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[Gujarati] - Mom, I Have A Date Audiobook

"સાત સ્ત્રી પાત્રોની આસપાસ ગૂંથાયેલી સાત લઘુનવલનું સપ્તરંગી સંકલન. દરેક લઘુનવલ અલગ ભાત ધરાવે છે અને આ સાતેય મળીને એક અનેરું મેઘઘનુષ રચે છે."

Geeta Manek (Author), Disha Upadhyay (Narrator)

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[Thai] - ปราชญ์แห่งธนู

"ผู้เขียน The Alchemist เล่าเรื่องสร้างแรงบันดาลใจเกี่ยวกับชายหนุ่มผู้แสวงหาความรู้จากผู้อาวุโสและคำสอนที่เขาได้รับมาระหว่างทาง ในเรื่อง The Archer เราจะได้พบเทะสึยะ ชายผู้เคยมีชื่อเสียงเพราะพรสวรรค์ระดับอัจฉริยะในการใช้ธนูและลูกธนูก่อนจะวางมือออกจากวงการไป รวมถึงผู้ท้าทายที่มาตามหาเทะสึยะและเด็กชายผู้สังเกตการณ์การแข่งขันของพวกเขาด้วย หลังจากนั้นเด็กชายก็มีคำถามมากมาย เทะสึยะตอบคำถามเหล่านั้นด้วยการอธิบายวิถีแห่งธนูและหลักการของชีวิตที่มีความหมาย เรื่องเล่าของเปาโล คูเอลญูเป็นสิ่งเตือนใจอันทรงพลังว่าการกระทำและจิตวิญญาณนั้นเชื่อมโยงถึงกันอย่างลึกซึ้ง อีกทั้งชีวิตที่ถูกขีดกรอบด้วยความกลัวการโดนปฏิเสธ หรือความล้มเหลวนั้นไม่ใช่ชีวิตที่มีค่า คนเราต้องยอมเสี่ยง สะสมความอดทนและความกล้าหาญ แล้วยอมรับจุดพลิกผันเกินคาดซึ่งโชคชะตาอาจมอบให้ เปาโล คูเอลญูใช้ความรู้ ความมีน้ำใจ และความสง่างามที่ทำให้เขาเป็นนักเขียนขายดีระดับนานาชาติมาสร้างกรอบความคิดสำหรับชีวิตที่มีความหมาย นั่นคือคนเราต้องขยัน มุ่งมั่น มีความคิด เต็มใจที่จะล้มเหลว และมีแรงกระตุ้นเพื่อสร้างความแตกต่าง"

Paulo Coelho (Author), กันต์ พลสงคราม (Narrator)

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[Indonesian] - A Very Yuppy Wedding

"The life of a business banker is 24/7, dan bagi Andrea, bankir muda yang tengah meniti tangga karier di salah satu bank terbesar di Indonesia, rasanya ada delapan hari dalam seminggu. Power lunch, designer suit, golf di Bintan, dinner dengan nasabah, kunjungan ke proyek debitur, sampai tumpukan analisis feasibility calon nasabah, she eats them all. Namun di usianya yang menginjak 29 tahun, Andrea mungkin harus mengubah prioritasnya, karena sekarang ada Adjie, the most eligible bachelor in banking yang akan segera menikahinya. So she should be smiling, right? Not really. Tidak di saat ia harus memilih antara jabatan baru dan pernikahan, menghadapi wedding planner yang demanding, calon mertua yang perfeksionis, target bank yang mencekik, dan ancaman denda lima ratus juta jika ia melanggar kontrak kerja. Dan tidak ada Manolo Blahnik atau Zara atau Marc Jacobs yang bisa memaksanya tersenyum saat ia mulai mempertanyakan apakah semua pengorbanan karier yang telah ia berikan untuk Adjie tidak sia-sia, ketika ia menghadapi kenyataan bahwa tunangan sempurnanya mungkin berselingkuh dengan rekan kerjanya sendiri. Welcome to the world of Andrea Siregar, the woman with the most rational job on the planet as she is making the most irrational decisions in her own personal life."

Ika Natassa (Author), Dina Amalina (Narrator)

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[Romanian] - Scara lui Iakov

"Un roman-parabolă, o carte despre dragoste și conștiință, o cronică de familie cu accente autobiografice traversând un secol de istorie tumultuoasă, în care vocea care se impune aparține unei femei. În 2016, Scara lui Iakov a câștigat, în cadrul Premiilor Bolșaia Kniga, Locul al treilea și Premiul cititorilor. Este tradus în peste douăzeci de țări. Nora, tânără scenografă și mamă singură, găsește la moartea bunicii ei un cufăr vechi, de care uită ani întregi. În 2011, când îl deschide, descoperă scrisorile și jurnalele bunicului său, Iakov Osețki, care fusese deportat în Siberia. Citindu-le, simte o mare afinitate cu bunicul pe care l-a întâlnit o singură dată, iar destinul acestuia o face să-și pună întrebări despre propria viață, și mai cu seamă una: până la ce punct traiectoria ființei poate fi determinată de genele sale? Scara lui Iakov este povestea a patru generații ce se desfășoară într-o alternanță continuă a planurilor, un caleidoscop de iubiri, trădări, idealuri, culpe, suferință, artă și întrebări fără răspuns, în care istoria este omniprezentă, mereu personaj principal."

Ludmila Ulițkaia (Author), Bianca Cuculici (Narrator)

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[Hebrew] - פלאפל אוסלו

"לנון לומברוזו נולד בטבריה כמה שעות אחרי שג'ון לנון נרצח בניו יורק. הוא זכה בשמו המיוחד משום שאביו, מעריץ מושבע של הביטלס ובעל דוכן 'פלאפל ארבעת המופלאים', היה משוכנע שנשמת המוזיקאי האהוב עליו התגלגלה אל בנו. בני המשפחה ורבנים הזהירו את האב שהשם לנון מבשר רעות - נבואת זעם שהגשימה את עצמה יותר מעשרים שנה לאחר מכן, כאשר לנון התאהב בצעירה נורווגית, יצא למסע חיפוש עצמי במזרח הרחוק ובסופו בחר לנסוע בעקבות האהבה לאוסלו. ודווקא באוסלו מגלה לנון את עוצמתה של מורשתו הישראלית ומוצא בעצמו כוחות שלא ידע על קיומם. הוא מקים את 'פלאפל אוסלו', תולה שלט שמציג את הפלאפל כ'מאכל הלאומי של ישראל' ונסחף לתוך מערבולת משפטית ופוליטית חובקת עולם, שמעורבים בה פעילים פלסטינים שמתקוממים על תיאור הפלאפל כישראלי, פעילי ימין קיצוני נורווגים השטופים בשנאת זרים, פעילי שמאל אירופאים שמתייצבים נגדם, אנשי תקשורת ועורכי-דין ציניים לצד פטריוטים ישראלים נלהבים שאינם מוכנים לוותר על סמל לאומי אהוב. 'פלאפל אוסלו' הוא רומן סוחף וחכם שבוחן מושגי יסוד כגורל וזהות, מודד את הקירבה והמרחק בין טבריה לאוסלו, בין פיוטי המזרח לשירי הביטלס, ובין כמיהה לשלום ואהבה לכוחנות עיוורת ואלימה. 'פלאפל אוסלו' הוא הרומן השני של אמיר בן-דוד. קדם לו 'על גג העולם' (2009)."

