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American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club)
- A Novel
- Written by: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist....
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Gut wrenching to listen to...
- By Kinkead2012 on 2020-01-27
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The Henna Artist
- A Novel
- Written by: Alka Joshi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Escaping from an abusive marriage, 17-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There, she becomes the most highly requested henna artist - and confidante - to the wealthy women of the upper class....
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Phenomenal and Amazing - a true journey :)
- By KLML on 2020-05-10
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- Written by: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
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Excellent content w an obvious recording flaw
- By Jody on 2019-06-03
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How to Pronounce Knife
- Stories
- Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Told with compassion and wry humour, these stories honour characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world"....
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So Disappointing
- By Len on 2020-11-22
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Fall of Giants
- Book One of the Century Trilogy
- Written by: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Fall of Giants is Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families....
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Breathtaking adventure back in time
- By Ashley on 2018-09-20
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Hell Cats
- Written by: Carina Rodney
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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As the old sailor's adage goes, a woman on board invites bad luck, a superstation that turned out to be true for the enemies of notorious pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read....
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A lovely romp.
- By Gabrielle H. on 2020-12-31
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American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club)
- A Novel
- Written by: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist....
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Gut wrenching to listen to...
- By Kinkead2012 on 2020-01-27
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The Henna Artist
- A Novel
- Written by: Alka Joshi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Escaping from an abusive marriage, 17-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There, she becomes the most highly requested henna artist - and confidante - to the wealthy women of the upper class....
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Phenomenal and Amazing - a true journey :)
- By KLML on 2020-05-10
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- Written by: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
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Excellent content w an obvious recording flaw
- By Jody on 2019-06-03
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How to Pronounce Knife
- Stories
- Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Told with compassion and wry humour, these stories honour characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world"....
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So Disappointing
- By Len on 2020-11-22
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Fall of Giants
- Book One of the Century Trilogy
- Written by: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Fall of Giants is Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families....
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Breathtaking adventure back in time
- By Ashley on 2018-09-20
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Hell Cats
- Written by: Carina Rodney
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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As the old sailor's adage goes, a woman on board invites bad luck, a superstation that turned out to be true for the enemies of notorious pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read....
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A lovely romp.
- By Gabrielle H. on 2020-12-31
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Little Fires Everywhere
- Written by: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives....
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Just drags on and on
- By Morgan Vincent on 2018-03-03
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The White Tiger
- A Novel
- Written by: Aravind Adiga
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer....
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I think...
- By M Ratcliffe on 2018-09-23
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- Written by: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....
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Pull out your hanky
- By Bryan on 2019-03-09
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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
- Written by: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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For the last 20 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 the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....
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Monkey Beach
- A Novel
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Noelle Kayser
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A young Native American woman remembers her volatile childhood as she searches for her lost brother in the Canadian wilds in an extraordinary, critically acclaimed debut novel....
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Lived inside the story
- By Krow Fischer on 2018-08-14
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Indian Horse
- A Novel
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony....
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Moving Story
- By Leigh Chmilar on 2018-09-21
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Son of a Trickster
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon....
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Excellent Story
- By sannna on 2017-12-18
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The Wife Upstairs
- A Novel
- Written by: Rachel Hawkins
- Narrated by: Emily Shaffer, Kirby Heyborne, Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates - a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded jewelry off the side tables of her clients....
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
- A Novel
- Written by: Cherie Jones
- Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a debut novel, set in Barbados, about four people confronting violence and love in a beachfront “paradise”....
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- Written by: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 52 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-14
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The Things We Cannot Say
- Written by: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....
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A well written, beautiful story about love, sacrifice and family
- By BriM on 2019-07-10
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Cilka's Journey
- Written by: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival....
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How could one person possibly endure all that Cilka did?
- By Alison L on 2019-12-22
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Pachinko
- Written by: Min Jin Lee
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Profoundly moving and gracefully told, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea....
