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  • A Map of Future Ruins

    On Borders and Belonging

    by Lauren Markham ...
    “This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we’ve come to understand as order.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy ExamsWhen and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West’s idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Immemorial

    by Lauren Markham ...
    Series series Undelivered Lectures
    A speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be, pushing public imagination into generative realms.“I am in need of a word,” writes Lauren Markham in an email to the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, an organization that coins neologisms. She describes her desire to memorialize something that is in the process of being ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Far Away Brothers

    Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

    by Lauren Markham ...
    The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.“Impeccably timed, intimately reported, and beautifully expressed.”—The New York TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • WINNER OF THE RIDENHOUR BOOK PRIZE • SILVER WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Far Away Brothers (Adapted for Young Adults)

    Two Teenage Immigrants Making a Life in America

    by Lauren Markham ...
    The inspiring true story about identical twin teenage brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California as undocumented immigrants, perfect for fans of Enrique's Journey and anyone interested in learning about the issues that underlie today's conversations about DACA and immigration reform.Ernesto and Raúl Flores are identical twins, used to being mistaken for each other. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cheap Bastard's® Guide to San Francisco

    Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Less!

    by Lauren Markham ...
    Series series Cheap Bastard
    Live Large for Less!Thinkyou have to earn big bucks to live big in the City by the Bay?San Francisco is full of free and ridiculously inexpensive stuff—you just need to know where to look. Leave it to “The Cheap Bastard” to uncover all the ins and outs and exclusive bargains to be had, and to tell you the real deal with wit and humor.The Cheap Bastard’s Guide to San Francisco shows you how to find ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Far Away Brothers

    Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

    by Lauren Markham ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores—until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the region’s brutal gangs forces them to flee ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Map of Future Ruins

    On Borders and Belonging

    by Lauren Markham ...
    Narrated by Gilli Messer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    “This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we’ve come to understand as order.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy ExamsWhen and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West’s idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel ... Read more

    $17.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Don't Call Me Home

    A Memoir

    by Alexandra Auder ...
    Narrated by Alexandra Auder ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    **“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordinary childhood as she travels the world with her mother Viva. Wit and wisdom wrapped and bound with love.” --Debbie Harry“Alexandra Auder’s Don’t Call Me Home is thrumming with life, in all its absurdity, vividness, and gunk. I literally laughed and cried, and cheered hard throughout for our ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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  • Ghost Nation

    The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival

    by Chris Horton ...
    **'Compelling and important' - Rana Mitter, The Observer'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden Hand'A thoughtful, illuminating exploration of Taiwan’s past and present as well as its possible future' - BooklistThe gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from one of the country's top foreign ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Strangers and Intimates

    The Rise and Fall of Private Life

    by Tiffany Jenkins ...
    Narrated by Tiffany Jenkins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 39 min

    **Read by the author, Tiffany Jenkins'Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating and full of surprises'** – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen'It is refreshing - and empowering - to read such a nuanced, thoughtful history of this slippery concept' – Kate Fox, author of Watching the EnglishA Financial Times 'What to read in 2025' BookFrom ancient times to our digital present, Strange... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Proving Ground

    The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer

    by Kathy Kleiman ...
    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    **Discover a fascinating look into the lives of six historic trailblazers in this World War II-era story of the American women who programmed the world's first modern computer."Kleiman’s persistence in sleuthing out the story of the ENIAC 6 programmers has resulted in an admirable contribution to the historical record and a labor of love." ―Wall Street Journal**After the end of World War II, the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Genius Bat

    The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal

    by Yossi Yovel ...
    Narrated by Max Meyers ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world’s leading expertWith nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, and colors, from the tiny bumblebee bat to the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Some bats eat fruit and nectar; others eat frogs, scorpions, or fish. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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