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"Susan Bennett masterfully narrates a stunning retelling of Beowulf that confronts all manner of monsters...Powerful, upsetting, and unforgettable, Bennett's narration is staggeringly potent." — AudioFile Magazine
New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers—a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife.
From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings—high and gabled—and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside—in lawns and on playgrounds—wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall’s periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights.
For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance. Dana didn’t want Gren, didn’t plan Gren, and doesn’t know how she got Gren, but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Dana’s and Willa’s worlds collide.
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In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis' last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known.
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a hot mess
- De Alison en 04-09-19
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
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Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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The Child Finder
- A Novel
- De: Rene Denfeld
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's Skookum National Forest. She would be eight years old now - if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder", Naomi is their last hope.
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One Dimensional
- De Sara en 10-04-17
De: Rene Denfeld
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Above Us Only Sky
- De: Michele Young-Stone
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. Growing up in Los Vientos, Florida, Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women.
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I'm So Glad I Listened to It!
- De Elizabeth en 08-22-16
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Priestdaddy
- A Memoir
- De: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrado por: Patricia Lockwood
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.
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Terrible narration--read, don't listen
- De Penelope en 08-06-17
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The Iron Hunt
- De: Marjorie M. Liu
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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By day, her tattoos are her armor. By night, they unwind from her body to take on forms of their own. Demons of the flesh, turned into flesh. This is the only family demon hunter Maxine Kiss has ever known. The only way to live---and the very way she'll die. For one day, her demons will abandon her for her daughter to ensure their own survival---leaving Maxine helpless against her enemies.
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most pointless hero ever.
- De Robby en 06-06-09
De: Marjorie M. Liu
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Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
- De: Christopher Golden - editor, Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Smith, y otros
- Narrado por: Charles Constant, Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. The hideous children - Want and Ignorance - beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Best-selling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.
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Some good, some clunkers. Some fun, none scary.
- De Max Trivial en 12-24-18
De: Christopher Golden - editor, y otros
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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Palimpsest
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Aasne Vigesaa
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse - a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers.
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Excellent Prose, but lacks maturity
- De Michael en 08-09-15
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
- A Novel
- De: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Narrado por: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
- De Amazon Customer en 12-12-18
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The Hawley Book of the Dead
- A Novel
- De: Chrysler Szarlan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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Revelation "Reve" Dyer grew up with her grandmother’s family stories, stretching back centuries to Reve’s ancestors, who founded the town of Hawley Five Corners, Massachusetts. Their history is steeped in secrets, for few outsiders know that an ancient magic runs in the Dyer women’s blood, and that Reve is a magician whose powers are all too real. Reve and her husband are world-famous Las Vegas illusionists. They have three lovely young daughters, a beautiful home, and what seems like a charmed life. But Reve’s world is shattered....
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It sounded like something I could really love.....
- De Andrea en 10-01-14
De: Chrysler Szarlan
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Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter
- De: Brian P. Easton
- Narrado por: Basil Sands
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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It takes more than silver bullets to kill a werewolf. Sylvester James knows what it is to be haunted. His mother died giving birth to him and his father never let him forget it; until the night he was butchered by a werewolf - the night a full moon ruined his life.
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exciting and scary
- De Tom en 04-21-16
De: Brian P. Easton
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- Sooj
- 03-19-24
Take an epic & make it even fiercer
I will come back to this one. Love MDH & where she takes us with all things Beowulf, especially after my first listen through this derivative (but NEVER less than) path. All the stars possible. Wow.
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- gattineri
- 09-02-18
A remarkable accomplishment
Uneven, but a remarkable accomplishment nevertheless.A superb addition to the retold Beowulfs, joining John Gardner’s Grendel. Smart, moving, clever.
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- Susan Chacin
- 03-20-19
Dark modern version of the ancient Beowolf story
I barely liked one character. Very melodramatic though thought provoking. Might make a better neo-classical tragedy play.
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- Tigerlily
- 07-28-23
Worthwhile
A worthwhile listen and a story I won't forget, but in need of editing for length.
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- babylon baroque
- 05-22-19
Mere Wife
Wow, what a wonderful re- contextualizing of a well loved , well known tale . So much to admire about this imaginative narrative , such loss at its conclusion, my solution is to listen once again straight away .
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- Anonymous User
- 03-03-22
Amazing
Taking the story of Beowulf and retelling it in a way that gives voice to those who have been othered in history. What an amazing novel
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- Mandy Sue
- 05-24-23
Intense and moving novel, perfect narrator
There's a small cast of characters in this novel that echoes Beowulf, but they are fully realized and described with compassion. The story has parallels to the poem, so there's plenty of fighting and struggle. There's also love and devotion. It's an amazing and satisfying experience.
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- Hilary Hontz
- 08-04-18
Excellent!!
This modern day re-telling of Beauwulf was the bomb! I loved the interpretation of each character, the perspectives, the language was like poetry. The narration was spot on! An excellent read!
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- Laurie M. Ousley
- 11-24-18
Fantastic Retelling
I just finished the book and I'm going to listen again as soon as I'm done typing. I love this clever retelling and its reimagination of the characters and setting. I teach Beowulf every year and was excited about this and it didn't disappoint. This is the second book I've listened to narrated by Susan Bennett, who is a very good reader, absolutely one of the best.
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- Megan Wahlberg
- 09-16-22
Phenomenal Adaptation
The reader alone is 🔥
She brings the novel to life with her incredible performance. Her subtle intonations help you follow which character is narrating. It is the best one-woman show I’ve ever heard.
The novel itself is superbly written, combining magical realism and mellifluous prose in a story that leaves you feeling boned and gutted, and yet viscerally awake. Grendel’s mother lives within all of us, and her pain mingles with police brutality and the war on terror and all the societal ills from which America is reeling.
Everyone should read this book.
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