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ID: 696139

Title: Goodbye Cat

Author: Hiro Arikawa

Narrator: George Blagden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:41:57

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-23

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Family Life

Summary:

In this delightful and touching follow-up to the internationally bestselling Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven felines teach their humans about love, loss, and the art of facing the inevitable—the perfect gift for every cat lover.

Already a bestseller in Japan, The Goodbye Cat is a collection of simple yet charming, funny, and often very moving tales (tails?) woven by seven wise felines and their humans.

Against the backdrop of Japan's changing seasons, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a holiday island who show a young boy not to stand in nature’s way; a cat whose undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father enriches a family; and an elderly cat who hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each other’s lives for ever.

Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life and how, in different ways, the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down. A joyous celebration of the wondrousness of cats and why we choose to share our lives with them.

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ID: 712796

Title: Murder in Dublin - The Blind Detective Mysteries, Book 7 (Unabridged)

Author: Christina Koning

Narrator: Duncan Galloway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:04:53

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-23

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Historical

Summary:

It is 1939 and the Second World War looms ever closer. Blind war veteran, Frederick Rowlands, travels to the neutral territory of Ireland at the behest of Celia Swift, whose husband, Edward Swift, Lord Castleford, has been receiving mysterious death threats.

When a body is discovered, Castleford finds himself being accused of a murder he did not commit. As Castleford's trial begins, Rowlands must fight to save his friend's reputation - and his neck from the gallows. But will the Blind Detective identify the true killer in time, or will it be too late?

In the latest instalment of Christina Koning's acclaimed Blind Detective series, a country teeters on the knife-edge of war while a man's life also hangs in the balance ...

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ID: 713453

Title: Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic

Author: Jonathan Hollins

Narrator: Jonathan Hollins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:24:35

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

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

Summary:

A vets life with a difference: all creatures great and small in the diverse and distinctive South Atlantic islands.

The role of resident vet in the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Ascension encompasses the complexities of caring for the worlds oldest land animal a 200-year-old giant tortoise and MoD mascots at the Falklands airbase; pursuing mystery creatures and invasive microorganisms; relocating herds of reindeer; and rescuing animals in extraordinarily rugged landscapes, from subtropical cloud forests to volcanic cliff faces.

Hugely entertaining and affectionate, Jonathan Hollinss tales of island vetting are not only full of ingenuity and astounding fauna they are also steeped in the unique local cultures, history and peoples of the islands, far removed from the hustle of continental life. They are perfect for animal lovers, adventurers and armchair travellers alike.

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ID: 695064

Title: Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

Author: Adam Shoalts

Narrator: Adam Shoalts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:21

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Allen Lane Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, World, History & Culture

Summary:

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER'S BOOK AWARD

From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history.

Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migrate from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains. Grabbing his backpack and canoe, Shoalts resolved to follow the falcon’s route north on an astonishing 3,400-kilometre journey to the Arctic.

Along the way, he faces a huge variety of challenges and obstacles, including storms on the Great Lakes, finding campsites in the urban wilderness of Toronto and Montreal, avoiding busy commercial freighter traffic, gale force winds, massive hydroelectric dams, bushwhacking without trails, dealing with hunger, multiple bear encounters, and navigating white-water rapids on icy northern rivers far from any help.

In his signature style, Shoalts roams as much across space as he does time, winding his way through a stunning diversity of landscapes ranging from lush Carolinian forests to lonely windswept mountains, salty seas to trackless swamps, pristine lakes to glittering mega-cities, as well as the sites of long ago battles, shipwrecks, forgotten forts, and abandoned trading posts. Through his travels, he reveals how interconnected wild places are, from the loneliest depths of the northern wilderness to busy urban parks, and the vital importance of these connections.

Where the Falcon Flies invites readers on an extraordinary armchair adventure that spans five ecoregions and centuries of fascinating history, and is a masterwork by one of Canada’s most successful and audacious authors.

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ID: 704960

Title: Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

Author: Angus Deaton

Narrator: Angus Deaton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:38:12

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Politics, North America, General

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton shares candid reflections on the economist’s craft

Features “Asides with Angus” as bonus material with stories and outtakes from Deaton’s recording sessions

When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America’s strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issues of our times—from poverty, retirement, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation’s uniquely disastrous health care system—and narrates Deaton’s own account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist.

Deaton is witty and he pulls no punches. In this incisive, candid, and funny book, he describes the everyday lives of working economists, recounting the triumphs as well as the disasters, and tells the inside story of the Nobel Prize in economics and the journey that led him to Stockholm to receive one. He discusses the ongoing tensions between economics and politics—and the extent to which economics has any content beyond the political prejudices of economists—and reflects on whether economists bear at least some responsibility for the growing despair and rising populism in America.

