29 Best books to read while in jail
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A Beautiful Crime
- By: Christopher Bollen
- Narrator: Tim Paige
- Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 28, 2020
- Language: English
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3.6(1276 ratings)
3.6(1276 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDFrom the author of The Destroyers comes another “delicious literary thriller” (People)–a twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a high-stakesFrom the author of The Destroyers comes another “delicious literary thriller” (People)–a twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a high-stakes con.
When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory meet up on the Grand Canal in Venice, they have a plan in mind–and it doesn’t involve a vacation. Nick and Clay are running away from their turbulent lives in New York City, each desperate for a happier, freer future someplace else. Their method of escape? Selling a collection of counterfeit antiques to a brash, unsuspecting American living out his retirement years in a grand palazzo. With Clay’s smarts and Nick’s charm, their scheme is sure to succeed.
As it turns out, tricking a millionaire out of money isn’t as easy as it seems, especially when Clay and Nick let greed get the best of them. As Nick falls under the spell of the city’s decrepit magic, Clay comes to terms with personal loss and the price of letting go of the past. Their future awaits, but it is built on disastrous deceits, and more than one life stands in the way of their dreams.
A Beautiful Crime is a twisty grifter novel with a thriller running through its veins. But it is also a meditation on love, class, race, sexuality, and the legacy of bohemian culture. Tacking between Venice’s soaring aesthetic beauty and its imminent tourist-riddled collapse, Bollen delivers another “seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller” (New York Times Book Review).
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An Anonymous Girl Una chica anonima (Spanish edition)
- By: Greer Hendricks
- Narrator: Ximena Restrepo
- Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 25, 2020
- Language: Spanish
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3.81(140014 ratings)
3.81(140014 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDPara ganar algo de dinero, Jessica Farris acepta participar en un estudio psicologico sobre etica y moralidad. Pero a medida que el experimento va de la clinica hacia el mundo real, se comienza a desdibujar la linea entre lo que es verdadero y loPara ganar algo de dinero, Jessica Farris acepta participar en un estudio psicologico sobre etica y moralidad. Pero a medida que el experimento va de la clinica hacia el mundo real, se comienza a desdibujar la linea entre lo que es verdadero y lo que no lo es.
Shields, quien lidera el estudio, parece saber lo que Jess esta pensando … y lo que esta escondiendo.El comportamiento de Jessica no solo sera monitoreado, sino tambien manipulado.
Atrapada dentro de una red de atraccion, engano y celos, Jess aprende rapidamente que algunas obsesiones pueden ser mortales.
De las autoras del besteseller La esposa entre nosotros, Greer Hendricks y Sarah Pekkanen, Una chica anonima promete mantenerte cautivado por todas las sorpresas que te dejaran sin palabras.
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Anywhere for You
- By: Abbie Greaves
- Narrator: Julie Teal
- Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 06, 2021
- Language: English
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3.6(618 ratings)
3.6(618 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USD“A stylish and confident new voice–readers are going to love discovering Abbie Greaves.” — Louise Candlish, internationally bestselling author of Our House and Those People A poignant and thrilling love story about one“A stylish and confident new voice–readers are going to love discovering Abbie Greaves.” — Louise Candlish, internationally bestselling author of Our House and Those People
A poignant and thrilling love story about one woman’s decade-long search to reconnect with the love of her life who disappeared without a trace–a stirring and heartfelt page-turner from the critically acclaimed author of The Silent Treatment.
The straphangers of Ealing Broadway station are familiar with Mary O’Connor, the woman who appears every day to watch the droves of busy commuters. But Mary never asks anything from anyone. She only holds out a sign bearing a heartrending message: Come Home Jim.
While others pass her by without a thought, Alice, a junior reporter at the Ealing Bugle, asks Mary to tell her story. Many years ago, Mary met the charming and romantic Jim Whitnell. She was certain she’d found her other half, until one day he vanished without any explanation. But Mary believes that Jim isn’t a cad, that he truly loved her and will return–especially because she’s recently received grainy phone calls from him saying he misses her.
Touched but also suspicious, Alice quietly begins her own investigation into Jim’s disappearance, unraveling a decade-long story filled with desire, heartbreak, and hope. With Greaves’s signature warmth and charm, Anywhere for You is a romantic and immensely moving novel about the enduring power of love and finding happiness in unexpected places.
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Dark Objects
- By: Simon Toyne
- Narrator: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 12, 2022
- Language: English
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4.05(694 ratings)
4.05(694 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDForensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy. How do you catch a killer if the victimForensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy.
How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn’t exist?
A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists.
The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees–a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene.