אמיר בן- דוד (Author), אמיר בן- דוד (Narrator)

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Empty Theatre

"A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc. History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins who shared a passion for beauty and a stubborn refusal to submit to the roles imposed upon them. Ludwig, simultaneously spoiled and punished for his softness and 'unmanly' interests, falls hard for the operas of Richard Wagner and neglects his state duties in the pursuit of art. Sisi, married at the age of sixteen to her beloved Franzl, bristles at the restrictions of her elevated position, the value placed on her beauty, and the simultaneous expectation that she ravage her body again and again in childbirth. Both absurdly vain, both traumatized by the demands of their roles, Sisi and Ludwig struggle against the ideals they are expected to embody, and resist through extravagance, petulance, performance, and frivolity. A tragicomic tour de force, Empty Theatre immerses readers in Ludwig and Sisi’s rarefied, ridiculous, restrictive world—where the aesthetics of excess belie the isolation of its inhabitants. With wit, pathos, and imagination, Jac Jemc takes us on an unforgettable journey through two extraordinary parallel lives and the complex, tenuous friendship that linked them."

Jac Jemc (Author), Jefferson Mays (Narrator)

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Becky

"'Spiky, clever, funny' - Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'- Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' - Sam McAlister, author of Scoops It's peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out, crimped hair is in, supermodels are known by their first names, and Becky Sharp will do anything to escape her past. From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper. Landing scoop after scoop, Becky ruthlessly carves a place for herself in a society determined to ignore her. These are the biggest stories and scandals of the decade, and she has something to do with every one of them. But Becky may have more in common with the people she writes about than she thinks - what takes a lifetime to build takes only a moment to destroy . . . 'A Vanity Fair for the mass-media age' - The Guardian"

Sarah May (Author), Charly Clive (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Conversación sobre Tiresias

"En este breve pero intenso texto –hasta ahora inédito en castellano–, el maestro siciliano se convierte en Tiresias y se sumerge en su mito para revelar la verdadera esencia del adivino ciego. Entregado a esa narración viva y carismática tan propia de toda su extensa obra, Camilleri repasa en estas páginas héroes y dioses, escritores y personajes literarios, hila el pasado con el presente y, como Tiresias, escudriña el futuro con sus mirada al mismo tiempo ciega y clarividente. Las voces de Camilleri y del mitológico adivino acaban así por fundirse en este texto íntimo que representa el testamento literario del último gran intelectual italiano. En la presente edición se incluye también un breve epílogo de Carlos García Gual. 'El bagaje intelectual de una vida dedicada a la literatura se deja sentir en las páginas de este libro que además constituye un viaje entre el mito y la literatura que recorre las andanzas del adivino desde su primera aparición en los textos homéricos hasta las modernas visiones de Pasolini o Primo Levi.'—Andrés Seoane, El Cultural"

Andrea Camilleri, Carlos García Gual, Lorenzo Clavería Laguarda (translator) (Author), Víctor Velasco (Narrator)

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Queen Bee

"‘Bridget Jones meets menopause…sharp, funny and real’ Cecelia Ahern Lay on the couch for a brief nap. Woke up an hour later, the witch trials book I’m reading stuck to one side of my face. Pretending not to be menopausal is exhausting. When fifty-year-old Agatha Doyle starts keeping a diary, it records only the ways she doesn’t know who she is any more. Her glorious empty nest is full of people. And her head is full of brain fog. All it takes to tip her over the edge is a pair of red velvet heels and a man who won’t stop talking. Standing up for herself, Agatha unwittingly becomes a heroine for midlife women everywhere. But with a distant husband, and an even more distant sex life, can she also become the heroine of her own life? Readers LOVE Queen Bee! ‘I haven’t laughed this hard in years!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Agatha became my hero’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A complete hoot’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Agatha Doyle is the poster girl for a new generation’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ‘Laugh-out-loud funny with a spikily endearing heroine who runs full tilt at the menopause with a baseball bat in her hands . . . Fast-paced and hilarious’ CATHY KELLY ‘Bridget Jones meets menopause . . . sharp, funny and real’ CECELIA AHERN ‘I loved this book. Hilarious, perceptive, empathetic. Readers will utterly identify with and adore the superbly drawn Agatha’ PATRICIA SCANLAN ’Witty, poignant and a complete page turner’ SINEAD MORIARTY ’Agatha is a marvellous creation – that voice is so compelling, so snappy, so real – and I’ll miss her ROISIN MEANEY ’What a book! Timely, laden with humour . . . it has everything – female friendship and empowerment, family relationships with all their fun and tragedy’ FIONNUALA KEARNEY ‘Funny, searingly honest, at times tender and poignant. World, meet Agatha, you’re going to love her’ CARMEL HARRINGTON ‘So funny and smart and warm … honestly all women will love this book’ ANNA McPARTLIN"

