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The Marriage Box

A Novel

by Corie Adjmi ...

Featured as a Goodreads Most Popular Book of May 2023 and Top 6 Jewish Books This Year, The Jewish ChronicleCasey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in ... Read more

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Featured as a Goodreads Most Popular Book of May 2023 and Top 6 Jewish Books This Year, The Jewish ChronicleCasey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in
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Life and Other Shortcomings

Stories

by Corie Adjmi ...

Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don’t; some stay married, some get divorced; others never marry at all. Through each character’s intimate journey, specific truths are revealed ... Read more

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Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don’t; some stay married, some get divorced; others never marry at all. Through each character’s intimate journey, specific truths are revealed
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Life and Other Shortcomings

Stories

by Corie Adjmi ...

Narrated by Abigail Rakocy ...

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4 hours 16 min

Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don’t; some stay married, some get divorced; others never marry at all. Through each character’s intimate journey, specific truths are revealed ... Read more

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Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don’t; some stay married, some get divorced; others never marry at all. Through each character’s intimate journey, specific truths are revealed
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The Marriage Box

by Corie Adjmi ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

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8 hours 28 min

Featured as a Goodreads Most Popular Book of May 2023 and Top 6 Jewish Books This Year, the Jewish ChronicleCasey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Featured as a Goodreads Most Popular Book of May 2023 and Top 6 Jewish Books This Year, the Jewish ChronicleCasey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in
... Read more

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Always Yours, Bee

from accident to affair to the ever-after

by Mia Hayes ...

Narrated by E.L. Beckett ...

Unabridged

10 hours 17 min

"There's a guy. He was hit by a truck."On a rainy November day, Mia Hayes's husband left for work on his Vespa. Normally, she would have driven him, but Mia was waiting on a phone call with an editor and didn't have time.She never saw that caring, loving version of her husband again.The fallout from his accident--Mia's guilt and her husband's PTSD, memory loss, and depression--consumed their lives ... Read more

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"There's a guy. He was hit by a truck."On a rainy November day, Mia Hayes's husband left for work on his Vespa. Normally, she would have driven him, but Mia was waiting on a phone call with an editor and didn't have time.She never saw that caring, loving version of her husband again.The fallout from his accident--Mia's guilt and her husband's PTSD, memory loss, and depression--consumed their lives
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The Earthquake Child

A Novel

by Elayne Klasson ...

The Earthquake Child is the story of an adoption, told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother.How can Joshua’s behavior be explained? This question is all-consuming for his adoptive family. Joshua was relinquished at birth, then adopted only days later. Is it his genetic inheritance of substance abuse and generational poverty ... Read more

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The Earthquake Child is the story of an adoption, told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother.How can Joshua’s behavior be explained? This question is all-consuming for his adoptive family. Joshua was relinquished at birth, then adopted only days later. Is it his genetic inheritance of substance abuse and generational poverty
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The Yield

A Novel

by Tara June Winch ...

Narrated by Tony Briggs ...

Unabridged

9 hours 50 min

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2021 Kate Challis RAKA Award!"A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present."—Kate Morton“A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia.”—Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthA young Australian woman searches for her ... Read more

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Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2021 Kate Challis RAKA Award!"A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present."—Kate Morton“A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia.”—Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthA young Australian woman searches for her
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The Winter Waif

The heartbreaking historical saga from Lynette Rees

by Lynette Rees ...

Series series The Workhouse Series
'One of the most heartwarming books I have read in a long time' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader ReviewAll she wants is a place to call home...1884 - When Betsan Morgan’s mother succumbs to a devastating illness, she doesn't think her life could get much worse. But then her father moves in his new beau, an unserious flitty woman and coincidentally also the bargirl in the pub he works in, and she soon learns her house ... Read more

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'One of the most heartwarming books I have read in a long time' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader ReviewAll she wants is a place to call home...1884 - When Betsan Morgan’s mother succumbs to a devastating illness, she doesn't think her life could get much worse. But then her father moves in his new beau, an unserious flitty woman and coincidentally also the bargirl in the pub he works in, and she soon learns her house
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The Blood of My Mother

A Novel

by Roccie Hill ...

" Lonesome Dove meets Where the Crawdads Sing" in this "gripping saga about a perilous time in our nation's history and a woman who survived it against all odds" (Patricia Wood, author of Lottery, shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction)."I could not stop reading." —Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times–bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the inaugural choice of Oprah's Book ... Read more

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" Lonesome Dove meets Where the Crawdads Sing" in this "gripping saga about a perilous time in our nation's history and a woman who survived it against all odds" (Patricia Wood, author of Lottery, shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction)."I could not stop reading." —Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times–bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the inaugural choice of Oprah's Book
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No. 23 Burlington Square

A beautifully heart-warming, charming historical book club read from Jenni Keer

by Jenni Keer ...

London, 1927: One house. Three lives. A decision that will change everything. A powerful, unique timeslip story, perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Miniaturist, and Lucinda Riley.On the morning of Friday 5th August, 1927, Miss Agnes Humphries – the landlady of the attractive, if-slightly-shabby, white-fronted townhouse at Number 23 Burlington Square – has a decision to make ... Read more

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London, 1927: One house. Three lives. A decision that will change everything. A powerful, unique timeslip story, perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Miniaturist, and Lucinda Riley.On the morning of Friday 5th August, 1927, Miss Agnes Humphries – the landlady of the attractive, if-slightly-shabby, white-fronted townhouse at Number 23 Burlington Square – has a decision to make
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The Family Next Door

A page-turning, addictive read from Caroline Finnerty

by Caroline Finnerty ...

A powerful story of secrets, friendship and second chances that will make you cry and smile... From the bestselling author of The Last Days of UsNo one really knows what goes on behind closed doors.On the quiet street of St Brigid's Terrace in Dublin, Eileen Murphy lives alone at number 26 with her dog Dora. Virtually a recluse, she keeps herself to herself as she tries to come to terms with her ... Read more

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A powerful story of secrets, friendship and second chances that will make you cry and smile... From the bestselling author of The Last Days of UsNo one really knows what goes on behind closed doors.On the quiet street of St Brigid's Terrace in Dublin, Eileen Murphy lives alone at number 26 with her dog Dora. Virtually a recluse, she keeps herself to herself as she tries to come to terms with her
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Bonfire Night

by Anna Bliss ...

“A most tender work of art...Bonfire Night is a treasure of a novel, beautifully written with the unflinching style and subtle psychological insights of such masters as Ian McEwan and Graham Swift.” –Natalie Jenner, internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury GirlsSpanning from England's anti-fascism protests of 1936 through the aftermath of WWII, this moving, ... Read more

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“A most tender work of art...Bonfire Night is a treasure of a novel, beautifully written with the unflinching style and subtle psychological insights of such masters as Ian McEwan and Graham Swift.” –Natalie Jenner, internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury GirlsSpanning from England's anti-fascism protests of 1936 through the aftermath of WWII, this moving,
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