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Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-27-17
De: Sam Weller - editor, y otros
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
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Arcadia
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 369
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 320
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 318
Lauren Groff’s acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- De Kathleen en 03-22-12
De: Lauren Groff
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New American Best Friend
- De: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrado por: Olivia Gatwood
- Duración: 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13
One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- De Keaira en 07-29-19
De: Olivia Gatwood
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Above Us Only Sky
- De: Michele Young-Stone
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. Growing up in Los Vientos, Florida, Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm So Glad I Listened to It!
- De Elizabeth en 08-22-16
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 513
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 364
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 362
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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Palimpsest
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Aasne Vigesaa
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse - a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Prose, but lacks maturity
- De Michael en 08-09-15
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
- A Novel
- De: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Narrado por: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 632
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 562
Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
- De Amazon Customer en 12-12-18
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The Kite Runner
- De: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrado por: Khaled Hosseini
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20,150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13,984
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13,990
Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Worhty Read
- De P. C..S. en 08-17-03
De: Khaled Hosseini
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The Stolen Child
- De: Keith Donohue
- Narrado por: Andy Paris, Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 545
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped and renamed "Aniday" by changelings, ageless beings who inhabit the woods near his home. The changelings also leave behind one of their own, who flawlessly impersonates Henry except for one noteworthy detail: the new Henry is a prodigiously talented pianist.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Anything Close to the Hype
- De Jon en 06-20-06
De: Keith Donohue
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Because You Love to Hate Me
- 13 Tales of Villainy
- De: Ameriie - editor
- Narrado por: Ameriie, Kevin T. Collins, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
In this unique YA anthology, 13 acclaimed, best-selling authors team up with 13 influential BookTubers to reimagine fairy tales from the oft-misunderstood villains' points of view. These fractured, unconventional spins on classics like Medusa, Sherlock Holmes, and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' provide a behind-the-curtain look at villains' acts of vengeance, defiance, and rage - and the pain, heartbreak, and sorrow that spurned them on. No fairy tale will ever seem quite the same again!
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4 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed more than I expected
- De Doha en 08-30-17
De: Ameriie - editor
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 882
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 688
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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Make Something Up
- Stories You Can't Unread
- De: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrado por: Chuck Palahniuk, Scott Sowers, Rich Orlow, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 478
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 430
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 427
For years Chuck Palahniuk has reserved his best storytelling for his readings, often choosing to read a new short story instead of whatever novel he is supposed to be promoting. Make Something Up compiles these previously unpublished tales for the very first time, plus the Byliner social media insta-classic "Phoenix" and Palahniuk's most notable pieces from Playboy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Plenty of shock, just not enough Palahniuk awe
- De Darwin8u en 06-10-15
De: Chuck Palahniuk
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Memphis
- A Novel
- De: Tara M. Stringfellow
- Narrado por: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo, Tara Stringfellow
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 788
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 700
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Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awful narrator
- De Rachael edwards en 06-07-22
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Rabbit, Run
- De: John Updike
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 903
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 659
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 660
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his - or any other - generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is 26 years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty - even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness, and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Thinking Man's Novel
- De L. Berlyne en 01-12-09
De: John Updike
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The Seas
- De: Samantha Hunt, Maggie Nelson - introduction
- Narrado por: Samantha Hunt
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean 11 years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid.
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4 out of 5 stars
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bizarre and interesting.
- De Sadie en 03-11-21
De: Samantha Hunt, y otros