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Release Week: 1 March 2022
Posted on 2022-03-01 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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All My Rage: A Novel By: Sabaa Tahir, read by Deepti Gupta, Kamran R. Khan, and Kausar Mohammed for Listening Library -- "Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town
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Release Week: 22 February 2022
Posted on 2022-02-22 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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The Paradox Hotel: A Novel by Rob Hart, read by Emily Woo Zeller for Random House -- "An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake."
Last Exit By: Max Gladstone, read by Natalie Naudus for Recorded Books -- "Ten years ago, Zelda led a band of merry adventurers whose knacks let them travel to alternate realities and battle the black rot that threatened to unmake each world. Zelda was the warrior; Ish could locate people anywhere; Ramon always knew what
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Release Week: 15 February 2022
Posted on 2022-02-15 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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Elric of Melniboné: Volume 1: Elric of Melnibone, The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and The Weird of the White Wolf By: Michael Moorcock, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman, read by Samuel Roukin for Recorded Books -- "When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent Melniboné, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and
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Release Week: 8 February 2022
Posted on 2022-02-08 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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The This By: Adam Roberts, read by Elliot Fitzpatrick for Gollancz -- "The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allowing you to connect with others without even picking up your phone. Its followers are growing. Its detractors say it is a cult. But for one journalist, hired to do a puff-piece interview with their CEO, it will change the world forever."
Echo By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt, read
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Release Week: 1 February 2022
Posted on 2022-02-01 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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Recitatif: A Story By: Toni Morrison, read by Bahni Turpin, with and introduction written and read by Zadie Smith -- "In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at
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Release Week: 25 January 2022
Posted on 2022-01-25 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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Devil House: A Novel By: John Darnielle, read by the author for Macmillan -- "From John Darnielle, the New York Times best-selling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success - and a movie adaptation - to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable
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Release Week: 18 January 2022
Posted on 2022-01-18 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel By: Sequoia Nagamatsu, read by a full cast for Harper -- "For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague - a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice."
Ghost of a Marriage By: Richard Dansky, read by: Sam Rosenthal for
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Release Week: 11 January 2022
Posted on 2022-01-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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To Paradise: A Novel By: Hanya Yanagihara, read by Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodor Chin, and Kurt Kanazawa for Random House -- "From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries (1893, 1993, and 2093) and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss, and the elusive promise of utopia."
Daughter of the Moon Goddess: A Novel By: Sue Lynn Tan, read by Natalie Naudus for Harper -- "A captivating debut
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Release Week: 4 January 2022
Posted on 2022-01-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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The School for Good Mothers: A Novel By: Jessamine Chan, read by Catherine Ho for Simon and Schuster -- "In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance."
The High House: A Novel By: Jessie Greengrass, read by Camilla Rockley, Sam Newton, and Mariam Abu-Hejleh for Simon and Schuster -- "In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make
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Release Week: 28 December 2021
Posted on 2021-12-28 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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