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  • The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore's Sex Workers

    Edited by nor, Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani ...
    Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Forbidden City

    A Novel

    by Vanessa Hua ...
    Narrated by Catherine Ho ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 29 min

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover—and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution—in this “masterful” (The Washington Post) novel.“A new classic about China’s Cultural Revolution . . . Think Succession, but add death and mayhem to the palace intrigue. . . . Ambitious and impressive.”—San Francisco Chronicle**ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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    Neruda on the Park

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    by Cleyvis Natera ...
    Narrated by Imani Russell, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Alma Cuervo ...

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    13 hours 33 min

    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!”—Tayari Jones, New York Times ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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    Legends of the North Cascades

    by Jonathan Evison ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award"Narrator Edoardo Ballerini's clear and evocative delivery of Evison's novel works splendidly." "Ballerini's performance is masterful." -AudioFile MagazineDave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things: good with his hands, good at solving problems, good at staying calm in a crisis. But on the heels of his third tour in Iraq, the fabric of Dave’s life has ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Fractured Soul

    A Novel

    by Akira Mizubayashi ...
    Narrated by Kurt Kanazawa ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss.Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice. Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military police. In the ensuing skirmish, Yu’s violin is smashed while his son, Rei, witnesses his ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    A Hole in Texas

    A Novel

    by Herman Wouk ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Archer

    by Shruti Swamy ...
    Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    “Set in 1970s Bombay, the novel explores art, ambition, gender roles and class with the same shimmering prose of Swamy’s first book, the story collection A House Is a Body.”**—**San Francisco Chronicle“[A] sublime, boundary-pushing exploration of sexuality, creativity, and love.”—NPRIn this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is ... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Small World

    A Novel

    by Jonathan Evison ...
    Narrated by William DeMeritt ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours

    **Winner of the Housatonic Book AwardA New York Times Editors' Choice!One of Booklist’s “Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels of 2022”One of the Los Angeles Times's “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List”****One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads“A bighearted, widescreen American tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Masterpiece . . . The quintessential great American novel.”—Booklist (starred ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

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    Ghost Girl, Banana

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    by Wiz Wharton ...
    Narrated by Hanako Footman, Jennifer Leong ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. ... Read more

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    On the Line

    A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

    by Daisy Pitkin ...
    Narrated by Daisy Pitkin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    “Riveting and intimate. It is hard to imagine a more humanizing portrait of the American labor movement. A remarkable debut.”—Francisco Cantú, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Becomes a RiverOn the Line takes readers inside a bold five-year campaign to bring a union to the dangerous industrial laundry factories of Phoenix, Arizona. Workers here wash hospital, hotel, and restaurant ... Read more

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    Cold Warriors

    Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

    by Duncan White ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 48 min

    A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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    Maureen

    A Harold Fry Novel

    by Rachel Joyce ...
    Narrated by Penelope Wilton ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    **“A touching tale about heartbreak and healing . . . If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fryand The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, make time to read this finale to the trilogy.”—Good HousekeepingTen years ago, Harold Fry set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to save a friend. But the story doesn’t end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.**Only she can finish ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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