“Drug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable.” —Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author
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- Drug Lord
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Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 3/26/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Drug Lord, a firsthand account of drug dealing, murder, and corruption, tells of drug kingpin Pablo Acosta, who smuggled up to twenty tons of cocaine each year into the United States before treachery brought about his downfall and grisly death.
- Drug Lord
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Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 3/26/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Apache Ransom
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By Clay Fisher
Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 12/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
All Ben Allison wants in El Paso is to buy a horse. But after the sale falls through, he runs into an old acquaintance and agrees to escort her son home to his father. But Ben is late and misses the stagecoach, and when it’s attacked by Apaches, the boy is kidnapped because Ben wasn’t there to protect him. Will he be able to fix the mess he never intended to be a part of in the first place?
- Apache Ransom
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By Clay Fisher
Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 12/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Trouble at Temescal
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By Frank Bonham
Edited and with a foreword by Bill Pronzini
Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 11/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
A pair of action-packed tall tales from Western master Frank Bonham
The first story, Trouble in Temescal, is set in Los Angeles in the days following the Mexican-American War, and tells the tale of two entrepreneurial mustangers, Hank Ashwood and Red Wolfe, who have driven a herd of horses from New Mexico to California for resale. But their efforts to sell the animals to one of the Mexican hacendados, Dona Julia de la Torre, owner of Rancho Temescal, are hampered by a scabrous group of squatters led by Owen Pike, bent on claiming rights to her land, and who have the racially biased ownership laws at their backs.
The second story, King of the Defiances, is the story of Big Jim Jackson, who intends to make a fortune by logging off the best railroad-tie timber in Arizona, and his clash with former manhunter Troy Cameron, the leader of a group of small cattle ranchers who stand in Jackson’s way. Jackson now holds notes on the ranchers’ land and plans to foreclose if the notes aren’t met on time. And he has a hired crew of gun hands ready to use force against anyone who resists.
- Trouble at Temescal
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By Frank Bonham
Edited and with a foreword by Bill Pronzini
Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 11/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Trail Beyond
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By Max Brand
Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 6/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Peter Quince was a fighter born and bred. Orphaned at a young age, he remembered an old woman saying that he was a bad one and would cause a lot of trouble in the world. Others claimed he had bad blood and it would show up sooner or later. But Bill Andrews felt a connection with the boy, took him home and raised him as one of his own despite his wife’s misgivings.
Peter soon learned he could manipulate people by withholding his true feelings—showing and telling them what they wanted to see and hear. Peter had learned that battles should be won by cunning and strength, with cunning being far more important. But when he beat his foster brother in a fight over a girl named Mary, Peter knew it was time to strike out on his own.
In his travels he would seek out those with skills he needed and learn from them until he was able to master his teacher. At barely twenty, he had a price on his head for shooting a man in self-defense. As he outsmarted lawmen in five states and territories, the bounty rose to over $100,000. He finally fled to Mexico, but there he would fall into trouble again with a wealthy land baron, a beautiful woman, and a notorious bandit.
- The Trail Beyond
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By Max Brand
Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 6/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Give-a-Damn Jones
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/08/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. And they certainly weren’t all heroes.
Give-a-Damn Jones, a free-spirited itinerant typographer, hates his nickname almost as much as the rumors spread about him. He’s a kind soul who keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That’s what happened in Box Elder, a small Montana town. Tensions are running high, and anything—or anyone—could be the fuse to ignite them: a recently released convict trying to prove his innocence, a prominent cattleman who craves respect at any cost, a wily traveling dentist at odds with a violent local blacksmith, or a firebrand of an editor who is determined to unlock the town’s secrets.
Jones walks into the middle of it all, and this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
- Give-a-Damn Jones
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/08/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Zama
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Translated and with a preface by Esther Allen
Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 1/10/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature.
Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously transformed and made good.
Don Diego’s slow, nightmarish slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one man’s perdition but an exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness.
First published in 1956, Zama, with its stark dreamlike prose and spare imagery, is at once dense and unforeseen, terse and fateful, marked throughout by a haunting movement between sentences, paragraphs, and sections, so that every word seems to emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid. The philosophical depths of this great book spring directly from its dazzling prose.
- Zama
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Translated and with a preface by Esther Allen
Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 1/10/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Story of My Teeth
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Translated by Christina MacSweeney
Read by Armando Durán and Thom Rivera
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Release Date: 9/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
The story of “Highway” Sánchez—bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
“I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I’m grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming.”
Gustavo “Highway” Sánchez Sánchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the “notorious infamous,” like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf.
Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, The Story of My Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli’s own literary influences.
- The Story of My Teeth
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Translated by Christina MacSweeney
Read by Armando Durán and Thom Rivera
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Release Date: 9/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Savage Detectives
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Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Read by Eddie Lopez and Armando Durán
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Release Date: 8/01/09
Formats: Digital Audy
The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Márquez of his generation. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes—the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself—on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe.
Brilliantly rendered into English by Natasha Wimmer, the acclaimed translator of Bolaño’s other great masterwork, 2666, The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, wildly inventive and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.
- The Savage Detectives
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Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Read by Eddie Lopez and Armando Durán
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Release Date: 8/01/09
Formats: Digital Audy
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- 2666
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Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Read by Scott Brick, Grover Gardner, G. Valmont Thomas, John Lee, and Armando Durán
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Release Date: 5/27/09
Formats: Digital Audy
Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his most brilliant achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strange beauty, daring experimentation, and epic scope. The book’s subject matter ranges from the heady heights of literature and love to the gritty realism of violence and death as it explores how humans make sense of senseless events. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, writers and cops, pursuing their own separate yet interrelated quests for meaning: an enigmatic Prussian novelist who disappears from the public eye after the death of his lover; a group of literary critics who bond through their shared love of the novelist’s works; an African American journalist sent to Mexico on a sports beat in the wake of his mother’s death; and a Spanish professor and widowed father whose mind is beginning to lose its grip on reality. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa, a fictional Juárez on the US-Mexico border, where the serial killings of hundreds of young working class women remain unsolved.
- 2666
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Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Read by Scott Brick, Grover Gardner, G. Valmont Thomas, John Lee, and Armando Durán
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Release Date: 5/27/09
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Dark Dude
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Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 9/16/08
Formats: Digital Audy
From Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos comes an unforgettable journey about identity, choices, and the way in which we all struggle to accept our true selves. In gritty, clear prose, Dark Dude captures New York City in the 1960s—violent, decaying, slouching away from the American dream—and brings to life a character who has no choice but to head out west in search of something better.
Rico didn’t say good-bye. He didn’t leave a phone number. And he didn’t plan on coming back—ever. In the Midwest, Rico could blend in, his light hair and lighter skin disguising his background. He would no longer be the “dark dude,” the punching bag for the whole neighborhood. Trading Harlem for Wisconsin, though, means giving up on a big part of his identity. And when Rico no longer has to prove that he’s Latino, he almost stops being one. Except that he can never have an ordinary white kid’s life, because there are some things that can’t be left behind, things that will follow you a thousand miles away. When Rico discovers that picket-fenced apple-pie people can be just as violent and judgmental as the neighbors he left behind, he is forced to swallow an uncomfortable truth: no longer an outsider by his appearance, Rico is still an outsider.
- Dark Dude
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Read by Armando Durán
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Release Date: 9/16/08
Formats: Digital Audy