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Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

A Novel

by Akil Kumarasamy ...

A haunting exploration of memory, technology, and the power of human connection in a near-future world.Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, an New York Times Editors' Choice and finalist for the Lambda Award in Bisexual Fiction, follows a young woman as she grapples with her mother's death in the near future. Seeking solace, she immerses herself in translating an old manuscript about female medical ... Read more

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A haunting exploration of memory, technology, and the power of human connection in a near-future world.Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, an New York Times Editors' Choice and finalist for the Lambda Award in Bisexual Fiction, follows a young woman as she grapples with her mother's death in the near future. Seeking solace, she immerses herself in translating an old manuscript about female medical
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Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

A Novel

by Akil Kumarasamy ...

Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

Unabridged

7 hours 58 min

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEIn the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens, and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students—living through a drought and at the edge of the war—as they create a new ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEIn the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens, and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students—living through a drought and at the edge of the war—as they create a new
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Half Gods

by Akil Kumarasamy ...

A startlingly beautiful debut, Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of ... Read more

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A startlingly beautiful debut, Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of
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Half Gods

by Akil Kumarasamy ...

Narrated by Priya Ayyar, Vikas Adam ...

Unabridged

6 hours 31 min

A startlingly beautiful audiobook debut, Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekersFollowing the fractured origins and destinies of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ... Read more

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A startlingly beautiful audiobook debut, Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekersFollowing the fractured origins and destinies of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising
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The Affairs of the Falcóns

A Novel

by Melissa Rivero ...

Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to ... Read more

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A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

by Erika L. Sánchez ...

Narrated by Kyla Garcia ...

Unabridged

9 hours 41 min

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home.“Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York TimesPerfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home.“Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York TimesPerfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of
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Glorious Frazzled Beings

by Angélique Lalonde ...

Narrated by Kate Dion-Richard ...

Unabridged

6 hours 23 min

Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home.Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children’s clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends ... Read more

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Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home.Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children’s clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends
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Fellowship Point

A Novel

by Alice Elliott Dark ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

19 hours 32 min

“A magnificent storytelling feat” (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th century.Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to ... Read more

$34.99 USD

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“A magnificent storytelling feat” (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th century.Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to
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The Paradox Hotel

A Novel

by Rob Hart ...

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

“Time travel, murder, corruption, restless baby dinosaurs, and a snarky robot named Ruby collide in this excellent, noir-inflected, humor-infused, science-fiction thriller.”—The Boston GlobeAn impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. From the author of The Warehouse and the Assassins Anonymous series . . .FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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“Time travel, murder, corruption, restless baby dinosaurs, and a snarky robot named Ruby collide in this excellent, noir-inflected, humor-infused, science-fiction thriller.”—The Boston GlobeAn impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. From the author of The Warehouse and the Assassins Anonymous series . . .FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE
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All This Could Be Different

A Novel

by Sarah Thankam Mathews ...

Narrated by Reena Dutt ...

Unabridged

10 hours 37 min

**2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR**Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more“One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” —Vogue... ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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**2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR**Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more“One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” —Vogue...
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Nimona

A Netflix Film

by ND Stevenson ...

Narrated by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, Marc Thompson, January LaVoy, Natalie Gold, Peter Bradbury, David Pittu ...

Unabridged

2 hours 16 min

An original full cast audio adaptation of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic.Nimona is the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic. Kirkus says, “If you’re going to read one graphic novel this year, make it this one. ... Read more

$15.99 USD

An original full cast audio adaptation of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic.Nimona is the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic. Kirkus says, “If you’re going to read one graphic novel this year, make it this one.
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The Candy House

A Novel

by Jennifer Egan ...

Narrated by Michael Boatman, Nicole Lewis, Thomas Sadoski, Colin Donnell, Griffin Newman, Rebecca Lowman, Jackie Sanders, Lucy Liu, Christian Barillas, Tara Lynne Barr, Alex Allwine, Emily Tremaine, Kyle Beltran, Dan Bittner, Chris Henry Coffey, Ali Andre Ali, Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, George Newbern, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Gibson Frazier, Allison Light, Travis Tonn ...

Unabridged

11 hours 11 min

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24's TV adaptation of THE CAN... ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24's TV adaptation of THE CAN...
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