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From Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Chabon comes this best-selling novel for listeners of all ages that blends fantasy and folklore with that most American coming-of-age ritual: baseball. Now in a new edition, with an original introduction by the author.
Ethan Feld is having a terrible summer: His father has moved them to Clam Island, Washington, where Ethan has quickly established himself as the least gifted baseball player the island has ever seen. Ethan's luck begins to change, however, when a mysterious baseball scout named Ringfinger Brown and a 765-year-old werefox enter his life, dragging Ethan into another world called the Summerlands. But this beautiful, winterless place is facing destruction at the hands of the villainous Coyote, and it has been prophesized that only Ethan can save it.
In this cherished modern classic, the New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings his masterful storytelling, dexterous plotting, and singularly envisioned characters to a coming-of-age novel for listeners of all ages.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
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- De Leslie en 05-06-13
De: Joe Hill
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The Talisman
- De: Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 28 h
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On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: His father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery.
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Still Good
- De Bill S. en 03-24-10
De: Stephen King, y otros
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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Arcadia
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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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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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- De Kathleen en 03-22-12
De: Lauren Groff
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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The Keepers: The Box and the Dragonfly
- De: Ted Sanders
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus - a sign with his own name on it - everything changes. The sighting leads him underground, to the House of Answers, a hidden warehouse full of mysterious objects. But there he finds only questions. What is this curious place? Who are the strange, secretive people who entrust him with a rare and immensely powerful gift? And what is he to do with it?
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Amazing story!
- De coldcereal en 04-25-18
De: Ted Sanders
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
- Stories
- De: Karen Russell
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Joy Osmanski, Kaleo Griffith, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979", a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis" find Russell veering into more sinister territory.
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Stylish modern magic realism
- De Ryan en 04-10-13
De: Karen Russell
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Oz Reimagined
- New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond
- De: Douglas Cohen - editor, John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl, Tanya Eby
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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When L. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, best-selling hit. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought together leading fantasy writers such as Orson Scott Card and Jane Yolen to create the ultimate anthology for Oz fans.
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The Many Faces of Dorothy or Dot
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 07-19-14
De: Douglas Cohen - editor, y otros
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The Stolen Child
- De: Keith Donohue
- Narrado por: Andy Paris, Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped and renamed "Aniday" by changelings, ageless beings who inhabit the woods near his home. The changelings also leave behind one of their own, who flawlessly impersonates Henry except for one noteworthy detail: the new Henry is a prodigiously talented pianist.
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Not Anything Close to the Hype
- De Jon en 06-20-06
De: Keith Donohue
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The Book of Magic
- De: Gardner Dozois - editor, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, y otros
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker, Sile Bermingham, Maxwell Caulfield, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 38 m
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Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois's acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf... and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda... and a Wicked Witch of the West. What would Harry Potter be without Albus Dumbledore... and Severus Snape? Figures of wisdom and power, possessing arcane, often forbidden knowledge, wizards and sorcerers are shaped - or misshaped - by the potent magic they seek to wield.
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Very Good, With One Objection
- De Kindle Customer en 05-05-20
De: Gardner Dozois - editor, y otros
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Sister Mine
- De: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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"We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. Abby and I were fused, you see. But here's the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn't." Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father. Today, Makeda has decided it's high time to move out and make her own life.
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Narrator saves this story
- De Denis A. en 03-21-14
De: Nalo Hopkinson
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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)
- De: Maggie Stiefvater
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them - not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain.
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Predictable Prep Boy Meets Witchy Girl
- De FanB14 en 01-29-13
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- De: David Wroblewski
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 21 h y 39 m
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Filled with breathtaking scenes, the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a meditation on the limits of language and what lies beyond, a brilliantly inventive retelling of an ancient story, and an epic tale of devotion, betrayal, and courage in the American heartland.
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Devastatingly Dark Story
- De Knitme23 en 02-07-15
De: David Wroblewski
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North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
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They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950.
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A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer.
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A strong, early Chabon (sounds like grading wine)
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As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed, between them, more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart - half tavern, half temple - stands Brokeland Records.
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26,784 sq in (and 4.5 miles) surrounded by REALITY
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Moonglow
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Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather". It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies.
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Wonderful novel, terrible narrator
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The Shamshine Blind
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In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina’s victory in the Falkland’s War thanks to their development of “psychopigments.” Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs. Black market traders illegally sell everything from Blackberry Purple (which causes terror) to Sunshine Yellow (which delivers happiness).
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LaRose
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Grief and Love
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Gentlemen of the Road
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They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950.
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Jews with Swords
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A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer.
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A strong, early Chabon (sounds like grading wine)
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Telegraph Avenue
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As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed, between them, more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart - half tavern, half temple - stands Brokeland Records.
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26,784 sq in (and 4.5 miles) surrounded by REALITY
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Moonglow
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Wonderful novel, terrible narrator
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The Shamshine Blind
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Pops
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For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then 13, to Paris Men's Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season; Chabon Sr., whose interest in clothing stops at "thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts or Hermès neckties," sat idly by, staving off yawns and fighting the impulse that the whole thing was a massive waste of time.
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Manhood for Amateurs, Part Deux
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The Final Solution
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Retired to the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance both more prosaic and far more sinister?
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Fun Listen!
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the federal district of Sitka, a temporary safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the district is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
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Didn't finish...
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All Things Left Wild
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After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, 16-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the 20th century. Caleb’s moral compass and inner courage will be tested as they travel the harsh terrain and encounter those who have carved out a life there, for good or ill.
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Didn’t want it to end
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The Beet Queen
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On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, Mary seeks refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband, while Karl gets back on the train. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin; and the half-Native American Celestine James, who will become Mary’s best friend.
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A listen to look forward to
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Dinosaurs
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Lydia Millet's exquisite new novel tells the story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one wall made entirely out of glass. The story delivers attraction and love, friendship and grief. But Millet also evokes the uncanny. Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, she captures the daunting scale of human society without losing sight of the real difference one person can make in the world. Written with humor and benevolence, Dinosaurs asks big questions: Can a person be good? Can a man be good?
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I don't get it!
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Black Bottom Saints
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From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson has been the pulse of Detroit’s famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city’s African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he’s rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats.
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Interesting Read. Too Much In Common with Today
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A Passage to India
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The lives of Miss Adela Quested and those around her are forever changed when she befriends a young doctor named Aziz during a trip she and her companion Mrs. Moore make to India. The unlikely friendship between Adela and Aziz eventually culminates in a disastrous expedition to the Marabar caves, during which she offends him, an action which leads to false accusations, arrests, and a litany of miscommunications.
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Confusing at Times
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The Opposite of Everyone
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- De: Joshilyn Jackson
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A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally best-selling author of Someone Else's Love Story and Gods in Alabama - an emotionally resonant tale about the endurance of love and the power of stories to shape and transform our lives.
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Goddess of destruction and rebirth
- De Janice en 06-27-16
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The Oracle Year
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Knowledge is power. So when an unassuming Manhattan bassist named Will Dando awakens from a dream one morning with 108 predictions about the future in his head, he rapidly finds himself the most powerful man in the world. Protecting his anonymity by calling himself the Oracle, he sets up a heavily guarded website with the help of his friend Hamza to selectively announce his revelations. In no time global corporations are offering him millions for exclusive access, eager to profit from his prophecies.
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Wish it were more
- De Topher en 05-14-18
De: Charles Soule
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Mongrels
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- De: Stephen Graham Jones
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He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixed blood, neither this nor that. The boy at the center of Mongrels must decide if he belongs on the road with his aunt and uncle or if he fits with the people on the other side of the tracks.
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breathes new life into werewolves in fiction
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L.A. Times
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- De: Stuart Woods
- Narrado por: Tony Roberts
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After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where he begins a new life as Michael Vincent, producer. A natural-born wheeler-dealer, he lands not only a major studio deal but also a gorgeous actress girlfriend.
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Get Shorty Meets Godfather - Annoyingly
- De Ted en 06-17-19
De: Stuart Woods
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- 09-04-24
Not as good as Angels in Outfield
At best there was baseball, at worse there was a pretty horrendous appropriating of Native story elements. A big hodgepodge.
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- Andrew L. Carter
- 05-29-20
Kid friendly but lacking
Begins with an interesting plot. Gets long and anticlimactic in stretches. Too many unaddressed holes.
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- Daddy
- 07-17-19
Love Chabon but this one lost me
I loved the intro chapters about why he pivoted into youth fantasy more than the book itself. The baselines of the story are great and maybe this type of fantasy just isn't my thing. It's still written with Chabon's wordsmith mastery, just lost me through most of the middle of the book. I'm a sucker for anything baseball and found myself liking those parts and the connection between Ethan and his father and mother who passed much more than the fantasy aspects. Will continue to adore Chabon though
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- John Proctor
- 06-10-22
I love Michael Chabon, his vulnerability, and his
This book is like listening to a story by a campfire late at night on a summer camping trip. It reminded me of roasting marshmallows and making smores. There is such an interesting balance between the "boy" being the protagonist and recognizing the "girl" as having as significant a role in this story - but it's still a story about a boy (from boy perspective). I loved it and it's nice to see the author balance and recognize "others" in the telling of this story.
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- K. Gentry
- 06-12-19
Crazy, but charming.
The author has a crazy imagination, but the combination of humor, fantasy, love seems to work.
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- Tres
- 05-10-18
Nostalgic and Fun
Listening to this book reminded me what it was like to play baseball as a kid, all the good and bad that that entails. Chabon really captures the heart of what it is to be a child; forced to put up with the expectations of a world which increases in seriousness and complexity every day while still maintaining a foot in the realm of fantasy and dark legend. Themes of loss and survivor's guilt trickle through the story in realistic and heartfelt ways, without overshadowing the lighthearted and dark whimsy of giants, wear-foxes, and thunderbirds that carry the pained protagonists across the 3 realms. The writing trends purposfuly towards a YA reading level, but strikes a good balance and would likely have suffered from being any more or less complex. Pretty gr8. 8/8
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- Harry Robert Hache
- 06-20-19
a beautiful book for any age
simply one of the most engaging books I've "read" in a long time. Di not make the mistake of skipping it because it says "Young Adult" - it's a heart tending story of triumph and growing up for anyone. pay close attention to the preface before you dig in; it will break your heart and put the whole take in.perspective.
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- Michael McDonnell
- 07-24-23
Great summertime fantasy
A great summer time fantasy and dip into American mythology. Enjoyable by all ages. Play ball.
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- Lynn E. Rhodes
- 05-26-24
Be immersed in a magical world and enjoy!
From the beginning to the end, the world created by Michael Chabon in Summerland had me entranced and entertained. I found that his narration was absolutely delightful—acting out each character seamlessly. I find that the narration absolutely makes or breaks an audiobook. Even the best book can be spoiled when the narrator makes me cringe with a bad attempt at an accent or a male narrator fails at voicing a female character. I fully accepted Chabon’s characters as individuals, not even thinking about a narrator.
The story was fun and gripping and exciting. A love of baseball is helpful but truly not necessary. An appreciation of a fantasy world, populated by an array of creatures and characters that sprang from Chabon’s imagination is essential. Enjoy!
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- Gillian
- 04-18-16
5-Star Narration Elevates 3.25-Star Story
I know, I know. How can I say the much-loved Michael Chabon put out a 3.25 story... for kids at that?
Hear me out...
First, yes, if you listen to the Introduction, the man is coming from an emotional and heartfelt place--totally touching (which by the way, you might listen to without the kids unless you want to explain to an 8-yr old what pregnancy termination entails).
Second, his narration of his own work is flawless and enjoyable; it's the best part of the book. When you, and your kids, listen to it, you have the feeling that he is there in the room reading to you, giving it his all, just as though he were reading to his own children (and when you listen to it, you start wishing that you were his own kids because obviously the guy puts a lot of love into performance). Each character is wonderfully voiced, emotion and drama conveyed brilliantly.
But that's it. The Publisher's Summary says the book is for all ages, but I have a feeling parents will be nodding off during this one, despite Chabon's fantastic performance. This is for 10 and much, much younger. The main character is 11, but eleven-year olds will see things coming a mile away, plus they demand excitement, suspense, big pay-offs.
As it is, "Summerland" has sweet, quirky characters who go from one minor adventure to another minor adventure, nothing building to anything, and each (short) adventure is solved oh so quickly and oh so successfully. Period.
There is no failure to be found. Items that are needed magically appear; bad guys are tripped up right when they need to be, nothing, not a thing--from information that is conveniently and lengthily conveyed in a speech, to food on a journey that should be hard to find but isn't (actually, a character turns up who just so happens to cook impossibly well)--is difficult. The characters don't struggle, with evil, with each other, they don't even struggle with themselves. Okay, so Ethan isn't much of a batter, always strikes out--even that isn't much of anything and you ALWAYS know how that's going to turn out from one at-bat to the next.
I wish I could say that I loved this, and I did love some of the writing (a giant clearing his throat sounds "like bricks tumbling in a dryer," and a queen is "like a cold, tiny moon") but similes aside, there's not much here to engage anyone older than 7 or 8.
Your younger kids might like this, if they like stories that have no suspense, no breathless cliffhanger chapter endings, and ultra-easy character interactions without spice, but you and your older kids might be dozing.
Most every dilemma is solved by baseball, whether by a game thrown out as a challenge, or by a book the group carries that just happens to have all the answers in it... Sweet. But after a while, you realize that nobody, not even Michael Chabon can bat a thousand all the time.
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