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The Aleppo Codex
Matti Friedman; read by Simon Vance
Booklist’s Top 10 Religion and Spirituality Books
The intriguing story of the quest to recover the missing pages from one of the world’s most important holy texts: the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as Aleppo Codex. Learn More
The Empire Must Die
by Mikhail Zygar; read by Simon Vance
Kirkus Best of 2017
The Empire Must Die portrays the vivid drama of Russia's brief and exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by the despotism of the Communist Revolution. Learn More
The Wish Child
by Catherine Chidgey; read by Simon Vance
Winner of the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize
This internationally bestselling historical novel follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the falsehoods and wreckage of World War II Germany. Learn More
Falstaff
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff—one of Shakespeare's greatest enduring and most complex comedic characters. Learn More
Cleopatra
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters. Learn More
Lear
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear—the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination" on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. Learn More
Iago
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities. Learn More
Macbeth
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes—the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago, Macbeth. Learn More
Spies of No Country
by Matti Friedman; read by Simon Vance
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but it's all true. Learn More
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams; read by Simon Vance
Audie Finalist
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. Learn More
The Girl From Human Street
Roger Cohen; read by Simon Vance
An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author’s own family, that assays the impact of memory, displacement, and a pervasive sense of separateness. Learn More
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Kate Summerscale; read by Simon Vance
A provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it author Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written. Learn More
The Zhivago Affair
Peter Finn and Petra Couve; read by Simon Vance
The dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. Learn More
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