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An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose “words explode from the page” (The Monthly)
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their sons, named Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful.
Praiseworthy is an epic which pushes allegory and language to its limit; a unique masterpiece that bends time and reality, opening new literary vistas; a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage; and a fable for the end of days.
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents' home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time—and in the cruelest way imaginable—of a family secret that sends him spiraling and plunging further into danger. To save him, and any hope for their relationship, Thelma is drawn back, for the first time in twenty years, to the South.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Wrecked Me!
- De Sandra W. en 03-01-25
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Two-Step Devil
- De: Jamie Quatro
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
In 2014, in Lookout Mountain, Alabama, the Prophet—a seventy-year-old man who paints his visions—lives off the grid in a cabin near the Georgia border. While scrounging for materials at the local scrapyard, the Prophet sees a car pull up to an abandoned gas station. In the back seat is a teenage girl with zip ties on her wrists, a girl he realizes he must rescue from her current life. Her name is Michael, and the Prophet feels certain that she is a messenger sent by God to take his end-time warnings to the White House.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surreal
- De Nan en 01-20-25
De: Jamie Quatro
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10:04
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 187
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A novel worth reading
- De Bradley Paul Valentine en 01-29-15
De: Ben Lerner
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Ducks, Newburyport
- De: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrado por: Stephanie Ellyne
- Duración: 45 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, open carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate? When are you allowed to start swearing?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stephanie Ellyne really brings the book to life
- De Shashank en 02-27-20
De: Lucy Ellmann
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Wolf at the Table
- De: Adam Rapp
- Narrado por: Paul Sparks
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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extraordinary writing.
- De michelle martinez en 05-23-24
De: Adam Rapp
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In Tongues
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Grattan
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging, smart and witty storytelling!
- De Bruce Cannella en 09-30-24
De: Thomas Grattan
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Carpentaria
- De: Alexis Wright
- Narrado por: Isaac Drandich
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
Carpentaria is Alexis Wright's second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, Australia. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other.
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1 out of 5 stars
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disappointing
- De Robert en 12-05-08
De: Alexis Wright
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Gods of Howl Mountain
- De: Taylor Brown
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 208
In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted 1940 Ford coupe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Appalatia Noir
- De meanwhile en 09-18-18
De: Taylor Brown
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Godshot
- A Novel
- De: Chelsea Bieker
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 166
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.
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4 out of 5 stars
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flawless novel, not the best narration
- De Adrienne en 05-05-20
De: Chelsea Bieker
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Autumn
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Melody Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 520
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 456
Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible use of language
- De Mary en 03-06-17
De: Ali Smith
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The Swan Book
- De: Alexis Wright
- Narrado por: Jacqui Katona
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 7
The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Symbolism with a Big S
- De Michael Meder en 03-18-21
De: Alexis Wright
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The Wolf Hunt
- A Novel
- De: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
- Narrado por: Gilli Messer
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful husband and stable marriage, and a teenage son, Adam, with whom she has always felt a particular closeness. Israeli immigrants, the family has now lived in the U.S. long enough that they consider it home. But after a brutal attack on a local synagogue shakes their sense of safety, Adam enrolls in a self-defense class taught by a former Israeli Special Forces officer. There, for the first time, he finds a sense of confidence and belonging. Then, tragedy strikes again.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Animal cruelty
- De Modified en 08-22-23
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The Shadow Key
- A Novel
- De: Susan Stokes-Chapman
- Narrado por: Richard Harrington
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
On an isolated estate in late-eighteenth-century rural Wales, a young English doctor uncovers dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life in this spellbinding Gothic tale from the bestselling author of Pandora.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow burn!
- De Shelindria en 06-10-25
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What Belongs to You
- A Novel
- De: Garth Greenwell
- Narrado por: Garth Greenwell
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too short
- De Paul en 05-31-24
De: Garth Greenwell
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Eve
- De: Wm. Paul Young
- Narrado por: Roger Mueller
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 935
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 854
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 853
Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship - yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional misconceptions about who we are and how we're made. As The Shack awakened listeners to a personal, nonreligious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have compromised human relationships since the Garden of Eden.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect for spiritual book clubs & revival of self
- De Jean the Urban Walker. en 10-08-15
De: Wm. Paul Young
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A Nearly Normal Family
- De: M. T. Edvardsson, Rachel Wilson-Broyles - translator
- Narrado por: Emily Watson, Georgia Maguire, Richard Armitage
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,814
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,460
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,439
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost 15 years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting storytelling
- De Jenn en 07-02-19
De: M. T. Edvardsson, y otros
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Blackouts
- A Novel
- De: Justin Torres
- Narrado por: Ozzie Rodriguez, Torian Brackett
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay—playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized—has a project to pass along. It is inspired by a true artifact of a book, Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, which contains stories collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried.
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2 out of 5 stars
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meh
- De Thomas E Flint en 10-28-24
De: Justin Torres
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The Haunting of Moscow House
- De: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
- Narrado por: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’s ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining members of their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while the officials take over an entire wing of grand rooms downstairs. The sisters understand it is the way of things and know they must forget their noble upbringing to make their way in this new Soviet Russia. But the house begins to whisper of a traumatic past not as dead as they thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Elegant Horror HF+F Gothic Tale You Need Right Now
- De Syd Young en 11-11-24
Beautiful, powerful book full of poetry
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