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  • O Caledonia

    A Novel

    by Elspeth Barker ...
    In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-19th century—featuring a new introduction by Maggie O’Farrell, award-winning author of Hamnet.Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, attired in her mother’s black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Notes from the Henhouse

    On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing

    by Elspeth Barker ...
    A sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker—acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.Following the publication of her acclaimed, darkly funny novel O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker’s sharp and witty essays appeared regularly in the national press. Notes from the Henhouse, a selection of the most personal of these pieces, welcomes ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    O Caledonia

    A Novel

    by Elspeth Barker ...
    Narrated by Eilidh Beaton ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 47 min

    In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-19th century—featuring a new introduction by Maggie O’Farrell, award-winning author of Hamnet.Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, attired in her mother’s black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Notes from the Henhouse

    On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing

    by Elspeth Barker ...
    Narrated by Raffaella Barker ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 55 min

    A sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker—acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.Following the publication of her acclaimed, darkly funny novel O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker’s sharp and witty essays appeared regularly in the national press. Notes from the Henhouse, a selection of the most personal of these pieces, welcomes ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Book of (More) Delights

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    by Ross Gay ...
    Narrated by Ross Gay ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us.Ross Gay’s essays have been called “exquisite” (Tracy K. Smith), “imperative” (the New York Times Book Review), and “brilliant” (Ada Limón). Now, in this new collection of genre-defying pieces, again ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Tell Me What I Am

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    by Una Mannion ...
    Narrated by Sophie Amoss ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'S GOLD DAGGER AWARD""Sharp, poignant, thrilling and moving . . . . Tell Me What I Am is the kind of richly drawn, achingly atmospheric crime novel you can totally immerse yourself in.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the DarkTwo women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    My Hijacking

    A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

    by Martha Hodes ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

    A Novel

    by Mirinae Lee ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 13 min

    “Fantastically original doesn’t begin to describe this exhilarating globe-spanning, decade-hopping masterpiece. Lee has achieved the impossible—from a fractured century of agonies and betrayals, she has woven a novel of immense beauty and regeneration.” — Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoWinner of the William Saroyan International Prize for WritingLonglisted for the... ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The Company

    A haunting novel of Victorian gothic

    by J.M. Varese ...
    Narrated by Beth Eyre ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    '[A] stunning Gothic chiller' Irish Times'Diabolically good . . . J.M. Varese's gothic tale is sinuously elegant and claustrophobic as deadly Victorian wallpaper' Kate Griffin, author of FyneshadeLondon, 1870.Lucy Braithwhite lives a privileged existence as heir to the fortune of Braithwhite & Company - the most successful purveyor of English luxury wallpapers the world over. The company's ... Read more

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    The Island of Lost Girls

    A Novel

    by Alex Marwood ...
    Narrated by Tamsin Kennard ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 56 min

    “A stunning, genre-defying novel, poetic, immersive, and as dazzling as the Mediterranean sun even as it pulls the reader through the darkest corridors of human behavior. I was totally mesmerized. . . . Alex Marwood is in a class of her own.”—Lisa Jewell“A stiletto of a novel: heart stopping and devastating.”—Jenny ColganSun-drenched glamour and obscene wealth hide evil secrets in this ripped-from ... Read more

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    A Crooked Tree

    A Novel

    by Una Mannion ...
    Narrated by Sophie Amoss ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    A haunting, suspenseful literary debut that combines a classic coming of age story with a portrait of a fractured American family dealing with the fallout of one summer evening gone terribly wrong.“The night we left Ellen on the road, we drove up the mountain in silence.”It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with The Field Guide to the Trees of North America, a gift her ... Read more

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    Post-traumatic

    by Chantal V. Johnson ...
    Narrated by Tiffany Smith ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    In this story on survival, a young lawyer’s family reunion brings long-buried pain and anger to the surface, threatening her career, her values, and all of her relationships—a story of trauma, healing, and the power of ride-or-die female friendship.To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story—a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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