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Amongst our weapons / Ben Aaronovitch ; read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

The London Silver Vaults – for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a paparazzi convention. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace – only that’s exactly what happened. The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding flash of light and memory loss amongst the witnesses all make this a case for Detective Constable Peter Grant and the Special Assessment Unit. Alongside their boss DCI Thomas Nightingale, the SAU find themselves embroiled in a mystery that encompasses London’s tangled history, foreign lands and, most terrifying of all, the North! Peter needs to solve this case soon, because back home his partner Beverley is expecting twins any day now. But what he doesn’t know is that he’s about to encounter something – and somebody – that nobody ever expects.
Author: Aaronovitch, Ben, 1964-
Unabridged.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]
Published: ℗2022.
9 audio discs (CD) (10 hr., 38 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Rivers of London novel ; 9.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Audio Books on CD - ACD AARO - Onloan - Due: 10 Sep 2022 - 009777414

Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces, 2004-2021 / Margaret Atwood ; read by Margaret Atwood and full cast.

How can we live on our planet? How slippery is the slope? Is it true? And is it fair? Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? So what if beauty is only skin deep? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over 50 pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds. The rollercoaster period covered here brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked), to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe. These essays and occasional pieces, lectures, literary introductions, book reviews, autobiographical sketches, political commentary and more chart the ceaseless activity of a truly original mind.
Author: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Unabridged.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]
Published: ℗2022.
16 audio discs (CD) (19 hr., 1 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Audio Books on CD - ACD 814.54 ATW - Available - 009777384

French braid [Talking Book on CD] / Anne Tyler ; read by Kimberly Farr.

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Tyler comes a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family’s foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won’t allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts’ family life over the decades, whether that’s a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming. And it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. It’s the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations.
Author: Tyler, Anne
Unabridged.
Published: Australia : Bolinda audio, 2022.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]
Published: ℗2022.
8 audio discs (CD) (9 hr., 4 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
1 reserve

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Audio Books on CD - ACD TYLE - Onloan - Due: 07 Sep 2022 - 009777568

The dawn seal / Holly Webb ; read by Emily Wheaton.

Lissa was so excited to spend the summer on her dad’s houseboat. She thought they’d have lots of exciting adventures, but her dad’s job means that he’s too busy to spend much time with her. Lissa can’t help but feel lonely and starts to miss her mum and sister back home. Then one morning, she spots a lost seal pup in the river. She starts waking up at dawn every day to catch a glimpse of this beautiful creature. Lissa wants to help her find her way home, but can she protect the young seal without scaring her away?
Author: Webb, Holly
Unabridged.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]
Published: ℗2022.
2 audio discs (CD) ((2 hr., 23 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
1 reserve

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Audio Book CD - J ACD WEB - In-transit from Beaumaris Library to Sandringham Library (Set: 14 Aug 2022) - 009777407

The ultimate quest / James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein ; read by Bryan Kennedy.

Bick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are stuck in Washington, DC, without any priceless antiques to hunt. BORING! But everything changes when the Kidds uncover a dastardly conspiracy – a fake Bill of Rights! Now they’re criss-crossing the country in a race to prove the document is a forgery. But the key to exposing the conspiracy may have been under their noses the whole time. And if they don’t find it soon, the USA as they know it could be gone forever.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-
Unabridged.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]
Published: ℗2022.
4 audio discs (CD) (5 hr., 4 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Treasure hunters ; 8.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Audio Book CD - J ACD PAT - Available - 009777575

Back to the country / Mandy Magro ; read by Cecelia Ramsdale.

Will returning home to confront the past give her the answers she needs. At the height of her musical career, Indigo should be nothing but happy. But Indi is disillusioned with show business, finding herself depressed and lonely. When she reaches breaking point, a simple life back in the country begins to beckon her. But the demons left lingering in the shadows from a childhood trauma follow her. Can she unearth the truth of her family’s deep dark secrets? For two years Harley Knight has travelled the world with Indi as her bodyguard. She’s a stubborn woman who drives him nuts, but also – in her vulnerable moments – shows him a side of herself he secretly loves and always has since they were teenagers. When she hits rock bottom, he convinces her to return with him back to their hometown of Kuranda and stay at his property, hoping the peaceful landscape will give her the time and space she needs to heal. Can he show her what she’s missing by constantly running away, or is time to let her go?
Author: Magro, Mandy
Unabridged.
Published: Australia : Bolinda/HarperCollins audio, 2022.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]
Published: ℗2022.
7 audio discs (CD) (8 hr., 26 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Audio Books on CD - ACD MAGR - Available - 009777551

The palace letters [sound recording] : the Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam / Jenny Hocking.

What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told? Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the letters between the queen and the governor-general about the dismissal have been locked away for decades in the National Archives of Australia, and embargoed by the queen potentially forever. This ruse has furthered the fiction that the queen and the Palace had no warning of or role in Kerr's actions. In the face of this, Professor Jenny Hocking embarked on a four-year legal battle to force the Archives to release the letters. In 2015, she mounted a crowd-funded campaign, securing a stellar pro bono team that took her case all the way to the High Court of Australia. Now, drawing on never-before-published material from Kerr's archives and her submissions to the court, Hocking traces the collusion and deception behind the dismissal, and charts the private role of High Court judges, the queen's private secretary, and the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Fraser, in Kerr's actions, and the prior knowledge of the queen and Prince Charles. Hocking also reveals the obstruction, intrigue, and duplicity she faced, raising disturbing questions about the role of the National Archives in preventing access to its own historical material and in enforcing royal secrecy over its documents.
Author: Hocking, Jenny
Published: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Publishing, [2021]
Published: ℗2021
Published: ©2020
7 audio discs (8 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 12 cm.
1 reserve

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Audio Books on CD - ACD 994.062 HOC - Onloan - Due: 15 Sep 2022 - 010598640

Sea of Tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel ; read by Arthur Morey, Dylan Moore, John Lee and Kirsten Potter.

In 1912, 18-year-old Edwin St Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and for a split second all is darkness, the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air. The experience shocks him to his core. Two centuries later Olive Llewelyn, a famous writer, is travelling all over Earth, far away from her home in the second moon colony. Within the text of Olive's bestselling novel lies a strange passage - a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in time, he uncovers a series of lives upended: the exiled son of an aristocrat driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.
Author: Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-
Unabridged.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]
Published: ℗2022.
5 audio discs (CD) (5 hr., 48 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Audio Books on CD - ACD MAND - Available - 009777513

The handmaid's tale [Talking Book] / Margaret Atwood ; read by Elizabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford, Amy Landecker and Ann Dowd.

'I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.' Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford, her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs. Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction.
Author: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Unabridged.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2019]
Published: ℗2019.
10 audio discs (CD) (11 hr., 22 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
1 reserve

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Audio Books on CD - ACD ATWO - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 09 Aug 2022) - 010665946