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“alexander aitken”

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  • Gallipoli to the Somme

    Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman

    by Alexander Aitken ...
    Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Western Front. Aitken also loved poetry and knew the Aeneid and Paradise Lost by heart. His powers ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The School of Night

    A Novel

    by Karl Ove Knausgaard ...
    Narrated by Rory Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 27 min

    London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all.Kristian Hadeland, young and ambitious, has moved to London to study photography; he knows that he and his art are destined for more. His family never understood him, and his fellow photography students bore him. But when he meets Hans, an eccentric Dutch artist, the future he yearns for is possible—as long as he ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

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    The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

    by Kim Leine ...
    Narrated by Elijah Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 27 min

    The award-winning, internationally bestselling saga of a Greenlandic community torn apart by the forces of colonialism and the one priest whose wavering guidance will determine its fateIdealistic, foolhardy Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. He’s rejected the prospect of a sleepy posting in a local parish and instead ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Morning Star

    by Karl Ove Knausgaard ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Mia Barron, Michael Braun, Alyssa Bresnahan, Hannah Cabell, Michael Crouch, Elisabeth Rodgers, Graham Winton, Leah Horowitz ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 11 min

    Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The morning star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun.One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage.Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, ... Read more

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    My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

    A Fiction

    by Deborah Levy ...
    Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 55 min

    In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.This program is read by Audie Award–winning narrator Kristin Atherton."[Kristin Atherton's] narration is cool, precise and perfectly paced." — The Guardian"[Narrator Kristin] Atherton's delivery of [author Deborah] Levy's curious turns of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Glyph

    A Novel

    by Ali Smith ...
    Narrated by Lesley Sharp ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    From a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.Ghosts don’t exist.They don’t. End of.Story, however.It is haunting.Everything tells it.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Is it imaginary? Is it r... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    One Sun Only

    Stories

    by Camille Bordas ...
    Narrated by Vas Eli, Ferdelle Capistrano, Saskia Maarleveld, Michael Crouch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    A stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from “one of our greatest living short story writers” (Esquire), the author of How to Behave in a Crowd and The MaterialONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE SUMMER AND ONE OF THE NEW YORKER AND ESQUIRE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)“Camille Bordas is an expert chronicler of misfits. . . . [These stories] ran... ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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    Anatomy of a Cover-Up

    The Truth about the RCMP and the Nova Scotia Massacres

    by Paul Palango ...
    Narrated by Paul Palango ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 7 min

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERFOLLOW-UP TO THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 22 MURDERSThe truth about the deadliest criminal incident in Canadian history has remained untold—until now.**Investigative journalist Paul Palango’s 22 Murders examined the April 2020 shooting spree committed by Gabriel Wortman that began in Portapique, Nova Scotia, and ended thirteen and a half hours later when Wortman was shot dead by ... Read more

    $20.95 USD

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    At the Edge of the Orchard

    by Tracy Chevalier ...
    Narrated by Hillary Huber, Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne, Cassandra Morris ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 1 min

    **“With impeccable research and flawless prose, Chevalier perfectly conjures the grandeur of the pristine Wild West . . . and the everyday adventurers—male and female—who were bold enough or foolish enough to be drawn to the unknown. She crafts for us an excellent experience.”—USA TodayFrom internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, author of A Single Thread, comes a riveting drama of a ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    My Brilliant Friend

    by Elena Ferrante ...
    Narrated by Hillary Huber ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Neapolitan Novels

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from NaplesBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    by Elena Ferrante ...
    Narrated by Hillary Huber ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Neapolitan Novels

    Unabridged

    16 hours 44 min

    In the third book in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood.Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

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    Bridge of Clay

    by Markus Zusak ...
    Narrated by Markus Zusak ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 44 min

    **The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing."NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL****"One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time into ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

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