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Satellite Love

A Novel

by Genki Ferguson ...

Narrated by Aya Furukawa, Alex Aoki, Hiro Kanagawa ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title, a Shelf Life Books Book of ... Read more

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A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title, a Shelf Life Books Book of
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Convergence Problems

by Wole Talabi ...

Narrated by Ben Arogundade ...

Unabridged

10 hours 28 min

From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.In “An Arc of Electric Skin,” a roadside mechanic seeking justice ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.In “An Arc of Electric Skin,” a roadside mechanic seeking justice
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Kinning

by Nisi Shawl ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Series series Everfair
Unabridged

14 hours 18 min

Kinning continues the stunning alternate history where bark cloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via air-canoe, spreading the spores ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Kinning continues the stunning alternate history where bark cloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via air-canoe, spreading the spores
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A House Is a Body

Stories

by Shruti Swamy ...

Narrated by Soneela Nankani ...

Unabridged

6 hours 30 min

"This collection will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed." —KIESE LAYMON, author of HeavyIn two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity, and women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. In "Earthly Pleasures," Radika, a young ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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"This collection will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed." —KIESE LAYMON, author of HeavyIn two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity, and women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. In "Earthly Pleasures," Radika, a young
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The Secret Talker

A Novel

by Geling Yan ...

Narrated by Angela Lin ...

Unabridged

3 hours 54 min

"The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment." -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND "GLOBETROTTING" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars.Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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"The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment." -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND "GLOBETROTTING" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars.Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent,
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors

by Kawai Strong Washburn ...

Narrated by Tui Asau, G.K. Bowes, Kaleo Griffith, Jolene Kim ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, ... Read more

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Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water,
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You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

by Sheung-King ...

Narrated by Kenny Wong ...

Unabridged

4 hours 4 min

Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2021A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2021A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each
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Only Living Girl on Earth, The

by Charles Yu ...

Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky ...

Unabridged

1 hour 12 min

From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future.Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t ... Read more

$1.99 USD

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From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future.Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t
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Nigeria Jones

A Novel

by Ibi Zoboi ...

Narrated by Marcella Cox ...

Unabridged

9 hours 50 min

Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner!“An unwavering proclamation of Black girlhood.” —Candice Iloh, author of National Book Award finalist Every Body LookingFrom Ibi Zoboi, bestselling, award-winning author of American Street and coauthor of Punching the Air, comes a bold new YA coming-of-age story that explores race, feminism, and complicated family dynamics. The ideal next read for fans of ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner!“An unwavering proclamation of Black girlhood.” —Candice Iloh, author of National Book Award finalist Every Body LookingFrom Ibi Zoboi, bestselling, award-winning author of American Street and coauthor of Punching the Air, comes a bold new YA coming-of-age story that explores race, feminism, and complicated family dynamics. The ideal next read for fans of
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The Most Secret Memory of Men

by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr ...

Narrated by Leon Nixon ...

Unabridged

14 hours 56 min

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe first Sub-Saharan African winner of France's top literary prize, the Goncourt.In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the "Black Rimbaud," after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe first Sub-Saharan African winner of France's top literary prize, the Goncourt.In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the "Black Rimbaud," after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery,
... Read more
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Lurkers

by Sandi Tan ...

Narrated by Rebecca Lam ...

Unabridged

10 hours 11 min

From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers.In a suburban LA neighborhood, neighbors keep wary distance and at times collide, propelled by desire, fury, and mischief. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide; a charismatic and ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers.In a suburban LA neighborhood, neighbors keep wary distance and at times collide, propelled by desire, fury, and mischief. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide; a charismatic and
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Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

by Wole Talabi ...

Narrated by Ben Arogundade ...

Unabridged

10 hours 4 min

The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian authorA mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds, perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, and Karen LordShigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers ofhis few remaining believers to maintain his ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian authorA mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds, perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, and Karen LordShigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers ofhis few remaining believers to maintain his
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