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The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

by Luis Sepulveda ...

A Cat, A Seagull, An Impossible Task...Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a big black cat from the port of Hamburg. The cat promises the seagull to look after the egg, not to eat the chick once it's hatched and - most difficult of all - to teach the baby gull to fly. Will Zorba and his feline friends ... Read more

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A Cat, A Seagull, An Impossible Task...Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a big black cat from the port of Hamburg. The cat promises the seagull to look after the egg, not to eat the chick once it's hatched and - most difficult of all - to teach the baby gull to fly. Will Zorba and his feline friends
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

A Novel

by Luis Sepúlveda ...

Translated by Peter Bush ...

“Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.”—New York TimesNow in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which the peaceful life of an aging, book-loving widower in the Ecuadorean jungle is upended when an ignorant tourist provokes a mother ocelot.Antonio José Bolivar Proaño lives quietly in a river town in the ... Read more

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“Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.”—New York TimesNow in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which the peaceful life of an aging, book-loving widower in the Ecuadorean jungle is upended when an ignorant tourist provokes a mother ocelot.Antonio José Bolivar Proaño lives quietly in a river town in the
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The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow

by Luis Sepulveda ...

In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we all have our own names? When he is finally banished from the snail community because of this, he is forced to travel the world alone. As he explores in his oh-so-slow way, the snail makes new friends and goes on a series of adventures, gaining wisdom from every new ... Read more

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In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we all have our own names? When he is finally banished from the snail community because of this, he is forced to travel the world alone. As he explores in his oh-so-slow way, the snail makes new friends and goes on a series of adventures, gaining wisdom from every new
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

A Novel

by Luis Sepúlveda ...

Narrated by Ian Guerra ...

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3 hours 11 min

“Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.”—New York TimesNow in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which the peaceful life of an aging, book-loving widower in the Ecuadorean jungle is upended when an ignorant tourist provokes a mother ocelot.Antonio José Bolivar Proaño lives quietly in a river town in the ... Read more

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“Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.”—New York TimesNow in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which the peaceful life of an aging, book-loving widower in the Ecuadorean jungle is upended when an ignorant tourist provokes a mother ocelot.Antonio José Bolivar Proaño lives quietly in a river town in the
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The Lost Steps

by Alejo Carpentier ...

Narrated by Caleb Summers ...

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10 hours 57 min

**“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction ... Read more

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**“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction
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All Day Is A Long Time

by David Sanchez ...

Narrated by Robb Moreira ...

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6 hours 46 min

One of The Millions' ""Most Anticipated Books of 2022""One of PureWow’s ""10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January""One of BookShop.org's ""Notable New Releases""One of The New York Times Book Review’s ""16 New Books Coming in January""One of Poets & Writers' ""New and Noteworthy Books”""David Sanchez's first novel—brillia... ... Read more

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One of The Millions' ""Most Anticipated Books of 2022""One of PureWow’s ""10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January""One of BookShop.org's ""Notable New Releases""One of The New York Times Book Review’s ""16 New Books Coming in January""One of Poets & Writers' ""New and Noteworthy Books”""David Sanchez's first novel—brillia...
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Bad Habit

A Novel

by Alana S. Portero ...

Narrated by Alexandra Grey ...

Unabridged

5 hours 36 min

Dua Lipa's September Book Club Pick!Included in The Guardian's Best Translated Fiction of 2024""[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be."" –New York Times""A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans."" –Washington PostCombining the raw realism a... ... Read more

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Dua Lipa's September Book Club Pick!Included in The Guardian's Best Translated Fiction of 2024""[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be."" –New York Times""A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans."" –Washington PostCombining the raw realism a...
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Yours for the Taking

A Novel

by Gabrielle Korn ...

Narrated by Jasmin Savoy Brown ...

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9 hours 39 min

"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFileThe year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside ... Read more

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"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFileThe year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside
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The Afterpains

by Anna Julia Stainsby ...

Narrated by Hailey Gillis, Dianne Aguilar, Rebecca Auerbach, Diana Pou ...

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8 hours 24 min

**LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDS“Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book.” —Reema Patel, author of Such Big DreamsGorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland—told in the voices of four distinct narrators.**Nearly twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, ... Read more

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDS“Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book.” —Reema Patel, author of Such Big DreamsGorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland—told in the voices of four distinct narrators.**Nearly twenty years after the death of her infant daughter,
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Crooked Seeds

A Novel

by Karen Jennings ...

Narrated by Fiona Ramsay ...

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5 hours 2 min

**A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt—from the Booker Prize–longlisted author of An Island.“Extraordinary . . . unputdownable.”—Roddy DoyleLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Guardian, Irish Times, CrimeReads**Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks ... Read more

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**A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt—from the Booker Prize–longlisted author of An Island.“Extraordinary . . . unputdownable.”—Roddy DoyleLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Guardian, Irish Times, CrimeReads**Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks
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Strega

A Novel

by Johanne Lykke Holm ...

Narrated by Kristen Sieh ...

Unabridged

4 hours 26 min

**“Strega left me breathless, angry, and then thrilled by the dare it leaves in the reader's lap.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and The Chronology of WaterPowerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a remote Alpine hotel and what happens when one of them goes missing**With toiletries, hairbands, and notebooks in her bag, and at her mother ... Read more

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**“Strega left me breathless, angry, and then thrilled by the dare it leaves in the reader's lap.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and The Chronology of WaterPowerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a remote Alpine hotel and what happens when one of them goes missing**With toiletries, hairbands, and notebooks in her bag, and at her mother
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A View from the Stars

Stories and Essays

by Cixin Liu ...

Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

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6 hours 11 min

"Narrator Brian Nishii perfectly conveys the author's joy and feelings of isolation at discovering science fiction as a child, the exhilaration of world-building as a science fiction writer, and the imaginative process of predicting our world in 50 years."—AudioFile"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between ... Read more

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"Narrator Brian Nishii perfectly conveys the author's joy and feelings of isolation at discovering science fiction as a child, the exhilaration of world-building as a science fiction writer, and the imaginative process of predicting our world in 50 years."—AudioFile"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between
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