Laughton Rees is an academic who doesn’t usually work live cases after the brutal murder of her mother as a teen left her traumatized and emotionally scarred. But the presence of her book at this scene draws her unwillingly into the high-profile investigation and media circus that springs up around it. As the dark objects found beside the body lead her closer to the victim’s identity, a dangerous threat to Laughton and her daughter emerges, as well as painful memories of her past related to the man she has always blamed for her mother’s death: John Rees, Laughton’s father, the current Metropolitan Chief Commissioner and a man she has not spoken to in twenty years.
Laughton’s family was destroyed once and she built herself a new one. Now, she has to face her darkest fears and help catch a killer before this one is destroyed too.
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Dear Amy
- By: Helen Callaghan
- Narrator: Michelle Ford
- Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 18, 2016
- Language: English
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3.59(7014 ratings)
3.59(7014 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDIn Helen Callaghan’s chilling, tightly-spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girl’s abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case… Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the EnglishIn Helen Callaghan’s chilling, tightly-spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girl’s abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case…
Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, “Dear Amy”, for the local newspaper.
When one of Margot’s students, fifteen-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a “Dear Amy” letter unlike any of the ones she’s received before. It’s a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger–a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area twenty years ago…and never found.
The letter matches a sample of Bethan’s handwriting that the police have kept on file since she vanished, and this shocking development in an infamous cold case catches the attention of criminologist Martin Forrester, who has been trying to find out what happened to her all those years ago. Spurred on by her concern for both Katie and the mysterious Bethan, Margot sets out–with Martin’s help–to discover if the two cases are connected.
But then Margot herself becomes a target.
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Disclaimer
- By: Renee Knight
- Narrator: Laura Paton
- Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 19, 2015
- Language: English
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3.6(17142 ratings)
3.6(17142 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA brilliantly conceived, deeply unsettling psychological thriller– already an international sensation–about a woman haunted by secrets, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible price we pay when we try to hide theA brilliantly conceived, deeply unsettling psychological thriller– already an international sensation–about a woman haunted by secrets, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible price we pay when we try to hide the truth.
Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day she became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew–and that person is dead.
Now that the past is catching up with her, Catherine’s world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day . . . even if the shocking truth might destroy her.
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Elizabeth Is Missing
- By: Emma Healey
- Narrator: Davina Porter
- Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 10, 2014
- Language: English
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3.72(43488 ratings)
3.72(43488 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDHOW DO YOU SOLVE A MYSTERY WHEN YOU CAN’T REMEMBER THE CLUES? In this darkly riveting debut novel–a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging–an elderlyHOW DO YOU SOLVE A MYSTERY WHEN YOU CAN’T REMEMBER THE CLUES?
In this darkly riveting debut novel–a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging–an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences.
Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory–and her grip on everyday life. Yet she refuses to forget her best friend Elizabeth, whom she is convinced is missing and in terrible danger.
But no one will listen to Maud–not her frustrated daughter, Helen, not her caretakers, not the police, and especially not Elizabeth’s mercurial son, Peter. Armed with handwritten notes she leaves for herself and an overwhelming feeling that Elizabeth needs her help, Maud resolves to discover the truth and save her beloved friend.
This singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud’s rapidly dissolving present. But the clues she discovers seem only to lead her deeper into her past, to another unsolved disappearance: her sister, Sukey, who vanished shortly after World War II.
As vivid memories of a tragedy that occurred more fifty years ago come flooding back, Maud discovers new momentum in her search for her friend. Could the mystery of Sukey’s disappearance hold the key to finding Elizabeth?
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Fear of Flying
- By: Erica Jong
- Narrator: Hope Davis
- Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Caedmon
- Publish date: May 23, 2006
- Language: English
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3.46(16649 ratings)
3.46(16649 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDOriginally published in 1973, the groundbreaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. In The New York Times, Henry Miller compared it to his own classic, Tropic of Cancer and predicted thatOriginally published in 1973, the groundbreaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. In The New York Times, Henry Miller compared it to his own classic, Tropic of Cancer and predicted that “this book will make literary history…” It has sold more than twelve million copies. Now, after thirty years, the revolutionary novel known as Fear of Flying still stands as a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood.
