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The Dinner
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The darkly suspenseful tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal. Now a major motion picture.
“Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable.”—Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
It’s a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse—the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act—an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families.
As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner promises to be the topic of countless dinner party debates. Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
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Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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Excellent
- De Cheyenne en 06-13-15
De: Karim Dimechkie
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Charley's Web
- De: Joy Fielding
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Charley Webb is a beautiful single mother who writes a successful and controversial column for the Palm Beach Post. She's spent years building an emotional wall against scathing critics, snooty neighbors, and her disapproving family. But when she receives a letter from Jill Rohmer, a young woman serving time on death row for the murders of three small children, her boundaries slowly begin to fade. Jill wants Charley to write her biography so that she can share the many hidden truths about the case that failed to surface during her trial.
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not the norm
- De D. Mains en 02-04-09
De: Joy Fielding
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The Brightest Star in the Sky
- A Novel
- De: Marian Keyes
- Narrado por: Caitriona Keyes
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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The Brightest Star in the Sky follows seven neighbors whose lives become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit pays a visit to their Dublin townhouse with the intent of changing at least one of their lives. But what will this metamorphosis be and who will the sprite choose?
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Terrible sound quality, worse narration
- De Jan en 02-23-10
De: Marian Keyes
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
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clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Yours Until Death
- Varg Veum
- De: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrado por: Colin Mace
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.
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Great Scandinavian Mystery!
- De Peoko en 07-12-17
De: Gunnar Staalesen
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My Lovely Wife
- De: Samantha Downing
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances with whom you keep meaning to get dinner. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.
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Great narrator! Crazy story!
- De EasyBreezySunflower en 03-28-19
De: Samantha Downing
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Bright Lights, Big City
- De: Jay McInerney
- Narrado por: Daniel Passer
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.
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Curiously, mundanely real
- De Amber en 01-07-12
De: Jay McInerney
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The Road Home
- De: Ford Michael Thomas Ford
- Narrado por: Blake Somerset
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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When a car accident leaves photographer Burke Crenshaw in need of temporary full-time care, he finds himself back in the one place no forty-year-old chooses to be--his childhood bedroom. There, in the Vermont home where he grew up, Burke begins the long process of recuperation, and watches as his widowed father finds happiness in a new relationship that's a constant reminder of everything Burke wants and lacks. Exploring local history, Burke discovers an intriguing series of letters from a Civil War soldier to his fianc.
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No need to check your scepticism at the door!
- De Orlando en 08-23-13
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The Girls in the Garden
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Jewell
- Narrado por: Colleen Prendergast
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her 13-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her?
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Delightful
- De Julie en 11-03-17
De: Lisa Jewell
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The Wangs vs. the World
- De: Jade Chang
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands - and his pride. Outrageously funny and full of charm, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America - and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
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Spectacular
- De Barbara en 10-11-16
De: Jade Chang
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A Study in Charlotte
- Charlotte Holmes, Book 1
- De: Brittany Cavallaro
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers were one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She's inherited Sherlock's volatility and some of his vices - and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she's not looking for friends.
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3.5 ☆s
- De Ashley C en 01-21-18
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
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Conversations with Friends
- A Novel
- De: Sally Rooney
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick.
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Interesting point of view; glad I listened!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-23-17
De: Sally Rooney
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The Gap of Time
- William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel
- De: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrado por: Penelope Rawlins, Mark Bazeley, Ben Onwukwe
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited.
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Nice take
- De Daniel Crumbo en 10-28-15
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Nice Girls
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Dang
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Mary used to be such a nice girl. She was the resident whiz kid of Liberty Lake, Minnesota—the quiet, chubby teen with the scholarship to an Ivy League school. But three years later, “Ivy League Mary” is back—a thinner, cynical, restless failure who was kicked out of Cornell at the beginning of her senior year and won’t tell anyone why. Taking a job at the local grocery store, Mary tries to make sense of her life’s sharp downward spiral.
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A solid debut. Great narration.
- De HTF en 10-18-21
De: Catherine Dang
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The Crow Girl
- A Novel
- De: Erik Axl Sund, Neil Smith - translator
- Narrado por: Gabrielle Glaister
- Duración: 28 h y 54 m
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In a Stockholm city park, police discover the hideously abused body of a young boy. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving the murder of a nameless immigrant child. But with the discovery of two more mutilated children's corpses, it becomes clear that a serial killer is at large.
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I GLADLY DISAGREE WITH THE OTHER REVIEWERS!
- De Bookrusseller en 07-15-18
De: Erik Axl Sund, y otros
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Summer House with Swimming Pool
- A Novel
- De: Herman Koch
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high-profile doctor to the stars, Marc can’t hide from the truth forever.
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Big Boys Behaving Badly
- De Mel en 09-23-14
De: Herman Koch
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
- A Novel
- De: Anthony Marra
- Narrado por: Colette Whitaker
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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Anthony Marra transports us to a snow-covered village in Chechnya, where eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night, accusing him of aiding Chechen rebels. Across the road their lifelong neighbor and family friend Akhmed has also been watching, fearing the worst when the soldiers set fire to Havaa’s house. But when he finds her hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.
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A Conflicted Response
- De Cariola en 09-24-13
De: Anthony Marra
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Things We Do in the Dark
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Hillier
- Narrado por: Carla Vega
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.
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Nothing like her other books
- De Carrie en 07-22-22
De: Jennifer Hillier
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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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Nice Girls
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Dang
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Mary used to be such a nice girl. She was the resident whiz kid of Liberty Lake, Minnesota—the quiet, chubby teen with the scholarship to an Ivy League school. But three years later, “Ivy League Mary” is back—a thinner, cynical, restless failure who was kicked out of Cornell at the beginning of her senior year and won’t tell anyone why. Taking a job at the local grocery store, Mary tries to make sense of her life’s sharp downward spiral.
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A solid debut. Great narration.
- De HTF en 10-18-21
De: Catherine Dang
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The Crow Girl
- A Novel
- De: Erik Axl Sund, Neil Smith - translator
- Narrado por: Gabrielle Glaister
- Duración: 28 h y 54 m
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In a Stockholm city park, police discover the hideously abused body of a young boy. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving the murder of a nameless immigrant child. But with the discovery of two more mutilated children's corpses, it becomes clear that a serial killer is at large.
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I GLADLY DISAGREE WITH THE OTHER REVIEWERS!
- De Bookrusseller en 07-15-18
De: Erik Axl Sund, y otros
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Summer House with Swimming Pool
- A Novel
- De: Herman Koch
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high-profile doctor to the stars, Marc can’t hide from the truth forever.
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Big Boys Behaving Badly
- De Mel en 09-23-14
De: Herman Koch
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
- A Novel
- De: Anthony Marra
- Narrado por: Colette Whitaker
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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Anthony Marra transports us to a snow-covered village in Chechnya, where eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night, accusing him of aiding Chechen rebels. Across the road their lifelong neighbor and family friend Akhmed has also been watching, fearing the worst when the soldiers set fire to Havaa’s house. But when he finds her hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.
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A Conflicted Response
- De Cariola en 09-24-13
De: Anthony Marra
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Things We Do in the Dark
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Hillier
- Narrado por: Carla Vega
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.
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Nothing like her other books
- De Carrie en 07-22-22
De: Jennifer Hillier
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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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Coleman Hill
- A Novel
- De: Kim Coleman Foote
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin, Dion Graham
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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In 1916, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post-Civil War South for the “Promised Land” of the North. But soon they learn that even in Vauxhall, New Jersey, black women are mainly hired for domestic work, money is scarce, children don’t progress in school, and black men die young. Within a few short years, both women’s husbands are dead. Left to navigate this unwelcoming place alone, Celia and Lucy turn to one another for support in raising their children far from home.
