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Release Week: 23 April 2024
Posted on 2024-04-23 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Sky Was Ours: A Novel By: Joe Fassler, read by Leanne Woodward for Penguin -- "From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia."
Your Presence Is Mandatory: A Novel By: Sasha Vasilyuk, read by Sam Rushton for Bloomsbury -- "A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are
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Release Week: 16 April 2024
Posted on 2024-04-16 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Expected a quiet week as far as big releases, and that's what we got, so I'm putting a few extra "indie" and "more" titles this week.
PICKS:
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder By: Salman Rushdie, read by the author for Random House -- "From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him."
A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci, read
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Release Week: 9 April 2024
Posted on 2024-04-09 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
(post in progress, pardon the dust, also sorry for delay was traveling yesterday)
PICKS:
The Familiar: A Novel By: Leigh Bardugo, read by Lauren Fortgang for Macmillan -- "In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve
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Release Week: 2 April 2024
Posted on 2024-04-02 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
I Cheerfully Refuse By: Leif Enger, read by David Aaron Baker for Recorded Books -- "Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on
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Release Week: 26 March 2024
Posted on 2024-03-26 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FEATURED PICK:
- The Angel of Indian Lake: The Indian Lake Trilogy, Book 3 by Stephen Graham Jonesm read by Isabella Star LaBlanc, Barbara Crampton, Angela Goethals, Andrew J. Robinson, and the author for Simon and Schuster -- "The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror novels picks up four years after Don’t Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting."
FICTION PICKS:
Bunyan and Henry
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Release Week: 19 March 2024
Posted on 2024-03-19 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Morningside by Téa Obreht, read by Carlotta Brentan for Random House -- "After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in a place called Island City where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family’s past, and because the once-vibrant city where she lives is now half
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Release Week: 12 March 2024
Posted on 2024-03-12 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Until August: A Novel By: Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Anne McLean, read by Catalina Sandino Moreno, Cristobal Pera, and Rodrigo Garcia for Random House -- "The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon."
The Most Secret Memory of Men By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated by Lara Vergnaud, read by Leon Nixon for Tantor -- "In 2018, Diegane Latyr Faye, a young
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Release Week: 5 March 2024
Posted on 2024-03-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FICTION PICKS:
Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel By: Helen Oyeyemi, read by Dorje Swallow for Penguin -- "The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague."
Big Time: A Novel By: Ben H. Winters, read by Eva Kaminsky for Mulholland -- "What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for
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Release Week: 27 February 2024
Posted on 2024-02-27 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Wandering Stars: A Novel by Tommy Orange, read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett for Books on Tape -- "Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son
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Release Week: 20 February 2024
Posted on 2024-02-20 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
SPOTLIGHT:
- The Bezzle: The Martin Hench Novels, Book 2 By Cory Doctorow, read by Wil Wheaton -- Famously not available on Audible (due to their DRM requirements) so you'll need to head to Downpour or Libro.fm etc. for this one, a follow up to last year's fantastic "Red Team Blues". Here, our series-titular forensic accountant delivers "A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash."
PICKS:
Vangie’s
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