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    • Barker & Llewelyn Series, Book 1
    • By: Will Thomas
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Series: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,244 ratings
    • An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn....

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    • By: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Joel Johnstone
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 776 ratings
    • In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long Island, New York....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Percival Everett
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,747 ratings
    • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

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    • By: Thomas Pynchon
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 33 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-19
    • Language: English
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    • Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story....

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    • By: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him....

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    • Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • “There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink....

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    • By: Umberto Eco
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • As Constantinople is being pillaged and burned in April 1204, a young man, Baudolino, manages to save a historian and a high court official from certain death at the hands of crusading warriors....

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    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
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    • Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed - but precociously observant - neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page....

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    • A Personal Narrative
    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • "If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch, it must be the sort of life...

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    • The Anty Boisjoly Mysteries, Book 3
    • By: PJ Fitzsimmons
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
    • Series: Anty Boisjoly Mysteries, Book 3
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine is another mystifying manor-house stumper for Wodehousian bon-vivant and problem-solver Anty Boisjoly, when his clubmate asks him to determine who died first after a duel is fought in a locked room....

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    • By: Charles Portis
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book. It's the Codex Pappus—the sacred Gnomon text....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Bonnie Garmus
    • Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35,520 ratings
    • Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

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    • or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
    • By: W. Somerset Maugham
    • Narrated by: Neil Hunt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet....

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    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Series: Kopp Sisters, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,308 ratings
    • In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey....

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