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- Narrated by
- Scott Shepherd
Unabridged
5 hours 19 min
2011
EN
“A bold, wise, magical, and authentic novel about youthful infatuation and its legacy. Hannah Pittard’s beautifully confident prose is sure to make readers look back on their own teenage years with fresh wonder.”—Vendela Vida, author of The LoversSixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighborhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence.As the days and years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance ...
The Narrowing Sea
Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region
- Book 23 -
- Asia Pacific Modern
2025
EN
In The Narrowing Sea, Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japan's forced opening of Korea's ports in 1876 to the end of the Korean War in 1953. One city was Korean, the other Japanese; one was a burgeoning colonial port, the other a provincial city buoyed by imperial expansion. Wars, colonization, and capitalist industrialization forged intimate connections between the two, knitting together an imperial region that transce...
Oceanic Japan
The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History
- by
- David R. ArmitageGregory ClanceyBathsheba DemuthAlexis DuddenMartin DusinberreKjell EricsonGerald FigalNadin HeéToshihiro HiguchiDavid L. HowellStefan HuebnerJulia Markio JacobyJakobina ArchRyan Tucker JonesPaul KreitmanManako OgawaKatherine MatsuuraJonas M. RüeggHannah ShepherdSatsuki TakahashiTakehiro WatanabeKären WigenMarcia YonemotoBrett L. WalkerMary Carmel FinleySayuri Guthrie-ShimizuSujit Sivasundaram
2024
EN
Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This “terrestrial bias” also means that on those occasions when oceans are recognized they are most ...
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- Narrated by
- Kirsten Potter
Unabridged
5 hours 2 min
2009
EN
In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make—and the ultimate choice Mia commands.
Caleb's Crossing
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Jennifer Ehle
Unabridged
12 hours 6 min
2011
EN
A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's Vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father ...
- Narrated by
- Brian HutchisonAmanda Leigh Cobb
Unabridged
15 hours 1 min
2016
EN
To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they return to California, something alters the picture of their perfect marriage. A frightening pattern is taking shape-a cycle of hurt, denial, and promises, thinly veiled by glamour. Torn between...
- Narrated by
- Anna Bentinck
Unabridged
16 hours 26 min
2010
EN
NOW A NETFLIX SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. • What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. • "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter." —PeopleIt’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Ov...
- Narrated by
- Adam GrupperRich Orlow
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- Donovan Creed
Unabridged
4 hours 38 min
2011
EN
What if the best morning of your life suddenly turned into your worst nightmare? Sam Case is about to find out. Saving Rachel is the story of what happens when killers force a man to choose between his wife and his mistress . and the one he rejects must die. John Locke is the international best-selling author of seven Donovan Creed novels, all of which have made the Amazon/Kindle Top 20 Best Seller's List. Saving Rachel held the #1 spot for more than three weeks and remains one of the all-...
The Goldfinch
A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- Narrated by
- David Pittu
Unabridged
32 hours 26 min
2013
EN
A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a weal...
Gone Girl
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Julia WhelanKirby Heyborne
Unabridged
19 hours 57 min
2012
EN
**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenesTHE NEW YORK TIMES’S BEST THRILLER OF THE CENTURY • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ...









