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Release Week: 18 June 2024

Posted on 2024-06-18 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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Release Week: 23 April 2024

Posted on 2024-04-23 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• 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.

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• 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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