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Thalia Book Club: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- By: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrated by: James Wood
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Marilynne Robinson discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling second novel, the lyrical, luminous, unforgettable story of minister John Ames, as told poetically in a long letter to his young son. His powerful story spans three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century. This is a book that is being passed hand to hand and that booksellers nationwide are recommending.
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Disappointing
- By Kremer on 17-07-18
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Thalia Book Club: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Narrated by: James Wood
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 12-05-06
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 50th Anniversary
- By: E. L. Konigsburg
- Narrated by: Blue Balliett, Chris Grabenstein, Wendy Mass, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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An afternoon of readings and lively discussion with contemporary authors, including Blue Balliett ( Chasing Vermeer), Chris Grabenstein ( Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library), Wendy Mass ( The Candymakers), and Alexander London ( The Wild Ones) who have been inspired by E. L. Konigsburg's Newbery Award-winning classic about a sister and brother who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and find themselves caught up in a mysterious adventure.
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 50th Anniversary
- Narrated by: Blue Balliett, Chris Grabenstein, Wendy Mass, Alexander London, Susannah Rodgers
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-11-17
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan
- By: Scott Westerfeld
- Narrated by: Matthew Cody
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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The New York Times best-selling author of Uglies discusses his latest series - which takes readers on a fantastical adventure around the world, set in an alternate-history World War I, complete with living airships-with Matthew Cody ( Powerless) and middle graders and teens ages 12 and up.
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan
- Narrated by: Matthew Cody
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 22-02-11
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Salman Rushdie Two Years and Twenty-Eight Nights
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: A. M. Holmes, Michael Potts
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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The author of Midnight's Children discusses Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights with A. M. Homes. Rushdie's novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in today's world, and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.
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Thalia Book Club: Salman Rushdie Two Years and Twenty-Eight Nights
- Narrated by: A. M. Holmes, Michael Potts
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 23-10-15
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
- By: Rick Riordan
- Narrated by: Adam Gidwitz
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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The number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus series returns to launch the first book in his newest series, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer. In conversation with Adam Gidwitz ( A Tale Dark and Grimm).
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misleading it appears as a book is just a review
- By Kindle Customer on 10-04-20
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
- Narrated by: Adam Gidwitz
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 23-10-15
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: An Evening with Jane Gardam
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Stacy Schiff, Paul Hecht
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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In a rare New York appearance, the beloved British author of Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat, the funny, romantic and surprising paired novels about a 50-year marriage between a crusty British barrister and his sparkling surprising Betty, discusses these books and Last Friends, her brand-new third chapter in this remarkable series. Paul Hecht will read from the book. In conversation with Stacy Schiff ( Cleopatra).
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Thalia Book Club: An Evening with Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Stacy Schiff, Paul Hecht
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-03-14
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
- By: Roger Angell
- Narrated by: Mark Singer
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Beloved author Roger Angell discusses his memoir, which includes reflections on his family and growing up that have recently appeared in The New Yorker, with Mark Singer, staff writer for The New Yorker.
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Thalia Book Club: Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
- Narrated by: Mark Singer
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 29-09-06
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Colum McCann Thirteen Ways of Looking
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Lila Azam Zanganeh
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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The Irish author of TransAtlantic presents his first collection of short fiction in over a decade. With unsurpassed empathy for his characters and their inner lives, Thirteen Ways of Looking explores the territory of chance and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments. In conversation with Lila Azam Zanganeh ( The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness).
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Beware - this is NOT an audiobook of the book!
- By Kay Symons on 21-02-22
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Thalia Book Club: Colum McCann Thirteen Ways of Looking
- Narrated by: Lila Azam Zanganeh
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-11-15
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's 'Room'
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Michael Cunningham
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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Emma Donoghue discusses her extraordinary new novel with author Michael Cunningham ( The Hours and By Nightfall). This wondrous book is told from the point of view of a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in an 11-by-11 foot room.
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Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's 'Room'
- Narrated by: Michael Cunningham
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-03-11
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of a Biographer
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- By: James Atlas, Edmund Morris, Stacy Schiff
- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Symphony Space invited three renowned biographers, James Atlas, Edmund Morris and Stacy Schiff, to reveal the fascinating, all-absorbing process of researching and writing another person's life story. The conversation delved deeply into the challenges the authors encountered and the pleasures they enjoyed in writing the lives of Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Vera Nabakov and Saul Bellow, as well as the difficulty of getting past the "unreliable narrator."
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The Autobiography of a Biographer
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- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-06-09
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Madame Bovary
- By: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrated by: Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, Margot Livesey, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Back by popular demand, Jennifer Egan ( A Visit from the Goon Squad), Siri Hustvedt ( The Blazing World), and Margot Livesey ( The Flight of Gemma Hardy) revisit Gustave Flaubert's classic in a lively discussion. With a reading by Amanda Quaid ( Pericles at the Public Theater).
