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The Affairs of the Falcóns

A Novel

by Melissa Rivero ...

"An unsparing look at the world of the undocumented through the life of Peruvian immigrant Ana Falcón and her family." —Cristina García, New York Times–bestselling authorWinner of the 2019 New American Voices AwardA Recommended Book of 2019 from:Southern Living * Buzzfeed * The Huffington Post * Bustle * Fierce * Hip Latina * Ms. Magazine *... ... Read more

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"An unsparing look at the world of the undocumented through the life of Peruvian immigrant Ana Falcón and her family." —Cristina García, New York Times–bestselling authorWinner of the 2019 New American Voices AwardA Recommended Book of 2019 from:Southern Living * Buzzfeed * The Huffington Post * Bustle * Fierce * Hip Latina * Ms. Magazine *...
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Flores and Miss Paula

A Novel

by Melissa Rivero ...

A Recommended Book From:The Washington Post * Today * Sunset Magazine * Country Living * Good HousekeepingA wry, tender work of Hispanic American fiction about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common ground.Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment in this touching mother-daughter novel, but that ... Read more

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A Recommended Book From:The Washington Post * Today * Sunset Magazine * Country Living * Good HousekeepingA wry, tender work of Hispanic American fiction about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common ground.Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment in this touching mother-daughter novel, but that
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The Affairs of the Falcóns

A Novel

by Melissa Rivero ...

Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to ... Read more

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A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to
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Flores and Miss Paula

A Novel

by Melissa Rivero ...

Narrated by Gisela Chipe, Liliana Montenegro ...

Unabridged

10 hours 5 min

A Recommended Book From:The Washington Post * Today * Sunset Magazine * Country Living * Good HousekeepingA wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common groundThirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It’s been nearly three ... Read more

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A Recommended Book From:The Washington Post * Today * Sunset Magazine * Country Living * Good HousekeepingA wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common groundThirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It’s been nearly three
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Saint Sebastian's Abyss

by Mark Haber ...

Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

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4 hours 5 min

Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other’s deathbed for unknown reasons by a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight toBerlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, the work that established both men as ... Read more

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Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other’s deathbed for unknown reasons by a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight toBerlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, the work that established both men as
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At Sea

by Emma Fedor ...

Narrated by Carlotta Brentan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 19 min

In “this **haunting, genre-defying novel” (**Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author), a woman risks everything to learn the truth about her family after the man she loves the most in the world unexpectedly disappears and takes their son with him.When Cara and Brendan first meet, she’s fresh out of college, still grieving the recent death of her mother, and spending time on Martha’s ... Read more

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In “this **haunting, genre-defying novel” (**Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author), a woman risks everything to learn the truth about her family after the man she loves the most in the world unexpectedly disappears and takes their son with him.When Cara and Brendan first meet, she’s fresh out of college, still grieving the recent death of her mother, and spending time on Martha’s
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State of Emergency

by Jeremy Tiang, Jeremy Tiang ...

Narrated by Chio Su Ping ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator. Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist ... Read more

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Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator. Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist
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Half Gods

by Akil Kumarasamy ...

Narrated by Priya Ayyar, Vikas Adam ...

Unabridged

6 hours 31 min

A startlingly beautiful audiobook debut, Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekersFollowing the fractured origins and destinies of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ... Read more

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A startlingly beautiful audiobook debut, Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekersFollowing the fractured origins and destinies of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising
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The Fire This Time

A New Generation Speaks about Race

by Jesmyn Ward ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, Korey Jackson, Susan Spain ...

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5 hours 36 min

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most ... Read more

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National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most
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Shoutin' in the Fire

An American Epistle

by Danté Stewart ...

Narrated by Danté Stewart ...

Unabridged

6 hours 54 min

**A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets**In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking ... Read more

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**A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets**In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking
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Hundred Wells of Salaga, The

A Novel

by Ayesha Harruna Attah ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

Unabridged

6 hours 37 min

Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom in pre-colonial Ghana, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates.Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom in pre-colonial Ghana, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates.Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in
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Prairie Fever

by Michael Parker ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

"The most beautiful novel I have read in quite some time. The language is that graceful and original, the events and characters that spellbinding and funny and moving; and always the melancholy beauty and mysterious power of the open prairie shine through." —TOM DRURY, author of PacificSet in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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"The most beautiful novel I have read in quite some time. The language is that graceful and original, the events and characters that spellbinding and funny and moving; and always the melancholy beauty and mysterious power of the open prairie shine through." —TOM DRURY, author of PacificSet in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces
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