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Negative Space

by Lilly Dancyger ...

Series series SFWP Literary Awards
A heartbreaking memoir of art, addiction, and a daughter's search for her father.Lilly Dancyger delves into the life of her father, Joe Schactman, a 1980s East Village artist whose creative passion was intertwined with a heroin addiction. After his sudden death, Lilly pieces together fragmented memories and confronts the instability that shaped her childhood.Through his provocative sculptures and ... Read more

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A heartbreaking memoir of art, addiction, and a daughter's search for her father.Lilly Dancyger delves into the life of her father, Joe Schactman, a 1980s East Village artist whose creative passion was intertwined with a heroin addiction. After his sudden death, Lilly pieces together fragmented memories and confronts the instability that shaped her childhood.Through his provocative sculptures and
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First Love

Essays on Friendship

by Lilly Dancyger ...

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space“A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—ElleLilly Dancyger always thought of her closest ... Read more

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LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space“A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—ElleLilly Dancyger always thought of her closest
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Burn It Down

Women Writing about Anger

Edited by Lilly Dancyger ...

A rich, nuanced exploration of women's anger from a diverse group of writersWomen are furious, and we're not keeping it to ourselves any longer. We're expected to be composed and compliant, but in a world that would strip us of our rights, disparage our contributions, and deny us a seat at the table of authority, we're no longer willing to quietly seethe behind tight smiles.We're ready to burn it ... Read more

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A rich, nuanced exploration of women's anger from a diverse group of writersWomen are furious, and we're not keeping it to ourselves any longer. We're expected to be composed and compliant, but in a world that would strip us of our rights, disparage our contributions, and deny us a seat at the table of authority, we're no longer willing to quietly seethe behind tight smiles.We're ready to burn it
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Negative Space

A Memoir

by Lilly Dancyger ...

Narrated by Lilly Dancyger ...

Unabridged

6 hours 28 min

A memoir from the editor of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger, Negative Space explores Dancyger’s own anger, grief, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness her father hid from her, as well as her own.Despite her parents’ struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own ... Read more

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A memoir from the editor of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger, Negative Space explores Dancyger’s own anger, grief, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness her father hid from her, as well as her own.Despite her parents’ struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own
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First Love

Essays on Friendship

by Lilly Dancyger ...

Narrated by Lilly Dancyger ...

Unabridged

5 hours 43 min

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space“A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—ElleLilly Dancyger always thought of her closest ... Read more

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LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space“A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—ElleLilly Dancyger always thought of her closest
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Gather Me

A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

by Glory Edim ...

Narrated by Glory Edim ...

Unabridged

8 hours 5 min

A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.“A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for language.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This YearAN ... Read more

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A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.“A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for language.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This YearAN
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The Night Parade

A Speculative Memoir

by Jami Nakamura Lin ...

Narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama ...

Unabridged

9 hours 16 min

A Most Anticipated Book by Poets & Writers • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Millions • Library Journal • Debutiful • and many more!In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo—the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons—to shift the cultural na.. ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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A Most Anticipated Book by Poets & Writers • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Millions • Library Journal • Debutiful • and many more!In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo—the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons—to shift the cultural na..
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Cinema Love

A Novel

by Jiaming Tang ...

Narrated by Samantha Tan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 39 min

**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, ... Read more

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**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story,
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The Possessed

Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

by Elif Batuman ...

Narrated by Elif Batuman ...

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearTHE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED―ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!―TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICSNo one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac ... Read more

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One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearTHE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED―ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!―TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICSNo one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac
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Snake Oil

A Novel

by Kelsey Rae Dimberg ...

Narrated by Kristen Sieh, Andi Arndt, Renata Friedman ...

Unabridged

12 hours 41 min

A razor-sharp literary thriller about three women vying for power at a wellness startup, where the cost of ambition might be deadlyOne woman’s elixir is another woman’s poisonRhoda West is Silicon Valley’s favorite female CEO: the luminously charismatic founder of the fast-growing startup Radical, a wellness company whose core mission is the betterment of women’s lives. Rhoda’s Instagram page ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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A razor-sharp literary thriller about three women vying for power at a wellness startup, where the cost of ambition might be deadlyOne woman’s elixir is another woman’s poisonRhoda West is Silicon Valley’s favorite female CEO: the luminously charismatic founder of the fast-growing startup Radical, a wellness company whose core mission is the betterment of women’s lives. Rhoda’s Instagram page
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A Reason to See You Again

A Novel

by Jami Attenberg ...

Narrated by Stacey Glemboski ...

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min

From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own.The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own.The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives
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A History of Present Illness

A Novel

by Anna DeForest ...

Narrated by Helen Laser ...

Unabridged

3 hours 19 min

This “brutal and brave” (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation—physical, spiritual, or both.A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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This “brutal and brave” (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation—physical, spiritual, or both.A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births
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