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Fierce Little Thing
- By: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
- Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 27, 2021
- Language: English
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3.26(1244 ratings)
3.26(1244 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“A Secret History-esque tale…All the ingredients for the perfect summer read.” –The Millions“Captivating, thoughtful, and tense, a great read for those who enjoy psychological thrillers and complex puzzles. Highly“A Secret History-esque tale…All the ingredients for the perfect summer read.” –The Millions
“Captivating, thoughtful, and tense, a great read for those who enjoy psychological thrillers and complex puzzles. Highly recommended.” –New York Journal Review of Books
“It’s time to come Home. All five of you. Or else.”Saskia was a damaged, lonely teenager when she arrived at the lakeside commune called Home. She was entranced by the tang of sourdough starter; the midnight call of the loons; the triumph of foraging wild mushrooms from the forest floor. But most of all she was taken with Abraham, Home’s charismatic leader, the North Star to Saskia and the four other teens who lived there, her best and only friends.
Two decades later, Saskia is shuttered in her Connecticut estate, estranged from the others. Her carefully walled life is torn open by threatening letters. Unless she and her former friends return to the land in rural Maine, the terrible thing they did as teenagers–their last-ditch attempt to save Home–will be revealed.
From vastly different lives, the five return to confront their blackmailer and reckon with the horror that split them apart. How far will they go to bury their secret forever?
New York Times bestselling author Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s Fierce Little Thing is a mesmerizing story of friendship and its reckonings.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
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Flashmob
- By: Christopher Farnsworth
- Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 27, 2017
- Language: English
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4.08(652 ratings)
4.08(652 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDGifted troubleshooter John Smith, introduced in the acclaimed thriller Killfile, must take down a shadowy figure who has weaponized the internet, using social media to put a price on the heads of his targets in this intense, unstoppable thrillerGifted troubleshooter John Smith, introduced in the acclaimed thriller Killfile, must take down a shadowy figure who has weaponized the internet, using social media to put a price on the heads of his targets in this intense, unstoppable thriller from the author reviewers have compared to Michael Crichton, Brad Thor, and James Rollins.
As a fixer for America’s one percent, John Smith cleans up the messes of those rich enough to afford him. But he’s no ordinary gun for hire. Smith is a man of rare gifts, including the ability to read minds. Arriving at the wedding of Kira Sadeghi, a reality television celebrity he recently saved from kidnappers, Smith witnesses a group of gunmen open fire, hitting the bride and others. Though he’s unarmed, Smith cripples one of the killers and is able to pry one word from his mind: “Downvote.”
Eager to learn more, Smith hacks into the brain of an FBI agent investigating the attack to discover the Bureau has been investigating a nefarious new threat called “Downvote,” an encrypted site on the “dark net” that lists the names of celebrities and offers a hefty bounty for anyone who can kill them–unleashing an anonymous and deadly flashmob with a keystroke.
Finding a mastermind on the internet is like trying to catch air–unless you’re John Smith. Motivated by money and revenge, he traces a series of electronic signatures to a reclusive billionaire living at sea, accompanied by a scary-smart female bodyguard who becomes Smith’s partner in his quest. The hunt for their prey will lead from Hong Kong to Reykjavik to a luxury gambling resort deep in the Laotian jungle. Yet always this criminal mastermind remains one step ahead.
The only way Downvote’s creator can stop Smith is to kill him . . . because while this diabolical genius can run, there’s no hiding from a man who can read minds.
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Greenland
- By: David Santos Donaldson
- Narrator: Theo Solomon
- Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 07, 2022
- Language: English
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3.88(346 ratings)
3.88(346 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDShortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed elShortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl–in which Mohammed’s story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction.
In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed’s story.
Kip has only three weeks until his publisher’s deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don’t end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust education, and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses himself in his writing, Mohammed’s story – and then Mohammed himself – begins to speak to him, and his life becomes a Proustian portal into Kip’s own memories and psyche. Greenland seamlessly conjures two distinct yet overlapping worlds where the past mirrors the present, and the artist’s journey transforms into a quest for truth that offers a world of possibility.
Electric and unforgettable, David Santos Donaldson’s tour de force excavates the dream of white assimilation, the foibles of interracial relationships, and not only the legacy of a literary giant, but literature itself.
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Idol, Burning
- By: Rin Usami
- Narrator: Rin Mirai
- Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.39(784 ratings)
3.39(784 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDA DECEMBER INDIE NEXT PICK! “Haunting and sincere, Idol, Burning subverts and astonishes. Rin Usami balances humor, obsession, heartbreak, and sacrifice in her debut, crafting a story that’s both enveloping and expansive. Usami’sA DECEMBER INDIE NEXT PICK!
“Haunting and sincere, Idol, Burning subverts and astonishes. Rin Usami balances humor, obsession, heartbreak, and sacrifice in her debut, crafting a story that’s both enveloping and expansive. Usami’s writing is thrilling and deft, and her novel illuminates the shadows cloaking our digital lives, leaving us with honesty and grace in equal measures. Idol, Burning is a barnburner and a prayer and a testament to the lengths that we’ll go to reach for our dreams.”–Bryan Washington, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer, a twenty-first century Catcher in the Rye that brilliantly explores toxic fandom, social media, and alienated adolescence.
