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A Novel
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Simon Jimenez
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A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” (Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives” (Kirkus Reviews, Best Debut Fiction and Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year).
Finalist for the Locus Award • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Tordotcom and Kirkus Reviews
A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever.
I expected many things from this trip. I did not expect a family.
A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning.
But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
Praise for The Vanished Birds
“This is the most impressive debut of 2020.”(Locus)
“This extraordinary science fiction epic, which delves deep into the perils of failing to learn from one’s mistakes, is perfect for fans of big ideas and intimate reflections.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
“A lyrical and moving narrative of space travel, found families, and lost loves set against an evocative space-opera background.” (Booklist, starred review)
“The Vanished Birds finds an intimate heartbeat of longing in a saga of galactic progress and its crushing fallout.... A novel of vast scope that yet makes time for compassion, wonder, and poetry.” (Indra Das, author of The Devourers)
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- De Justin K Flora en 08-16-20
De: Amanda Dykes
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The Beholder
- De: Anna Bright
- Narrado por: Emily Rankin
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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Selah has waited her whole life for a happily ever after. As the only daughter of the leader of Potomac, she knows her duty is to find the perfect match. But after an excruciatingly public rejection, Selah’s stepmother suggests an unthinkable solution: Selah must set sail across the Atlantic to visit a series of potential suitors - and if she doesn’t come home engaged, she shouldn’t come home at all. From the gardens of England to the fjords of Norge, Selah’s quest will be the journey of a lifetime. But her stepmother’s schemes aren’t the only secrets hiding belowdecks.
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A hot mess
- De Whimsical Dragonette en 07-07-19
De: Anna Bright
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The Invasion of Heaven
- Part One of the Newirth Mythology
- De: Michael B. Koep
- Narrado por: Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Psychologist Loche Newirth becomes hunted when he sees a painting that opens a window onto the afterlife. An ancient order of men seeking to control the art pursue him across the world, through centuries, into madness, and beyond. The first part of Michael B. Koep's the Newirth Mythology The Invasion of Heaven is mystery, adventure, myth, betrayal, murder, and madness. Loche Newirth wonders if it was his fall: The 50-foot drop from the rocky cliff to the icy water below. Is this why he has been hallucinating?
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Good story - well written
- De Amy Q en 05-17-20
De: Michael B. Koep
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Survival
- Species Imperative, Book 1
- De: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrado por: Angele Masters
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Herself a biologist, Julie E. Czerneda has earned a reputation in science fiction circles for her ability to create beautifully crafted, imaginative, yet believably realized alien races. In Survival, the first novel in her new series, Species Imperative, she draws upon this talent to build races, characters, and a universe which will draw listeners into a magnificent tale of interstellar intrigue, as an Earth scientist is caught up in a terrifying interspecies conflict.
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I study salmon!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-05-20
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Secrets in the Mist
- Skyworld, Book 1
- De: Morgan L. Busse
- Narrado por: Taylor Meskimen
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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In a world where humanity lives in the sky to escape a deadly mist below, Cass’s only goal is survival. That is, until she finds a job on the airship Daedalus as a diver. Now she explores ruined cities, looking for treasure and people’s lost heirlooms until a young man hires her to find the impossible: a way to eradicate the Mist.
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Loved it!
- De Hunter Duran en 04-18-24
De: Morgan L. Busse
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- De: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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A princess in a castle can't fend for herself
- De Summer en 11-11-19
De: Alix E. Harrow
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Migration
- Species Imperative, Book 2
- De: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrado por: Angele Masters
- Duración: 20 h y 24 m
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Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor was a biologist who studied the spawning habits of salmon. Then, last season, just as she and Dr. Emily Mamani were starting their research, they were interrupted by the arrival of Brymm, the first Dhryn to set foot on Earth. And suddenly everything changed for Mac, Emily, Brymn, the human race, and all the member races of the Interspecies Union. Base was attacked, Em was kidnapped by the mysterious Ro, and Mac and brymn had to flee for their lives to the Dhryn home world.
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Love the story - 'hero's' voice not for me
- De GADFLY64 en 11-04-20
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The Event
- De: Nathan Hystad
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guides Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.
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Did not inspire me to get the next book.
