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The Harlem Hellfighters

When Pride Met Courage

by Walter Dean Myers, Bill Miles ...

"We cannot let this history die, nor can we let it fade away. As it has filled me with pride and given me understanding of one group of outstanding soldiers, so it should be passed on to all Americans to appreciate and honor" (from the introduction by coauthor and unit historian Bill Miles)The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage is a portrait of bravery and honor. With compelling narrative ... Read more

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"We cannot let this history die, nor can we let it fade away. As it has filled me with pride and given me understanding of one group of outstanding soldiers, so it should be passed on to all Americans to appreciate and honor" (from the introduction by coauthor and unit historian Bill Miles)The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage is a portrait of bravery and honor. With compelling narrative
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Stepping Out of the Traffick

Pausing for Theological Reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking

Edited by Glenn Miles, Christa Foster Crawford, Bill Prevette ...

For decades the modern anti-trafficking movement has been moving forward in the necessary and admirable goal of ending sexual exploitation. But are we on the right path? Do our practices actually bring about lasting freedom? What more ethical and effective routes can be discovered? For those who are Christians, we must also pause to consider how the paradigms of our faith impact our understanding ... Read more

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For decades the modern anti-trafficking movement has been moving forward in the necessary and admirable goal of ending sexual exploitation. But are we on the right path? Do our practices actually bring about lasting freedom? What more ethical and effective routes can be discovered? For those who are Christians, we must also pause to consider how the paradigms of our faith impact our understanding
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Cornbread Nation 7

The Best of Southern Food Writing

by Francis Lam, John T. Edge, John T. Edge, Sara Camp Milam, Sara Camp Milam, Daniel Patterson, Susan Orlean, Sara Roahen, Edward Lee, Eddie Huang0, Sara Wood1, Ida MaMusu2, Kathleen Purvis3, Argentina Ortega4, Nikki Metzgar5, Todd Kliman6, Robert F. Moss7, Rayna Green8, Burkhard Bilger9, Barry Estabrook0, Gabriel Thompson1, Besha Rodell2, Jane Black3, Bill Heavey4, Dan Baum5, Jonathan Miles6, Sue Nguyen7, Julia Reed8, Seán McKeithan9, Sarah Hepola0, Patricia Smith1, John Sullivan2, Amy Evans3, Ann Taylor Pittman4, Jack Pendarvis5, Jeffrey Steingarten6, Mary Louise Nosser7, Langston Hughes8, Jessica B. Harris9, Stephen A. Crockett Jr.0, Monique Truong1, Brett Anderson2, Courtney Balestier3, Joe St. Columbia4, Joe York5, Jake Adam York6, Robb Walsh7, Kevin Young8, Lolis Eric Elie9, Estate of Lucille Clifton0 ...

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How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and ... Read more

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How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and
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A Memoir of My Former Self

A Life in Writing

by Hilary Mantel ...

Narrated by Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Ben Miles, Bill Hamilton, Lydia Leonard, Sarah Waters, Jane Wymark, Nicholas Pearson ...

Unabridged

16 hours 21 min

"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." - AudioFileTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERSIn addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is ... Read more

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"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." - AudioFileTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERSIn addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is
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Happy-Go-Lucky

by David Sedaris ...

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7 hours 30 min

David Sedaris returns with his first collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms ... Read more

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David Sedaris returns with his first collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms
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Study for Obedience

A novel

by Sarah Bernstein ...

Narrated by Sarah Bernstein ...

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3 hours 59 min

**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

by George Saunders ...

Narrated by George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong, Renée Elise Goldsberry ...

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14 hours 44 min

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in
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Oh William!

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout ...

Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

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7 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite write ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite write
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The Running Grave

A Cormoran Strike Novel

by Robert Galbraith ...

Narrated by Robert Glenister ...

Series Audiobook 7 - A Cormoran Strike Novel
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34 hours 14 min

**In this New York Times bestselling installment of the Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult."Outrageously entertaining." —Financial Times**Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.The Universal Humanitarian ... Read more

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**In this New York Times bestselling installment of the Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult."Outrageously entertaining." —Financial Times**Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.The Universal Humanitarian
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Anything Is Possible

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout ...

Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

Unabridged

8 hours 29 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton“This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett**WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A BEST BOOK ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton“This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett**WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A BEST BOOK
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The Sleeping Car Porter

by Suzette Mayr ...

Narrated by Chris McPherson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 22 min

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEPUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRETHE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his sec... ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEPUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRETHE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his sec...
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My Name Is Lucy Barton

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout ...

Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—PeopleA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, T... ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—PeopleA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, T...
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