Akari is a high school student obsessed with “oshi” Masaki Ueno, a member of the popular J-Pop group Maza Maza. She writes a blog devoted to him, and spends hours addictively scrolling for information about him and his life. Desperate to analyze and understand him, Akari hopes to eventually see the world through his eyes. It is a devotion that borders on the religious: Masaki is her savior, her backbone, someone she believes she cannot survive without–even though she’s never actually met him.
When rumors surface that her idol assaulted a female fan, social media explodes. Akari immediately begins sifting through everything she can find about the scandal, and shares every detail to her blog–including Masaki’s denials and pleas to his fans–drawing numerous readers eager for her updates.
But the organized, knowledgeable persona Akari presents online is totally different from the socially awkward, unfocused teenager she is in real life. As Masaki’s situation spirals, his troubles threaten to tear apart her life too. Instead of finding a way to break free to save herself, Akari becomes even more fanatical about Masaki, still believing her idol is the only person who understands her.
A blistering novel of fame, disconnection, obsession, and disillusion by a young writer not much older than the novel’s heroine, Idol, Burning shines a white-hot spotlight on fandom and “stan” culture, the money-making schemes of the pop idol industry, the seductive power of social media, and the powerful emotional void that opens when an idol falls from grace, only to become a real–and very flawed–person.
Translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda.
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Imperfect Women
- By: Araminta Hall
- Narrator: Helen Keeley
- Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 04, 2020
- Language: English
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3.37(1685 ratings)
3.37(1685 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDFrom the author of Our Kind of Cruelty comes an enthralling, irresistible novel of psychological suspense about three women and the destructive power of buried secrets. When Nancy Hennessy is murdered, she leaves behind two best friends, an adoringFrom the author of Our Kind of Cruelty comes an enthralling, irresistible novel of psychological suspense about three women and the destructive power of buried secrets.
When Nancy Hennessy is murdered, she leaves behind two best friends, an adoring husband and daughter, and a secret lover whose identity she took to the grave. Nancy was gorgeous, wealthy, and cherished by those who knew her–from the outside, her life was perfect. But as the investigation into her death flounders and her friends Eleanor and Mary wrestle with their grief, dark details surface that reveal how little they knew their friend, each other, and maybe even themselves.
A gripping, immersive novel about impossible expectations and secrets that fester and become lethal, Imperfect Women unfolds through the perspectives of three fascinating women. Their enduring, complex friendship is the knot the listener must untangle to answer the question Who killed Nancy?
Imperfect Women explores guilt and retribution, love and betrayal, and the compromises we make that alter our lives irrevocably. With the wickedly sharp insights and finely tuned suspense that has drawn comparisons to Patricia Highsmith and Paula Hawkins, Araminta Hall returns with another thought-provoking tour de force.
A Macmillan Audio production from MCD
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Killfile
- By: Christopher Farnsworth
- Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 09, 2016
- Language: English
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4.1(1373 ratings)
4.1(1373 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThe author of The Eternal World seamlessly combines history, biotechnology, action and adventure in this high-concept thriller in the spirit of James Rollins, Brad Thor, and Douglas Preston. John Smith has a special gift that seems more like aThe author of The Eternal World seamlessly combines history, biotechnology, action and adventure in this high-concept thriller in the spirit of James Rollins, Brad Thor, and Douglas Preston.
John Smith has a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other peoples thoughts. He hears the the songs stuck in their heads, their most private traumas and fears, the painful memories they can’t let go. The CIA honed his skills until he was one of their most powerful operatives, but Smith fled the Agency and now works as a private consultant, trying to keep the dark potentials of his gift in check–and himself out of trouble.
But now Smith is unexpectedly plunged into dangerous waters when his latest client, billionaire software genius Everett Sloan, hires him to investigate a former employee–a tech whiz kid named Eli Preston–and search his thoughts for some very valuable intellectual property he’s stolen. Before John can probe Preston’s mind, his identity is compromised and he’s on a run for his life with Sloan’s young associate, Kelsey.
Hunted by shadowy enemies with deep resources and unknown motives, John and Kelsey must go off the grid. John knows their only hope for survival is using his powers to their fullest–even if means putting his own sanity at risk.
