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The Good Hand
A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown
2021
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**“A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor.” —The New York Times Book Review“Beautiful, funny, and harrowing.” – Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic“Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.” —Kirkus ReviewsA vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota**Like thousands of restless men left unm...
The Good Hand
A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown
2021
EN
Accessible
A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021‘Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny … like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy’DAVID LIPSKY‘After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day’s work in your life … This lyrical and engrossing memoir is an extraordinary tale … Undeniably powerful’SUNDAY TIMES
2019
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Module theory is an important tool for many different branches of mathematics, as well as being an interesting subject in its own right. Within module theory, the concept of injective modules is particularly important. Extending modules form a natural class of modules which is more general than the class of injective modules but retains many of its desirable properties. This book gathers together for the first time in one place recent work on extending modules. It is aimed at anyone with a...
The Good Hand
A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown
- Narrated by
- Michael Patrick F. Smith
Unabridged
13 hours 38 min
2021
EN
"Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been." --Kirkus ReviewsA vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North DakotaLike thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flopho...
The Good Hand
A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown
- Narrated by
- Michael Patrick Smith
Unabridged
13 hours 12 min
2021
EN
A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021‘Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny … like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy’DAVID LIPSKY‘After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day’s work in your life … This lyrical and engrossing memoir is an extraordinary tale … Undeniably powerful’SUNDAY TIMES
- Narrated by
- Michael Patrick F Smith
Unabridged
4 hours 19 min
2020
EN
"[A] riveting, and original, achievement."—WIREDFrom award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that “calls to mind The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago” (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation).Ten long years have passed since war first broke out, and one couple still does not know the whereabouts of t...
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Red Clocks
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- Karissa Vacker
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In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo.Five women. One question. What is a woman for?In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. Ro, a single high-school teacher, is tr...
The Outsider
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- Narrated by
- Will Patton
Unabridged
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Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—also an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn!An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens—Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland ...
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- Finty Williams
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In the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity—or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller."Heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human." —Josh Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire SlayerMelanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell ...
Good Morning, Midnight
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- Narrated by
- John H. MayerHillary Huber
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“A remarkable and gifted debut novel” (Colson Whitehead) about two outsiders—a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth—as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM THE MIDNIGHT SKY, DIRECTED BY AND STARRING GEORGE CLOONEYAugustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outpost...
Station Eleven
A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)
- Narrated by
- Kirsten Potter
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Now an original series on HBO Max. Over one million copies sold!One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyKirste...
- Narrated by
- Dion Graham
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NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free.” —Vanity FairEleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, th...











