The Usual Desire to Kill
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Camilla Barnes
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An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter—for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Miranda’s parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two llamas, eight ducks, five chickens, two cats, and a freezer full of food dating back to 1983.
Miranda’s father is a retired professor of philosophy who never loses an argument. Miranda’s mother likes to bring conversation back to “the War,” although she was born after it ended. Married for fifty years, they are uncommonly set in their ways. Miranda plays the role of translator when she visits, communicating the desires or complaints of one parent to the other and then venting her frustration to her sister and her daughter. At the end of a visit, she reports “the usual desire to kill.”
This wry, propulsive story about a singularly eccentric family and the sibling rivalry, generational divides, and long-buried secrets that shape them, is a glorious debut novel from a seasoned playwright with immense empathy and a flair for dialogue.
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- De D. C. en 05-05-25
De: Julie Mae Cohen
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The Last Session
- A Novel
- De: Julia Bartz
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 14
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, a white-knuckled locked-room thriller about a social worker who, after coming face-to-face with her dark past, must infiltrate a mysterious wellness center in the deserts of New Mexico.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So fun!
- De ACV en 04-09-25
De: Julia Bartz
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Friends of the Museum
- A Novel
- De: Heather McGowan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 19 h y 9 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
When Diane Schwebe, the director of a major New York museum, is awakened in the early morning by a text message from the museum’s lawyer, it is the start of a twenty-four hour roller-coaster ride. Diane has sacrificed many things in her life to help the fading institution stave off irrelevance and financial ruin. In this battle, she’s surrounded by her stalwart supporters and a motley assortment of museum employees, each on the precipice of collapse or revelation.
De: Heather McGowan
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Bad Nature
- A Novel
- De: Ariel Courage
- Narrado por: Cia Court
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 6
When Hester is diagnosed with terminal cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she’s built in New York City, she quits her wildly lucrative job in corporate law and starts driving west. She hasn’t made it far when she runs into John, an environmental activist in need of a ride to different superfund sites across the United States.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Sad life, sad ending
- De C. R. Choate en 05-17-25
De: Ariel Courage
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Rabbit Moon
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Haigh
- Narrado por: Katharine Chin, Yu-Li Alice Shen
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 29
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit and run accident. At a Shanghai hospital they wait at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
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4 out of 5 stars
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dark
- De Maryanne T. en 04-30-25
De: Jennifer Haigh
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Big Chief
- De: Jon Hickey
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 10 h y 1 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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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck, he runs the government of the Passage Rouge Nation, and with it, the tribe’s Golden Eagle Casino and Hotel. On the eve of Mack’s reelection, their tenuous grip on power is threatened by a nationally known activist and politician, Gloria Hawkins, and her young aide, Layla Beck, none other than Mack’s estranged sister and Mitch’s former love.
De: Jon Hickey
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Open, Heaven
- A Novel
- De: Seán Hewitt
- Narrado por: Sebastian Croft
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
Set in a remote village in the north of England, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year in which two teenage boys meet and transform each other’s lives. James—a sheltered, shy sixteen-year-old—is alone in his newly discovered sexuality, full of an unruly desire but entirely inexperienced. As he is beginning to understand himself and his longings, he also realizes how his feelings threaten to separate him from his family and the rural community he has grown up in. He dreams of another life, fantasizing about what lies beyond the village’s leaf-ribboned boundaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The longing and yearning for love and something more that takes place in the book!
- De Adam Rodriguez en 05-14-25
De: Seán Hewitt
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I See You've Called in Dead
- A Novel
- De: John Kenney
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a “far more interesting” man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company’s system has him listed as dead. And the company can’t fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout forces him to realize that life may be actually worth living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful book. Comic edge but full of heart
- De Amazon Customer en 04-10-25
De: John Kenney
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The Float Test
- A Novel
- De: Lynn Steger Strong
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 3
The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling under the weight of family obligations. Fred is a novelist who can’t write, maybe because she’s lost faith in storytelling itself. Jude is a recovering corporate lawyer with her own story to tell, and a grudge against her former favorite sister, Fred. George, the baby, is estranged from his wife and harboring both a secret about his former employer and an ill-advised crush on one of his sisters’ friends. Gathered after a major loss, each sibling needs the others more than ever—if only they could trust each other.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Expectations Unrealized
- De Suzanna en 05-30-25
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Sour Cherry
- De: Natalia Theodoridou
- Narrado por: Erifyli Gigante
- Duración: 9 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord’s baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin smells of soil, and his eyes remind her of the dark forest. As he grows into a boy, then into man, a plague seems to follow him everywhere. Trees wither at the roots, fruits rot on their branches, and the town turns against him
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oooooh! So good.
- De KONeill en 05-13-25
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Heartwood
- De: Amity Gaige
- Narrado por: Justine Lupe, Alma Cuervo, Rebecca Lowman, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 519
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 504
In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The suspense
- De Amy B. McVey en 04-11-25
De: Amity Gaige
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Flesh
- A Novel
- De: David Szalay
- Narrado por: Daniel Weyman
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor—a married woman close to his mother’s age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errands—as his only companion. But as these periodical encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, his life soon spirals out of control, ending in a violent accident that leaves a man dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything
- De Amazon Customer en 04-06-25
De: David Szalay
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Freakslaw
- De: Jane Flett
- Narrado por: Abigail Lawrie
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 2
It is the summer of ‘97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change. Enter the Freakslaw―a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There’s Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, Pin Gal.
De: Jane Flett
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Company
- De: Max Barry
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 243
Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business. Lack of clarity, it turns out, is Zephyr's defining characteristic. The floors are numbered in reverse. No one has ever seen the CEO or glimpsed his office on the first (i.e., top) floor. Yet every day people clip on their ID tags, file into the building, sit at their desks, and hope that they're not about to be outsourced.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Experience
- De Jacob en 02-08-06
De: Max Barry
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The Burning Heart of the World
- De: Nancy Kricorian
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale, The Burning Heart of the World is a sweeping saga that takes listeners on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City.
De: Nancy Kricorian
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The Beautiful Bureaucrat
- A Novel
- De: Helen Phillips
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 81
In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers into something known only as The Database. After a long period of joblessness, she's not inclined to question her fortune, but as the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings - the office's scarred, pinkish walls take on a living quality, the drone of keyboards echo eerily down the long halls.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Helen Philips is Kafka strolling through Night Vale
- De vurnt22 en 04-29-16
De: Helen Phillips
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The Impossible Thing
- De: Belinda Bauer
- Narrado por: Phil Dunster
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
1926. On the cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who nest there. The most beautiful are sold for large sums. A small girl—penniless and neglected by her family—retrieves one such treasure. Its discovery will forever alter the course of her life. A century later. In a remote cottage in Wales, Patrick Fort finds his friend, Nick, and his mother tied up and robbed. The only thing missing: a carved case containing an incredible scarlet egg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such enjoyable listening
- De Claudia A. Pruitt en 04-27-25
De: Belinda Bauer
Brilliant
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Keep with it.
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Excellent, subtle humor and heartbreaking family dynamics.
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I.iced it.
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