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Mind of Winter
- By: Laura Kasischke
- Narrator: Justine Eyre
- Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 25, 2014
- Language: English
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3.31(2999 ratings)
3.31(2999 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDLaura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror–anLaura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror–an addictive tale of denial and guilt that is part Joyce Carol Oates and part Chris Bohjalian.
On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens with the fragments of a nightmare floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. Thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric adopted baby Tatty, their pretty, black-haired Rapunzel, from the Pokrovka Orphanage #2. Now, at fifteen, Tatiana is more beautiful than ever–and disturbingly erratic.
As a blizzard rages outside, Holly and Tatiana are alone. With each passing hour, Tatiana’s mood darkens, and her behavior becomes increasingly frightening . . . until Holly finds she no longer recognizes her daughter.
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My Dark Vanessa
- By: Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Narrator: Grace Gummer
- Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 10, 2020
- Language: English
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4.09(187752 ratings)
4.09(187752 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BREAKOUT AUTHOR TO WATCH IN 2020 “Brilliant and stunning . . . an absolute must read.” – GILLIAN FLYNN “A well-constructed package of dynamite.” – STEPHEN KING A most anticipated bookENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BREAKOUT AUTHOR TO WATCH IN 2020
“Brilliant and stunning . . . an absolute must read.” – GILLIAN FLYNN
“A well-constructed package of dynamite.” – STEPHEN KING
A most anticipated book by The New York Times * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Marie Claire * Elle * Harper’s Bazaar * Bustle * Newsweek * New York Post * Esquire * Real Simple * The Sunday Times * The Guardian
ONE OF THE MOST BUZZED ABOUT DEBUTS IN YEARS
AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION SOLD IN 24 TERRITORIES AND COUNTING
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naive teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.
2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager–and who professed to worship only her–may be far different from what she has always believed?
Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.
Includes a bonus conversation with Kate Elizabeth Russell, Grace Gummer, and Jessica Williams (editor of My Dark Vanessa).
This audiobook includes an episode of the Book Club Girl Podcast, featuring an interview with Kate Elizabeth Russell about My Dark Vanessa.
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House of Spies
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 11, 2017
- Language: English
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4.3(13772 ratings)
4.3(13772 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USD#1 NYT Bestseller #1 USA Bestseller #1 WSJ Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new summer blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon. A heart-stopping tale#1 NYT Bestseller
#1 USA Bestseller
#1 WSJ Bestseller
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new summer blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon.
A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silva’s runaway bestseller, The Black Widow, was one of 2016’s biggest novels. Now, in House of Spies, Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge – determined to hunt down the world’s most dangerous terrorist, a shadowy ISIS mastermind known only as Saladin.
Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London’s glittering West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread.
The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former British fashion model, Olivia pretends not to know that the true source of Martel’s enormous wealth is drugs. And Martel, likewise, turns a blind eye to the fact he is doing business with a man whose objective is the very destruction of the West. Together, under Gabriel’s skilled hand, they will become an unlikely pair of heroes in the global war on terror.
Written in seductive and elegant prose, the story moves swiftly from the glamour of Saint-Tropez to the grit of Casablanca and, finally, to an electrifying climax that will leave readers breathless long after they turn the final page.
But House of Spies is more than just riveting entertainment; it is a dazzling tale of avarice and redemption, set against the backdrop of the great conflict of our times. And it proves once again why Daniel Silva is “quite simply the best” (Kansas City Star).
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Reprieve
- By: James Han Mattson
- Narrator: JD Jackson
- Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 05, 2021
- Language: English
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3.42(4125 ratings)
3.42(4125 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“Like Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching or Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, Reprieve straddles genres in the best possible way. . . . Sure to spark conversation and debate at book“Like Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching or Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, Reprieve straddles genres in the best possible way. . . . Sure to spark conversation and debate at book clubs across the land.” –LOS ANGELES TIMES
“An eventual American classic that is unrelenting in its beauty and incisive cultural critique.” – KIESE LAYMON
Recommended by New York Times * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Today * Esquire * O Quarterly * Boston Globe * Chicago Tribune * Harper’s Bazaar * Shondaland * Thrillist * The Millions * Crimereads * XTRA * Tor * Literary Hub * and more!
A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room–a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment.
On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, “reprieve,” they’ll win a substantial cash prize–a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house’s long history. But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants.
Those who were present on that fateful night lend their points of view: Kendra Brown, a teenager who’s been uprooted from her childhood home after the sudden loss of her father; Leonard Grandton, a desperate and impressionable hotel manager caught in a series of toxic entanglements; and Jaidee Charoensuk, a gay international student who came to the United States in a besotted search for his former English teacher. As each character’s journey unfurls and overlaps, deceit and misunderstandings fueled by obsession and prejudice are revealed, forcing all to reckon with the ways in which their beliefs and actions contributed to a horrifying catastrophe.
