Women Authors in Literary Theory & Criticism & Fiction & Literature Audiobooks

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Essays

by Joan Didion ...

Narrated by Maya Hawke ...

Series series Picador Modern Classics
Unabridged

6 hours 23 min

This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things."Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register**"Didion’s timeless essays shine with Hawke at the helm. This audiobook will bring new listeners to this classic and is highly ... Read more

$22.99 USD

This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things."Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register**"Didion’s timeless essays shine with Hawke at the helm. This audiobook will bring new listeners to this classic and is highly
... Read more
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The Heroine with 1001 Faces

by Maria Tatar ...

Narrated by Julie McKay ...

Unabridged

12 hours 9 min

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and ... Read more

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World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and
... Read more
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Devotion

by Patti Smith ...

Narrated by Patti Smith ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Why I Write Series
Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed ... Read more

$14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed
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Triage

by Claudia Rankine ...

Narrated by Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

3 hours 53 min

A groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the bestselling author of Citizen and Just UsClaudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet.Triage ... Read more

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A groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the bestselling author of Citizen and Just UsClaudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet.Triage
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A Dead White

An Argument Against White Paint

by Wendy S Walters ...

Narrated by Wendy S Walters ...

Unabridged

7 hours 22 min

Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our values.It’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our values.It’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than
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Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance

The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun

by Jane Harrington ...

Narrated by Hope Newhouse ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories.In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together to weave the very first fairy tales. One of them, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, coined the term ‘fairy tale,’ and some ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories.In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together to weave the very first fairy tales. One of them, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, coined the term ‘fairy tale,’ and some
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Life Lessons from Jane Austen

The Quiet Power of Wit: Grace, Pride, and the Dance of Self-Respect

by Marcus Alden ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Colin Ashford E ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Timeless Wisdom from Writers and Poets
Unabridged

55 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Strength doesn’t shout. It’s polite, perceptive, and quietly unshakable. Jane Austen showed us how.Behind the lace, letters, and longing, Jane Austen’s novels offered sharp social commentary and timeless wisdom. Her characters were not just romantic heroines—they were bold observers, quiet rebels, and fierce believers in integrity over appearance.Life ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Strength doesn’t shout. It’s polite, perceptive, and quietly unshakable. Jane Austen showed us how.Behind the lace, letters, and longing, Jane Austen’s novels offered sharp social commentary and timeless wisdom. Her characters were not just romantic heroines—they were bold observers, quiet rebels, and fierce believers in integrity over appearance.Life
... Read more
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What Matters in Jane Austen?

Twenty Essential Questions Answered

by John Mullan ...

Narrated by Charles Armstrong ...

Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

Bloomsbury presents the 250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION of What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan, read by Charles Armstrong"An Austen lover’s greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." **—**The AtlanticMarking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, What Matters in Jane Austen? solves the mysteries of Austen’s fictiona... ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Bloomsbury presents the 250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION of What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan, read by Charles Armstrong"An Austen lover’s greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." **—**The AtlanticMarking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, What Matters in Jane Austen? solves the mysteries of Austen’s fictiona...
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Una habitación propia

by Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Lucía Morales ...

Unabridged

4 hours 20 min

A partir de unas conferencias dictadas en Newnham College y Girton College, en 1928, la gran escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf compone este ensayo donde reflexiona sobre aspectos de género y la manera en que las estructuras socioculturales impuestas a las mujeres ha incidido en la incursión de las escritoras en la literatura. Un clásico de la literatura inglesa y universal, de los estudios de ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A partir de unas conferencias dictadas en Newnham College y Girton College, en 1928, la gran escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf compone este ensayo donde reflexiona sobre aspectos de género y la manera en que las estructuras socioculturales impuestas a las mujeres ha incidido en la incursión de las escritoras en la literatura. Un clásico de la literatura inglesa y universal, de los estudios de
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Retour à Yvetot

by Annie Ernaux ...

Narrated by Annie Ernaux, Dominique Blanc ...

