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  • The Girl Who Smiled Beads

    A Story of War and What Comes After

    by Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil ...
    A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us.Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were "thunder." In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    The Girl Who Smiled Beads

    A Story of War and What Comes After

    by Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not—could not—live in that tale.”Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Putin Country

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    by Anne Garrles ...
    Narrated by Anne Garrels ...

    Unabridged

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    More than twenty years ago, longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's collapse.On her trips to an area once closed to the West, Garrels discovered a populace for whom the new democratic freedoms were as traumatic as ... Read more

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    Cold Warriors

    Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

    by Duncan White ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

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    A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could ... Read more

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    The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work

    by Joanne Lipman ...
    Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

    Unabridged

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    The ultimate guide to mastering change and successfully reinventing how you live, work, and lead“Filled with useful ideas for rethinking your next steps.” —Adam GrantPorchlight Business Book Awards WinnerThe profound disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning. We reprioritized our lives, and reordered how we envisioned the future. Businesses were forced to pivot, while leaders ... Read more

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    Fulfillment

    Winning and Losing in One-Click America

    by Alec MacGillis ...
    Narrated by Danny Gavigan ...

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    An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth “a billion dollars” that underpaid its workers while forcing them to engage in repetitive and sometimes ... Read more

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    Edison's Ghosts

    The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses

    by Katie Spalding ...
    Narrated by Susie Riddell ...

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    10 hours 53 min

    Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known.“As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie ... Read more

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  • Putin Country

    A Journey into the Real Russia

    by Anne Garrels ...
    Short-listed for the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeFrom the award-winning author of Naked in Baghdad comes Anne Garrels's revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians, Putin Country.More than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, ... Read more

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  • The Great Escape

    A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

    by Saket Soni ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book of 2023Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore PrizeThe astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—an "eye-opening" "must-read" told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship (The New York Times Book Review).**In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian ... Read more

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  • Humane

    How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    "[A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." —Jackson Lears, The New York Review of BooksA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or ... Read more

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  • The Empress and the English Doctor

    How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus

    by Lucy Ward ...
    A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FARShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022‘Sparkling history…with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking’ The TimesA killer virus…an all-powerful Empress…an encounter cloaked in secrecy…the astonishing true story.Within living memory, smallpox was a dreaded disease. Over human history it has killed... ... Read more

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  • The Earth Transformed

    An Untold History

    by Peter Frankopan ...
    A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time*The ebook edition now includes endnotes. Anyone who purchased the book previously can re-download this updated edition and access the notes.*Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as ... Read more

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