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Mudflowers

by Aley Waterman ...

FINALST FOR THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD**“A gorgeous depiction of the tender, painful stretching required to love well and expansively, to recast our ideas of romance and family.” — Aimee Wall, author of We, JaneIn the year following her mother’s death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner.**It’s the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and ... Read more

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FINALST FOR THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD**“A gorgeous depiction of the tender, painful stretching required to love well and expansively, to recast our ideas of romance and family.” — Aimee Wall, author of We, JaneIn the year following her mother’s death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner.**It’s the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and
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Mudflowers

by Aley Waterman ...

Narrated by Stephanie Willing ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

In the year following her mother’s death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner.It’s the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and everybody is twenty-seven and making some kind of art. In the wake of her mother’s death, Sophie pays rent by making stained glass mosaics for rich people and plays house with her childhood friend and sometimes ... Read more

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In the year following her mother’s death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner.It’s the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and everybody is twenty-seven and making some kind of art. In the wake of her mother’s death, Sophie pays rent by making stained glass mosaics for rich people and plays house with her childhood friend and sometimes
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Born in a House of Glass

by Chinenye Emezie ...

Narrated by Nene Nwoko ...

Unabridged

12 hours 3 min

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It's about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war. The type fought in the heart. It began long before I was formed.Udonwa's family is at war—a war of relationships, played out under the tyranny of a monster dad. Age twelve, Udonwa has a peculiar love for ... Read more

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As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It's about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war. The type fought in the heart. It began long before I was formed.Udonwa's family is at war—a war of relationships, played out under the tyranny of a monster dad. Age twelve, Udonwa has a peculiar love for
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Lump

by Nathan Whitlock ...

Narrated by Lisa Cordileone ...

Unabridged

9 hours 22 min

A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done ... Read more

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A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done
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Ordinary Human Failings

A Novel

by Megan Nolan ...

Narrated by Jessica Regan ...

Unabridged

5 hours 41 min

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from “huge literary talent” (Karl Ove Knausgaard) and internationally bestselling author Megan Nolan.It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ... Read more

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When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from “huge literary talent” (Karl Ove Knausgaard) and internationally bestselling author Megan Nolan.It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce
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All the Little Bird-Hearts

A Novel

by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow ...

Narrated by Rose Akroyd ...

Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, this poetic and often funny debut by an author with autism is written from the point of view of an autistic mother as she and her headstrong adolescent daughter are befriended by a glamorous, charismatic couple with dark ulterior motives.I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old ... Read more

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Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, this poetic and often funny debut by an author with autism is written from the point of view of an autistic mother as she and her headstrong adolescent daughter are befriended by a glamorous, charismatic couple with dark ulterior motives.I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old
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Eartheater

A Novel

by Dolores Reyes ...

Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

Unabridged

3 hours 56 min

NAMED A ""FALL 2020 MUST-READ"" AND ONE OF THE ""BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020"" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, WIRED, COSMOPOLITAN AND MOREElectrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the ... Read more

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NAMED A ""FALL 2020 MUST-READ"" AND ONE OF THE ""BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020"" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, WIRED, COSMOPOLITAN AND MOREElectrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the
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People Collide

A Novel

by Isle McElroy ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning, Aida Reluzco ...

Unabridged

6 hours 42 min

“One of the year's most compelling reads.”—Washington Post“Its naturalness and ease with the most fundamental questions of existence make it a big project knocking around in a small package.”—New York TimesFrom the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians, a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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“One of the year's most compelling reads.”—Washington Post“Its naturalness and ease with the most fundamental questions of existence make it a big project knocking around in a small package.”—New York TimesFrom the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians, a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true
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Pomegranate

A Novel

by Helen Elaine Lee ...

Narrated by Machelle Williams, Janina Edwards ...

Unabridged

12 hours 40 min

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONA **“**deep and beautiful” (Jaqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a queer Black woman’s fight for recovery, freedom, and redemption after incarceration—an unforgettable story of addiction, motherhood, and self-reinvention.Ranita Atwater is “getting short.”She is almost done with her four-year ... ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONA **“**deep and beautiful” (Jaqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a queer Black woman’s fight for recovery, freedom, and redemption after incarceration—an unforgettable story of addiction, motherhood, and self-reinvention.Ranita Atwater is “getting short.”She is almost done with her four-year ...
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The Dilemmas of Working Women

Stories

by Fumio Yamamoto ...

Narrated by Yuriri Naka ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

“Now offered in translation for the first time, this collection featuring women navigating societal expectations (and their small rebellions) is a classic.” — Boston GlobeA spiky, edgy collection of five sly yet sensitive stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan—a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic ... Read more

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“Now offered in translation for the first time, this collection featuring women navigating societal expectations (and their small rebellions) is a classic.” — Boston GlobeA spiky, edgy collection of five sly yet sensitive stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan—a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic
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Bellies

A Novel

by Nicola Dinan ...

Narrated by Nathaniel Curtis, Octavia Nyombi ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM BOOKRIOT AND BOOKPAGEI wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately ... Read more

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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM BOOKRIOT AND BOOKPAGEI wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately
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Rainbow Milk

A Novel

by Paul Mendez ...

Narrated by Paul Mendez ...

Unabridged

11 hours 43 min

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing."The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for." —Marlon JamesIn the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman ... Read more

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Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing."The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for." —Marlon JamesIn the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman
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