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First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lübeck.
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Where Have You Been All My Life, Thomas Mann?
- De Virginia Waldron en 03-30-17
De: Thomas Mann
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Punish the Sinners
- A Novel
- De: John Saul
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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Italy, 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stake.... Neilsville, 1978. Peter Balsam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School - something evil. In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the town...while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual.
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- De A. Sosa en 07-24-18
De: John Saul
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The Chosen
- De: Chaim Potok
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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Though they've lived their entire lives less than five blocks from each other, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders exist in very different worlds. Reuven blends easily into both his secular Jewish faith and his typical American teen life, while Danny's conservative Hasidic clothes and appearance make him stick out in any crowd. Their improbable friendship teaches them that the differences separating people through cultures and generations are never as great as they seem.
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truly rates overused "classic" label
- De connie en 11-05-08
De: Chaim Potok
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The Last Summer
- De: Judith Kinghorn
- Narrado por: Jane Wymark
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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Clarissa is almost 17 when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer - and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled.
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The Last Summer Delivers
- De Carmen dela Cruz en 05-22-16
De: Judith Kinghorn
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In Malice, Quite Close
- De: Brandi Lynn Ryder
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
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French ex-pat Tristan Mourault is the wealthy, urbane heir to a world-renowned collection of art - and an insatiable voyeur enamored with Karen Miller, a 15-year-old from a working-class family in San Francisco. Deciding he must 'rescue' Karen from her unhappy circumstances, Tristan kidnaps her and stages her death to mask his true crime.
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In malice,Quite close
- De Wendy en 09-06-11
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Reflection
- De: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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Twenty years ago, a terrible tragedy shattered the tranquility of the small Pennsylvania Dutch town of Reflection. The residents of the village have never forgiven the one woman they blamed for what happened - Rachel Huber. After the incident, Rachel left the town and cut off all ties there. But when Rachel receives the news that her estranged grandmother, Helen, is ill and needs her care, she returns to Reflection.
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- De joni en 04-16-16
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth George
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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good debut novel
- De Stevon en 11-11-19
De: Elizabeth George
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The Magus
- De: John Fowles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
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John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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Domina
- De: Barbara Wood
- Narrado por: Marion Castle
- Duración: 20 h y 21 m
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Beautiful and courageous, Samantha Hargrave dares to dream that she will become one of the first female doctors - and surgeons - in America. Born in the slums of London and possessing a special gift for healing, Samantha struggles to enter the all-male medical profession. When her ambition encounters hostile rejection in England, she sails to America, where she meets an eccentric doctor who takes her on as an apprentice.
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Really bad.
- De Anonymous User en 12-29-17
De: Barbara Wood
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The Ambassador's Daughter
- De: Pam Jenoff
- Narrado por: Joanna Daniel
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital, where she is still looked upon as the enemy. But as she contemplates returning to Berlin and a life with Stefan, the wounded fiancé she hardly knows anymore, she decides that being in Paris is not so bad after all. Bored and torn between duty and the desire to be free, Margot strikes up unlikely alliances: with Krysia, an accomplished musician with radical acquaintances and a secret to protect; and with Georg, the handsome, damaged naval officer who gives Margot a job.
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Book 0 in the series
- De Stevon en 12-12-17
De: Pam Jenoff
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The Distant Hours
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret.
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Right Mood At The Right Time
- De Simone en 11-13-12
De: Kate Morton
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Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Jesper Bøllehuus
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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William Stoner bliver i slutningen af det 19. århundrede født ind i en fattig bondefamilie i Missouri, USA. Som ung går han på landbrugsskole, men drages af litteraturens verden. Han vender aldrig hjem til forældrenes gård og vælger i stedet det akademiske liv, hvor bøgerne og litteraturen forbliver hans faste holdepunkt - også når konflikter og skuffelser truer med at ødelægge hans tilværelse. Bogen blev første gang udgivet i 1965, siden genudgivet i 2006 i USA, hvorefter mange forlag verden over fik øjnene op for romanen. Den er nu en international bestseller. "Stoner" er et fascinerende, velskrevet og rørende portræt af en helt almindelig mand, hvis liv man ikke kan undgå at blive berørt af. Det er en roman om identitet, om livet, om de valg, vi træffer.
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Augustus
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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A mere 18 years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome.
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The son of Caesar calls to you.
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-15
De: John Williams
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Butcher’s Crossing
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down.
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A Holocaust of Hides
- De Darwin8u en 11-13-15
De: John Williams
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Nothing but the Night
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 3 h y 48 m
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First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' career as a novelist. In the person of Arthur Maxley, Williams investigates the terror and the waywardness of a man who has suffered an early traumatic experience. As a child, Maxley witnessed a scene of such violence and of such a nature that the evocation of Greek tragedy is inescapable. Now, years later, we move through a single significant day in the grown Arthur Maxley's life, the day when he is to meet his father, who has been absent for many years.
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John Williams is a certified wizard
- De Andy P. en 10-28-23
De: John Williams
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The Last Days of Night
- A Novel
- De: Graham Moore
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 13 h
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New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history - and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the lightbulb and holds the right to power the country?
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Favorite book of 2016
- De Taryn en 12-19-16
De: Graham Moore
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I Let You Go
- De: Clare Mackintosh
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber, Steven Crossley
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run.
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Compelling thriller
- De Nerida en 05-15-16
De: Clare Mackintosh
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Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Jesper Bøllehuus
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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William Stoner bliver i slutningen af det 19. århundrede født ind i en fattig bondefamilie i Missouri, USA. Som ung går han på landbrugsskole, men drages af litteraturens verden. Han vender aldrig hjem til forældrenes gård og vælger i stedet det akademiske liv, hvor bøgerne og litteraturen forbliver hans faste holdepunkt - også når konflikter og skuffelser truer med at ødelægge hans tilværelse. Bogen blev første gang udgivet i 1965, siden genudgivet i 2006 i USA, hvorefter mange forlag verden over fik øjnene op for romanen. Den er nu en international bestseller. "Stoner" er et fascinerende, velskrevet og rørende portræt af en helt almindelig mand, hvis liv man ikke kan undgå at blive berørt af. Det er en roman om identitet, om livet, om de valg, vi træffer.
De: John Williams
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Augustus
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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A mere 18 years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome.
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The son of Caesar calls to you.
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-15
De: John Williams
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Butcher’s Crossing
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down.
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A Holocaust of Hides
- De Darwin8u en 11-13-15
De: John Williams
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Nothing but the Night
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 3 h y 48 m
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First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' career as a novelist. In the person of Arthur Maxley, Williams investigates the terror and the waywardness of a man who has suffered an early traumatic experience. As a child, Maxley witnessed a scene of such violence and of such a nature that the evocation of Greek tragedy is inescapable. Now, years later, we move through a single significant day in the grown Arthur Maxley's life, the day when he is to meet his father, who has been absent for many years.
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John Williams is a certified wizard
- De Andy P. en 10-28-23
De: John Williams
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The Last Days of Night
- A Novel
- De: Graham Moore
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 13 h
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New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history - and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the lightbulb and holds the right to power the country?
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Favorite book of 2016
- De Taryn en 12-19-16
De: Graham Moore
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I Let You Go
- De: Clare Mackintosh
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber, Steven Crossley
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run.
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Compelling thriller
- De Nerida en 05-15-16
De: Clare Mackintosh
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The Dark Bones
- De: Loreth Anne White
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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When Detective Rebecca North left her rural hometown, she vowed never to return. Her father’s apparent suicide has changed that. The official report is that retired cop Noah North shot himself, knocked over a lantern, and set his isolated cabin ablaze. But Rebecca cannot believe he killed himself. To prove it, she needs the help of Ash Haugen, the man she left behind. But Rebecca and Ash share more than broken hearts. Something darker lies between them, and the investigation is stirring it back to life.
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Very good procedural...
- De shelley en 05-26-19
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Hard Rain Falling
- De: Don Carpenter
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary connement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class - married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But they will meet again....
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A Well Read, American Noir Novel from The 1960s
- De Frank Donnelly en 01-19-20
De: Don Carpenter
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Black River Orchard
- A Novel
- De: Chuck Wendig
- Narrado por: Xe Sands, Brittany Pressley, Sean Patrick Hopkins, y otros
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides the season is changing there. Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black. Take a bite of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker.
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Points for originality but…
- De kisa en 11-09-23
De: Chuck Wendig
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Deadfall
- A John Hutchinson Novel
- De: Robert Liparulo
- Narrado por: Henry Kramer
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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Deep in the isolated Northwest Territories, four friends are on the trip of a lifetime. Dropped by helicopter into the remote Canadian wilderness, Hutch, Terry, Phil, and David are looking to escape the events of a tumultuous year for two weeks of hunting, fishing, and camping. Armed only with a bow and arrow and the basics for survival, they've chosen a place far from civilization, a retreat from their turbulent lives. But they quickly discover that another group has targeted the remote region and the secluded hamlet of Fiddler Falls for a more menacing purpose.
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I gotta say I REALLY ENJOYED THIS STORY!
- De shah en 07-15-24
De: Robert Liparulo
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Sirens
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Knox
- Narrado por: Lewys Taylor
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle Rossiter, a runaway politician's daughter, from Zain's influence? Impossible. That's why Aidan Waits is the perfect man for the job. Disgraced, emotionally damaged, and despised by his superiors. In other words, completely expendable. But Aidan is a born survivor. And as he works his way deep into Zain's shadowy world, he finds that nothing is as it seems. Zain is a mesmerizing, Gatsby-esque figure who lures young women into his orbit - women who have a bad habit of turning up dead.
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Boring from the start.
- De Jcbtx en 06-05-24
De: Joseph Knox
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Her One Mistake
- De: Heidi Perks
- Narrado por: Kirsty Dillon, Julie Maisey, Sally Scott
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Charlotte was supposed to be looking after the children, and she swears she was. She only took her eyes off of them for one second. But when her three kids are all safe and sound at the school fair, and Alice, her best friend Harriet’s daughter, is nowhere to be found, Charlotte panics. Frantically searching everywhere, Charlotte knows she must find the courage to tell Harriet that her beloved only child is missing. And admit that she has only herself to blame.
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wow!
- De lisa en 03-04-19
De: Heidi Perks
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Star of the North
- A Novel
- De: D. B. John
- Narrado por: Linda Park, D. B. John
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
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Star of the North opens in 1998, when a Korean American teenager is kidnapped from a South Korean beach by North Korean operatives. Twelve years later, her brilliant twin sister, Jenna, is still searching for her, and ends up on the radar of the CIA. When evidence that her sister may still be alive in North Korea comes to light, Jenna will do anything possible to rescue her - including undertaking a daring mission into the heart of the regime.
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On the edge of my seat!
- De Heather A. en 05-25-18
De: D. B. John
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When We Fell Apart
- A Novel
- De: Soon Wiley
- Narrado por: Daniel K. Isaac, Shannon Tyo
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he’s sure it can't be true. She was successful, ambitious, happy, just on the cusp of graduating from university and claiming the future she’d always dreamed of.
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Cultural story masquerading as a murder mystery
- De Barbara S en 02-05-23
De: Soon Wiley
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Girls Like Us
- De: Cristina Alger
- Narrado por: Kyla Garcia
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in 10 years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the prime suspect.
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the story moved right along.
- De Jamie R. Smith en 07-09-19
De: Cristina Alger
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Something in the Water
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Steadman
- Narrado por: Catherine Steadman
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water....
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No Thrill Here
- De Sara en 06-08-18
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Suburra
- De: Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo de Cataldo, Antony Shugaar - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
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In Ostia, a depressed coastal settlement 20 miles from the powerful and corrupt city of Rome, a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for a billion-dollar payoff. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi's reign, a massive development proposal that will turn Ostia into a gambling paradise, a Las Vegas on the Mediterranean, is winding its way through the Italian legislature thanks to the sponsorship of politicians in the pay of crime syndicates with vested interests.
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Amazing book!
- De DS en 05-13-18
De: Carlo Bonini, y otros
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The Night the Lights Went Out
- De: Karen White
- Narrado por: Carolyn Cook, Susan Larkin, Tiffany Morgan
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It's not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren't helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail.
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Try Flight Patterns or The Sound of Breaking...
- De NMwritergal en 04-16-17
De: Karen White
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- Jessica
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Incredible story with ALMOST perfect narration
First, this is now my favorite classic,which is funny because I had never heard of it before I found it on Audible. (They never teach the good stuff in high school). The reviews on this site pretty much sum up why it's so great, so if you're prepared to feel a bit sad when it's over then you'll probably love it.
My only complaint is about the narration, but I would NOT give the narration less than 4 stars. The problem for me was that Robin Field uses the same cadence for every line that isn't being spoken by a character, and for a few that are. It's sort of like when you're learning about iambic pentameter in 11th grade English, and the whole class ends up reading in a kind of monotone sing-song. And THEN he WALKED out TO the BARN and RAKED. It wasn't quite that bad, and the rhythm was less obvious than iambic pentameter, but I found myself nodding my head a little to the pattern and it was a bit distracting. His VOICE, though, is utterly hypnotic,and once I got past that rhythm issue each time I started listening I got pulled in and didn't want to turn it off.
Listening to this audiobook felt like listening to what my grandfather must have sounded like as a young man. That's part of the beauty of the story, too, that you truly feel like you're listening to someone's life story, not some glamorized, plot driven adventure. It touches you because it could BE you - it's one of those rare stories where the character's decisions are not what drives his story, they're just what determine how he lives with his simple disappointments.
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- Robert
- 02-28-14
Stunning
Would you listen to Stoner again? Why?
I'd listen to the book over and over again if I didn't think it would make me weep in public places.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Stoner is -- well, a singular literary creation.
What does Robin Field bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The reader stands back and lets the book do its job.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I just loved it.
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- CGJ
- 01-10-14
Beautifully written
Would you consider the audio edition of Stoner to be better than the print version?
Not necessarily. Individual preferences in processing stories are different, even our moods can be different. Sometimes I like reading, sometimes I like listening.
What other book might you compare Stoner to and why?
Margaret Atwood's Hand Maid's Tale. Not the nature of the story (although both fiction) but the degree of detail, most intimate thoughts of the protagonist, the " naked truth" told, calm yet merciless.
What does Robin Field bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Did a good job articulating author/protagonist's calm, plain narrative dotted with exquisite agonies when he first experiences "Love" not until he was middle aged.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When Stoner started to learn about true human caring and love.
Any additional comments?
Beautiful in the sense that it's some totally honest, bare, guileless. Ordinary human condition, extraordinarily written.
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- apr_observer
- 07-21-15
Singularly depressing...
Stoner's life was a depressing ride. Not much joy in his life. As he lays on his deathbed he sums up his life well - career was halfhearted, marriage to a semi crazy woman a failure, daughter ends up distant and messed up, his moment of love was brief. If this sounds good, read this book. I forced myself to finish this one.
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- Michael
- 03-16-13
Exquisite Writing and Beautifully
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes
Any additional comments?
I don’t know how I had never heard of this novel before (it was written in the 1960s and had experienced wide acclaim). Seemingly about nothing but the most mundane of lives, it is in fact a rich and textured exploration of the inner world with all of its existential angst and disappointments. It is a beautifully paced and precise piece of writing that will leave lovers of wonderful writing in awe of the observational power of authors like Williams.
It takes a little time to become immersed in the character of Stoner and his life tale but once ‘locked in’ it is a hard book to stop listening to. The narrator was perfectly suited to the pace and the tone of this lyrical and melancholic novel. I know it will not be for everyone but I think it ranks as one of the best I have listened to.
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- James
- 09-09-16
Wonderful
"If only I would have loved her more. " When will we push aside the trivialities of day to day life and appreciate the miracle of everyday. We meander through Stoner ' s life and we look at choices.....choices we ourselves have made hoping to find the outcome we want but not putting in the effort to make it so. Let us learn something here.....let us live and love before it is too late.
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- Bond James Bond
- 10-13-14
ok, but very slow start
I kept thinking of giving up, but about half way through the story got interesting, and it kept up til the end. Not a bad read, but not great, same for the reader.
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- Stephanie
- 02-18-15
A Simple Life Told in a Simple Way
I was about halfway through Stoner when I realized how much it reminded me of "The Bridges of Madison County." They both are stories that aren't action packed or driven by mystery, but in the end they pack an emotional punch as you realize the enormity of a simple life told in a simple way.
Stoner is a farm boy who comes to the University of Missouri to learn farming only to be taken with literature and never leaving the college, choosing a teaching career over that of a farmer. He takes few risks in life and almost all of them after careful deliberation. He makes mistakes, but makes no excuses. He gains no great reward or honor during his life, but neither does he end up a derelict. He lives his life with a quiet, slow dignity that carries him through until the end.
Robin Field does an EXCELLENT job with the voices on this recording. Spot on.
Recommended!
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- Slopeggy
- 02-03-16
Five stars
An amazing sense of place, well developed characters and story that I will remember. I didn't really want it to end.
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- Carol M
- 09-02-19
Professor Stoner
John Williams, relatively unknown, has written a masterful book about the life of a professor, depressing and accurate, beautifully described. He is one of the great writers of the mid20th century.
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