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2026
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Considered one of the best baseball novels of all time, this black comedy about a discontented businessman's obsession with a fantasy baseball league of his own creation is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" meets William Gaddis meets John Updike's Rabbit, Run.Somewhere in a "major-league" American city, there lives a man named J. Henry Waugh—no-account accountant, barfly, and country music fan. The most important part of Waugh's life, as far as he is conce...
Huck Out West
A Novel
2017
EN
"An audacious and revisionary sequel to Twain's masterpiece. It is both true to the spirit of Twain and quintessentially Cooveresque." —Times Literary SupplementAt the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than escape it, leaving Huck "dreadful lonely"...
Going for a Beer
Selected Short Fictions
2018
EN
"A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master.… Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor." —Yu-Yun Hsieh, The New York Times Book ReviewRobert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous ...
The Cat in the Hat for President
A Political Fable
2018
EN
A reissued classic; Robert Coover is one of America's best-known living authorsPerfect for the Trump EraNever before released in paperback--or with this, its original titleWith a new introduction by the author
Huck Out West
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Eric Michael Summerer
Unabridged
9 hours 26 min
2017
EN
At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and his pal Tom Sawyer "light out for the Territory" to avoid "sivilization." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Huck and Tom start by joining the famous but short-lived Pony Express. Tom becomes something of a hero and decides he'd rather own civilization than escape it, returning east to get a wife and a law degree. But Huck stays alone in the Territory; he guides wagon trains, scouts for both ...
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- Holter Graham
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9 hours 12 min
2015
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke's The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh GlassThe year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an expe...
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2019
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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe fourteenth incredible Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.Tracking a notorious Chinese smuggler's activities leads Dirk Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why has he chosen this unlikely location?The tr...
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A Jack Reacher Novel
- Narrated by
- Dick Hill
- Audiobook 14 -
- Jack Reacher
Unabridged
13 hours 13 min
2010
EN
**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BLOCKBUSTER JACK REACHER SERIES THAT INSPIRED TWO MAJOR MOTION PICTURES AND THE STREAMING SERIES REACHER“Reacher gets better and better. . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child’s electrifying Reacher books.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times**A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave wom...
Worth Dying For
A Jack Reacher Novel
- Narrated by
- Dick Hill
- Audiobook 15 -
- Jack Reacher
Abridged
6 hours 28 min
2010
EN
**THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!A heart-racing page-turner that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown“Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly**There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul ...
- Narrated by
- Johnathan McClain
- Audiobook 4 -
- Jack Reacher
Unabridged
13 hours 16 min
2012
EN
The bestselling novel featuring the “wonderfully epic hero” (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher.Across the country women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there’s only one thing that links one victim to the next. Each of the women knew Jack Reacher. And this time, even he’s runni...
Persuader
A Jack Reacher Novel
- Narrated by
- Dick Hill
- Audiobook 7 -
- Jack Reacher
Unabridged
13 hours 46 min
2021
EN
“Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”—The Denver PostJack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs—and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion.Staging a brilliant ruse...
A Land More Kind Than Home
A Novel
2012
EN
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A mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town—author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling. A Land More Kind than Home is a modern masterwork of Southern fiction, reminiscent of the writings of John Hart (Down River), Tom Franklin (Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter), Ron Rash (Serena), and Pete Dexter (Paris Trout)—on...











