to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stolen Queen: A Novel Author: Fiona Davis Narrator: Linda Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 7, 2025 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: *A New York Times Bestseller* From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back. Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.” Meanwhile, Charlotte is now leading a quiet life as the associate curator of the Met’s celebrated Department of Egyptian Art. She’s consumed by her research on Hathorkare—a rare female pharaoh dismissed by most other Egyptologists as unimportant. The night of the gala: One of the Egyptian art collection’s most valuable artifacts goes missing, and there are signs Hathorkare’s legendary curse might be reawakening. Annie and Charlotte team up to search for the missing antiquity, and a desperate hunch leads the unlikely duo to one place Charlotte swore she’d never return: Egypt. But if they have any hope of finding the artifact, Charlotte will need to confront the demons of her past—which may mean leading them both directly into danger.

to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foster's Mill Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 21, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Holderness, 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about the local community… Everything except why another family, the Reedbarrows, now live in her ancestral home, Foster's Mill. When Christopher, a man from 'down south', arrives and begins asking questions about the Mill that no one has dared to ask for generations, secrets begin to surface, and Liz may finally find the answers she's been looking for. And perhaps, at last, Liz and her father will be able to return to their family home. But Liz soon realises that if the sea continues to ravage the cliffside, the land which the mill is built on will fall away. If she doesn't take action soon, there may not be a home for her to return to. With the help of Chris and the local community, can Liz save the village and claim what's rightfully hers? © Val Wood 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

to listen full audiobooks. Title: She's Always Hungry: Stories Author: Eliza Clark Narrator: Eliza Clark, Sam Stafford, Kevin Shen, Chipo Chung, Natalie Simpson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ''BEST HORROR FICTION OF 2024'' From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection. A woman welcomes a parasite into her body. A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands.  Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.

to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters Author: Oliver Sacks Narrator: Kate Edgar, James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Mental Health & Psychology Publisher's Summary: One of The New Statesman's Best Books of the Year One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 One of The New Yorker's 'Best Books We've Read in 2024 So Far' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time “Here is the unedited Oliver Sacks—struggling, passionate, a furiously intelligent misfit. And also endless interesting. He was a man like no other.” —Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal Dr. Oliver Sacks—who describes himself in these pages as a “philosophical physician” and a “neuropathological Talmudist”—wrote letters throughout his life: to his parents and his beloved Auntie Len, to friends and colleagues from London, Oxford, California, and around the world. The letters begin with his arrival in America as a young man, eager to establish himself away from the confines of postwar England, and carry us through his bumpy early career in medicine and the discovery of his writer’s voice; his weight-lifting, motorcycle-riding years and his explosive seasons of discovery with the patients who populate his book Awakenings; his growing interest in matters of sight and the musical brain; his many friendships and exchanges with writers, artists, and scientists (to say nothing of astronauts, botanists, and mathematicians), and his deep gratitude for all these relationships at the end of his life. Sensitively introduced and edited by Kate Edgar, Sacks’s longtime editor, the letters deliver a portrait of Sacks as he wrestles with the workings of the brain and mind. We see, through his eyes, the beginnings of modern neuroscience, following the thought processes of one of the great intellectuals of our time, whose words, as evidenced in these pages, were unfailingly shaped with generosity and wonder toward other people.

to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments Author: Lucie Fielding Narrator: Lucie Fielding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Despite the increasing visibility of trans and non-binary folx in media, political representation, and popular culture, their sexual lives and erotic embodiments are woefully under-attended-to in both scholarship and clinical practice. The aim of this book is to equip providers with both conceptual frameworks and concrete tools for better engaging their trans, non-binary, and gender expansive clients in pleasure-centered discussions of sexual health. Challenging the dominant images of trans sexualities that appear in the existing literature, such as an emphasis on avoiding gender dysphoria, the preservation of sexual function, or on sexual losses that may arise as a result of transition pathways, Trans Sex offers a pleasure-positive approach to working with trans clients. Providing concrete clinical practices and practical activities that utilize social justice, intersectional trans feminism, and radical queer theory as key conceptual frameworks, this groundbreaking text is designed to be accessible to a wide range of providers. This book draws on Fielding's experiences as both a trans client/patient and as a therapist to shift and expand the conversation and includes contributions from other trans and non-binary providers working at the intersection of gender-affirmative care and sexuality.

to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brooklyn: A Novel Author: Colm Toibin Narrator: Saoirse Ronan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: A NEW PRODUCTION NARRATED BY SAOIRSE RONAN, ACADEMY AWARD–NOMINATED STAR OF THE 2015 FILM ADAPTATION! Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. “One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future. Author “Colm Tóibín…is his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” (Los Angeles Times). “Written with mesmerizing power and skill” (The Boston Globe), Brooklyn is a “triumph…One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY).

