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All the Words We Know

by Bruce Nash ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

With wicked humor, genuine poignancy, and clever insight, this is an unforgettable novel about murder, secrets, and memory that is perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Fredrik Backman, and “will be loved by readers wanting to have their heart strings plucked” (The Guardian).Rose may be in her eighties and suffering from dementia, but she’s not done with life just yet. Alternately sharp as a tack ... Read more

$19.99 USD

With wicked humor, genuine poignancy, and clever insight, this is an unforgettable novel about murder, secrets, and memory that is perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Fredrik Backman, and “will be loved by readers wanting to have their heart strings plucked” (The Guardian).Rose may be in her eighties and suffering from dementia, but she’s not done with life just yet. Alternately sharp as a tack
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Seven Wonders of Menopause

The Mother of All Wake Up Calls

by Shavita Kotak ...

Narrated by Shavita Kotak, Jenny Seedsman, Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

Seven Wonders of Menopause: The Mother of All Wake-Up CallsWhat if menopause was never a decline, but a divine design?In this groundbreaking and deeply soulful audiobook, author and spiritual teacher Shavita Kotak reawakens the forgotten truth of menopause as a sacred rite of passage , a time when the body, spirit, and consciousness converge to birth the wise woman within.Through intimate ... Read more

$11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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Seven Wonders of Menopause: The Mother of All Wake-Up CallsWhat if menopause was never a decline, but a divine design?In this groundbreaking and deeply soulful audiobook, author and spiritual teacher Shavita Kotak reawakens the forgotten truth of menopause as a sacred rite of passage , a time when the body, spirit, and consciousness converge to birth the wise woman within.Through intimate
... Read more

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This Devastating Fever

by Sophie Cunningham ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

10 hours 39 min

Sometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present.Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: is Y2K going to be a ... Read more

$14.28 USD

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Sometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present.Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: is Y2K going to be a
... Read more

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Lawyer X

by Anthony Dowsley, Patrick Carlyon ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

14 hours 29 min

Underbelly meets Molly's Game - the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne's infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission.Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a popular TV series, Underbelly. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence and bring down ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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Underbelly meets Molly's Game - the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne's infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission.Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a popular TV series, Underbelly. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence and bring down
... Read more

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The Attack

by Catherine Jinks ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

8 hours 52 min

Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a former leper colony off the coast of Queensland. Her current clients are a group of ex-military men who run a tough-love program for troubled teens. The latest crop looks like the usual mix of bad boys and sad boys. Then Robyn takes a second look at a kid called Darren. Last time she saw him his name was Aaron, and Robyn was his primary ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a former leper colony off the coast of Queensland. Her current clients are a group of ex-military men who run a tough-love program for troubled teens. The latest crop looks like the usual mix of bad boys and sad boys. Then Robyn takes a second look at a kid called Darren. Last time she saw him his name was Aaron, and Robyn was his primary
... Read more
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No Hearts of Gold

by Jackie French ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

15 hours 5 min

Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destinyIt was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests ...The bride had vanished.Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be useful.Some girls are born to be bad.Indulged and wealthy Kat Fitzhubert is seemingly 'sold off' in an arranged marriage in a colony across the world. ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destinyIt was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests ...The bride had vanished.Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be useful.Some girls are born to be bad.Indulged and wealthy Kat Fitzhubert is seemingly 'sold off' in an arranged marriage in a colony across the world.
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Fireweather

by Miranda Darling ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

5 hours

A continuation of the acclaimed novel Thunderhead, Fireweather follows Winona Dalloway as she struggles to come to terms with the unrecognizable world around her.It all began when they started running away . . .Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash ... Read more

$12.79 USD

A continuation of the acclaimed novel Thunderhead, Fireweather follows Winona Dalloway as she struggles to come to terms with the unrecognizable world around her.It all began when they started running away . . .Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash
... Read more
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Wolfe Island

by Lucy Treloar ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

12 hours 31 min

Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter rows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept to herself – with only the company of her wolfdog, Girl – unconcerned by the world outside, or perhaps avoiding its worst excesses. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter rows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept to herself – with only the company of her wolfdog, Girl – unconcerned by the world outside, or perhaps avoiding its worst excesses.
... Read more

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The Altar Boys

by Suzanne Smith ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

11 hours 14 min

Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Shortland, on the outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' highs schools: Glen to Marist Brothers and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. But when Glen ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Shortland, on the outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' highs schools: Glen to Marist Brothers and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. But when Glen
... Read more

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Thunderhead

by Miranda Darling ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

3 hours 33 min

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free.When Winona Dalloway begins her day — in the peaceful early hours before her children, that ‘tiny tornado of little hands and feet’, wake up — she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed.On the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother: unobtrusive, quietly going about her ... Read more

$9.59 USD

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A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free.When Winona Dalloway begins her day — in the peaceful early hours before her children, that ‘tiny tornado of little hands and feet’, wake up — she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed.On the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother: unobtrusive, quietly going about her
... Read more

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The Writing On The Wall

by Juliet Rieden ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

10 hours

**'Memoirs such as this will ensure we do not lose the struggle against "forgetting" - that sly accomplice of tyranny' Magda SzubanskiIn 1939, as Hitler's troops march on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but change their family forever.**Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s always sensing ... Read more

$19.08 USD

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**'Memoirs such as this will ensure we do not lose the struggle against "forgetting" - that sly accomplice of tyranny' Magda SzubanskiIn 1939, as Hitler's troops march on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but change their family forever.**Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s always sensing
... Read more

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Song From the Heart

by Robyn Lee Burrows ...

Narrated by Abbe Holmes ...

Unabridged

17 hours 58 min

Following the tragic early death of her sister, Maddie, Kitty is forced into a hasty marriage of convenience to Maddie’s husband, Ted. She has also just lost the only man she has ever loved. Can she make a new life from the ashes of all she has lost? Kitty’s sons, Edward and James, are as different as they could be. Edward, the eldest, finds only unhappiness in love and escapes to war to forget ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Following the tragic early death of her sister, Maddie, Kitty is forced into a hasty marriage of convenience to Maddie’s husband, Ted. She has also just lost the only man she has ever loved. Can she make a new life from the ashes of all she has lost? Kitty’s sons, Edward and James, are as different as they could be. Edward, the eldest, finds only unhappiness in love and escapes to war to forget
... Read more