An astonishingly soulful exploration of complicity and masquerade, Reprieve combines the psychological tension of classic horror with searing social criticism to present an unsettling portrait of this tangled American life.
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Solstice
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrator: Emily Durante
- Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 19, 2019
- Language: English
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3.46(624 ratings)
3.46(624 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDAn engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates’s earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women. Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young womenAn engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates’s earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women.
Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Monica is a shy, modest, and recently divorced school teacher while Sheila is a worldly, sophisticated, and nocturnal painter driven by the needs of her art. Over the months, their friendship deepens, first to love and then to a near-fatal obsession.
Engaging, dark, and mysterious, Solstice is Joyce Carol Oates’s psychological masterpiece of friendship and fixation.
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New Girl, The chica nueva, La (Spanish edition)
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrator: Bern Hoffman
- Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 28, 2020
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USD# 1 en ventas del New York Times * # 1 en ventas de USA Today * # 1 en ventas de Wall Street Journal Ahora la ves a ella. Ahora no la ves. La chica nueva. Un thriller de engano, traicion y venganza. Un aire de misterio envuelve a una de las nuevas# 1 en ventas del New York Times * # 1 en ventas de USA Today * # 1 en ventas de Wall Street Journal
Ahora la ves a ella. Ahora no la ves. La chica nueva. Un thriller de engano, traicion y venganza.
Un aire de misterio envuelve a una de las nuevas alumnas de un exclusivo colegio privado en Suiza. Se trata de una hermosa chica de lustrosa melena azabache que llega todas las mananas escoltada por una caravana digna de un jefe de estado. Se dice que es hija de un poderoso empresario, pero es en realidad hija del principe heredero de Arabia Saudi. Cuando la joven es despiadadamente secuestrada, el principe acude al unico capaz de rescatarla antes de que sea demasiado tarde: Gabriel Allon.
Llena de trampas y sorpresas, La chica nueva es una cautivadora novela de espionaje en la que Daniel Silva hace un retrato magistral a la vez que un agudo repaso al volatil escenario de las relaciones internacionales.
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thriller basado en la situacion actual del Oriente Medio profundizado por la universalidad del espiritu humano.>> —Booklist DANIEL SILVA es el autor bestseller del New York Times de El espia ingles, La viuda negra, Casa de los espias, y La otra mujer. Sus libros, que han sido publicados en mas de treinta paises, se encuentran entre los mas vendidos de todo el mundo. Daniel Silva es miembro del Holocaust Memorial Council de los Estados Unidos y vive en Florida con su esposa, Jamie Gangel, y sus dos hijos, Lily y Nicholas.
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Order, The La orden (Spanish edition)
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrator: Alejandro Fariza
- Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
- Publish date: June 22, 2021
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDGabriel Allon, uno de los mejores espias del mundo de la ficcion, regresa en esta emocionante novela de amistad y fe en un mundo peligroso y lleno de incertidumbres. Las vacaciones en Venecia de Gabriel Allon se ven interrumpidas por la repentinaGabriel Allon, uno de los mejores espias del mundo de la ficcion, regresa en esta emocionante novela de amistad y fe
en un mundo peligroso y lleno de incertidumbres.
Las vacaciones en Venecia de Gabriel Allon se ven interrumpidas por la repentina muerte del papa Pablo VII. Su leal secretario, el arzobispo Luigi Donati, convoca a Gabriel a Roma para confiarle sus sospechas de que el Santo Padre no ha sufrido un infarto, sino que ha sido asesinado. ?Sus razones? La desaparicion del guardia de las estancias pontificias, y una carta del papa… dirigida a Gabriel.
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>. Un Testamento suprimido que cuestiona el Nuevo Testamento. La Orden de Santa Elena, una oscura sociedad catolica, esta dispuesta a todo para evitar que Gabriel se haga con el al tiempo que conspiran para hacerse con el trono de San Pedro. Gabriel emprende una desesperada investigacion para desenmascarar la Orden y poner fin a dos mil anos de odio mortal.
La Orden cautivara a los lectores con su ritmo y elegancia, dejandolos sin respiracion con su inesperado final. La ultima prueba de que Daniel Silva es el mejor escritor de suspense internacional de su generacion.
DANIEL SILVA es el autor bestseller del New York Times de El espia ingles, La viuda negra, Casa de los espias, y La otra mujer. Sus libros, que han sido publicados en mas de treinta paises, se encuentran entre los mas vendidos de todo el mundo. Daniel Silva es miembro del Holocaust Memorial Council de los Estados Unidos y vive en Florida con su esposa, Jamie Gangel, y sus dos hijos, Lily y Nicholas.
