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It all begins with a father telling a story to his son on Christmas Eve. But this isn't your typical Christmas story. The father admits to his son that he's taken a life but he won't say whose - not yet.
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Face to face with the idea that something is missing, the man is given the unexpected chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed. But before he can make the deal of a lifetime, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son. And so, he seeks him out and tells him this story....
Written with Fredrik Backman's signature humor, compassion, and "knack for weaving tales that are believable and fanciful" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), The Deal of a Lifetime reminds us that life is a fleeting gift, and our only legacy is how we share that gift with those we love.
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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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A Fraction of the Whole
- De: Steve Toltz
- Narrado por: Colin McPhillamy, Craig Baldwin
- Duración: 25 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Stewing in an Australian prison, Jasper Dean reflects on his relationship with his dead father and recounts the many zany adventures they shared together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Funny and Thought-provoking Tale of Human Nature
- De Asha Ember en 01-27-10
De: Steve Toltz
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Nearly Normal
- Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
- De: Cea Sunrise Person
- Narrado por: Cea Sunrise Person
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This one is just not for me
- De Pamela Plimpton en 03-15-19
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On the Jellicoe Road
- De: Melina Marchetta
- Narrado por: Rebecca Macauley
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 257
Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs - the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. B ut what she needs to do, more than anything, is unravel the mystery of her past and find her mother.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Strange but good
- De Dorothea en 07-05-11
De: Melina Marchetta
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Vivian Apple at the End of the World
- De: Katie Coyle
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed 'Rapture,' all that's left of her parents are two holes in the roof. Suddenly, she doesn't know who or what to believe. With her best friend Harp and a mysterious ally, Peter, Vivian embarks on a desperate cross-country road trip through a paranoid and panic-stricken America to find answers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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juvenile
- De emily en 12-16-19
De: Katie Coyle
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Wonders of the Invisible World
- De: Christopher Barzak
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 456
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 417
Seventeen-year-old Aidan Lockwood lives in the sleepy farming community of Temperance, Ohio - known for its cattle ranches and not much else. That is, until Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years, moves back to town and opens Aidan's eyes in startling ways: to Aidan's ability to see the spirit world; to the red-bearded specter of Death; to a family curse that has claimed the lives of the Lockwood men one by one...and to the new feelings he has developed for Jarrod.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sugar coating of L.G.B.T. sprinkles, of all things
- De Eli en 01-19-16
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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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We Are All Made of Stars
- A Novel
- De: Rowan Coleman
- Narrado por: Ben Allen, Avita Jay
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
We Are All Made of Stars is an unforgettable story about second chances, the power of words, and the resilience of the heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An All-Around 5 Stars!!
- De Trosado en 02-28-20
De: Rowan Coleman
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The Piper's Son
- De: Melina Marchetta
- Narrado por: Michael Finney
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca - but five years have passed, and now it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can't forget. Shooting for oblivion, he's hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single, pregnant aunt; work at the Union pub with his former friends; and reckon with his grieving, alcoholic father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4.5 Stars!
- De Trosado en 09-01-20
De: Melina Marchetta
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The Cider House Rules
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 24 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,405
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,806
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,796
From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-02-07
De: John Irving
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Too Close to the Falls
- A Memoir
- De: Catherine Gildiner
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the middle of the 1950s in Lewiston, New York, a small and sleepy American town very near Niagara Falls. No one is divorced. Mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon and children pop Pez candy and swing from vines over a local gorge. But at the tender age of four, it becomes clear to her Cathy's parents that their rambunctious daughter is no ordinary child and they soon put her "to work" at her father's pharmacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and funny and touching.
- De Kindle Customer en 11-07-19
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The Bone Clocks
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: Jessica Ball, Leon Williams, Colin Mace, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,050
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,624
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,632
Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Short Listed, This Time
- De Mel en 09-23-14
De: David Mitchell
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The Hour Before the Dark
- De: Douglas Clegg
- Narrado por: A.T. Chandler
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
There are rules to every game. You must never play the Dark Game after sunset - it becomes real then. It takes you over... The Hour Before Dark is a riveting gothic suspense novel of supernatural horror from best-selling and award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg - author of The Children's Hour and Halloween Man. When his father is murdered in one of the most vicious killings of recent years, Nemo Raglan must return to the New England island he thought he'd escaped for good...and the shadowy home called Hawthorn.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, original!
