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  • The New Kings of Nonfiction

    by Ira Glass ...
    A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure- capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction.An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the producer and host of the award-winning public radio program This American Life.These pieces-on teenage white collar criminals, buying a cow, Saddam ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

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    David Rakoff's Half Empty and Sloane Crosley's How Did You Get This Number

    by David Rakoff, Sloane Crosby ...
    Narrated by Ira Glass ...
    Series series Thalia Book Club

    Unabridged

    1 hour 24 min

    The whip-smart and funny authors of the essay collections Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rakoff) and I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Crosley) join up to examine our contemporary culture and the many ways life can go awry in New York City, as presented in their new books. Ira Glass (This American Life) will introduce the authors. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

    Stories

    by Etgar Keret ...
    Narrated by Ira Glass, Willem Dafoe ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    A dark and surreal collection of stories from the author of The Nimrod Flipout and The Girl on the Fridge. With Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, "It's tempting to say," according to Jonathan Safran Foer, "[these stories] are his most Kafkaesque, but in fact they are his most Keretesque."Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret's short story ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Dear Librarian

    by Lydia M. Sigwarth ...
    Narrated by Lydia M. Sigwarth, Ira Glass ...

    Unabridged

    12 min

    When Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma's house to Aunt Linda's house to Cousin Alice's house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed: Lydia's mom took her to a new place?not a house but a big building with stone columns and tall tall steps. The library. In the library, Lydia found her special spot across from the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Eating the Dinosaur

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    Narrated by Chuck Klosterman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 39 min

    After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.Q: What is this book about?A: Well, that’s difficult to say. I haven’t read it yet—I’ve just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Chuck Klosterman IV

    A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    Narrated by Chuck Klosterman ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 7 min

    Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling essayist and pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman assembles his best music journalism and media commentary previously unavailable in book form—including the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Killing Yourself to Live

    85% of a True Story

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the spanof twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end-one by choice, one bychance, and one by exhaustion. He snorted cocaine in a graveyard. He walked a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

    A Low Culture Manifesto

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    Narrated by Chuck Klosterman ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 57 min

    From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture—set in Chuck Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power of the Dixie Chicks.Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner

    A Family Memoir

    by Meir Shalev ...
    Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev's birth. Here we meet Shalev's amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family's biggest enemy in their ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Lawgiver

    A Novel

    by Herman Wouk ...
    Narrated by Peter Riegert, Zosia Mamet ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    "A lighthearted and delightful tour de force" (The Washington Times).A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day, The Lawgiver is a story that emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, Skype transcripts, and text messages.At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Guide for the Perplexed

    A Novel

    by Dara Horn ...
    Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 34 min

    A thrilling new novel exploring how memory shapes the soul, by "an astonishing storyteller" (Financial Times)Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented a program that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos, Josie is kidnapped—leaving Judith free to usurp ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    True Believers

    A Novel

    by Kurt Andersen ...
    Narrated by Vanessa Hart ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 41 min

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • San Francisco ChronicleIn True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive storytelling ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook