Modern American Literature

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    • By: Tracy Clark
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: Chicago Mysteries, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose....

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    • By: George MacDonald Fraser
    • Narrated by: William Hope
    • Length: 29 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Mark Franklin came from the American West to Edwardian England with two long-barrelled .44s in his baggage and a fortune in silver in the bank....

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    • An Easy Rawlins Mystery
    • By: Walter Mosley
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Series: Easy Rawlins, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant....

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    • The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age - The '20s, '30s & '40s (Big Book Series)
    • By: Otto Penzler
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May, Traci Odom, Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 73 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Containing over 47 stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train - a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps....

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    • An Easy Rawlins Mystery
    • By: Walter Mosley
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Series: Easy Rawlins, Book 4
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Detective Easy Rawlins returns in a mystery set in 1961 Los Angeles as Easy accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed Black Betty who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills....

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    • An Easy Rawlins Mystery
    • By: Walter Mosley
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Series: Easy Rawlins, Book 12
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Easy Rawlins is one of the few private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called iconic and immortal....

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    • Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers
    • By: Otto Penzler - editor
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Sean Crisden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Some of the best-known and most influential pieces of crime fiction have been from African American writers. Contributors to the collection include Robert Greer, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Cary Phillips, Frankie Bailey, and Richard Wright....

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    • Virago Modern Classics
    • By: Ann Petry
    • Narrated by: Jeannette Robinson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he hears quick footsteps approaching and the gasp of a woman too terrified to scream....

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    • A Joe the Bouncer Novel, Book 3
    • By: David Gordon
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Series: Joe the Bouncer, Book 3
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A special forces agent-turned-strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a hitman for the New York mob seeks out a deadly drug lord in the poppy fields of Afghanistan....

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    • By: Kenneth Fearing
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, unscrupulous journalist working for tyrannical Earl Janoth's media empire. And he's involved with the wrong woman - his boss' mistress, Pauline Delos....

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    • An IQ Novel, Book 2
    • By: Joe Ide
    • Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
    • Series: An IQ Novel, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Super-smart sleuth Isaiah Quintabe is haunted by one mystery almost 10 years later - did his brother really die in a hit-and-run, or was there more to the story behind his death? Find out....

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    • American Dragons, Book 4
    • By: Aaron Crash
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Series: American Dragons Series, Book 4
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • After killing the most powerful dragon on Earth, Steven Drokharis knew he’d have to fight to keep what he’d won, but the cabal that killed his father was just the tip of the iceberg. He’ll have to fend off a cult of shapeshifters, magical constructs, and devious, busty twins....

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    • How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire
    • By: Christine Wenc
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-25
    • Language: English
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    • Original staffer, author and historian Christine Wenc tells the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion.

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    • Stories
    • By: Cleo Qian
    • Narrated by: Jeena Yi, Michelle H. Lee, Mirai
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today....

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    • By: Anita Forbes
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Fournier, Denis Daly
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • This anthology of 140 poems, published in 1921, features the work of 97 British and American poets who were active in the early 20th century. Among the more famous names are John Masefield, Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare, William Butler Yeats, Robert Graves, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg....

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    • The Cash Blackbear Mysteries, Book 2
    • By: Marcie R. Rendon
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Series: The Cash Blackbear Mysteries, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Her name is Renee Blackbear, but what most people call the 19-year-old Ojibwe woman is Cash. She lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota’s Moorhead, just downriver from the Cities. She has one friend, the Sheriff Wheaton....

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    • By: Therese Anne Fowler
    • Narrated by: Ella Turenne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In Oak Knoll, a tight-knit North Carolina neighbourhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son....

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    • By: Therese Anne Fowler
    • Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The new novel from New York Times best-selling author Therese Anne Fowler follows three sisters in the aftermath of the death of their matriarch, whose last request might change everything....

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