- De justin en 07-30-18
De: Douglas Clegg
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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
- Versión completa
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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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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 133
In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
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5 out of 5 stars
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clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Love Walked In
- De: Marisa de los Santos
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 376
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 281
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 285
Award-winning poet Marisa de los Santos crafts an irresistibly touching debut novel. Love Walked In is a contemporary tale, steeped in nostalgic, cinematic charm, of love in all its forms. Unapologetically idealistic about love, Cornelia Brown appears to catch the break of a lifetime when the dashing Martin Grace, her own personal Cary Grant, comes strolling into her life. But it is Martin's connection to 11-year-old Clare Hobbes that touches Cornelia's heart in ways she never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful audio quality
- De Marenghi en 09-16-11
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Fragile Beasts
- A Novel
- De: Tawni O'Dell
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Laural Merlington
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
When their hard-drinking but loving father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who ran out on them years ago. But in a strange twist of fate, their town's matriarch, an eccentric, wealthy old woman whose family once owned the county coal mines, hears the boys' story and takes them in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tawni O'Dell Fan
- De bette en 09-20-10
De: Tawni O'Dell
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Find Me Unafraid
- Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
- De: Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner
- Narrado por: Korey Jackson, Mandy Siegfried, P.J. Ochlan (foreword)
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 353
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 319
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 317
Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a foreword by Nicholas Kristof.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A difficult and rewarding listen
- De R. MCRACKAN en 08-23-18
De: Kennedy Odede, y otros
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Suddenly
- De: Barbara Delinsky
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
In the idyllic small town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer. But when Mara O'Neill, her best friend and medical partner, inexplicably kills herself, Paige's comfortable world is suddenly shattered. Temporarily caring for Mara's newly adopted baby daughter while she comes to grips with her grief, Paige clings to the hope that, in time, her orderly life will return.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Parent guide! (not romance)
- De christine en 10-10-11
De: Barbara Delinsky
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- De: Fredrik Backman
- Narrado por: David Morse
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
- De: Fredrik Backman
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the “firsts” that fill him with wonder and catch him completely unprepared, Fredrik Backman doesn’t shy away from revealing his own false steps and fatherly flaws, tackling issues both great and small, from masculinity and midlife crises to practical jokes and poop.
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3 out of 5 stars
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- De: Fredrik Backman
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
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People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semifinals, and they actually have a shot at winning.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Miserable
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Britt-Marie Was Here
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- De: Fredrik Backman
- Narrado por: Joan Walker
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Britt-Marie can't stand mess. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But at 63, Britt-Marie has had enough. She finally walks out on her loveless 40-year marriage and finds a job in the only place she can: Borg, a small, derelict town devastated by the financial crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Gem
- De Sara en 05-12-16
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
- A Novel
- De: Fredrik Backman
- Narrado por: Joan Walker
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Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is 77 years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus crazy. She is also Elsa's best and only friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply splendid.
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Anxious People
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Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read. This. Now.
- De DIY Sammy en 09-09-20
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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
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Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden.
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People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semifinals, and they actually have a shot at winning.
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Miserable
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A Man Called Ove
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Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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By Far the Best Narrator of a Book I've Had
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I Can Be a Better You
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When Fig Coxbury buys a house on West Barrett Street, it's not because she likes the neighborhood, or even because she likes the house. It's because everything she desires is next door: the husband, the child, and the life that belongs to someone else.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant- really good!
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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please be warned
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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,047
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Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design.
