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The Polish Boxer

by Eduardo Halfon ...

Translated by Ollie Brock, Thomas Bunstead, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, Anne McLean ...

The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at AuschwitzNew York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latino Book Award FinalistThe Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past and the story behind his ... Read more

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The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at AuschwitzNew York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latino Book Award FinalistThe Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past and the story behind his
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Mattie, Milo, and Me

A Memoir

by Anne Abel ...

Narrated by Jen Jacob, George Hahn ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

Anne grew up in an abusive home, leading to severe depression and a determination to do better as a mother. One of her sons wants a dog from the time he is a baby; Anne very much does not. For years she appeases him with creatures who live in cages and tanks, but on his tenth birthday she can no longer say no—and she proceeds to fall in love with their new four-legged family member, Mattie. Then ... Read more

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Anne grew up in an abusive home, leading to severe depression and a determination to do better as a mother. One of her sons wants a dog from the time he is a baby; Anne very much does not. For years she appeases him with creatures who live in cages and tanks, but on his tenth birthday she can no longer say no—and she proceeds to fall in love with their new four-legged family member, Mattie. Then
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The Polish Boxer

by Eduardo Halfon ...

Narrated by Armando Durán ...

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6 hours 12 min

The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a ... Read more

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The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a
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Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany

Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

Edited by Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Christina Brauner ...

Series Book 30 - Studies in German History
Global history has come of age but has had little impact on the historiography of early modern Germany. This volume seeks to bring a global perspective to the history of Central Europe by addressing understudied global and colonial entanglements. Exploring the impact of these interactions on court life and home towns, labor migration, material culture, and religious communities, the microhistories ... Read more

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Global history has come of age but has had little impact on the historiography of early modern Germany. This volume seeks to bring a global perspective to the history of Central Europe by addressing understudied global and colonial entanglements. Exploring the impact of these interactions on court life and home towns, labor migration, material culture, and religious communities, the microhistories
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Dogs and Their Humans

Stories of Healing and Hope from the Supervet's Surgery

by Noel Fitzpatrick ...

Narrated by Noel Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

10 hours 37 min

**CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST NATURE WRITING BOOKS OF 2024'A beautiful book' Greg James**There’s no love quite like that between a dog and their human.When people come to see Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick at his referral hospital, they are in desperate need of his help. No matter who they are – a serving member of the military, a young boy whose dog is his best friend, a couple at a ... Read more

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**CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST NATURE WRITING BOOKS OF 2024'A beautiful book' Greg James**There’s no love quite like that between a dog and their human.When people come to see Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick at his referral hospital, they are in desperate need of his help. No matter who they are – a serving member of the military, a young boy whose dog is his best friend, a couple at a
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The Paris Girl

The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero

by Francelle Bradford White ...

Narrated by Bronwen Price ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

Andrée Griotteray was nineteen when the Germans invaded France and occupied Paris, where she worked as a clerk in the passport office. When her younger brother, Alain, created a resistance network named Orion, Andrée joined his efforts, secretly typing up and printing copies of an underground newspaper, and stealing ID cards which allowed scores of Jewish citizens to escape persecution.Charming ... Read more

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Andrée Griotteray was nineteen when the Germans invaded France and occupied Paris, where she worked as a clerk in the passport office. When her younger brother, Alain, created a resistance network named Orion, Andrée joined his efforts, secretly typing up and printing copies of an underground newspaper, and stealing ID cards which allowed scores of Jewish citizens to escape persecution.Charming
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Three Flames

A Novel

by Alan Lightman ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

5 hours 7 min

From the internationally bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian family―set between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rouge―to 2015.The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman’s haunting Three Flames, his first work of fiction in six years.Three Flames portrays the struggles ... Read more

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From the internationally bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian family―set between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rouge―to 2015.The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman’s haunting Three Flames, his first work of fiction in six years.Three Flames portrays the struggles
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The Friend (National Book Award Winner)

A Novel

by Sigrid Nunez ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

5 hours 59 min

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS“A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal“A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR“Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS“A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal“A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR“Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy
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The Hare with Amber Eyes

A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund de Waal ...

Narrated by Micheal Maloney ...

Unabridged

10 hours 39 min

A New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the YearCosta Book Award Winner for BiographyGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny ... Read more

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A New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the YearCosta Book Award Winner for BiographyGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny
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Mayflies

A Novel

by Andrew O'Hagan ...

Narrated by Andrew O'Hagan ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards ... Read more

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An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

A Novel

by Ocean Vuong ...

Narrated by Ocean Vuong ...

Unabridged

7 hours 19 min

**A New York Times bestseller • Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingNew York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently ... Read more

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**A New York Times bestseller • Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingNew York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently
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My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Neapolitan Novels
Unabridged

12 hours 38 min

Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from NaplesBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena ... Read more

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Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from NaplesBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena
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