Entries Tagged as 'fiction'

July is National Picnic Month

July 19th, 2024 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Pack these listens into your basket! Performed by the author Tim Blake Nelson’s debut novel is an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood, or the City of Blows. Performed by Justin Price John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing […]

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Featured Audio Giveaway—November 2017—Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

November 1st, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

  Read by Peter Berkrot, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, and Piper Goodeve Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. […]

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Featured Audio Giveaway – October 2017 — Her Body and Other Parties

October 4th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

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 – 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 – April 2014 – Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

March 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry Gabrielle ZevinRead by Scott Brick A #1 IndieNext Pick! Hear what all the buzz is about—and why narrator Scott Brick counts it among his top favorite books he has narrated. With his wife gone, a rare book stolen, and both his bookstore and love of life in serious […]

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Living and Loving by the Book: Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY

March 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

He looks across the spines, which are, for the most part, black and red with all capitalized fonts in silvers and whites. An occasional burst of fluorescence breaks up the monotony. A. J. thinks how similar everything [looks]. Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A. J. decides, because they […]

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Across the Nightingale Floor

August 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

It’s like Harry Potter, but with ninjas instead of wizards. That’s the best and easiest way I can describe Across the Nightingale Floor. Lian Hearn’s Tales of the Otori trilogy is fantasy with the slightest twinge of history. Set in a fictional feudal Japan, Across the Nightingale Floor takes place immediately after the events of […]

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