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Kelly Barnhill
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Beloved and bestselling author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.
“Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters.”
A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it’s been just the three of them—her mom has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed.
Yet when her mom brings home a six-foot tall crane with a menacing air, the girl is powerless to prevent her mom letting the intruder into her heart, and her children’s lives. Utterly enchanted and numb to his sharp edges, her mom abandons the world around her to weave the masterpiece the crane demands.
In this stunning contemporary retelling of “The Crane Wife” by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family—and change the story.
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- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
From the secret reels of a notoriously cursed cinematic masterpiece to the debauched livestreams of modern movie junkies who will do anything for clicks, Final Cuts brings together new and terrifying stories inspired by the many screens we can't peel our eyes away from. Inspired by the rich golden age of the film and television industries as well as the new media present, this new anthology reveals what evils hide behind the scenes and between the frames of our favorite medium.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Poor, Not Rich
- De Gary & Jay en 08-23-20
De: Ellen Datlow
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Surrender Bay
- A Nantucket Love Story, Book 1
- De: Denise Hunter
- Narrado por: Kathryn Lynhurst
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Samantha Owens' estranged stepfather has died, leaving her his cottage in Nantucket - a place she fled years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Samantha can't afford to pass up a financial windfall like oceanfront property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it...never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again, Samantha must face a past that separated her from the God of her childhood. And she must tell Landon why she fled the island in the first place - a secret that could tear them apart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Cody Wheeler en 04-28-20
De: Denise Hunter
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The Fourth Child
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Winter
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her the “extraordinary debut” (The Guardian) with a moving novel about motherhood and marriage, adolescence and bodily autonomy, family and love, religion and sexuality, and the delicate balance between the purity of faith and the messy reality of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just OK - Considered Bailing
- De Madeleine Homan en 04-18-21
De: Jessica Winter
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The Killer's Cousin
- De: Nancy Werlin
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
After 17-year-old David is forced to stand trial for his girlfriend's death, he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle and their young daughter, Lily, to avoid the media frenzy. But all is not well at his relatives' house. His aunt and uncle are not speaking to each other, and Lily seems dead set on making David's life a torment. And then there's the issue of their older daughter, Kathy, who died under mysterious circumstances a number of years back.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, great narrator!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-15
De: Nancy Werlin
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Horrid
- De: Katrina Leno
- Narrado por: Heather Costa
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 73
Following her father's death, Jane North-Robinson and her mom move from sunny California to the dreary, dilapidated old house in Maine where her mother grew up. All they want is a fresh start, but behind North Manor's doors lurks a history that leaves them feeling more alone...and more tormented.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Reader
- De Kindle Customer en 11-14-21
De: Katrina Leno
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The Ogress and the Orphans
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
The town of Stone in the Glen used to be lovely, but it hasn’t been so in a very long time. Once a celebrated town with a vibrant town square, prosperous businesses and families, and educated, happy children, Stone in the Glen has fallen on hard times. Since the expansive and beloved Library burned with other buildings in a time of terrible fires, the town has been plagued by droughts, blight, and destruction. But the people have continued to put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow with golden hair and brilliant white teeth who promises that he alone can solve their problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for kids *and* adults!
- De Kristi Simpson en 03-05-23
De: Kelly Barnhill
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Iron Hearted Violet
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 246
In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales. Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being - called the Nybbas - imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true - not really. But then the whispers start....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Love Love this author and this narrator!
- De scoutbird en 02-16-19
De: Kelly Barnhill
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Witch's Boy
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 570
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 510
When Ned and his identical twin brother tumble from their raft into a raging, bewitched river, only Ned survives. Villagers are convinced the wrong boy lived. Sure enough, Ned grows up weak and slow, and stays as much as possible within the safe boundaries of his family's cottage and yard. But when a Bandit King comes to steal the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, it's Ned who safeguards the magic and summons the strength to protect his family and community.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as expected
- De ladybug en 03-19-17
De: Kelly Barnhill
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When Women Were Dragons
- A Novel
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,713
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,536
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons; left a trail of fiery destruction in their path; and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. It’s taboo to speak of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Jennifer Torres en 05-08-22
De: Kelly Barnhill
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Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in "Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch". In "Open the Door and the Light Pours Through", a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. "Dreadful Young Ladies" demonstrates the strength and power - known and unknown - of the imagination. The World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead.
