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Release Week: 11 February 2025

Posted on 2025-02-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Brother Brontë By: Fernando A. Flores, read by Victoria Villarreal for Recorded Books -- "The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town’s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best

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Release Week: 28 January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-28 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Old Soul By: Susan Barker, read by George Blagden, Jill Winternitz, and Olivia Vinall for Penguin -- "The Historian meets Under the Skin in this searingly provocative literary horror novel about one woman’s determination to stay alive at any terrifying cost."

• The Vanishing Point: Stories By: Paul Theroux, read by Joe Knezevich for Harper -- "The stories are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points—a moment when

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Release Week: 21 January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-21 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Mask of the Deer Woman By: Laurie L. Dove, read by Isabella Star Lablanc for Penguin -- "At rock bottom following her daughter’s death, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr’s father never talked much about the reservation where he was raised, but the tribe needs a new marshal as much as Starr needs a place to call home. In the past decade, too many young women have disappeared from the rez. Some have ended up dead, others just…gone. Now local college

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Release Week: 14 January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-14 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEATURED PICK:

• Death of the Author: A Novel By: Nnedi Okorafor, read by Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp, and Chris Djuma for Harper -- "In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a

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Release Week: 7 January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-07 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Happy New Year! The big publishers are back with a vengeance after a couple of quiet weeks to close out 2024. Let's see what's in store...

FEATURED PICK:

• Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear: Wayward Children, Book 10 By: Seanan McGuire, read by Barrie Kreinik for Macmillan -- Continuing a lovely run of beginning each year with a Wayward Children book is just what I needed: "Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family."

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• In the Distance By: Hernan

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Release Week: 31 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-31 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Beyond Those Gilded Walls By: Jessica S. Taylor, read by Stefanie Kay for Dreamscape -- "The kingdom of Veressia has been forsaken by its prince, who has chosen instead to drown out the screams of the dying. Trapped in a kingdom without a leader and blamed by her brothers for her mother’s death, Odyssa has little hope of ever succeeding at honoring her mother’s dying wish. Driven by desperation, Odyssa ventures into the heart of the barricaded castle, masquerading as a servant amidst the prince's

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Release Week: 24 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-24 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The Third Temple By: Yishai Sarid, translated by Yardenne Greenspan, read by Josh Bloomberg for Tantor -- "In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the royal family's third son, continues to hold services and offer animal sacrifices at the prophesied Third Temple, built to consecrate the founding of the new Kingdom of Judah. His father, Israel's self-appointed king, has abolished the Supreme

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Release Week: 17 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-17 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

So, yeah, it's awfully close to crickets this time of year as far as the big publishers. Still, here's what I see this week:

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• North Is the Night: The Tuonela Duet, Book 1 By: Emily Rath, read by Khaya Fraites, Emily Lawrence for Recorded Books -- "In the depths of the Finnish wilderness, more than wolves roam the dark woods. When a death goddess attacks their village, best friends Siiri and Aina prove helpless to stop her from dragging Aina into Tuonela, the mythical underworld. Determined to save

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Release Week: 10 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-10 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The Book Censor's Library: A Novel By: Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain, read by Cindy Kay for Tantor -- "A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government."

• The Way: A Novel By: Cary Groner, read by Byron Wagner for Spiegel and Grau -- "The world has been ravaged by a lethal virus and only the young have survived. Cities and infrastructures have been destroyed, countries no longer exist as they

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Release Week: 3 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-03 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEATURED PICK:

• Queen of Fury: The Queens of Fate Trilogy, Book 2 By: Natania Barron, read by Philip Battley and Lucy Rayner for Tantor -- "The gorgeous second volume in Barron's female-led Arthurian romantic fantasy trilogy. One by one the kings of Braetan kneel before King Arthur under a banner of peace. Hwyfar, eldest daughter of King Leodegraunce and famed libertine of Carelon, has returned to Avillion to find her father ruined by madness and a usurper poised to take the throne. Reluctantly she takes

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