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Listen Up! Audio Books from Sarah Blake and James McBride

By & • Dec 1, 2020

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On this edition of The Weekly Reader, may we suggest an audio book or two? Our book critic Marion Winik makes the case for listening to Sarah Blake's The Postmistress and James McBride's Deacon King Kong.

  

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