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One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

B.J. Novak - Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn WilsonB.J. Novaks One More Thing Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly...
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The People in the Trees

Hanya Yanagihara - Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

In 1950, a young doctor, Norton Perina, signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub ""The Dreamers,""...
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Stronger

Jeff Bauman - Hachette Audio
Format: Audio CD

When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote down seven words: "Saw...
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The Serpent of Venice CD: A Novel

Christopher Moore - HarperAudio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe in this satiric Venetian gothic featuring the irresistibly mischievous Pocket, the eponymous hero of FoolVenice, a really long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome...
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The Age of Miracles: A Novel

Karen Thompson Walker - Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYPeople ∙ O: The Oprah Magazine ∙ Financial Times ∙ Kansas City Star ∙ BookPage ∙ Kirkus Reviews ∙ Publishers Weekly ∙ BooklistWith a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans...
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Ripper CD: A Novel

Isabel Allende - HarperAudio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. While her mom looks for the good in people, Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature - as is her father, the SFPD's...
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On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

Chang-rae Lee - Penguin Audio
Format: Audio CD

From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America.On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing...
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Astray

Emma Donoghue - Little, Brown & Company; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity....
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Coolidge Unabridged CD

Amity Shlaes - HarperAu; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of Americas thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidges improbable...
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Andrew's Brain: A Novel

E.L. Doctorow - Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SLATE, AND THE THELEGRAPHThis brilliant new novel by an American master, the author ofRagtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate,andThe March,takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life,...
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Jim Henson: The Biography

Brian Jay Jones - Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGEFor the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson   He was a gentle dreamer whose...
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

David Sedaris - Little, Brown & Company; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" (Entertainment Weekly). From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new collection of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating...
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World War Z: The Complete Edition

Max Brooks - Random House Audio; Mti edition
Format: Audio CD

  World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War is a new version of Max Brooks' episodic zombie novel. The abridged versions of the original stories are now joined with new, unabridged recordings of the episodes that were not included...
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And the Dark Sacred Night: A Novel

Julia Glass - Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first two novels, immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from suburban New Jersey to rural Vermont and ultimately to the tip of Cape Cod. Kit...
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Bossypants

Tina Fey - Little, Brown & Company; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She has seen...
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The Seamstress

Sara Tuvel Bernstein - Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Audio CD

Growing up, Sara (Seren) Tuvel was the smartest, most ambitious girl in her Romanian mountain village. When she won and accepted a scholarship to a Gentiles-only Gymnasium, she was forced to make a decision that would change her path forever. At thirteen, faced with a teacher's anti-Semitism,...
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