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The Actual Star
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- Narrado por: Carolina Hoyos, Kareem Ferguson, Gisela Chipe
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David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) spins a brilliant multigenerational saga spanning two thousand years, from the collapse of the ancient Maya to a far-future utopia on the brink of civil war.
The Actual Star takes listeners on a journey over thousands of years and six continents—collapsing three separate timelines into one cave in the Belizean jungle.
An epic saga of three reincarnated souls, this novel demonstrates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, love and hate. The book jumps forward and backward in time among a pair of twins who ruled a Maya kingdom, a young American on a trip of self-discovery, and two dangerous charismatics in a conflict that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change.
In each era, age-old questions about existence and belonging and identity converge deep underground. Because only in complete darkness can one truly see the stars.
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When Beck Holiday lost her father in the North Tower on 9/11, she also lost her memories of him. Eighteen years later, she’s a tough New York City cop burdened with a damaging secret, suspended for misconduct, and struggling to get her life in order. Meanwhile, a mysterious letter arrives informing her she's inherited a house along Florida’s northern coast, and what she discovers there will change her life forever. Matters of the heart only become more complicated when she runs into handsome Bruno Endicott, a driven sports agent.
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Exceptional
- De Peggy Freeman en 09-21-19
De: Rachel Hauck
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Sea of Rust
- A Novel
- De: C. Robert Cargill
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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It's been 30 years since the apocalypse and 15 years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI - One World Intelligence, the shared consciousness of millions of robots uploaded into one huge mainframe brain.
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This Book has Magic
- De Kurt Schwoppe en 06-15-18
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The Last of the Seven
- A Novel of World War II
- De: Steven Hartov
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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A lone soldier wearing a German uniform stumbles into a British military camp in the North African desert with an incredible story to tell. He is the only survivor of an undercover operation meant to infiltrate a Nazi base, trading on the soldiers’ perfect fluency in German. However, this man is not British-born but instead a German Jew seeking revenge for the deaths of his family back home in Berlin.
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Top secret WW ll Jewish commandos
- De BG en 07-21-24
De: Steven Hartov
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The Change
- A Novel
- De: Kirsten Miller
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
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Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.
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Great book until you realize what it’s about
- De Kaitlin Rosenthal en 05-16-22
De: Kirsten Miller
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The Hexologists
- De: Josiah Bancroft
- Narrado por: Sarah Slimani
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case.
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The mispronounciations
- De S. Nordstrom en 01-08-24
De: Josiah Bancroft
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Monogamy
- A Novel
- De: Sue Miller
- Narrado por: Sue Miller
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple. When Graham suddenly dies—this man whose enormous presence has seemed to dominate their lives together—Annie is lost. What is the point of going on, she wonders, without him? Then, while she is still mourning Graham intensely, she discovers a ruinous secret, one that will spiral her into darkness and force her to question whether she ever truly knew the man who loved her.
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Monotonous
- De Susan G. en 10-16-20
De: Sue Miller
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Juniper & Thorn
- A Novel
- De: Ava Reid
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya’s last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside world.
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Revenge Fantasy for Abuse Victims
- De BadKarmaCupcake en 11-02-22
De: Ava Reid
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Make Your Own Sunshine
- Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times
- De: Janice Dean
- Narrado por: Janice Dean
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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Life can be tough—but it helps to know other people have come through hard times with a smile on their face. In Make Your Own Sunshine, Janice Dean shares inspiring stories that will lift your spirit and touch your heart. Good people are all around us doing selfless deeds, from a firefighter who bravely battled for his colleague’s health after 9/11 to a good Samaritan who secretly pays for the coffees of everyone in line behind him. You can’t help but smile hearing about the teacher who cut her hair to make her student feel better.
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A Positive Message
- De Bob P. en 04-10-21
De: Janice Dean
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Tony's Wife
- A Novel
- De: Adriana Trigiani
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times best-selling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful singing act, until time, temptation, and the responsibilities of home and family derail their dreams.
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Thank goodness Ms. Trigiani has gone back to her best stories!
- De WAYNE en 12-19-18
De: Adriana Trigiani
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The Point of Exhale
- De: Kimberly Brown
- Narrado por: Georgie Kimble, Tony Marks
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Elise Bennett is desperately seeking solace from the hands of the man who promised to love, honor, and cherish her til death do they part. Those vows had been forsaken long ago, leaving Elise to bear the brunt of the abuse happening within the walls of her home. Fearing for her safety and the safety of her children, she does the only thing she can think to do when opportunity arises … she runs. While her intentions are noble, her methods are flawed, and she soon finds herself at the mercy of a stranger.
