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A Novel
2024
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION • The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2024 • CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024“Pure delight.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald“Dazzling . . . A riot of cerebral invention.” —Toronto Star**This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur historian Anne, who has a passion for research into ...
10,27 €
2018
EN
A kid named Kid, a dog named Cat, and a goat on a roof A blind skateboarding writer, an old man who can't speak (and his wife), a smartly dressed non-hamster-owner, plus Kid and her parents, are all apparently sharing their Manhattan apartment building with a mountain goat. But in all the wonders and marvels of New York City, who has time to see this impossible goat? How did the goat even get there? And is the goat really capable of something a little like magic? In this tender and hilario...
6,56 €
or Free with Kobo Plus2014
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"There's something wrong with your baby's heart." Until the day I die, I will never forget those words. For those words marked the beginning of our battle against congenital heart defects (CHD). They came in the middle of my pregnancy as I carried the child I'd wanted all my life. I chose to fight for my child's life, and this story was born out of that choice. Essentially a field guide for parents and grandparents of children facing CHD, this book chronicles all the details of my son's jo...
9,49 €
City of Debtors
A Century of Fringe Finance
2018
EN
Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the United States have been asked to pay the greatest price for credit. Again and again, Americans have asked why the most fragile borrowers face the highest costs for access to the smallest loans. To protect low-wage workers in need of credit, reformers have repeatedly turned to law, only to face the vexing question of where to draw the line between necessary protection and ...
41,75 €
- Narrated by
- Michelle Monteith
Unabridged
3 hours 28 min
2018
EN
When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City, she discovers a goat living on the roof of her Manhattan apartment building — but she soon realizes a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home, whose residents are both fascinating and unforgettable.When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building.
16,43 €
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A Novel
Unabridged
10 hours 11 min
2024
EN
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION • The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2024 • CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024“Pure delight.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald“Dazzling . . . A riot of cerebral invention.” —Toronto Star**This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur historian Anne, who has a passion for research into ...
23,19 €
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- Narrated by
- Garth Greenwell
Unabridged
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2024
EN
**Read by the author, Garth GreenwellWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'A fierce, beautiful novel' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater**...
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Glorious Exploits
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Ferdia Lennon
Unabridged
8 hours 14 min
2024
EN
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history.On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they’ve herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and left them to rot. Looking for a way to pass the time, Lampo and Gelon, two unemployed potters with a soft spot for poetry and drink, head down into ...
17,84 €
- Narrated by
- Eli Ham
Unabridged
9 hours 3 min
2025
EN
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZEA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe eagerly awaited follow-up novel from the Giller prize-winning author of Reproduction, You’ve Changed is a daring and clever dissection of a crumbling marriage between two people who are morphing in ways that confound each other.**Middle-aged and about to be dumped from his construction job, Beckett is not feeling his best—especially sin...
24,09 €
2024
EN
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**Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA classic . . . I'll be rereading it the rest of my life' - Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!'I just didn't put it down' - Miranda July, author of All Fours**A medical crisis brings one man close to death – and to love, art, and beauty – in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain ...
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Glorious Exploits
A Novel
2024
EN
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionWinner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction PrizeWinner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel AwardShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionShortlisted for Newcomer of the Year by the Irish Book AwardsShortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Debut Fiction PrizeSho...
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