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Release Week: 31 May 2022

Posted on 2022-05-31 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• Dark Factory by Kathe Koja, read by Natasha Soudek for Tantor -- "Welcome to Dark Factory! You may experience strobe effects, Y reality, DJ beats, love, sex, betrayal, triple-shot espresso, broken bones, broken dreams, ecstasy, self-knowledge, and the void."

• How to Be Eaten: A Novel By: Maria Adelmann, read by Lauren Ezzo for Little, Brown and Company -- "This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma."

• Walk the Vanished

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Release Week: 24 May 2022

Posted on 2022-05-24 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Future Artifacts: Stories By: Kameron Hurley, read by Samara Naeymi and Rob Granniss for Recorded Books -- "Brutal. Devastating. Dangerous. Join an investigation into a cruel and heartless leader...crawl through filth and mud to escape biological warfare...team up with time-traveling soldiers faced with potentially life-altering instructions."

• Sleepwalk: A Novel By: Dan Chaon, read by John Pirhalla for Macmillan -- "Will Bear is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the

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Release Week: 17 May 2022

Posted on 2022-05-17 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• All the Seas of the World By: Guy Gavriel Kay, read by Simon Vance for Penguin -- "Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature "quarter turn to the fantastic" to tell a story of vengeance, power, and love."

• This Time Tomorrow: A Novel By: Emma Straub, read by Marin Ireland for Penguin -- "On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t

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Release Week: 5 April 2022

Posted on 2022-04-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Sea of Tranquility: A Novel By: Emily St. John Mandel, read by John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, and Kirsten Potter for Random House -- "The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the listener from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon 500 years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space."

• The Candy House: A Novel By: Jennifer Egan, read by Michael Boatman, Nicole

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Release Week: 29 March 2022

Posted on 2022-03-29 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

A week late (I was on vacation!) here we go...

PICKS:

• Sweep of Stars By: Maurice Broaddus, read by Emana Rachelle for Macmillan -- "The first in the Astra Black trilogy that explores the struggles of an empire. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire - a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E. (original Earth) to Titan - as it faces an escalating series of threats."

• The Long Weekend: A Novel By: Gilly Macmillan, read by Olivia Poulet for Harper

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Release Week: 22 March 2022

Posted on 2022-03-22 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The Bone Orchard By: Sara A. Mueller, read by Ell Potter for Macmillan -- "A fascinating whodunit set in a lush gothic world of secrets and magic - where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire."

• Don't Know Tough By: Eli Cranor, read by the author for Recorded Books -- "In a tiny Arkansas town, high school football is religion, and there will always be

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Release Week: 15 March 2022

Posted on 2022-03-15 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The Kaiju Preservation Society By: John Scalzi, read by Wil Wheaton for Audible -- "When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his

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Release Week: 8 March 2022

Posted on 2022-03-08 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Booth By: Karen Joy Fowler, read by January LaVoy for Penguin -- "In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some 30 miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear 10 children over the course of the next 16 years. Junius Booth - breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor and master of the house in more ways than one - is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to

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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

PICKS:

• 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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