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  • Fat City

    by Leonard Gardner ...
    Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. When two men meet in the ring -- the retired boxer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Fat City

    by Leonard Gardner ...
    Narrated by R. C. Bray ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 34 min

    Fat City is a vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the novel's setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street's lunchrooms and dark bars offer a temporary respite to the men and women whose backbreaking work in the fields barely allows them to make a living.When two ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Perspicacity

    by Martin Leonard Gardner ...
    An array of subjects hand picked by the author which discuss thoughts as perceived by that author. Subjects all would love to discuss but somehow never seem to. Political, social, historical, legal, constitutional, insurance editorial, religious. To put it simply, a book on common sense that lays it all out for your perusal. A book that says what you want to talk about but never do. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • W is for Welcome

    A Celebration of America's Diversity

    by Brad Herzog ...
    Illustrated by Doug Bowles, Maureen K. Brookfield, Pam Carroll, David C. Gardner, Barbara Leonard Gibson, Renée Graef, Susan Guy, Ross B. Young, Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen, Helle Urban, Michael Glenn Monroe, Laura Knorr, Victor Juhasz ...
    2018 Eureka! California Reading Association Honor Book AwardFollowing the alphabet this book uses poetry and expository text to celebrate America's diverse population and showcase the remarkable achievements and contributions that have come from the many people who have chosen to make our country their home. Topics include well-known landmarks and institutions (the Statue of Liberty and the White ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stolen Pleasures

    Selected Stories of Gina Berriault

    by Gina Berriault ...
    "Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry—with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment." —Gina BerriaultGina Berriault was one of the great, rare masters of short fiction. With commendable restraint and economy, she delivered stories that contain entire worlds inhabited by a range of characters ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Leonardo's Brain

    Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius

    by Leonard Shlain ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    Bestselling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy (yes), and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    All Cry Chaos

    An Henri Poincaré Mystery

    by Leonard Rosen ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Henri Poincaré Mysteries

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    All Cry Chaos, a debut thriller by the immensely gifted Leonard Rosen, is a masterful and gripping tale that literally reaches for the heavens.The action begins when mathematician James Fenster is assassinated on the eve of a long-scheduled speech at a World Trade Organization meeting. The hit is as elegant as it is bizarre. Fenster’s Amsterdam hotel room is incinerated, yet the rest of the ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Tenth Witness

    An Henri Poincaré Mystery

    by Leonard Rosen ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Henri Poincaré Mysteries

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    The Tenth Witness, a prequel to the award-winning All Cry Chaos, is the tale of a man upended: a twenty-eight-year-old who rejects a brilliant career in engineering for a dark, uncertain one in international police work.On the night of October 9, 1799, the frigate HMS Lutine broke apart on the shoals of the Frisian Islands off the Dutch coast. When the insurer Lloyds of London paid on the wreck, ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

    The Conflict Between Word and Image

    by Leonard Shlain ...
    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 5 min

    Who changed the sex of God?This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    McTeague

    by Frank Norris ...
    Narrated by Wolfram Kandinsky ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 12 min

    Few works have captured the seamy side of American urban life with such graphic immediacy as Frank Norris’ McTeague. Heredity and environment play the role of fate in this portrayal of human degradation in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.McTeague, a successful but naive dentist, marries Trina, introduced to him by her cousin Marcus Schouler. When Trina wins $5,000 in a lottery, and increases the ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Night Work

    by Laurie R. King ...
    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan ...
    Series series Kate Martinelli Mysteries

    Unabridged

    11 hours 32 min

    Best-selling author Laurie R. King has won both critical and popular acclaim for her mysteries featuring San Francisco detective Kate Martinelli. Looking forward to routine police work after her last terrifying case, Kate finds herself on the trail of vigilantes targeting abusive men in the San Francisco area. Kate has just returned to active duty after being injured on the job. Her girl-friend, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Indemnity Only

    by Sara Paretsky ...
    Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - V. I. Warshawski

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is Chicago private eye V. I. Warshawski's specialty. Her client says he's the prominent banker John Thayer. Turns out he's not. He says his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out that's not her real name.V. I.'s search turns up someone soon enough—the real John Thayer's son, and he's dead. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD