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“leila mottley”

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  • The Girls Who Grew Big

    A Novel

    by Leila Mottley ...
    From the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times best seller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle.Adela is sixteen years old. When she tells her parents she's pregnant, they send her from their home in Indiana to her grandmother’s in Padua Beach, Florida, "a town ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Nightcrawling

    A novel

    by Leila Mottley ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There).A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • woke up no light

    poems

    by Leila Mottley ...
    A poignant and rousing debut book of poetry from the acclaimed, bestselling author of the novel Nightcrawling, also the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California.Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first collection of poems that demonstrate her energy and range. woke up no light is full of heart and edge, subtlety and fluidity. Moving in sections ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Nightcrawling

    A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

    by Leila Mottley ...
    Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 48 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There).A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    The Girls Who Grew Big

    A Novel

    by Leila Mottley ...
    Narrated by AhDream Smith, Erin Spencer, Khaya Fraites ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 50 min

    **From the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle.“Blistering, wise, empathetic. . . . Mottley writes with unabashed reverence for these young mothers. . . valuing them on the page in all the ways they are not valued ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    woke up no light

    poems

    by Leila Mottley ...
    Narrated by Leila Mottley ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 32 min

    A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, Californiawoke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting.Moving in sections from ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    by Fran Littlewood ...
    Narrated by Fiona Button ...

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite?Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They’re well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    We, the Kindling

    A Novel

    by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek ...
    Narrated by Shelby Mwambu ...

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    **WINNER OF THE 2026 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE • Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2025 • CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2025“There is so much care in the way Bitek alchemizes living memory. It’s folk tale, documentary and precise prose woven into a transformative novel.” —Valérie Bah, author of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    My Other Heart: A Read with Jenna Pick

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    by Emma Nanami Strenner ...
    Narrated by Joy Osmanski ...

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    **READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY“A mesmerizing novel filled with different types of love and secrets from the past.” —Jean Kwok*, New York Times* bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie LeeA missing child, two girls in search of their true identities--a stunning novel of mothers, daughters and best friends**In June 1998, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her ... Read more

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    You've Changed

    by Ian Williams ...
    Narrated by Eli Ham ...

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    **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZEA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe eagerly awaited follow-up novel from the Giller prize-winning author of Reproduction, You’ve Changed is a daring and clever dissection of a crumbling marriage between two people who are morphing in ways that confound each other.**Middle-aged and about to be dumped from his construction job, Beckett ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    Nesting

    A Novel

    by Roisín O'Donnell ...
    Narrated by Louisa Harland ...

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    10 hours 12 min

    In this beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over.On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and ... Read more

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    Dominion

    A Novel

    by Addie E. Citchens ...
    Narrated by Andre Giles, Angel Pean, Bahni Turpin, Dion Graham ...

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    "This novel will grab you in the gut and hold you there. It’s absolutely outstanding. Once I entered this world I didn’t want to leave.” —Roxane Gay, author of Opinions"The cast delivers powerfully nuanced performances. [Narrator] Dion Graham’s Sabre is both cringe-inducingly unctuous and disturbingly seductive. [Narrator] Bahni Turpin’s Priscilla is piercing, hilarious and sympathetic in her ... Read more

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