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Era
- De Red Shopper en 09-22-24
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Strange Sally Diamond
- De: Liz Nugent
- Narrado por: Jessica Regan, Stephen Hogan, Sara Lynam, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Reclusive Sally Diamond is thrust into the media spotlight when she tries to incinerate her dead father, causing widespread outrage. Now she’s the center of attention, not only from hungry reporters and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the repressed memories of her horrific early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don’t always mean what they say.
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Kept me listening.
- De Amazon Customer en 11-06-23
De: Liz Nugent
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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead
- A Novel
- De: Jenny Hollander
- Narrado por: Marisa Calin
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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A debut thriller about a woman who is trying to escape the past and the horrific event she witnessed at the prestigious journalism school she attended.
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Boring
- De SB en 02-12-24
De: Jenny Hollander
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Death in the Family
- Shana Merchant Mystery Series, Book 1
- De: Tessa Wegert
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she's taken a job in her fiance's sleepy hometown in Upstate New York. But as a nor'easter bears down, Shana and fellow investigator Tim Wellington receive a call about a man missing on a private island. Trapped on the island by the raging storm with only Tim, the increasingly restless suspects, and her own trauma-fueled flashbacks for company, Shana will have to trust the one person her abduction destroyed her faith in - herself.
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Ehhhhh...
- De Amazon Customer en 06-03-22
De: Tessa Wegert
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Dear Mr. M
- De: Herman Koch
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Once a celebrated writer, M's greatest success came with a suspense novel based on a real-life, unsolved disappearance. It told the story of a history teacher who went missing one winter after his brief affair with a stunning pupil. Upon publication, M.'s novel was a bestseller, one that marked his international breakthrough.That was years ago, and now M.'s career is almost over as he fades increasingly into obscurity.
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Great book
- De ilene en 09-16-16
De: Herman Koch
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First Born
- A Novel
- De: Will Dean
- Narrado por: Susie Riddell
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Sisters. Soul mates. Strangers. Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin, Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous. But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s final movements, cracks begin to emerge.
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A ride
- De Harry en 07-07-22
De: Will Dean
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The Only One Left
- A Novel
- De: Riley Sager
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin, Dawn Harvey
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night.
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Can't take it anymore
- De Amazon Customer en 06-28-23
De: Riley Sager
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Fierce Kingdom
- A Novel
- De: Gin Phillips
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son toward the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms. And for the next three hours - the entire scope of the novel - she keeps on running.
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A Fantastic Fast Paced Listen
- De Sara en 08-11-17
De: Gin Phillips
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The Book of the Most Precious Substance
- A Novel
- De: Sara Gran
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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After a tragedy too painful to bear, former novelist Lily Albrecht has resigned herself to a dull, sexless life as a rare-book dealer—until she gets a lead on a book that just might turn everything around. The Book of the Most Precious Substance is a 17th-century manual on sex magic, rumored to be the most powerful occult book ever written—if it really exists at all. And some of the wealthiest people in the world are willing to pay Lily a fortune to find it, if she can.
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Loved this book
- De S. Liskey en 08-19-22
De: Sara Gran
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They Dream in Gold
- A Novel
- De: Mai Sennaar
- Narrado por: Julia Kwamya
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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When Bonnie and Mansour meet in New York in 1968—his piercing gaze in a downtown jazz club threatening to carry her away—their connection is undeniable. Both from fractured homes, with childhoods spent crossing the Atlantic, they quickly find peace with each other. And as Mansour’s soaring Senegalese melodies continue to break new ground, keeping time with the sound of revolution and taking him and Bonnie from Paris to Rio and Switzerland, it seems as though happiness might finally be around the corner for them both.
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Hard Read
- De Kawanna en 10-01-24
De: Mai Sennaar
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: Stanley Tucci
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
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An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution; a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
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Tucci's performance of "Postman" is exquisite!
- De Christopher en 06-25-12
De: James M. Cain
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Prom Mom
- A Novel
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as “Prom Mom”—the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance—as long as she stays away from Joe, now a successful commercial real estate developer, married to a plastic surgeon, Meredith, to whom he is devoted.
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Like Liberal Rants? You‘lol love this novel…
- De K en 07-31-23
De: Laura Lippman
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Dinner
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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Happy Families Are All Alike
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Thus begins The Dinner, a novel served up in courses. The food is minimalist, overly described, and at times not especially palatable. The same can be said for this little novel where characters we may not like are thrust before us. Just as the spaces on the plates are greater than the bits of food, what's unsaid about our characters is greater than what we are told.
The Dinner is often compared to Gone Girl. Both feature people acting without conscience and narrators whose voices don't quite ring true. Most readers prefer Gone Girl for its strong narrative pacing, but I was dissapointed by GG, while I loved The Dinner. I found the characters here to be much more interesting, and I enjoyed the structure of this novel, where the current action takes place over a few hours, while recollections fill in the story.
The audio narration by Clive Mantle was masterful. One of the best out of the several hundred books I've listened to. This is one where the audio narration elevates a good book to an amazing "reading" experience.
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- Beth Anne
- 05-05-13
Thought Proving Disturbing Story of Family
oh how i love the unreliable narrator. the narrator who at first, you kind of like, laughing at his jokes, agreeing with his commentary. the narrator you feel compassion for -- his story and opinions. the narrator that throws everything on it's head as the story progresses and makes you feel almost angry at yourself for feeling the way you did in the beginning of the novel. when the truth is actually laid out there and you see what he was saying all along.
clive mantle does a great job with this narration.
this book is DARK. i mean...like....really really dark. in a long while i haven't read anything this shocking. its full of people you won't like...full of scenes you won't ever want to read again (and won't soon forget).
i think the pacing of this novel was really well done. to use a food metaphor (this is "the dinner" after all), the unfolding of each layer of the onion brings out new facts, new understandings, and therefor new questions. there was a perfect amount of the "now" and the "before". a perfect amount of insight, introduced course by course.
***one thing i will say is that this book is NOTHING like Gone Girl. i dont know why so many people are comparing the two. i mean, i've read no less then 5 books in the past year that have so called 'twist' endings...and none of them can be compared to one another. so...if you liked GG, you may not like this...and if you hated GG, you may still love this -- so don't take that comparison as your judge. just read it.***
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- David Shear
- 03-20-13
Loved the twists
"Twists" isn't quite the right word. This book just went in directions I didn't expect it to go and I loved it. It sneaks up on you and before you know it, nothing is what it seems. I really liked this book. It's dark and surprising.
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- tooonce72
- 03-13-13
Well Now, Wasn't That Different
I can completely understand readers that have loved this book as much as I did...along with the readers that abandoned this book before finishing or hate it. I completely understand both sides.
This book creeps along in a seemingly typical foreign tale of an uncomfortable dinner then hits on a topics that wouldn't have been considered twenty years ago. Few modern parents would ever wonder, out of the blue, where they personally would stand. Sadly, there are a growing number of parents making them. These hard family and personal decisions made in split seconds. The thought alone makes me shutter and allowed me again to thank God, and my son, that I NEVER came close to a similar decision. Listening to this book was riveting...spellbinding. I couldn't turn it off at times. My brain from couldn’t stop thinking about it when I wasn't able to listen.
The narration is perfection. There were several hysterically funny scenes that brought tears of laughter, along with those of utter shock. The Dinner is the perfect book for a book club or any discussion group that wants a topic where there will be a LOT of discussion.
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- Laura Fields
- 04-07-13
Unable to keep traction
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
The story started out so great, with great foreshadowing; however, around the halfway point it got rather tedious and I found it really hard to care about what was being foreshadowed. The ending was okay, but the payoff I was hoping for was just not there.
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- Joe Kraus
- 02-20-16
A Slow Burn Into Harrowing Territory
Any additional comments?
I ended up liking this one a lot more than I thought I would after the first 25-30 pages.
This begins as a clever but almost precious conceit. A man and his wife go to dinner with his brother and sister-in-law. The brother is an influential Dutch politician, and that means they get special attention at the oh-so-pricey and full-of-itself restaurant they choose.
Even that start is strong. Our narrator has a funny judgmental tone, showing up his brother’s pretensions and critiquing the manners of the restaurant manager and others. It’s a quiet beginning, but the peculiar structure – a novel ordered around the stages of a fine meal – makes it intriguing if not compelling.
Then, gradually, the novel turns harrowing. It becomes, not a light send-up of manners, but a demonstration that much of what seems the bedrock certainty of these people’s lives is false or rotten.
At first we learn, against Tolstoy’s famous phrase, that not “all happy families are alike.” Or rather, we learn that these families are decidedly unhappy, and for reasons that run deeper than seems conceivable. [SPOILER ALERT:] Most strikingly, we learn that the two couples’ children are behind a terrible attack on a homeless person and that one of them the attack and has blackmailed the others with posting his recordings on Youtube.
Then, we see a deeper unraveling not just of family but of the self (as we learn of the narrator’s deep personal unhappiness), of the Dutch character (for what the narrator sees as a cultural inability to reflect on anything of real substance), and possibly even of the myth of Western culture itself. Eventually a sleeping fascism creeps into everything, darkening the lightheartedness of the opening into something painful to experience but compelling to read.
That’s a long list of certainties to undo over the course of a single dinner, but somehow Koch makes it happen. As I say, it began interestingly enough, though I wondered how well its particular cultural concerns would translate. As it gains momentum, though, it turns from a light meal into a hell of a lot to chew on. Miraculously, it does all of that without ever quite losing its surface elegance or even its lightness. This is a deeply skilled writer taking on the deepest of questions. So, yes, it does translate very effectively.
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- nicole
- 05-06-14
Not sure if I liked this one
Would you consider the audio edition of The Dinner to be better than the print version?
I think Clive did a great job with the story. Pauses at the right time, no silly voices for characters. Love the accent.
Which scene was your favorite?
I can't get the violent scenes from my mind to find one I would call my favorite.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
There were so many times I was bored with the story. Then confused because he kept going back to past memories. I'm still not sure what the heck happened.
Any additional comments?
Being a mother of only 1 boy, I'm not sure what I would do in their situation.
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- Beth Hall
- 04-12-13
Insider view of a horrible mind
What did you love best about The Dinner?
I liked the book a lot, but this question would be better posed in the opposite. What did I hate most about the Dinner? What an interesting peek into the deep recesses of the mind of a creep!
Who was your favorite character and why?
Michelle, they only dabbled into the psyche of the boy. All we know is he is a clone of his dad, and his dad is awful.
Did Clive Mantle do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
I really disliked the narrator for the first 1/2 of the book. I felt he was way too animated. I felt like someone was reading a "Hello Kitty" children's novel to me, and was really annoyed by it. But I got so engrossed in the psyche of the awful people, that at some point it didn't matter anymore.
If you could rename The Dinner, what would you call it?
The Awful People
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- Lana Lee Plum
- 05-20-16
Dinner out can be very costly.
The interweaving's of courses of a "gourmet" meal with the dark secrets of a political family while looking for a "Happy family" is a unique story. The tale has lots of humour, suspense, and insights into the issues of life in the struggles of prejudice in European countries today.
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- Di
- 11-08-18
A good story
It was a little difficult to get into at first, for me there was just s little too much background details to where it got a bit boring but by halfway through I couldn't wait to see what happened next! The narrator, Clive Mantle - I've never heard him before and his voice was soothing, his British accent a delight, and the different times he used for the characters was funny. A good read, I was surprised how it ended.
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