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Sunburn
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrator: Susan Bennett
- Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 20, 2018
- Language: English
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3.47(17731 ratings)
3.47(17731 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. ButNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals–and cold-blooded murder.
One is playing a long game. But which one?
They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through. Yet she stays and he stays–drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other–dangerous, even lethal, secrets.
Then someone dies. Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other’s lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away–or even if they want to. Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them?
Something–or someone–has to give.
Which one will it be?
Inspired by James M. Cain’s masterpieces The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, Sunburn is a tantalizing modern noir from the incomparable Laura Lippman.
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The (Other) You
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 09, 2021
- Language: English
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3.5(650 ratings)
3.5(650 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other livesA powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short story
In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we’d made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she’d never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student’s affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: “You could enter another time, the time of the book.”
The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures.
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The Captives
- By: Debra Jo Immergut
- Narrator: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 05, 2018
- Language: English
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2.87(1282 ratings)
2.87(1282 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThe riveting story of a woman convicted of a brutal crime, the prison psychologist who recognizes her as his high-school crush–and the charged reunion that sets off an astonishing chain of events with dangerous consequences for both. As anThe riveting story of a woman convicted of a brutal crime, the prison psychologist who recognizes her as his high-school crush–and the charged reunion that sets off an astonishing chain of events with dangerous consequences for both.
As an inmate psychologist at a state prison, Frank Lundquist has had his fair share of surprises. But nothing could possibly prepare him for the day in which his high school object of desire, Miranda Greene, walks into his office for an appointment. Still reeling from the scandal that cost him his Manhattan private practice and landed him in his unglamorous job at Milford Basin Correctional Facility in the first place, Frank knows he has an ethical duty to reassign Miranda’s case. But Miranda is just as beguiling as ever, and he’s insatiably curious: how did a beautiful high school sprinter and the promising daughter of a congressman end up incarcerated for a shocking crime? Even more compelling: though Frank remembers every word Miranda ever spoke to him, she gives no indication of having any idea who he is.
Inside the prison walls, Miranda is desperate and despairing, haunted by memories of a childhood tragedy, grappling with a family legacy of dodgy moral and political choices, and still trying to unwind the disastrous love that led to her downfall. And yet she is also grittily determined to retain some control over her fate. Frank quickly becomes a potent hope for her absolution–and maybe even her escape.
Propulsive and psychologically astute, The Captives is an intimate and gripping meditation on freedom and risk, male and female power, and the urges toward both corruption and redemption that dwell in us all.
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The Cellist
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 13, 2021
- Language: English
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3.99(18399 ratings)
3.99(18399 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDFrom Daniel Silva, the internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author, comes a timely and explosive new thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon. Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. OnceFrom Daniel Silva, the internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author, comes a timely and explosive new thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon.
Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. Once Russia’s richest man, he now resides in splendid exile in London, where he has waged a tireless crusade against the authoritarian kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansion in Chelsea’s exclusive Cheyne Walk is one of the most heavily protected private dwellings in London. Yet somehow, on a rainy summer evening, in the midst of a global pandemic, Russia’s vengeful president finally manages to cross Orlov’s name off his kill list.
Before him was the receiver from his landline telephone, a half-drunk glass of red wine, and a stack of documents….
The documents are contaminated with a deadly nerve agent. The Metropolitan Police determine that they were delivered to Orlov’s home by one of his employees, a prominent investigative reporter from the anti-Kremlin Moskovskaya Gazeta. And when the reporter slips from London hours after the killing, MI6 concludes she is a Moscow Center assassin who has cunningly penetrated Orlov’s formidable defenses.
But Gabriel Allon, who owes his very life to Viktor Orlov, believes his friends in British intelligence are dangerously mistaken. His desperate search for the truth will take him from London to Amsterdam and eventually to Geneva, where a private intelligence service controlled by a childhood friend of the Russian president is using KGB-style “active measures” to undermine the West from within. Known as the Haydn Group, the unit is plotting an unspeakable act of violence that will plunge an already divided America into chaos and leave Russia unchallenged. Only Gabriel Allon, with the help of a brilliant young woman employed by the world’s dirtiest bank, can stop it.
Elegant and sophisticated, provocative and daring, The Cellist explores one of the preeminent threats facing the West today–the corrupting influence of dirty money wielded by a revanchist and reckless Russia. It is at once a novel of hope and a stark warning about the fragile state of democracy. And it proves once again why Daniel Silva is regarded as his generation’s finest writer of suspense and international intrigue.
