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A “mesmerizing...wildly entertaining” (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.
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In 1964, Jaime Sonoro is Mexico’s most renowned actor and singer. But his comfortable life is disrupted when he discovers a book that purports to tell the entire history of his family beginning with Cain and Abel. In its ancient pages, Jaime learns about the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors. And when the same mysterious figure from Antonio’s timeline shows up in Mexico City, Jaime realizes that he may be the one who has to pay for his ancestors’ crimes, unless he can discover the true story of his grandfather Antonio, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower.
A family saga that’s epic in scope and loosely based on the author’s own great-grandfather, The Bullet Swallower is “rich in lyrical language, gripping action, and enchanting magical realism” (Esquire). It tackles border politics, intergenerational trauma, and the legacies of racism and colonialism in a lush setting with stunning prose that asks who pays for the sins of our ancestors and whether it is possible to be better than our forebearers.
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- Narrado por: Jade Anouka
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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Emily has spent her life running away. She never speaks about what happened between her and her mother at her family home when she was a child. All anyone knows is that same night her father packed up the car and drove Emily away. For her safety, he said. She hasn’t been home since. When her mother dies on her 28th birthday, everything changes. She sees her mother everywhere. She catches glimpses at the corner of her eye. She haunts her dreams.
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Okay if you like supernatural occult fiction
- De TerriSweeta en 06-30-24
De: Paige Cowan-Hall
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Liar
- De: K. L. Slater
- Narrado por: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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How far would you go to protect your family? Single dad Ben is doing his best to raise his children, with the help of his devoted mother, Judi. And then Ben meets Amber. Everyone thinks this is a perfect match for Ben, but Judi isn't so sure.... There's just something about Amber that doesn't add up. Ben can't see why his mother dislikes his new girlfriend. And Amber doesn't want Judi anywhere near her new family. Amber just wants Ben and the children.
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Loved It!
- De TC en 07-03-17
De: K. L. Slater
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The Dirty Ones
- De: JA Huss
- Narrado por: Savannah Peachwood, Teddy Hamilton
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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They said write what you know so that's what I did. I wrote dirty, I wrote erotic, I wrote the truth. And then they called me a liar. But it's not me who's lying, it's them. Our story isn't for everyone. It's not even for us. So if you're looking for the fairy tale and the stupid prince on his dumb white horse, move along. You've got a hold of the wrong book. This is not your story, this is not your life, and this is not your opportunity to dip your frightened little toe into the dark pool of water and "try new things" and then pull it out and decide... #NotForMe.
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The Truth, Best book I have read in years! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- De ♥️🎧♥️***M.R.S.***♥️🎧♥️ en 02-20-19
De: JA Huss
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-05-15
De: Bram Stoker
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The Jane Austen Collection
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Billie Piper, y otros
- Duración: 45 h
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Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.
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Not a faithful rendition
- De Anne McClain en 12-13-20
De: Jane Austen
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Dietrich
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Ed Harris
- Duración: 1 h y 11 m
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It’s the summer of ’77 in New York City, and the only thing more unnerving than the scorching heatwave is the rampant murder, leaving washed-up homicide detective Richard Dietrich on edge. When Dietrich investigates a brutal mob hit the brass doesn’t want him to solve, he goes from phoning it in to getting in over his head. Caught up in a mysterious second homicide with an even more perplexing perpetrator, Dietrich starts to second guess his instincts—and his memory—as he searches for answers at the bottom of a bottle.
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Very good!
- De Kathleen en 04-17-24
De: Don Winslow
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
- A Novel
- De: Bryn Greenwood
- Narrado por: Jorjeana Marie
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house until one night her stargazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.
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So many 'hard to listen to' moments
- De jksullycats en 12-27-16
De: Bryn Greenwood
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Ordinary Human Failings
- A Novel
- De: Megan Nolan
- Narrado por: Jessica Regan
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"—ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances.
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Extraordinary performance ! Love Irish literature
- De Lighthouse en 05-10-24
De: Megan Nolan
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Interesting Facts About Space
- A Novel
- De: Emily Austin
- Narrado por: Natalie Naudus
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps. When she’s not listening to her favorite true crime podcasts on a loop, she’s serially dating a rotation of women from dating apps. At the same time, she’s trying to forge a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of her absent father.
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Slow start to a beautiful ending
- De Desirae Blackstone en 06-23-24
De: Emily Austin
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The Other Valley
- A Novel
- De: Scott Alexander Howard
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Sixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present.
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Narrator Whispers
- De Jeannine en 04-09-24
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The Fox Wife
- A Novel
- De: Yangsze Choo
- Narrado por: Yangsze Choo
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.
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Brilliant storyteller!
- De BAE en 02-16-24
De: Yangsze Choo
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Grief Is for People
- De: Sloane Crosley
- Narrado por: Sloane Crosley
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior, and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in friends, philosophy, and art, hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief.
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Beautiful
- De MS en 03-03-24
De: Sloane Crosley
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie
- De: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- Narrado por: Natalie Simpson
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
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In Where Sleeping Girls Lie—a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades—a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.
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Good read
- De Lisa Thomas en 06-28-24
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Ordinary Human Failings
- A Novel
- De: Megan Nolan
- Narrado por: Jessica Regan
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"—ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances.
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Extraordinary performance ! Love Irish literature
- De Lighthouse en 05-10-24
De: Megan Nolan
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Interesting Facts About Space
- A Novel
- De: Emily Austin
- Narrado por: Natalie Naudus
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps. When she’s not listening to her favorite true crime podcasts on a loop, she’s serially dating a rotation of women from dating apps. At the same time, she’s trying to forge a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of her absent father.
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Slow start to a beautiful ending
- De Desirae Blackstone en 06-23-24
De: Emily Austin
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The Other Valley
- A Novel
- De: Scott Alexander Howard
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Sixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present.
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Narrator Whispers
- De Jeannine en 04-09-24
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The Fox Wife
- A Novel
- De: Yangsze Choo
- Narrado por: Yangsze Choo
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.
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Brilliant storyteller!
- De BAE en 02-16-24
De: Yangsze Choo
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Grief Is for People
- De: Sloane Crosley
- Narrado por: Sloane Crosley
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior, and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in friends, philosophy, and art, hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief.
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Beautiful
- De MS en 03-03-24
De: Sloane Crosley
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie
- De: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- Narrado por: Natalie Simpson
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
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In Where Sleeping Girls Lie—a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades—a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.
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Good read
- De Lisa Thomas en 06-28-24
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World
- A Novel
- De: Douglas Westerbeke
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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Aubry Tourvel, a stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to bleed to death. When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition, which won’t allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days—nor return to a place where she’s already been.
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Bleak, lonely, weary story with no real point
- De Amy en 04-21-24
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I Am Pilgrim
- A Thriller
- De: Terry Hayes
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 22 h y 41 m
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A breakneck race against time…and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey. Pilgrim.
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Please let this all be fiction.
- De B.J. en 08-08-14
De: Terry Hayes
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Picnic in the Ruins
- De: Todd Robert Petersen
- Narrado por: Eliana Marianes
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a "collector" of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist seeking lucrative monument land that may soon be open to energy exploration, sends a fixer to clean up their mess.
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Incredible story, for fans of Ed Abbey & Baldwin
- De joe en 05-02-24
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The Invisible Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Yeji Y. Ham
- Narrado por: Jessie Baek
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms-and a quiet terror she is both eager to understand and desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her mother wash the bones of their ancestors in their decrepit bathtub.
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Annie Bot
- A Novel
- De: Sierra Greer
- Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping Doug’s place spotless, but she’s trying to please him. She’s trying hard.
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Good, but not great
- De Katie Ramey en 03-25-24
De: Sierra Greer
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The Curse of Pietro Houdini
- A Novel
- De: Derek B. Miller
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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Heartfelt, powerfully engaging, and in the tradition of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, this is a work of storytelling bravado: a thrilling action-packed art heist, an imaginative chronicle of forgotten history, and a poignant coming-of-age epic where a child navigates one of the most morally complex fronts of World War II and lives to tell the tale.
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Incredible story and narration
- De Baby Boomer en 03-05-24
De: Derek B. Miller
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Wandering Stars
- A Novel
- De: Tommy Orange
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cuervo, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer.
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Importance of home
- De Anonymous User en 05-06-24
De: Tommy Orange
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Nightwatching
- A Novel
- De: Tracy Sierra
- Narrado por: Emily Ellet
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. Shrouded in the shadows, she sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall.
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Good
- De Myra Vermillion en 04-21-24
De: Tracy Sierra
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Winter Counts
- A Novel
- De: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s own nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.
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Very disappointed
- De Abigail M en 09-20-20
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Calling for a Blanket Dance
- De: Oscar Hokeah
- Narrado por: Oscar Hokeah, Rainy Fields
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all intensify Ever’s bottled-up rage. Meanwhile, all of Ever’s relatives have ideas about who he is and who he should be.
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Like listening to a symphony
- De BEE en 08-11-22
De: Oscar Hokeah
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The Fury
- De: Alex Michaelides
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time―it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder.
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Give it time
- De missmarymack en 01-18-24
De: Alex Michaelides
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How to Solve Your Own Murder
- A Novel
- De: Kristen Perrin
- Narrado por: Alexandra Dowling, Jaye Jacobs
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.
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An interesting twist
- De Russell en 04-02-24
De: Kristen Perrin
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- Carolyn Nelson
- 06-18-24
Good read! Recommended by my daughter.
So much imagination used to create this story. Interesting take on time and the Grimm reaper
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- Theresa Reding
- 04-04-24
Incredible Story!
I was on the edge of my seat listening to this book. It was very well written and the story line captured my attention to the very last word. The performer was absolutely amazing! He was by far the best reader on audiobooks I have ever listened to. I could tell the characters apart so easily and looked forward to hearing how he would interpret each new character as they were introduced by the author.
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- Mike
- 05-16-24
A great start to 2024
I've been picking away at this since the start of the year as part of my resolution to read more new books. I picked a real winner here. amazing performance, no notes
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- Michele
- 03-29-24
Mystical Mexican Caballero’s Cuento.
A wonderfully woven story of the sins of the father, revenge, forgiveness, and redemption. Told part western, part mystery, and part ghost story, the book keeps you enthralled in every single detail.
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- Jeff Nebraska
- 02-19-24
Fantasy-infused Western page turner!
A very fun read. Kept me excited to hear more from the very beginning. Colorful characters are creative lore building. Highly recommend.
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- Nana of Plants
- 02-04-24
Fun and interesting tale
I’m so grateful for joining the Book-of-the-Month club and having them recommend books Like this one. my typical go to our female, driven female, written female performed in the book of the month club stretches my mind a bit more
The story reminds me a lot of Gabriel Garcia‘s work where it’s whimsical fantastical in parts. The story goes on and on in this weavy windy way that makes it just more interesting. It’s nice to see another author pick up that style. I can picture of the old Texas old Mexican showdowns in my head. This is great keep up the amazing work!
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- Barbara S
- 02-14-24
timely story
Author Elizabeth Gonzalez James takes on intergenerational trauma and their legacies in a clever way, by combining a Western story with magical realism. She takes the Sonoro family, who is noted for profiting from inequity, and asks: Should we be responsible for our ancestor’s
abuses and sins? Are reparations required and to whom should those reparations be paid? Who should pay for the sins? Is the progeny of evil equally guilty and thereby responsible?
In an NPR interview, Gonzalez James states that her great-grandfather was a bandito. “He was put in jail in Houston. He broke out, got chased down by the Texas Rangers and was shot in the face and left for dead. But he lived and eventually made it back to his family in Mexico.” He became a local legend, and the event gave him his nickname, El Tragabalas, the bullet swallower.
In her story, El Tragabalas, aka Antonio Sonoro, is riddled with guilt and vengeance when the Texas Rangers kill his brother after a failed robbery of a train near Houston, Texas. A severe drought has left the Sonoro family finances dissolute. Antonio learns of a train coming through the Texas border, full of gold. The brothers find themselves in a shootout.
The story is structured in two timelines: 1895 and 1964. The earlier timeline follows Antonio’s tortured existence after his brother, and then eventually most of his family, are killed by the Rangers. The Sonoro family are thought to have exploited the Indigenous inhabitants and are thereby known as dishonorable in 1964 Mexican society.
The 1964 timeline follows Antonio’s great-grandchild, Jaime Sonoro who is a known Mexican actor and singer. In Jaime’s timeline, he finds a book that was written about his family. It follows his family’s history, as a documentary of evil. The novel’s premise is that evil begets evil, and Jaime learns of the horrendous acts of his ancestors. Jaime finds that there is a “shadow figure” called Remedio (a reaper of souls) throughout the story, who shows up in the history to seek atonement for the evil for which the Sonoro family is responsible. Jaime wants to make his grandfather’s story into a feature film, in hopes of redeeming his family’s lore. When the shadow figure shows up in Mexico City in 1964, Jaime wonders if he is now responsible for his forebearers crimes.
The border crisis has been and is fluid. Border politics such as racism, colonialism and toxic masculinity are constant threads, occurring today. Gonzalez James explores those stories that were told of “the bad guys” and looks at it from another point of view. She was also inspired by the history of the Texas/Mexican border politics, especially in the 1800s.
It’s her beautiful prose that makes this an unusual western.
**Antonio never believed in curses or bad legacies. He lived in a poor region in a poor country, peopled by ignorant peasants ground down by centuries of exploitation, ruled by a corrupt and avaricious government bounded by, on one side, a hostile foreign power with no regard for economic parity or national sovereignty, and unlucky enough to have survived a long drought.
**It’s the strangest thing: I was born in New Spain, which then became Mexico, then the Republic of Texas, and then wound up in the United States, and meanwhile, my house has always stood in the same place. The Texans call me Mexican and I’ve never crossed the Rio Grande.
I listened to the audio, narrated by Lee Osorio. I was not a fan of his Texas accents. One Texas Ranger sounded like a strange combination of a deep south accent as opposed to a Texas accent. There is a difference. Nonetheless, this is a worthy story, whether one reads it or listens to it.
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- Jordan
- 03-26-24
Wonderful and exciting
A little slow to start but once it gets rolling this book is a wild and exciting ride
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- Michael Solomon
- 02-27-24
New classic
I love a good western and the bullet swallower delivered. Looking forward to more from Elizabeth Gonzalez
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- 04-15-24
Sensational writing, story telling, imagination, research, character development
The author managed to take characters who I would never cared about in a different time or place and make me cheer for them, hurt for them, consider their points of view. I hurt when they hurt and sighed with relief when things went better than I had thought. By the end, I could hardly stop listening to it. Wonderful book - you won’t be sorry. I may have to listen again.
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