In 1904, Frederick and Jette board a boat for America to flee her disapproving mother and later find themselves, more by chance than by design, in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri, where they embark on their new life together; their grandson tells their story of what it means to be American.

Follows the lives of fourteen people who lived for six months in tents in a woman's backyard in New Orleans, shortly after Hurrican Katrina.

So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Huseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he'd seen the 'devilish infidel' hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe him the murderer. Only Benjamin January, who knows the Turk of old, is willing to seek for...

New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge-and Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping audiobook it so deserves.From Odds Against Tomorrow author Nathaniel Rich, one of the most inventive minds of his generation, King Zeno is a historical crime audiobook and a searching inquiry into man's dreams of immortality.New...