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These Ghosts Are Family

A Novel

by Maisy Card ...

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel FinalistShortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (*The New York Times Book Review*) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.**Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone ... Read more

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PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel FinalistShortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (*The New York Times Book Review*) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.**Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone
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These Ghosts are Family

A Novel

by Maisy Card ...

Narrated by Karl O’Brian Williams ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel FinalistShortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (*The New York Times Book Review*) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.**Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone ... Read more

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PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel FinalistShortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (*The New York Times Book Review*) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.**Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone
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Can You Hear Me Now?

Stories Commissioned by Toronto International Festival of Authors 2021

by Maisy Card, Genki Ferguson, Laird Hunt ...

This book is a collection of ten stories and one illustration by authors and artists from Canada and across the world, in response to the phrase ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’. The pieces were commissioned and presented at the 42nd edition of the Toronto International Festival of Authors (October 21-31, 2021). ... Read more

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This book is a collection of ten stories and one illustration by authors and artists from Canada and across the world, in response to the phrase ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’. The pieces were commissioned and presented at the 42nd edition of the Toronto International Festival of Authors (October 21-31, 2021).
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Can You Hear Me Now?

Stories Commissioned by Toronto International Festival of Authors 2021

by Maisy Card, Genki Ferguson, Laird Hunt ...

Narrated by Maisy Card, Genki Ferguson, Laird Hunt, Lina Meruane, Shani Mootoo0, Louisa Onomé3, Max Porter5, Clayton Thomas-Müller7, Roland Gulliver8, Jennifer Ball9 ...

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1 hour 37 min

This book is a collection of ten stories and one illustration by authors and artists from Canada and across the world, in response to the phrase ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’. The pieces were commissioned and presented at the 42nd edition of the Toronto International Festival of Authors (October 21-31, 2021). ... Read more

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This book is a collection of ten stories and one illustration by authors and artists from Canada and across the world, in response to the phrase ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’. The pieces were commissioned and presented at the 42nd edition of the Toronto International Festival of Authors (October 21-31, 2021).
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Middle Passage

by Charles Johnson ...

Narrated by Dion Graham ...

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7 hours 13 min

After the Confederacy falls, newly freed slave Rutherford Calhoun is eager to avoid marrying a prim schoolteacher and boards the first ship he finds moored at a New Orleans port. Unbeknownst to Calhoun, the vessel is a slave ship enroute to Africa. On the return trip, Calhoun is put to work as a cabin boy and quickly assists the newly captured slaves in revolting against the drunken crew. This ... Read more

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After the Confederacy falls, newly freed slave Rutherford Calhoun is eager to avoid marrying a prim schoolteacher and boards the first ship he finds moored at a New Orleans port. Unbeknownst to Calhoun, the vessel is a slave ship enroute to Africa. On the return trip, Calhoun is put to work as a cabin boy and quickly assists the newly captured slaves in revolting against the drunken crew. This
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All This Could Be Yours

by Jami Attenberg ...

Narrated by Therese Plummer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 45 min

“All hail Jami Attenberg, the queen of dysfunctional families.” —Refinery29“Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy . . . Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg’s emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts.” —Parade“This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man.” —New York TimesFrom critically... ... Read more

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“All hail Jami Attenberg, the queen of dysfunctional families.” —Refinery29“Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy . . . Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg’s emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts.” —Parade“This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man.” —New York TimesFrom critically...
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Black Bottom Saints

A Novel

by Alice Randall ...

Narrated by Prentice Onayemi, Imani Parks ...

Unabridged

12 hours 19 min

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings.From the Great Depression through the post-World War II ... Read more

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An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings.From the Great Depression through the post-World War II
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The Comfort of Monsters

A Novel

by Willa C. Richards ...

Narrated by Stacey Glemboski ...

Unabridged

11 hours 22 min

""A riveting page-turner that begs to be read quickly, compulsively. But page by page, this electrifying debut by Willa Richards weaves an increasingly complicated and dark tale of guilt, fury, and the danger of building stories on that shakiest of foundations, memory."" —Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of ValentineSet in Milwaukee during the “Dahmer summer” of 1991, a ... Read more

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""A riveting page-turner that begs to be read quickly, compulsively. But page by page, this electrifying debut by Willa Richards weaves an increasingly complicated and dark tale of guilt, fury, and the danger of building stories on that shakiest of foundations, memory."" —Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of ValentineSet in Milwaukee during the “Dahmer summer” of 1991, a
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Family Pictures

A Novel

by Sue Miller ...

Narrated by Vivienne Leheny ...

Unabridged

17 hours 55 min

“Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing.”—New York Times Book ReviewFrom bestselling author Sue Miller comes a masterful novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst—an autistic child.The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a ... Read more

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“Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing.”—New York Times Book ReviewFrom bestselling author Sue Miller comes a masterful novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst—an autistic child.The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a
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Silent Spring Revolution

John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

by Douglas Brinkley ...

Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

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29 hours 24 min

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, ... Read more

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New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945,
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor

A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

by Thomas C. Foster ...

Narrated by Tristan Wright ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

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The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen,
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Body and Soul Food

by Abby Collette ...

Narrated by L. Malaika Cooper ...

Series series Books and Biscuits Mystery
Unabridged

8 hours 54 min

In this must-listen new mystery series, fraternal twins Keaton and Koby will pull double duty when they take down a killer while preparing to open their new bookstore and soul-food café, Books & Biscuits.When Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge were orphaned at age two, they were separated, but their unbreakable connection lingered. Years later, they reunite and decide to make up for lost time and ... Read more

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In this must-listen new mystery series, fraternal twins Keaton and Koby will pull double duty when they take down a killer while preparing to open their new bookstore and soul-food café, Books & Biscuits.When Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge were orphaned at age two, they were separated, but their unbreakable connection lingered. Years later, they reunite and decide to make up for lost time and
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