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Marvellous Equations of the Dread, The

A Novel In Bass Riddim

by Marcia Douglas ...

Narrated by Marcia Douglas ...

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9 hours 45 min

“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book ... Read more

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“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book
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The Marvellous Equations of the Dread

A Novel in Bass Riddim

by Marcia Douglas ...

The ancestors have awakened. Somebody has called them. The long-dead are stirring. Jah ways are mysterious ways.“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall ... Read more

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The ancestors have awakened. Somebody has called them. The long-dead are stirring. Jah ways are mysterious ways.“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall
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The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive

being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs

by Marcia Douglas ...

FINALIST FOR THE 2026 OCM BOCAS PRIZEA startling new dream-like vision of Jamaica—a work of surreal poetic fiction, lavishly studded with ecological prayers, drawings, and footnotes about healing herbs, disappearing flora-fauna, and buried herstories—by Whiting Award winner Marcia DouglasZooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and ... Read more

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FINALIST FOR THE 2026 OCM BOCAS PRIZEA startling new dream-like vision of Jamaica—a work of surreal poetic fiction, lavishly studded with ecological prayers, drawings, and footnotes about healing herbs, disappearing flora-fauna, and buried herstories—by Whiting Award winner Marcia DouglasZooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and
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Trenton Makes

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by Tadzio Koelb ...

Narrated by Mozhan Marnò ...

Unabridged

5 hours 34 min

**"A novel of bewitching ingenuity, one whose darkling, melodic mind conceives a world of ruin and awe..." --New York Times Book ReviewA vivid, brutal, razor-sharp debut about a woman who carves out her share of the American Dream by living as a man**1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in ... Read more

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**"A novel of bewitching ingenuity, one whose darkling, melodic mind conceives a world of ruin and awe..." --New York Times Book ReviewA vivid, brutal, razor-sharp debut about a woman who carves out her share of the American Dream by living as a man**1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in
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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You

by Carribean Fragoza ...

Narrated by Marisa Blake ...

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3 hours 48 min

In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small ... Read more

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In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small
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The Watermen

The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold

by Michael Loynd ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

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12 hours 36 min

**The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal)“Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the ... Read more

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**The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal)“Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the
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Tides

by Sara Freeman ...

Narrated by Amy Rutherford ...

Unabridged

4 hours 21 min

Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and ... Read more

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Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and
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Walking on Cowrie Shells

Stories

by Nana Nkweti ...

Narrated by Zoleka Vundla ...

Unabridged

6 hours 51 min

In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story "It Takes a Village, Some Say," Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her ... Read more

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In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story "It Takes a Village, Some Say," Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her
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Feasting Wild

In Search of the Last Untamed Food

by Gina Rae La Cerva ...

Narrated by Gina Rae La Cerva ...

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11 hours 11 min

A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection“Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have lost since then.”—The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. ... Read more

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A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection“Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have lost since then.”—The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries, served to the wealthy in top restaurants.
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Wreck and Order

A Novel

by Hannah Tennant-Moore ...

Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella ...

Unabridged

10 hours 57 min

A boldly candid, raw portrait of a young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent worldPurposefully aimless, self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels lost. She's in a tumultuous relationship, is stuck in a dead-end job, and has a relentless, sharp intelligence that’s at odds with her many bad decisions. When her initial attempts to ... Read more

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A boldly candid, raw portrait of a young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent worldPurposefully aimless, self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels lost. She's in a tumultuous relationship, is stuck in a dead-end job, and has a relentless, sharp intelligence that’s at odds with her many bad decisions. When her initial attempts to
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City of a Thousand Gates

A Novel

by Bee Sacks ...

Narrated by Lameece Issaq ...

Unabridged

13 hours 49 min

Anovel of great humanity, compassion and astonishing immediacy, this uniquedebut portrays the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank andthe irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A collage of narrative voicesand different points of view are woven around the murder of two young people,one Israeli and one Palestinian.Brave and bold, this gorgeouslywritten work of fiction ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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Anovel of great humanity, compassion and astonishing immediacy, this uniquedebut portrays the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank andthe irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A collage of narrative voicesand different points of view are woven around the murder of two young people,one Israeli and one Palestinian.Brave and bold, this gorgeouslywritten work of fiction
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Milk Blood Heat

Stories

by Dantiel W. Moniz ...

Narrated by Machelle Williams ...

Unabridged

5 hours 31 min

A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, ... Read more

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A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls,
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