to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen aber wissen sollten - Mit neuem Nachwort der Autorin (ungekürzt) Author: Alice Hasters Narrator: Alice Hasters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: October 21, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Darf ich mal deine Haare anfassen?', 'Kannst du Sonnenbrand bekommen?', 'Wo kommst du her?' Wer solche Fragen stellt, meint es meist nicht böse. Aber dennoch: Sie sind rassistisch. Warum, das wollen weiße Menschen oft nicht hören. Alice Hasters erklärt es trotzdem. Eindringlich und geduldig beschreibt sie, wie Rassismus ihren Alltag als Schwarze Frau in Deutschland prägt. Dabei wird klar: Rassismus ist nicht nur ein Problem am rechten Rand der Gesellschaft. Und sich mit dem eigenen Rassismus zu konfrontieren, ist im ersten Moment schmerzhaft, aber der einzige Weg, ihn zu überwinden.

to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Stallgeruch: Vom Knecht zur Stute erzogen | Teil 1 Series: #1 of Stallgeruch Author: Mia L. Carter Narrator: Olivia de Martini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Erotica Publisher's Summary: Denise, ist die Tochter einer Reiterhoffamilie und selbst Besitzerin eines Pferdes. An einem Frühlingssonntag beschließt sie, mit ihrem Pferd auszureiten, und trifft im Stall ihren Stallburchen an. Mathis, ein Südfranzose, kümmert sich um die Pflege und Dressur der Tiere. Beim gemeinsamen Striegeln des Tieres philosophieren die beiden über Zügeln, Dressur und Einreiten. Alles Begriffe, die Denise einen unbekannten Schauer über den Rücken laufen lassen. In ihr reift der Wunsch, sich vom attraktiven Mathis zum gehorsamen Pferd dressieren und einreiten zu lassen. Aber wie soll sie dem 25 Jahre älteren Mann dies verständlich machen? Doch Mathis hat längst verstanden, worauf es die hübsche Denise anlegt. Nicht nur für Petplay-Fetischisten ein spannendes Hörbuch.

to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zhuangzi | Chuang Tzu Author: Chuang Tsu, Zhuang Zi Narrator: Chirag Patel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 7, 2024 Genres: World Religions Publisher's Summary: The Chuang Tsu is one of the most important books in Chinese literature and philosophy. It is one of the two foundational texts of Daoism. Also titled Zhuangzi, it is a commentary and extension of the Dao de Jing/Tao Te Ching, in the same way that Mencius' Analects are an exploration of Confucius' thought. Written in around 300BCE during the Warring States period, it is a collection of anecdotes, fables, and stories that are as silly and funny as they are profound and thought provoking. Where the Dao De Jing is a distilled and poetic exploration of the Way, Zhuangi takes a much more human and real-world path through the mysteries of the Dao. Using often humorous anecdotes, allegories, parables and fables mixed with conversations about particular aspects of the Way. James Legge’s translation is perhaps the most sophisticated and exacting one in existence. It carries as much as possible of the subtlety and detail in the original masterwork. It is regarded as one of the greatest literary works in all of Chinese history, and has been called 'the most important pre-Qin text for the study of Chinese literature.' Its main themes are of spontaneity in action and of freedom from the human world and its conventions. The fables and anecdotes in the text illustrate the illusion of distinctions between good and bad, large and small, life and death, and human and nature. While other ancient Chinese philosophers focused on moral and personal duty, Zhuangzi promoted carefree wandering and becoming one with 'the Way' (Dào 道) by following nature. It has influenced great Chinese and Western writers for more than 2000 years, including Oscar Wilde, Yeats, Nietzsche, Sima Xiangru, Li Bai, Su Shi and Lu You.

to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anthology of Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (25 books): The Shadow Kingdom. People of the Dark. The Haunter of the Ring. The Call of Cthulhu. At the Mountains of Madness and others Author: H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard Narrator: Kenneth Elliott, Mark Bowen, Peter Coates Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 40 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Horror Publisher's Summary: This Anthology of Cthulhu Mythos brings together 25 stories from two of the most influential authors in the horror genre, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. This anthology is a must-read for fans of horror and speculative fiction, offering a deep dive into the nightmarish worlds that have influenced generations of readers and writers. The combination of Lovecraft's cosmic horror and Howard's vivid imagination creates a compelling and terrifying journey into the unknown. Contents: H. P. Lovecraft The Nameless City The Festival The Colour Out of Space The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror The Whisperer in Darkness The Dreams in the Witch-House At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time The Haunter of the Dark The Thing on the Doorstep The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Robert E. Howard The Shadow Kingdom Skull-Face The Breaking of the Chain The Children of the Night The Gods of Bal-Sagoth The Black Stone People of the Dark Worms of the Earth The Thing on the Roof The Haunter of the Ring The Challenge from Beyond The Fire of Asshurbanipal Dig Me No Grave