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The Petting Zoos

by K.S. Covert ...

WINNER 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative FictionIn a virus-fearing world, skin hunger can drive you crazy — and human petting zoos can return you to yourself.Ten years after the deadly virus nicknamed Henny Penny, the world has largely recovered — there’s an interim government as well as law and order, and life is returning to normal for the greatly reduced population. But ... Read more

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WINNER 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative FictionIn a virus-fearing world, skin hunger can drive you crazy — and human petting zoos can return you to yourself.Ten years after the deadly virus nicknamed Henny Penny, the world has largely recovered — there’s an interim government as well as law and order, and life is returning to normal for the greatly reduced population. But
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Petting Zoos

by K.S. Covert ...

Narrated by Sarah Pesek ...

Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Speculative Fiction FinalistIn a virus-fearing world, skin hunger can drive you crazy — and human petting zoos can return you to yourself. Ten years after the deadly virus nicknamed Henny Penny, the world has largely recovered — there’s an interim government as well as law and order, and life is returning to normal for the greatly reduced population. But ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Speculative Fiction FinalistIn a virus-fearing world, skin hunger can drive you crazy — and human petting zoos can return you to yourself. Ten years after the deadly virus nicknamed Henny Penny, the world has largely recovered — there’s an interim government as well as law and order, and life is returning to normal for the greatly reduced population. But
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Nether Regions

by Randal Graham ...

Narrated by Raoul Bhaneja ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Beforelife Stories
Unabridged

14 hours 19 min

Gear up for laughter in the hereafter as Socrates sets out to assassinate every soul who can remember the mortal world“Filled with wordplay to die for, Randal Graham’s latest dizzying, irresistible life-after-death satire tackles perennial existential questions with humor and hunger.” — Foreword Reviews on Afterlife CrisisWhat do you get when a narcissistic megalomaniac plagued by daddy issues ... Read more

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Gear up for laughter in the hereafter as Socrates sets out to assassinate every soul who can remember the mortal world“Filled with wordplay to die for, Randal Graham’s latest dizzying, irresistible life-after-death satire tackles perennial existential questions with humor and hunger.” — Foreword Reviews on Afterlife CrisisWhat do you get when a narcissistic megalomaniac plagued by daddy issues
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They

by Kay Dick ...

Narrated by Isabella Adomakoh Young ...

Unabridged

2 hours 48 min

A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—"queer, English, a masterpiece" (Hilton Als).Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the ... Read more

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A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—"queer, English, a masterpiece" (Hilton Als).Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the
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Red Summer

The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

by Cameron McWhirter ...

Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

Unabridged

12 hours 6 min

A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings.After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War.Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti ... Read more

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A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings.After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War.Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti
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Curious Toys

by Elizabeth Hand ...

Narrated by Carol Monda ...

Unabridged

10 hours 45 min

An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in "this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike" (Sarah McCarry).In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, ... Read more

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An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in "this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike" (Sarah McCarry).In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park,
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The Feed

A Novel

by Nick Clark Windo ...

Narrated by Nick Clark Windo, Clare Corbett ...

Unabridged

11 hours 20 min

Set in a post-apocalyptic world as unique and vividly imagined as those of Station Eleven and The Girl with All the Gifts, a startling and timely debut that explores what it is to be human and what it truly means to be connected in the digital age.IT MAKES US. IT DESTROYS US. NOW WE MUST LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT IT.The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It instantaneously links ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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Set in a post-apocalyptic world as unique and vividly imagined as those of Station Eleven and The Girl with All the Gifts, a startling and timely debut that explores what it is to be human and what it truly means to be connected in the digital age.IT MAKES US. IT DESTROYS US. NOW WE MUST LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT IT.The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It instantaneously links
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Reclaim the Stars

17 Tales Across Realms & Space

by Zoraida Córdova ...

Narrated by Zoraida Córdova, Almarie Guerra ...

Unabridged

13 hours 6 min

**One of Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of 2022One of Pop Sugar's Best New YA of 2022From stories that take you to the stars, to stories that span into other times and realms, to stories set in the magical now, Reclaim the Stars takes the Latin American diaspora to places fantastical and out of this world.**Follow princesses warring in space, haunting ghost stories in Argentina, mermaids off the ... Read more

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**One of Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of 2022One of Pop Sugar's Best New YA of 2022From stories that take you to the stars, to stories that span into other times and realms, to stories set in the magical now, Reclaim the Stars takes the Latin American diaspora to places fantastical and out of this world.**Follow princesses warring in space, haunting ghost stories in Argentina, mermaids off the
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Version Zero

by David Yoon ...

Narrated by Kevin R. Free, VyVy Nguyen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 45 min

From the brilliant mind of New York Times bestselling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and scorchingly observant thriller about how we can save ourselves from the very real perils of a virtual world.Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired.. ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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From the brilliant mind of New York Times bestselling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and scorchingly observant thriller about how we can save ourselves from the very real perils of a virtual world.Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired..
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Hurts So Good

The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose

by Leigh Cowart ...

Narrated by Leigh Cowart ...

Unabridged

11 hours 28 min

"A thoughtful, funny, and at times lyrical" (Wall Street Journal) exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performersMasochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshiped, and delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia, ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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"A thoughtful, funny, and at times lyrical" (Wall Street Journal) exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performersMasochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshiped, and delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia,
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The White Cascade

The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

by Gary Krist ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche.In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped—but nowhere was the danger ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche.In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped—but nowhere was the danger
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Oleander City

A Novel Based on a True Story

by Matt Bondurant ...

Narrated by Chris Henry Coffey, Julia Atwood ...

Unabridged

8 hours 41 min

In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross.Based on a true storyThe hurricane of 1900, America’s worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the ... Read more

$19.95 USD

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In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross.Based on a true storyThe hurricane of 1900, America’s worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the
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