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- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- De Kathi en 03-15-13
De: Eleanor Morse
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The Feed
- A Novel
- De: Nick Clark Windo
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett, Nick Clark Windo
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It instantaneously links us to all information and global events. Tom and Kate use the Feed, but Tom has resisted its addiction. The Feed's collapse, taking modern society with it, leaves people scavenging to survive. Tom and Kate have managed to protect themselves and their family. But then their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing. Who has taken her? How do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology?
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3 out of 5 stars
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uhhh
- De Michelle en 03-10-20
De: Nick Clark Windo
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Green City in the Sun
- De: Barbara Wood
- Narrado por: Edie Tusor
- Duración: 27 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
In 1917 Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with those of the Mathenge tribe, an African family that has lived on the land for years. Grace soon finds a deadly rival in Mama Wachera, an African medicine woman who fights to maintain native traditions against the encroaching whites.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De nancy wanty en 12-18-23
De: Barbara Wood
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Mr. Shivers
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Robert Jackson Bennett makes a stunning debut with this deliciously dark tale sure to hold readers in its menacing thrall. The grinding poverty brought on by the Great Depression is nowhere more apparent than in the untold thousands looking for work along America’s railroad system. But one man haunting the rail camps has been moved by an entirely different brand of desperation: revenge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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From the Cormac McCarthy Playbook
- De J. Cons en 08-09-10
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The Road Back
- A Novel
- De: Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed as eager young men seems colder, their homes smaller, the reasons their comrades had to die even more inexplicable. For Ernst and his friends, the road back to peace is more treacherous than they ever imagined. Suffering food shortages, political unrest, and a broken heart, Ernst undergoes a crisis that teaches him what there is to live for - and what he has that no one can ever take away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Successor to All Quiet on the Western Front
- De BARRY en 02-20-19
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The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo
- A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
- De: Kent Nerburn
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 286
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 254
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and complex, unforgettable characters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thought-provoking, though flawed
- De Buretto en 08-06-18
De: Kent Nerburn
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She Would Be King
- A Novel
- De: Wayétu Moore
- Narrado por: Wayétu Moore
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 874
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 783
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 780
Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful example of magical realism.
- De Danielle en 10-07-18
De: Wayétu Moore
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The Unreal and the Real
- Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Shame on you, Audible
- De Audrey McCombs en 07-03-20
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The Garden of Evening Mists
- De: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 726
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 641
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 644
Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best
- De Susan Gardner Bowers en 03-11-13
De: Tan Twan Eng
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
- De: Nayomi Munaweera
- Narrado por: Priya Ayyar
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pronunciation
- De Mahidevran en 04-07-18
De: Nayomi Munaweera
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The Song Poet
- A Memoir of My Father
- De: Kao Kalia Yang
- Narrado por: Kao Kalia Yang
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 65
Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until one day a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, full of sadness, power, and heart.
- De Melissa L. Magana en 04-27-17
De: Kao Kalia Yang
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4
- De: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrado por: Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 188
With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
- De Jerry en 12-06-14
De: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, y otros
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Wolf Winter
- De: Cecilia Ekback
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms BlackAsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow.
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3 out of 5 stars
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So atmospheric, it hurts
- De Bookmarque en 08-24-15
De: Cecilia Ekback
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
- A Novel
- De: Jan-Philipp Sendker
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,276
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,986
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,000
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the listener’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Basic Story Interesting, But...
- De Monica en 06-04-13
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Lisette Lecat
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 139
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger". Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishing
- De G. Robinson en 06-27-04
De: Alexandra Fuller
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The Last King of Scotland
- De: Giles Foden
- Narrado por: Mirron E. Willis
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worst Production Ever
- De James en 01-24-07
De: Giles Foden
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The Wild Hunt
- De: Emma Seckel
- Narrado por: Ruth Urquhart
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home from a disappointing life on the Scottish mainland by her father's unexpected death, she is determined to forget the sorrows of the past and start fresh. Fellow islander Iain MacTavish, a RAF veteran with his eyes on the sky and his head in the past, is also in desperate need of a new beginning. A young widower, Iain struggles to return to the normal life he knew before the war. But this October is anything but normal. This October, the sluagh are restless.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect narration for this story
- De Amy en 05-28-23
De: Emma Seckel