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Cinema Love

A Novel

by Jiaming Tang ...

**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, ... Read more

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**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story,
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Cinema Love

A Novel

by Jiaming Tang ...

Narrated by Samantha Tan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 39 min

**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, ... Read more

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**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story,
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Family Meal

A Novel

by Bryan Washington ...

Narrated by Bryan Washington, André Santana, Jake Choi ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

**"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington PostAn irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest—even when they hurt us most ... Read more

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**"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington PostAn irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest—even when they hurt us most
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Guatemalan Rhapsody

Stories

by Jared Lemus ...

Narrated by Christian Barillas ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeA vibrant debut story collection—poignant, unflinching, and immersive—masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer doRanging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living in a temple ... Read more

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Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeA vibrant debut story collection—poignant, unflinching, and immersive—masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer doRanging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living in a temple
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Wards of the State

The Long Shadow of American Foster Care

by Claudia Rowe ...

Narrated by Morgan Hallett ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

Told through the stories of six former foster youth, a jolting exploration of a broken system from an award-winning journalistBy the time Maryanne was 16 years old, she had been arrested for murder. In and out of foster and adoptive homes since age 10, she’d run away, been trafficked and assaulted, and finally pointed a gun at the latest man to take her into his car. She pulled the trigger and ... Read more

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Told through the stories of six former foster youth, a jolting exploration of a broken system from an award-winning journalistBy the time Maryanne was 16 years old, she had been arrested for murder. In and out of foster and adoptive homes since age 10, she’d run away, been trafficked and assaulted, and finally pointed a gun at the latest man to take her into his car. She pulled the trigger and
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Now Then

A Novel

by Morgan Radford ...

Narrated by January LaVoy ...

Unabridged

10 hours 23 min

In this sweeping debut novel by NBC News Anchor Morgan Radford, Now Then follows a Harvard student navigating her own path to self-discovery while uncovering her mother’s secret past fleeing the Cuban Revolution.Now — 1991 Cambridge, MA*.* Liliana Soto Walker is an 18-year-old freshman who arrives at Harvard from the humble Appalachian home of her Cuban immigrant mother and Black American father. ... Read more

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In this sweeping debut novel by NBC News Anchor Morgan Radford, Now Then follows a Harvard student navigating her own path to self-discovery while uncovering her mother’s secret past fleeing the Cuban Revolution.Now — 1991 Cambridge, MA*.* Liliana Soto Walker is an 18-year-old freshman who arrives at Harvard from the humble Appalachian home of her Cuban immigrant mother and Black American father.
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Anyone's Ghost

A Novel

by August Thompson ...

Narrated by Lee Osorio ...

Unabridged

10 hours 19 min

**A 2025 Lamda Literary Award finalist • Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful“This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.” —Matt Berninger, The National“Anyone’s Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the ... Read more

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**A 2025 Lamda Literary Award finalist • Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful“This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.” —Matt Berninger, The National“Anyone’s Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the
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The Road to the Country

A Novel

by Chigozie Obioma ...

Narrated by Junior Nyong'o ...

Unabridged

13 hours 47 min

**FINALIST FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria’s civil war—a story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and “the heir to Chinua Achebe” (New York Times)“A wondrous novel.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain ... Read more

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**FINALIST FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria’s civil war—a story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and “the heir to Chinua Achebe” (New York Times)“A wondrous novel.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain
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How to Sleep at Night

A Novel

by Elizabeth Harris ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

""Funny, charming...you can do no better than to curl up with this sparkling book.""--The Washington Post""By turns insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, How To Sleep at Night is a delight.""— J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Bestselling author of Friends and Strangers“This wonderful debut is about the rough and tumble road that true love represents for all of us."" --James McBride,</ ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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""Funny, charming...you can do no better than to curl up with this sparkling book.""--The Washington Post""By turns insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, How To Sleep at Night is a delight.""— J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Bestselling author of Friends and Strangers“This wonderful debut is about the rough and tumble road that true love represents for all of us."" --James McBride,</
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The Breakup Lists

by Adib Khorram ...

Narrated by Amin El Gamal ...

Unabridged

8 hours 31 min

**From the bestselling author of Darius the Great is Not Okay comes a sweet queer love story where a high school stage manager (who is a realist not a cynic, thank you) finds love despite everything.“Rivals Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper in its cuteness and appeal.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“A heartwarming romance where creating authentic connections takes center stage.”—School Library Journal, ... Read more

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**From the bestselling author of Darius the Great is Not Okay comes a sweet queer love story where a high school stage manager (who is a realist not a cynic, thank you) finds love despite everything.“Rivals Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper in its cuteness and appeal.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“A heartwarming romance where creating authentic connections takes center stage.”—School Library Journal,
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Dogs of Summer

A Novel

by Andrea Abreu ...

Narrated by Carolina Hoyos ...

Unabridged

3 hours 14 min

My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer.High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an abject, ... Read more

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My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer.High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an abject,
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Ella

A Novel

by Diane Richards ...

Narrated by Alexandra Grey ...

Unabridged

10 hours 21 min

In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald’s mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support ... Read more

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In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald’s mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support
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