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The English Spy
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 30, 2015
- Language: English
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4.21(12823 ratings)
4.21(12823 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USD#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon. First there was THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN. Then there was#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon.
First there was THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN.
Then there was THE ENGLISH GIRL.
Now comes THE ENGLISH SPY . . .
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with seventeen thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring a diverse cast of compelling characters and ingenious plots that have taken them around the globe and back–from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East. His brilliant hero, Gabriel Allon–art restorer, assassin, spy–has joined the pantheon of great fictional secret agents, including George Smiley, Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, and Simon Templar.
Following the success of his smash hit The Heist, Daniel Silva returns with another blockbuster–a powerhouse novel that showcases his outstanding skill and brilliant imagination, and is sure to be a must read for both his multitudes of fans and growing legions of converts.
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The Girls at 17 Swann Street
- By: Yara Zgheib
- Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 05, 2019
- Language: English
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3.98(8863 ratings)
3.98(8863 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“[Narrator Saskia Maarleveld’s] tour de force reading perfectly encapsulates Anna’s anxieties, shame, and overwhelming guilt at failing to achieve perfection” — Booklist, starred review **A People Pick for Best New“[Narrator Saskia Maarleveld’s] tour de force reading perfectly encapsulates Anna’s anxieties, shame, and overwhelming guilt at failing to achieve perfection” — Booklist, starred review
**A People Pick for Best New Books**
Yara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life.
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists’ list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound.
Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.
Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.
Praise for The Girls at 17 Swann Street:
“A singular celebration of the lifesaving power of community and small gestures.” — New York Times Book Review“Powerful and poetic…Zgheib’s lyrical, dreamlike style…will resonate with fans of Wally Lamb’s and Anne Tyler’s novels and Augusten Burrough’s memoirs.” — Booklist
“Heartbreaking and beautiful…a brave book, stark in its realism, yet tempered by its lyrical prose.” — Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Dream Daughter
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The Fallen Angel
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 17, 2012
- Language: English
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4.21(19013 ratings)
4.21(19013 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDArt restorer, assassin, spy–Gabriel Allon returns in The Fallen Angel, another blockbuster espionage thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. The acclaimed author of Portrait of a Spy, Silva (“a world classArt restorer, assassin, spy–Gabriel Allon returns in The Fallen Angel, another blockbuster espionage thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. The acclaimed author of Portrait of a Spy, Silva (“a world class practitioner of spy fiction” —Washington Post) is an undisputed master of the genre who has brought “new life to the international thriller” (Newsday).
A breathtaking adventure that races around the globe, The Fallen Angel begins in Rome, where Allon is called upon to investigate a murder at the Vatican, one with disastrous repercussions that could plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. If you haven’t yet been drawn into Daniel Silva’s thrilling universe of intrigue, danger, and exceptional spycraft, start here–and see why the Philadelphia Inqurer declares that, “The enigmatic Gabriel Allon remains one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series.”
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The Hummingbird
- By: Sandro Veronesi
- Narrator: Victor Vertunni
- Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 25, 2022
- Language: English
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3.85(557 ratings)
3.85(557 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“The Hummingbird is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world.” –Michael Cunningham “Long considered one of Italy’s leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and“The Hummingbird is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world.” –Michael Cunningham
“Long considered one of Italy’s leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core, it has already been hailed a classic.”–Jhumpa Lahiri
“The Hummingbird is a masterly novel, a brilliantly conceived mosaic of love and tragedy.”–Ian McEwan
The #1 international sensation from a master of European literature–winner of Italy’s Premio Strega–a saga of a Florentine family from the 1960s to the present that brilliantly captures the power of history and the multi-faceted experience of life itself as it explores how we contend with uncontrollable forces that both buffet and buoy us.
Marco Carrera is “the hummingbird,” a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges–suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco’s own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman–Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living. As the years pass and the arc of his life bends, Marco finds himself filled with joy for the future as the baton passes from him to the next generation.
A beautiful and compelling journey through time told in myriad narrative styles, The Hummingbird is a story of suffering, happiness, loss, love, and hope–of a man who embodies the quiet heroism that defines daily life for countless ordinary folk. A thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end, Sandro Veronesi’s masterpiece–eminently readable, rich in insight, and filled with interesting twists and revelations–is a portrait of human existence, the vicissitudes and vagaries that propel and ultimately define us
Translated from the Italian by Elena Pala
“A great novel, vibrating with life and death, happiness and pain, nostalgia and hope for the future.” —Vanity Fair
“Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here … magnificent – moving, replete, beautiful.” —The Guardian
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