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  • The Man Who Loved Children

    A Novel

    "This crazy, gorgeous family novel" written at the end of the Great Depression "is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times).First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell's eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Little Hotel

    At the Hotel Swiss-Touring, both the guests and the staff get tangled in intrigues and veiled confessions"If you knew what happens in the hotel every day!" Madame Bonnard, the eccentric and inquisitive owner of the Hotel Swiss-Touring—a third-rate Swiss hotel—knows her guests' many secrets, things they wouldn't tell their friends, family, or lawyers. They come from all over Europe in the wake of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House of All Nations

    The devious world of international finance comes alive in Christina Stead's enthralling epic about a ruthless bank director in 1930s ParisPraised as "a work of extraordinary talent" by the New York Times, Christina Stead's ambitiously layered House of All Nations is an engrossing satire of wealth and manipulation. Set in an elite European bank in the 1930s, Stead's epic spans the interwar years ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I'm Dying Laughing

    The Humourist

    Christina Stead's unforgettable final novel—a profound examination of love and radicalism during the McCarthy eraIn the wake of the Great Depression, Emily Wilkes, a young American journalist, travels to a Europe still scarred by World War I. During her crossing, she meets Stephen Howard, a charismatic and wealthy Communist who quickly converts Emily to his ideals when the two become lovers. Upon ... Read more

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  • Letty Fox

    Her Luck

    From Paris to London to wartime New York, a young woman comes of age—and comes apart—in this witty novel by the author of The Man Who Loved Children.When Letty Fox first arrives in Manhattan, her goal is to escape her chaotic upbringing in London and Paris and the cynicism of her family, and create a fresh new start. This will be the existence she dreamed of—flitting from affair to affair, ... Read more

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  • For Love Alone

    One woman's obsession with love and fate leads her to unexpected truths about passion, sexuality, and power in 1930s LondonDriven by a belief in love above all else, Teresa Hawkins leaves her life in Australia and moves to London in search of her destiny. After years of emotional distance within her family, and despite her naïveté of the vagaries of heartache, Teresa dedicates her life to the ... Read more

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    The Man Who Loved Children

    Narrated by C. M. Hébert ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 26 min

    Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children’s adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Loved Children is acknowledged as a ... Read more

    $27.95 USD

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    I’m Dying Laughing

    The Humorist

    Narrated by Anna Fields ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 38 min

    This last great work by one of the century’s great writers is a large and original novel of betrayal and self-delusion, madness and consuming passions, that recreates to chilling effect the political turbulence of the American Left and the clamor and menace of the McCarthy Right. Not since her classic The Man Who Loved Children has Stead fashioned such willful and memorable characters as Emily ... Read more

    $31.95 USD

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    The Unpassing

    A Novel

    by Chia-Chia Lin ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    **A Washington Post best audiobook of 2019**"Told in the first person, the story is narrated by Feodor Chin, whose smooth, matter-of-fact voice perfectly suits Gavin’s descriptions of the family’s junky house; his ineffectual, mistake-prone father; his seething mother; and a persistent sense of not belonging." – Star TribuneOne of Esquire, The Rumpus, The Millions, Literary Hub and Electric Li... ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Home from the Hill

    A Novel

    Narrated by Brian Troxell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 58 min

    National Book Award Finalist: The mesmerizing saga of a Texas family torn apart by passion and pride.Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to northeast Texas to be buried alongside those of her husband and son. Etched on all three gravestones is the same date of death: May 28, 1939.Home from the Hill is the story of that tragic day and the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Unpassing

    A Novel

    by Chia-Chia Lin ...
    A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American Dream through an immigrant family in Alaska.Finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First BookShortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggles to make end... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Home from the Hill

    A Novel

    National Book Award Finalist: The mesmerizing saga of a Texas family torn apart by passion and pride.Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to northeast Texas to be buried alongside those of her husband and son. Etched on all three gravestones is the same date of death: May 28, 1939.Home from the Hill is the story of that tragic day and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus