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Good Girl

A Novel

by Aria Aber ...

**“An exhilarating debut novel” (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its historyA girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION AND ... Read more

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**“An exhilarating debut novel” (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its historyA girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION AND
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Hard Damage

by Aria Aber ...

Series series The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations—in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and ... Read more

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Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations—in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and
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Good Girl

A Novel

by Aria Aber ...

Narrated by Mozhan Navabi ...

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min

**“An exhilarating debut novel” (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its historyA girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION AND ... Read more

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**“An exhilarating debut novel” (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its historyA girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION AND
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Housemates

A Novel

by Emma Copley Eisenberg ...

Narrated by Marin Ireland ...

Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl“Tender, nuanced, and hilarious.”—Oprah Daily15 LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride—Time**A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: People, The ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl“Tender, nuanced, and hilarious.”—Oprah Daily15 LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride—Time**A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: People, The
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Original Sins

The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of AmericanRacism

by Eve L. Ewing ...

Narrated by Eve L. Ewing, Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

**Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.“This book will transform the way you see this country.”—Michelle Alexander, ... Read more

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**Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.“This book will transform the way you see this country.”—Michelle Alexander,
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Creep

A Love Story

by Emma van Straaten ...

Narrated by Hanako Footman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

""Creep is everything I want from a novel—it’s obsessive, it’s rapturous, it spirals into the most masochistic corners of the mind. A perfectly twisted debut.""—Anna Dorn, author of Perfume & Pain""A chilling book by an exciting new voice.""—Vogue (UK)From a blistering new voice in dark literary fiction, an unsettling portrait of loneliness, obsession, and identity which asks: if a stranger was ... Read more

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""Creep is everything I want from a novel—it’s obsessive, it’s rapturous, it spirals into the most masochistic corners of the mind. A perfectly twisted debut.""—Anna Dorn, author of Perfume & Pain""A chilling book by an exciting new voice.""—Vogue (UK)From a blistering new voice in dark literary fiction, an unsettling portrait of loneliness, obsession, and identity which asks: if a stranger was
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Fundamentally

A Novel

by Nussaibah Younis ...

Narrated by Sarah Slimani ...

Unabridged

9 hours 41 min

**A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself.*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**AN NPR BOOKS WE LOVE PICK**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025***When Nadia Amin, a witty and bighearted PhD, publishes an article on deradicalization, ... Read more

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**A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself.*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**AN NPR BOOKS WE LOVE PICK**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025***When Nadia Amin, a witty and bighearted PhD, publishes an article on deradicalization,
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The Road to the Salt Sea

A Novel

by Samuel Kolawole ...

Narrated by Atta Otigba ...

Unabridged

9 hours

WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must
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This Love

A Novel

by Lotte Jeffs ...

Narrated by Ashley Tucker ...

Unabridged

11 hours 28 min

An Autostraddle and Electric Literature Most Anticipated Queer Book“We’re calling it… Lotte Jeffs’ novel is the new One Day.” —Sunday Times Style MagazineAn utterly charming and modern debut novel spanning ten years of extraordinary friendship, about soulmates, unconventional families, and the limitless, ever-changing forms love can take.When Mae and Ari meet outside a cr... ... Read more

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An Autostraddle and Electric Literature Most Anticipated Queer Book“We’re calling it… Lotte Jeffs’ novel is the new One Day.” —Sunday Times Style MagazineAn utterly charming and modern debut novel spanning ten years of extraordinary friendship, about soulmates, unconventional families, and the limitless, ever-changing forms love can take.When Mae and Ari meet outside a cr...
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Flirting With Disaster

A Novel

by Naina Kumar ...

Narrated by Soneela Nankani ...

Unabridged

10 hours 30 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This heartwarming and sexy novel is a beautiful, sometimes angsty examination of how a love story can be rekindled when one least expects it.”—Ali Hazelwood, The New York Times Book Review (Best Spicy Romance Novels)**“The most amazing rollercoaster of big feels and humor and heart.”—Hannah Bonam-Young, author of Out on a LimbShe needs a divorce from her husband—but a ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This heartwarming and sexy novel is a beautiful, sometimes angsty examination of how a love story can be rekindled when one least expects it.”—Ali Hazelwood, The New York Times Book Review (Best Spicy Romance Novels)**“The most amazing rollercoaster of big feels and humor and heart.”—Hannah Bonam-Young, author of Out on a LimbShe needs a divorce from her husband—but a
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

My Cemetery Journeys

by Mariana Enriquez ...

Narrated by Annette Amelia Oliveira ...

Unabridged

13 hours 45 min

An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times)**“Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take ... Read more

$24.00 USD

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An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times)**“Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take
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Housemates

A Novel

by Emma Copley Eisenberg ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl“Tender, nuanced, and hilarious.”—Oprah Daily15 LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride—Time**A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: People, The ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl“Tender, nuanced, and hilarious.”—Oprah Daily15 LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride—Time**A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: People, The
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