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The Reeds

A Novel

by Arjun Basu ...

A single summer changes the trajectory of each member of this close-knit family, changing their lives — and the family — forever.“Sharp, wildly hilarious, touching, and profound … Maybe art can’t be perfect, but Arjun Basu comes as close as it gets.” — Chris Harding, author of Pickard County AtlasThe Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family — but a summer of individual changes is ... Read more

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A single summer changes the trajectory of each member of this close-knit family, changing their lives — and the family — forever.“Sharp, wildly hilarious, touching, and profound … Maybe art can’t be perfect, but Arjun Basu comes as close as it gets.” — Chris Harding, author of Pickard County AtlasThe Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family — but a summer of individual changes is
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Waiting for the Man

A Novel

by Arjun Basu ...

An advertising man searches for meaning in this "fascinating dissection of the media world we live in . . . A thought-provoking road-trip tale" ( Chicago Tribune).Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeIn his mid-thirties, Joe works as an advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency. But he feels disillusioned with his life, and finds himself experiencing dreams about a mysterious man, ... Read more

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An advertising man searches for meaning in this "fascinating dissection of the media world we live in . . . A thought-provoking road-trip tale" ( Chicago Tribune).Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeIn his mid-thirties, Joe works as an advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency. But he feels disillusioned with his life, and finds himself experiencing dreams about a mysterious man,
... Read more
Montreal Noir

by Patrick Senécal, Geneviève Lefebvre, Samuel Archibald, Michel Basilières, Arjun Basu, Ian Truman, Catherine McKenzie, Brad Smith, Peter Kirby, Robert Pobi, Johanne Seymour, Melissa Yi, Howard Shrier, Tess Fragoulis, Martin Michaud ...

Series series Akashic Noir
"These 15 new stories celebrate the differences between us and our northern neighbor. As in any good noir, poverty, drugs, and despair cloud many of the characters' lives. But even the stories about druggies have a certain je ne sais quoi...Whether it's the quirkiness of the characters, the ingenuity of the puzzles, or the big hearts inside some of the darkest villains, noir's different north of ... Read more

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"These 15 new stories celebrate the differences between us and our northern neighbor. As in any good noir, poverty, drugs, and despair cloud many of the characters' lives. But even the stories about druggies have a certain je ne sais quoi...Whether it's the quirkiness of the characters, the ingenuity of the puzzles, or the big hearts inside some of the darkest villains, noir's different north of
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The Reeds

A Novel

by Arjun Basu ...

Narrated by Andrew Shaver ...

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11 hours 40 min

A single summer changes the trajectory of each member of this close-knit family, changing their lives — and the family — forever.“Sharp, wildly hilarious, touching, and profound … Maybe art can’t be perfect, but Arjun Basu comes as close as it gets.” — Chris Harding, author of Pickard County AtlasThe Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family — but a summer of individual changes is ... Read more

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A single summer changes the trajectory of each member of this close-knit family, changing their lives — and the family — forever.“Sharp, wildly hilarious, touching, and profound … Maybe art can’t be perfect, but Arjun Basu comes as close as it gets.” — Chris Harding, author of Pickard County AtlasThe Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family — but a summer of individual changes is
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Waiting for the Man

by Arjun Basu ...

Narrated by Graham Rowat ...

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10 hours 6 min

Joe, a 35-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York company, feels disillusioned with his life. Soon he starts dreaming of a mysterious man and, not long after, begins seeing him on the street and hearing his voice. The voice overwhelms Joe and he starts to listen to it, camping out on the front steps of his stoop, waiting for instructions. The media take note. And soon he has become a ... Read more

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Joe, a 35-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York company, feels disillusioned with his life. Soon he starts dreaming of a mysterious man and, not long after, begins seeing him on the street and hearing his voice. The voice overwhelms Joe and he starts to listen to it, camping out on the front steps of his stoop, waiting for instructions. The media take note. And soon he has become a
... Read more

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The Divorcées

A Novel

by Rowan Beaird ...

Narrated by Bailey Carr ...

Unabridged

9 hours 49 min

A "delicious" (Rebecca Makkai) and "deeply compelling" (Lauren Groff) debut novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different futureLois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, ... Read more

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A "delicious" (Rebecca Makkai) and "deeply compelling" (Lauren Groff) debut novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different futureLois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though,
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Mother Daughter Widow Wife

A Novel

by Robin Wasserman ...

Narrated by Jayme Mattler, Jenni Barber, Emily Tremaine ...

