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Mrs. Lilienblum's Cloud Factory

A Novel

by Iddo Gefen ...

Translated by Daniella Zamir ...

A comic novel for fans of Adelle Waldman about a tech startup that turns sand into rain clouds from Sami Rohr prize winner Iddo Gefen.Our story opens with Mrs. Lilienblum discovered drinking a martini in a crater in the Israeli desert. Eli, her adult son, tries to understand what happened to his wacky mother, while he also tackles the legend of a missing hiker named McMurphy, and whether he might ... Read more

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A comic novel for fans of Adelle Waldman about a tech startup that turns sand into rain clouds from Sami Rohr prize winner Iddo Gefen.Our story opens with Mrs. Lilienblum discovered drinking a martini in a crater in the Israeli desert. Eli, her adult son, tries to understand what happened to his wacky mother, while he also tackles the legend of a missing hiker named McMurphy, and whether he might
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Jerusalem Beach

Stories

by Iddo Gefen ...

Translated by Daniella Zamir ...

**Featuring the story being adapted by Charlie Kaufman for LATER THE WAR, starring Eddie Redmayne, Tessa Thompson, and Patsy Ferran!*WINNER OF THE 2023 SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE, FICTION***For fans of Etgar Keret, a debut collection that fuses the humor of everyday life in Israel with technology's challenges and the latest discoveries about the human brain.At once compassionate, ... Read more

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**Featuring the story being adapted by Charlie Kaufman for LATER THE WAR, starring Eddie Redmayne, Tessa Thompson, and Patsy Ferran!*WINNER OF THE 2023 SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE, FICTION***For fans of Etgar Keret, a debut collection that fuses the humor of everyday life in Israel with technology's challenges and the latest discoveries about the human brain.At once compassionate,
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Jerusalem Beach

Stories

by Iddo Gefen ...

Narrated by Steven Jay Cohen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min

For fans of Etgar Keret, a debut collection that fuses the humor of everyday life in Israel with technology's challenges and the latest discoveries about the human brain.At once compassionate, philosophical, and humorous, Jerusalem Beach is a foray into the human condition in all its contradictions. Through a series of snapshots of contemporary life in Israel, Gefen reveals a world that's a step ... Read more

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For fans of Etgar Keret, a debut collection that fuses the humor of everyday life in Israel with technology's challenges and the latest discoveries about the human brain.At once compassionate, philosophical, and humorous, Jerusalem Beach is a foray into the human condition in all its contradictions. Through a series of snapshots of contemporary life in Israel, Gefen reveals a world that's a step
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Alibis

Essays on Elsewhere

by André Aciman ...

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

Unabridged

6 hours 5 min

This program is read by Earphones Award–winning narrator Edoardo Ballerini."Edoardo Ballerini reads my books exceptionally well. He gets my pacing, the inflections of muted irony, the anxiety of loss, the search for meaning that my prose on paper isn’t always able to convey—he gets it all. He gets me. A writer couldn't be luckier." —Andre AcimanA Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 ... Read more

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This program is read by Earphones Award–winning narrator Edoardo Ballerini."Edoardo Ballerini reads my books exceptionally well. He gets my pacing, the inflections of muted irony, the anxiety of loss, the search for meaning that my prose on paper isn’t always able to convey—he gets it all. He gets me. A writer couldn't be luckier." —Andre AcimanA Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011
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More Than I Love My Life

A novel

by David Grossman ...

Narrated by Gilli Messer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing—the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told—from the internationally best-selling author of To the End of the Land“A magnificent book ... The way Grossman writes about these regions is unique, with a deep understanding of our experience. ... Read more

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INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing—the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told—from the internationally best-selling author of To the End of the Land“A magnificent book ... The way Grossman writes about these regions is unique, with a deep understanding of our experience.
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And the Bride Closed the Door

by Ronit Matalon ...

Narrated by Deepti Gupta ...

Unabridged

2 hours 53 min

A young bride shuts herself up in a bedroom on her wedding day, refusing to get married.In this moving and humorous look at contemporary Israel and the chaotic ups and downs of love everywhere, her family gathers outside the locked door, not knowing what to do. The bride’s mother has lost a younger daughter in unclear circumstances. Her grandmother is hard of hearing, yet seems to understand her ... Read more

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A young bride shuts herself up in a bedroom on her wedding day, refusing to get married.In this moving and humorous look at contemporary Israel and the chaotic ups and downs of love everywhere, her family gathers outside the locked door, not knowing what to do. The bride’s mother has lost a younger daughter in unclear circumstances. Her grandmother is hard of hearing, yet seems to understand her
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Pyre

by Perumal Murugan ...

Narrated by Suvash Mohan ...

Unabridged

6 hours 16 min

**'Pyre glows with as much power as [One Part Woman] did, and adds immeasurable value to contemporary Indian literature'-**The HinduSaroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan's village, harboring a dangerous secret: their marriage is an inter-caste one, likely to upset the village elders should they get to know of it. Kumaresan is naively confident that all ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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**'Pyre glows with as much power as [One Part Woman] did, and adds immeasurable value to contemporary Indian literature'-**The HinduSaroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan's village, harboring a dangerous secret: their marriage is an inter-caste one, likely to upset the village elders should they get to know of it. Kumaresan is naively confident that all
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These Ghosts are Family

A Novel

by Maisy Card ...

Narrated by Karl O’Brian Williams ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel FinalistShortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (*The New York Times Book Review*) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.**Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel FinalistShortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (*The New York Times Book Review*) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.**Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone
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Land of Big Numbers

Stories

by Te-Ping Chen ...

A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric LiteratureMalala Yousafzai's Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati"Dazzling...Riveting." — New York Times Book Review"Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen's rem... ... Read more

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A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric LiteratureMalala Yousafzai's Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati"Dazzling...Riveting." — New York Times Book Review"Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen's rem...
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Oh William!

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite write ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite write
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The Island of Missing Trees

A Novel

by Elif Shafak ...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKWinner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia AvenueA rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the ... ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKWinner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia AvenueA rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the ...
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The Sweetness of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

by Nathan Harris ...

An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club PickIn the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning “miraculous debut” (Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, foreverIn the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the ... Read more

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An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club PickIn the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning “miraculous debut” (Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, foreverIn the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the
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