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Colleen Hubbard
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Following a long-standing family feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her family home—alone and by hand—and move it across a frozen pond during a harsh New England winter in this mesmerizing debut.
Del has never had a good relationship with her family. After her parents’ divorce, and with the town rumor mill in full swing, Del’s uncle and the rest of the family shunned her and her mother. For years, there was nothing she could do about this.
Now, with both of her parents gone, a chance has arrived.
Her uncle wants the one thing Del inherited: the family home.
Instead of handing the place over and giving her uncle what he wants, and with no other resources at her disposal, Del decides she will tear the place apart herself, by hand - piece by piece.
But as she’ll soon discover, the task stirs up more than just old memories for Del as family members—each in their own state of unraveling—come knocking on her door.
This spare, strange, magical book is both a story of the powerlessness and hurt that runs through a family, but also about the moments when brokenness can offer us the rare chance to start again.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 557
Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Brilliant, Agonizing Portrait of a Young Woman
- De Sudi en 06-06-17
De: Julie Buntin
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Homesick for Another World
- Stories
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Richard Poe
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 310
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 274
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny, Dynamic Writing
- De Sofia Macht en 06-13-18
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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The Free
- A Novel (P.S.)
- De: Willy Vlautin
- Narrado por: Willy Vlautin
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In his heartbreaking yet hopeful fourth novel, award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for illuminating the disquiet of modern American life, captured in the experiences of three memorable characters looking for meaning in distressing times. Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy Kervin has lived in a group home for eight years. Frustrated by the simplest daily routines, he finds his existence has become unbearable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Free Fallin', Brilliantly
- De W Perry Hall en 03-11-14
De: Willy Vlautin
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The Art of Crash Landing
- A Novel
- De: Melissa DeCarlo
- Narrado por: Johanna Parker
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she's got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn't make. When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother she's never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn things around.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unlikable character
- De RueRue en 09-18-15
De: Melissa DeCarlo
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- De Monique en 01-08-19
De: Tim Gautreaux
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Making Spirits Bright
- De: Fern Michaels, Elizabeth Bass, Rosalind Noonan, y otros
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 141
Melanie McLaughlin desperately wants to adopt two orphaned siblings and give them a real home for Christmas. A just-for-the-holiday marriage to Bryce Landry fits her plan perfectly...until unexpected sparks have Melanie dreaming of forever by his side....
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4 out of 5 stars
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So so book
- De John en 08-25-22
De: Fern Michaels, y otros
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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The Green Glass Sea
- De: Ellen Klages
- Narrado por: Julie Dretzin
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
This first novel from Nebula Award-winning short story writer Ellen Klages was picked as a Junior Library Guild selection and named a Book Sense Number-One Children's Pick. It follows a young girl named Dewey, whose father is part of a super-secret project in 1943 Los Alamos. Dewey, a gifted scientist herself, slowly realizes the implications of "the gadget" her father is working on. She and Suze, another Los Alamos child, find comfort in each other's friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful!
- De Rita en 12-08-08
De: Ellen Klages
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She's Come Undone
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,855
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,871
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really disappointing narrator!
- De Jessica Williams en 01-21-12
De: Wally Lamb
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I'll Be There
- De: Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir - despite her average voice - is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight they are connected. Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run. He and his little brother, Riddle, have spent their entire lives constantly uprooted by their unstable father. As Sam and Riddle are welcomed into the Bells' lives, they witness the warmth and protection of a family for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needs to be a film!
- De TreasureHunter en 06-25-16
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Garden Spells
- De: Sarah Addison Allen
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,465
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,476
The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers.
Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.
Together again in the house they grew up in, the Waverley sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy - if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom - or with each other.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I so want to give it 5 stars...!!!!
- De Joihelene en 10-09-10
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- De: Emily M. Danforth
- Narrado por: Beth Laufer
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,080
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 976
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 974
Cameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident. Their deaths mean they will never learn the truth she eventually comes to - that she's gay. Orphaned, Cameron comes to live with her old-fashioned grandmother and ultraconservative aunt Ruth. When she’s eventually outed, her aunt sends her to God’s Promise, a religious conversion camp that is supposed to “cure” her homosexuality. At the camp, Cameron comes face to face with the cost of denying her true identity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A very worthwhile Read!
- De TENA en 11-02-14
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Like Family
- Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
- De: Paula McLain
- Narrado por: Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years - a book in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A famous writer describes her life growing up in foster care
- De Nancy C. en 12-21-18
De: Paula McLain
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The Dead Cat Bounce
- De: Sarah Graves
- Narrado por: Lindsay Ellison
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,138
Since she bought her rambling fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick planted firmly in his cranium. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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too slow of a story...
- De Annette en 03-13-18
De: Sarah Graves
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Son of a Trickster
- De: Eden Robinson
- Narrado por: Jason Ryll
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 140
Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby) - and now she's dead.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not Enough Fantasy. Too much pot.
- De Rena Tarlini en 09-07-19
De: Eden Robinson
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Brighton
- A Novel
- De: Michael Harvey
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 100
Kevin Pearce - baseball star, honor student, the pride of Brighton - was 15 when he left town in the back of his uncle's cab. He and his buddy, Bobby Scales, had just committed heinous violence for what they thought were the best of reasons. Kevin didn't want a pass, but he was getting it anyway. Bobby would stay and face the music; Kevin's future would remain as bright as ever. At least that was the way things were supposed to work, except in Brighton things never work the way they're supposed to.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mystery gets no better.
- De William H. Harrington en 10-27-18
De: Michael Harvey
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Marrow
- De: Tarryn Fisher
- Narrado por: Audra Pagano
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 559
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 498
Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn't spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible. It's not until she develops a friendship with her wheelchair-bound neighbor, Judah Grant, that things begin to change. When a neighborhood girl, seven-year-old Neveah Anthony, goes missing, Judah sets out to help Margo uncover what happened to her. What Margo finds changes her, and with a new perspective on life she's determined to find evil and punish it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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HUH?? I'm so confused LOL
- De ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 en 09-15-16
De: Tarryn Fisher