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The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are 35,000 feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent 40 years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit of a downer
- De Jody Cox en 08-01-18
De: Meg Wolitzer
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
- De: Monica Wood
- Narrado por: Chris Ciulla
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,608
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,369
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,376
For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for one of his son's unfinished Boy Scout badges. For seven Saturdays Quinn does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the spry 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De Justin en 10-20-16
De: Monica Wood
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Everywhere I Look
- De: Helen Garner
- Narrado por: Helen Garner
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Spanning 15 years of work, Everywhere I Look is an audiobook full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of rereading Pride and Prejudice.
De: Helen Garner
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Notes on a Banana
- A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
- De: David Leite
- Narrado por: David Leite
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life, from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his 23-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David's readers and listeners as "The One", which began with (what else?) food.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finished it in a day!
- De Kathryn en 08-23-17
De: David Leite
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 880
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 687
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 687
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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In the Country
- Stories
- De: Mia Alvar
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Don Castro
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere - and sometimes turning back again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My introduction to Filipino literature and culture
- De Amazon Customer en 03-28-16
De: Mia Alvar
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Strong Motion
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 20 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 196
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Story, Ridiculous Narrator
- De DianeReads en 02-28-16
De: Jonathan Franzen
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Priestdaddy
- A Memoir
- De: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrado por: Patricia Lockwood
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 941
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 848
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 846
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration--read, don't listen
- De Penelope en 08-06-17
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Manic
- A Memoir
- De: Terri Cheney
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
On the outside, Terri Cheney was a highly successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawless facade lay a dangerous secret - for the better part of her life, Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescriptions meant to stabilize her moods and make her "normal". In bursts of prose that mirror the devastating highs and extreme lows of her illness, Cheney describes her roller-coaster life with shocking honesty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Kelly Ranasinghe en 04-26-18
De: Terri Cheney
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The Blind Assassin
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margot Dionne
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,069
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,380
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,373
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good book, TERRIBLE audio!
- De Whitney en 04-27-09
De: Margaret Atwood
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The Invisible Circus
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Madeleine Lambert
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 393
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 350
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 350
In Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too bad zero was not a choice...
- De IVAL en 04-28-13
De: Jennifer Egan
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Lit
- A Memoir
- De: Mary Karr
- Narrado por: Mary Karr
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 983
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 728
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 724
Lit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness - and her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott" awakens her to the possibility of joy, and leads her to an unlikely faith.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Finally! One for the "Win" column
- De Kim en 03-22-10
De: Mary Karr
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 357
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 216
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
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High Dive
- De: Jonathan Lee
- Narrado por: Doyle Gerard
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 89
Taking us inside one of the 20th century's most ambitious assassination attempts - "making history personal", as one character puts it - High Dive moves between the luxurious hospitality of a British tourist town and the troubled city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the height of the armed struggle between the Irish Republican Army and those loyal to the UK government.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Humor? Not Funny.
- De W Perry Hall en 04-10-16
De: Jonathan Lee
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London Fields
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 21 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 168
The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts; or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London--and, indeed, the whole world--seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Big chewy novel, excellent narration
- De Sand en 08-21-14
De: Martin Amis