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Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis delivers a spine-tingling novel, hailed by the New York Times as "beautifully written", about an upstanding small-town spinster whose life is overturned by a shocking murder.
When other young women left the little town of Campbell's Cove to acquire culture, see the world, fall in love, and marry, Hannah Blake stayed at home, taking a job at the bank and fighting for control of the library board. Overshadowed by the more stylish and popular women in town who seem to block every attempt she makes to improve her life, Hannah remains alone - an increasingly bitter woman whose frustration threatens to erupt into violence when something wonderful happens: One of her rivals is strangled to death. Now Hannah finally has an opportunity to soar. But as the townspeople's suspicions tighten around her, Hannah finds that life in the spotlight is not as glorious as she had imagined.
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One of the 20th century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, a genius; Gail Wynand, a newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire; and Dominique Francon, a devastating beauty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Fountainhead
- De Zachary en 06-04-10
De: Ayn Rand
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Carol Boyd
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently....
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
- De James A. Dittes en 08-13-16
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Peyton Place
- De: Grace Metalious
- Narrado por: Tim O'Connor
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
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In 1956, when this novel was first published, communities all over New England snapped up copies to see if they were the town portrayed in the book. Peyton Place is the story of a repressive New England town known for its high standards of public morality, and the steamy sexual activities that take place behind its bedroom doors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book I've read to date!
- De Crusader en 11-07-11
De: Grace Metalious
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The Early Ayn Rand
- A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction (Revised Edition)
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 19 h y 32 m
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This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead. Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, these works allow readers to follow the extraordinary trajectory of Rand's literary and intellectual growth, from a 21-year-old Russian immigrant struggling to master English to the brilliant prose stylist and sophisticated philosopher she was to become in her mature work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Want more Rand? Here it is.
- De John en 12-03-11
De: Ayn Rand
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The Magus
- De: John Fowles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 923
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John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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A Place of Greater Safety
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 33 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden - and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disaster
- De Frank Dudley Berry Jr. en 08-01-13
De: Hilary Mantel
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The Great Gatsby
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Tim Robbins
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Set against a backdrop of jazz music, bootlegging, and lavish parties, The Great Gatsby is the story of Midwesterner Nick Carraway’s curious introduction to the decadent world of his mysterious, wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby, whose thirst for riches is matched only by his tragic obsession with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. This dangerously propulsive tale of glitz and glamour continues to be relevant as listeners long for escapist novels—a chance to flee into Gatsby’s famed mansion and lose oneself in the rush of opulence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Alive and Wild! I finished it same day.
- De Brea DeMarquee en 08-27-21
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The Bastard
- The Kent Family Chronicles, Book 1
- De: John Jakes
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
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Set against the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to our fledgling nation, this novel of romance and adventure introduces Phillipe Charboneau. The illegitimate son of an English nobleman, Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the men who set our course for freedom. The Bastard is the first volume in the Kent Family Chronicles, a series of novels that details one family's journey in the early years of the American nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Amazing Tale
- De will en 11-06-13
De: John Jakes
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The Pale Blue Eye
- De: Louis Bayard
- Narrado por: Charles Leggett
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Holmesian ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion—that the man Landor is looking for is a poet—Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could not get through it
- De Amazon Customer en 10-25-15
De: Louis Bayard
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth George
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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4 out of 5 stars
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good debut novel
- De Stevon en 11-11-19
De: Elizabeth George
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Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
- De: Ann B. Ross
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in the center of an unseemly scandal - and the guardian of a wan nine-year-old whose mere presence turns her life upside down.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Miss Julia is 60+ yrs old.. reader is too young
- De jennifer en 07-13-12
De: Ann B. Ross
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Now, Voyager
- Femmes Fatales
- De: Olive Higgins Prouty
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Inspiration for The Movie Classic
- De Susie en 12-17-12
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The Optimist's Daughter
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Eudora Welty
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 282
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This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful writing
- De Teresa en 07-15-13
De: Eudora Welty
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Novels 1-3
- De: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 26 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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The first three mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic sleuth: first, a body is discovered in a Battersea bathroom, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez, on the same night that financier Sir Reuben Levy disappears from his Park Lane home. Then, Wimsey returns to England when his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murdering the fiance of their sister, Lady Mary, and a trial in the House of Lords looms; and finally, an overheard conversation in a restaurant begins an investigation of the strangely premature death of wealthy and terminally ill old lady Miss Agatha Dawson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Lord Peter
- De Mav's mom en 10-16-24