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Above the East China Sea

by Sarah Bird ...

Narrated by Ali Ahn, Tandy Cronyn, Graham Halstead, Jennifer Ikeda ...

Unabridged

14 hours

Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan-whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared experience of both profound loss and renewal. Luz, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her no-nonsense sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base. Luz's older sister, ... Read more

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Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan-whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared experience of both profound loss and renewal. Luz, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her no-nonsense sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base. Luz's older sister,
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The Appraisal

by Anna Porter ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

9 hours 28 min

This astute, entertaining literary thriller features Helena Marsh, an art authenticator hot on the trail of an extorted painting in Budapest, skirting the law to return it to its rightful heir. In the vein of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels comes this year's smart new thriller with literary chops When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family's ... Read more

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This astute, entertaining literary thriller features Helena Marsh, an art authenticator hot on the trail of an extorted painting in Budapest, skirting the law to return it to its rightful heir. In the vein of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels comes this year's smart new thriller with literary chops When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family's
... Read more
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The Strange Truth About Us

by M.A.C. Farrant ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

2 hours 48 min

Acclaimed author M.A.C. Farrant has been hailed as "a brave iconoclast" by Publishers Weekly and is well known for her pithy wit and maverick sensibilities. Broken into three sections, The Strange Truth About Us is a fusion of fragmented prose, probing questions and caustic satire. The result is both a meditation on absence and a commentary on the human penchant for complacency. ... Read more

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Acclaimed author M.A.C. Farrant has been hailed as "a brave iconoclast" by Publishers Weekly and is well known for her pithy wit and maverick sensibilities. Broken into three sections, The Strange Truth About Us is a fusion of fragmented prose, probing questions and caustic satire. The result is both a meditation on absence and a commentary on the human penchant for complacency.
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Foreign Bodies

by Cynthia Ozick ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

8 hours 46 min

Pulitzer Prize finalist Cynthia Ozick's fiction has been awarded multiple O. Henry Prizes. In Foreign Bodies, Ozick crafts a remarkable retelling of Henry James' The Ambassadors-deftly using its plot, yet boldly infusing the novel with an all new place, time, and meaning. It's 1952, and middle-aged Bea Nightingale reluctantly agrees to fly to Paris to help convince her estranged runaway nephew to ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize finalist Cynthia Ozick's fiction has been awarded multiple O. Henry Prizes. In Foreign Bodies, Ozick crafts a remarkable retelling of Henry James' The Ambassadors-deftly using its plot, yet boldly infusing the novel with an all new place, time, and meaning. It's 1952, and middle-aged Bea Nightingale reluctantly agrees to fly to Paris to help convince her estranged runaway nephew to
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The Unreal and the Real, Vol 2

Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands

by Ursula K. Le Guin ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

13 hours 55 min

Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power-- all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor. Companion ... Read more

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Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power-- all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor. Companion
... Read more
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The Unreal and the Real, Vol 1

Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Volume One: Where on Earth

by Ursula K. Le Guin ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

11 hours 44 min

The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories-- as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself-- the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories ... Read more

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The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories-- as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself-- the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories
... Read more
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Alone in the Classroom

by Elizabeth Hay ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

Having earned a Scotiabank Giller Prize for her poignant novel Late Nights on Air, best-selling author Elizabeth Hay further enhances her literary legacy with another complex, captivating drama, Alone in the Classroom. Set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley, this finely honed tale begins in 1929 with a small-town school teacher helping an underprivileged child learn to read-all under the ... Read more

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Having earned a Scotiabank Giller Prize for her poignant novel Late Nights on Air, best-selling author Elizabeth Hay further enhances her literary legacy with another complex, captivating drama, Alone in the Classroom. Set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley, this finely honed tale begins in 1929 with a small-town school teacher helping an underprivileged child learn to read-all under the
... Read more

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Inside

by Alix Ohlin ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

9 hours 53 min

A critically acclaimed, award-winning author, Alix Ohlin pens a masterpiece of emotional complexity with Inside. In this literary tour de force, a therapist named Grace attempts to help a man recover from his failed suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Grace's teen patient Annie runs away from home to reinvent herself in New York, and Grace's ex-husband leaves the comfort of a successful relationship to ... Read more

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A critically acclaimed, award-winning author, Alix Ohlin pens a masterpiece of emotional complexity with Inside. In this literary tour de force, a therapist named Grace attempts to help a man recover from his failed suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Grace's teen patient Annie runs away from home to reinvent herself in New York, and Grace's ex-husband leaves the comfort of a successful relationship to
... Read more

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Salt

A Story of Friendship in a Time of War

by Helen Frost ...

Narrated by Tom Picasso, Michael Bakkensen, Tandy Cronyn ...

Unabridged

2 hours 31 min

Publisher Marketing: Anikwa and James, twelve years old in 1812, spend their days fishing, trapping, and exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. To Anikwa and his family, members of the Miami tribe, this land has been home for centuries. As traders, James's family has ties to the Miami community as well as to the American soldiers in the fort. Now tensions are rising--the ... Read more

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Publisher Marketing: Anikwa and James, twelve years old in 1812, spend their days fishing, trapping, and exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. To Anikwa and his family, members of the Miami tribe, this land has been home for centuries. As traders, James's family has ties to the Miami community as well as to the American soldiers in the fort. Now tensions are rising--the
... Read more

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Clockwork Lives

by Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart ...

Narrated by Kevin J. Anderson, Morgan Hallett, George Guidall, Richard Poe, James Jenner, Tandy Cronyn, Jefferson Mays, Pete Bradbury, Barbara Rosenblat0, Brian Hutchison1, Ramón de Ocampo2, Luis Moreno3, Lynne McCollough4, Jonathan Todd Ross5 ...

Series series Clockwork Angels
Unabridged

12 hours 52 min

Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics.In Clockwork Angels, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics.In Clockwork Angels, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid
... Read more

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Sisters of Heart and Snow

by Margaret Dilloway ...

Narrated by Tandy Cronyn, Amanda Leigh Cobb, Meredith Orlow ...

Unabridged

13 hours 49 min

The award-winning author of How to Be and American Housewife returns with a poignant story of estranged sisters, forced together by family tragedy, who soon learn that sisterhood knows no limits. Rachel and Drew Snow may be sisters, but their lives have followed completely different paths. Married to a wonderful man and is a mother to two strong-minded teens, Rachel hasn't returned to her ... Read more

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The award-winning author of How to Be and American Housewife returns with a poignant story of estranged sisters, forced together by family tragedy, who soon learn that sisterhood knows no limits. Rachel and Drew Snow may be sisters, but their lives have followed completely different paths. Married to a wonderful man and is a mother to two strong-minded teens, Rachel hasn't returned to her
... Read more

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King's Oak

by Anne Rivers Siddons ...

Narrated by Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy ...

Abridged

2 hours 58 min

From the bestselling author of Outer Banks comes the story of the passionate affair in which Diane Calhoun becomes involved, almost against her will, and the decision she must make between true conviction and love. ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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From the bestselling author of Outer Banks comes the story of the passionate affair in which Diane Calhoun becomes involved, almost against her will, and the decision she must make between true conviction and love.
... Read more

Also available as: eBook