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3 out of 5 stars
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not a chidrens book
- De d.sopko en 06-11-18
De: Kelly Barnhill
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Untethered Sky
- De: Fonda Lee
- Narrado por: Nikki Massoud
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family. Ester’s path leads her to the king’s Royal Mews, where the giant rocs of legend are flown to hunt manticores by their brave and dedicated ruhkers. Paired with a fledgling roc named Zahra, Ester finds purpose and acclaim by devoting herself to a calling that demands absolute sacrifice and a creature that will never return her love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth It
- De LinseyLoo en 05-02-23
De: Fonda Lee
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The Ogress and the Orphans
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
The town of Stone in the Glen used to be lovely, but it hasn’t been so in a very long time. Once a celebrated town with a vibrant town square, prosperous businesses and families, and educated, happy children, Stone in the Glen has fallen on hard times. Since the expansive and beloved Library burned with other buildings in a time of terrible fires, the town has been plagued by droughts, blight, and destruction. But the people have continued to put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow with golden hair and brilliant white teeth who promises that he alone can solve their problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for kids *and* adults!
- De Kristi Simpson en 03-05-23
De: Kelly Barnhill
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Iron Hearted Violet
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 246
In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales. Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being - called the Nybbas - imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true - not really. But then the whispers start....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Love Love this author and this narrator!
- De scoutbird en 02-16-19
De: Kelly Barnhill
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Witch's Boy
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 570
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 510
When Ned and his identical twin brother tumble from their raft into a raging, bewitched river, only Ned survives. Villagers are convinced the wrong boy lived. Sure enough, Ned grows up weak and slow, and stays as much as possible within the safe boundaries of his family's cottage and yard. But when a Bandit King comes to steal the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, it's Ned who safeguards the magic and summons the strength to protect his family and community.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as expected
- De ladybug en 03-19-17
De: Kelly Barnhill
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When Women Were Dragons
- A Novel
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,713
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,536
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons; left a trail of fiery destruction in their path; and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. It’s taboo to speak of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Jennifer Torres en 05-08-22
De: Kelly Barnhill
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Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in "Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch". In "Open the Door and the Light Pours Through", a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. "Dreadful Young Ladies" demonstrates the strength and power - known and unknown - of the imagination. The World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead.
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3 out of 5 stars
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not a chidrens book
- De d.sopko en 06-11-18
De: Kelly Barnhill
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Untethered Sky
- De: Fonda Lee
- Narrado por: Nikki Massoud
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family. Ester’s path leads her to the king’s Royal Mews, where the giant rocs of legend are flown to hunt manticores by their brave and dedicated ruhkers. Paired with a fledgling roc named Zahra, Ester finds purpose and acclaim by devoting herself to a calling that demands absolute sacrifice and a creature that will never return her love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth It
- De LinseyLoo en 05-02-23
De: Fonda Lee
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The Vessel
- De: Adam Nevill
- Narrado por: Bridget Thomas
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 128
Struggling with money, raising a child alone, and fleeing a volatile ex, Jess McMachen accepts a job caring for an elderly patient. Flo Gardner–a disturbed shut-in and invalid. But if Jess can hold this job down, she and her daughter, Izzy, can begin a new life. Flo's vast home, Nerthus House, may resemble a stately vicarage in an idyllic village, but the labyrinthine interior is a dark, cluttered warren filled with pagan artefacts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth it!
- De Mindy Pfeiffer en 12-29-22
De: Adam Nevill
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Bloom
- De: Delilah S. Dawson
- Narrado por: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella with the slow build menace of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber—from a New York Times-bestselling author hailed by Chuck Wendig as "a storyteller working at the top of her class."
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5 out of 5 stars
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what an ending
- De sam en 11-09-24
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Spectral Evidence
- De: Gemma Files
- Narrado por: Joel Froomkin, Hillary Huber, Zura Johnson, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award–winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently served up tale after tale celebrating monstrosity in all its forms: the imperfect, the broken, the beautifully alien, and the sadly familiar. Her characters make their own choices and take their own chances, slipping from darkness into deeper darkness yet never losing their humanity—not even when they’re anything but.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New writer for me and an Anthology of Horror !
- De Androoski en 11-05-24
De: Gemma Files
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Tinfoil Butterfly
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Eve Moulton
- Narrado por: Jess Nahikian
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she meets Lowell, the hot-but-dumb driver she hopes will take her as far as the Badlands. But Lowell is not as harmless as he seems, and a vicious scuffle leaves Emma bloody and stranded in an abandoned town in the Black Hills with an out-of-gas van, a loaded gun, and a snowstorm on the way.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Emo, ‘tortured’, adolescent, and unbelievable
- De Meg en 10-26-19
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The Unsuitable
- A Novel
- De: Molly Pohlig
- Narrado por: Esther Wane
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck. Iseult’s father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands - a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver - a true comedy of errors ensues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More than a great gothic read!
- De Nikki Stickney en 05-10-20
De: Molly Pohlig
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Lost Girl
- De: Adam Nevill
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
How far will he go to save his daughter? How far will he go to get revenge? It's 2053 and runaway climate change has brought civilization to the brink of collapse. Billions are threatened with starvation and mankind is slowly moving north in a world stricken by war, drought and superstorms - easy prey for the pandemics that sweep across the globe. Easy prey, too, for the violent gangs and people-smugglers who thrive in the crumbling world where 'King Death' reigns supreme.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an outstanding novel
- De Midwestbonsai en 06-21-16
De: Adam Nevill
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Goddess of Filth
- De: V. Castro
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 164
One hot summer night, Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. Their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, Fernanda starts acting strangely—smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes suspects it's something else—something far more ancient and powerful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De Elise en 09-25-23
De: V. Castro
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
- Singing Hills Cycle, Book 1
- De: Nghi Vo
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 459
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A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to understand why this is supposed to be so great
- De J. Angel en 08-06-20
De: Nghi Vo
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The Mimicking of Known Successes
- De: Malka Older
- Narrado por: Lindsey Dorcus
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university―and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti’s assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sci-fi missing person mystery
- De Michael G Kurilla en 11-20-23
De: Malka Older
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Ring Shout
- De: P. Djèlí Clark
- Narrado por: Channie Waites
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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In 1915, The Birth of a Nation casts a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best story from a master mythmaker
- De Felicia J en 10-22-20
De: P. Djèlí Clark
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Even Though I Knew the End
- De: C.L. Polk
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 3 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist—the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves. To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good short story
- De Amazon Customer en 04-02-24
De: C.L. Polk
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- De: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,901
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,828
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,803
Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful, Delightful, Engaging
- De Tom en 08-31-17
De: Kelly Barnhill
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Crane Husband
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- Maryanne T.
- 11-26-23
Weirdly Beautiful
4.25 stars for The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill. This short little book is weird in an utterly compulsive and fascinating way. I really enjoy magical realism when it is done right ~ the crazy bits folded gently into the normal batter. And this story of a girl around the age of 15 desperately trying to take care of her younger brother and mother after the death of her father from an illness (not specified) is weirdly beautiful and heartbreaking. I loved the way the author used art as a vehicle for transformation and transcendence. In this case, the mother is a weaver and sets out to create her own wings. I also thought the character of the interloper - the crane/human was so perfectly vile and scary and the author gets high praise for her creepy detailed descriptions. This is a very quick read, and I highly recommend you set aside your logic brain for an afternoon and read this tale of a family forced to evolve beyond the constraints of their shared tragedy. I also would mind triggers of child negligence, death related to cancer/illness, and domestic violence.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-28-23
Not for kids
This was an interesting book. Dark and sad, but we didn’t want to stop listening. My kids and I have enjoyed Kelly Barnhill’s other audio books, unfortunately I didn’t realize that this one is much more adult oriented for the sexual content. I did appreciate the strength that the main character showed in many situations. It gave us the opportunity to talk about saying “no” and being treated kindly by others. We turned it into a learning opportunity.
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- erin gilbert
- 12-18-23
Magical realism with meaning
At first it seemed almost absurdist, but as more and more layers unfolded the meanings began to emerge. Beautifully done. Not my favorite narrator; she had weird inflections sometimes and I had to increase the speed to stand listening to her, but she got the job done.
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