Release Week: 5 July 2022
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Release Week: 5 July 2022
Posted on 2022-07-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Pallbearers Club: A Novel By: Paul Tremblay, read by Graham Halstead, Xe Sands, and Elizabeth Wiley for Harper -- "A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins."
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel By: Gabrielle Zevin, read by Jennifer Kim and Julian Cihi for Random House -- "Two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality."
Night of the Living Rez: Stories By: Morgan Talty, read by Darrell Dennis for Recorded Books -- "Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy."
Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc By: Katherine J. Chen, read by Hannah Morrish for Random House -- "Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? From the acclaimed author of Mary B comes a stunning, secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc."
The Last Storm By: Tim Lebbon, read by Curt Bonnem, Johanna Parker, Billie Fulford-Brown, and Hillary Huber for Blackstone -- "A gripping, terrifying road trip through the heat of the post-apocalyptic American desert from the author of Netflix’s The Silence."
Take No Names: A Novel By: Daniel Nieh, read by Ewan Chung for Harper -- "A riveting thriller about a fugitive in search of a quick payday in Mexico City who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme."
First Born: A Novel By: Will Dean, read by Susie Riddell for Simon and Schuster -- "Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin, Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous. But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s final movements, cracks begin to emerge, and she slowly realizes her sister was not who she thought she was and that there’s a dangerous web of deceit surrounding the two of them."
The Icarus Plot By: Timothy Zahn, read by Marc Thompson for Random House -- "There wasn’t much money to be made as a Trailblazer, searching out new worlds for possible development. Still, it was safer than the bounty hunter career that had cost Gregory Roarke his left arm six years ago. And thanks to his Kadolian partner Selene’s ultrasensitive sense of smell, they occasionally discovered a medically promising seed or spore they could sell under the table. It was a quiet life, uneventful and mostly legal. Until Roarke was approached by two men with a proposal: Track down a mysterious woman named Tera and, through her, locate a secret project called Icarus."
Silk Fire By: Zabé Ellor, read by Kirt Graves for Penguin -- "Koré wants to destroy a man. Koré knew that meddling in politics could end badly, particularly when trying to sabotage his aristocratic father's campaign before it destroys the city he has come to love. And when a chance encounter with a dying god imbues him with magic-breathing powers, it gets worse: he suddenly becomes a commodity—and a political player."
Flames of Mira By: Clay Harmon, read by Luke Francis for Penguin -- "People like Ig are born from life-threatening trials that bind periodic elements to the human body, forged in the boiling volcanoes and subterranean passages under Mira's frozen lands. One of the most powerful known elementals, he is forced to work as an enforcer for Magnate Sorrelo Adriann—cursed with a flesh binding—magic that will kill him at the first sign of disobedience."
Space: 1969 By: Bill Oakley, read by Natasha Lyonne and a full cast for Audible Originals -- " What if President John F. Kennedy had survived and rocketed the Space Race of the 1960s into overdrive? And what if he was, maybe, not quite… himself?"
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit by Ron Shelton, read by the author for Books on Tape -- " From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking."
BACKLIST WATCH:
The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1 By: Stephen R. Donaldson (1980), read by Scott Brick for Brick By Brick and Blackstone -- "Four thousand years have passed since Covenant first freed the Land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions. The monstrous force of Evil has regained its power, once again warping the very fabric and balance of the Land. Armed with his stunning white gold, wild magic, Covenant must battle not only terrifying external forces but his own capacity for despair and devastation. His quest to save the Land from ultimate ruin is as exciting and heroic as ever."
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street By: Natasha Pulley (2015), read by Thomas Judd for Bloomsbury -- "For listeners of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting, bestselling novel that sweeps listeners into a magical Victorian London inhabited by a clockwork octopus and a mysterious watchmaker who is not at all what he first appears."
A Collapse of Horses: A Collection of Stories By: Brian Evenson (2016), read by Neil Shah for Audible -- "A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America’s most acclaimed and inventive writers."
The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke (2020), read by Catherine Ho, Jennifer O'Donnell, Lisa Renee Pitts, Michael Braun, Sneha Mathan, Christopher Salazar, and Tony Tambi for Recorded Books -- "A year-in-review and twenty-eight of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2019."
Have Spacecat, Will Travel and Other Tails By: John G. Hartness (2020), read by James Anderson Foster for Tantor -- "This collection of short stories and poetry from the award-winning creator of Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter has a little bit of everything."
SERIES WATCH:
Master of Furies: Firemane Saga, Book 3 By: Raymond E. Feist, read by David Thorpe for Harper -- "From King of Ashes to Queen of Storms, it’s all built up to this."
Dreadgod: Cradle, Book 11 By: Will Wight, read by Travis Baldree
The Law: A Dresden Files Novella (Dresden Files, Book 17.5) By: Jim Butcher, read by Jim Butcher for Podium
MOST MISSING:
Dragonsgate: Spirits by James Maxey -- "Dragonsgate: Spirits continues the epic saga that began in Dragonsgate: Devils! Searching for his daughter, Zeeky, Bitterwood travels through underspace to an enchanted forest known as the Tangle. To bring Zeeky home, he must battle the Night Queen and her undead minions. But not even Bitterwood is a match for the godlike entity the Night Queen serves — the Waste-Wyrm, a cosmic dragon that devours worlds!"
Prophet's Debt by Robert Creekmore (Cinnabar Moth Publishing) -- "At fourteen, Naomi Pace knows she loves her best friend, Tiffany. During the Perseid meteor shower of summer 1993, she finds out Tiffany feels the same, just as they’re outed. Naomi is sent away to a conversion program in the remote Appalachians of North Carolina, knowing nothing of the horrors that await or the strength they will catalyze. Escaping into the frigid wilderness, she forges her own destiny. Trapped in hiding, Naomi fights to conquer fear and find her way back to Tiffany. Taking bloody vengeance to end a cult that tortures and murders children seems impossible, but so is having the guidance of a mythic creature of strength and violence. Those who hurt Naomi as a girl will come to fear the woman she has become and the path she will tread to find revenge, safety, and Tiffany."
Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery (OUP Oxford) -- "An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy."
Awry With Dandelions by J.S. Fields (Space Wizard Science Fantasy) -- "Orin sells dandelion latex at a no-name market, barely scraping by. Mette is a princess. Maybe. What Orin does know is that for thirty seconds every night, Mette visits Orin in xir dreams. Orin has long since written the fancy ghost woman off as a recurring nightmare, but when Mette insists upon meeting in real life, Orin's inner world turns out to be more substantive than imaginary."