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De: Margaret Atwood
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The Lightness
- A Novel
- De: Emily Temple
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 76
One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother - a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial - Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect combination
- De Lauren yett en 06-22-20
De: Emily Temple
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The Last House on Needless Street
- De: Catriona Ward
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 12 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,699
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,685
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!
- De Brenda en 10-04-21
De: Catriona Ward
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Orange World and Other Stories
- De: Karen Russell
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In “Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a 2,000-year-old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors”, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. Plus much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wild Ride
- De Georgia en 02-07-20
De: Karen Russell
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Creatures of Passage
- De: Morowa Yejidé
- Narrado por: Morowa Yejidé
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, 10-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the "River Man".
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is the one
- De just_watching en 04-27-21
De: Morowa Yejidé
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- De: V. E. Schwab
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37,055
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33,002
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32,887
France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever - and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Prose style not to my liking
- De C.V. Cox en 10-18-20
De: V. E. Schwab
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The Blind Assassin
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margot Dionne
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,069
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,380
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,373
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good book, TERRIBLE audio!
- De Whitney en 04-27-09
De: Margaret Atwood
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A Lush and Seething Hell
- Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
- De: John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrado por: Almarie Guerra, MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 402
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 355
The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales - both never-before-published in print or audio - that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great idea, tarnished by modern politics
- De Phil en 04-28-21
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The Wapshot Chronicle
- De: John Cheever
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 51 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 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful 1950s Great Expectations-like Novel
- De Darwin8u en 05-31-13
De: John Cheever
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The Saturday Night Ghost Club
- A Novel
- De: Craig Davidson
- Narrado por: Corey Brill
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 269
Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns 12, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Emotionless
- De خربت على طول en 10-18-20
De: Craig Davidson
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- De: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,528
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,520
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A princess in a castle can't fend for herself
- De Summer en 11-11-19
De: Alix E. Harrow
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Light Years
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 127
This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
- De W Perry Hall en 04-18-19
De: James Salter
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I sure tried.
- De A.C. CALLOWAY en 01-28-24
De: Joy Williams