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2024
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A bracing satire about the implosion of a Theranos-like company, a collapsing marriage, and a billionaires’ “philanthropy summit,” for fans of Hari Kunzru and The White Lotus.In 72 hours, a blockbuster exposé will reveal Victoria Stevens’s multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout— and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native S...
Conversation Sparks
Trivia Worth Talking About
2015
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Jump-start any conversation with this "witty book . . . for anyone who likes to show off random bits of knowledge at the dinner table" ( Men's Journal).Did you know that "Karaoke" is Japanese for "Empty orchestra"? Or that all snowflakes have six sides? With this collection of over 350 fascinating, little-known facts, you'll be ready to get any conversation off and running. Hand-drawn illustrations and a charming conversationalist add personality to everyth...
$17.59 CAD
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Longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman’s “gritty, bracing debut” (Esquire) set during a prison riot is “dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious…one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year” (NPR).A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary journal. Our unnamed narrator, barricaded inside the computer lab, swears he’s blameless—even t...
- Narrated by
- Vikas Adam
Unabridged
4 hours 3 min
2019
EN
Longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman’s “gritty, bracing debut” (Esquire) set during a prison riot is “dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious…one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year” (NPR).A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary journal. Our unnamed narrator, barricaded inside the computer lab, swears he’s blameless—even t...
- Narrated by
- Vikas Adam
Unabridged
8 hours 15 min
2024
EN
In seventy-two hours, a blockbuster exposé will reveal Victoria Stevens's multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout—and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Opting for the latter, he takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which one of the world'...
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- Narrated by
- JD Jackson
Unabridged
5 hours 47 min
2024
EN
**From the acclaimed author of the memoir Sink, a novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student."Intoxicating, propulsive ... utterly mesmerizing." —Kaveh Akbar, bestselling author of Martyr!**After a deployment in the Iraq War, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student and EMS worker, he encounters round the clock friends and family fr...
2011
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This book offers positive, achievable steps to help readers determine how to move past issues such as discouragement, stress, difficult relationships, aging, loneliness, depression, and grief.
$5.39 CAD
2013
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From the hit podcast and radio show, a collection of soul-bearing stories from The Moth's archives.A wedding toast hone horribly awry. A rapper's obsession with a Sarah McLachlan song. A death-defying stunt in a bullring. The fight to save Mother Teresa's life. These are the spellbinding tales from The Moth's storytellers.Inspired by friends telling stories on a porch, The Moth was born in small-town Georgia, garnered a cult following in New York City, and th...
$17.59 CAD
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- Newsflesh
2015
EN
A novella in the "beloved universe" of a zombie apocalypse from the bestselling author of Feed, the alter ego of Seanan McGuire ( The New York Times).As Dr. Abbey knows, there are difficulties in running an underground virology lab in a post-Rising America.And unwanted guests must be dealt with.More from Mira Grant:NewsfleshFeedDeadlineBlackoutFeedbac...
$11.19 CAD
2014
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' Brilliant thriller' Publishers WeeklyEveryone is looking for Geiger...Detached and with an innate ability to recognize lies, Geiger was the best of the best in the field of Information Retrieval. Until he was asked to break his only rule and do the unthinkable - to torture a child. Something broke in Geiger's neatly controlled mind, opening up a flood of terrible memories long kept at bay. And now Geiger is missing, presumed dead.But, with no body ever found, ther...
$16.99 CAD
2015
EN
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Features 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming starring his most famous creation, the MI6 super-spy James Bond. Includes stories such as For Your Eyes Only and Quantum of Solace.James Bond is one of the most iconic characters in 20th-century literature. In addition to the 12 novels and 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming, there have been over 40 novels and short stories written about the spy by other authors, and 26 films produced starring actors such as Sean ...
$2.99 CAD
Demon Copperhead
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Charlie Thurston
Unabridged
21 hours 3 min
2022
EN
READ BY ACTOR CHARLIE THURSTONWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNew York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times "Te...











