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A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken scratch.
Bellefleur traces the lives of several generations of this unusual family. At its center is Gideon Bellefleur and his imperious, somewhat psychic, very beautiful wife, Leah, their three children (one with frightening psychic abilities), and the servants and relatives, living and dead, who inhabit the mansion and its environs. Their story offers a profound look at the world's changeableness, time and eternity, space and soul, pride and physicality versus love. Bellefleur is an allegory of caritas versus cupiditas, love and selflessness versus pride and selfishness. It is a novel of change, baffling complexity, mystery.
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Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In “Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a 2,000-year-old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors”, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. Plus much more.
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Wild Ride
- De Georgia en 02-07-20
De: Karen Russell
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The Rainbow
- De: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
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In The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence challenged the customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structures of his prose the fascination with boundaries and space that characterize the entire novel. A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrence's finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between men and women in an increasingly industrialized world.
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I don't get it
- De Sher from Provo en 08-19-13
De: D. H. Lawrence
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The Wild Child
- De: Mary Jo Putney
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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More pagan than lady, Meriel spends her days running barefoot through her English estate, cultivating her flowers and her mystical connection to nature. She is mute and, according to most people, mad. But handsome Dominic Renbourne, who has been sent by his twin to court her, senses in Meriel a kindred spirit. He manages to inspire her trust, and against his better judgement, her passion.
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Where is China Bride, the 2nd book?
- De KaitlynRAH en 10-24-18
De: Mary Jo Putney
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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Overly ambitious
- De Placeholder en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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The Hero and the Crown
- De: Robin McKinley
- Narrado por: Roslyn Alexander
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Uncertain of the past, Aerin-sol, daughter of King Arlbeth, decides to forge her own future by challenging the lashing tongues of the dragon’s fire. Aerin’s proficiency as "the Dragon-slayer" sets her on a quest for the stolen Crown of Damar, believed to be in the hands of rebellious northerners who threaten to destroy the Damarian people and their home forever.
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Second only to Blue Sword
- De mkc en 01-18-13
De: Robin McKinley
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Silent in the Grave
- De: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests.
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Happily surprised
- De 9S en 07-04-09
De: Deanna Raybourn
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All the Murmuring Bones
- De: A.G. Slatter
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Orphaned as a young child, Mirin O'Malley has been brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling estate Hob's Hallow. Long ago her family prospered due to a deal struck with the mer, the terrifying creatures who live in the depths of the sea: safety for their merchant ships in return for a child of each generation. But for many years the family have been unable to keep their side of the bargain and their fortunes have suffered as a result. When Mirin's grandfather dies, her grandmother puts in train a plan to restore their glory - but at the price of Mirin's freedom.
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Drags on and on.
- De Amanda Turner en 04-10-21
De: A.G. Slatter
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That Scandalous Evening
- The Governess Brides, Book 1
- De: Christina Dodd
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd spins the captivating tale of a nobleman whose path crosses again with the one woman he absolutely cannot resist....
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Heroine's a pathetic doormat
- De karen en 03-26-21
De: Christina Dodd
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Death in Venice
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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A problem with the narration
- De Erez en 03-19-12
De: Thomas Mann
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Some Enchanted Evening
- Lost Princesses, Book 1
- De: Christina Dodd
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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One of Scotland's most dangerous men, Robert MacKenzie is dazzled by the enchanting beauty who rides into the town he is sworn to defend. Though he is wary of the exquisite stranger, Clarice stirs emotions within him that Robert buried deeply years before. And now he must have her at any cost, vowing to gain her trust through the powers of his sensuous seduction. Torn between her need to protect her secrets and her aching desire for the dark, tormented earl of Hepburn, Clarice is pulled into Robert's glamorous world . . . and into his perilous plan for justice and revenge.
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Dodd! So glad she put in audible!
- De darlingdeb en 10-15-21
De: Christina Dodd
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The Golden Hour
- A Novel
- De: Beatriz Williams
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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The Bahamas, 1941. Newly widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the duke and duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines.
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Stick with it!
- De Colleen en 07-17-19
De: Beatriz Williams
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Belle Cora
- A Novel
- De: Phillip Margulies
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat, Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 25 h y 21 m
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In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora", madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding; a vicious newspaper editor plots her downfall; a preacher looks at her from across his pulpit and tries to forget that once she was his wife. Merchant's daughter, farm girl, prostitute, mother - the only thing that never changes is her tireless pursuit of the one man who can see her for who she really is.
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excellent
- De Patricia en 05-15-20
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In this first part of her Gothic mystery trillogy, best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates introduces Xavier Kilgarvan, a romantic hero and amateur detective. He must discover who has murdered an innocent babe while it slept in his mother’s arms. This turn-of-the-century tale of monstrous deeds and heart-stopping suspense will leave you eagerly looking for the next Kilgarvan case.
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From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of ten spellbinding stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, and mesmerizing in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates's astonishing ability to make visceral the fear, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.
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She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature. She inspired the adoration of millions, and her life has beguiled generations of fans and fellow artists. The story of Norma Jeane Baker, better known by her studio name, Marilyn Monroe, has been dissected for more than three decades, but never has it been captured in a narrative as breathtaking and transforming as Blonde.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME? NO UNABRIDGED VERSION?
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Butcher
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In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation.
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Wow! What a book!
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In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde writes about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for "great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
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All stories in collection
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The Joyce Carol Oates Collection
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Eight highly diverse works from one of America’s most prolific and versatile authors. This collection includes an exclusive dramatization of Oates’ best-selling novel American Appetites; two comedic plays, The Perfectionist and The Truth Teller; four short plays (Gulf War, Black, The Key, and Tone Clusters); as well as her libretto for Black Water: An American Opera, composed by John Duffy.
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Classic Oates
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A Horror Noir Satire of the 19th Century
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Lovely, Dark, Deep
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From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of ten spellbinding stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, and mesmerizing in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates's astonishing ability to make visceral the fear, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.
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Definitely Dark and Deep
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Blonde
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She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature. She inspired the adoration of millions, and her life has beguiled generations of fans and fellow artists. The story of Norma Jeane Baker, better known by her studio name, Marilyn Monroe, has been dissected for more than three decades, but never has it been captured in a narrative as breathtaking and transforming as Blonde.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME? NO UNABRIDGED VERSION?
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Butcher
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In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation.
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Wow! What a book!
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Cardiff, by the Sea
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In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde writes about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for "great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
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The Joyce Carol Oates Collection
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Seventeen-year-old Lorelei Patio is the adopted daughter of 200-year-old vampire Sergio Patio. She never realized why her family has had to move so often or why she is not permitted to get too friendly with other young people. In fact, except for one shocking moment that seemed more like a dream, Lorelei never fully realized who and what her father was nor what her sisters were brought up to do for him. But one day, that all changed.
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Miao Dao
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Bad things have been happening since Mia began to mature. Her dad left. Boys at school can’t keep their hands to themselves. A lecherous stepfather has moved in. Her only refuge is an abandoned lot on her suburban cul-de-sac, crawling with feral felines - one of which follows Mia home. Ghostly white and affectionate, she is Mia’s new companion and - as Mia’s tormenters will soon discover - her fierce protector.
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Not scary, not great reading.
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The Haunting of Nelson Street
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Crowford, a sleepy coastal town in the south of England, might seem like an oasis of calm and tranquility. Beneath the surface, however, dark secrets are waiting to claim fresh victims, and ghostly figures plot revenge. Having finally decided to leave the hustle of London, Daisy and Richard Johnson buy two houses on Nelson Street, a picturesque street in the center of Crowford. One house is perfect and ready to move into, while the other is a fire-ravaged wreck that needs a lot of work.
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Audio issues
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Cruel Beautiful World
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It's 1969, and 16-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy's default caretaker for most of their lives, Charlotte's youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but never more so than when Lucy's dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare.
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Kept me listening intently
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Jacob
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Since time began, there have been Nightwalkers - the races of the night who live in the shadows of the moonlight. Love with humans is absolutely forbidden, and one man makes certain to uphold this ancient law: Jacob, the Enforcer. For 700 years, he has resisted temptation. But not tonight... Jacob knows the excuses his people give when the madness overtakes them and they fall prey to their lust for humans. He's heard every one and still brought the trespassers to justice. Immune to forbidden desires, uncontrollable hungers....
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Awesome!
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The Doll-Master
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In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect "found dolls" from the surrounding neighborhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they?In The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the “fascination of the abomination” that is at the core of the most profound, the most unsettling, and the most memorable of dark mystery fiction.
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Boring
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The Devil and the Dark Water
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It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A twice-dead leper stalks the decks. Strange symbols appear on the sails. Livestock is slaughtered. And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes?
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A decent yarn
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s best-selling We Were the Mulvaneys.
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A New All Time Favorite
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Flint Kill Creek
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These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing how to act when paid a compliment, becomes flustered when a doctor suggests they go out for coffee, or possibly a drink.
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Brilliant writing; wretched narration!
- De howshermun en 11-16-24
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The Snow
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After a tragic accident at work, all Grady Miller wanted was an escape. He finds it months later with two of his closest friends. Together, the three of them travel south to Prism Lake for the upcoming holiday, where they plan on spending the sunny weekend drinking, grilling, and relaxing. But when a series of monstrous blizzards cover the Eastern United States in feet of snow, knocking out communications and making the roads impossible to drive on, they realize their weekend of fun could turn into a lifetime of survival.
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I tried.
- De Merricat en 08-09-20
De: Flint Maxwell
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Omega Days
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- De: John L. Campbell
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Eight million walking dead stalk the San Francisco Bay Area, with more on the way. Scattered refugees - a priest with a bloody past, a college girl turned sniper, escaped San Quentin inmates and others - will quickly learn the three most important rules of survival: Make your bullets count. Don't fall behind. Don't...get...bitten! Fast-paced and packed with zombie action, Book One of the Omega Days series lights off the apocalypse with a scream, and tears California to pieces!
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Disappointed
- De L en 06-19-14
De: John L. Campbell
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The Skittering
- De: David Haynes
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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Crease is known in Weaver as ‘the bug guy', the man who takes care of insects and other critters. But what emerges from the shadows of the town's waste plant is beyond anything found in nature. Fist-sized cockroaches. Bird-sized wasps. Spiders, millipedes, ticks, all swollen to enormous bulk with vicious appetites to match. And other things, creatures that should never exist.
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Good ol gross out gore
- De Liv en 04-05-23
De: David Haynes
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- Holly Watson
- 11-16-23
Reading it again and again
Bellefleur is by far my favorite book. Joyce Carol Oates is a true talent. This book is my inspiration for writing and I’ll read it over and over and indulge in the beautiful prose.
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- Frank Hill
- 12-11-21
Emphatic 5 stars; Oates’s love letter to the Gothic
This book is for anyone who loves the Gothic (the novel’s influences are plainly on display, including Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Irving, Poe, James, and many others) or is interested in America’s very strange tumultuous 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
The narrative chronicling an aristocratic (as far as that word can apply to Americans) family’s modulations as it rises, falls, rises, and falls again is at once deliberately disjointed and punctuated with parallels and a continuity that adheres to a surprisingly plausible logic of its own. Whether it is indeed the “Bellefleur curse” as the more superstitious of the clan believe, or the natural ruptures of space-time as outlined in Bromwell Bellefleur’s monograph on anti-matter, some force either fantastical or natural (or likely somewhere in-between) unites and determines the lives of the denizens of Bellefleur manor and environs of Lake Noir.
Numerous Bellefleurs wax regrettable in their actions and beliefs, from unlikeable to downright despicable, but even so the prose is so unyieldingly beautiful that their very flaws are rendered poetic in ways both simple and infinitely complex. As the crumbling opulence of Bellefleur Manor leaves mere ruin in its wake, a heavy sadness permeates and perhaps unifies the narrative; the reader’s heart will break at the traumas experienced by even the most vulgar among the Bellefleurs, a truly haunted family.
Though this novel is an absolutely wild ride with innumerable, labyrinthine twists and turns, Oates avoids and actively shuns relying on cheap or superficial shocks and surprises, with of course some well-timed exceptions. She knows what she’s doing and broadcasts every move — in fact many of the beats of the episodes contained in this novel feel deeply familiar as they are firmly in step with the generic conventions of the Gothic novel. This is Oates’s clear and unapologetic love letter to the Gothic, offering a study and survey of the literary mode by lovingly treating its tropes with reverence.
Bellefleur is also highly American. Not only does it explore the ethos of amassing wealth, power, and prestige in the new world; and situate the racial and class division irreducibly part of the republic’s story sometimes front-and-center, always as contextual backdrop; but Critic Leslie Fiedler argued that American fiction ends in catastrophe, and this novel pulls out the stops with its catastrophic conclusion. I’m fact, my sole gripe is that the over-the-top apocalyptic ending felt, for such a tightly-written and intentional work of literature, without enunciation and somewhat thin. Because this choice left me fairly baffled, I’m interested to see what others make of the ending — but at the same time I fully acknowledge that this is often a hallmark of an excellent read… and besides, endings to great novels rarely suffice where the only thing that would is more novel.
Xe Sands’s breathy performance brings the ghosts of Bellefleur to vivid, haunting life. The novel is brilliant, but the performance is a masterpiece.
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- Bernadette Barba
- 09-07-22
Will add this to my favorites
These stories are pieced together so eloquently. Take your time to listen and pay close attention to the characters. Each one is profound and sinister all alike. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and will listen to it again.
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- JackFaust77
- 06-10-24
Superb
Byzantine, passionate, mysterious, brutal, beautiful, weird. My only complaint that this is YET ANOTHER crappy Audible audiobook that neglects to add the chapter titles, and there are almost eighty omitted titles. This robs us of the ability to look over them, forge connections, jump back to evocative titles and so on. Of course Amazon-Audible cares not.
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- Sebastian Romero
- 05-14-20
Already reviewed it BUT
Already wrote a review in Goodreads, but i just wanted to come here and say I LOVED THIS NARRATOR ! Idk why, I’ve never come here and said something like this about a narrator before, I don’t even know them! I just wanted to say it because it fit PERFECTLY with the novel! The kinda soft, airy, silky voice, mysterious, whispering most of the novel! Wow. I think i came and said this because at first I wasn’t convinced, but then WOW! Loved her
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- Rosanne
- 01-19-23
Storytelling at its best
A dark and extraordinary epic tale of intertwined lives. I wanted it to go on forever. Best narrator - perfectly executed
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- Lesa Brown
- 07-06-20
Mixed feelings
Let me start by saying the narrator was exceptional and her voice was such a pleasure to listen to. The book at times dragged on and I felt like was maybe going into detail about characters that really didn't pertain to story. Although it was a great book, there was to much violence towards human life and especially toward animal life. There were parts that was to dark for me. I don't regret listening to it, but would prefer less violence.
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- TeddyDog
- 02-05-23
Speak Up !!
A great Gothic by Joyce Carol Oates narrated frustratingly. She sounds like someone who just woke up 30 seconds ago telling the story. I half expected her to break into a loud yawn midsentence. The remaining narration is all murmurs and burbles and mutters. Granted this is better than narrators who shout when they're trying to scare you but still can't there be a middle way ? If you like having an epic novel purred at you then by all means spend your credit. Otherwise this telling just may annoy you. As far as the book is concerned, as another reviewer pointed out, the beauty of Leah is constantly mentioned. The fact she's a selfish and self-obsessed and utterly uncaring and unpleasant character is never mentioned. Does JCO like this character? I sure don't. Apart from these two issues it really is a rich and involving tale.
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- Marcy Henry
- 06-28-23
First Oats
I’ve wanted to read her for years. What a stunning shining. While I’ve not enjoyed the narrator I past performances,I found her perfect for this read. Bravo. There will be a second Oats very soon.
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- Keijon ford
- 05-01-20
Old School Gothic Literature (Not a beach read)
If you are a light reader looking for a fast paced thriller, dont look here. This is a slow burn of a disturbing family saga that is not for those with short attention spans or a propensity for less lengthy reads. It is a long tale of love, loss, darkness, destruction, decay, and madness. If you don't want a creepy slow burn, don't attempt this book and then complain about its pacing or story. Its literatally the likes of dracula or frankenstein in prose (especially later in the series). Look no further if you want a 28 hour and 750+ page print listen and read resepctively, because this is a tale for the time of less serious works that seem to resemble every other that came before it (cough cough, domestic thrillers where the ending is the same or someone assumes anothers identity, blah blah blah. THIS IS A FANTASTIC READ AND LISTEN FOR GOTHIC HORROR.FICTION LOVERS.
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