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To the Bright Edge of the World
- A Novel
- Narrado por: John Glouchevitch, Christine Lakin, Kiff Vandenheuvel
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
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From the best-selling author of The Snow Child, a thrilling tale of historical adventure set in the Alaskan wilderness.
In the winter of 1885, Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester sets out with his men on an expedition into the newly acquired territory of Alaska. Their objective: to travel up the ferocious Wolverine River, mapping the interior and gathering information on the region's potentially dangerous native tribes. With a young and newly pregnant wife at home, Forrester is anxious to complete the journey with all possible speed and return to her. But once the crew passes beyond the edge of the known world, there's no telling what awaits them.
With gorgeous descriptions of the Alaskan wilds and a vivid cast of characters - including Forrester; his wife, Sophie; a mysterious Eyak guide; and a Native American woman who joins the expedition - To the Bright Edge of the World is an epic tale of one of America's last frontiers, combining myth, history, romance, and adventure.
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Rejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative of her divine half-brother, Jesus. As a child, she revels in her talent for walking on water, resurrecting dead crabs, and treating fireflies as luminous alphabet blocks. But after she reaches adolescence, her life becomes as challenging and ambiguous as any mortal’s.
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couldn't get into the characters
- De Christine M. Clark en 09-21-21
De: James Morrow
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Never Ask Me
- De: Jeff Abbott
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett, Will Collyer, Peter Giles, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Each of us has a question we dread. When the simple community of Lakehaven is shaken by a violent crime, doubts begin to arise among the locals about whom they can trust.
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Wow What a Roller Coaster!
- De DM Salazar en 07-17-20
De: Jeff Abbott
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An Ambush of Widows
- De: Jeff Abbott
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Henry North is a down-on-his-luck cybersecurity expert from New Orleans. Adam Zhang is the cofounder of one of Austin’s most successful venture capitalist firms. These two men didn’t know each other. They had never met. Yet they died together, violently, in a place neither had any business being. When Henry doesn’t return from a business trip, his wife, Kirsten, panics - and then gets an anonymous phone call: “Your husband is dead in Austin.”
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Good listen
- De Sheryl en 10-24-21
De: Jeff Abbott
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Once Upon a River
- De: Diane Setterfield
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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A body always tells a story - but this child’s was a blank page. Rita reached for the lantern. She trained its light on the child’s face. "Who are you?" she murmured, but the face said as little as the rest of her. It was impossible to tell whether, in life, these blunt and unfinished features had borne the imprint of prettiness, timid watchfulness, or sly mischief. If there had once been curiosity or placidity or impatience here, life had not had time to etch it into permanence. Only a very short time ago, the body and soul of this little girl had still been securely attached.
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Enjoyed thoroughly... one minor glitch
- De Jen817 en 12-27-18
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Once There Were Wolves
- A Novel
- De: Charlotte McConaghy
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska. Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love.
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Takes a dive into dark
- De Linda Ottey en 08-10-21
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Dragonfly
- De: Leila Meacham
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin, Jefferson Mays, Karissa Vacker, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds - a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer - all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of his or her own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly.
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Perfection
- De Panache en 08-14-19
De: Leila Meacham
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The Lifestyle
- A Novel
- De: Taylor Hahn
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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Georgina Wagman has it all—a great marriage, a great job at a prestigious law firm, and great friends. She’s living the life she always wanted, and everything is perfect. Until, that is, she walks in on her husband Nathan in a compromising position with a junior associate. Georgina has a moment of crisis. But divorce is not a part of the five-year plan, so she comes up with an idea to save her marriage and recapture the spark. She and Nathan are going to become swingers. Her friends Felix and Norah and their respective partners decide to tag along for the ride.
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Different
- De TC en 09-23-22
De: Taylor Hahn
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The End of Drum-Time
- A Novel
- De: Hanna Pylväinen
- Narrado por: Philippe Spall
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse’s daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something that ultimately crosses borders.
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One of the Best Stories ever written!
- De Anonymous User en 06-09-23
De: Hanna Pylväinen
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The Little Friend
- De: Donna Tartt
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
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The second novel by Donna Tartt, best-selling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence, and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved. So Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright and insufferably determined - sets out to unmask his killer.
