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In the Upper Country

A Novel

by Kai Thomas ...

***WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettable women—one just ... Read more

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***WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettable women—one just
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In the Upper Country

A Novel

by Kai Thomas ...

Narrated by Milton Barnes, Tymika Tafari, Wesley French ...

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min

***NATIONAL BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettabl. ... Read more

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***NATIONAL BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettabl.
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Coleman Hill

A Novel

by Kim Coleman Foote ...

Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Dion Graham ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.In 1916, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post–Civil War South for the “Promised Land” of the North ... Read more

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Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.In 1916, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post–Civil War South for the “Promised Land” of the North
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Endangered Eating

America's Vanishing Foods

by Sarah Lohman ...

Narrated by Sarah Lohman ...

Unabridged

11 hours 6 min

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates?these are foods that carry significant cultural ... Read more

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Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates?these are foods that carry significant cultural
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Waterline

A Novel

by Aram Mrjoian ...

Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY ESQUIRE"A gripping journey through time, Mrjoian brings readers deep into the heart of the Armenian Genocide and its ripples across generations. . . . Waterline is a must-read—intense, moving, and unforgettable.”—Morgan Talty, national bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit"A moving portrait of grief and the shadows of silence.”—Vanessa Chan, ... Read more

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY ESQUIRE"A gripping journey through time, Mrjoian brings readers deep into the heart of the Armenian Genocide and its ripples across generations. . . . Waterline is a must-read—intense, moving, and unforgettable.”—Morgan Talty, national bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit"A moving portrait of grief and the shadows of silence.”—Vanessa Chan,
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A Map of Future Ruins

On Borders and Belonging

by Lauren Markham ...

Narrated by Gilli Messer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 22 min

“This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we’ve come to understand as order.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy ExamsWhen and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West’s idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel ... Read more

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“This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we’ve come to understand as order.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy ExamsWhen and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West’s idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel
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Three Girls from Bronzeville

A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

by Dawn Turner ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

Unabridged

11 hours 46 min

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable BookA Best Book of the Year by BuzzFeed and Real SimpleAn “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerfu... ... Read more

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A New York Times and Washington Post Notable BookA Best Book of the Year by BuzzFeed and Real SimpleAn “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerfu...
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The Island of Last Things

A Novel

by Emma Sloley ...

Narrated by Suzy Jackson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 57 min

A SOARING, PROPULSIVE, AND UNFORGETTABLE novel about two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world“Sometimes a new author will sidle up and whisper in your ear, and sometimes she’ll grab you by the neck. Emma Sloley is in the latter camp.” ―Rebecca MakkaiCamille has always preferred animals to people. The wild has nearly disappeared, but as a zookeeper at the last zoo in the world, on Alcatraz ... Read more

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A SOARING, PROPULSIVE, AND UNFORGETTABLE novel about two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world“Sometimes a new author will sidle up and whisper in your ear, and sometimes she’ll grab you by the neck. Emma Sloley is in the latter camp.” ―Rebecca MakkaiCamille has always preferred animals to people. The wild has nearly disappeared, but as a zookeeper at the last zoo in the world, on Alcatraz
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Indian Country

A Novel

by Shobha Rao ...

Narrated by Neil Shah ...

Unabridged

14 hours 44 min

From the award-winning author of Girls Burn Brighter, a couple from India—so different from generations of white colonialists who came before them—move to Montana, only to discover the secrets the land holds in this stunning literary novel.Janavi and Sagar were never meant to end up married. Janavi is a wonderfully independent, young modern Indian woman. She works for an organizaiton in India that ... Read more

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From the award-winning author of Girls Burn Brighter, a couple from India—so different from generations of white colonialists who came before them—move to Montana, only to discover the secrets the land holds in this stunning literary novel.Janavi and Sagar were never meant to end up married. Janavi is a wonderfully independent, young modern Indian woman. She works for an organizaiton in India that
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Hell Put to Shame

The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

by Earl Swift ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

Unabridged

12 hours 22 min

""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20**th** century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory."" —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the ... Read more

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""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20**th** century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory."" —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the
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Next of Kin

A Memoir

by Gabrielle Hamilton ...

Narrated by Gabrielle Hamilton ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the “raw and darkly humorous” (People) story of her family's unexpected dissolution.“Hamilton’s voice is as singular and rollicking as ever in Next of Kin, but it feels rare and special to have it applied to the kind of complicated family history that so many of us ... Read more

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In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the “raw and darkly humorous” (People) story of her family's unexpected dissolution.“Hamilton’s voice is as singular and rollicking as ever in Next of Kin, but it feels rare and special to have it applied to the kind of complicated family history that so many of us
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Ruth

A Novel

by Kate Riley ...

Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

**Named a Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2025Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025Named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture, Marie Claire and Vanity Fair"I loved RUTH."—Lorde“It would never work out, but I’m in love with Ruth.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post“A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait … [a] standout.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal</... ... Read more

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**Named a Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2025Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025Named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture, Marie Claire and Vanity Fair"I loved RUTH."—Lorde“It would never work out, but I’m in love with Ruth.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post“A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait … [a] standout.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal</...
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