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  • Last Summer in the City

    A Novel

    by Gianfranco Calligarich, André Aciman ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times bestselling author André Aciman.In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Last Summer in the City

    A Novel

    by Gianfranco Calligarich ...
    Narrated by Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 47 min

    The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times bestselling author André Aciman.In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose ... Read more

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    The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction.Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment ... Read more

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    Oromay

    by Baalu Girma ...
    Narrated by Beru Tessema ...

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    December 1981, Ethiopia. Tsegaye Hailemaryam, a well-known journalist for the state-run media, has just landed in Asmara. He is on assignment as the head of propaganda for the Red Star campaign, a massive effort by the Ethiopian government to end the Eritrean insurgency. There, amid the city's bars and coffeehouses buzzing with spies and government agents, he juggles the demands of his superiors ... Read more

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    The Rainbow

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    by Yasunari Kawabata ...
    Narrated by Ami Okumura Jones ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 55 min

    Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country.With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. ... Read more

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    The Road to the Salt Sea

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    by Samuel Kolawole ...
    Narrated by Atta Otigba ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must ... Read more

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    The Details

    A Novel

    by Ia Genberg ...
    Narrated by Julie Maisey ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 54 min

    Featured in The New Yorker's ""Best Books of 2023"" *Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize""The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of reading — how it forces the reader inward, then leaves an invisible imprint in its wake. Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the ... Read more

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    Blue Ruin

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    by Hari Kunzru ...
    Narrated by Hari Kunzru ...

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    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, capital, art and those who devote their lives to creating itOnce, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was not to happen. Now, undocumented in the United States, ... Read more

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    What Are You Looking At?

    The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

    by Will Gompertz ...
    Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

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    For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London's Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join ... Read more

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    Retrospective

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    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    Narrated by Sheldon Romero ...

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    An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions.The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended ... Read more

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    Square Haunting

    Five Writers in London Between the Wars

    by Francesca Wade ...
    Narrated by Corrie James ...

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    Mecklenburgh Square has always been a radical address. Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, these townhouses have borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. United by their desire to experiment with new ways of living—and therefore of being—these authors and thinkers were trailblazers in their commitment to creative ... Read more

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  • Dear Dickhead

    A Novel

    by Virginie Despentes ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    A New Yorker best book of 2024 | A Financial Times Best Translated Book of 2024 | Shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award in Prose | Nominated for the DUBLIN Literary AwardLibrary Science September book club pick | A Vulture most anticipated bookOne of The New York Times’ 24 works of fiction to read ... ... Read more

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