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Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly accused of identifying the executioners. With a sentence of death passed over him, he is forced to flee Sligo, leaving behind his friends, family and beloved girl, Viv.
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- Anne Ward
- 03-27-20
A beautiful story
A deeply moving and heart wrenching book. it is a fascinating look into the troubled history of Ireland and desperately sad. Beautiful and powerful prose. It will stay with me for a long time.
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- NJ Morrow
- 12-17-20
Epic
The narration of Aidan Kelly breathes such life into the indulgent prose of Sebastian Barry that the world of Eneas McNulty grabs the reader, and refuses to yield long after the rich tapestry of life in Ireland has been laid to rest.
Absorbing, breathtaking - life is but an adventure.
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- Vicuña
- 04-22-22
Lyrical and heartbreaking
Sebastian Barry manages to get to the essence of anything he writes about. This is the story of Eneas McNulty, a Sligo man who at 16 joined the British Merchant navy and sailed the world. He became an outsider in his own community and at the time when political and religious divides broke families and communities, we learn of how his choices affected his life and that of those close to him.
As a story, it rings very true, but Barry’s narrative is pure joy. He writes with eloquence. He’s poetic, but in a way that draws the listener in to the people and places.
Narration throughout is superb and I’ve enjoyed every minute of this audio title.
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- J N Orr
- 06-12-21
Sebastian Barry’s Writing
Such brilliance, such shining, warming brilliance.
Having read the book I was not expecting the audio telling of this story to match up; it did, and there again was the same voice in my head that I had as I read.
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It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah’s small farm running. Suddenly, Annie’s young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm.
By: Sebastian Barry
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Alec
- A Novel
- By: William di Canzio
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story5 out of 5 stars 104
Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. With the hindsight of a century, di Canzio imagines a future for them and a past for Alec—a young villager possessed of remarkable passion and self-knowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful continuation of Maurice
- By michaelforrest on 07-25-21
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Corelli's Mandolin
- A Novel
- By: Louis de Bernieres
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 222
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 225
Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men, and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVELY! Moving, hilarious, enlightening...
- By AK on 07-26-19
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The Yellow House
- A Novel
- By: Patricia Falvey
- Narrated by: Sarah-Jane Drummey
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
The Yellow House delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working at the local mill, saving her money and holding fast to her dream. As war is declared on a local and global scale, Eileen cannot separate the politics from the very personal impact the conflict has had on her own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed this book from the beginning to the end
- By sandra fusilier on 01-08-20
By: Patricia Falvey
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Exit Unicorns
- By: Cindy Brandner
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 151
In this sweeping and powerful epic the journey begins in the "terrible beauty" of Northern Ireland during a time when conflict reigns and no one is spared from tragedy and sorrow, the time known as The Troubles. It is the spring of 1968 in Belfast and James Kirkpatrick has just lost his father under suspicious circumstances, Casey Riordan is released from prison after five years and Pamela O'Flaherty has crossed an ocean and a lifetime of memories to find the man she fell in love with as a little girl. All three lives are on a collision course with each other against the backdrop of the burgeoning civil rights movement and a nation on the brink of revolution. They come from disparate backgrounds - Jamie a wealthy aristocrat whose life is like an imperfect but multi-faceted jewel-brilliant, flawed and with a glitter that is designed to distract the observer. Casey, a card-carrying member of the Irish Republican Army, who must face the fact that five years away has left him a stranger, a misfit in his own neighborhood where not everyone is sympathetic to a convicted rebel. Pamela, who has come to Ireland in search of a memory and a man who may not have existed in the first place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- By Makale Hughes on 10-28-18
By: Cindy Brandner
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 159
In a remote part of 19th-century Afghanistan, two British adventurers pursue their ambition to rule an empire. Using betrayal, threats, and guns, they win the respect of a primitive tribe and become worshipped as gods until one day they draw blood, and the game is up. "The Man Who Would Be King" is an action-packed tale about the pitfalls of colonialism and the temptations and evils of power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Varied Stories about Love, Life & Death in the Raj
- By Jefferson on 08-21-18
By: Rudyard Kipling
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Borges and Me
- An Encounter
- By: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kind of novelistic memoir”, Jay Parini takes us back 50 years, when he fled the United States for Scotland - in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Super Sexist
- By Reader on 05-18-21
By: Jay Parini
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Dubliners - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Ulysses
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes
- Length: 47 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
