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The Muse of the Maze

by Larry Buttrose ...

Jack Driscoll, a young Australian poet, goes to Spain hoping to obtain a poet’s blessing from Robert Graves, who lives on Mallorca. The story unfolds through Jack’s encounters with three separate women from three different worlds.Stranded in Barcelona, he embarks on an emotional and artistic odyssey that flings him into an adventure with overtones of classical tragedy and shadowed by the concept ... Read more

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Jack Driscoll, a young Australian poet, goes to Spain hoping to obtain a poet’s blessing from Robert Graves, who lives on Mallorca. The story unfolds through Jack’s encounters with three separate women from three different worlds.Stranded in Barcelona, he embarks on an emotional and artistic odyssey that flings him into an adventure with overtones of classical tragedy and shadowed by the concept
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Selected Poems

by Larry Buttrose ...

This selection of poems by Larry Buttrose represents a forty-year output and although many of the poems have been published before, either as single offerings or inclusions in anthologies, this is the first time that such a range of the poet’s work has been gathered in one volume.Larry Buttrose’s poems disrobe and contemplate the great existential truths of life: love, desire, memory and death.. ... Read more

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This selection of poems by Larry Buttrose represents a forty-year output and although many of the poems have been published before, either as single offerings or inclusions in anthologies, this is the first time that such a range of the poet’s work has been gathered in one volume.Larry Buttrose’s poems disrobe and contemplate the great existential truths of life: love, desire, memory and death..
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A Long Way Home

by Saroo Brierley, Larry Buttrose ...

Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

Unabridged

7 hours 28 min

At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. Eventually, with the advent of ... Read more

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At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. Eventually, with the advent of
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Lion

by Saroo Brierley, Larry Buttrose ...

Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. Eventually, with the advent of ... Read more

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At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. Eventually, with the advent of
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North of Normal

A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

by Cea Sunrise Person ...

Narrated by Cea Sunrise Person ...

Unabridged

9 hours 33 min

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to ... Read more

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Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to
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Etched in Sand

A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

by Regina Calcaterra ...

Narrated by Regina Calcaterra ...

Unabridged

8 hours 33 min

#1 International BestsellerRegina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, former New York State official, and foster youth activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced ... Read more

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#1 International BestsellerRegina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, former New York State official, and foster youth activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced
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The German Girl

A Novel

by Armando Lucas Correa ...

Narrated by Joy Osmanski ...

Unabridged

10 hours 49 min

**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFeatured in Entertainment Weekly, People, The Millions, and USA TODAY“An unforgettable and resplendent novel which will take its place among the great historical fiction written about World War II.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife**A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas ... Read more

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**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFeatured in Entertainment Weekly, People, The Millions, and USA TODAY“An unforgettable and resplendent novel which will take its place among the great historical fiction written about World War II.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife**A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas
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Irena's Children

The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

by Tilar J. Mazzeo ...

Narrated by Amanda Carlin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 31 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While
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Inside the O'Briens

A Novel

by Lisa Genova ...

Narrated by Skipp Sudduth ...

Unabridged

11 hours 13 min

From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a “heartbreaking…very human novel” (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntington’s disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimer’s.Joe O’Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father ... Read more

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From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a “heartbreaking…very human novel” (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntington’s disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimer’s.Joe O’Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father
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Elephant in the Sky

A Novel

by Heather A. Clark ...

Narrated by Sabryn Rock, Matthew Edison ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

A testament to the healing power of unconditional love.Widely acclaimed for her emotionally powerful stories that capture the real lives of women, Heather A. Clark, bestselling author of Chai Tea Sunday, tackles the subject of childhood mental illness and the impact it has on a close family.The story begins from nine-year-old Nate’s point of view, etching the details of an unbalanced mind ... Read more

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A testament to the healing power of unconditional love.Widely acclaimed for her emotionally powerful stories that capture the real lives of women, Heather A. Clark, bestselling author of Chai Tea Sunday, tackles the subject of childhood mental illness and the impact it has on a close family.The story begins from nine-year-old Nate’s point of view, etching the details of an unbalanced mind
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Secret Child

by Gordon Lewis, Andrew Crofts ...

Narrated by Kevin Hely ...

Unabridged

7 hours 56 min

The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin.Born an 'unfortunate' onto the rough streets of 1950s Dublin, this is the incredible true story of a young boy, a secret child born into a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin and a mother determined to keep her child, even if it meant hiding him from her ... Read more

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The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin.Born an 'unfortunate' onto the rough streets of 1950s Dublin, this is the incredible true story of a young boy, a secret child born into a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin and a mother determined to keep her child, even if it meant hiding him from her
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Little Princes

One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

by Conor Grennan ...

Narrated by Conor Grennan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”—Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of OutcastsLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups ... Read more

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“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”—Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of OutcastsLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups
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