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Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region

Masha Gessen · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression...
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The Impossible Fortress

Jason Rekulak · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

A dazzling debut novel - at once a charming romance, a hilarious crime caper, and a moving coming-of-age story - about what happens when a fourteen-year old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of Playboy but then discovers she is his computer-loving soulmate.Billy Marvin's...
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The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel

Margaret Drabble · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: eBook

A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelistFrancesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives "restlessly round England," which is "her last love . . . She wants...
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Blood Flag CD: A Paul Madriani Novel

Steve Martini · HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

Defending a client accused of killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy dating to World War II in this enthralling installment in the New York Times bestselling series.Paul Madriani and Harry Hinds have a new client: Emma Brauer, a woman accused in the "mercy...
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Heartbreak Hotel: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Random House Audio Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook

Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex's most mysterious patient to date in the sensational new thriller from the master of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman.At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients...
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Secrets in Death

J. D. Robb · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

A new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced.The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it's not the kind...
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Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional...
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The Color of Fear

Marcia Muller · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Audiobook

Private investigator Sharon McCone returns in the newest mystery in Marcia Muller's New York Times bestselling series.
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Walkaway: A Novel

Cory Doctorow · Corey Doctorow and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

Cory Doctorow's first adult novel in eight years is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza?known to his friends...
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A Kind of Freedom: Library Edition

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton · Blackstone Audiobooks
Format: Audiobook

Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of black society, and when she falls for no-name Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.In 1982, Evelyn's daughter...
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Phasma

Delilah S. Dawson · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Discover Captain Phasma's mysterious history in this "Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi" novel.
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Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Janet Evanovich · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

This Jersey girl hits hard - twenty-four seven. The blockbuster Stephanie Plum series continues with Hardcore Twenty-Four from #1 New York Times bestselling Janet Evanovich.
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GodPretty in the Tobacco Field

Kim Michele Richardson · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Beauty and sweetness weave a diaphanous fabric against the stark backdrop of poverty and cruelty." --Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact...
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An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon · Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down...
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The Simplicity of Cider

Amy E. Reichert · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Focused and unassuming fifth generation cider-maker Sanna Lund has one desire: to live a simple, quiet life on her family's apple orchard in Door County, Wisconsin. Although her business is struggling, Sanna remains fiercely devoted to the orchard, despite her brother's attempts...
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