
A Stranger in Olondria
Being the Complete Memoirs of the Mystic, Jevick of Tyom
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When reading and writing are the most important things in the world. Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home - but which his mother calls the Ghost Country. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. Just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl. In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults. Even as the country simmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of freeing himself by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that most seductive of necromancies, reading.
A Stranger in Olondria is a rich, immersive fantasy that circles around and away from and back to the transportation of reading and how ideas can be carried far from their origins in something so simple as a book.
- Winner, 2014 World Fantasy Award, Best Novel
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Angelique's Descent
- De: Lara Parker
- Narrado por: Lara Parker
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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The dashing heir of a New England shipping magnate, Barnabas Collins captures the heart of the exquisite, young Angelique amidst the sensual beauty of Martinique, her island home. But Angelique's brief happiness is doomed when Barnabas deserts her and becomes engaged to another. With this one betrayal, Barnabas unleashes an evil that will torment him for all time.
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I loved this!
- De Alabama purchaser en 07-19-15
De: Lara Parker
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The Book of Kells
- De: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrado por: Alan Robertson
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough, confrontational, strong and warrior-like lover) time travel to ancient Ireland to avenge a Viking attack. Packed with fascinating details of historical time and place in Irish history and delicately balanced on the border between realism and fantasy, the story centers around one of the most famous and beautiful illuminated manuscripts in history, the legendary but entirely real Book of Kells.
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The Book of Irish Fantasy
- De S. Wells en 12-10-12
De: R. A. MacAvoy
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The Sekhmet Bed
- The She-King, #1
- De: L.M. Ironside
- Narrado por: Amanda C. Miller
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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The second daughter of the Pharaoh, Ahmose has always dreamed of a quiet life as a priestess, serving Egypt's gods, ministering to the people of the Two Lands. But when the Pharaoh dies without an heir, she is given instead as Great Royal Wife to the new king - a soldier of common birth. For Ahmose is god-chosen, gifted with the ability to read dreams, and it is her connection to the gods which ensures the new Pharaoh his right to rule.
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Never listened to a story about Egypt before...
- De E. M. en 12-14-13
De: L.M. Ironside
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The Moon in the Palace
- The Empress of Bright Moon, Book 1
- De: Weina Dai Randel
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power. A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the emperor's attention. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw his interest. But young Mei knows nothing of these womanly arts, yet she will give the emperor a gift he can never forget.
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One of the most annoying narrations
- De Foodiewife en 01-28-17
De: Weina Dai Randel
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
- De: Ellen Oh, Elsie Chapman
- Narrado por: Kim Mai Guest, Vikas Adam
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen best-selling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. From fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge, these stories will beguile listeners from start to finish.
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great stories, terrible narrators
- De Amazon Customer en 05-11-19
De: Ellen Oh, y otros
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The Bells
- A Novel
- De: Richard Harvell
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
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Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman, banished to the church tower to ring the loudest and most beautiful bells ever each day. His life is simple but content, until the day his father recognizes Moses' singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the historic Abbey of St. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying act of castration....
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Excellent!!! Highly recommend!
- De Coni R en 07-31-17
De: Richard Harvell
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The House of the Stag
- De: Kage Baker
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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Before the Riders came to their remote valley, the Yendri led a tranquil, pastoral life. When the Riders conquered and enslaved them, only a few escaped to the forests. Rebellion wasn't the Yendri way; they hid, or passively resisted, taking consolation in the prophecies of their spiritual leader. Only one possessed the necessary rage to fight back: Gard the foundling, half-demon, who began a one-man guerrilla war against the Riders.
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Delightfully humorous
- De Katherine en 09-09-11
De: Kage Baker
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The Bone Doll's Twin
- Tamir Triad, Book 1
- De: Lynn Flewelling
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine, Lynn Flewelling
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
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As people start to recall the Oracle's prophecy, Erius begins to quietly kill off his female relatives who pose the only threat to his monarchy. Constantly in fear for her life, Princess Ariani the King's sister, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. But Ariani is married to Lord Rhius, the patron of the powerful wizard Iya, and Iya has sinister plans for the babes.
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Not a bad beginning, but . . .
