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The Butchers' Blessing
By: Ruth Gilligan
Narrated by: John Keating & Heather O'Neill
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter.
The Butchers’ Blessing moves between the events of 1996 and... Read more
Joe Biden
By: Evan Osnos
Narrated by: Evan Osnos & David Remnick
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
*A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR*
A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s successful lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award winner Evan Osnos.
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest—fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career... Read more
The Talented Miss Farwell
By: Emily Gray Tedrowe
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this electrifying page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of one unforgettable female con artist.""Becky Farwell is one of the most wickedly compelling characters I've read in ages -- a Machiavellian marvel, a modern Becky Sharp, a... Read more
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The Buddhist on Death Row
By: David Sheff
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.
Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was... Read more
A Fortune For Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that... Read more
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Rough Magic
By: Lara Prior-Palmer
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race"—an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a... Read more
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I Know Who You Are
By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Alice Feeney's latest thriller is a compelling listen...Narrator Stephanie Racine deftly portrays characters from a variety of regions and classes across the U.K. and Ireland. She shines in this first-person narration, capturing Aimee's self-doubt, worry and determination." — BookPage
From the New York Times and international bestselling author... Read more
When They Call You a Terrorist
By: Patrisse Cullors & asha bandele
Narrated by: Angela Davis & Patrisse Cullors
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrating her own work, Patrisse Khan-Cullors shares the salient moments of her life that led her to become a founder of Black Lives Matter...pain, frustration, and joy [emblazon] each word she utters." — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by Patrisse Cullors and includes a bonus conversation.
The emotional and powerful story of one of the... Read more
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