Lise K. Sorensen
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Erasure
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days."
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A Rollercoaster That Never Descends
- By Amazon Customer on 01-07-24
- Erasure
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
The wicked wit and humor, great irony !
Reviewed: 04-07-24
the protagonist is so endearing ...I was so sad when the book was over !
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The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
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Great story
- By AJ Frithiof on 02-08-24
- The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
important book !
Reviewed: 03-24-24
I loved the twists in the plot line, but the soap opera- like manner of the writing somehow lacked sophistication .The facts were well- presented and felt real.
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
important novel for our times and always !
Reviewed: 01-08-23
Splendid idea to do a modern- day David Copperfield, so chillingly tailored to the issues and culture that mimic those of Dickens' day.Vernacular was at first difficult, but as my ears adjusted, I was thrilled by its brilliance.
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The Pastor
- By: Hanne Orstavik, Martin Aitken - translator
- Narrated by: Madeleine Dauer
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Liv, an intense and reticent theologian, moves to a bitterly cold fishing village to take up a post as the church's new pastor following the death of her friend, Kristiane. In the upper rooms of a large house overlooking the fjord, Liv plans her sermons and studies the violent interplay of Norway's Christian colonial past.
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A dark existential ride in the frozen North
- By Lise K. Sorensen on 10-30-22
- The Pastor
- By: Hanne Orstavik, Martin Aitken - translator
- Narrated by: Madeleine Dauer
A dark existential ride in the frozen North
Reviewed: 10-30-22
A well- written tome,,with nicely complex, poorly- resolved characters.I wish the story were longer,and the characters more fully fleshed- out, ( especially the pastor )but would that destroy the beauty of its stark minimalism ? I'm not sure.
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The Lowland
- By: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan—charismatic and impulsive—finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes.
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My least favorite of all her work.
- By SAK on 10-09-13
- The Lowland
- By: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
The Most heart-rending and Beautiful
Reviewed: 10-24-22
I couldn't get enough of this story...it was both broad-sweeping and intimate in its beauty. .One must have nerves of steel while reading ,for its tragedy, perhaps everyday for some, will burn the reader to their core.
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Between Two Kingdoms
- A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world”. She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch - first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her 23rd birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival.
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This was painful.
- By Meredith Nutrition on 07-31-22
- Between Two Kingdoms
- A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
a must -read for ALL !
Reviewed: 05-19-22
An allegory of simple yet absolutely epic proportion! The author shares what she has learned from herself and others in the humblest, yet most poetic style imaginable......the listener is carried along on her journey, and swept away.
Her shy, youthful narrative ( made even more so by her omission of certain consonants ) is most effective and compelling.
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The Push
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Ashley Audrain
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter - she doesn't behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.
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Disturbing, Jaw Dropping, Unforgettable
- By Wendi on 01-16-21
- The Push
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Ashley Audrain
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
tragedy , almost unbearable, but oh.... Great
Reviewed: 03-06-22
The reader / listener will need an iron gut to get through this tragic, but so poetically-written story. I couldn't help myself, I listened to the whole book, and really , I have to admit to its greatness , though the content and its presentation are devastating .
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The Paper Palace
- A Novel
- By: Miranda Cowley Heller
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a 50-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace” - the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: Last night, Elle and her oldest friend, Jonas, crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.
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The story has too much child abuse discription
- By DTurek on 07-14-21
- The Paper Palace
- A Novel
- By: Miranda Cowley Heller
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
sensuous, entertaining, with surprises
Reviewed: 08-22-21
A bold,sensuous tale ,told with great empathy for children pushed into blended family arrangements., but sooo much more.....I was hooked !
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Remembering Satan
- A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Remembering Satan is a lucid, measured, yet absolutely riveting inquest into a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground. It follows the increasingly bizarre accusations and confessions, as well as the claims and counterclaims of police, FBI investigators, and mental-health professionals.
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Lawrence Wright missed important details
- By Mark Carras on 06-05-22
- Remembering Satan
- A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
probably an important story, but disturbing
Reviewed: 03-24-21
The writing wascwell-done , but narration was a bit mechanical.The subject left me disturbed and somewhat uninterested.
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The End of October
- A Novel
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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At an internment camp in Indonesia, 47 people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons - microbiologist, epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi prince and doctor in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city....
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Powerful. prophetic, with the heros we need
- By tina on 04-30-20
- The End of October
- A Novel
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
a plausible, horrific pandemic thrilller
Reviewed: 02-08-21
story is clever and told so well, narrated so well it may make the reader nauseous...I almost couldn't proceed. Very well -written.
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