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The Dying Grass
- A Novel of the Nez Perce War
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 53 h y 59 m
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The National Book Award winner takes listeners inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians.
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As a young child, Herman Lehmann was captured by a band of plundering Apache Indians and remained with them for nine years. This is his dramatic and unique story. His memoir, fast-paced and compelling, tells of his arduous initial years with the Apache as he underwent a sometimes torturous initiation into Indian life. Peppered with various escape attempts, Lehmann's recollections are fresh and exciting in spite of the years past.
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- De Wesley Christensen en 11-12-20
De: Herman Lehmann
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Ride the Wind
- De: Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Narrado por: Laurie Klein
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In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever.
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- De mamaD en 07-31-10
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The Color of Lightning
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post - Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.
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- De Merrilee R en 02-20-17
De: Paulette Jiles
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The Light in the Forest
- De: Conrad Richter
- Narrado por: Joel Fabiani
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"Johnny Butler was just four years old when his Lenni Lenape "father," Cuyloga, spoke the words that siphoned out his white blood and put Indian blood in its place. Now the Yengwes, the white soldiers, were taking him back to his "true" home. Inside of him hate and anger spread like poisons. The Light in the Forest, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Conrad Richter, will touch a new generation with its lasting truths.
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- De Sher from Provo en 06-10-18
De: Conrad Richter
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Andersonville
- De: MacKinlay Kantor
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 37 h y 13 m
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Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly 25 years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's best-selling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered.
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- De Gillian en 03-22-15
De: MacKinlay Kantor
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Sacajawea
- The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- De: Joseph Bruchac
- Narrado por: Nicolle Littrell, Michael Rafkin
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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Before the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the United States stopped at the Mississippi River. However, their journey opened up the wilderness borders to the Pacific Ocean. The key to the success of this 18 month journey was a young Indian girl - Sacajawea. Without her, the corps of discovery would have been doomed from the start.
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- De JANE en 02-25-10
De: Joseph Bruchac
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The Earth Is All That Lasts
- Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
- De: Mark Lee Gardner
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer’s vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendary victory at the Little Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of their rich and complex lives. Now, based on years of research and drawing on a wealth of previously ignored primary sources, award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner delivers the definitive chronicle, thrillingly told, of these extraordinary Indigenous leaders.
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Gripping
- De T. H. en 12-11-22
De: Mark Lee Gardner
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Drums Along the Mohawk
- De: Walter D. Edmonds
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 21 h y 1 m
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Drums along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds' masterpiece, is not only the best historical novel about upstate New York since James Fenimore Cooper, it was also number one on the bestseller list for two years, only yielding to the epic Gone with the Wind. This is the story of the forgotten pioneers of the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Here Gilbert Martin and his young wife struggled and lived and hoped.
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Wonderful
- De Robert en 09-06-15
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Crockett of Tennessee
- A Novel Based on the Life and Times of David Crockett
- De: Cameron Judd
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
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From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David Davy Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were - to his delight - told, retold, and elaborated on. As a US congressman, the former Creek War militiaman steadfastly opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.
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- De That Man They Call Shad en 05-05-21
De: Cameron Judd
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The Lost Wagon Train
- A Western Story
- De: Zane Grey, Joe Wheeler - foreword
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery. Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the Confederacy, Latch sets his sights on the wealth of resources pouring westward from the northern United States, putting together a band of ruthless misfits to help him stake his claim of the riches of the caravans.
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- De thomas fleenor en 08-01-22
De: Zane Grey, y otros
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Europe Central
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
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Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional: a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression.
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A Must Listen
- De Armen en 03-15-09
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The Lucky Star
- A Novel
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
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After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction.
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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Solenoid
- De: Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter - translator
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
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Based on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.
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Believe the hype
- De gabe en 04-01-23
De: Mircea Cărtărescu, y otros
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No Immediate Danger
- Carbon Ideologies, Volume One
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come - the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort.
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Look at the brightside always and die in a dream!
- De Darwin8u en 04-14-19
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 29 h y 47 m
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Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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A Real Life Dystopian Nightmare
- De Timothy en 08-31-18
De: Orlando Figes
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Europe Central
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 31 h y 46 m
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Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional: a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression.
