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“melissa rivero”

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  • Flores and Miss Paula

    A Novel

    by Melissa Rivero ...
    A Recommended Book From:The Washington Post * Today * Sunset Magazine * Country Living * Good HousekeepingA wry, tender work of Hispanic American fiction about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common ground.Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment in this touching mother-daughter novel, but that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Affairs of the Falcóns

    A Novel

    by Melissa Rivero ...
    "An unsparing look at the world of the undocumented through the life of Peruvian immigrant Ana Falcón and her family." —Cristina García, New York Times–bestselling authorWinner of the 2019 New American Voices AwardA Recommended Book of 2019 from:Southern Living * Buzzfeed * The Huffington Post * Bustle * Fierce * Hip Latina * Ms. Magazine *... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Flores and Miss Paula

    A Novel

    by Melissa Rivero ...
    Narrated by Gisela Chipe, Liliana Montenegro ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    A Recommended Book From:The Washington Post * Today * Sunset Magazine * Country Living * Good HousekeepingA wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common groundThirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It’s been nearly three ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Affairs of the Falcóns

    A Novel

    by Melissa Rivero ...
    Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Eat the Mouth That Feeds You

    by Carribean Fragoza ...
    Narrated by Marisa Blake ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 48 min

    In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Motherest

    A Novel

    by Kristen Iskandrian ...
    Narrated by Lauren Fortgang ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    Marrying the sharp insights of Jenny Offill with the dark humor of Maria Semple, Motherest is an inventive and moving coming-of-age novel that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and the particular magic of the female friendship -- all through the lens of a fraying daughter-mother bond.It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Saint Sebastian's Abyss

    by Mark Haber ...
    Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other’s deathbed for unknown reasons by a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight toBerlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, the work that established both men as ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Objects of Desire

    Stories

    by Clare Sestanovich ...
    Narrated by Kristen Sieh ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    **“A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment WeeklyFresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life**A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    City of a Thousand Gates

    A Novel

    by Bee Sacks ...
    Narrated by Lameece Issaq ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 49 min

    Anovel of great humanity, compassion and astonishing immediacy, this uniquedebut portrays the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank andthe irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A collage of narrative voicesand different points of view are woven around the murder of two young people,one Israeli and one Palestinian.Brave and bold, this gorgeouslywritten work of fiction ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    At Sea

    by Emma Fedor ...
    Narrated by Carlotta Brentan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    In “this **haunting, genre-defying novel” (**Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author), a woman risks everything to learn the truth about her family after the man she loves the most in the world unexpectedly disappears and takes their son with him.When Cara and Brendan first meet, she’s fresh out of college, still grieving the recent death of her mother, and spending time on Martha’s ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Astonishing Life of August March

    A Novel

    by Aaron Jackson ...
    Narrated by Joel Froomkin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    In this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in a theater—Candide by way of John Irving, with a hint of Charles DickensAbandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tad feral, August is a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    State of Emergency

    by Jeremy Tiang, Jeremy Tiang ...
    Narrated by Chio Su Ping ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator. Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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