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Pacing Quick & Plot was Goldilocks
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-12
De: Dashiell Hammett
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The Brass Cupcake: A Novel
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. Ex-cop Cliff Bartells might be the last honest man in Florence City, Florida. After quitting the force over a crisis of conscience, he takes a job at an insurance company buying back stolen jewelry. Cliff is focused on keeping the bottom line down and staying out of the spotlight.But when an affluent tourist from Boston is murdered over a hefty collection of jewelry, Cliff finds himself wrapped up in a case that’s making national headlines.
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Good Social History ...
- De Montana en 05-14-17
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The Lost Weekend
- De: Charles Jackson
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and then another, until he's in the midst of what becomes a five-day binge. A classic tale of one man's struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson's best-known book - a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.
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What a terrific audiobook!
- De Bill en 11-10-14
De: Charles Jackson
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Wonder Boys
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer.
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A strong, early Chabon (sounds like grading wine)
- De Darwin8u en 03-09-14
De: Michael Chabon
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Blackmail, My Love
- A Murder Mystery
- De: Katie Gilmartin
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private dick investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community. Josie adopts Jimmy's trousers and wingtips, battling to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the many queer corpses.
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Fine Writing, Beautifully Read
- De CJ en 06-14-15
De: Katie Gilmartin
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The Wayward Bus
- De: John Steinbeck, Gary Schamhorst - introduction
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.
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Steinbeck always touches the heart, makes you feel
- De Kelly en 05-08-17
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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A Stone for Danny Fisher
- De: Harold Robbins
- Narrado por: Charles Leggett
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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Born into a family of modest means and respectability, Danny Fisher was gradually driven downward into the world of crime, racketeering and poverty. His bitterness, his homesickness over the loss of the house in Brooklyn that was given to him for his eighth birthday, and his feud with his harsh father, pulled him one way; his natural decency and his love for a sweet Italian girl, Nellie Petito, pulled him another.
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My teenage read.
- De A. Mitchell en 11-11-11
De: Harold Robbins
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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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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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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- De Christopher Meeks en 05-25-19
De: T. C. Boyle
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Laguna Heat
- De: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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Laguna: a place where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence - with a fiery vengeance - and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery. It reaches back across 40 years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past.
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Fabulous
- De Stacy en 02-24-09
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Carol Boyd
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently....
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
- De James A. Dittes en 08-13-16
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Perchance to Dream
- Selected Stories
- De: Charles Beaumont
- Narrado por: J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer. It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone - for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.
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Contents
- De Ralph Freaster en 06-22-16
De: Charles Beaumont