In the dawning light of a latesummer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hitandrun that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a 38yearold grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century". A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a "fiercely original talent" (San Francisco Chronicle), awardwinning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.
On the eve of the publication of an expose on a sex trafficking organization , the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered.....
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After colliding with a semitruck, Don Piper died and went to heaven. Ninety minutes later he returned to life on earth. After years of silence, he is now sharing his lifechanging story.....
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In this hilarious collection, you'll find essays like "Thoughts About My First Agent's Girlfriend's Vagina", wherein Olivia skewers what it's like to live in Hollywood....
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10 yearold girl, is arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup....
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Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, and Richard Matthews
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In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre, and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us....
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Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....
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Once again, Bourdain pulls back the curtain, but never pulls his punches, on the modern gastronomical revolution, as only he can....
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Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins....
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Dorothea Benton Frank is a native of the South whose novels vividly capture the wild beauty, laidback atmosphere, earthy characters, and charming eccentricities of life in South Carolina's Lowcountry....
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Levitt and Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first....
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This is how wars are fought now: by children, hoppedup on drugs and wielding AK47s. Here is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty....
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A fastpaced inside account of the breakneck speed with which President Obama began making critical decisions and assuming the burdens of office....
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Junger's ontheground account follows a single platoon through a 15month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley....
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Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory....
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Few people realize that the Comanche Indians were the greatest warring tribe in American history. Their 40year battle with settlers held up the development of the new nation...
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Levitt and Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
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All about Audiobooks and how they can make your life more
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