Abridged

1 hour 30 min

« Les livres ont donc constitué très tôt le territoire de mon imaginaire, de ma projection dans des histoires et des mondes que je ne connaissais pas. Plus tard, j’y ai trouvé le mode d’emploi de la vie, un mode d’emploi auquel j’accordais beaucoup plus de confiance qu’au discours scolaire ou au discours de mes parents. J’étais encline à penser que la réalité et la vérité se trouvaient dans les ... Read more

$18.99 USD

« Les livres ont donc constitué très tôt le territoire de mon imaginaire, de ma projection dans des histoires et des mondes que je ne connaissais pas. Plus tard, j’y ai trouvé le mode d’emploi de la vie, un mode d’emploi auquel j’accordais beaucoup plus de confiance qu’au discours scolaire ou au discours de mes parents. J’étais encline à penser que la réalité et la vérité se trouvaient dans les
... Read more
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On Morrison

by Namwali Serpell ...

Narrated by January LaVoy ...

Unabridged

12 hours 55 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, BOOK RIOT, AND LIT HUBAn illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor—“a revelatory encounter with the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)One of Publishe... ... Read more

$24.99 USD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, BOOK RIOT, AND LIT HUBAn illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor—“a revelatory encounter with the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)One of Publishe...
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Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection

30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot

by Robert Macfarlane, Deborah Levy, Jenn Ashworth, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Donkor, Michèle Roberts, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Ross Raisin, Owen Sheers, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nat Segnit, Sophie Coulombeau, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner, Nicola Barker, Ian Samson, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare ...

Unabridged

6 hours 48 min

22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observationsIn these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps ... Read more

$18.55 USD

22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observationsIn these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps
... Read more
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Monster, She Wrote

The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

by Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson ...

Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

Unabridged

7 hours 30 min

Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.**Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror ... Read more

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Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.**Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror
... Read more
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A Chorus of Ears

On 'the voice of the poem'

by Denise Riley ...

Narrated by Denise Riley ...

Unabridged

3 hours 53 min

**‘One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language’ – *The Sunday TimesRead by the author, Denise Riley***A Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of the greatest living English poets. Originally delivered as a lecture series at Trinity College, Cambridge, in A Chorus of Ears Denise Riley meditates upon the emphasis we place upon the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

**‘One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language’ – *The Sunday TimesRead by the author, Denise Riley***A Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of the greatest living English poets. Originally delivered as a lecture series at Trinity College, Cambridge, in A Chorus of Ears Denise Riley meditates upon the emphasis we place upon the
... Read more
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A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Frances Butt ...

Unabridged

4 hours 25 min

A Le Monde 100 Books of the Century bookWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. … [Woman] pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words and ... Read more

$7.99 USD

A Le Monde 100 Books of the Century bookWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. … [Woman] pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words and
... Read more
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This Dark Night

Emily Brontë, A Life

by Deborah Lutz ...

Narrated by Christine Rendel ...

Unabridged

11 hours 57 min

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later, in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë’s masterpiece, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë—an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy provoked by her early death and the loss (and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later, in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë’s masterpiece, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë—an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy provoked by her early death and the loss (and
... Read more
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Los que sueñan el sueño dorado

by Joan Didion ...

Narrated by Susie Caraballo ...

Unabridged

13 hours 38 min

Una antología de los mejores artículos y ensayos de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion.«En la tierra dorada el futuro siempre es atractivo, porque nadie recuerda el pasado.»Joan Didion es una de las cronistas fundamentales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En una edición a cargo de Claudio López de Lamadrid, Los que sueñan el sueño dorado reúne por primera vez en castellano una selección de ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Una antología de los mejores artículos y ensayos de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion.«En la tierra dorada el futuro siempre es atractivo, porque nadie recuerda el pasado.»Joan Didion es una de las cronistas fundamentales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En una edición a cargo de Claudio López de Lamadrid, Los que sueñan el sueño dorado reúne por primera vez en castellano una selección de
... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Evening with Jane Gardam, An

by Jane Gardam ...

Narrated by Stacy Schiff, Paul Hecht ...