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Couldn't put it down
- De Sam en 03-15-12
De: Donna Tartt
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel: Booktrack Edition
- De: Maria Semple
- Narrado por: Kathleen Wilhoite
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands.
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CANNOT STAND the narrator!
- De Matthew Brewster en 04-25-19
De: Maria Semple
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- Reece
- 11-28-16
Worth going back to even after I missed the "book club deadline." 😉
Great book! Living in Alaska, I recognized some of the characteristics of the town of Alpine. And I have spent time near the area described in the story. I didn't find the PDF of maps with the audible book that was mentioned in another review, but a google search revealed the map from the book as drawn by the author's friend. It was fun to match up the areas geographically, then by my memories of traveling /exploring in that area.
Well written and well read. It kept me interested the whole time. This was our book club book, and I had only listened to a little over 2 hours by the time our book club met. It is not like me to finish the book after I missed the "book club deadline," because it is time to move to the next book. However, I was intrigued so I listened every night thereafter until I finished.
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- Heidi Barnwell
- 03-08-17
Great writing, history, and storytelling
Would you consider the audio edition of To the Bright Edge of the World to be better than the print version?
no.
What other book might you compare To the Bright Edge of the World to and why?
"to the edge of the world," by harry thompson
Which scene was your favorite?
in the Native encampment in spring/summer
If you could rename To the Bright Edge of the World, what would you call it?
The Shaman and the Colonel
Any additional comments?
Beautifully written; superb integration of history; descriptions of Native culture; and taking one back in time to a key point of American and Alaskan history.
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- kristina warnick
- 06-04-21
Interesting.
This was an enjoyable book, though it left me wondering what the point was.
I enjoyed all the different perspectives and having the museum curator also a part of the story. I think it would’ve been a little bit better if something had happened, instead of just a bunch of little things. Maybe I am the one missing the point.
The performance was good, however the main male character did sound, or remind me a little bit of Hannibal Lecter. LOL
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- Ignatius
- 06-21-22
Charlotte Bronte meets James Michener
Just ok, and definitely not as good or original as her first book, The Snow Child. This one feels like non-fiction, but in the dull, predictable way. If you are convinced Alaska is a special magical place, then this book may mean more to you. For the rest of us, it's an adventure story without any excitement, not nearly as interesting or page-turning as Shackleton, Lewis and Clark, or John Wesley Powell.
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- Henwhisperer
- 01-19-17
I wish I could give To the Bright Edge of the World 9 stars
Very creative story. So as to not spoil anything, let's just say one part really had me scared for the welfare of the Lt. Col and his men. Loved the different tribes of Native Americans. Eowyn did a marvelous job weaving native lore and myths into the story. I was kind of disappointed in the way the ending more or less just dropped off. Narration was excellent.
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- Adriana M.
- 03-16-21
surprisingly beautiful
It started slow and it's written in an usual way but I just couldn't help but love the characters especially Sophie and Alan. The story is full of poetry and wonder and it was not at all what I expected. Pleasantly surprised!
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- Meg Phillips
- 05-15-23
Good for Historical Fiction Lovers
Thee and a half-ish years ago I got back into reading after over a half decade long hiatus for college, and slowly but surely, I’m starting to learn what I’m really interested in. Sadly, it isn’t historical fiction. If it were, I’m sure this would have been a book I loved, but unfortunately, I just wasn’t totally grabbed by it. The setting, in the Alaskan wilderness in the late 1800’s, was beautifully well done, and her characterization was good, but I’m just not compelled by stories like this. If you love historical fiction, add this to your list. If not, maybe skip it.
6/10
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- Uncle Techy
- 04-04-17
Lovely adventure and love story.
Enjoyed the many details of Alaskan tundra . Terrific descriptions of book's characters. Especially interesting is heroine Sophie Forester s diary and letters . A wonderful read.
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- Ana
- 05-28-19
It was a solid, well done story.
It was a solid, well done story. It weaves together a few different story lines very well. I feel like Sophie's story of the miscarriage is the main focus for much of her story, then suddenly just drops off with absolutely no mention whatsoever at the end.
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- TXBIGDOG
- 07-23-21
great read
Enjoyable Audible book, almost as good as Snow Child. Would read again. Loved the different voices.
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