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The Death of Artemio Cruz
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A Kaleidoscope of Nabokov Bábochkas
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The Stories of Eva Luna
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- Narrated by: Elizabeth Pena
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Immerse yourself in a world of love, vengeance, compassion, and irony with the evocative stories of Eva Luna. Author Isabel Allende introduced this well-loved character to audiences in her earlier novel, Eva Luna. Listen to Allende talk about the role of writing in her life in Giving Birth, Finding Form. This program also features Alice Walker and Jean Shinoda Bolen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better some Allende than no Allende
- By Perschon on 12-04-14
By: Isabel Allende
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Birds Without Wings
- By: Louis de Bernieres
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Birds Without Wings is the story of a small town in Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the men and women (Armenians, Christians, and Muslims) whose lives are intertwined and rooted there: Iskander, the potter and local fount of wisdom; Philotei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd, a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness; and many more.
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Not for the faint of heart
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- By: Kiana Davenport
- Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich with sensuous detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meets their singular destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Use an audiobook to really enjoy Satanic Verses
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Herzog
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 379
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grows Within You
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By: Saul Bellow
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The Monstrumologist
- By: Rick Yancey
- Narrated by: Steven Boyer
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 744
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 656
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Dr. Warthrop is a scientist who tracks and studies real-life monsters. Assisted by his 12-year-old apprentice, Will Henry, Dr. Warthrop discovers a pod of Anthropophagi and launches a hunt to destroy the foul beasts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reader Be Warned
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By: Rick Yancey
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When the Lion Feeds
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 565
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It is the 1870s, and twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney are born into the wilds of Natal. They could not be more different, and fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is the promise of fortune, adventure, destiny and love.... When the Lion Feeds is the best-selling novel that launched Wilbur Smith's stellar career and the first in the riveting saga of the Courtney brothers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What did you do with John Lee?
- By SAM on 04-03-19
By: Wilbur Smith
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Palimpsest
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- Narrated by: Aasne Vigesaa
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 135
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Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse - a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Prose, but lacks maturity
- By Michael on 08-09-15
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The Power and the Glory
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Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in 1930s Mexico during the era of Communist religious persecutions. As revolutionaries determine to stamp out the evils of the church through violence, the last Roman Catholic priest is on the lam, hunted by a police lieutenant. Despite his own sense of worthlessness—he is a heavy drinker and has fathered an illegitimate child—he is determined to continue to function as a priest until captured.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lousy recording quality of bad narration
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The Spymaster's Lady
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She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit... British spymaster Robert Grey must enter France and bring back the brilliant, beautiful - and dangerous - Fox Cub. His duty is to capture her and her secrets for England.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly enjoyable; Audiobook is fantastic
- By Emily London on 12-28-10
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The Book of Kells
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
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A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough, confrontational, strong and warrior-like lover) time travel to ancient Ireland to avenge a Viking attack. Packed with fascinating details of historical time and place in Irish history and delicately balanced on the border between realism and fantasy, the story centers around one of the most famous and beautiful illuminated manuscripts in history, the legendary but entirely real Book of Kells.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Book of Irish Fantasy
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Gravity's Rainbow
- By: Thomas Pynchon, Frank Miller - cover design
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 37 hrs and 21 mins
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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4 out of 5 stars
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"Time to touch the person next to you"
- By Jefferson on 07-04-16
By: Thomas Pynchon, and others
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An American Dream
- By: Norman Mailer
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- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, author Norman Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the listener by the throat and refuses to let go.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mailers Immodest masterpiece
- By W C Woods on 07-02-20
By: Norman Mailer
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- Adriana Orozco
- 08-07-14
An amazing book!
If you could sum up The Death of Artemio Cruz in three words, what would they be?
"Live in your days with your eyes close" more than three, but I love those words.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Death of Artemio Cruz?
the imaginary relationship with Regina, he truly loved her. or he thought so.
Which character – as performed by Tony Chiroldes – was your favorite?
I could see my father through Artemio. so I really like Artemio.
If you could rename The Death of Artemio Cruz, what would you call it?
Life is what we make of it. Artemio lived with what life gave him and made what best he could with it.
Any additional comments?
this book is so amazing. I love every minute of it. the narrator was superb. I could feel everything as Artemio did. one of the best book in a while.
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- Kelly B.
- 05-01-14
Great Writing
What did you love best about The Death of Artemio Cruz?
If you prefer literature over nonsense, and have an attention span that exceeds 15 minutes, you won't regret using some of your precious and fleeting time reading this creative, beautiful and powerful story.
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- Jesse
- 12-31-17
So-so reader
The reader has a pleasant voice and sometimes reads with great expression, but it often seems like he doesn't understand what's happening in the novel. The emotion doesn't always fit the scene.
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- Thomas F Marcello
- 01-28-15
Average. Mexican History!
Interesting book. There are better, but it is better then no book at all. On the plus side... It discusses some Mexican History.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-26-15
Viva Carlos Fuentes!
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Carlos Fuentes' use of three narrative points of view keeps his audience actively engaged in the story as it progresses, through events that take place in the past, present and future. It is through the main character Artemio that we are taken on a historical, social, psychological, spiritual, and political journey in order to fathom Mexico's complex national identity. Great novel in English, if you have the opportunity to read this novel in the original Spanish, you will be even more dazzled by the author's ability to manipulate language, time and space in order to create a multilayered look at Mexico and its people.
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