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The Librarianist

A Novel

by Patrick deWitt ...

Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on
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Poiesis Review #1-5

A Literary Journal Archive

by T. Kilgore Splake, Robert Schuler, Pamela Annas, Sherry Asbury, Timothy Beer, Michael S. Begnal, Guy R. Beining, John Berbrich, Janice Brabaw, April Michelle Bratten, Ferruccio Brugnaro, Dan Buck, Julie Buffaloe-Yoder, P. B. C., CEE, Terry Clarke, Glenn W. Cooper, Bill Costley, Henry Denander, Jim DeWitt, Joseph Dorazio, R. Emolo, Michael Estabrook, Gary Every, Jason Fisk, Ashley Gatewood, Lila Goodman, Mary Guckian, George Held, Kevin M. Hibshman, Jack Hirschman, Stephanie Hiteshew, Zoe A. Jaimot, Mignon Ariel King, Arthur Winfield Knight, Zack Kopp, Michael Kriesel, Ray Larsen, Father Luke, Giovanni Malito, William Martinez, Patrick McKinnon, Bruce McRae, Jason Monios, Rod Naquin, Normal, K. Nuzzo, Kez Panel, Alvin Park, Simon Perchik ...

Poiesis Review #1-5 is a collected archive of poems that comprises the first five issues of the print journal from 2008-2012, with poems dating as far back as 1991. The journal contains 119 poems in 164 pages of writing by 73 of the best poets in the independent press, including those at the turn of the new millennium.Poiesis Review is one of the only literary journals in existence that features a ... Read more

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Poiesis Review #1-5 is a collected archive of poems that comprises the first five issues of the print journal from 2008-2012, with poems dating as far back as 1991. The journal contains 119 poems in 164 pages of writing by 73 of the best poets in the independent press, including those at the turn of the new millennium.Poiesis Review is one of the only literary journals in existence that features a
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American Struggle

Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology

by Jon Meacham ...

Narrated by Jon Meacham, Fred Sanders, Steve Hendrickson, Mike Chamberlain, Robert Petkoff, January LaVoy, Kimberly Farr, Robert Fass, Jim Seybert, Aaron Goodson0, JD Jackson1, Tavia Gilbert2, Keith Szarabajka3, Full Cast4 ...

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20 hours 22 min

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this moment.“Jon Meacham has done it again. If there is a soul in American history, it emerges—indeed, explodes—from ... Read more

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this moment.“Jon Meacham has done it again. If there is a soul in American history, it emerges—indeed, explodes—from
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Songdogs

A Novel

by Colum McCann ...

Narrated by Dion Graham ...

Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American ... Read more

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Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American
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The Door-to-Door Bookstore

A Novel

by Carsten Henn ...

Narrated by Raphael Corkhill ...

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6 hours 3 min

The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most ... Read more

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The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most
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Family Meal

A Novel

by Bryan Washington ...

Narrated by Bryan Washington, André Santana, Jake Choi ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

**"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington PostAn irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest—even when they hurt us most ... Read more

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**"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington PostAn irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest—even when they hurt us most
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The Distance Between Us

A Novel

by Maggie O'Farrell ...

Narrated by Susie Riddell ...

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

Gripping, insightful, and deft, The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait.On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the ... Read more

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Gripping, insightful, and deft, The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait.On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the
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Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

by Barbara Comyns, Barbara Comyns ...

Narrated by Madeleine Leslay ...

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5 hours 40 min

´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet".Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where ... Read more

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´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet".Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where
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Black-Owned

The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore

by Char Adams ...

Narrated by Shayna Small ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.In Black-Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.In Black-Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage
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Sing Like Fish

How Sound Rules Life Under Water

by Amorina Kingdon ...

Narrated by Angelina Rocca ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer“Sing Like Fish is that rare book that makes you see the world differently.”—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Salt and CodLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE ... Read more

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A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer“Sing Like Fish is that rare book that makes you see the world differently.”—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Salt and CodLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
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Men Without Women

Stories

by Haruki Murakami ...

Narrated by Kirby Heyborne ...

Unabridged

7 hours 18 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama).Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama).Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation
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Pink Slime

A Novel

by Fernanda Trías ...

Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of the Year by NPR, Esquire**,** Publishers Weekly**, and** ScreenRant **• “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you.” —**EsquireA hair-raising, poetic work of literary horror and climate fiction about a woman and the people who depend... ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of the Year by NPR, Esquire**,** Publishers Weekly**, and** ScreenRant **• “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you.” —**EsquireA hair-raising, poetic work of literary horror and climate fiction about a woman and the people who depend...
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