44 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out October 26 – November 1, 2021
Here are the newest eBooks and audiobooks to check out this week
Cixin Liu is best known as the author of the internationally renowned science fiction trilogy, The Three Body Problem, but he’s also an accomplished writer of short fiction, releasing To Hold Up the Sky last year. His new collection, The Wandering Earth, is named for a novella it contains that’s been adapted into a Netflix feature film. Though these pieces show Liu working in tighter constraints than his sprawling novels, his scale remains as cosmic as ever, with stories that span solar systems and beyond.
In Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, media studies professor Elsa Sjunneson looks at portrayals of deafness and blindness in popular media and illustrates how they impact cultural concepts of disability. As a deafblind person, with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Sjunneson is often able to perceive more than the able-bodied people around her believe she can, including their perceptions of her. This book is a combination of memoir and cultural criticism, offering rare personal and intellectual insights from a singular voice.
The first book from Taz Alam (aka. ClickForTaz), It’s Fine, It’s Fine, It’s Fine: It’s Not, is everything her YouTube and Instagram fans want from the breakout Welsh poet (and yes, it’s available as a Taz-narrated audiobook). It’s highly personal, open with themes of mental health and heartbreak, wearing its heart on its sleeve on every page. Fans of Rupi Kaur and Ruby Dhal (whose Between Us is also new this week) will find a lot to enjoy here.
Normally memoirs by famous actors are one-and-done affairs: we learn about their upbringing, their embarrassing adolescence, their start in show business that leads to the shining star they are today about whom no more need be said. Alan Cumming is the exception: in his 2014 memoir Not My Father’s Son, Cumming wrote specifically of his troubled upbringing and his journey of learning about his ancestry, with a few stories from stage and screen woven in throughout. In his new book, Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life, Cumming shifts the focus to the happy, fulfilled life that sprouted from the trauma he recounted in his first book. He’s as charming on the page (or in your headphones) as he is on-screen, making Baggage a celebration of an improbable life and career, and a vulnerable examination of human foibles at the same time.
More books coming out October 26 – November 1, 2021
✍ Poetry
- Between us by Ruby Dhal
- It’s Fine, It’s Fine, It’s Fine: It’s Not by Taz Alam
- 💭 Big Ideas
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
- Built Through Courage: Face Your Fears to Live the Life You Were Meant For by Dave Hollis
- Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson
- Renegades: Born in the USA by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
- Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking by Michael Bhaskar
- Read This to Get Smarter: about Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More by Blair Imani
🗣 True Stories
- Going There by Katie Couric
- No One Wins Alone by Mark Messier
- Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Daniel Levy and Eugene Levy
- The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
- Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life by Alan Cumming
- The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld by Peter Edwards and Luis Najera
- Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It by LaDoris Hazzard Cordell
💘 Romance
- Archangel's Light by Nalini Singh
- The Bromance Zone by Lauren Blakely
- Inked Devotion by Carrie Ann Ryan
- Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry
- Broken Bonds by Keri Arthur
- A Thorn in the Saddle by Rebekah Weatherspoon
- Hollywood Heroine by Sarah Kuhn
- Blindsided by Trice Hickman
🗡️ Crime, Action, and Mystery
- Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child
- Survivor’s Guilt (DCI Matilda Darke Thriller, Book 8) by Michael Wood
- To the Tome of Murder by Lauren Elliott
- Frozen Souls by Rita Herron
- Have a Holly, Haunted Christmas by Lynn Cahoon
- As the Wicked Watch by Tamron Hall
- Lemon by Janet Hong
- The Good Liar by Catherine McKenzie
🖊️ Literary Fiction
- The District Nurses Make a Wish (The District Nurses, Book 5) by Annie Groves
- Just the Game of Life by Peter Rimmer
- Halloween Kills: The Official Movie Novelization by Tim Waggoner
- The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker
- To Be Wolves by Debra May Macleod
- The Colonial's Son by Peter Watt
✨ Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
- ReDawn (Skyward Flight: Novella 2) by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
- Martyr's Promise: Elemental Covenant Book Two by Elizabeth Hunter
- Rebel's Creed by Daniel Greene
- Star Trek: Coda: Book 2: The Ashes of Tomorrow by James Swallow
- Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
- The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu
- The Restoration by J.H. Moncrieff
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