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A Must Listen
- De Armen en 03-15-09
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The Lucky Star
- A Novel
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 25 h y 21 m
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After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction.
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
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Solenoid
- De: Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter - translator
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
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Based on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.
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Believe the hype
- De gabe en 04-01-23
De: Mircea Cărtărescu, y otros
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No Immediate Danger
- Carbon Ideologies, Volume One
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come - the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort.
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Look at the brightside always and die in a dream!
- De Darwin8u en 04-14-19
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: John Telfer
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Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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A Real Life Dystopian Nightmare
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Mason & Dixon
- De: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
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Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic.
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What the hell just happened?
- De Kid A en 12-23-19
De: Thomas Pynchon
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Reasons and Persons
- De: Derek Parfit
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 29 h y 18 m
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Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing.
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Terrible recording
- De user-MFQRT51 en 01-05-22
De: Derek Parfit
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Against the Day
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 53 h y 32 m
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This novel spans the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
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brilliant!
- De Rebecca Lindroos en 01-28-07
De: Thomas Pynchon
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Satantango
- De: László Krasznahorkai
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. “Their world,” in the words of the translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.”
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Tone. Sound. Psychology. Humor.
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Middle C
- De: William H. Gass
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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Gass’ new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life - futile, comic, anarchic - arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and broken pieces with music as both theme and structure, set in the key of middle C. It begins in Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis, who he foresees will soon take over his homeland....
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- De Darwin8u en 06-07-14
De: William H. Gass
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Bubblegum
- A Novel
- De: Adam Levin
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins, Michael Crouch, Julia Whelan
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Bubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the internet does not exist and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology - a "flesh-and-bone robot" called the Curio - has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to but must find a way to live in.
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Beware! This Audiobook Doesn't Want you to Buy it
- De Joel K. en 05-01-20
De: Adam Levin
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Parallel Stories
- A Novel
- De: Péter Nádas, Imre Goldstein - translator
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 58 h y 42 m
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Three unusual men are at the heart of Parallel Stories: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother is linked to secrets of fascist-Nazi collaboration during the 1940s; Ágost Lippay Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungary’s different political regimes for decades; and András Rott, who has his own dark record of mysterious activities abroad. The web of extended and interconnected dramas reaches from 1989 back to the spring of 1939, when Europe trembled on the edge of war.
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I wish I could return this
- De Rayos X en 05-19-12
De: Péter Nádas, y otros
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The Judging Eye
- The Aspect-Emperor, Book 1
- De: R. Scott Bakker
- Narrado por: Kevin Orton
- Duración: 19 h
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A luminary in the fantasy genre firmament, R. Scott Bakker returns fans to his acclaimed Prince of Nothing universe with The Judging Eye. Aspect-Emperor Kellhus is waging a terrifying war, subjugating all nations in his path. There are those willing to stand together against him, but these rebellious souls must act quickly and decisively to thwart his mad schemes of power and domination.
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Terrible narrator
- De TRT en 05-25-19
De: R. Scott Bakker
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Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness
- Volume One: Photographs: 1980-2020 (Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness Series, Book 1)
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 3 h y 21 m
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The celebrated author of over twenty-five books, Vollmann's equally ambitious and prolific career as a photographer, printmaker, and painter reflects the artist's deep interest in people existing on the margins, a profound empathy for his subjects, and the humility and generosity to meet them on their terms. In Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, a series of essays commissioned especially for this book lays out Vollmann's views on what photographs can and should say.
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Thunder in the Mountains
- Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
- De: Daniel Sharfstein
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 3 m
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Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation.
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- De Tristan en 05-10-18
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Watergate
- De: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy, Garrett M. Graff
- Duración: 25 h y 25 m
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In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills enters six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that will change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors; call police. The subsequent arrests of five men seeking to bug and burgle the Democratic National Committee offices—three of them Cuban exiles, two of them former intelligence operatives—quickly unravels a web of scandal that ultimately ends a presidency and forever alters views of moral authority and leadership.
