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- Narrado por: Lisette Lecat
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,087
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 773
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 769
Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An African Childhood of Harrowing Proportions
- De Sara en 10-12-15
De: Alexandra Fuller
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Everything Under
- A Novel
- De: Daisy Johnson
- Narrado por: Esther Wane
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliantly understated classic
- De Jeff Lacy en 10-29-19
De: Daisy Johnson
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Arcadia
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 369
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 320
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 318
Lauren Groff’s acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- De Kathleen en 03-22-12
De: Lauren Groff
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Palimpsest
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Aasne Vigesaa
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
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
- De Michael en 08-09-15
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
- De: Nayomi Munaweera
- Narrado por: Priya Ayyar
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pronunciation
- De Mahidevran en 04-07-18
De: Nayomi Munaweera
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The Shell Collector
- De: Anthony Doerr
- Narrado por: Hakeem Kae Kazim
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 259
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 260
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take listeners from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties - metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts - and conjures nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator not appropriate to the book.
- De Janet en 02-18-17
De: Anthony Doerr
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
- De: Eleanor Morse
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- De Kathi en 03-15-13
De: Eleanor Morse
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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- De: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, y otros
- Narrado por: Garrison Keillor
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good, but. . .
- De KSmith en 01-27-11
De: Emily Dickinson, y otros
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Beatlebone
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching 40s, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Nooooo way
- De James en 11-17-15
De: Kevin Barry
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Elmet
- De: Fiona Mozley
- Narrado por: Gareth Bennett Ryan
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 535
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 497
In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who fights for money when he has to, but who otherwise just wants to be left alone to raise his children. When a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, their precarious existence is threatened, and a series of actions is set in motion that can only end in violence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Strains credibility
- De DM en 01-06-18
De: Fiona Mozley
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Trigger Warning
- Short Fictions and Disturbances
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Neil Gaiman
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,849
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,830
In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013--as well as "Black Dog", a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It Triggered Me to Stay Up Late and Listen
- De Jan en 02-10-15
De: Neil Gaiman
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Her Body and Other Parties
- Stories
- De: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 616
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 529
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 536
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-17
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The Canal Bridge
- A Novel of Ireland, Love, and the First World War
- De: Tom Phelan
- Narrado por: Paul Nugent
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn and Con Hatchel, lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish midlands, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of England and join the British army. A year later, while en route to India, their troop ship is recalled and they soon find themselves in the European slaughterhouse that was World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, disturbing and unforgettable
- De Kathy en 05-25-16
De: Tom Phelan
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- De: Leslye Walton
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 449
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 400
Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and Haunting Fairytale
- De FanB14 en 07-24-15
De: Leslye Walton
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Deathless
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Kim de Blecourt
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 301
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 267
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 267
Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to Western European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories that have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take on the legend brings the action to modern times, spanning many of the great developments of Russian history in the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Fantasy Book of the Year
- De Robert en 12-29-13
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Jagannath
- De: Karin Tidbeck
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 4 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated fans around the world. Originally published by the tiny press Cheeky Frawg - the passion project of Ann and Jeff VanderMeer - Jagannath has been celebrated by listeners and critics alike, with rave reviews from major outlets and support from lauded peers like China Mieville and even Ursula K. Le Guin herself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Always unique, usually quite good, sometimes meh
- De Eugene en 02-13-19
De: Karin Tidbeck
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Without a Map
- A Memoir
- De: Meredith Hall
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4.5 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 53
Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Your Average "16 and Pregnant"
- De Susie en 12-11-12
De: Meredith Hall