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Audiobooks Narrated by Mark Schenfisch
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Seventeen-year-old Caglar is just another apathetic teenager-except when it comes to his sister, Cigdem, who he believes is the world's most beautiful and brilliant nine-year-old. Determined to display her genius, Caglar grooms Cigdem's talent into a perfect Michael Jackson impersonation and pursues a sure route to fame: YouTube.
Tragically, Caglar's efforts are sabotaged by a little incident internationally known as the Taksim riots. Now it seems that everyone's too busy watching the people's uprising unfold to click on Cigdem's video. That leaves Caglar only one recourse: he will have to use the riots to his advantage. After all, who wouldn't want to watch a child doing the moonwalk against the backdrop of political unrest? But as Caglar strives to showcase his sister, he finds himself pulled into the heart of the uprising and discovers that he may just have talent of his own.
Music means more than anything to high school student Cate Reese; it's also what unites her with Cal Woods. Devoted classical guitar players, Cate and Cal are childhood friends newly smitten by love-until a devastating car accident rips Cal out of Cate's life forever. Blaming herself for the horrific tragedy and struggling to surface from her despair, Cate spirals downhill in a desperate attempt to ease her pain.
Fellow student David Bennet might look like the school's golden boy, but underneath the surface the popular athlete battles demons of his own. He's racked with survivor's guilt after his brother's suicide, and things get worse when tragedy darkens his world again-but connecting with Cate, his sister's longtime babysitter, starts bringing the light back in.
As Cate and David grow closer, the two shattered teenagers learn to examine the pieces of their lives...and, together, find a way to be whole again.
Against the backdrop of a flood that comes only once a century, a young American grapples with starting life over on foreign soil-and the challenges it creates in forging a new identity, maintaining new relationships, and learning what it means to be a permanent stranger in a strange land.
A flood that only comes every hundred years. An alluring new city. An illicit love affair. This is the story of Tee, a young man with no connection to his past, who finds himself deeply uncertain about his future as he settles in present-day Prague. He strikes out on his own in search of a new identity: Perhaps he'll work at the Prague Post. Or at an English bookstore. Or maybe he'll teach, or write a novel, or become a connoisseur of tea. Who knows?
As the flood slowly makes its way into the old city, Tee contemplates his own place in life as he tries to convince himself that living in a city known for its heroes, myths, and ghosts will mean a chance to shed the parallels between himself and his adopted father.
Matthew Salesses's full-length debut showcases his literary talents in this hauntingly beautiful story, weaving together the tangled threads of love and life. Roxane Gay, author of the recent bestsellers Untamed State and Bad Feminist, calls The Hundred-Year Flood "epic and devastating and full of natural majesty." It is, as Tumbledown author Robert Boswell calls it, "the novel to read right this moment."
