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When a young boy finds a mysterious object in the creek near his home, his parents launch an investigation that will eventually link the ancient object to such remarkable figures as George Washington Carver, Oskar Shindler, Joan of Arc, and Alfred Vanderbilt. Separate pieces of the artifact, with different but similar inscriptions, shape the lives of those who possess the object.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good story with a few lulls sprinkled throughout
- De Ken en 09-06-04
De: Andy Andrews
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The P.G. Wodehouse Collection
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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This title includes not only the entire audiobook of Right Ho, Jeeves, but also all of the P.G. Wodehouse titles in the current Classic Tales library. It also includes a Jeeves short story only available in the collection: "Extricating Young Gussie". The complete running time is over 15 hours. All titles have been remastered, and have never sounded better!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy this version of the wonderful Wodehouse stories
- De K Bell en 11-05-16
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Meet the Tiger
- A Simon “The Saint” Templar Novel
- De: Leslie Charteris
- Narrado por: John Rayburn
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:1 out of 5 stars 1
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The fiction world of today needs a “Saint” more than it ever did. For years now that scene has been dominated by the “anti-heroes"—those grim gray operators in a sunless sub-culture where global issues are worked out with totally unemotional pragmatism, those hapless uninspired puppets manipulated and expended by ruthlessly dedicated little brothers of Big Brother. It made morbidly fascinating narrative, but it never gave anyone a lift until it climaxed in the hyper-gadgeted parodies of 007 extravaganzas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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droning
- De Kindle Customer en 04-27-24
De: Leslie Charteris
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Mildred Pierce
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: Christine Williams
- Duración: 10 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 553
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 428
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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mildred -- you pierce my heart
- De P. Giorgio en 03-11-11
De: James M. Cain
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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The Curiosity
- A Novel
- De: Stephen Kiernan
- Narrado por: Kate Udall, Erik Bergmann, George Guidall
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 97
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Dr. Kate Philo makes a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. Heedless of the potential consequences, Kate's boss orders that the frozen man be reanimated. As the man begins to regain his memories, the team learns that he was - is - a judge, Jeremiah Rice. Thrown together by fate, Kate and Jeremiah grow closer. But the clock is ticking and Jeremiah's new life is slipping away. Kate must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the man she has come to love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect
- De ellegreenland en 04-14-14
De: Stephen Kiernan
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Babbitt
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 105
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In this sardonic portrait of the up-and-coming middle class during the prosperous 1920s, Sinclair Lewis perfectly captures the sound, the feel, and the attitudes of the generation that created the cult of consumerism. With a sharp eye for detail and keen powers of observation, Lewis tracks successful realtor George Babbitt's daily struggles to rise to the top of his profession while maintaining his reputation as an upstanding family man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes You Think
- De E. Pearson en 02-21-13
De: Sinclair Lewis
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Babbitt
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 482
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 429
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 427
On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt’s world of the solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely, middle-aged man. He doesn’t understand his family, has an unsuccessful attempt at an affair, and is almost financially ruined when he dares to voice sympathy for some striking workers. Babbitt finds that his only safety lies deep in the fold of those who play it safe. He is a man who has added a new word to our language: a “Babbitt,” meaning someone who conforms unthinkingly, a sheep.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Jonathan Franzen, circa 1922
- De Joe Kraus en 04-09-16
De: Sinclair Lewis
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The Invaders Plan
- Mission Earth, Volume 1
- De: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrado por: Full Cast
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 250
They are the Voltarians of Voltar - an empire 110 planets strong. They are already among us. And the invasion is about to begin...in a hundred years or so. Or is it? The truth is far more sinister. Undercover, underground, and out of sight, the invaders plan what may in fact be a massive diversion. In the darkest recesses of Voltar’s Coordinated Information Apparatus (otherwise known as the CIA), a tyrant of terror sets out to exploit the invasion in order to seize power. All that stands in his way is a planet that doesn’t exist.
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1 out of 5 stars
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overly abridged
- De Pielle Szabo en 01-10-17
De: L. Ron Hubbard
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Scoop
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Cadell
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure", Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well Written & Funny but Lacking
- De Michael en 07-19-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Book of Secrets
- De: Chris Roberson
- Narrado por: Peter Brooke
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
It will take more than angels and demons to stop him. Reporter Spencer Finch is embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left to him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Rating < 0
- De Sandra en 04-04-16
De: Chris Roberson
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Stand on Zanzibar
- De: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrado por: Erik Bergmann
- Duración: 21 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 328
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfect audio experience
- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros
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In the Garden of Iden
- A Novel of the Company, Book 1
- De: Kage Baker
- Narrado por: Janan Raouf
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 191
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The first novel of Kage Baker’s critically acclaimed, much-loved series, the Company, introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus, Inc. One of these is Mendoza, the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very different SF, both in performance and tone
- De A reader en 10-21-11
De: Kage Baker
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Single & Single
- De: John le Carré
- Narrado por: Michael Jayston
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 283
A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The spy who came back to the bank
- De Darwin8u en 03-12-14
De: John le Carré
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- De: Jean Kerr
- Narrado por: Marni Webb
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr's parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the 21st century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Poor narration of smart, dry, funny essays
- De Buyseverythingonline en 04-30-16
De: Jean Kerr
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Black No More
- De: George S. Schuyler
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility. Thanks to a certain Dr. Junius Crookman and his mysterious process, Max and other eager clients develop bleached skin that permits them to enter previously forbidden territory. What they discover in white society, however, gives them second thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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outrageous!
- De Jennifer en 07-31-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Magic Christian
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- Arthur
- 04-01-14
Poor narration killed it for me.
This is a great novel! I was really happy to find it on audible.
Unfortunately the reading and recording are done so poorly I can't recommend it.
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