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Longlisted – Baileys Women’s Prize 2014
Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2013
Canadian Governor General's Literary Award, 2013.
It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th-century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement for someone still in her mid-20s, and will confirm for critics and listeners that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.
Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2007 and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for The Rehearsal. She was the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to study for a year at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the US and went on to hold a position as Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing there, teaching Creative Writing and Popular Culture. Eleanor won a 2010 New Generation Award. She now lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"The Luminaries is an impressive novel, captivating, intense and full of surprises." (Times Literary Supplement)
"The Luminaries is a breathtakingly ambitious 800-page mystery with a plot as complex and a cast as motley as any 19th-century doorstopper. That Catton's absorbing, hugely elaborate novel is at its heart so simple is a great part of its charm. Catton's playful and increasingly virtuosic denouement arrives at a conclusion that is as beautiful as it is triumphant." (Daily Mail)
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In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girl's life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families?
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If you like the show - don't buy
- De Sarah en 06-09-16
De: Maureen Jennings
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The Bastard
- The Kent Family Chronicles, Book 1
- De: John Jakes
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
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Set against the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to our fledgling nation, this novel of romance and adventure introduces Phillipe Charboneau. The illegitimate son of an English nobleman, Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the men who set our course for freedom. The Bastard is the first volume in the Kent Family Chronicles, a series of novels that details one family's journey in the early years of the American nation.
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An Amazing Tale
- De will en 11-06-13
De: John Jakes
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
- De: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrado por: Bill Wallis
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright, and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation....
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needs glue
- De connie en 11-13-11
De: Gyles Brandreth
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The Agency 1: A Spy in the House
- De: Y. S. Lee
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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In Victorian England, orphan Mary Quinn lives on the edge. Sentenced as a thief at the age of 12, she’s rescued from the gallows by a woman posing as a prison warden. In her new home, Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls, Mary acquires a singular education, fine manners, and a surprising opportunity. The school is a cover for the Agency — an elite, top secret corps of female investigators with a reputation for results — and at 17, Mary’s about to join their ranks.
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yes, it's YA-but credible for genre for any age
- De connie en 02-25-11
De: Y. S. Lee
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Jack Maggs
- De: Peter Carey
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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With scars on his back and silver in his pocket, the huge figure of Jack Maggs strides across the rich landscape of 19th century London. As this enigmatic man moves through its streets and houses, his single-minded quest to find his son will engender love, deceit, and vengeance in the lives around him.
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Jack Maggs
- De Kathleen en 04-04-05
De: Peter Carey
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Mortal Mischief
- De: Frank Tallis
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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Vienna, 1902: A beautiful medium has been found shot dead, and Dr Max Liebermann, a young disciple of Sigmund Freud, is called upon to help his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate her death. The room containing the body has been locked from the inside, and a cryptic note suggests a malevolent supernatural power is at work. Using the new science of psychoanalysis, Liebermann probes the minds of the suspects in an attempt to unravel this bewildering crime.
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Ho-hum Victorian mystery
- De Nancy E Day en 09-17-12
De: Frank Tallis
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Blindspot
- By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise
- De: Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore
- Narrado por: John Lee, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
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Set in boisterous, rebellious Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot ingeniously weaves together the fictional stories of Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter and notorious libertine, and Fanny Easton, a fallen woman from one of Boston's most powerful families who disguises herself as a boy to become Jameson's defiant and seductive apprentice. Together with an African-born doctor, they investigate the death of the famous revolutionary leader Samuel Bradstreet.
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Disappointing
- De Cariola en 03-06-09
De: Jane Kamensky, y otros
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Dust and Shadow
- An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
- De: Lyndsay Faye
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive nineteenth-century London.
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Excellent!
- De Wadie en 01-07-11
De: Lyndsay Faye
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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The Lost World (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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There’s only one way for Professor George Edward Challenger to prove that dinosaurs still roam the earth. He invites skeptical journalist Edward Malone to accompany him and a group of adventurers to see the creatures with his own eyes. But when they arrive at the fantastic volcanic plateau in the Amazon where time stands still, their expedition quickly becomes one of survival. With its cliff-hanging escapes, rousing humor, and nailbiting suspense, The Lost World is a pioneering work of fantasy-adventure that paved the way for every thrill ride to follow.
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Wonderful book!
