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  • The Patient Wait of the Stones

    Time and Memory in Lunigiana

    by Antonio Romani ...
    Translated by Martha Cooley ...
    A poetic, personal, and historical narrative of a late in life move to a tiny Italian village and a reflection on time and memory in the shadow of a medieval castle borgo.The Patient Wait of the Stones is a memorable meditation on the phenomena of place and the compelling force of history. First published in Italian, this hybrid narrative combines memoir with national and regional history. This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Archivist

    A Novel

    by Martha Cooley ...
    A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of the most jubilantly acclaimed first novels of recent years. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • My Little Donkey

    And Other Essays

    by Martha Cooley ...
    A collection of searching, curious, and surprising essays catalyzed by the author's move in her sixties to a small Italian village, exploring selfhood, coincidence, inheritance, and the impermanence of identityIn 2021, in her mid-sixties, Martha Cooley moved with her husband from the United States to Castiglione del Terziere, a village in northernmost Tuscany. Prompted by this relocation, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Buy Me Love

    by Martha Cooley ...
    Described by Publishers Weekly as Cooley's "sharp latest", "Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers."In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after, she realizes she’s won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket, she tells no one but her ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Message from the Shadows

    Selected Stories

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Janice M. Thresher, Tim Parks, Martha Cooley, Antonio Romani ...
    This new, expanded collection of Antonio Tabucchi's stories collects the best short fiction from the Italian author recognized as one of the masters of the form.Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Guesswork

    A Reckoning With Loss

    by Martha Cooley ...
    "[A] splendid and subtle memoir in essays" —The New York Times Book ReviewHaving lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines a question both easily evaded and unavoidable: mortality. How do we grieve? How do we go on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Time Ages in a Hurry

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Martha Cooley, Antonio Romani ...
    As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from places in which political events have had deeply personal ramifications for their own lives.Each of the nine stories in Time Ages in a Hurry is an imaginative inquiry into something hidden or disguised, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Thirty-three Swoons

    A Novel

    by Martha Cooley ...
    - "The Archivist, Martha Cooley's first novel, was a national bestseller and a "New York Times Notable Book.- With the assurance, complexity, and depth of a work by Bulgakov, DeLillo, or Poe, Martha Cooley's extraordinary second novel is further evidence that she is one of the most gifted writers at work today. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Archivist

    by Martha Cooley ...
    Narrated by George Guidall, Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    The Archivist is a debut novel of remarkable depth and power. Set in the hushed world of a prestigious American university, it weaves a story of love and loss, recognition and redemption. Matthias Lane, 65, is the university's orderly archivist. Graduate student Roberta Spire, 35, is determined to gain access to some of the collection's sealed letters-ones written by T.S. Eliot to his close friend ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Cutting for Stone

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    Before the Fall: Booktrack Edition

    by Noah Hawley ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

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    Before the Fall: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *Winner of the 2017 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and the 2017 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST NOVELFROM THE AWARD-WINNING CREATOR OF FARGO COMES "ONE THE YEAR'S BEST SUSPENSE NOVELS" (NEW YORK TIMES).On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-... ... Read more

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