Release Week: 9 July 2024

Release Week: 9 July 2024

Posted on 2024-07-09 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• Navola: A Novel by Paolo Bacigalupi, read by Marc Vietor for Audible -- "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Windup Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping literary fantasy about the young scion from a ruling-class family who faces rebellion as he ascends to power."

• Bury Your Gays By: Chuck Tingle, read by André Santana, with Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, Georgia Bird, Liz Kerin, Mara Wilson, Mark Oshiro, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher, and TJ Klune for Macmillan -- "Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles. Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future—before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good."

• The Spellshop By: Sarah Beth Durst, read by Caitlin Davies for Macmillan -- "Join Kiela the librarian and her assistant, Caz the sentient spider plant, as they navigate the low stakes market of illegal spellmaking and the high risk business of starting over."

• The Sky on Fire By: Jenn Lyons, read by Lauren Fortgang for Macmillan -- "Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring party saves her from capture by a local warlord, she is eager to return to her solitary life. But this is no ordinary rescue. It’s Anahrod’s past catching up with her. These cunning misfits—and their frustratingly appealing dragonrider ringleader—intend to spirit her away to the dragon-ruled sky cities, where they need her help to steal from a dragon’s hoard."

• All This and More: A Novel By: Peng Shepherd, read by Helen Laser for Harper -- "Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her career is stagnant, her marriage has imploded, and her teenage daughter grows more distant by the day. Marsh is convinced she’s missed her chance at everything—romance, professional fulfillment, and adventure—and is desperate for a do-over. She can’t believe her luck when she’s selected to be the star of the global sensation All This and More, a show that uses quantum technology to allow contestants the chance to revise their pasts and change their present lives. It’s Marsh’s only shot to seize her dreams, and she’s determined to get it right this time."

• Daughters of Chaos By: Jen Fawkes, read by Stina Nielsen for Recorded Books -- "In 1862, after a tragedy at home, twenty-two-year-old Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother to trace the origins of an enigmatic playscript that’s landed on their doorstep. This text leads her to Nashville, an occupied city bustling with soldiers, saboteurs, partisans, powerful men—and powerful women. Sylvie translates the playscript by day, but at night, drawn into the work by the chief of the Union Army’s Secret Service, she acts as a spy."

(in progress...)

The Unreliable Nature Writer

Silent Sister

Earthlight by J. Michael Straczynski

The Family Experiment By: John Marrs Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Clifford Samuel, Eilidh Beaton, Joshua Riley, Justin Avoth, Thomas Judd, and Nneka Okoye for Harlequin

Quoz A Financial Thriller By: Mel Mattison Narrated by: Kyle Snyder for Tantor

The Dallergut Dream Department Store A Novel By: Miye Lee Narrated by: Shannon Tyo

Black Tide Son Winter Sea, Book 2 By: H.M. Long Narrated by: Moira Quirk, Samuel Roukin

Aftermath Sirantha Jax, Book 5 By: Ann Aguirre Narrated by: Kate Wisniewski

This Great Hemisphere A Novel By: Mateo Askaripour Narrated by: Emana Rachelle for Penguin

Toward Eternity A Novel By: Anton Hur Narrated by: David Lee Huynh, Nicky Endres, Zoleka Vundla, Katherine Littrell for Harper

The Price of Redemption By: Shawn Carpenter Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan for Simon and Schuster

These Deathless Shores By: P. H. Low Narrated by: Mirai for Orbit

Dark Yonder: Issue 6

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