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How to Love a Jamaican

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by Alexia Arthurs ...

**“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie SmithAn O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick**Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about ... Read more

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**“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie SmithAn O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick**Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about
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How to Love a Jamaican

Stories

by Alexia Arthurs ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards, Adenrele Ojo, Dominic Hoffman, James Fouhey ...

Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

**“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie SmithAn O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl’sPick**Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about ... Read more

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**“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie SmithAn O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl’sPick**Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about
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Ploughshares Summer 2022 Guest-edited by Jamel Brinkley

by Jamel Brinkley, Maria Anderson, Alexia Arthurs, Marian Crotty, Ben Fergusson, Rav Grewal-Kök, JP Gritton, Arinze Ifeakandu, Dana Liebelson, Gabriel Louis, Gothataone Moeng, Lauren Morrow, Iheoma Nwachukwu, Analía Villagra, Vernon Wilson ...

As Jamel Brinkley writes in his introduction, “As I undertook the pleasurable task of reaching out to writers whose work I love for this issue, I realized I wanted voices that were both skillful and troubling.... I ultimately allowed myself to be guided by my ear. I ended up with a clutch of workthat, to my ear, sang with what Lorca calls “a scorched throat,” forms of eloquence that lean into ... Read more

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As Jamel Brinkley writes in his introduction, “As I undertook the pleasurable task of reaching out to writers whose work I love for this issue, I realized I wanted voices that were both skillful and troubling.... I ultimately allowed myself to be guided by my ear. I ended up with a clutch of workthat, to my ear, sang with what Lorca calls “a scorched throat,” forms of eloquence that lean into
... Read more

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Neruda on the Park

A Novel

by Cleyvis Natera ...

Narrated by Imani Russell, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Alma Cuervo ...

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13 hours 33 min

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!”—Tayari Jones, New York Times ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!”—Tayari Jones, New York Times
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The Affairs of the Falcóns

A Novel

by Melissa Rivero ...

Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to ... Read more

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A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to
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The God of Good Looks

A Novel

by Breanne Mc Ivor ...

Narrated by Varia Williams, Alexis Rodney ...

Unabridged

10 hours 40 min

An NPR best book of the year and recommended by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, Zibby Mag, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and Katie Couric Media!""A summer read with bite.”—NPRDisgraced model-writer Bianca Bridge can’t stand hotshot makeup maven Obadiah Cortland. And he lets her know the feeling is mutual. But when working together is their last resort, they must navigate scandal, revenge, and unexpected ... Read more

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An NPR best book of the year and recommended by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, Zibby Mag, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and Katie Couric Media!""A summer read with bite.”—NPRDisgraced model-writer Bianca Bridge can’t stand hotshot makeup maven Obadiah Cortland. And he lets her know the feeling is mutual. But when working together is their last resort, they must navigate scandal, revenge, and unexpected
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

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by Denis Johnson ...

Narrated by Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, Dermot Mulroney, Will Patton ...

Unabridged

5 hours 17 min

Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis JohnsonThe Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis JohnsonThe Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this
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Dimestore

A Writer's Life

by Lee Smith ...

Narrated by Linda Stephens ...

Unabridged

6 hours 13 min

In her first work of nonfiction, Lee Smith deploys the wit, wisdom, and graceful prose for which she is beloved to conjure her early days in the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia-and beyond. For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story ... Read more

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In her first work of nonfiction, Lee Smith deploys the wit, wisdom, and graceful prose for which she is beloved to conjure her early days in the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia-and beyond. For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story
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Nightbloom

A Novel

by Peace Adzo Medie ...

**Inseparable when they were girls but now estranged, cousins Akorfa and Selasi have to repair the silences between them or lose each other forever in this moving novel set in Ghana and America from the author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife.“Stunning.” —Destiny O. Birdsong, author of Nobody’s Magic**When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they ... Read more

$11.99 USD

**Inseparable when they were girls but now estranged, cousins Akorfa and Selasi have to repair the silences between them or lose each other forever in this moving novel set in Ghana and America from the author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife.“Stunning.” —Destiny O. Birdsong, author of Nobody’s Magic**When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they
... Read more
The Sun Sets in Singapore

A Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick

by Kehinde Fadipe ...

A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club PickBasking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream—until a mysterious (not to mention handsome) new arrival infiltrates their tight-knit community and ruins everything**: "Wanderlust-inducing" (Lola Akinmade Åkerström, international bestselling author).**The Lion City has gone by many names and is famous ... Read more

$14.99 USD

A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club PickBasking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream—until a mysterious (not to mention handsome) new arrival infiltrates their tight-knit community and ruins everything**: "Wanderlust-inducing" (Lola Akinmade Åkerström, international bestselling author).**The Lion City has gone by many names and is famous
... Read more
The Bookshop Sisterhood

A Novel

by Michelle Lindo-Rice ...

**“**This drama-packed page turner will warm your heart!” —Eliza Knight, USA Today bestselling author of The Mayfair BookshopWhen life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through.After years of hard work, four best friends—Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni and Leslie—are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of their dreams. A place where their community can find solace with an ... Read more

$9.99 USD

**“**This drama-packed page turner will warm your heart!” —Eliza Knight, USA Today bestselling author of The Mayfair BookshopWhen life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through.After years of hard work, four best friends—Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni and Leslie—are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of their dreams. A place where their community can find solace with an
... Read more
Dust Child

A Novel

by Que Mai Phan Nguyen ...

Finalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. From the bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the war in Việt Nam."Powerful and deeply empathetic. A heartbreaking tale of lost ideals, human devotion, and hard-won ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. From the bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the war in Việt Nam."Powerful and deeply empathetic. A heartbreaking tale of lost ideals, human devotion, and hard-won
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