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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De chris en 04-11-08
De: Tobias Wolff
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Bullet in the Brain
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Perfect Example
- De Sarah en 08-01-17
De: Tobias Wolff
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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
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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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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
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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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Sometimes a Great Notion
- De: Ken Kesey
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 30 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 834
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 723
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 714
A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion, was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon’s Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes a Great Novel Pops up out of Nowhere
- De Mr. Eyuz en 06-07-19
De: Ken Kesey
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Driving on the Rim
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Roy en 01-05-11
De: Thomas McGuane
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A Killing in the Hills
- A Novel (Bell Elkins, Book 1)
- De: Julia Keller
- Narrado por: Shannon McManus
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 167
What’s happening in Acker’s Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker’s Gap? Or were Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful treat!
- De Joanne en 09-11-12
De: Julia Keller
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The Fisherman
- De: John Langan
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,529
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,236
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,237
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Horror of Loss
- De Jim N en 04-20-17
De: John Langan
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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Funerals for Horses
- De: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrado por: Carly Robins
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 106
Ella Ginsberg's brother, Simon, has disappeared. His clothing, shoes, and watch were found abandoned near a freight line track in Central California. His jockey shorts and wallet were never found. The police have no clue, and Simon's wife had no warning that anything was wrong. Ella takes off on foot across much of California and Arizona, thinking she can find Simon using nothing but her knowledge of the way he might think. Her search leads her to the Navajo Nation in Arizona.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Funerals for Horses
- De Carolyn Ferrell en 03-26-18
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Man Alive
- A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
- De: Thomas Page McBee
- Narrado por: Thomas Page McBee
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth a listen
- De Kade en 05-30-18
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White Noise
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 838
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 736
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 734
When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- De RI in Canada en 10-15-16
De: Don DeLillo
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Pacific Beat
- De: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Ex-cop Jim Weir thought he'd seen it all during his years on the force. That is until he saw the body of his sister Annie, brutally used by a monster in human form, then carelessly discarded. He'd never seen such grief ravage the face of his friend and brother-in-law Ray Cruz, a good cop on the Newport Beach Police Department. When Weir learns that the only witness swore the killer made his escape in a Newport Beach squad car, his disbelief turns to confusion and outrage.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad, bad, bad...
- De Robert E. Orlando en 11-19-14
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 508
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 358
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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A Doubter's Almanac
- A Novel
- De: Ethan Canin
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 207
Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of Northern Michigan in the 1950s, he gives little thought to his own talent. But with his acceptance at UC Berkeley, he realizes the extent - and the risks - of his singular gifts. California in the '70s is a seduction, opening Milo's eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets there - and the rival he meets alongside her - will haunt him for the rest of his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The curse of genius?
- De Bonny en 03-03-16
De: Ethan Canin
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Hemlock Grove
- or, The Wise Wolf
- De: Brian McGreevy
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 421
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 382
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 381
The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel Mill. A manhunt ensues - though the authorities aren’t sure if it's a man they should be looking for.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very similar to the TV show
- De Erin en 01-01-14
De: Brian McGreevy
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Shadow Show
- All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
- De: Sam Weller - editor, Mort Castle - editor
- Narrado por: George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-27-17
De: Sam Weller - editor, y otros
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Angel of Harlem
- De: Kuwanna Haulsey
- Narrado por: Brenda Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Enjoyed!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-08-19
De: Kuwanna Haulsey
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- Sue
- 04-04-23
What a beautifully told set of stories
Well, I’ve just finished listening, and immediately had to order the book so that I could really see these stories on the page. What a writer.
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