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The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist)

A Novel

by Lisa Ko ...

This award-winning novel from the author of Memory Piece is a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past.One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her.With his mother gone, eleven ... Read more

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This award-winning novel from the author of Memory Piece is a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past.One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her.With his mother gone, eleven
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Memory Piece

A Novel

by Lisa Ko ...

**NAMED ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024ONE OF NPR’s BEST READS OF 2024A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024"Adventurous. . .gritty and refreshingly girl-centric. . . lingers in the imagination." –The New York Times“Ko…draws characters with such deftness that they feel wholly alive." –The Washington Post"It belongs to an American literary tradition that ... Read more

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**NAMED ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024ONE OF NPR’s BEST READS OF 2024A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024"Adventurous. . .gritty and refreshingly girl-centric. . . lingers in the imagination." –The New York Times“Ko…draws characters with such deftness that they feel wholly alive." –The Washington Post"It belongs to an American literary tradition that
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The Leavers

A Novel

by Lisa Ko ...

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

Unabridged

14 hours 53 min

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in ... Read more

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One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in
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Memory Piece

A Novel

by Lisa Ko ...

Narrated by Eunice Wong ...

Unabridged

9 hours 39 min

**NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BOOKRIOT, THE MILLIONS, LITHUB AND MORE!"A moving, strikingly evocative exploration of New York's art, tech, and activism scenes across the decades."–VogueThe award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?**In the early ... Read more

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**NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BOOKRIOT, THE MILLIONS, LITHUB AND MORE!"A moving, strikingly evocative exploration of New York's art, tech, and activism scenes across the decades."–VogueThe award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?**In the early
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I Leave It Up to You

A Novel

by Jinwoo Chong ...

Narrated by Daniel K. Isaac ...

Unabridged

10 hours 14 min

From the award-winning author of Flux comes “an endearing novel about second chances” (The Washington Post), with wise insights into love, family, and the art of sushi.“Wise and poignant [with] mouthwatering descriptions of food . . . I Leave It Up to You is about finding—or rediscovering—the people who make hardship worth enduring.”—Bobby Finger, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)A ... Read more

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From the award-winning author of Flux comes “an endearing novel about second chances” (The Washington Post), with wise insights into love, family, and the art of sushi.“Wise and poignant [with] mouthwatering descriptions of food . . . I Leave It Up to You is about finding—or rediscovering—the people who make hardship worth enduring.”—Bobby Finger, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)A
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Live Fast

A Novel

by Brigitte Giraud ...

Narrated by Mozhan Navabi ...

Unabridged

3 hours 20 min

Winner of the Prix GoncourtA powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud’s tense and haunting novel follows one woman’s quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41.The narrator of ... Read more

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Winner of the Prix GoncourtA powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud’s tense and haunting novel follows one woman’s quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41.The narrator of
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Great Expectations

A Novel

by Vinson Cunningham ...

Narrated by Aaron Goodson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 52 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in this “coming of age story that captures the soul of America” (The Washington Post), the debut novel from The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson Cunningham.FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD/JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK“One of the smartest ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in this “coming of age story that captures the soul of America” (The Washington Post), the debut novel from The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson Cunningham.FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD/JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK“One of the smartest
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Three Flames

A Novel

by Alan Lightman ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

5 hours 7 min

From the internationally bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian family―set between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rouge―to 2015.The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman’s haunting Three Flames, his first work of fiction in six years.Three Flames portrays the struggles ... Read more

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From the internationally bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian family―set between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rouge―to 2015.The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman’s haunting Three Flames, his first work of fiction in six years.Three Flames portrays the struggles
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The English Problem

A Novel

by Beena Kamlani ...

Narrated by Vidish Athavale ...

Unabridged

16 hours 35 min

**A young Indian man is tapped to help his country’s fight for freedom—but his heart engages him in a different war.“Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great convulsions of history.”—Joseph O’Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of Godwin**Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India ... Read more

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**A young Indian man is tapped to help his country’s fight for freedom—but his heart engages him in a different war.“Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great convulsions of history.”—Joseph O’Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of Godwin**Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India
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The Road to the Salt Sea

A Novel

by Samuel Kolawole ...

Narrated by Atta Otigba ...

Unabridged

9 hours

WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must
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Crooked Seeds

A Novel

by Karen Jennings ...

Narrated by Fiona Ramsay ...

Unabridged

5 hours 2 min

**A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt—from the Booker Prize–longlisted author of An Island.“Extraordinary . . . unputdownable.”—Roddy DoyleLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Guardian, Irish Times, CrimeReads**Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks ... Read more

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**A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt—from the Booker Prize–longlisted author of An Island.“Extraordinary . . . unputdownable.”—Roddy DoyleLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Guardian, Irish Times, CrimeReads**Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks
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Perris, California

A Novel

by Rachel Stark ...

Narrated by Alex McKenna ...

Unabridged

11 hours 58 min

***“*A glorious debut...it will rouse your deepest well of empathy.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone“This novel will live alongside classics of young womanhood.” —Susan Straight, author of bestsellers Mecca and In the Country of Women**In this unforgettable first novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in ... Read more

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***“*A glorious debut...it will rouse your deepest well of empathy.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone“This novel will live alongside classics of young womanhood.” —Susan Straight, author of bestsellers Mecca and In the Country of Women**In this unforgettable first novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in
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