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Thalia Book Club: Madame Bovary
- Narrated by: Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, Margot Livesey, Amanda Quaid
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-07-15
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Brian Jacques' Redwall Series
- By: Brian Jacques
- Narrated by: Jon Scieszka
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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A rollicking conversation between British author Brian Jacques and Jon Scieszka about the newest installment in Jacques' beloved Redwall series, Eulalia!. Redwall's heroes are peace-loving mice, moles, shrews, squirrels, and their friends who exhibit human characteristics in a medieval setting. They face the dark side of the animal world, represented by rats, weasels, stoats, foxes, and their villain allies, in the day-to-day struggle of good versus evil.
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Brian Jacques' Redwall Series
- Narrated by: Jon Scieszka
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-08-08
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club Special Event: Salman Rushdie, 'Joseph Anton: A Memoir'
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: John Freeman, Colum McCann
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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The author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses talks with Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) about his long-anticipated, enthralling and provocative new memoir of his exile under the fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989.
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Thalia Book Club Special Event: Salman Rushdie, 'Joseph Anton: A Memoir'
- Narrated by: John Freeman, Colum McCann
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-02-14
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Sara Pennypacker and Marla Frazee's Clementine series
- By: Sara Pennypacker, Marla Frazee
- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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The author and illustrator team behind the popular Clementine - a funny, independent third-grader who has taken her place alongside such beloved book characters as Ramona Quimby, Super Fudge, and Judy Moody - discuss their latest collaboration, Clementine, Friend of the Week.
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Sara Pennypacker and Marla Frazee's Clementine series
- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-03-11
- Language: English
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Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book
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- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: John Hockenberry
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Brooks discusses her latest historical novel with award-winning journalist John Hockenberry, the host of WNYC's new morning show, The Takeaway. The book, inspired by a real rare illuminated manuscript, imagines its life from its creation in medieval Seville to the present, through the lives of the people who come into contact with the book. Actress Rita Wolf will perform an excerpt.
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Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book
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- Narrated by: John Hockenberry
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-04-09
- Language: English
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Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs
- By: T. C. Boyle, Jonathan Lethem, Miranda July, and others
- Narrated by: Jerry Zaks, Alec Baldwin, Christine Baranski, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.
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awful
- By Ruth Cassidy on 02-03-20
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Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs
- Narrated by: Jerry Zaks, Alec Baldwin, Christine Baranski, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey, Robert Sean Leonard, Stephen Colbert
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-10-10
- Language: English
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Selected Shorts
- Pets!
- By: Gail Godwin, Ana Menendez, Robertson Davies, and others
- Narrated by: Jane Curtin, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Keating
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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The cast of characters in this compilation is a menagerie of animals: cats, dogs, birds, even a dragon - and their owners. These stories look at the myriad of experiences, and adventures, that pet ownership can bring. Join a medieval scholar who discovers that not all mythical creatures are extinct, stalk the night with the Cat of Frankenstein, kick that caffeine habit with a class of kindergartners, dance along with a divorcée and her dog, and more!
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- Pets!
- Narrated by: Jane Curtin, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Keating
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-10-07
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Abbi Jacobson, Carry This Book
- By: Abbi Jacobson
- Narrated by: Lena Dunham
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Broad City's Abbi Jacobson brings together an evening of conversation centered on her latest book, a wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful illustrated look at the world around us - all through the framework of the things we carry. In conversation with Lena Dunham ( Girls).
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Thalia Book Club: Abbi Jacobson, Carry This Book
- Narrated by: Lena Dunham
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 26-10-17
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Chast! Menaker! Trillin!
- By: Roz Chast, Calvin Trillin, Daniel Menaker
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik, Jane Curtin, Reg Rogers
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Roz Chast brings her brilliant, hilarious artwork to No Fair! No Fair! and Other Jolly Poems of Childhood by Calvin Trillin and The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense by Daniel Menaker, as well as her own memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. Join us for a conversation moderated by Adam Gopnik ( The New Yorker) between the artist and authors, plus readings by Jane Curtin and Reg Rogers ( The Knick).
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Thalia Book Club: Chast! Menaker! Trillin!
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik, Jane Curtin, Reg Rogers
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-11-17
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Dragons, Troubadours, and Fools
- By: Adam Gidwitz
- Narrated by: Benjamin Bagby
- Length: 56 mins
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Join New York Times best-selling author and 2017 Newbery Honoree Adam Gidwitz ( The Inquisitor's Tale, A Tale Dark and Grimm) and Grammy-nominated performer Benjamin Bagby (of medieval music ensemble Sequentia) for a reading, a performance of medieval music, and a discussion of how they bring the Middle Ages to life for a modern audience through stories and song. Following the performances and discussion, audience members will stage a scene from the book together with Gidwitz and Bagby.
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Dragons, Troubadours, and Fools
- Narrated by: Benjamin Bagby
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 15-11-17
- Language: English
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