Shortlisted for the National Book Award Fiction Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction. Read the full description. “Those of us who knew […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – September 2017 — A Sick Life
September 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the most effervescent and soulful girl group anyone has seen since the Supremes,” five-time Grammy Award winning supergroup TLC has seen phenomenal fame and success. But backstage, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins has lived a dual life. Read the full description. Watkins is the lead singer of the bestselling female group TLC, […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – August 2017 — The Lauras
August 1st, 2017 · 1 Comment · Featured Audio Giveaways
From the exceptionally gifted, Baileys Prize–nominated author Sara Taylor comes a dazzling new novel about youth, identity, and family secrets. Read the full description. “Elegiac and beautifully observed. . . . It is such acute observations of her imaginary world that saw Taylor’s debut novel, The Shore, long listed for the Bailey’s prize, and it […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – June 2017 — Stephen Florida
June 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
“I’m pinned to the mat by this one.” —The Quivering Pen Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Read the full description. “Finely rendered, dark, and funny . . […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – May 2017 — The Radium Girls
May 1st, 2017 · 1 Comment · Featured Audio Giveaways
Ordinary women in 1920s America. All they wanted was the chance to shine . . . Be careful what you wish for. 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, paintingwatches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – April 2017 — Sympathy
April 3rd, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
In its heady evocation of everything from Haruki Murakami to Patricia Highsmith to Edith Wharton, Sympathy is utterly original—a thrilling tale of obsession, doubling, blood ties, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age. Read the full description. “The reason to read this novel, aside from the au courant topic, is the luscious, absorbing […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – March 2017 — The Whole Art of Detection
March 7th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
Lyndsay Faye’s best Sherlock Holmes tales, including two new works, are brought together in The Whole Art of Detection, a stunning collection that spans Holmes’s career, from self-taught young upstart to publicly lauded detective, both before and after his faked death over a Swiss waterfall in 1894. Read the full description. “There are mysteries here and […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – February 2017 — Be My Wolff
February 1st, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
“Erudite, sexy, richly textured, and packed with delights. Like Salinger’s Glass family or Wes Anderson’s Tenenbaums, the Wolff siblings seem to crash in on the terrestrial world from some more eccentric orbit.” —Garth Risk Hallberg, author of City on Fire Filled with art and science, fairy tales and folk songs, tsars and foundlings, Be My […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – January 2017 — Jonathan Swift
January 2nd, 2017 · 1 Comment · Featured Audio Giveaways
“Stubbs’s in-depth analysis of the vast cultural impact of Swift’s many works is impressive, as are his portraits of Swift’s literary acquaintances. . . . This astute portrait of a complicated man who wanted to defend his homeland . . . is truly masterful. A rich and sweeping story superbly told.” —Kirkus Starred Review _________________________________________________________ […]
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