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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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Author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Narrator Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton, Prentice Onayemi
Duration 29h 48m
Immerse yourself in a celebration of Black womanhood and an epic tale of the stories that span generations. A breath-taking debut novel that chronicles the journey of generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade to our own tumultuous era. Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the City in the north and summers...
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Author Bradley Somer
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 8h 57m
In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear. With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single fragment of the wild. One night, he hears voices in the valley—poachers, come to hunt his bear. A heart-pounding chase begins, crossing forest...
View BookAuthor: Jodi Picoult
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Author Jodi Picoult
Narrator Patti Murin
Duration 15h 48m
Dawn thinks she knows everything there is to know about dying. As a death doula, she helps her clients fix what is left undone so they can peacefully make the final transition. But when her plane plummets from the sky and she thinks she is experiencing the last moments of her life, she is shocked to find that she isn't thinking of her husband or te...
View BookGlory: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022
Author: NoViolet Bulawayo
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Author NoViolet Bulawayo
Narrator Chipo Chung
Duration 16h 10m
Brought to you by Penguin.**Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022**Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and helps us see our human world more clearly.A long time ago, in a bountiful land not so far away, the animal denizens lived quit...
View BookAuthor: Erin Kelly
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Author Erin Kelly
Narrator Helen Keeley
Duration 13h 40m
Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over England. One by one, the tiny golden bones were dug up unti...
View BookThe Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital
Author: Joanna Nell
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Author Joanna Nell
Narrator Julie Nihill
Duration 9h 55m
Three unlikely friends. A lot of scones. And one chance to save the community.... The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria is at the heart of St Jude's Hospital. Staffed by successive generations of dedicated volunteers, for over 50 years, the beloved cafeteria has been serving up a kind word and sympathetic ear along with tea and scones. Hilary, t...
View BookAuthor: Jodi Picoult
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Author Jodi Picoult
Narrator Marin Ireland
Duration 11h 54m
Diana O'Toole's life is going perfectly to plan. At 29, she's up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby's, and she's about to fly to the Galápagos, where she's convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn, is going to propose. But then the virus hits New York City and Finn breaks the news: the hospital needs him, he has to s...
View BookAuthor: Anne-Marie MacDonald
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Author Anne-Marie MacDonald
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 48m
Mary Rose McKinnon has two children with her partner, Hilary, and a fractured relationship with her mother, Dolly; she also has issues with anger management and lives in fear of hurting the children. These feelings seem somehow rooted in a part of her childhood she has trouble remembering. Is Dolly - the kind of big personality who makes all Mary R...
View BookAuthor: Anuk Arudpragasam
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Author Anuk Arudpragasam
Narrator Neil Shah
Duration 9h 25m
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. A Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died under unexpected circumstan...
View BookAuthor: Fay Weldon
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Author Fay Weldon
Narrator Jane Slavin
Duration 9h 15m
In Fay Weldon's 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power and won. But in 2018, the fight continues on a new front... Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is eighty-four and keen to retire. She has worked hard to make the world as she wants it: women triumphant, men submissive. Now she is tired. Her busin...
View BookAuthor: Donal Ryan
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Author Donal Ryan
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Duration 6h 22m
Brought to you by Penguin.'He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy's voice. But you'd have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have bee...
View BookMrs Harris Goes to Paris and Mrs Harris Goes to New York
Author: Paul Gallico
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Author Paul Gallico
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 10h 16m
Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's...
View BookAuthor: Monica Ali
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Author Monica Ali
Narrator Elizabeth Sastre
Duration 11h 9m
Set in the gritty Tower Hamlets area of East London, Brick Laneis the story of Nazneen, an Asian immigrant girl and how she deals with issues of love, cultural differences and the human spirit. Nazneen is forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man whose expectations of life are miserably low. When they flee the oppression of their Bangl...
View BookAuthor: Bonnie Garmus
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Author Bonnie Garmus
Narrator Miranda Raison
Duration 11h 56m
Brought to you by Penguin.INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH PANDORA SYKES 'Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here' ELIZABETH ZOTTChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team...
View BookAuthor: Katherine Center
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Author Katherine Center
Narrator Therese Plummer
Duration 7h 33m
A new mother must adjust to a life she never asked for—and learns that sometimes the worst thing that can happen is exactly what you’ve been waiting for—in this spirited novel from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire“Charming . . . cleverly told and...
View BookAuthor: Miranda Cowley Heller
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Author Miranda Cowley Heller
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 12h 37m
Brought to you by Penguin.LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A deeply emotional love story that follows one day in the life of Elle Bishop as she navigates the unravelling of secrets, lies and a very complex love triangle' REESE WITHERSPOON'Glorious and gorgeous. I was absolutely immersed and gripped and I'm devastated to have finished it' MARIA...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Marks
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Author Rachel Marks
Narrator Josh Dylan, Stevie Martin, Jacob Marks-Jones
Duration 10h 40m
'Wonderful, compassionate, unpredictable' GRAEME SIMSION, bestselling author of The Rosie Project'After I finished, I just thought "Yes, this is why I read". To find gems such as this' ***** Reader Review'I loved this original, at times painful but truly thought-provoking book. A triumph' Sunday Times bestselling author KATIE FFORDE'There are some...
View BookBeautiful World, Where Are You
Author: Sally Rooney
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Author Sally Rooney
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 10h 5m
The new novel from the author of Normal People. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are st...
View BookAuthor: Jo Browning Wroe
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Author Jo Browning Wroe
Narrator David Dawson
Duration 11h 3m
A Top 10 Sunday Times best seller. When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them.... It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan. William decides he...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 8h 13m
Little Jamey, 2½ years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out partying. When he first arrives with foster carer Cathy Glass, he is scared, hungry and withdrawn, cr...
View BookAuthor: Seanan McGuire
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Author Seanan McGuire
Narrator Cynthia Hopkins
Duration 4h 44m
Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No Quests Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere...else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle...
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