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All Us Beautiful Monsters

Poems

by Alex Lemon ...

A deeply imaginative collection by a beloved poet with the “ability to slice straight through nerve and marrow on his way to the heart and mind of the matter” (Tracy K. Smith).Having extensively detailed his experience with a traumatic brain injury, Alex Lemon writes with the remarkable ability to transform the depth of pain into brilliant light. His enthralling new collection charts a visual map ... Read more

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A deeply imaginative collection by a beloved poet with the “ability to slice straight through nerve and marrow on his way to the heart and mind of the matter” (Tracy K. Smith).Having extensively detailed his experience with a traumatic brain injury, Alex Lemon writes with the remarkable ability to transform the depth of pain into brilliant light. His enthralling new collection charts a visual map
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Another Last Day

Poems

by Alex Lemon ...

Over the course of four collections of poems, Alex Lemon has become known for his kinetic voice and sense of the dark absurd. Now this electrifying poet moves in a new direction—with a book-length sequence at once intensely vulnerable and thoroughly of our moment.Populated by visions and ghosts, Another Last Day follows its speaker on a search through a natural landscape turned on its edge, the ... Read more

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Over the course of four collections of poems, Alex Lemon has become known for his kinetic voice and sense of the dark absurd. Now this electrifying poet moves in a new direction—with a book-length sequence at once intensely vulnerable and thoroughly of our moment.Populated by visions and ghosts, Another Last Day follows its speaker on a search through a natural landscape turned on its edge, the
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Happy

A Memoir

by Alex Lemon ...

His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid everyone called Happy. In the spring of 1997, he had his first stroke. For two years Lemon coped with his deteriorating health by sinking deeper into alcohol and drug abuse. His charming and carefree exterior masked his self ... Read more

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His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid everyone called Happy. In the spring of 1997, he had his first stroke. For two years Lemon coped with his deteriorating health by sinking deeper into alcohol and drug abuse. His charming and carefree exterior masked his self
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Mosquito

Poems

by Alex Lemon ...

Lyrical and explosive, this debut book of poetry explores a young man's experiences as a brain surgery patient, plumbs the depths of our greatest fears: death, pain, and illness, and emerges to find eroticism, wild new hope, and the wisdom to see the world in a wholly new way.Lyrical and explosive, this debut book of poetry explores Alex Lemon’s experiences as a brain surgery patient. Mosquito ... Read more

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Lyrical and explosive, this debut book of poetry explores a young man's experiences as a brain surgery patient, plumbs the depths of our greatest fears: death, pain, and illness, and emerges to find eroticism, wild new hope, and the wisdom to see the world in a wholly new way.Lyrical and explosive, this debut book of poetry explores Alex Lemon’s experiences as a brain surgery patient. Mosquito
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The Wish Book

Poems

by Alex Lemon ...

"To read this book is to meet a man who would climb the sky." —BOB HICOKIn his follow-up to Fancy Beasts, a book that "slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of the matter" (Tracy K. Smith), Alex Lemon dazzles with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload or tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, Lemon blurs ... Read more

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"To read this book is to meet a man who would climb the sky." —BOB HICOKIn his follow-up to Fancy Beasts, a book that "slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of the matter" (Tracy K. Smith), Alex Lemon dazzles with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload or tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, Lemon blurs
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Feverland

A Memoir in Shards

by Alex Lemon ...

"Alex Lemon is a brave, headlong writer, and he captures the life of the body with vivid and memorable intensity."—Mark DotyBrain surgery. Assault weapons in the bed of a pickup truck. Sophia Loren at the Oscars. Rilke, Rodin, and the craters of the moon. Recovery and disintegration. Monkeys stealing an egg outside a temple in Kathmandu. Brushing teeth bloody on long car rides under blue skies. ... Read more

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"Alex Lemon is a brave, headlong writer, and he captures the life of the body with vivid and memorable intensity."—Mark DotyBrain surgery. Assault weapons in the bed of a pickup truck. Sophia Loren at the Oscars. Rilke, Rodin, and the craters of the moon. Recovery and disintegration. Monkeys stealing an egg outside a temple in Kathmandu. Brushing teeth bloody on long car rides under blue skies.
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Happy

A Memoir

by Alex Lemon ...

Narrated by Nick Landrum ...

Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

Critically acclaimed poet Alex "Happy" Lemon takes listeners on a journey of addiction, tragedy, and survival in this memoir. With an aneurysm in his brain, Lemon becomes trapped within the wreckage of his 19-year-old, stroke-ravaged body. But as he plunges into depression and longs for death, his mom's life-affirming determination urges him to talk and walk and live again. ... Read more

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Critically acclaimed poet Alex "Happy" Lemon takes listeners on a journey of addiction, tragedy, and survival in this memoir. With an aneurysm in his brain, Lemon becomes trapped within the wreckage of his 19-year-old, stroke-ravaged body. But as he plunges into depression and longs for death, his mom's life-affirming determination urges him to talk and walk and live again.
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A Dark and Wild Wood

A Novel

by Sarah Nicole Lemon ...

Narrated by Alex Picard ...

Unabridged

13 hours 35 min

"[Lemon] is a poet with knives for teeth." —Roshani Chokshi"Reads like a grimoire for overcoming." —Hannah Whitten"A gorgeously gothic fairy tale." —Ava ReidInspired by the tale of Bluebeard, A Dark and Wild Wood is the lush and atmospheric story of a maiden with dark magic who becomes the apprentice to Lord Death—for a price.Ever since she was a child, Salomé has been plagued by vi... ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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"[Lemon] is a poet with knives for teeth." —Roshani Chokshi"Reads like a grimoire for overcoming." —Hannah Whitten"A gorgeously gothic fairy tale." —Ava ReidInspired by the tale of Bluebeard, A Dark and Wild Wood is the lush and atmospheric story of a maiden with dark magic who becomes the apprentice to Lord Death—for a price.Ever since she was a child, Salomé has been plagued by vi...
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Death's Daughter

by S.A. Barnes ...

Narrated by Ava Lucas ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Children of the Old Ones
Unabridged

11 hours 45 min

T****he steamy mythology of Neon Gods meets the dark academia of The Coven in this dark contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author S.A. Barnes."[Ava] Lucas' narration enhances Jo's cynicism as she navigates political intrigue...She easily differentiates characters, and her male voices are delightfully sensual." —KirkusJocasta’s carved out a normal life for her... ... Read more

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T****he steamy mythology of Neon Gods meets the dark academia of The Coven in this dark contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author S.A. Barnes."[Ava] Lucas' narration enhances Jo's cynicism as she navigates political intrigue...She easily differentiates characters, and her male voices are delightfully sensual." —KirkusJocasta’s carved out a normal life for her...
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The Midnight Kingdom

by Tara Sim ...

Narrated by Nikki Patel ...

Unabridged

25 hours 37 min

In this “glorious tapestry of magic and murderous gods” (Buzzfeed News) each heir walks a dangerous path, attempting to undo the damage the gods have wrought across the four realms, but they live on borrowed time—and not all of them will survive.A cataclysmic battle to save the city of Nexus has left the four noble heirs scattered across the realms.Taesia, the shadow-wielding rebel of House ... Read more

$44.99 USD

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In this “glorious tapestry of magic and murderous gods” (Buzzfeed News) each heir walks a dangerous path, attempting to undo the damage the gods have wrought across the four realms, but they live on borrowed time—and not all of them will survive.A cataclysmic battle to save the city of Nexus has left the four noble heirs scattered across the realms.Taesia, the shadow-wielding rebel of House
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The Library After Dark

A Novel

by Ande Pliego ...

Narrated by Xe Sands, Euan Morton, Brittany Pressley, Susannah Jones, Hillary Huber, Saskia Maarleveld, Andre Santana, Allyson Ryan, Jay Ben Markson, Philip Hernandez ...

Unabridged

11 hours 55 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not as simple as it seems, in this twisty locked-room thriller from the bestselling author of You Are Fatally Invited.“Irresistible—bright and sharp and rife with danger, like a shard of mirror.”—A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times ... Read more

$23.00 USD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not as simple as it seems, in this twisty locked-room thriller from the bestselling author of You Are Fatally Invited.“Irresistible—bright and sharp and rife with danger, like a shard of mirror.”—A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times
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Deathbringer

A Novel

by Sonia Tagliareni ...

Narrated by Chris Lew Kum, Kristin Atherton ...

Series series Deathbringer
Unabridged

18 hours 4 min

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON) BESTSELLERFor fans of Naomi Novik and Kerri Maniscalco, “a slow-burn dark academia filled with delicious yearning, dripping with atmosphere, and a compelling mystery” (Ellis Hunter, author of Blood Bound) about a death mage who hates her magic and a poison mage who hates her that are forced to work together to stop a killer before one of them is next.Everything about ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON) BESTSELLERFor fans of Naomi Novik and Kerri Maniscalco, “a slow-burn dark academia filled with delicious yearning, dripping with atmosphere, and a compelling mystery” (Ellis Hunter, author of Blood Bound) about a death mage who hates her magic and a poison mage who hates her that are forced to work together to stop a killer before one of them is next.Everything about
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