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    • By: Rabih Alameddine
    • Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island....

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    • By: W. G. Sebald
    • Narrated by: Richard Matthews
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece, “one of the supreme works of art of our time” (The Guardian), follows a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle.

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    • By: Kiran Desai
    • Narrated by: Meera Simhan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life....

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    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Simon Slater
    • Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 381 ratings
    • England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need, comes Thomas Cromwell....

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    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard.

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    • A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
    • By: Jane Brox
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • From the author of Brilliant, Silence is another "dazzling epic", exploring an overlooked yet elemental force in our lives - silence - from contemporary Cistercian monks to an extraordinary 19th-century prison....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jonathan Raban
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Jonathan Raban shares a poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father's experience in World War II....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Honor Moore
    • Narrated by: Honor Moore
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him - with his wife Jenny and a family that grew to nine children - from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor of postwar America....

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    • The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
    • By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-25
    • Language: English
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    • From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Maggie O'Farrell
    • Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately....

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    • By: Joan Silber
    • Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • Set in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor.

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