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Release Week: 2 July 2024
Posted on 2024-07-02 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
- Broiler by Eli Cranor, read by Victoria Villarreal for Recorded Books -- "Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone’s throw from the trailer park where they’ve lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay. When the plant manager, Luke Jackson, fires Edwin
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Release Week: 25 June 2024
Posted on 2024-06-25 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
NEW FICTION:
All the Colors of the Dark By: Chris Whitaker, read by Edoardo Ballerini for Random House -- "1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line
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Release Week: 18 June 2024
Posted on 2024-06-18 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind By: Annalee Newitz, read by Alexandra Cohler for Kalorama -- "Delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War-era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on Indigenous nations, and reaching its apotheosis with the Cold War and twenty-first-century influence campaigns online."
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands By: Sarah Brooks, read by Katie
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Release Week: 11 June 2024
Posted on 2024-06-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Moonbound: A Novel By: Robin Sloan, read by Gabra Zackman fpr Macmillan -- "It is eleven thousand years from now . . . A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an
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Release Week: 4 June 2024
Posted on 2024-06-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Road to the Country: A Novel By: Chigozie Obioma, read by Junior Nyong'o for Random House -- "A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria’s civil war—a story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist."
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by the author for Macmillan -- "Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the
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Release Week: 28 May 2024
Posted on 2024-05-28 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Fight Me! by Austin Grossman, read by Adam Sims for Penguin -- "Dr Rick Tower is a mild-mannered English professor easing into middle-age at a medium-sized New England college. A genial blur, he thinks. Even his vices are unremarkable. But it wasn’t always like this. Not until they changed his name, altered his looks and told him: ‘pretend you were never different’. Because, decades earlier after a very bad day at high school, he was committed to a secret government facility with three other kids
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Release Week: 21 May 2024
Posted on 2024-05-21 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
You Like It Darker: Stories by Stephen King, read by Will Patton for Simon and Schuster -- "From the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best ever."
Goddess of the River By: Vaishnavi Patel, read by Sneha Mathan for Redhook -- "A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world."
Escape Velocity By: Victor
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Release Week: 14 May 2024
Posted on 2024-05-14 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Aliss at the Fire By: Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls, read by Kåre Conradi for Dreamscape -- Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature: "In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the
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Release Week: 7 May 2024
Posted on 2024-05-07 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
(Post in progress, pardon the mess...)
PICKS:
Ghostroots: Stories By: Pemi Aguda, read by Délé Ogundiran and Ore Apampa-Araba for Audible -- "A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties."
When the Moon Hatched: A Novel By: Sarah A. Parker, read by Sarah Mollo-Christensen and Fajer Al-Kaisi for Harper -- "As an assassin for the rebellion group Fíur du Ath, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty
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Release Week: 30 April 2024
Posted on 2024-04-30 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, read by Nathaniel Priestley for Macmillan -- "On a foggy winter morning, high school kids Luca and Emma discover the impossible: the wreck of an eighteenth-century ship stranded in a flower field. Emma enters the hatch on the deck and is never seen again. And she isn’t the last to disappear. Soon a government agency begins to investigate, determined to uncover the ship’s secrets before a media storm erupts. They enlist Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult
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