Series series Thalia Book Club
Unabridged

1 hour 21 min

In a rare New York appearance, the beloved British author of Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat, the funny, romantic and surprising paired novels about a 50-year marriage between a crusty British barrister and his sparkling surprising Betty, discusses these books and her brand-new third chapter in this remarkable series, Last Friends. Paul Hecht will read from the book. In conversation with ... Read more

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In a rare New York appearance, the beloved British author of Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat, the funny, romantic and surprising paired novels about a 50-year marriage between a crusty British barrister and his sparkling surprising Betty, discusses these books and her brand-new third chapter in this remarkable series, Last Friends. Paul Hecht will read from the book. In conversation with
... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

Narrated by Robin Desser, Francesca Choy-Kee ...

Series series Thalia Book Club
Unabridged

1 hour 11 min

The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents her newest novel Americanah, a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home. ... Read more

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The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents her newest novel Americanah, a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home.
... Read more
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In Our Time: 25 Classic Novels

A BBC Radio 4 Collection

by Melvyn Bragg ...

Narrated by Melvyn Bragg ...

Series series In Our Time
Unabridged

18 hours 40 min

Melvyn Bragg and guests tell the story of the novel over 400 years, via key literary works and movements'One of Radio 4's quiet jewels in its crown' The GuardianIn 1998, a brand new culture show was launched on Radio 4, featuring Melvyn Bragg and a panel of leading academics discussing the ideas, individuals and events that have shaped our world. In Our Time rapidly became one of radio's most well ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Melvyn Bragg and guests tell the story of the novel over 400 years, via key literary works and movements'One of Radio 4's quiet jewels in its crown' The GuardianIn 1998, a brand new culture show was launched on Radio 4, featuring Melvyn Bragg and a panel of leading academics discussing the ideas, individuals and events that have shaped our world. In Our Time rapidly became one of radio's most well
... Read more
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Si Fragile

by Fiona Gélin ...

Narrated by Fiona Gélin ...

Unabridged

« Le désespoir, l'alcool, la traversée du désert, j'ai tout connu ! » confie Fiona Gélin, qui revient dans ce récit sur son parcours... et sa résurrection.Elle y évoque les Gélin, dynastie de comédiens, restés si présents en elle. Tout d'abord son père, Daniel, l'acteur charismatique, qui n'a cessé de l'encourager ; sa demi-soeur, Maria Schneider, immortalisée par *Le Dernier Tango à Paris,*film ... Read more

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« Le désespoir, l'alcool, la traversée du désert, j'ai tout connu ! » confie Fiona Gélin, qui revient dans ce récit sur son parcours... et sa résurrection.Elle y évoque les Gélin, dynastie de comédiens, restés si présents en elle. Tout d'abord son père, Daniel, l'acteur charismatique, qui n'a cessé de l'encourager ; sa demi-soeur, Maria Schneider, immortalisée par *Le Dernier Tango à Paris,*film
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Beatrix Potter

A Life in Nature

by Linda Lear ...

Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

Unabridged

18 hours 35 min

In this now classic biography, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Beatrix Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but The Tale of Peter Rabbit brought her fame, financial success, ... Read more

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In this now classic biography, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Beatrix Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but The Tale of Peter Rabbit brought her fame, financial success,
... Read more
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Where the Past Begins

A Writer's Memoir

by Amy Tan ...

Narrated by Amy Tan, Daniel Halpern ...

Unabridged

14 hours 32 min

In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get older.Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing ... Read more

$32.99 USD

In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get older.Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing
... Read more
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Jane Austen

by Carol Shields ...

Narrated by Donada Peters ...

Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. ... Read more

$15.99 USD

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra.
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A Dead White

Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance

Life Lessons from Jane Austen

What Matters in Jane Austen?

Una habitación propia

Retour à Yvetot

On Morrison

Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection

Monster, She Wrote

A Chorus of Ears

A Room of One's Own

This Dark Night

Los que sueñan el sueño dorado

Thalia Book Club: Evening with Jane Gardam, An

Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah

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