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5 out of 5 stars
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Meater story teller
- De Gary Hunt en 02-04-20
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The Stand
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 47 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75,927
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 67,793
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My First Completed Stephen King Novel
- De Meaghan Bynum en 02-20-12
De: Stephen King
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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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The Auctioneer
- Valancourt 20th Century Classics
- De: Joan Samson
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 591
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In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, John Moore and his wife, Mim, work the land that has been in his family for generations. But from the moment the charismatic Perly Dinsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly and insidiously to change in Harlowe. As the auctioneer carries out his terrible, inscrutable plan, the Moores and their neighbors will find themselves gradually but inexorably stripped of their freedom, their possessions, and perhaps even their lives....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable
- De pineapple67 en 11-08-19
De: Joan Samson
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The Wayward Bus
- De: John Steinbeck, Gary Schamhorst - introduction
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 777
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In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Steinbeck always touches the heart, makes you feel
- De Kelly en 05-08-17
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
- De: Flannery O’Connor
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,081
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,091
This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pride goeth before the fall
- De Ryan en 08-14-13
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The Hollow Ground
- De: Natalie S. Harnett
- Narrado por: Luci Christian
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 469
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 472
The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced 11-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung-stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disfunction makes a good read
- De NHull en 05-30-14
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The October Country
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 292
Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: "The Small Assassin": a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true - or her nightmare.... "The Emissary": the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connection with the world outside - and beyond.... "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone": a most remarkable case of murder - the deceased was delighted! And more!
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5 out of 5 stars
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The October Country
- De steven richard pohl en 09-17-19
De: Ray Bradbury
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Rush Home Road
- De: Lori Lansens
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
When a 70-year-old woman finds a five-year-old girl abandoned on her doorstep, she is thrust into a sorrowful past that can only be conquered with the help of the girl who opened her memory - the very girl she is trying to save. This first novel, according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard, is one of "exquisite power, honesty, and conviction...quite nearly without flaws."
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1 out of 5 stars
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filthy language and violent content
- De Anna en 12-16-11
De: Lori Lansens
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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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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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The Ballad of the Sad Café
- De: Carson McCullers
- Narrado por: David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Therese Plummer, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind", McCullers' first published story, written when she was only 17, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literate short stories
- De RueRue en 02-23-16
De: Carson McCullers
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Perchance to Dream
- Selected Stories
- De: Charles Beaumont
- Narrado por: J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer. It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone - for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contents
- De Ralph Freaster en 06-22-16
De: Charles Beaumont
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
De: Toni Morrison
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The Last Ballad
- A Novel
- De: Wiley Cash
- Narrado por: Karen White, Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
Twelve times a week, 28-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No. Two in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The insular community considers the mill's owners - the newly arrived Goldberg brothers - white but not American and expects them to pay Ella May and other workers less because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet, Ella May's best friend. While the dirty, hazardous job at the mill earns Ella May a paltry nine dollars for 72 hours of work each week, it's the only opportunity she has.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dryer than a popcorn fart
- De Scott Wilson en 02-11-18
De: Wiley Cash
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Nickel Mountain
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- Peter Giordano
- 09-15-18
A beautiful story, elegantly rendered
This is a delicate, slow and thoughtful book about real humans. The reader captures all the heart felt empathy of the author and is faithful to the lovely and moving browse.
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- George Criticos
- 07-23-20
Good story & storytelling.
I enjoyed this story from a farming area in
upstate New York. The characters become very real and endear themselves to the reader.
John Garner was quite a good storyteller, kind and smart. Going to read his other work, "Sunlight Dialogues" now.
Thank you for the terrific audiobook narration.
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