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The Dakota Winters

A Novel

by Tom Barbash ...

An evocative novel about a New York City family living in the famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination."Arresting. . . . [A] sad and funny tale. . . . Barbash has sprinkled The Dakota Winters with Beatle dust. Lennon is alive in its pages." — New York Times Book ReviewIt's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back ... Read more

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An evocative novel about a New York City family living in the famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination."Arresting. . . . [A] sad and funny tale. . . . Barbash has sprinkled The Dakota Winters with Beatle dust. Lennon is alive in its pages." — New York Times Book ReviewIt's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back
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The Last Good Chance

A Novel

by Tom Barbash ...

A young man's plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceit in this captivating first novel."Heady, lyrical—and darkly funny in small offhand moments. It's a pleasure to read." —Meg WolitzerWhen the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown along Lake Ontario with an eye toward revitalizing its fading post-industrial waterfront ... Read more

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A young man's plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceit in this captivating first novel."Heady, lyrical—and darkly funny in small offhand moments. It's a pleasure to read." —Meg WolitzerWhen the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown along Lake Ontario with an eye toward revitalizing its fading post-industrial waterfront
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Stay Up With Me

Stories

by Tom Barbash ...

The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in "The Break" interferes in her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in "Balloon Night" persists in hosting his and his wife's annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving ... Read more

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The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in "The Break" interferes in her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in "Balloon Night" persists in hosting his and his wife's annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving
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The Dakota Winters

A Novel

by Tom Barbash ...

Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...

Unabridged

8 hours 38 min

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination.It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father, the ... Read more

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An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination.It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father, the
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The Last Good Chance

A Novel

by Tom Barbash ...

Narrated by Charlie Thurston ...

Unabridged

11 hours 50 min

In this captivating first novel, a young man’s plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceit.When the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown along Lake Ontario with an eye toward revitalizing its fading post-industrial waterfront into a tasteful commercial development for tourists and yuppies, the town of Lakeland quickly gets ... Read more

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In this captivating first novel, a young man’s plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceit.When the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown along Lake Ontario with an eye toward revitalizing its fading post-industrial waterfront into a tasteful commercial development for tourists and yuppies, the town of Lakeland quickly gets
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Marie Blythe

by Howard Frank Mosher ...

A new edition of a classic novel with a strong female lead.Howard Frank Mosher is one of the best-loved writers of northern New England. One of his most vivid and memorable characters is Marie Blythe. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young girl with a felicitous name immigrates to Vermont from French Canada. She grows up confronting the grim realities of life with an indomitable spirit ... Read more

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A new edition of a classic novel with a strong female lead.Howard Frank Mosher is one of the best-loved writers of northern New England. One of his most vivid and memorable characters is Marie Blythe. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young girl with a felicitous name immigrates to Vermont from French Canada. She grows up confronting the grim realities of life with an indomitable spirit
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Galaxy Grifter

A Snarky, High-Stakes Space Opera

by A. Zaykova ...

Narrated by Dan Bittner ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Blackjack Interstellar
Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

Only the wittiest, smarmiest, most sycophantic person in the galaxy can grift like Levi can.Levi is an interstellar con artist: all charm, no conscience. His only real love is his spaceship, Caerus—his symbol of status and freedom—which he is forced to surrender as loan collateral to the most dangerous gang in his current quadrant. Desperate to get his ship back by any means necessary, Levi ... Read more

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Only the wittiest, smarmiest, most sycophantic person in the galaxy can grift like Levi can.Levi is an interstellar con artist: all charm, no conscience. His only real love is his spaceship, Caerus—his symbol of status and freedom—which he is forced to surrender as loan collateral to the most dangerous gang in his current quadrant. Desperate to get his ship back by any means necessary, Levi
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Infamy

The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

by Richard Reeves ...

Narrated by James Yaegashi ...

Unabridged

10 hours 11 min

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEBestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II“Highly readable … [A] vivid and instructive reminder of what war and fear can do to civilized people.”—Evan... ... Read more

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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEBestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II“Highly readable … [A] vivid and instructive reminder of what war and fear can do to civilized people.”—Evan...
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Washington Black (Man Booker Prize Finalist)

A novel

by Esi Edugyan ...

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free.” —Vanity FairEleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of ... Read more

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NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free.” —Vanity FairEleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of
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Nothing to Envy

Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick ...

Narrated by Karen White ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen ... Read more

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Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen
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Trust Exercise

A Novel

by Susan Choi ...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) • “Magic” (Time) • **“**Ingenious” (The Financial Times) • "A gonzo literary performance” (Entertainment Weekly) • “Rare... ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) • “Magic” (Time) • **“**Ingenious” (The Financial Times) • "A gonzo literary performance” (Entertainment Weekly) • “Rare...
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Luster

A Novel

by Raven Leilani ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable Book of the YearWINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardOne of Barack Obama's Favorite BooksA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, O Magazine, <em... ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable Book of the YearWINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardOne of Barack Obama's Favorite BooksA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, O Magazine, <em...
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