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“alexander aitken”

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  • Gallipoli to the Somme

    Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman

    by Alexander Aitken ...
    Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Western Front. Aitken also loved poetry and knew the Aeneid and Paradise Lost by heart. His powers ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The School of Night

    A Novel

    by Karl Ove Knausgaard ...
    Narrated by Rory Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 27 min

    London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all.Kristian Hadeland, young and ambitious, has moved to London to study photography; he knows that he and his art are destined for more. His family never understood him, and his fellow photography students bore him. But when he meets Hans, an eccentric Dutch artist, the future he yearns for is possible—as long as he ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

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    The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

    by Kim Leine ...
    Narrated by Elijah Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 27 min

    The award-winning, internationally bestselling saga of a Greenlandic community torn apart by the forces of colonialism and the one priest whose wavering guidance will determine its fateIdealistic, foolhardy Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. He’s rejected the prospect of a sleepy posting in a local parish and instead ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Morning Star

    by Karl Ove Knausgaard ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Mia Barron, Michael Braun, Alyssa Bresnahan, Hannah Cabell, Michael Crouch, Elisabeth Rodgers, Graham Winton, Leah Horowitz ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 11 min

    Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The morning star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun.One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage.Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, ... Read more

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    My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

    A Fiction

    by Deborah Levy ...
    Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 55 min

    In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.This program is read by Audie Award–winning narrator Kristin Atherton."[Kristin Atherton's] narration is cool, precise and perfectly paced." — The Guardian"[Narrator Kristin] Atherton's delivery of [author Deborah] Levy's curious turns of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Sixth Nik

    by Daniel Kraus ...
    Narrated by Kimberly Woods ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 21 min

    Perfectly aligned for readers of Iain M. Banks’s The Culture series and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, The Sixth Nik is a galaxy spanning adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Angel Down and Whalefall.Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness... ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Peace

    by Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman ...
    Narrated by David Pittu ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer’s imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    One Sun Only

    Stories

    by Camille Bordas ...
    Narrated by Vas Eli, Ferdelle Capistrano, Saskia Maarleveld, Michael Crouch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    A stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from “one of our greatest living short story writers” (Esquire), the author of How to Behave in a Crowd and The MaterialONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE SUMMER AND ONE OF THE NEW YORKER AND ESQUIRE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)“Camille Bordas is an expert chronicler of misfits. . . . [These stories] ran... ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Gravedigger’s Almanac

    A Novel

    by Oliver Pötzsch ...
    Narrated by Rupert Bush ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - A Leopold von Herzfeldt Case

    Unabridged

    13 hours 49 min

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Hangman's Daughter returns with the first volume in a brand-new mystery series which introduces a gravedigger and young inspector who must stop a serial killer in fin de siecle Vienna—the period during which modern criminology was born.Vienna, 1893. A gravedigger at the city’s famous Central Cemetery, Augustin Rothmayer is an unorthodox yet highly ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Glyph

    A Novel

    by Ali Smith ...
    Narrated by Lesley Sharp ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    From a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.Ghosts don’t exist.They don’t. End of.Story, however.It is haunting.Everything tells it.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Is it imaginary? Is it r... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Midnight Kingdom

    by Tara Sim ...
    Narrated by Nikki Patel ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 37 min

    In this “glorious tapestry of magic and murderous gods” (Buzzfeed News) each heir walks a dangerous path, attempting to undo the damage the gods have wrought across the four realms, but they live on borrowed time—and not all of them will survive.A cataclysmic battle to save the city of Nexus has left the four noble heirs scattered across the realms.Taesia, the shadow-wielding rebel of House ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    The Magnificent Ruins

    by Nayantara Roy ...
    Narrated by Deepa Samuel ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 12 min

    In this "rare feast" of a novel, an Indian woman inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy).Lila De is on the verge of a career breakthrough when she gets a call from her mother in Kolkata, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate–so she returns home after a decade with no contact. Her ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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