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Great story, mismatched narration
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-08-02
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Everything I Never Told You
- A Novel
- Written by: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation....
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Beautiful
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-03-16
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Crime and Punishment (Recorded Books Edition)
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 25 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is universally regarded as one of literature's finest...
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Great story, amazing narrator
- By Christophe Hotte on 2018-12-19
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Five Little Indians
- A Novel
- Written by: Michelle Good
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention....
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Poor narration,mediocre plot
- By Alan Scheer on 2020-09-16
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The Only Good Indians
- Written by: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American-Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives....
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I like it, good story
- By Kevin Chelsea on 2020-08-18
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Jonny Appleseed
- A Novel
- Written by: Joshua Whitehead
- Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve....
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Buy this book!!!
- By Lara on 2020-07-25
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
- A Novel
- Written by: Christy Lefteri
- Narrated by: Art Malik
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market....
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fantastic
- By fvincenz on 2020-09-22
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Crazy Rich Asians
- Written by: Kevin Kwan
- Narrated by: Lynn Chen
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families....
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Meh
- By Am on 2017-12-12
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Split Tooth
- Written by: Tanya Tagaq
- Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever heard....
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Beautiful, haunting and chilling. It's visceral.
- By JJNeeps on 2019-02-08
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Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Original Recording
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, Macbeth to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition....
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Starlight
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Wesley French
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the best-selling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own....
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Didn't want it to end - and it didn't
- By Anonymous User on 2019-04-01
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Have a Nice Day
- Written by: Billy Crystal, Quinton Peeples
- Narrated by: Justin Bartha, Annette Bening, Dick Cavett, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Billy Crystal leads an all-star cast including Oscar winner Kevin Kline (President David Murray) and four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening (First Lady Katherine Murray) in a performance of this hilarious and poignant story about a man desperately scrambling to put his affairs in order....
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Radio Theatre @ it's best
- By Happy Camper on 2020-07-03
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Frying Plantain
- Written by: Zalika Reid-Benta
- Narrated by: Ordena Stephens-Thompson
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle - of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft”....
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Loved every minute of it
- By Nikki on 2020-12-12
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The Sympathizer
- A Novel
- Written by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Francois Chau
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties....
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A great book for anyone who enjoys a slower pace
- By Louis Savoy on 2018-08-03
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- Written by: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....
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Homeland Elegies
- A Novel
- Written by: Ayad Akhtar
- Narrated by: Ayad Akhtar
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: An immigrant father and his son search for belonging - in post-Trump America, and with each other....
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Beautiful story uninhibitedly told
- By Nasir Sarfraz on 2021-01-02
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Girl Logic
- The Genius and the Absurdity
- Written by: Iliza Shlesinger
- Narrated by: Mayim Bialik, Iliza Shlesinger
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships....
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Amazing.
- By Jess on 2017-12-07
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From a powerful rising literary voice comes Moon of the Crusted Snow, a daring post-apocalyptic novel blending action and allergory....
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Enjoyable for ALL Canadians
- By TheMer on 2020-01-31
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Under the Mexican Moonlight
- A Short Story of Romance
- Written by: A.C. Calloway
- Narrated by: Yabo Obien
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This tender love ballad is set deep in the jungles of Mexico and tells the story of Victoriano and Mira Bella, a young couple madly in love with "enormous proliferations of passion". Laid out in colorful, poetic text with a creative ending told in two letters - one written by Victoriano, the other written by an American artist visiting their beautiful world.
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The Bride of Abydos
- Written by: Lord Byron
- Narrated by: Rob Goll
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this narrative poem, the Pacha, Giaffir, has decreed that his beautiful daughter, Zuleika, is to be married to the rich and elderly Bey of Carasman. She confesses her grief to Selim, her beloved half-brother. Selim entreats Zuleika to meet him in a grotto later that night, where he appears in pirate garb. He declares that they are not brother and sister, but cousins and reveals that Giaffir murdered his father, Abdallah.
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The Music of Jimmy Ojotriste
- Written by: Arturo Hernandez-Sametier
- Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An orphaned boy with long hair to cover scars and a bewitched glass eye is raised by a collective of mariachis in East Los Angeles. Since childhood, Jimmy Ojotriste (sad eye) has busked the teeming Mexican restaurants of the Eastside with violinist Ray Chin and green-eyed tenor Victor Salcedo. At 20, all three boys are in love, stuck, and one of them is dying. What follows is a lyrical quest through the Latin music underground of Los Angeles that will eventually take them from Tijuana to Andalusia.
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The Giaour
- Written by: Lord Byron
- Narrated by: Rob Goll
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The story is of a female slave, Leila, who loves the Giaour, an infidel, and is in consequence bound, thrown in a sack, and drowned in the sea by her Turkish lord, Hassan. In revenge the Giaour kills Hassan, then in grief and remorse banishes himself to a monastery.
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The Road Less Traveled
- Written by: Victor Warren, Harlene Stein
- Narrated by: Victor Warren
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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In this award-winning screenplay, Bee Haden convinces her son, Tom, to drive with her from Los Angeles to Cape Cod. On the road they eventually discover that love is the only thing we can really give our children.
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Quarantine
- Adaptation of Camus' The Plague for the Theater
- Written by: E. Thomalen, Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Robert Rensin
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Quarantine is an adaptation for the theater by E. Thomalen of Albert Camus' The Plague translated by Stuart Gilbert. It is a play in four acts and begins with the observation of rats dying, ending with "freedom" because of the lifting of the quarantine. Not everyone finds freedom to his liking. The characters capture the angst, boredom, grief, heroism, spiritual questioning, villainy, courage and longing brought on by the quarantine and the plague.
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Under the Mexican Moonlight
- A Short Story of Romance
- Written by: A.C. Calloway
- Narrated by: Yabo Obien
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This tender love ballad is set deep in the jungles of Mexico and tells the story of Victoriano and Mira Bella, a young couple madly in love with "enormous proliferations of passion". Laid out in colorful, poetic text with a creative ending told in two letters - one written by Victoriano, the other written by an American artist visiting their beautiful world.
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The Bride of Abydos
- Written by: Lord Byron
- Narrated by: Rob Goll
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this narrative poem, the Pacha, Giaffir, has decreed that his beautiful daughter, Zuleika, is to be married to the rich and elderly Bey of Carasman. She confesses her grief to Selim, her beloved half-brother. Selim entreats Zuleika to meet him in a grotto later that night, where he appears in pirate garb. He declares that they are not brother and sister, but cousins and reveals that Giaffir murdered his father, Abdallah.
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The Music of Jimmy Ojotriste
- Written by: Arturo Hernandez-Sametier
- Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An orphaned boy with long hair to cover scars and a bewitched glass eye is raised by a collective of mariachis in East Los Angeles. Since childhood, Jimmy Ojotriste (sad eye) has busked the teeming Mexican restaurants of the Eastside with violinist Ray Chin and green-eyed tenor Victor Salcedo. At 20, all three boys are in love, stuck, and one of them is dying. What follows is a lyrical quest through the Latin music underground of Los Angeles that will eventually take them from Tijuana to Andalusia.
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The Giaour
- Written by: Lord Byron
- Narrated by: Rob Goll
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The story is of a female slave, Leila, who loves the Giaour, an infidel, and is in consequence bound, thrown in a sack, and drowned in the sea by her Turkish lord, Hassan. In revenge the Giaour kills Hassan, then in grief and remorse banishes himself to a monastery.
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The Road Less Traveled
- Written by: Victor Warren, Harlene Stein
- Narrated by: Victor Warren
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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In this award-winning screenplay, Bee Haden convinces her son, Tom, to drive with her from Los Angeles to Cape Cod. On the road they eventually discover that love is the only thing we can really give our children.
