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“alex karpovsky”

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    The Seven Good Years

    A Memoir

    by Etgar Keret ...
    Narrated by Alex Karpovsky ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 33 min

    A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Certain American States

    Stories

    by Catherine Lacey ...
    Narrated by Lisa Flanagan, Alex Karpovsky, Thérèse Plummer ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    From one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists comes Certain American States, whose insightful and lonely stories beg you to discover the emotional universes hiding at their cores.The winner of a Whiting Award, Catherine Lacey brings her narrative mastery to Certain American States, her first collection of short stories. As with her acclaimed novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers, ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD

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    Instructions for a Funeral

    Stories

    by David Means ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    "Poetic, insightful, and deeply moving. David Means is one of my very favorite writers." —Tara Westover, author of EducatedFollowing the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means here returns to his signature form: the short story. Thanks to his four previous story collections, Means has won himself an international reputation as one of the most ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

    by Etgar Keret ...
    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 25 min

    Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller.Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    The Expectations

    by Alexander Tilney ...
    Narrated by Michael Crouch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    From "a dazzling new voice in American fiction" (Jennifer Egan), a finely drawn portrait of American privilege and a subtle exploration of class, race, and tradition.St. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders. Ben Weeks is a true insider -- his ancestors helped found St. James, his older brother taught him all the slang, and he's just won a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Frenzy

    Stories

    by Joyce Carol Oates ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Linda Jones, January LaVoy, Ann Marie Lee, Kelli Tager, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Matt Godfrey, Amy Jensen, Max Meyers ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    **A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories about characters on the brink by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine)“A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai“One of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn**“Haunting . . . masterfully orchestrated . ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    The Water Museum

    Stories

    by Luis Alberto Urrea ...
    Narrated by Luis Alberto Urrea ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    This hard-hitting, beautiful short story collection from one of America's preeminent literary voices “reflect[s] both sides of his Mexican-American heritage while stretching the reader's understanding of human boundaries” (Kirkus).Examining the borders between one nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals his mastery of the short form. This collection includes the Edgar ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    A Different Kind of Tension

    New and Selected Stories

    by Jonathan Lethem ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Lethem, Jim Meskimen, John Pirhalla, Pete Simonelli, Micky Shiloah, Sophie Amoss ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 40 min

    A definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form“Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger. All of Lethem’s stories are enlivened by his wit and provocative wordplay.” —Chicago TribuneThis dazzling, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Lethem features seven major stories published ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Daddy

    Stories

    by Emma Cline ...
    Narrated by Natasha Soudek ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    **From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.“Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—EsquireNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY**An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Eleven

    by Patricia Highsmith ...
    Narrated by Steve Marvel ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed, bestselling author in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States.Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Lioness

    Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

    by Francine Klagsbrun ...
    Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 12 min

    Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    All We Say

    The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches

    by Ben Rhodes ...
    Narrated by Ben Rhodes, Various ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 39 min

    **What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters.“At a time of moral and political drift, Ben Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds like, and what it means.” ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook