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The Oyster Diaries

by Nancy Lemann ...

From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle-aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fiction’s most singular voices.Delery Anhalt—middle-aged and prone, like Don Quixote, to “embroidering everything into vast ideals” but incapable (like Desdemona?) of ... Read more

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From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle-aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fiction’s most singular voices.Delery Anhalt—middle-aged and prone, like Don Quixote, to “embroidering everything into vast ideals” but incapable (like Desdemona?) of
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Lives of the Saints

by Nancy Lemann ...

Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the city’s “wastrel-youth contingent” in this cult-classic novel of love and decadence, now with a new introduction.Nancy Lemann’s voice is one of the most unusual in American fiction, unabashedly digressive, weirdly and wonderfully confiding, as witty as it is melancholy, an endless ... Read more

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Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the city’s “wastrel-youth contingent” in this cult-classic novel of love and decadence, now with a new introduction.Nancy Lemann’s voice is one of the most unusual in American fiction, unabashedly digressive, weirdly and wonderfully confiding, as witty as it is melancholy, an endless
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The Ritz of the Bayou

by Nancy Lemann ...

In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This 40th anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author.New Orleans-born novelist Nancy Lemann returned to her hometown from Manhattan in 1985, tasked by renowned ... Read more

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In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This 40th anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author.New Orleans-born novelist Nancy Lemann returned to her hometown from Manhattan in 1985, tasked by renowned
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Lives of the Saints

by Nancy Lemann ...

Narrated by Sophie Amoss ...

Unabridged

5 hours 37 min

Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the city’s “wastrel-youth contingent” in this cult-classic novel of love and decadence, now with a new introduction.Nancy Lemann’s voice is one of the most unusual in American fiction, unabashedly digressive, weirdly and wonderfully confiding, as witty as it is melancholy, an endless ... Read more

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Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the city’s “wastrel-youth contingent” in this cult-classic novel of love and decadence, now with a new introduction.Nancy Lemann’s voice is one of the most unusual in American fiction, unabashedly digressive, weirdly and wonderfully confiding, as witty as it is melancholy, an endless
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The Ritz of the Bayou

The New Orleans Adventures of a Young Novelist Covering the Trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with digressions on smoldering ... and other aspects of life in the tropic zone

by Nancy Lemann ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

Unabridged

4 hours 10 min

In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This fortieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author.New Orleans–born novelist Nancy Lemann returned to her hometown from Manhattan in 1985, tasked by renowned ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This fortieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author.New Orleans–born novelist Nancy Lemann returned to her hometown from Manhattan in 1985, tasked by renowned
... Read more
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The Oyster Diaries

by Nancy Lemann ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

Unabridged

5 hours 19 min

From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle-aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fiction’s most singular voices.Delery Anhalt—middle-aged and prone, like Don Quixote, to “embroidering everything into vast ideals” but incapable (like Desdemona?) of ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle-aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fiction’s most singular voices.Delery Anhalt—middle-aged and prone, like Don Quixote, to “embroidering everything into vast ideals” but incapable (like Desdemona?) of
... Read more

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The Complex

A Novel

by Karan Mahajan ...

Narrated by Neil Shah ...

Unabridged

14 hours 41 min

**“An extraordinary gift to its lucky readers: an enormously full and brilliantly structured novel whose characters come to feel as familiar—and as bottomlessly mysterious—as one's own family.”—Karen Russell, author of National Book Award finalist The Antidote“A testament to Mahajan’s genius. . . . Beautiful and unforgettable”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A brilliant, sweeping tour de force ... Read more

$36.00 CAD

**“An extraordinary gift to its lucky readers: an enormously full and brilliantly structured novel whose characters come to feel as familiar—and as bottomlessly mysterious—as one's own family.”—Karen Russell, author of National Book Award finalist The Antidote“A testament to Mahajan’s genius. . . . Beautiful and unforgettable”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A brilliant, sweeping tour de force
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The Hill

A Novel

by Harriet Clark ...

Narrated by Maggie Thompson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 57 min

After her mother is sentenced to life in a hilltop prison, Suzanna vows to return to the hill forever. An unexpectedly funny and deeply moving novel about the many ways we punish and return to each other.Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children, ... Read more

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After her mother is sentenced to life in a hilltop prison, Suzanna vows to return to the hill forever. An unexpectedly funny and deeply moving novel about the many ways we punish and return to each other.Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children,
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Brawler

Stories

by Lauren Groff ...

Narrated by Lauren Groff ...

Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Groff is one of this country’s most successful and versatile literary figures.” —New York Times“Required reading.”—Los Angeles Times“A knockout.”—Minnesota Star TribuneA stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our time**Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph, ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Groff is one of this country’s most successful and versatile literary figures.” —New York Times“Required reading.”—Los Angeles Times“A knockout.”—Minnesota Star TribuneA stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our time**Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph,
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Sunrise

A Novel

by Téa Obreht ...

Narrated by Christine Lakin, Mark Deakins, Kristen Sieh ...

Unabridged

11 hours 3 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the award-winning author of The Tiger’s Wife**“Masterful . . . [Obreht] delightfully mashes up several genres, including Western gothic, murder mystery and survival saga.”—The New York Times Book Review“I’ve ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the award-winning author of The Tiger’s Wife**“Masterful . . . [Obreht] delightfully mashes up several genres, including Western gothic, murder mystery and survival saga.”—The New York Times Book Review“I’ve
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The Renovation

A Novel

by Kenan Orhan ...

Narrated by Nadia Albina ...

Unabridged

6 hours 38 min

A woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell—where she is an unlikely inmate—in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration.In Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since leaving her native Istanbul, she’s been unable to find a job—adrift, she becomes increasingly fixated on domestic improvement, ... Read more

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A woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell—where she is an unlikely inmate—in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration.In Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since leaving her native Istanbul, she’s been unable to find a job—adrift, she becomes increasingly fixated on domestic improvement,
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader

by Fran Lebowitz ...

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, ... Read more

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In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious,
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