- De bluestatereader en 12-29-10
De: Lynn Flewelling
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The Emperor's Knife
- Book One of the Tower and Knife Trilogy
- De: Mazarkis Williams
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
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There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that marks each victim with a fragment of a greater design. Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until the victim dies in agony or becomes a Carrier, doing the bidding of an evil intelligence. The lost prince Sarmin, the emperor's only surviving brother, lies locked in a hidden room. As the pattern draws closer to the palace he is at last remembered: now he awaits a bride, Mesema, a Windreader from the northern plains.
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Unable to listen
- De T Rao en 09-28-15
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Lips Touch: Three Times
- De: Laini Taylor
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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A girl who’s always been in the shadows finds herself pursued by the unbelievably attractive new boy at school, who may or may not be the death of her. Another girl grows up mute because of a curse placed on her by a vindictive spirit, and later must decide whether to utter her first words to the boy she loves and risk killing everyone who hears her if the curse is real.
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Darkly gorgeous
- De Brandilyn en 04-19-15
De: Laini Taylor
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Flesh and Spirit
- Lighthouse, Book 1
- De: Carol Berg
- Narrado por: Allen O'Reilly
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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The rebellious son of a long line of pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen has spent most of his life trying to escape what society - and his family - have ordained for him. His own mother has predicted that he will meet his doom in water, blood, and ice. Her divination seems fulfilled when a comrade abandons Valen in a rainy wilderness half-dead, addicted to an enchantment that converts pain to pleasure, and possessing only a stolen book of maps.
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FIGHTING TO ADD MORE WORDS TO THIS COLLECTION
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 07-13-14
De: Carol Berg
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The Book of Magic
- De: Gardner Dozois - editor, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, y otros
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker, Sile Bermingham, Maxwell Caulfield, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 38 m
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Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois's acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf... and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda... and a Wicked Witch of the West. What would Harry Potter be without Albus Dumbledore... and Severus Snape? Figures of wisdom and power, possessing arcane, often forbidden knowledge, wizards and sorcerers are shaped - or misshaped - by the potent magic they seek to wield.
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some stinkers mostly good
- De M.T. en 12-11-18
De: Gardner Dozois - editor, y otros
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Shadowmarch
- Shadowmarch, Volume I
- De: Tad Williams
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 29 h y 19 m
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For generations the misty Shadowline has marked the boundary between the lands of men and the lost northern lands that are the lair of their inhuman enemies, the ageless Qar. But now that boundary line is moving outward, threatening to engulf the northernmost land in which humans still live - the kingdom of Southmarch.
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It's the characters that matter...
- De JC en 11-09-10
De: Tad Williams
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Outstanding book and narration.
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a seriously dark bit of work
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The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released.
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Brilliant, wonderful book -- horrible recording
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When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father’s Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin.
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Same feel, not as satisfying as Goblin Emperor
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Who Fears Death
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In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. A woman who has survived the annihilation of her village and a terrible rape by an enemy general wanders into the desert, hoping to die. Instead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand. Gripped by the certainty that her daughter is different—special—she names her Onyesonwu, which means "Who fears death?" in an ancient language.
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The Saint of Bright Doors
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Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.
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Interesting but hard to follow on audio
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Outstanding book and narration.
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a seriously dark bit of work
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The Witness for the Dead
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When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father’s Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin.
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Same feel, not as satisfying as Goblin Emperor
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Interesting but hard to follow on audio
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- Jonathan Wells
- 03-07-17
Worth a Listen
The story wasn't what I expected from the review that lead me to acquire the book. However, I enjoyed it for the most part. There were times I thought the story meandered too much and I lost interest, but other times I was very interested. The narrator was fine I guess. I just finished a book before this with the fantastic narrator Michael Kramer, so I'm a little biased. Sometimes I thought the language was too flowery and contrived, but it is after all a book about the love of reading. In all, I would say it's worth a listen.
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- Kochobey
- 01-06-18
samatar is great
the story is much better than the narrator. i’m sorry to say the narrator rather ruins it. he just was not able to connect with the material. i beg an update.
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- MindAwake
- 02-02-24
Haunting and Colorful
Really enjoyed the complexity of how the story unfolded. The relationships and dynamics in each of the cultures and political spectrums among the variant countries takes the reader on a wonderfully winding journey with multiple perspectives. For the audiobook specifically, the narrator does a fantastic job painting a picture of eclectic characters with their own emotive styles and expressions.
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- Jereme D Krehel
- 06-30-20
boring
the main character has almost 0 agency and almost never makes their own desicion. the book is 50% describing a place or thing, 40% random grim-style fairy tales, and 10% a plot.
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