- De Arron en 03-07-21
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The King's Return
- De: Andrew Swanston
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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The king's coronation brings hope. Until a murderer strikes. Spring 1661: After years of civil war followed by Oliver Cromwell's joyless rule as Lord Protector, England awaits the coronation of King Charles II. The mood in London is one of relief and hope for a better future. But when two respectable gentlemen are found in a foul lane with their throats cut, it becomes apparent that England's enemies are using the newly re-established post office for their own ends.
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- De tara souther en 12-22-22
De: Andrew Swanston
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The Whiskey Rebels
- De: David Liss
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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At his most desperate moment, Ethan Saunders is recruited to find his ex-fiancée's missing husband. Meanwhile, Joan Maycott and her Revolutionary War veteran husband distill whiskey on the western Pennsylvania frontier. As their causes intertwine, Joan and Saunders - both patriots in their own way - find themselves on opposing sides of a daring scheme that will forever change their lives and their new country.
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In My Top 10 - Maybe Top 5 At Audible
- De Lulu en 10-31-12
De: David Liss
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The Cater Street Hangman
- De: Anne Perry
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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When a maid in the upper class Ellison household is strangled, Inspector Pitt is called in to investigate. He finds a world ruled by strict manners and social customs, where the inhabitants of the Ellison's neighborhood appear to be more outraged by the thought of scandal than they are by murder. Inspector Pitt finds a most unlikely ally in Charlotte, the Ellison's spirited daughter. But as the murders continue, Charlotte and Pitt find themselves drawn together by more than the investigation.
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I really like this book but it's not for everone
- De Ancient Warrior en 03-14-11
De: Anne Perry
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Dying in the Wool
- A Kate Shackleton Mystery, Book 1
- De: Frances Brody
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills, and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens...until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing under dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again. Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants to make one last attempt at finding her father. Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles. So who better to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance?
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Fluff & Nonsense
- De Sara en 01-03-15
De: Frances Brody
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Birnam Wood
- A Novel
- De: Eleanor Catton
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place.
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Outstanding thriller w/ exceptional character development
- De Bradley T. Collins en 04-21-23
De: Eleanor Catton
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The Rehearsal
- A Novel
- De: Eleanor Catton
- Narrado por: Nicole Arumugum
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage.
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Brilliant.
- De bluespapa en 06-17-18
De: Eleanor Catton
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The Luminaries
- De: Susan Dennard
- Narrado por: Caitlin Davies
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and the forest outside town might just kill you. Winnie Wednesday wants nothing more than to join the Luminaries, the ancient order that protects Winnie's town—and the rest of humanity—from the monsters and nightmares that rise in the forest of Hemlock Falls every night. Ever since her father was exposed as a witch and a traitor, Winnie and her family have been shunned. But on her sixteenth birthday, she can take the deadly Luminary hunter trials and prove herself true and loyal.
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A beautifully Written YA Novel.
- De Mrs Mandy Reads en 01-31-24
De: Susan Dennard
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Neverhome
- A Novel
- De: Laird Hunt
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause.
Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel throws a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of stay behind.
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Good but Not Flawless
- De Cariola en 12-16-15
De: Laird Hunt
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Blue Angel
- A Novel
- De: Francine Prose
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative-writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. Better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions....
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obvious and joyless
- De Jennreaves en 01-29-21
De: Francine Prose
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A Book of American Martyrs
- A Novel
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers, Tavia Gilbert, Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 24 h y 44 m
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In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief.
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NO! Just NO! INSULTING!
- De Jill Reynolds en 06-01-17
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Birnam Wood
- A Novel
- De: Eleanor Catton
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place.
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Outstanding thriller w/ exceptional character development
- De Bradley T. Collins en 04-21-23
De: Eleanor Catton
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The Rehearsal
- A Novel
- De: Eleanor Catton
- Narrado por: Nicole Arumugum
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage.
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Brilliant.
- De bluespapa en 06-17-18
De: Eleanor Catton
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The Luminaries
- De: Susan Dennard
- Narrado por: Caitlin Davies
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and the forest outside town might just kill you. Winnie Wednesday wants nothing more than to join the Luminaries, the ancient order that protects Winnie's town—and the rest of humanity—from the monsters and nightmares that rise in the forest of Hemlock Falls every night. Ever since her father was exposed as a witch and a traitor, Winnie and her family have been shunned. But on her sixteenth birthday, she can take the deadly Luminary hunter trials and prove herself true and loyal.
