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Lima :: Limon

by Natalie Scenters-Zapico; read by Kyla Garcia

In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Learn More

Unworthy Republic

by Claudio Saunt; read by Stephen Bowlby

National Book Award Longlist 2020
Washington POst 10 Best Books of the Year 2020

A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.
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Yiddish Radio Project

Produced by Henry Sapoznik and David Isay

Highlights the golden age of Yiddish-American broadcasting in the 1930s to '50s. This collection is an unprecedented intimate snapshot of American Jewish life during the 1930s and '40s. Includes broadcasts by Eli Wallach, Carl Reiner, and Isaiah Sheffer. Learn More

The Joy of Search

by Daniel Russell; read by Charles Constant

How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). Learn More

The Collector of Lives

by Ingrid Rowland & Noah Charney; read by Jennifer M. Dixon

Lauded by Sarah Bakewell as "insightful, gripping, and thoroughly enjoyable," The Collector of Lives reveals how one Renaissance scholar completely redefined how we look at art. Learn More

Library of Small Catastrophes

by Alison C. Rollins; read by Janina Edwards

Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins's ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body and nation as storehouses of countless tragedies. Learn More

Seven Games

by Oliver Roeder; read by William Sarris

A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Learn More

The Club

by Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg; read by Shaun Grindell

Deeply researched and drawing on 100 exclusive interviews including the key decision-makers at every major English team—from aristocrats like Manchester United and Arsenal, to the arrivistes at Chelsea and Manchester City—The Club is the definitive and wildly entertaining narrative of how the Premier League took over the world. Learn More

Goethe

by Ritchie Robertson; read by Nigel Patterson

In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832): scientist, administrator, artist, art critic, and supreme literary writer in a vast variety of genres. Learn More

Escalante's Dream

by David Roberts; read by Robert Fass

Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domínguez-Escalante expedition. Learn More

The Glory of Their Times

Lawrence S. Ritter; recorded interviews

A loving look back at the way baseball used to be, and the legends who played the game, told in their own voices. Learn More

The Golden Flea

by Michael Rips; read by Peter Berkrot

An enchanting tale of the search for forgotten treasures at one of the greatest flea markets on earth. Learn More

State of Play

by Bill Ripken; read by Danny Campbell

Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today, but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case. Learn More

Dreams to Remember

Mark Ribowsky; read by Dan John Miller

A soul icon and the Southern music he helped popularize come to life in this moving requiem. Learn More

Shula

by Mark Ribowsky; LJ Ganser

Spanning seven decades, the notorious loss of Super Bowl III, and an historic undefeated season with the Dolphins, Shula is the definitive biography of a coaching legend. Learn More

Don't Let Me Be Lonely

by Claudia Rankine; read by Janina Edwards

The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric and the essay in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America. Learn More

Rough Magic

By Lara Prior-Palmer; read by Henrietta Meire

A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Book of the Season
The Millions Most Anticipated in May
O Magazine's Best Books by Women of Summer 2019

Told with terrific suspense and style, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead, against all odds, to become the first female winner of the world's longest, toughest horse race. Learn More

Anthem

by Martin Popoff; read by Michael Butler Murray

The definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North. Learn More

Limelight

by Martin Popoff; read by Michael Butler Murray

Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the '80s, and the second book of Popoff's staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes listeners from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory. Learn More

Driven

by martin popoff; read by Michael Butler Murry

In this conclusion to his trilogy of authoritative books on Canada's most beloved and successful rock band, Martin Popoff takes us through three decades of "life at the top" for Rush's Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Learn More

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