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Calamity is confronting two big transitions: the death of her beloved father and the beginning of menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her gift for finding lost things. Suddenly, she is getting hot flashes that seem to forge objects out of thin air, most notably a four-year old boy. As Calamity takes the child into her care, she discovers that all is not as it seems. Then, Calamity must reawaken to the mysteries surrounding her own childhood and the early disappearance of her mother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a joy
- De newmoon en 07-05-19
De: Nalo Hopkinson
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4
- De: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrado por: Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 188
With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
- De Jerry en 12-06-14
De: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, y otros
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
- De: Monique Roffey
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad. Monique Roffey's Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of post-colonialism that stands among great works by Caribbean writers like Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Levy. When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England, George is immediately seduced by the beguiling island, while Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill-at-ease.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing.
- De Crystal en 10-31-12
De: Monique Roffey
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The Wicked Girls
- De: Alex Marwood
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,808
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3,447
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,443
On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two 11-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day so many years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want to like these girls...
- De Lesley en 08-30-13
De: Alex Marwood
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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De chris en 04-11-08
De: Tobias Wolff
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 880
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 687
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 687
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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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
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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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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The Darkest Secret
- A Novel
- De: Alex Marwood
- Narrado por: Beverley A. Crick
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,290
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,159
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,162
Real estate mogul Sean Jackson is throwing himself a splashy 50th birthday party, but trouble starts almost immediately: His ex-wife has sent his teenage daughters to the party without telling him; his current wife has fired the nanny; and he's finding it difficult to sneak away to his mistress. Then something truly terrible happens: one of his three-year-old twins goes missing. No trace of her is ever found. The attendees of the party, nicknamed the Jackson Associates by the press, become infamous overnight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Christina en 09-14-16
De: Alex Marwood
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Lionel Asbo
- State of England
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 119
Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious "Anti-Social Behaviour Order"), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love .
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4 out of 5 stars
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Jēz...us! Just don't buy it for your Grans.
- De Darwin8u en 01-03-13
De: Martin Amis
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Continental Drift
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Now available for the first time in audiobook format, a powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers. Russell Banks' Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Give up and die
- De AI en 12-09-21
De: Russell Banks
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The Stand
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 47 h y 47 m
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 67,778
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67,651
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My First Completed Stephen King Novel
- De Meaghan Bynum en 02-20-12
De: Stephen King
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Outside Looking In
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 181
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- De Christopher Meeks en 05-25-19
De: T. C. Boyle
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The Fireman
- A Novel
- De: Joe Hill
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
- Duración: 22 h y 19 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,614
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7,593
No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it's Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies - before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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GOD'S WAITING ROOM; AKA FLORIDA
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-25-17
De: Joe Hill
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Disappearing Act
- A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories
- De: Robert Sheehan
- Narrado por: Robert Sheehan
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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as strange as he is
- De DEKEY en 04-08-24
De: Robert Sheehan
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Arcadia
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 316
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 314
Lauren Groff’s acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- De Kathleen en 03-22-12
De: Lauren Groff
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Turning
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Karen Campbell
- 03-02-12
It just got better and better
This book is less a collection of short stories and more a series of glimpses into the events that changed the nature of a small seaside town during the 1970s. The glimpses are presented through the eyes of different characters, all at varying points of time and each one gradually adds to the picture. Just like a jigsaw. Initially, just like a jigsaw, the pieces seem only vaguely connected and some don't seem to fit at all. Then at the half way point it all starts coming together. This gradual revelation of major plot developments from different points of view is very gripping and Tim Wintons wonderful frank and beautiful descriptive style keep the book flowing. My only gripe is that there is one story theme that really does seem to be a jigsaw piece from another box and I really want to know what happened.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Karen
- 10-22-09
The Turning
True Tim Winton stuff, real ozzie and down right honest, great for travelling with.
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Historia3 out of 5 stars
- dutchkids
- 08-30-20
Audible should have mentioned that...
The words or description “a collection of vaguely interlinked short stories “ without a convergence point, which is what this beautifully written, highly evocative and scenic book is, would have been a great help before buying it, the author takes you on a 10 hour journey to nowhere in particular ... unless I completely missed the point, I’m a little peeved by pointlessness in any quite enjoyable book.
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