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Elucidating
- De J.B. en 02-23-22
De: Garrett M. Graff
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Austerlitz
- De: W. G. Sebald
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by "one of the most gripping writers imaginable" ( The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him.
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- De Sebastian Romero en 04-23-20
De: W. G. Sebald
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- 02-16-23
The end of living, the beginning of survival
The Nez Perce War put into the context of the late American 19th century. The natives must be forced from their land and culture for the Bostons to manifest their destiny. Sad! Thanks to the author and the narrator for this excellent work. Joseph is referenced as the red Napoleon and this book has the stature of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Not a casual read but would highly recommend to those willing to take the time.
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Great listening experience!
It took a couple of hours to get accustomed to the writing style but Henry Strozier's performance soon brought it all together. the research and subtexts were very well done and their incorporation into the novel was seamless.
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It is all the same. Let us kill, die or ride away
"The destiny of the white race in America is to eat up the red men, and in this rising tide of population that rolls toward the setting sun there is no one who is backward in taking his bite -- no one except the government that temporizes and buys peace, to avoid doing the duty that the individual is doing from choice or from necessity."
-- Phillippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand (1867)
Pynchon Vollmann Analogy
Gravity's Rainbow:Europe Central::Mason&Dixon:The Dying Grass
This might not be my favorite novel of the last several years, but it is one of the best. And I can't easily grasp a novel that I liked more. I just don't know. My brain is fried. My emotions are fried. My ability to look objectively at this book, and history, and the United States is fried.
One of the best compliments I can give to the best historical fiction is that it doesn't break history, but fills in the gaps and bends it. Hillary Mantel does this very well. So too does Robert Graves, John Williams, and Patrick O'Brian. These other authors seem content to carve prose castles to tell their stories of leaders, kings, and periods. Vollmann just drops a volcano on the reader. There is just so much.
I was trying to describe the feeling of reading Vollmann (I've only read three Vollmann, the other two were Europe Central and Whores for Gloria) to my wife. To me it is equivalent of reading a strange cut-up method combination of Mantel, Pynchon, and Burroughs WHILE tripping on mushrooms. But that still doesn't do it justice. There is no easy metaphor for Vollmann. There is no way to explain Vollmann without using Vollmann. What is the only way to understand Vollmann? You have to grab the biggest Vollmann you can find and jump in without fear and without looking back. He is big, vicious, kind, detailed, warm, clinical. He just doesn't stop. He is exhausting and frustrating. He is the literary equivalent of Hieronymus Bosch. He is the hardest working hypergraphic around.
I can't imagine Vollmann is very profitable to Viking. There are just NOT that many people jostling in the age of Twitter (where the demands of reading and writing are limited to 140 characters) to read 1376 pages of digressive, experimental, inner/outer stream of consciousness narrative fiction. However, I know why they keep him on their Viking reservation: the guy WILL win the Nobel prize someday. Guaranteed. This dude has a long, harsh tail.
"It is all the same. Let us kill, die or ride away."
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- Jack Waters
- 10-18-21
Dense, dreadful, and delightful.
Vollmann is a master of magnifying the details of the past in compelling narratives. An unparalleled talent.
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- Cindy
- 12-26-17
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boring. asking for a refund. i normally enjoy this type of historical information. i cannot understand how it received such high ratings.
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- Arjay
- 12-06-18
I Give Up
I have listened to over two hours of this story and it makes no sense, considering what the novel is supposed to be about. I hope that this is one of those books that does not translate to the spoken word, as opposed to the written word. All I have heard is a never-ending series of vignettes that son't appear to relate to the topic and that are not placed in context. Two hours is too long for a preface. Maybe the bokk is an artistic masterpiece but you will have to wade through a lot of chaff to get to the wheat.
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- Michelle Moore
- 02-21-16
Borrrrrrrring & hard to follow
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
This was painful
What could William T. Vollmann have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Better transitions
How could the performance have been better?
Made me want to sleep
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Dying Grass?
About 40 hours
Any additional comments?
Wish I would have looked into this more first
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- K.C.D.
- 04-24-19
Difficult writing style
The writing style was too much like a news broadcast. This may work well for others,but I don't care for that style and would not want to listen to it for almost 55 hours.
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