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White Swan, Black Swan

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by Adrienne Sharp ...

The world's most famous choreographer becomes infatuated with a coltish young dancer who proves both siren and muse. A rising star plunges into an affair with a principal but finds that ecstasy on the stage can't be surpassed in the bed. A dying legend reflects on the evanescent beauty of a life of gesture, lost to everything but memory.Each bittersweet story plants the reader amid a cast of ... Read more

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The world's most famous choreographer becomes infatuated with a coltish young dancer who proves both siren and muse. A rising star plunges into an affair with a principal but finds that ecstasy on the stage can't be surpassed in the bed. A dying legend reflects on the evanescent beauty of a life of gesture, lost to everything but memory.Each bittersweet story plants the reader amid a cast of
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The Magnificent Esme Wells

A Novel

by Adrienne Sharp ...

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming ne'er-do-well father, Ike Silver, a small-time ... Read more

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From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming ne'er-do-well father, Ike Silver, a small-time
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The True Memoirs of Little K

A Novel

by Adrienne Sharp ...

Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered, ... Read more

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Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered,
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The True Memoirs of Little K

A Novel

by Adrienne Sharp ...

Narrated by Rachel Botchan ...

Unabridged

15 hours 30 min

Adrienne Sharp studied ballet before turning to writing, and Booklist called White Swan, Black Swan, her acclaimed collection of short stories focusing on the world of dance, "breathtaking" in a starred review. In The True Memoirs of Little K, Sharp returns once again to the stage in a beautifully imagined tale of love. Now 99 years old, Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs, and ... Read more

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Adrienne Sharp studied ballet before turning to writing, and Booklist called White Swan, Black Swan, her acclaimed collection of short stories focusing on the world of dance, "breathtaking" in a starred review. In The True Memoirs of Little K, Sharp returns once again to the stage in a beautifully imagined tale of love. Now 99 years old, Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs, and
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The Magnificent Esme Wells

A Novel

by Adrienne Sharp ...

Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld ...

Unabridged

10 hours 35 min

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming ne’er-do-well father, Ike Silver, a small-time ... Read more

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From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming ne’er-do-well father, Ike Silver, a small-time
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Murder Flies the Coop

by Jessica Ellicott ...

Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat ...

Series series Beryl and Edwina Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 39 min

One would hardly call them birds of a feather, but thrill-seeking American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and quietly reserved Brit Edwina Davenport do one thing very well together-solve murders.Sharing lodging in the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva has eased some of the financial strain on the two old school chums, but money is still tight in these lean years following the Great War. All of ... Read more

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One would hardly call them birds of a feather, but thrill-seeking American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and quietly reserved Brit Edwina Davenport do one thing very well together-solve murders.Sharing lodging in the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva has eased some of the financial strain on the two old school chums, but money is still tight in these lean years following the Great War. All of
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Bearskin

A Novel

by James A. McLaughlin ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

Unabridged

9 hours 49 min

“Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling—filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It’s a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin’s writing had me doing just that.” —C.J. Box, #1 NYT bestselling author of The DisappearedRice Moore is just beginning to think ... Read more

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“Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling—filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It’s a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin’s writing had me doing just that.” —C.J. Box, #1 NYT bestselling author of The DisappearedRice Moore is just beginning to think
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The Romanov Empress

A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

by C. W. Gortner ...

Narrated by Katharine Lee McEwan ...

Unabridged

17 hours 49 min

For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar.“This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told.”—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursBarely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar.“This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told.”—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursBarely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and
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The Secret Wisdom of the Earth

by Christopher Scotton ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

13 hours 32 min

"A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down." -- John Grisham"A page-turner." -- New York Times Book ReviewFor readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion ... Read more

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"A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down." -- John Grisham"A page-turner." -- New York Times Book ReviewFor readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion
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The Wolf in the Whale

by Jordanna Max Brodsky ...

Narrated by Jordanna Max Brodsky ...

Unabridged

18 hours 25 min

"If you liked American Gods by Neil Gaiman or Circe by Madeline Miller, be sure to pick this one up." -- TimewornA sweeping tale of forbidden love and warring gods, where a young Inuit shaman and a Viking warrior become unwilling allies in a war that will determine the fate of the new world.There is a very old story, rarely told, of a wolf that runs into the ocean and becomes a whale. . .Born with ... Read more

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"If you liked American Gods by Neil Gaiman or Circe by Madeline Miller, be sure to pick this one up." -- TimewornA sweeping tale of forbidden love and warring gods, where a young Inuit shaman and a Viking warrior become unwilling allies in a war that will determine the fate of the new world.There is a very old story, rarely told, of a wolf that runs into the ocean and becomes a whale. . .Born with
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Boomer's Bucket List

by Sue Pethick ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

7 hours 38 min

When her cuddly canine companion Boomer is diagnosed with a rare heart condition, Jennifer Westbrook decides to take Boomer on the greatest road trip of his life. But when she tries to sneak Boomer into a NASCAR press box-disguised as her seeing-eye dog-Jennifer's cover is blown by a curious, but very cute reporter named Nathan Koslow. Boomer takes an instant shine to Nathan, unlike the other men ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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When her cuddly canine companion Boomer is diagnosed with a rare heart condition, Jennifer Westbrook decides to take Boomer on the greatest road trip of his life. But when she tries to sneak Boomer into a NASCAR press box-disguised as her seeing-eye dog-Jennifer's cover is blown by a curious, but very cute reporter named Nathan Koslow. Boomer takes an instant shine to Nathan, unlike the other men
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Party Girls Die in Pearls

An Oxford Girl Mystery

by Plum Sykes ...

Narrated by Moira Quirk ...

Unabridged

11 hours 27 min

The New York Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes takes us back to the decadent 1980s in this comic murder mystery set in the tony world of Oxford University.It’s 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm’s, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term anticipating nothing more sinister than days spent poring over history books ... Read more

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The New York Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes takes us back to the decadent 1980s in this comic murder mystery set in the tony world of Oxford University.It’s 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm’s, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term anticipating nothing more sinister than days spent poring over history books
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