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Eliot Sumner
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Ali Smith
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From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing
An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world. Add two children. And a horse.
From a Scottish word meaning a transient moment, a shock, a faint glimpse, Gliff explores how and why we endeavour to make a mark on the world. In a time when western industry wants to reduce us to algorithms and data—something easily categorizable and predictable—Smith shows us why our humanity, our individual complexities, matter more than ever.
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3 out of 5 stars
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She said she said she said
- De Cate en 05-29-22
De: Ali Smith
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Summer
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Juliette Burton
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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terrific book, beautifully read.
- De Sasha en 02-07-21
De: Ali Smith
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Stone Yard Devotional
- A Novel
- De: Charlotte Wood
- Narrado por: Ailsa Piper
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A profound inward journey
- De Kathlene barrett en 02-17-25
De: Charlotte Wood
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Artful
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Ali Smith
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
In 2012, Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Those lectures, presented here, took the shape of discursive stories that refused to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form. Thus, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. A hypnotic dialogue unfolds between storytelling and a meditation on art that encompasses love, grief, memory, and revitalization.
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3 out of 5 stars
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#Reality/Loss/Mythology
- De Ellen K. en 11-14-18
De: Ali Smith
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Brother Brontë
- De: Fernando A. Flores
- Narrado por: Victoria Villarreal
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town’s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftalí—the latter of whom, one of the town’s last literate citizens, hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exuberant, florid, fun
- De M. Locher en 05-08-25
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The Hounding
- A Novel
- De: Xenobe Purvis
- Narrado por: Olivia Vinall
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbank to portentous ravens gathering on the roofs of people about to die. But when the villagers start to hear barking, and one claims to see the Mansfield sisters transform before his very eyes, the allegations spark fascination and fear like nothing has before.
De: Xenobe Purvis
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How to Be Both
- A Novel
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: John Banks
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 168
Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real--and all life’s givens get given a second chance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Incompetent Foreign Pronunciation
- De J. Kahn en 06-28-15
De: Ali Smith
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The Accidental
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Heather O'Neill, Stina Nielsen, Jeff Woodman, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 224
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 64
Barefoot, thirtysomething Amber shows up at the door of a Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. Amber doesn't know them, but she talks her way in, telling lies, and stays for dinner. Eve, an author, thinks Amber is a student her husband is sleeping with. Michael, an English professor, knows only that her car broke down. Daughter Astrid, age 12, thinks she's her mother's friend. Son Magnus, 17, thinks she's an angel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent writing, thought provoking
- De L en 03-20-06
De: Ali Smith
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I'll Come to You
- De: Rebecca Kauffman
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
A modern story of family, I’ll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them; a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now attempting to woo her; and a couple in denial about a looming health crisis as well as their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Richly developed Characters
- De QueeneB21 en 01-24-25
De: Rebecca Kauffman
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Hotel World
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Lois Chimimba, Roy McMillan, Katie Leung, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of their very different fates make for this playful, defiant, and richly inventive novel.
De: Ali Smith
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The Black Orb
- De: Ewhan Kim
- Narrado por: Earl T. Kim
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside when he sees something impossible: a huge black orb appears out of nowhere and sucks his neighbor inside. Jeong-su manages to get away, but the terrifying sphere can move through walls, so he’s sure he won’t be able to hide for long. The orb soon begins consuming every person caught in its path, and no one knows how to stop it. Impervious to bullets and tanks, the orb splits and multiplies, chasing the hapless residents of Seoul out into the country and sparking a global crisis with widespread violence and looting.
De: Ewhan Kim
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The Garden
- De: Nick Newman
- Narrado por: Nicolette McKenzie
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. So when a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the center of their isolated grounds, their once solitary lives are irrevocably disrupted.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Susan L. Houser en 03-28-25
De: Nick Newman
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The Vanishing Point
- Stories
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
The stories in Paul Theroux’s fascinating new collection are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points—a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Theroux’s take on the world and life in general.
- De jon orourke en 05-28-25
De: Paul Theroux
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We Lived on the Horizon
- A Novel
- De: Erika Swyler
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Saint Enita Malovis feels the end of her life and decades of work as a bio-prosthetist approaching. The lone practitioner of her art, Enita is determined to preserve her legacy and decides to create a physical being, called Nix. In the midst of her project, a fellow Sainted is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So dull that everything went in one ear...
- De NMwritergal en 01-16-25
De: Erika Swyler
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Black Woods, Blue Sky
- A Novel
- De: Eowyn Ivey
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature. Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she’s ever longed for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The mixture of fantasy and reality
- De Amazon Customer en 03-23-25
De: Eowyn Ivey
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The Line of Beauty
- A Novel
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Joe Jameson
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby—whom Nick had idolized at Oxford—and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Prose
- De Andre en 03-13-25
excellent book and narration
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No other author comes close!
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4 hrs I’ll never get back
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I'll never get my time back.
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