Tantor Media.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A near-perfect memoir: beautiful, humble, intimate and filled with piercing insights. Meant to be savored and shared.”—Time
They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle...
They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle...
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Chesapeake diaries volume 10
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English
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Up-and-coming artist Lisbeth Parker finally has a chance to show the folks back home what it means to leave Cannonball Island and make something of yourself. As a native whose stubborn father forbade her from befriending townies, Lis always felt like an outsider in St. Dennis. So while her work is on display in the local art gallery, she records her ailing centenarian great-grandmother's stories of the island's rich history and spearheads a fight...
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Distributed by Recorded Books
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p2011
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English
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When the body of a young man is found stomped to death, Detective Chief Inspector Banks believes that he has an open-and-shut case, but he soon finds himself thrust into a violent maelstrom of hate, greed, and twisted neo-Nazi philosophy.
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Tantor Audio, a division of Recorded Books
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p2016
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English
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Ostrovsky traces Russia's evolution from the Cold War through the breakup of the Soviet Union and its recent rise as a fiercely nationalistic, anti-American police state, introducing the propagandists, oligarchs, and fixers behind the nation's current status.
8) Spin with me
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English
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Told in two voices, seventh-graders Essie, in North Carolina for just one semester, and Ollie, a non-binary, "gender weird" classmate, develop a gentle romance while Essie ponders her label.
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Tantor Audio, [a division of] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
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English
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She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer,...
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Mustang Ridge novels volume 5
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
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English
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After putting all her savings--and then some--into purchasing a vintage-clothing shop in downtown Three Ridges, Wyoming, Ashley Webb is determined to succeed come hell or high water. Problem is, she's never been good at long-term commitments. And when Ashley crosses paths again with the incredibly sexy cowboy she got cozy with at her brother's wedding, she can't help being distracted. Tyler Reed isn't looking to settle down--he tried that before and...
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Tantor Audio, a division of Recorded Books
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p2016
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English
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When Brandy Tucker's valuable moonshine recipe goes missing, she assumes that the culprit is Tyler McCall, a professional bull rider and member of the rival Sawyer family, and determines to find out what he is up to.
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Tantor Audio, a division of Recorded Books
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p2016
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English
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Ellie's life has blossomed in Poppyville, California, since she opened Scents & Nonsense, a custom-made-perfume store. Her skills with aromas and botanical essences¿some from her very own garden¿seem almost¿supernatural. Her perfumes can evoke emotions, bring about change, or simply make people happy. Customers are flocking to the store to buy her wares or just to sit in her beautiful garden, sip tea and enjoy homemade cookies.But she smells trouble...
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Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2014
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English
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An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.
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Stella Diaz volume 2
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English
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Stella gets a big surprise when her mom plans a trip to visit their family in Mexico! Stella loves marine animals, and she can't wait to see the ocean for the first time, until she arrives and learns that the sea and its life forms are in danger due to pollution. Stella wants to save the ocean, but she knows she can't do it alone. It's going to take a lot of work and help from old and new friends to make a difference, but Stella Díaz never gives...
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Book Retreat Mysteries volume 4
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Tantor Media
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[2018]
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English
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With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her work again-managing Storyton Hall, and breaking ground on the resort's latest attraction: a luxurious, relaxing spa named in honor of Walt Whitman. But when the earth is dug up to start laying the spa's foundation, something else comes to the surface-a collection of unusual bones and the ragged remnants of a very old book. The attendees of the Rare Book...
16) Flame
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Dark Kings volume 17
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Tantor Media
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[2020]
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English
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Living among the Dragon Kings, Cain has spent lifetimes learning to distrust both mortals and Fae. He is a warrior born--and every instinct demands that he fight to keep his own kind safe. But when a fringe member of the Dark Fae contacts the Kings with an urgent warning, Cain is torn for the first time. How can he trust this beautiful creature when resisting his primal attraction to her is battle enough? Noreen is horrified by what her kind and the...
17) The hunt
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Devil's Isle novel volume 3
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Tantor Audio, [a division of] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The hunter becomes the hunted in this thrilling novel set in a New Orleans devastated by a Paranormal war. When bounty hunter Liam Quinn discovered that Claire Connolly was a Sensitive and infected with magic, he should have turned her in to be locked up in the prison district known as Devil's Isle. Instead, he helped her learn to control her power and introduced her to an underground group of Paranormals and humans who know the truth about the war...
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Tantor Audio, [a division of] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2017
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English
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A biography of the director details his many films and describes how his unique and evocative gift for storytelling evolved from experiences in his own life, including his parents' divorce and his return to Judaism after his son was born.
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Vietnam's role in one of the Cold War's longest-running conflicts has meant that its past has been endlessly abused. Popular accounts have cherry-picked from the Vietnamese past to tell politicized, American-centered stories--either reducing the story of Vietnam and the Vietnamese to a noble tradition of anticolonial resistance embodied by the communist leader Ho Chi Minh, or alternatively seeking to rehabilitate American allies by making similarly...
20) His last bow
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[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
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[released 2009], ©2008
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English
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A collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries.