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Narrado por:
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James Langton
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Khristine Hvam
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Robert Petkoff
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Suzanne Toren
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Dion Graham
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Emma Donoghue
Acerca de esta escucha
Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters.
They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. Donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his master's wife to set them both free; she draws out the difficulties of gold mining in the Yukon, even in the supposedly plentiful early days, and she takes us to an early Puritan community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal.
Astray also includes "The Hunt'" a shocking confession of one soldier's violent betrayal during the American Revolution, which has been shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Short Story Award. Astray is a sequence of 14 stories by the prize-winning author of Room and The Sealed Letter.
These strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past made up of deviations and a surprising and moving history for restless times.
©2012 Emma Donoghue (P)2015 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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4 out of 5 stars
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-14-13
De: Kelly Link - editor, y otros
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- De: Allan Gurganus
- Narrado por: Barbara McCulloh
- Duración: 49 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and fans alike fell in love with the voice of 99-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 20th century, when she was 15 and her husband was 50. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dated.
- De edie butler en 04-06-21
De: Allan Gurganus
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Cover Her Face
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Penelope Dellaporta
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 817
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Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P. D. James' electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK but...
- De NoelleJ en 11-14-14
De: P. D. James
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033
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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A Spear of Summer Grass
- De: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 207
The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. As mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent pleasures of society.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Vinity en 07-13-13
De: Deanna Raybourn
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Gone with the Wind
- De: Margaret Mitchell
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 49 h y 2 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 15,224
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13,073
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Got the Accents Right
- De Noel en 04-27-10
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Tess of the Road
- De: Rachel Hartman
- Narrado por: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 576
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 527
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In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is...different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and Boring, Both.
- De Ryan en 04-05-19
De: Rachel Hartman
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Wicked
- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- De: Gregory Maguire
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12,547
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,555
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9,594
Heralded as an instant classic of fantasy literature, Maguire has written a wonderfully imaginative retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch's point of view. More than just a fairy tale for adults, Wicked is a meditation on the nature of good and evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's not easy being green
- De PangaeaReads en 07-30-08
De: Gregory Maguire
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Varina
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Molly Parker
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 819
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With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of her intentions. The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Read it rather than listen
- De Anonymous en 08-31-18
De: Charles Frazier
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The Taker
- De: Alma Katsu
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 470
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 426
On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae—Lanny—walks into his ER, she changes his life forever. A mysterious woman with a past and plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her...despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too dark for my taste
- De Margaret en 05-04-14
De: Alma Katsu
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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 521
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 369
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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Rhett Butler's People
- De: Donald McCaig
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 560
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 522
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 519
The publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural event. Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell: Langston Butler, Rhett's unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett's best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O'Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unconvincing
- De FMS en 04-10-19
De: Donald McCaig
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The Blind Assassin
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margot Dionne
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,098
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,406
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For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good book, TERRIBLE audio!
- De Whitney en 04-27-09
De: Margaret Atwood
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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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Andersonville
- De: MacKinlay Kantor
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 37 h y 13 m
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Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly 25 years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's best-selling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthy of the Pulitzer
- De Gillian en 03-22-15
De: MacKinlay Kantor
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Mudbound
- De: Hillary Jordan
- Narrado por: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 984
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Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- De Betty en 03-25-12
De: Hillary Jordan
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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Winter Collection
- Six Historical Short Stories (A Timeless Romance Anthology, Book 1)
- De: Sarah M. Eden, Heidi Ashworth, Annette Lyon, y otros
- Narrado por: Karen Peakes
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Six award-winning authors have contributed brand new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Winter Collection. A collection unlike any other, listeners will love this compilation of six sweet historical romance novellas, set in varying eras, yet all with one thing in common: Romance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Winter
- De Manila J. Dobbs en 08-12-23
De: Sarah M. Eden, y otros
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- Sarah
- 09-14-15
Best I've heard in a long time
My favorite part was at the end of each short story you get a bonus description of each story . My second favorite was the words from the author at the end.
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- Sharlotte
- 08-08-20
Superior Quality Short Stories
Those stories and narrators!! I really enjoyed listening to this book and liked the way Donoghue found pieces from historical records and wove tales around her theme "astray." I think these are among, if not the, best short stories I have ever come across.
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- RueRue
- 05-01-15
Excellent Selection of Short Stories
I really enjoyed these stories, connected loosely by the theme of life changes and all based on actual historical references. Some of these stories are heartbreaking, but all are interesting and insightful character stories, especially given the brevity of the "short story" format. Highly recommended.
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- Jessie Cowan
- 08-31-16
Outstanding and riveting
Absolutely loved each story and want MORE! I can't wait to read more by this wonderful author.
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