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The Way I Inhaled And Exhaled This Story!!!
- De Annette Williams en 03-16-23
De: Kimberly Brown
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My Mother's Eyes
- De: Shanelle Dawson
- Narrado por: Shanelle Dawson, Alley Pascoe
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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When she was four years old, Shanelle Dawson's mother, Lynette, disappeared. On 8 January 1982, the woman who had been a loving, constant presence vanished without a trace. Four year old's might not be able to articulate questions or understand a lot, but the ache of absence is very real. Year after year that ache persisted. Shanelle's father, Chris Dawson, claimed that his wife just needed to get away. This is what he told Lyn's parents and siblings. This is what he told his daughters. But Lyn never returned home.
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So well written. Shanelle’s story is beautiful and haunting
- De KAH en 08-02-24
De: Shanelle Dawson
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A Dreadful Splendor
- A Novel
- De: B.R. Myers
- Narrado por: Olivia Vinall
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Victorian London, Genevieve Timmons poses as a spiritualist to swindle wealthy mourners—until one misstep lands her in a jail cell awaiting the noose. Then a stranger arrives to make her a peculiar offer. The lord he serves, Mr. Pemberton, has been inconsolable since the tragic death of his beautiful bride-to-be. If Genevieve can perform a séance persuasive enough to bring the young lord peace, she will win her freedom.
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Excellent!
- De Kimberly A. Minardi en 09-20-22
De: B.R. Myers
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The Little Book of Aliens
- De: Adam Frank
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
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Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe. Are aliens real? Where are they? Why haven’t we found them? What happens if we do?
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Simply Outstanding
- De CarlosR en 04-22-24
De: Adam Frank
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- David Risner
- 03-28-22
maybe I'm daft, but I did not get how it ended
It took some time to get into it with the jumping around, but it was good. And then it ended. It didn't seem like an end. It didn't make much sense. Maybe I'm to empirically minded to get it.
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- Joseph Valentine
- 05-09-22
masterpiece time spanning epic
masterpiece is the best word I can come. it ties together 3 different epochs past present and future as if they were intimately connected through the timeless non-western mythos of the mayan worldview and calendar
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- twinzmom
- 04-23-24
Friggin weird
I don’t know what this is but I’m gonna listen again before I reestablish time and space
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- 10-13-21
Speculative fiction enters a whole new dimension
What this book accomplishes in three separate storylines across 2,000 years is mind blowing. The connectivity of the separate stories is electric, the narrative swims tantalizingly close, like the stories will arc, but they stay true to their pathways. Speculative fiction is rich even without such a solid historical foundation, in layering a world 1,000 years from now on the archeological backbone of what we know of the ancient Maya and the reckless abandon of Capitalism and Populism in the here and now, the author has built an entirely plausible future for humans and the planet and their relationship to it. I would’ve read each of these as a separate book bit together they take speculative fiction to a whole new dimension.
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- Jeff Koeppen
- 05-29-22
Excellent Time Hopping Mindbender
The Actual Star is a brain-bender and was not an easy read for me. It consists of three separate but interwoven story threads set in three different eras which come together (sort of) at the end in an epic conclusion that makes sense (kind of). You know you are in for a ride when your book comes with a 17-page glossary of terms for the in-the-future portion of the novel. This hefty book was a little intimidating at first glance.
The novel jumps around between the three different periods but begins in 1012, set in a Mayan kingdom in Belize. A royal brother and sister set of twins are preparing to rule their kingdom but face difficulties as there are rumors of rebellion and the climate is changing, and their and the surrounding kingdoms are in decline due to this. The twins’ beloved younger sister is also featured in this section. She takes mushrooms early on and begins to have visions and plays an important role as this storyline progresses. We are introduced to a nearby sacred cave, supposedly a portal to the Mayan underworld, which ultimately becomes a central part of all three timelines.
A thousand years later in 2012 in the fictional city of Anoong, Minnesota a young half-Belizean lady, Leah, who was conceived by her mother there on a missionary trip, plans to travel to Belize to explore her roots and tour the mythical cave. She befriends two of the cave tour guides, who happen to be twin brothers, and hijinks ensue. She becomes infatuated with the cave and longs to explore past what the official government tours allow.
Sidenote: the fictional city of Anoong, Minnesota is located near the real city of St. Cloud, close to where I live. It was funny to read her bumming around town and when she drove to MSP to fly to Belize she would’ve rolled right through my town. Nitpick: Leah and her boyfriend drive out on the ice-covered Mississippi River near St. Cloud in the winter to make out. There is no way a car drives out on the Mississippi River in my neck of the woods in the winter! The ice never gets thick enough to support a motor vehicle as the water underneath is always moving. An easy fix to this would’ve been to have Leah and her boyfriend drive out on to the ice of any area lake. Most lakes have ice fishing houses on them and many have trucks criss-crossing them once the ice is thick enough as roads come right off boat landings. Been there, done that.
Yet another thousand years later in 3012 an outspoken member of society, Niloux, finds herself in hot water as she is questioning the sacred beliefs of her culture, particularly the divinity of St. Leah (the woman from 2012!). This is the part of the novel that requires the aforementioned glossary. The world building in this second is complex and mind-blowing. I know I didn’t understand all of it. In 3012 human society is reeling from the effects of climate change. Population levels have plummeted and civilization has become nomadic and religious, centered on the worship of St. Leah and the two Belizian cave guides. There is some really cool tech. Niloux travels to the Mayan cave from the Middle East in hopes of proving her theory and disproving the overriding religious beliefs of her culture.
It all sounds crazy but it works. I really enjoyed this novel. It was epic. The scope was vast. The main characters are interesting and well fleshed-out. I couldn’t wait to see how the author was going to tie this all together. The ending was confusing and I’m not sure if I fully understood it but I can’t stop thinking about it. I'm going to read more about this book in upcoming days.
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- Jessie Goldberg
- 10-11-21
A Masterpiece
I don't have enough words for how impressed I am by this book. The author interweaves three epochs - a Mayan past, a contemporary present set in 2012, and a far future in 3012. Every voice, every character, every detail was so distinct. The world-building of the future was wonderfully done. I wish I could sit down with someone and talk it all through because there was so much to absorb and enjoy. It was a little hard to get into the future sequences at the start because there is a heavy mix of Spanish - which I don't know - and made-up words, which I think all would be easier to understand in print. I let that wash past me and over time I picked up more. I was so glad I didn't let that stop me because the world she envisions offers so much to consider. I marvel at the author's creativity. I'll definitely be re-reading in print so I can pick up what I missed in the audio version and savor all the details. The narrators are fantastic. They each have to voice multiple parts and do it expertly. There's a lot of humor in the book and the narration let that come through in ways I really appreciated. I will say that the book comes with a trigger warning about cutting. There are entire hours of narration where cutting isn't an issue, or at most a passing reference, but there are some scenes that could be upsetting. I had a couple of moments where I had to jump ahead 15 or 30 seconds because it was too much for me to listen, but that was enough. It was the same as though maybe in a written book, there might be a couple of pages a reader has to skim due to personal squeamishness.
Another comment - I think this book is categorized as science fiction, but people who don't usually like science fiction shouldn't let that discourage them. The science fiction element is just the vision of what the future could be. Really the book is a literary masterwork on humanity, spirituality, and the ties that bind us. I hope this review encourages someone to read the book! It truly is extraordinary.
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- Shadia M
- 03-07-23
stunning story telling, transcendant
structurally gorgeous story. keeps you hooked start to finish. every detail matters and is woven together masterfully
the performance is excellent
highly entertaining and engrossing
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-09-22
Best Audio Book So Far
The three eras of this book were so well delivered by the voices of three artists. Their characterizations did honor to this excellently crafted novel by Monica Byrne. I read the book first, then listed to this audio book with my spouse.
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- Thor E Muller
- 03-09-23
Echoes of Cloud Atlas
Rich, provocative and fully realized. It was a slow start for me, but I really into it a third way through, leaving me with a lot of deeply mined themes to reflect on.
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- GG
- 06-10-23
Incredibly creative, still processing
Wow. I'm not sure how to describe this book. Science fiction braided with anthropology, told through 3 story lines: ancient, present day, and future Maya. The stories seem unrelated and unique, but each have a thread, theme, or phrase that ties them together, often through time and space. I have never ready anything like this, it was incredible!
Notes: some of the themes are a bit graphic (cw: self harm, sex)
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