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Rebel Hearts

Journeys Within the IRA's Soul

by Kevin Toolis ...

"A profoundly personal and chilling close-up of the IRA and its effects on those it wounds and is wounded by. A riveting read." ― BooklistFor ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him from the back kitchens of Belfast, where men joked while making two-thousand-pound bombs, to prisons for interviews ... Read more

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"A profoundly personal and chilling close-up of the IRA and its effects on those it wounds and is wounded by. A riveting read." ― BooklistFor ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him from the back kitchens of Belfast, where men joked while making two-thousand-pound bombs, to prisons for interviews
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My Father's Wake

How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die

by Kevin Toolis ...

"A long meditation on death, dying, and our attitudes to mortality" this memoir by a BAFTA award winning filmmaker is "healing and somehow life-affirming." — The GuardianDeath is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice.Each day, along with ... Read more

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"A long meditation on death, dying, and our attitudes to mortality" this memoir by a BAFTA award winning filmmaker is "healing and somehow life-affirming." — The GuardianDeath is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice.Each day, along with
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Nine Rules to Conquer Death

by Kevin Toolis ...

How should we conquer death? Our eternal existential question. The unspoken why of all action and thought.Death is all around us but unseen. A shadow companion who haunts our gnawing anxieties over what the future holds. The virus. The stab of doubt in every lump beneath the skin. Can anyone overcome the fear of dying?Drawing on the wisdom of the ancients, from the Aztecs and the Iliad to the ... Read more

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How should we conquer death? Our eternal existential question. The unspoken why of all action and thought.Death is all around us but unseen. A shadow companion who haunts our gnawing anxieties over what the future holds. The virus. The stab of doubt in every lump beneath the skin. Can anyone overcome the fear of dying?Drawing on the wisdom of the ancients, from the Aztecs and the Iliad to the
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My Father's Wake

How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die

by Kevin Toolis ...

Narrated by Kevin Toolis ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of deathDeath is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice.Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs ... Read more

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An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of deathDeath is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice.Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs
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Say Nothing

A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

by Patrick Radden Keefe ...

Narrated by Matthew Blaney ...

Unabridged

14 hours 40 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of *London Falling—*a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.One of The New York Times’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of *London Falling—*a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.One of The New York Times’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith ...

Narrated by Kate Burton ...

Unabridged

14 hours 55 min

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and ... Read more

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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and
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My Name Is Lucy Barton

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout ...

Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—PeopleA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, T... ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—PeopleA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, T...
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Olive Kitteridge

Fiction

by Elizabeth Strout ...

Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again“Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today“Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.”—The New Yorker<s... ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again“Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today“Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.”—The New Yorker<s...
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If I Knew Then

Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging

by Jann Arden ...

Narrated by Jann Arden ...

Unabridged

3 hours 14 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERJann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.**Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERJann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.**Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account
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The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

by Colson Whitehead ...

Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 43 min

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30
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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

$19.99 USD

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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
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Lincoln in the Bardo

A Novel

by George Saunders ...

Narrated by George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Various, Carrie Brownstein, Don Cheadle, Lena Dunham, Bill Hader, Kirby Heyborne, Keegan-Michael Key0, Julianne Moore1, Megan Mullally2, Susan Sarandon3, Ben Stiller4 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

**WINNER OF THE AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEThe “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented****One of The New ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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**WINNER OF THE AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEThe “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented****One of The New
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