This compilation contains three of James Joyce's most important and recognisable works. Presented here in the order Joyce wrote them they provide an opportunity to enter his world from the comparatively shallow end of "Dubliners" to the deep end of "Ulysses". "Dubliners" contains 15 short stories in Joyce's intended sequence, each with its own moment of realisation or epiphany, ending with what is considered to be one of the finest short stories in literature, "The Dead". "Portrait" could be seen as the prelude to "Ulysses". It shows the growth of Stephen Dedalus (James Joyce) from a young child to a young man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Katie G on 12-15-20
By: James Joyce
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That Old Country Music
- Stories
- By: Kevin Barry
- Narrated by: Kevin Barry
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these 11 exquisite stories transport the listener to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking
- By ALLISON E REED on 01-20-21
By: Kevin Barry
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Sons and Lovers
- By: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 340
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Story4 out of 5 stars 288
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Momma's Boy (The Dangers of Overbearing Parenting)
- By W Perry Hall on 02-01-14
By: D. H. Lawrence
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The Little Country
- By: Charles de Lint
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 22 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
When folk musician Janey Little finds a mysterious manuscript in an old trunk in her grandfather’s cottage, she is swept into a dangerous realm both strange and familiar. But true magic lurks within the pages of The Little Country, drawing genuine danger from across the oceans into Janey’s life, impelling her - armed only with her music - toward a terrifying confrontation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another wonderful story by Charles de Lint
- By Rkrgurl2e on 08-16-21
By: Charles de Lint
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Alexander's Bridge
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4 out of 5 stars 95
Willa Cather renders the tough inner terrain of a man in mid-life crisis. Bartley Alexander is a master bridge engineer. At 43 he is at the height of his power, comfortable with success and all it brings. Yet he yearns for the lost vibrancy of his youth. He leads a double life, veering between his beautiful, accomplished wife and his mistress, an actress he knew as a student in Paris. The conflict creates a crack in the structure of his life that ultimately undermines him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The ambivalence of being
- By babylon baroque on 03-22-23
By: Willa Cather
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Welcome to Night Vale
- A Novel
- By: Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
- Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,761
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,287
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,280
Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is so good, but
- By Christopher on 04-30-16
By: Joseph Fink, and others
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No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories
- By: Brian Lumley
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
With his multiple-award-winning literary career now spanning over four decades, Lumley continues to write his superior fictions, examples of which from each of those decades can be found in this current collection, where weird tales itself is represented by no less than five stories! And so, to complete a trilogy of volumes begun with the Lovecraft-inspired The Taint and Other Novellas, and followed by Haggopian and Other Stories, Subterranean Press is now proud to offer No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories, a handpicked collection of Brian Lumley s best macabre tales.
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4 out of 5 stars
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another outstanding collection & great narrator
- By latasha on 12-09-19
By: Brian Lumley
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East of Eden
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 25 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16,687
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14,765
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14,760
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why have I avoided this Beautiful Book???
- By Kelly on 03-25-17
By: John Steinbeck
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The Girls in the Attic
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 436
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 435
Max Wolff is a committed soldier of the Reich. So when he is sent home wounded, only to discover that his mother is sheltering two young Jewish women in their home, he is outraged. His mother’s act of mercy is a gross betrayal of everything Max stands for. He has dedicated his life to Nazism, fighting to atone for the shame of his anti-Hitler father’s imprisonment. It’s his duty to turn the sisters over to the Gestapo. But he hesitates, and the longer Max fails to do his duty, the harder it becomes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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impact of The War in Germany on Germans
- By Florida girl on 11-02-21
By: Marius Gabriel
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The Murder Stone
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 256
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Story4 out of 5 stars 231
The Great War is still raging when Francesca Hatton’s adored grandfather dies on his estate in England’s isolated Exe Valley. She is his sole heir, for her five cousins are dead now on the battlefields of France. Among his effects, Francesca is stunned to find a letter cursing the Hattons. And at the funeral, a stranger publicly accuses Hatton of murder. Who was her grandfather? The kind man who raised her - or a secretive killer? For in the back garden where she and her cousins once played, there is a white stone they always called the Murder Stone
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unfaithful Narrator?
- By Chris McDonald on 02-14-20
By: Charles Todd