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A beautifully Written YA Novel.
- De Mrs Mandy Reads en 01-31-24
De: Susan Dennard
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Neverhome
- A Novel
- De: Laird Hunt
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause.
Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel throws a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of stay behind.
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Good but Not Flawless
- De Cariola en 12-16-15
De: Laird Hunt
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Blue Angel
- A Novel
- De: Francine Prose
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative-writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. Better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions....
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obvious and joyless
- De Jennreaves en 01-29-21
De: Francine Prose
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A Book of American Martyrs
- A Novel
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers, Tavia Gilbert, Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 24 h y 44 m
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In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief.
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NO! Just NO! INSULTING!
- De Jill Reynolds en 06-01-17
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Doxology
- A Novel
- De: Nell Zink
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals - a daughter for Pam and Daniel, a solo hit single for Joe. As the ‘90s wane, the three friends share in one another’s successes, working together to elevate Joe’s superstardom and raise baby Flora. On September 11, 2001, the city’s unfathomable devastation coincides with a shattering personal loss for the trio. In the aftermath, Flora comes of age, navigating a charged political landscape.
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Extraordinary
- De David en 08-31-19
De: Nell Zink
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The Guests
- De: Charlotte Stevenson
- Narrado por: Emmy Rose
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Tamsin is being haunted by unwelcome visitors in her house she calls The Guests. Nobody knows about their presence but her. After confiding in her husband, he left, and she won’t make that mistake again. But now her relationship with her teenage daughter Summer is starting to suffer. As each day passes, the presence of The Guests becomes harder to bear. They have infected her life and Tamsin needs help. But just what do they want from her?
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Well Done
- De Heather B en 08-19-24
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Washington Black
- A Novel
- De: Esi Edugyan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.
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Now what do I do?
- De Mary L. Doyle en 10-04-18
De: Esi Edugyan
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The Crimson Petal and the White
- De: Michel Faber
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 41 h y 32 m
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NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA starring Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian Anderson, Richard E. Grant, Shirley Henderson and Mark Gatiss. 'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them....' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen, and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can.
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Loved this Book!!
- De anniepaints en 06-16-11
De: Michel Faber
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Light Perpetual
- A Novel
- De: Francis Spufford
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: The Woolworths on Bexford High Street in South London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages - after all, everything’s been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children.
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Outstanding... breathtaking
- De klstickel en 06-05-21
De: Francis Spufford
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- De: Richard Flanagan
- Narrado por: David Atlas
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
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The vanity and stupidity of the author
- De Off The Grid en 01-12-24
De: Richard Flanagan
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Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Daisy Johnson
- Narrado por: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anna Koval
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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Born just 10 months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house.
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Good Not Great
- De cindy en 09-10-20
De: Daisy Johnson
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The Eighth Life
- De: Nino Haratischvili
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 40 h y 56 m
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At the start of the 20th century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste....
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Great Historical Fiction about Georgia and the Soviet Union
- De Amazon Customer en 05-29-21
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- De: Shehan Karunatilaka
- Narrado por: Shivantha Wijesinha
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali.
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Absolutely Splendid...
- De Paul Frandano en 02-07-23
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On Such a Full Sea
- A Novel
- De: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrado por: B. D. Wong
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee’s elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way listeners think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class.
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Literary dystopian fiction
- De David en 03-18-17
De: Chang-rae Lee
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The Bee Sting
- A Novel
- De: Paul Murray
- Narrado por: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, y otros
- Duración: 26 h y 10 m
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The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under—but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away.
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Bone Clocks meets Jonathan Franzen
- De Cranson en 10-26-23
De: Paul Murray
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Sacred Hunger
- De: Barry Unsworth
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 22 h y 16 m
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In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son, who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew, who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny.
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Wise, Perceptive, Heart-breaking
- De S. Coldsmith en 04-16-16
De: Barry Unsworth
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- Beth Anne
- 11-16-13
fantastic novel, perfect narration. 5 STARS!
