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The War Machines

Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia

by Danny Hoffman ...

Series series Cultures and practice of violence series
In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia during those countries’ recent civil wars, Hoffman traces the path of young fighters who moved from ... Read more

$25.19 USD

In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia during those countries’ recent civil wars, Hoffman traces the path of young fighters who moved from
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Monrovia Modern

Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia

by Danny Hoffman ...

In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare ... Read more

$27.39 USD

In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare
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Lebron James Story, The: Lessons Of Leadership, Perseverance, And Excellence

by Danny Hoffman ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

Unabridged

4 hours 30 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The journey of a young boy from Akron, Ohio, to becoming one of the greatest basketball players of all time is a story that resonates far beyond the confines of sports. This narrative transcends the basketball court, offering profound insights into leadership, perseverance, and excellence that can inspire anyone, regardless of their background or ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The journey of a young boy from Akron, Ohio, to becoming one of the greatest basketball players of all time is a story that resonates far beyond the confines of sports. This narrative transcends the basketball court, offering profound insights into leadership, perseverance, and excellence that can inspire anyone, regardless of their background or
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I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

by Gisella Perl, Eva Hoffman ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life. ... Read more

$38.89 USD

Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life.
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White Tears

A novel

by Hari Kunzru ...

Narrated by Lincoln Hoppe, Danny Campbell, Dominic Hoffman ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

**White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues."An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books**Two twenty ... Read more

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**White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues."An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books**Two twenty
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No Place to Bury the Dead

A Novel

by Karina Sainz Borgo ...

Narrated by Maria McCann ...

Unabridged

7 hours 27 min

“[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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“[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the
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My Favorite Scar

by Nicolás Ferraro ...

Narrated by Stacy Gonzalez ...

Unabridged

7 hours 7 min

Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she’s more likely to be patching up Víctor’s latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them.When a tattooed mercenary kills Víctor’s best friend ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she’s more likely to be patching up Víctor’s latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them.When a tattooed mercenary kills Víctor’s best friend
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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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Down Don't Bother Me

A Novel

by Jason Miller ...

Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

A hugely entertaining debut—the first novel in a wickedly funny gothic mystery series set in the withering landscape of the southern Illinois coal country known as “little Egypt”—that blends the wry humor of Kevin Wilson, the dark violence of Urban Waite, and the electric atmosphere of Greg Iles.In the depths of the Knight Hawk, one of the last working collieries in downstate Illinois, the body of ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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A hugely entertaining debut—the first novel in a wickedly funny gothic mystery series set in the withering landscape of the southern Illinois coal country known as “little Egypt”—that blends the wry humor of Kevin Wilson, the dark violence of Urban Waite, and the electric atmosphere of Greg Iles.In the depths of the Knight Hawk, one of the last working collieries in downstate Illinois, the body of
... Read more

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The Red-Haired Woman

A novel

by Orhan Pamuk ...

Narrated by John Lee, Katharine Lee McEwan ...

Unabridged

7 hours 22 min

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial
... Read more

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The Rainbow

A Novel

by Yasunari Kawabata ...

Narrated by Ami Okumura Jones ...

Unabridged

5 hours 55 min

Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country.With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. ... Read more

$17.50 USD

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Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country.With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age.
... Read more

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A Graveyard for Lunatics

Another Tale of Two Cities

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Chris Henry Coffey ...

Unabridged

10 hours 18 min

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the
... Read more

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