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Jake Arnott
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Larry Zagorski spins wild tales of fantasy worlds for pulp magazines. But as the Second World War hangs in the balance, the lines between imagination and reality are starting to blur. The truth is stranger than anything Larry could invent. But when he looks back on the 20th century, the past is as uncertain as the future. Just where does truth end and illusion begin?
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 290
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep - a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. - is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very dissapointing
- De Dennis en 05-29-13
De: John Burdett
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Back Channel
- De: Stephen L. Carter
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
October, 1962, in Cuba: Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And, in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen - a 19-year-old Cornell sophomore - is swept up in a bizarre concatenation of circumstances that will make of her the back-channel liaison between Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Kennedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT spy thriller!
- De Mark en 12-04-16
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Distant Star
- De: Roberto Bolano
- Narrado por: Walter Krochmal
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Omg
- De Sierra en 08-03-16
De: Roberto Bolano
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Valis
- Valis, Book 1
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 833
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 711
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 708
What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick's groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life changing
- De Michael en 03-16-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Golden Notebook
- De: Doris Lessing
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 27 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 533
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 438
Author Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer’s block by writing a comprehensive "golden notebook" that draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook. Anna’s struggle to unify the various strands of her life – emotional, political, and professional – amasses into a fascinating encyclopaedia of female experience in the ‘50s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcendent narration of a masterpiece.
- De @vmarinelli en 07-03-12
De: Doris Lessing
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Dutch
- A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
- De: Edmund Morris
- Narrado por: Edmund Morris
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President - yet written with complete interpretive freedom - is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris developed a fascination for the genial yet inscrutable President and, after Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984, put aside the second volume of his life of Roosevelt to become an observing eye and ear at the White House.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful
- De john en 02-06-13
De: Edmund Morris
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Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- De: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 921
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 836
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 832
Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears ( The Queen, High Fidelity) and starring Judi Dench ( Skyfall, Notes on a Scandal) and Steve Coogan ( The Trip, Hamlet 2): the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman". Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Moving Story
- De Cariola en 02-09-14
De: Martin Sixsmith
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Stand on Zanzibar
- De: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrado por: Erik Bergmann
- Duración: 21 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 338
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 298
Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfect audio experience
- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros
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A Fractured Mind
- My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder
- De: Robert B. Oxnam
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
At the peak of his professional career, after having led the Asia Society for nearly a decade, Oxnam was haunted by periodic blackouts and episodic rages. After his family and friends intervened, Oxnam received help from a psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffery Smith, and entered a rehab center. It wasn't until 1990, during a session with Dr. Smith, that the first of Oxnam's 11 alternate personalities, an angry young boy named Tommy, suddenly emerged.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid look at a rare disorder
- De O. Canosa en 11-23-07
De: Robert B. Oxnam
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Independence Day: Crucible
- The Official Movie Prequel
- De: Greg Keyes
- Narrado por: William Hope
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 248
Cities were crushed by the falling spacecraft, but one ship didn't crash. It remained intact and disgorged hordes of alien soldiers determined to fight to the death. The abandoned vessels also contained a wealth of advanced technology. Led by David Levinson, the greatest minds of our world developed deadly new hybrid weapons. Bases were built on the moon, Mars, and beyond. A new generation of defenders had to be trained, for the invaders would return.
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4 out of 5 stars
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YA Romance
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-06-17
De: Greg Keyes
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- De: John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justine Eyre
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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3 out of 5 stars
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HAND DANCING
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-30-15
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The Unincorporated Man
- De: Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 23 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 472
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 329
The Unincorporated Man is a provocative social/political/economic novel that takes place in the future, after civilization has fallen into complete economic collapse. This reborn civilization is one in which every individual is incorporated at birth and spends many years trying to attain control over his or her own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hmm
- De CB en 06-15-09
De: Dani Kollin, y otros
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Factoring Humanity
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 562
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 490
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 497
In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Novel alien first contact
- De Michael G Kurilla en 05-28-12
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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The Gospel of Loki
- De: Joanne Harris
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,626
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,461
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,460
This novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods - retold from the point of view of the world's ultimate trickster, Loki. A number-one best seller in the UK, The Gospel of Loki tells the story of Loki's recruitment from the underworld of Chaos; his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin; through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall of Asgard.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sympathy for the Devil
- De Will F. en 07-13-17
De: Joanne Harris
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The Night Listener
- De: Armistead Maupin
- Narrado por: Armistead Maupin
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 416
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 129
This unprecedented audio project is as thought-provoking as it is mesmeric. The Night Listener is a meditation on the power of voices and the faith we place in them, and an extraordinary audio experience from an American literary icon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wheels within wheels
- De Naomi en 07-06-03
De: Armistead Maupin