I LOOOVVVEEED THIS BOOK!!!
how did this novel only take 2 years to write? and how was eleanor catton only 27 years old when it was published??? i feel like the amount of detail about astrology and historical realism in this book would have...should have...taken 10 years to research and work out. never mind the way the the waning of the chapters, following the moon cycles grow progressively longer and then extremely short. the chapter introductions,...growing progressively longer and longer and longer. the astrological star titles given to each character, and astrological house given to each location, all switching prominence and even switching moods as their charts change. the layers of discovery...stories within stories...how each chapter breaks the belief i had in different character's motives and actions.
even WITHOUT the structural complexity of this novel, it's a winner in my eyes. even WITH the structural complexity, it seemed like an easy read, and it didn't seem as long as it is. and i must admit...i think some of the structural complexity was lost to me!!!
the novel offers up theatrical settings with secrets and sex and drugs and mystery. lively characters, even without much depth, tromp in and out of the chapters....tangling a web that you think is going to be unraveled. but keeps getting even more twisted.
so many people have said this book is a 'difficult' read...but i did not find even one page of it difficult. this really is a book that is pure joy to read. PURE JOY.
i am so excited to revisit this novel again and again throughout the rest of my life...to me, it's one of those books i will never ever forget and never ever just leave on the shelf.
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- Puce
- 01-12-15
Excellent reading
Fantastic story and really, really excellent narration. So easy to follow an recognise character as they all had their own voice.
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- Hervé DuThé
- 10-07-18
Art vs. Artifice
I listened to the whole thing. And at no time did I ever even BEGIN to invest my emotions with ANY character. This is an extremely clever book, amazingly well read, but it lacks heart. In terms of "artifice" I give it top marks. In terms of "art" (you know, a thing that grabs you, a thing that you become emotionally invested in) I give it low marks. I remember slogging through the 30 hours of this book during my many long walks earlier this year. I am on to other books now but I am still reminded of passages from "The Luminaries" when I walk by a certain landmark. These are not happy memories. The book was a chore. A very clever chore.
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- Linda P
- 04-03-14
A masterpiece!
Would you listen to The Luminaries again? Why?
Yes, I loved the author's use of words and style.
What did you like best about this story?
The well-rounded characters and humor, along with the mystery story and unexpected twists.
Have you listened to any of Mark Meadows’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, but I will again --he is amazing; his use of accents and tone are awe-inspiring.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Too many to mention.
Any additional comments?
If you love stories with interesting characters and slow-developing but well reasoned plots read this!
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- Kysha
- 02-19-15
Great story
A great story read by a fantastic narrator. I loved the complexity and the way that the character development was woven into the unravelling thread of the mystery.
The build up was a little slow to start and the denouement was somewhat unnecessary since the author did such a great job of telling the story and developing the characters that a discerning reader should have already known all that was revealed in the denouement.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-10-16
Loved the book and the narration
i cannot imagine a better narrator for this beautiful, intricate jewel of a book.
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- Peregrine
- 03-15-14
A great read, but falls apart at the end
The Luminaries is a great read for anyone who enjoys 19th-century British novels. Catton's prose is of a decidedly Victorian bent, beautiful descriptions spilling out as a Wilkie Collins-type plot unfolds. Now, I read the Woman in White recently and ended up angry at its cheap coincidences, but The Luminaries doesn't have any of those. For most of the book it's very funny and a real page turner, even with its formal prose style. There's also a fascinating portrayal of early New Zealand society, which indeed was the author's aim.
What it does have is a weird structure in which little pieces of the whole plot drip out for 800pp., followed by a rush to the finish that doesn't even answer all the reader's questions. Upon finishing I went online and was both relieved and annoyed to find that the unexplained pieces of the plot are just that. There's also an astrological theme throughout that I confess I couldn't follow (even looking at the charts at the head of each section in the print book, which the audiobook of course omits).
Mark Meadows may be the very best narrator I've ever listened to, as he switches effortlessly through a variety of British, Scottish and Irish accents.
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- Alexandra Hannum
- 06-02-16
Wonderful Narration
Mark Meadows is a fantastic narrator! His differing voices for each character were remarkable and made for a splendid listen.
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- Janeal
- 03-08-21
Loved the story
The time jumps confused at first, the ending is a bit abrupt. But I like it.
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- Elein
- 03-30-19
Stick with it to be pulled in
Complex interesting story with many almost full characters. Could not find a protagonist. Took a couple of hours before I had a grip of the complicated mix of characters and plotline(s). The tumbled state of colonized New Zealand was reflected in the tale, including racism and sexism of the era.
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