Unabridged

11 hours 6 min

*Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction*From the author of Girls on Fire comes an “artful meditation on memory and identity” (The New York Times Book Review) centered around a woman with amnesia, the scientists studying her, and the daughter who longs to understand.Wendy Doe is a woman with no past and no future. Without any memory of who she is, she’s diagnosed with dissociative fugue, a ... Read more

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*Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction*From the author of Girls on Fire comes an “artful meditation on memory and identity” (The New York Times Book Review) centered around a woman with amnesia, the scientists studying her, and the daughter who longs to understand.Wendy Doe is a woman with no past and no future. Without any memory of who she is, she’s diagnosed with dissociative fugue, a
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That's What She Said

A Novel

by Eleanor Pilcher ...

Narrated by Robyn Holdaway, Ell Potter ...

Unabridged

10 hours 37 min

Eleanor Pilcher is electric in her witty, funny, and heartfelt women’s fiction debut, following polar opposite best friends Beth and Serena. When demisexual Beth decides she’s done with being a virgin and enlists Serena’s help, her new personal journey just might be the thing to end their friendship for good.Serena and Beth are best friends who couldn’t be more different—Beth is an avowed ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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Eleanor Pilcher is electric in her witty, funny, and heartfelt women’s fiction debut, following polar opposite best friends Beth and Serena. When demisexual Beth decides she’s done with being a virgin and enlists Serena’s help, her new personal journey just might be the thing to end their friendship for good.Serena and Beth are best friends who couldn’t be more different—Beth is an avowed
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Wild Life

by Amanda Leduc ...

Narrated by Eli Ham, Rebecca Auerbach, Zak Annette, Tara Samuel, Jillian Rees-Brown, Glen Gould, Justin Miller, Ellora Patnaik, Alison Deon, Danny Pagett, Emily Nixon, Alastair Forbes, Anand Rajaram, Amanda Cordner ...

Unabridged

11 hours

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZEAmanda Leduc’s dazzling new novel follows two walking, talking hyenas as they interact with humans over decades. Blurring the line between human and animal, these strange messengers reveal what is possible when the cages that contain us are broken.**In 19th-century Scotland, young Josiah is banished by his father for seeing the divine in the animals around him ... Read more

$19.00 USD

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZEAmanda Leduc’s dazzling new novel follows two walking, talking hyenas as they interact with humans over decades. Blurring the line between human and animal, these strange messengers reveal what is possible when the cages that contain us are broken.**In 19th-century Scotland, young Josiah is banished by his father for seeing the divine in the animals around him
... Read more
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Prospect Park West

A Novel

by Amy Sohn ...

Narrated by Kate Reading ...

Unabridged

13 hours 27 min

Brooklyn's famed neighborhood of Park Slope has it all: the sprawling, majestic Prospect Park; acclaimed public schools; historic brownstones; and progressive values. The more upwardly mobile New Yorkers discover its virtues, the more that claiming a stake in Park Slope becomes a competitive sport.In the park, the coffee shops, and the playgrounds of the neighborhood, four women's lives collide ... Read more

$21.99 USD

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Brooklyn's famed neighborhood of Park Slope has it all: the sprawling, majestic Prospect Park; acclaimed public schools; historic brownstones; and progressive values. The more upwardly mobile New Yorkers discover its virtues, the more that claiming a stake in Park Slope becomes a competitive sport.In the park, the coffee shops, and the playgrounds of the neighborhood, four women's lives collide
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Quartet for the End of Time

by Johanna Skibsrud ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

16 hours 31 min

Inspired by and structured around the chamber piece of the same title by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time is a mesmerizing story of four lives irrevocably linked in a single act of betrayal. The novel takes us on an unforgettable journey beginning during the 1930s Bonus Army riots, when World War I veteran Arthur Sinclair is falsely accused of conspiracy and then ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Inspired by and structured around the chamber piece of the same title by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time is a mesmerizing story of four lives irrevocably linked in a single act of betrayal. The novel takes us on an unforgettable journey beginning during the 1930s Bonus Army riots, when World War I veteran Arthur Sinclair is falsely accused of conspiracy and then
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Ours

A Novel

by Phillip B. Williams ...

Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

Unabridged

22 hours 48 min

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and moreWinner of France’s Prix du Premier Roman Étranger“An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history . . . [written in] lush, ornamental prose.” —The New Yorker“Fans of The Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer, and Let Us ... Read more

$30.99 USD

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**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and moreWinner of France’s Prix du Premier Roman Étranger“An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history . . . [written in] lush, ornamental prose.” —The New Yorker“Fans of The Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer, and Let Us
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