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A Story of Water and Lost Dreams

by Chiara Barzini ...

A hybrid of memoir, travel and cultural history that explores how water altered LA and the history of film.In 1913, William Mulholland finished building the Los Angeles Aqueduct – a 233-mile engineering masterwork transporting water from the Owens Valley, across the desert, to a barren corner of California that would become the home of filmmaking. Over one hundred years later, award-winning ... Read more

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A hybrid of memoir, travel and cultural history that explores how water altered LA and the history of film.In 1913, William Mulholland finished building the Los Angeles Aqueduct – a 233-mile engineering masterwork transporting water from the Owens Valley, across the desert, to a barren corner of California that would become the home of filmmaking. Over one hundred years later, award-winning
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Things That Happened Before the Earthquake

A Novel

by Chiara Barzini ...

Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one.Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the ... Read more

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Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one.Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the
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Things That Happened Before the Earthquake

A Novel

by Chiara Barzini ...

Narrated by Carlotta Brentan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one.Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one.Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the
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The Perfect Neighbors

A Novel

by Sarah Pekkanen ...

Narrated by Madeleine Maby ...

Unabridged

10 hours 33 min

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of the “creepy-crawly tale” (The New York Times Book Review) An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us questions just how well we really know our neighbors in this “deliciously fun beach read” (People) about an idyllic neighborhood whose sublime façade hides shocking secrets.Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on summer nights and all of the ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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The New York Times bestselling coauthor of the “creepy-crawly tale” (The New York Times Book Review) An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us questions just how well we really know our neighbors in this “deliciously fun beach read” (People) about an idyllic neighborhood whose sublime façade hides shocking secrets.Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on summer nights and all of the
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Modern Lovers

by Emma Straub ...

Narrated by Jen Tullock ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

**“It’s ‘Friends’ meets ‘Almost Famous’ meets the beach read you’ll be recommending all summer.” –TheSkimmFrom the author of the New York Times bestsellers This Time Tomorrow and American Fantasy, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college— and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set in.**Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth ... Read more

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**“It’s ‘Friends’ meets ‘Almost Famous’ meets the beach read you’ll be recommending all summer.” –TheSkimmFrom the author of the New York Times bestsellers This Time Tomorrow and American Fantasy, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college— and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set in.**Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth
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The People We Hate at the Wedding

A Novel

by Grant Ginder ...

Narrated by Khristine Hvam, Dan Bittner ...

Unabridged

11 hours 18 min

**The People We Hate at the Wedding is now a major motion picture starring Kristen Bell, Allison Janney and Ben Platt!"It’s for the same audience that flocked to The Nest, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? or dare I say a little book you might be a fan of, Crazy Rich Asians."**— Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich AsiansRelationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to t... ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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**The People We Hate at the Wedding is now a major motion picture starring Kristen Bell, Allison Janney and Ben Platt!"It’s for the same audience that flocked to The Nest, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? or dare I say a little book you might be a fan of, Crazy Rich Asians."**— Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich AsiansRelationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to t...
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The Female Persuasion

A Novel

by Meg Wolitzer ...

Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

Unabridged

14 hours 49 min

A New York Times Bestseller**“A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle“Ultra-readable.” —VogueFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be.**To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn f... ... Read more

$25.00 USD

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A New York Times Bestseller**“A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle“Ultra-readable.” —VogueFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be.**To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn f...
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Manhattan Beach

A Novel

by Jennifer Egan ...

Narrated by Norbert Leo Butz, Vincent Piazza, Heather Lind ...

Unabridged

15 hours 16 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad comes a sweeping World War II historical novel set in Depression-era New York, where a young woman’s courage transforms her life at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, ... Read more

$29.99 USD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad comes a sweeping World War II historical novel set in Depression-era New York, where a young woman’s courage transforms her life at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR,
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The Arrangement

A Novel

by Sarah Dunn ...

Narrated by Ellen Archer ...

Unabridged

9 hours 1 min

National Bestseller: A hilarious and emotionally charged novel about a couple who embark on an open marriage-what could possibly go wrong?Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb. They've got a two hundred year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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National Bestseller: A hilarious and emotionally charged novel about a couple who embark on an open marriage-what could possibly go wrong?Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb. They've got a two hundred year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic
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Exit West

A Novel

by Mohsin Hamid ...

Narrated by Mohsin Hamid ...

Unabridged

4 hours 42 min

**One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyFINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE**“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” —Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review“Moving, audacious ... Read more

$15.00 USD

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**One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyFINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE**“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” —Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review“Moving, audacious
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The Interestings

A Novel

by Meg Wolitzer ...

Narrated by Jen Tullock ...

Unabridged

15 hours 41 min

**“Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book Review"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."—Entertainment ... Read more

$17.50 USD

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**“Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book Review"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."—Entertainment
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California

A Novel

by Edan Lepucki ...

Narrated by Emma Galvin ...

Unabridged

12 hours 26 min

The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt
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