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The Salt of Broken Tears
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- Narrado por: Cynthia Barrett, Alan Robertson
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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A sensual young woman stumbles into a farm on the remote Australian salt flats, and narrators Cynthia Barrett and Alan Robertson terrifically embody the emotional upheaval she causes. Their shifts in tension and pitch clearly define the family's reactions: the boy's voyeuristic fascination, his mother's suspicion and jealousy, the farmhand's loutish desire. When the young woman vanishes, the boy takes his horse and dog to search for her, convinced that she has joined a charismatic Indian peddler. The details of the boy's journey through the desolate landscape, rendered in Robertson's gentle rasp, are particularly stirring.
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On the edge of the remote salt flats of Australia, a young woman blows in from nowhere and disturbs the precarious equilibrium of a family farm. The boy is fascinated by her, his mother despises her, and the brutish farmhand wants to possess her. When the woman mysteriously disappears, the only trace of her a bloodied dress, the boy sets out in search of an Indian hawker who may or may not have the answers. As he journeys through the broken landscape, accompanied only by his horse and his dog, the boy becomes aware of another party converging murderously on his destination.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,548
In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to the tragedy. For Steinbeck, Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Stay poor
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-31-11
De: John Steinbeck
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Walk In My Soul
- De: Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Narrado por: Laurie Klein
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee. And the dreams each had for their land and their people were far apart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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i honestly don't know what is going in this book
- De Bryntainia Holloway en 09-21-19
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
- De: Eleanor Morse
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- De Kathi en 03-15-13
De: Eleanor Morse
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Liminal States
- De: Zack Parsons
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 24 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
The debut novel from Zack Parsons, My Tank is Fight! is a mind-bending journey through time and genres. Beginning in 1874, with a blood-soaked western story of revenge, Liminal States follows a trio of characters through a 1950s noir detective story and 21st-century sci-fi horror. Their paths are tragically intertwined and their choices have far-reaching consequences for the course of American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating and original concept
- De desiree en 02-22-15
De: Zack Parsons
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Leopard at the Door
- De: Jennifer McVeigh
- Narrado por: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 382
After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much changed. Her father's new companion - a strange, intolerant woman - has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and is approaching the boiling point. And looming over them all is the threat of the Mau Mau, a secret society intent on uniting the native Kenyans and overthrowing the whites.
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5 out of 5 stars
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IMPERIALISM
- De Haberwoman en 08-02-18
De: Jennifer McVeigh
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The Trees
- De: Ali Shaw
- Narrado por: Ben Onwukwe
- Duración: 18 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Post apocalypse with a little bit of magic
- De Tam en 09-20-16
De: Ali Shaw
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Elmet
- De: Fiona Mozley
- Narrado por: Gareth Bennett Ryan
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 533
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 495
In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who fights for money when he has to, but who otherwise just wants to be left alone to raise his children. When a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, their precarious existence is threatened, and a series of actions is set in motion that can only end in violence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Strains credibility
- De DM en 01-06-18
De: Fiona Mozley
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The Orchard Keeper
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 311
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 275
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 274
One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in pre-World War II Tennessee. There, the men’s tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contains the embryo of McCarthy's future greatness
- De Darwin8u en 06-12-13
De: Cormac McCarthy
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The Last Crossing
- A Novel
- De: Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Narrado por: John Henry Cox, John Keating, Colin Lane, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key era in American history, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Told through flashbacks and alternating points of view, The Last Crossing is about redemption, about seeking and finding, about human feelings and strengths, about personal honor, and about that moment in life when we must decide to cross over and surrender to love.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Very Dark Story
- De Virginia en 04-05-04
De: Guy Vanderhaeghe
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Lisette Lecat
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 139
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger". Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishing
- De G. Robinson en 06-27-04
De: Alexandra Fuller
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Far North
- A Novel
- De: Marcel Theroux
- Narrado por: Yelena Schmulenson
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spellbinding!
- De Joan en 01-14-10
De: Marcel Theroux
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Ride the Wind
- De: Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Narrado por: Laurie Klein
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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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3 out of 5 stars
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nice book but the narrator could be better.
- De mamaD en 07-31-10
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The Canal Bridge
- A Novel of Ireland, Love, and the First World War
- De: Tom Phelan
- Narrado por: Paul Nugent
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn and Con Hatchel, lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish midlands, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of England and join the British army. A year later, while en route to India, their troop ship is recalled and they soon find themselves in the European slaughterhouse that was World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, disturbing and unforgettable
- De Kathy en 05-25-16
De: Tom Phelan
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Out Stealing Horses
- De: Per Petterson
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 492
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 331
Multiple award-winning author Per Petterson delivers an eloquent, meditative novel. 67-year-old Trond Sander lives secluded in a far corner of Norway. Casting his mind back to 1948, he recalls a horse-stealing prank with his best friend that turned tragic and changed his life forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quiet and powerful
- De KP en 01-24-10
De: Per Petterson