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  • The Lion Seeker

    A Novel

    National Jewish Book Award Winner: A family saga set in WWII-era South Africa offering both "page-turning thrills [and] a painful meditation on destiny" (NPR, All Things Considered).Called "a latter-day Exodus" by Kirkus Reviews, The Lion Seeker is an epic historical novel centered on the life of Isaac Helger. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, he runs around the streets of Johannesburg as a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mandela Plot

    A Novel

    A Jewish teenager is drawn into the political violence of apartheid South Africa in this "riveting thriller" by the award-winning author of The Lion Seeker ( Booklist, starred review).As the 1980s draw to a close, apartheid is in its death throes and South Africa is a maelstrom of social unrest. Johannesburg teenager Martin Helger has problems of his own. The son of a Jewish scrap dealer, he's out ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Mandela Plot

    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 33 min

    As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of political violence with the apartheid regime in its death throes. Young Martin Helger is the struggling odd duck at an elite private boys school in Johannesburg, with his father a rough-handed scrap dealer and his brother a mysterious legend.When a beautiful and manipulative American arrives at the family home, Martin soon finds himself ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The Painter

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    by Peter Heller ...
    Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 26 min

    Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the wake of tragedy, Jim, a well-known expressionist ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    2666

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    39 hours 16 min

    THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The China Dogs

    by Sam Masters ...
    Cujo meets The Manchurian Candidate in this propulsive thriller set in Miami, in which a special ops soldier must uncover a deadly threat to national security: a nefarious plot using man's best friend as a deadly weapon.In the blistering heat of Miami, fatal dog attacks are running at record levels. Swimmers, walkers, and homeowners have been shockingly savaged to death. The public is starting to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Want Not

    A " shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating" novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away ( Entertainment Weekly).A New York Times Notable BookA highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hood

    A Novel

    by Emma Donoghue ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, Hood is a tale of grief and lust, frustration and hilarity, death and family.“Hood is thoroughly contemporary in how richly it depicts a beloved's death to review a couple's bumpy love history...This book's real pleasures lie in its intimate insights, its accurate characters and its sharp, rich observations... the greatest achievement of Hood is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Next Life Might Be Kinder

    A Novel

    by Howard Norman ...
    This haunting story of love and the aftermath of a murder is “Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Sam Lattimore met Elizabeth Church in an art gallery in 1970s Halifax. But their brief, erotically charged marriage was extinguished with Elizabeth’s murder.Since that traumatic loss, Sam’s life has grown complicated. In a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named ... Read more

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  • Night in Shanghai

    A Novel

    by Nicole Mones ...
    This novel of an American musician caught up in the dangers of 1930s China is "historical fiction at its best" (Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered).In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African American expats. After being flat broke in segregated Baltimore, he is now living in a mansion with servants of his own, the toast of a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dead Languages

    by David Shields ...
    In Dead Languages by David Shields, Jeremy Zorn's mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," and his life becomes framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for class president, as the only Jewish boy on an otherwise all-black basketball team, all of the passages of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Water Wars

    Welcome to a future where water is more precious than oil or gold...Hundreds of millions of people have already died, and millions more will soon fall—victims of disease, hunger, and dehydration. It is a time of drought and war. The rivers have dried up, the polar caps have melted, and drinkable water is now in the hands of the powerful few. There are fines for wasting it and prison sentences for ... Read more

    $9.59 USD