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Gingko Season

A Novel

by Naomi Xu Elegant ...

Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

For fans of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, a beguiling debut novel about finding oneself after heartbreak.After suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days cataloging a museum's vast collection of Qing Dynasty bound-foot shoes and in the comfortable company of close friends. One day, she happens to ... Read more

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For fans of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, a beguiling debut novel about finding oneself after heartbreak.After suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days cataloging a museum's vast collection of Qing Dynasty bound-foot shoes and in the comfortable company of close friends. One day, she happens to
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The Thunder Gods

Wars, Brotherhood and Romance

by Kay Xu ...

Series series Wars, Brotherhood and Romance
The Thunder Gods is an ancient fantasy novel that tells a gripping tale of a Chinese warrior god, Lei Yu, accused of killing his brother and conspiring with the enemy. When his true love was the daughter of an archenemy, doubtlessly, his trials and tribulations tripled… But when the deadliest antagonist was his father, the Lord of Thunder, the young warrior was besieged on all sides.The novel is ... Read more

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The Thunder Gods is an ancient fantasy novel that tells a gripping tale of a Chinese warrior god, Lei Yu, accused of killing his brother and conspiring with the enemy. When his true love was the daughter of an archenemy, doubtlessly, his trials and tribulations tripled… But when the deadliest antagonist was his father, the Lord of Thunder, the young warrior was besieged on all sides.The novel is
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Harry Sylvester Bird

A Novel

by Chinelo Okparanta ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

9 hours 44 min

From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America.Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. They’re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have ... Read more

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From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America.Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. They’re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have
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Meet the Neighbors

Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World

by Brandon Keim ...

Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

Unabridged

11 hours 36 min

Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals besides ourselves. But the way we relate to wild animals has yet to catch up. In Meet the Neighbors, science journalist Brandon ... Read more

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Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals besides ourselves. But the way we relate to wild animals has yet to catch up. In Meet the Neighbors, science journalist Brandon
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Salt Bones

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by Jennifer Givhan ...

Narrated by Victoria Villarreal ...

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11 hours 24 min

**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Book Riot Best Mystery & Thriller of the YearThree women in one twisted family race for answers in this striking mystery set in the Mexicali borderlands that "breathes new life into the myth of Persephone and Demeter" (Ana Reyes, author of The House in the Pines).**At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting.. ... Read more

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**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Book Riot Best Mystery & Thriller of the YearThree women in one twisted family race for answers in this striking mystery set in the Mexicali borderlands that "breathes new life into the myth of Persephone and Demeter" (Ana Reyes, author of The House in the Pines).**At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting..
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Lázár

A Novel

by Nelio Biedermann ...

Narrated by Justin Avoth ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

“Lázár is an exquisite and masterly pronouncement that a gifted young writer walks among us.” —Patti Smith“Virtuosic...riveting...audacious.” —The New York TimesAn “astonishing…disturbingly dreamlike” (Daniel Kehlmann, The Director) debut, inspired by the author’s own family story—a gothic, intergenerational family saga capturing the rise and fall of an aristocratic Hungarian family against the ... Read more

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“Lázár is an exquisite and masterly pronouncement that a gifted young writer walks among us.” —Patti Smith“Virtuosic...riveting...audacious.” —The New York TimesAn “astonishing…disturbingly dreamlike” (Daniel Kehlmann, The Director) debut, inspired by the author’s own family story—a gothic, intergenerational family saga capturing the rise and fall of an aristocratic Hungarian family against the
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Ruins

by Lily Brooks-Dalton ...

Narrated by Carlotta Brentan ...

Unabridged

14 hours 17 min

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Light Pirate comes a powerful, deeply resonant novel about an ambitious archaeologist in pursuit of a rare artifact from an ancient civilization—that would not only change her life but potentially society at large.“Lily Brooks-Dalton's novels are rich literary feasts." —Geraldine Brooks, bestselling author of HorsePr... ... Read more

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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Light Pirate comes a powerful, deeply resonant novel about an ambitious archaeologist in pursuit of a rare artifact from an ancient civilization—that would not only change her life but potentially society at large.“Lily Brooks-Dalton's novels are rich literary feasts." —Geraldine Brooks, bestselling author of HorsePr...
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I Want to Burn this Place Down

Essays

by Maris Kreizman ...

Narrated by Maris Kreizman ...

Unabridged

4 hours 39 min

A TIME Must-Read of 2025 A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political leftAt the heart of this funny, acerbic, and bravely honest book of essays is Maris Kreizman, a former rule follower and ambition monster who once believed the ... Read more

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A TIME Must-Read of 2025 A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political leftAt the heart of this funny, acerbic, and bravely honest book of essays is Maris Kreizman, a former rule follower and ambition monster who once believed the
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Discipline

A Novel

by Larissa Pham ...

Narrated by Quyen Ngo ...

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6 hours 41 min

A taut, electrifying debut about a woman forced to confront unsettling truths about herself, her past, and the life she rebuilt following a ruinous affair with her former mentor, from “a writer to keep a close eye on” (The New York Times Book Review)“Precise and spellbinding . . . That knotty relationship, as propulsive as it is maddening, forces the reader to wonder: How do you separate your art ... Read more

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A taut, electrifying debut about a woman forced to confront unsettling truths about herself, her past, and the life she rebuilt following a ruinous affair with her former mentor, from “a writer to keep a close eye on” (The New York Times Book Review)“Precise and spellbinding . . . That knotty relationship, as propulsive as it is maddening, forces the reader to wonder: How do you separate your art
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The Details

A Novel

by Ia Genberg ...

Narrated by Julie Maisey ...

Unabridged

3 hours 54 min

Featured in The New Yorker's ""Best Books of 2023"" *Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize""The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of reading — how it forces the reader inward, then leaves an invisible imprint in its wake. Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the ... Read more

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Featured in The New Yorker's ""Best Books of 2023"" *Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize""The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of reading — how it forces the reader inward, then leaves an invisible imprint in its wake. Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the
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If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You

A Novel

by Leigh Stein ...

Narrated by Leigh Stein, Kristen DiMercurio, Valerie Rose Lohman, Emily Marso ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed” (USA Today) comes a “gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery [with] much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy” (Los Angeles Times)“Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online.”—NPRThe ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed” (USA Today) comes a “gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery [with] much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy” (Los Angeles Times)“Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online.”—NPRThe
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Shiner

A Novel

by Amy Jo Burns ...

Narrated by Catherine Taber ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR“Amy Jo Burns writes a version of Appalachia that is one step removed from magic – all strychnine and moonshine and powerful wonder.”*—*NPR“[A] wrenching testament, told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal. . . This is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories.” —New York Times Book ReviewFrom the ... Read more

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**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR“Amy Jo Burns writes a version of Appalachia that is one step removed from magic – all strychnine and moonshine and powerful wonder.”*—*NPR“[A] wrenching testament, told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal. . . This is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories.” —New York Times Book ReviewFrom the
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