for a vampire intent on wreaking bloody havoc. It's a hunt that soon becomes personal, and one that is going to take all her skills to survivethat's if the werewolves, who hate all things witch, don't get her first.

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