Blending rare personal insights with illuminating perspectives on the social challenges that confront us today, Deaton offers a disarmingly frank critique of his own profession while shining a light on his adopted country’s policy accomplishments and failures.

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ID: 694990

Title: Beasts of the Ancient World: A Kids' Guide to Mythical Creatures, From the Sphynx to the Minotaur, Dragons to Baku

Author: Marchella Ward

Narrator: Gesella Ohaka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:29:14

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Historical, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Uncover tales of ancient beasts, in this beautiful anthology of mythologies.

This book introduces children to the thrilling mythological beasts from ancient civilizations. Through the incredible storytelling you can learn about fantastic creatures such as the Japanese Baku, which had the power to devour nightmares, the wise Egyptian Sphynx, and the fearsome Minotaur who went head-to-head with Theseus in Greek mythology.

A perfect, global introduction to the most fascinating stories about legendary creatures from ancient history.

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ID: 679459

Title: Three Holidays and a Wedding

Author: Marissa Stapley, Uzma Jalaluddin

Narrator: Ulka Simone Mohanty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:52:51

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Holiday, Multicultural & Interracial

Summary:

*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARDS 2024 FINALIST

'The most festive book you'll read this year.'—Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and Meet Me at the Lake

From two bestselling Canadian authors comes a multi-faith holiday rom-com about the delightful havoc that occurs when Christmas, Ramadan, and Hanukkah all fall at the same time, and two strangers-turned-friends are snowbound in the small, charming town of Snow Falls along with the cast and crew of a holiday romance movie, nosy family members, and their lifelong crushes.

Three times the holiday magic. Three times the chaos.

As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays—Maryam to her sister’s impromptu wedding, and Anna to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy family for the first time—neither expect that severe turbulence will scare them into confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another. At least they’ll never see each other again. And the love of Maryam’s life, Saif, wasn’t sitting two rows behind them hearing it all. Oops.

An emergency landing finds Anna, Saif, Maryam, and her sister’s entire bridal party snowbound at the quirky Snow Falls Inn in a picture-perfect town, where fate has Anna’s actor-crush filming a holiday romance. As Maryam finds the courage to open her heart to Saif, and Anna feels the magic of being snowbound with an unexpected new love—both women soon realize there’s no place they’d rather be for the holidays.

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ID: 704959

Title: Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

Author: Kevin J. Mitchell

Narrator: Kevin J. Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:52:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents an evolutionary case for the existence of free will

Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.

Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice emerged from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell’s argument has important implications—for how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence.

An astonishing journey of discovery, Free Agents offers a new framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth history, life evolved the power to choose and why this matters.

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ID: 711219

Title: Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss

Author: Juliet Hooker

Narrator: Joana Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:49:01

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, History, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Joana Garcia reveals how race shapes expectations about whose losses matter

In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can’t always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are accustomed to winning; they have generally been able to exercise political rule without having to accept sharing it. Black citizens, on the other hand, are expected to be political heroes whose civic suffering enables progress toward racial justice. In this book, Juliet Hooker, a leading thinker on democracy and race, argues that the two most important forces driving racial politics in the United States today are Black grief and white grievance. Black grief is exemplified by current protests against police violence—the latest in a tradition of violent death and subsequent public mourning spurring Black political mobilization. The potent politics of white grievance, meanwhile, which is also not new, imagines the U.S. as a white country under siege.

Drawing on African American political thought, Hooker examines key moments in U.S. racial politics that illuminate the problem of loss in democracy. She connects today’s Black Lives Matter protests to the use of lynching photographs to arouse public outrage over post–Reconstruction era racial terror, and she discusses Emmett Till’s funeral as a catalyst for the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. She also traces the political weaponization of white victimhood during the Obama and Trump presidencies. Calling for an expansion of Black and white political imaginations, Hooker argues that both must learn to sit with loss, for different reasons and to different ends.

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ID: 694751

Title: Dragging Mason County

Author: Curtis Campbell

Narrator: Justin Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:31:37

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A laugh-out-loud YA debut that examines the realities of small-town queer life and celebrates the transformative power of drag—perfect for fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pumpkin.

Peter Thompkins needs a public image overhaul. After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school, rumors about him are becoming more elaborate by the day. Meanwhile, his best friend Alan (aka teen drag queen Aggie Culture) is throwing Mason County’s debut Drag Extravaganza. Although Peter is a self-described “dragnostic,” he decides to help produce the show, hoping to prove that he isn’t a self-hating gay. In the process, he finds himself facing down angry guard dogs, angrier bigots, and a very high-strung church lady. As backlash grows, Peter begins to wonder whether he's setting fire to his already damaged reputation and if his friendship with Alan will survive past curtain call.

At turns touching, sharply funny, and a little absurd, Dragging Mason County explores the pains and pleasures of queer community through one teen’s journey to self-acceptance.

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