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Quarantine
- Adaptation of Camus' The Plague for the Theater
- Written by: E. Thomalen, Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Robert Rensin
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Quarantine is an adaptation for the theater by E. Thomalen of Albert Camus' The Plague translated by Stuart Gilbert. It is a play in four acts and begins with the observation of rats dying, ending with "freedom" because of the lifting of the quarantine. Not everyone finds freedom to his liking. The characters capture the angst, boredom, grief, heroism, spiritual questioning, villainy, courage and longing brought on by the quarantine and the plague.
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Fiebre Tropical
- A Novel
- Written by: Juliana Delgado Lopera
- Narrated by: Juliana Delgado Lopera
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, 15-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church, replete with Christian salsa, abstinent young dancers, and baptisms for the dead. But there, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic, head of the youth group, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism, Francisca falls in love with Carmen.
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Roots of Yoga
- Written by: James Mallinson, Mark Singleton
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite the immense popularity of yoga today, there is surprisingly little knowledge of its roots among practitioners. This book brings together the core teachings of yoga in the words of their authors, rather than in the secondary versions of modern interpreters. Including key passages from the Upanishads, the Buddhist and Jaina traditions, the yoga sections of the Indian Tantras, and many texts that are being critically translated for the first time, Roots of Yoga provides a comprehensive and immediate insight into the essential texts of the Indian traditions of yoga.
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Creating Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine
- Written by: Bob Blaisdell, Boris Dralyuk - foreword
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature, and we return to her and the novel she propels again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel. Critic and Professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy’s family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process, we see where Tolstoy’s life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways.
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No Heaven for Good Boys
- A Novel
- Written by: Keisha Bush
- Narrated by: Samba Schutte
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother's kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever.
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
- A Novel
- Written by: Cherie Jones
- Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter’s Tunnels. When she’s grown-up, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences.
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From Our Land to Our Land
- Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer
- Written by: Luis J. Rodriguez
- Narrated by: Luis J. Rodriguez
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward.
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Kingdom Cons
- Written by: Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman - translator
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In the court of the “King”, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part narco-lit romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power.
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The Milk Hours
- Written by: John James
- Narrated by: John James
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. “We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories.
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Don't Know Jack: Hunting Lee Child's Jack Reacher
- The Hunt for Jack Reacher Series, Book 1
- Written by: Diane Capri
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Hunting Jack Reacher is a dangerous business, as FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar are about to find out. Otto and Gaspar are by-the-book hunters who know when to break the rules; Reacher is a wanted man, and a stone cold killer when things get personal. But is he friend or enemy? Armed with disinformation, they intend to find out. Only the secrets hidden in Margrave, Georgia, will tell them.
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Lost Oasis
- Zack Tolliver, FBI, Book 8
- Written by: R Lawson Gamble
- Narrated by: Louis B. Jack
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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A world-class scientist goes missing while consulting on a high-stakes project, the construction of an electric storage battery in the deserted pits of the old Kaiser Iron mines. Did this eccentric world-renown hydrologist simply wander off? Or was his fate more ominous? FBI Supervisory Agent Janice Hooper assigns Zack Tolliver, FBI, to the investigation. When someone plants a bomb in his Jeep the day he arrives, Zack realizes there is more at stake than anyone knew. Soon, he finds himself in a desperate duel with an unknown assassin who may very well be more than his match.
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Alexa, What Is There to Know About Love?
- Written by: Brian Bilston
- Narrated by: Brian Bilston
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Alexa, What Is There to Know About Love? is a wonderful collection of poems about love in all its forms, covering everything from romantic love to familial love, to long-distance love and even love on the internet. The collection also features poems about the true passions for many booklovers, reading and literature, and the odd one about the subject causing many of us heartbreak: politics. With titles like ‘Hold My Hand While We Jump Off This Cliff’ and ‘Remembrance of Things Pasta’, there’s something for even the most jaded romantic within.
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The Transmigration of Bodies
- Written by: Yuri Herrera
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.