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Wow..allow yourself to be submerged in this book
- De Donna Smith McG en 05-18-18
De: Robert Dugoni
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The Christmas Guest
- A Novella
- De: Peter Swanson
- Narrado por: Esther Wane
- Duración: 2 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spine-chilling novella in which an American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hall, her family’s Cotswold manor house. But behind the holly and pine boughs, secrets are about to unravel, revealing this seemingly charming English village’s grim history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clever
- De Barbara S en 12-21-23
De: Peter Swanson
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One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
- A Novel
- De: Olivia Hawker
- Narrado por: Jackie Zebrowski
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn’t think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed review
- De Shari Ring Wolf en 11-05-19
De: Olivia Hawker
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Thank You for Listening
- A Novel
- De: Julia Whelan
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,124
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,668
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For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of being a star on film sets are long behind her. She’s found success and satisfaction from the inside of a sound booth and it allows her to care for her beloved, ailing grandmother. When she arrives in Las Vegas last-minute for a book convention, Sewanee unexpectedly spends a whirlwind night with a charming stranger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Julia Whelan is the GOAT
- De echo404 en 08-03-22
De: Julia Whelan
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Nineteen Minutes
- A Novel
- De: Jodi Picoult
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 21 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,507
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Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes - or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show - destroying the closest of friendships and families.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Juvenile perspective
- De Karen Brow en 04-23-17
De: Jodi Picoult
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One for the Money
- A Stephanie Plum Novel, Book 1
- De: Janet Evanovich
- Narrado por: C. J. Critt
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,657
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You’ve lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car’s been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month’s rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do? If you’re Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter; you go after the big money. That means a cop gone bad. And not just any cop. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced former vice cop who is also the man that took her virginity....
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4 out of 5 stars
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I love reading Janet Evanovich because her....
- De Wayne en 04-06-16
De: Janet Evanovich
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Just the Nicest Couple
- De: Mary Kubica
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,723
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2,540
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,542
Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out what happened leading up to Jake’s disappearance, especially not Nina.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kubica Die hard
- De Drew S. en 01-13-23
De: Mary Kubica
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Where the Lost Wander
- A Novel
- De: Amy Harmon
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,893
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,878
The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at 20. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story, bad reader
- De LoverofClassics en 06-09-20
De: Amy Harmon
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The Heiress
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Hawkins
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,449
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,397
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,396
When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money—and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can’t get over the mispronunciation of Appalachia
- De Brandon Pierson en 01-16-24
De: Rachel Hawkins
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Deal of a Lifetime
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- Jamin
- 12-20-17
short and sweet
well written and narrated. It makes you think of what matters in life, and what we get caught up in life.
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- Annmarie
- 12-09-22
Sad but good
I enjoyed this story. I enjoy all of his stories. I’m glad he wrote it
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- Bella
- 02-13-21
What if ?
Makes you think about life and family in a big way. Reflections about life decisions. Enjoy !
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- Jay B
- 05-15-22
What a Wonderful Pause..
...this story provokes. Thank you Mr Backman. I will read this again.
What is it that matters most?
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- Jill
- 12-19-22
Beautiful Christmas Novella
If you are looking for a short yet inspiring novella for the Christmas season, this is the one for you! ❤️
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- NursyNurse
- 08-22-22
Incredible.
I don’t think I’ve cried this much in 46 mins. The way it’s written, the way it was narrated, the story filled with such emotion, the allegories. I loved it all. Thank you.
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- 3xcharm
- 12-28-17
Novellas Are Horrible!!!!!
I never should have listened to this magically wonderful novella. I hate that it's over and I'll never hear anymore of this beautifully enchanting story. Fredrick Backman, please turn this into a full-length book!!!!!!
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- Ger
- 05-04-22
1 full credit!
Interesting story and well read. I really enjoyed it, but then it was over so quickly and I hadn’t noticed how short it was, for 1 full credit!
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- JSMKGA
- 11-28-22
Wow
What a lovely and heart wrenching story. Short but definitely long enough to hit home. Wow. A+
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- MamboChick
- 10-03-23
I can't stop reading Fredrik Backman
Sad. Lovely. Beautifully conceived. I've been addicted to Fredrik Backman since My Grandmother Tole Me to Tell You She's Sorry. I don't know what took me so long to discover him. I'm so glad I did. This novella, like all his books, is gratifying, familiar, a good story well-told.
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