Ciara Geraghty (Author), Angeline Ball (Narrator)

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If I Survive You

"SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE ‘Dazzling’ GUARDIAN ‘Blistering’ THE TIMES 'A delight' DIANA EVANS ‘Fiction written at the highest level’ ANN PATCHETT 'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US. ‘What are you?’ This is the puzzled question that greets a young Trelawny growing up in a Miami where his racial ambiguity is regarded with confusion and suspicion. It’s not just his neighbours, his Jamaican parents Topper and Sanya don’t seem to understand him either. Then there’s his stubborn older brother Delano, who is determined to secure a better future for his own children, no matter what it takes. As both brothers navigate the challenges littered in their path – a woefully unreliable father, racism, recession and even a hurricane – they find themselves increasingly at odds. Will they make it through together or must one brother’s future come at the cost of the other? Shortlisted for the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize ‘An astonishingly assured debut novel … clarity, variety and fizzing prose’ BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES ‘So damn funny’ RUMAAN ALAM ‘Astonishing’ I NEWSPAPER 'Utterly unstoppable’ IRISH TIMES What readers say: ‘So good it was hard to put down’ ‘Humour, real feeling … totally recommend’ ‘So engrossing and entertaining’ ‘A must read’"

Jonathan Escoffery (Author), Torian Brackett (Narrator)

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What You Need From The Night

"'One of the most exquisite debuts I've read for some time' Daily Telegraph 'Affecting and haunting' Observer After the death of his wife, a father raises his two sons alone. His bond with Fus, the eldest, and Gillou, the youngest, is a close one. But their town is not one of opportunity, and it soon becomes clear that the boys are heading down different paths. Gillou sets his sights on university in Paris. Fus, despite his socialist upbringing, falls in with the local far-right group. Though he joins mostly for the camaraderie, their activities, which might on the surface appear harmless, lead to a violent confrontation. How can a father and son find common ground when everything seems set to break them apart? A sudden tragedy will force them to find an answer. Tense, sharp and ultimately heartbreaking, Laurent Petitmangin's first novel, What You Need From The Night, shines a spotlight on lives that are unfolding in forgotten corners of France and asks what acts can truly be forgiven. 'A tragedy of unconditional love' - L'Obs 'Heartbreaking . . . haunts you long after you've put it down'- Libération 'As sublime as it is painful' - Le Parisien"

Laurent Petitmangin (Author), Peter Noble, Simon Darwen (Narrator)

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Stealing: A Novel

"“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times Book Review A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble. Kit Crockett lives on a farm with her grief-stricken, widowed father, tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day, Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road. Kit and the newcomer, Bella, become friends, and the lonely Kit draws comfort from her. But when a malicious neighbor finds out, Kit suddenly finds herself at the center of a tragic, fatal crime and becomes a ward of the court. Her Cherokee family wants to raise her, but the righteous Christians in town instead send her to a religious boarding school. Kit’s heritage is attacked, and she’s subjected to religious indoctrination and other forms of abuse. But Kit secretly keeps a journal recounting what she remembers—and revealing just what she has forgotten. Over the course of Stealing, she unravels the truth of how she ended up at the school and plots a way out. If only she can make her plan work in time. In swift, sharp, and stunning prose, Margaret Verble spins a powerful coming-of-age tale and reaffirms her place as an indelible storyteller and chronicler of history."

Margaret Verble (Author), Delanna Studi (Narrator)

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