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Donia Bijan
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Lanna Joffrey
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Nikki Massoud
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Mozhan Navabi
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Sanam Mahloudji
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A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from a once illustrious Iranian family as they grapple with revolutions personal and political.
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.
First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone but is sometimes visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose and yet manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters wound up in America: Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student in New York City trying to find deeper meaning by quietly giving away her belongings.
When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up in jail, the family’s upper-class veneer is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a quest to restore the family name to its former glory, but what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Can they bring their old inheritance into a new tomorrow?
By turns satirical and philosophical, spanning from 1940s Iran to a splintered 2000s, The Persians upends the reader’s expectations while exploring questions about love, family, money, art, and how to find yourself and each other when your country is lost. Wry and witty, brazen and absurd, The Persians is a deeply moving reinvention of the American family saga.
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At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. But privately, quietly, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor.
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Another excellent story by Lauren Willig
- De reader in USA en 03-10-25
De: Lauren Willig
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The Dream Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Barton Caplan
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.
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Overhyped
- De Shannon Rayfield en 03-06-25
De: Laila Lalami
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I Leave It Up to You
- A Novel
- De: Jinwoo Chong
- Narrado por: Daniel K. Isaac
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is gone, and the love of his life has left him behind. He’s been asleep for two years; with no one to turn to, he realizes it’s been ten years since he last saw his family.
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I would be mad…
- De Armando en 03-10-25
De: Jinwoo Chong
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Nesting
- A Novel
- De: Roisín O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Louisa Harland
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe—and that this time, when she leaves, she must stay away. On the surface, she has a perfect life: her husband, Ryan, is a good provider, sometimes even kind and attentive, from a nice Irish family, and they have another baby on the way.
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The main character feels like me- like my life.
- De Marty M. en 03-14-25
De: Roisín O'Donnell
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Theory & Practice
- De: Michelle de Kretser
- Narrado por: Melissa Madden Gray
- Duración: 4 h y 45 m
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It's 1986, and "beautiful, radical ideas" are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a "deconstructed relationship." They become lovers, and the narrator's feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf's diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.
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Woodworking
- De: Emily St. James
- Narrado por: L. Morgan Lee, Saoirse Ní Shúilleabháin, Emily St. James
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced—and trans. Not that she's told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn't exactly bursting with other trans women. Instead, she keeps to herself, teaching by day and directing community theater by night. That is, until Abigail Hawkes enters her orbit.
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The Edge of Water
- De: Olufunke Grace Bankole
- Narrado por: Nicole Cash
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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In Ibadan, Nigeria, a mother receives a divination that foretells danger for her daughter in America. In spite of this warning, she allows her to forge her own path, and Amina arrives in New Orleans filled with hope. But just as Amina begins to find her way, a hurricane threatens to destroy the city, upending everything she’d dreamed of and the lives of all she holds dear. Years later, her daughter is left with questions about the mother she barely knew, and the family she has yet to discover in Nigeria.
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Dream Count
- A Novel
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sandra Okuboyejo, A'rese Emokpae, y otros
- Duración: 19 h y 4 m
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Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship.
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A reminder Chiamanda is a magnificent author
- De Tally en 03-14-25
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Hunchback
- A Novel
- De: Saou Ichikawa
- Narrado por: Polly Barton, Yuriri Naka
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
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Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka’s physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has no boundaries: She takes e-learning courses on her iPad, publishes explicit fantasies on websites, and anonymously troll-tweets to see if anyone is paying attention (“In another life, I’d like to work as a high-class prostitute”). One day, she tweets into the void an offer of an enormous sum of money for a sperm donor.
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See Friendship
- A Novel
- De: Jeremy Gordon
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Ahead of looming layoffs within the ongoing decimation of media, Jacob Goldberg, a culture writer in New York, knows what will save him: a podcast. Not just any podcast, but something that will demonstrate his singular thoughtfulness in an oversaturated, competitive market. When Jacob learns the true, tragic circumstances behind the mysterious death of Seth, one of his best friends from high school, his world is turned completely upside down. But when the dust settles, he realizes he has an idea worth digging into. Of course, it’s not so simple.
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The Memory Ward
- De: Jon Bassoff
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot, Dawn Harvey, Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect. But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages. Hank isn’t the only one who’s noticed the oddities in Bethlam. One such person knocks on his window in the middle of the night, urging him to investigate his bedroom wall.
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Page turner!
- De Sullivan en 03-13-25
De: Jon Bassoff
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Count My Lies
- De: Sophie Stava
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden, Devon Sorvari, Emily Tremaine
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Sloane Caraway is a liar. Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting. So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can't help herself—she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl’s foot. With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island.
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It’s boring
- De Anonymous User en 03-08-25
De: Sophie Stava
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The Last Days of Kira Mullan
- A Novel
- De: Nicci French
- Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that ruined friendships, stalled her fledgling restaurant, and forced her to move out of her comfortable flat, she’ll do anything to get back to normal. She and her partner Felix—who has been a saint through her recent troubles—move into a new flat for a fresh start. Nancy is taking her pills, seeing her therapist, and avoiding unnecessary stress. She’s doing absolutely everything right, but something is still very, very wrong. On the first day in the new flat, she hears them again.
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Great book!
- De J en 03-14-25
De: Nicci French
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Bibliophobia
- A Memoir
- De: Sarah Chihaya
- Narrado por: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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Books can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary encounter. Sarah calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners”. Her Life Ruiner, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, became a talisman for her in high school when its electrifying treatment of race exposed Sarah’s deepest feelings about being Japanese American in a predominantly white suburb of Cleveland.
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Don’t Tell Me How to Die
- A Novel
- De: Marshall Karp
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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I had it all: a fantastic husband, two great kids, an exciting career. And then, at the age of forty-three, I found out I would be dead before my next birthday. My mother also died young. I was seventeen, and she warned me that women would flock to my suddenly single father like stray cats to an overturned milk truck. They did. And one absolutely evil woman practically destroyed his life, mine, and my sister’s. I am not letting that happen to my family. I have three months, and I plan to spend every waking minute searching for the perfect woman to take my place as Alex’s wife.
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Totally kept me guessing!
- De Danielle en 03-12-25
De: Marshall Karp
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- 03-09-25
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This is one of the best books I've listened to this year. Well-written and perfectly paced, the book follows the female members of an Iranian family, some of whom emigrated to the US after the revolution. The story takes you into the family's history and into the lives of complicated, imperfect characters. Additionally, I discovered more about Iran's recent history.
Multiple characters narrate the story and the actors do a great job of portraying each's personality. The different points of view work for this book.
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