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OverDrive Audiobooks March 2021
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"Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back." -- Zora Neale Hurston
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In Other Words
by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Unaccustomed Earth" traces her enduring love affair with the Italian language that prompted her family's move to Rome, where her efforts to master the language as a writer shaped her feelings of belonging and exile.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? : Memoirs of a Literary Forger
by Lee Israel
The author describes how she carried out a successful forgery caper for two years in which she used her talent as a researcher and celebrity biographer to forge more than three hundred letters by literary notables.
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Jane Austen : A Biography
by Elizabeth Jenkins
This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one the greatest English novelists. It illustrates not only the character and opinions of an unusually perceptive and gifted woman, but also the social life amongst the county gentry of Georgian England. Outside her writing, Jane Austen's main interest was her large and affectionate family and their circle of friends. This is the world she so brilliantly depicted in her novels, and Elizabeth Jenkins shows how often the settings and characters mirrored the writer's own life in Hampshire.
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Milkman : a Novel
by Anna Burns
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
The unconventional secret childhood bond between popular Connell and lonely, intensely private Marianne is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render Connell introspective and Marianne social, but self-destructive.
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
Adopted by a well-to-do, if eccentric, Dublin couple that remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country and much more throughout a long lifetime.
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Apeirogon : a Novel
by Colum McCann
Two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace. By the best-selling author of TransAtlantic.
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Ancient Light
by John Banville
An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of 15 with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization. By the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.
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