Page 15 of posts filed: Release Week

Release Week: 7 March 2023

Posted on 2023-03-07 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The Mimicking of Known Successes By: Malka Older, read by Lindsey Dorcus for Blackstone -- "On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university―and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives

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Release Week: 28 February 2023

Posted on 2023-02-28 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Homestead: A Novel By: Melinda Moustakis, read by Ariel Blake for Macmillan -- "Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days later, they are more in love with the promise of homesteading than anything. For Lawrence, his parcel of 150 acres is an opportunity to finally belong in a world that has never delivered on its promise. For Marie, the land is an escape from the empty future she sees

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Release Week: 21 February 2023

Posted on 2023-02-21 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel By: Rebecca Makkai, read by Julia Whelan and JD Jackson for Penguin -- "A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer

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Release Week: 14 February 2023

Posted on 2023-02-14 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The King Is Dead: Stories By: Walter Tevis, read by Christopher Grove, Lee Osorio, Max Meyers, Philip Hernandez, and Mark Bramhall for Random House -- "For the first time ever, a complete collection of short fiction the New York Times bestselling author of The Queen's Gambit."

• The Last Tale of the Flower Bride: A Novel By: Roshani Chokshi, read by Steve West and Sura Siu for Harper -- "Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell

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Release Week: 7 February 2023

Posted on 2023-02-07 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Victory City: A Novel By: Salman Rushdie, read by Sid Sagar for Random House -- "In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who begins to speak out of the girl’s mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana’s comprehension, the

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Release Week: 31 January 2023

Posted on 2023-01-31 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The Terraformers By: Annalee Newitz, read by Emily Lawrence for Macmillan -- "From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future. Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a

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Release Week: 24 January 2023

Posted on 2023-01-24 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The White Mosque: A Memoir By: Sofia Samatar, read by the author for HighBridge -- "Samatar discovers a variety of characters whose lives intersect around the ancient Silk Road, from a fifteenth-century astronomer-king, to an intrepid Swiss woman traveler of the 1930s, to the first Uzbek photographer, and explores such topics as Central Asian cinema, Mennonite martyrs, and Samatar's own complex upbringing as the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite and a Somali-Muslim, raised as a Mennonite of color in

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Release Week: 17 January 2023

Posted on 2023-01-17 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• How to Sell a Haunted House By: Grady Hendrix, read by Jay Aaseng and Mikhaila Aaseng for Penguin -- "When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved

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Release Week: 10 January 2023

Posted on 2023-01-10 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Lost in the Moment and Found: Wayward Children, Book 8 By: Seanan McGuire, read by Jesse Vilinsky for Macmillan -- "Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here. If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood... it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore this time you’d keep safe? You guessed it.... Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again. But when

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Release Week: 3 January 2023

Posted on 2023-01-03 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Getting things started off pretty much as 2022 ended, with a fairly quiet release week.

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• Local: A Memoir By: Jessica Machado, read by Mapuana Makia for Brilliance -- "A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs."

• Age of Vice: A Novel By: Deepti Kapoor, read by Vidish Athavale for Penguin -- "New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when

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