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From award-winning Dutch author Martin Michael Driessen comes a fearlessly funny tragedy about an improbable friendship, unstable dreams, missed opportunities, and epic coincidence.
In a quiet coastal town in Yugoslavia, two men seeking more than the Communist regime can offer find their lives deceitfully entwined.
Andrej is a postman in complete denial of his existence. He yearns for respect and fame but commits petty crimes for reasons he doesn’t fully comprehend. Josip is an increasingly irrelevant cable car operator and unfaithfully married. Life was so much simpler when neither one knew the other’s secrets. Now that they do - discovered quite by accident - each man has resorted to blackmailing the other. As their anonymous misdeeds escalate, a farce of mutual dependency begins. So does the unlikeliest of friendships when Andrej and Josip finally meet face-to-face.
In a tale set against the impending wars, Martin Michael Driessen ingeniously explores the foibles of two painfully ordinary men boldly staking their claims on life.
©2019 Martin Michael Driessen (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2019 by Jonathan Reeder.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view, fine wine (and plenty of it), and her family close around. When death instead takes her handsome young friend Valentino - and under mysterious circumstances at that - Poldi will not take it lying down. Perhaps it's in her blood, but Auntie Poldi's hunting instincts have never felt more alive. Justice must be served - if it's the last thing she does....
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5 out of 5 stars
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More fun and murder in Sicily!
- De MolllyT en 02-19-18
De: Mario Giordano
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Who Is Vera Kelly?
- De: Rosalie Knecht
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 183
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New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.
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2 out of 5 stars
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not a whole lot of spycraft just a good story
- De Kirra Krussman en 01-19-19
De: Rosalie Knecht
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Life for Sale
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Kotaro Watanabe
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots - even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the crosshairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book is good - Narration is just terrible
- De Vyacheslav Varlakov en 03-12-21
De: Yukio Mishima
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Fellowship of Fear
- Gideon Oliver Mysteries Series, Book 1
- De: Aaron Elkins
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. On his first night, he is forced to fend off two desperate, black-clad men who have invaded his Heidelberg hotel room with intent to kill. And then there are a few trivial details that the recruiting agency forgot to mention - such as the fact that the two previous holders of the fellowship both met with mysterious ends.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful
- De Christine M. en 07-14-19
De: Aaron Elkins
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Dolphin Junction
- Stories
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: David Thorpe, Emma Powell, Gerard Doyle, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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Now, for the first time, Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five stand-alone nerve-racking and thrilling crime fiction stories are complemented by four mystery stories featuring the Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of shrewd Zoë Boehm and hapless Joe Silvermann. The collection also includes a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top agent at Slough House.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wicked treats
- De A+A en 11-24-21
De: Mick Herron
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
- De: Michael Koryta
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay, Janina Edwards, Fajer Al-Kaisi, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrators are outstanding here.
- De Jennifer Baratta She/Her en 05-16-21
De: Michael Koryta
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Yours Until Death
- Varg Veum
- De: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrado por: Colin Mace
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Scandinavian Mystery!
- De Peoko en 07-12-17
De: Gunnar Staalesen
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Fifteen Postcards
- The Old Curiosity Shop, Book 1
- De: Kirsten McKenzie
- Narrado por: Tracey Llewelyn
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards that leads her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards weave about their reclusive former owner, Sarah’s life is thrown into disarray as she is transported to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand, and to the British Raj in 19th-century India.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing and disorganized
- De Miranda en 03-16-22
De: Kirsten McKenzie
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Tender Is the Night
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Subtle yet grand
- De jb en 10-12-15
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The Murderer in Ruins
- CI Frank Stave, Book 1
- De: Cay Rademacher
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shantytowns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wasn't sure at first, but...
- De John S. en 01-14-21
De: Cay Rademacher
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The Godmothers
- A Novel
- De: Camille Aubray
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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Meet the Godmothers: Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family's favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy French girl from upstate New York, escapes an abusive husband after falling in love with Johnny, the oldest of the brothers. Lucy, a tough-as-nails Irish nurse, ran away from a strict girls' home and marries Frankie, the sensuous middle son. And the glamorous Petrina, the family's only daughter, graduates with honors from Barnard College despite a past trauma that nearly caused a family scandal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Easy Enjoyable Read
- De Bunny en 06-23-21
De: Camille Aubray
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
- De: Robert Hillman
- Narrado por: Daniel Lapaine
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Listener beware
- De Little old lady from Iowa en 06-11-23
De: Robert Hillman
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Fletch
- De: Gregory Mcdonald
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,682
The acidly funny first book starring the subversive sleuth in one of the most successful mystery series of all time. Fletch is an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he's living on the beach. He's taking more than a little flak from his editor. She doesn't appreciate his style. Or the expense account items he's racking up. Or his definition of the word "deadline". Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office. So when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, he's intrigued.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Fletch is Literally a Psychopath
- De Kindle Customer en 02-09-21
De: Gregory Mcdonald
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Painting the Light
- A Novel
- De: Sally Cabot Gunning
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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Martha’s Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston’s renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed “unthinkable” for women to take and showing a budding talent for watercolors. But no more. Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of a seaside farm on Vineyard Haven and wife to Ezra, a once-charming man who has become an inattentive and altogether unreliable husband.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Slow the narrator to speed 8 and it’s beautifully read
- De Storytellersrus en 04-21-22
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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Death at Greenway
- A Novel
- De: Lori Rader-Day
- Narrado por: Moira Quirk
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christie’s holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story & characters that kept me company
- De Kim Fountain en 10-24-21
De: Lori Rader-Day
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Florida Roadkill
- De: Tim Dorsey
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,140
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,008
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,016
Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money. On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals - and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs... and the suitcase.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Its a Mad Mad Mad Florida!
- De Mark en 09-26-11
De: Tim Dorsey
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A Different Drummer
- De: William Melvin Kelley
- Narrado por: Jay Smooth
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
June 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the state’s entire black population, throwing the established order into brilliant disarray. Told from the points of view of the white residents who remained, A Different Drummer stands, decades after its first publication in 1962, as an extraordinary and prescient triumph of satire and spirit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful and moving story
- De E. en 10-25-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Pelican
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Kevin Richardson
- 04-17-20
A great listen
Completely takes you on a journey. A marvelous listen. Highly recommended. One of the best books I’ve ever listened to
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- R Walters
- 12-18-19
How about rating books for content?
This book might have had a clever story, but I don’t know because it was vulgar, which has been unnecessary in other truly hilarious books I’ve read. I wouldn’t have bothered borrowing through Kindle Unlimited had I known that it would be graphic.
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