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Love, Queenie

Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star

by Mayukh Sen ...

Finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyOne of Publishers Weekly and Booklist's Best Books of 2025**“[An] extraordinary account of the hardship and rampant racism Oberon…faced during Hollywood’s golden age.” —New York Times Book ReviewA beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood.* ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyOne of Publishers Weekly and Booklist's Best Books of 2025**“[An] extraordinary account of the hardship and rampant racism Oberon…faced during Hollywood’s golden age.” —New York Times Book ReviewA beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood.*
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Taste Makers

Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

by Mayukh Sen ...

**America’s modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers.A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearNamed a Best Book for the Holidays by Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Oprah’s O Quarterly, Globe & Mail, and the Food NetworkNamed a Best Food Book of 2021 by the Los Angeles ... Read more

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**America’s modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers.A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearNamed a Best Book for the Holidays by Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Oprah’s O Quarterly, Globe & Mail, and the Food NetworkNamed a Best Food Book of 2021 by the Los Angeles
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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening

Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas

by Charlotte Druckman, Mayukh Sen ...

**One of Town & Country's Best Books to Read This AprilA drama-packed, format-busting tribute to the soap opera in all its messy, meaningful glory.**Part cultural analysis, part backstage tour, Love in the Afternoon, and Evening is a love letter to a misunderstood, often-dismissed American genre. Critics, friends, and soap obsessives Charlotte Druckman and Mayukh Sen invite readers into a ... Read more

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**One of Town & Country's Best Books to Read This AprilA drama-packed, format-busting tribute to the soap opera in all its messy, meaningful glory.**Part cultural analysis, part backstage tour, Love in the Afternoon, and Evening is a love letter to a misunderstood, often-dismissed American genre. Critics, friends, and soap obsessives Charlotte Druckman and Mayukh Sen invite readers into a
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Love, Queenie

Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star

by Mayukh Sen ...

Narrated by Sharmila Devar ...

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8 hours 31 min

Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Her nomination marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father, broke through a racial barrier—but no one knew it. Oberon was "passing" for white.In the first biography of Oberon in more than forty years, Mayukh Sen draws on ... Read more

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Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Her nomination marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father, broke through a racial barrier—but no one knew it. Oberon was "passing" for white.In the first biography of Oberon in more than forty years, Mayukh Sen draws on
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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening

Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas

by Charlotte Druckman, Mayukh Sen ...

Narrated by Edelyn Okano, Kevin T. Collins ...

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7 hours 16 min

A celebration of the quirks, intricacies, and hallmarks of a beloved but culturally undervalued art form: the American soap opera.Adored by battalions of devotees and maligned by others for melodramatic twists and turns, soap operas have had an outsized impact on American culture, prefiguring the rise of today's reality television and character-driven prestige dramas. In Love in the Afternoon . . ... Read more

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A celebration of the quirks, intricacies, and hallmarks of a beloved but culturally undervalued art form: the American soap opera.Adored by battalions of devotees and maligned by others for melodramatic twists and turns, soap operas have had an outsized impact on American culture, prefiguring the rise of today's reality television and character-driven prestige dramas. In Love in the Afternoon . .
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Resilient Kitchens

American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes

by Philip Gleissner, Harry Eli Kashdan, Reem Kassis, Stephanie Jolly, Krishnendu Ray, Tien Nguyen, Bonnie Frumkin Morales, Mayukh Sen, Geetika Agrawal0, Fernay McPherson1, Antonio Tahhan2, Sangeeta Lakhani3, Keenan Dava4, Tim Flores5, Angelo Dolojan6, Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri7 ...

Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Book in Food Issues and AdvocacyImmigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food ... Read more

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Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Book in Food Issues and AdvocacyImmigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food
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Taste Makers

Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

by Mayukh Sen ...

Narrated by Tovah Ott ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a ... Read more

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Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a
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The Wage Standard

What's Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It

by Arindrajit Dube ...

Narrated by Anthony Rey Perez ...

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8 hours 32 min

“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from a new vantage point with field-leading economics.How did the labor market stop working for so many in the workforce? Why did wages at the bottom and in the middle of the pay scale fail to keep up with a growing economy ... Read more

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“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from a new vantage point with field-leading economics.How did the labor market stop working for so many in the workforce? Why did wages at the bottom and in the middle of the pay scale fail to keep up with a growing economy
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The Almighty Dollar

500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money

by Brendan Greeley ...

Narrated by Matt Godfrey ...

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12 hours 42 min

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Brimming with startling details, this is also serious financial history with a conclusion ripe for our unsettled times: Rulers and borders come and go, but the dollar has ... Read more

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In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Brimming with startling details, this is also serious financial history with a conclusion ripe for our unsettled times: Rulers and borders come and go, but the dollar has
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Why We Talk Funny

The Real Story Behind Our Accents

by Valerie Fridland ...

Narrated by Valerie Fridland, Christophe Landa, Khaya Fraites, Elisabeth Lagelée, Aaron Goodson, Michael Mola, Max Newland, Magnus Rook, Lucy Archer Woodcock ...

Unabridged

7 hours 31 min

A fun, smart and surprising dive into the past, present and future of accents – and the enduring power of sounding differentAccents have long held our fascination. As far back as the 7th century BCE, Egyptian pharaohs experimented with babies to test out theories about the “original” accent and the Old Testament relays how a small difference in the pronunciation of “s” became a fatal litmus test ... Read more

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A fun, smart and surprising dive into the past, present and future of accents – and the enduring power of sounding differentAccents have long held our fascination. As far back as the 7th century BCE, Egyptian pharaohs experimented with babies to test out theories about the “original” accent and the Old Testament relays how a small difference in the pronunciation of “s” became a fatal litmus test
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The Almighty Dollar

500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money

by Brendan Greeley ...

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Eye-opening, educational, exhaustively reported, and very fun to read.”—Foreign PolicyAmerica’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international ... Read more

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In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Eye-opening, educational, exhaustively reported, and very fun to read.”—Foreign PolicyAmerica’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international
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The Housewives Underground

The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery

by Kaitlyn Tiffany ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

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13 hours 47 min

The untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report—a “captivating and impressively researched” (The New Yorker) history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American century“A ghostly past brought brimmingly, engrossingly to life . . . a social history of novelistic propulsion with fanatical documentation and a sympathetic understanding of what drives the driven.”—The New ... Read more

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The untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report—a “captivating and impressively researched” (The New Yorker) history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American century“A ghostly past brought brimmingly, engrossingly to life . . . a social history of novelistic propulsion with fanatical documentation and a sympathetic understanding of what drives the driven.”—The New
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