- De MD en 12-13-18
De: Nathan Hystad
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Whose Waves These Are
- De: Amanda Dykes
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose...and rocks. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes. Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help.
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Great Story
- De Rita N. Bulington en 07-08-21
De: Amanda Dykes
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The Lost Melody
- De: Joanna Davidson Politano
- Narrado por: Amy Scanlon
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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When concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant’s father dies, he leaves to her the care of a patient at Hurstwell Asylum. Vivienne had no idea the woman existed, and yet her portrait is shockingly familiar. When the asylum claims she was never a patient there, Vivienne is compelled to discover what happened to the figure she remembers from childhood dreams.
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New favorite!!!
- De Lisa Scott en 12-13-22
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Outpost
- De: W. Michael Gear
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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Donovan is a world of remarkable wealth that comes at a high price. When Supervisor Kalico Aguila's ship arrives, she discovers a failing colony, its government overthrown, the few remaining colonists gone wild. Donovan could make her career - or kill her. Planetside, Talina Perez is one of three rulers of the Port Authority colony - the only law in the one remaining town. With the Corporate ship demanding answers about the things she's done, Perez could lose everything, including her life. For Dan Wirth, Donovan is a last chance. A psychopath with a death sentence looming over his head, he will make a desperate play for power. No matter who he has to corrupt, murder, or destroy. Captain Max Taggart is the Corporation's enforcer. But is it too late to seize control of Donovan?
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Must have been written for teenage girls
- De Bob en 03-30-20
De: W. Michael Gear
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The Gilda Stories
- De: Jewelle Gomez
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next 200 years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story.
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A Critical and Timely Classic
- De Qasima Wideman en 08-09-19
De: Jewelle Gomez
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Mira's Return: The Complete Series: A Mermaid Fantasy Adventure & Prequel to the Elemental Origins Series
- De: A.L. Knorr
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Mira is a mermaid on a mission. It’s time to leave the ocean. Mira Belshaw has been at sea for...well, she doesn’t know how many years. It’s hard to keep track of time when you live in the ocean. But after enough time, the salt water triggers the desire to procreate, and her time is up. Finding a mate is the most important thing to her right now, and to do that, she has to return to the place where she was last human - the coastal city of Saltford.
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Mermaid Mira
- De Shoe Monger en 04-10-20
De: A.L. Knorr
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- De: V. E. Schwab
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
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France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever - and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
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Prose style not to my liking
- De C.V. Cox en 10-18-20
De: V. E. Schwab
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Song of the Forever Rains
- The Mousai, Book 1
- De: E.J. Mellow
- Narrado por: Madeline Lake, Nelson Hobbs
- Duración: 13 h y 43 m
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The Thief Kingdom is a place hidden within the world of Aadilor. Many whisper of its existence, but few have found this place, where magic and pleasure abound. There, the mysterious Thief King reigns supreme with the help of the Mousai, a trio of revered and feared sorceresses. Larkyra Bassette may be the youngest of the Mousai, but when she sings her voice has the power to slay monsters. When it’s discovered the Duke of Lachlan is siphoning a poisonous drug from the Thief Kingdom and using it to abuse his tenants, Larkyra is offered her first solo mission to stop the duke.
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couldn't finish
- De Mae Fishel en 08-25-21
De: E.J. Mellow
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The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released.
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Brilliant, wonderful book -- horrible recording
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The City & The City
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Reviews, Dishonesty and The Emperor's New Clothes
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5-star Concept; Too Many Threads Left Hanging
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January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion.
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WW 1 and the Apocolypse
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Hyperion
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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The Shrike Awaits. Enter The Time Tombs...
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Jade Shards
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Blood over Bright Haven
- A Novel
- De: M. L. Wang
- Narrado por: Moira Quirk
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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For twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry at the University of Magics and Industry. When Sciona finally achieves her ambition and becomes a Highmage, she finds her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues are determined to make her feel unwelcome—and instead of a qualified lab assistant they give her a janitor.
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De: M. L. Wang
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- Ada Lane
- 11-14-24
The most beautiful story
It is rare for a book to so encapsulate the human condition. This touches the soul
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- GG
- 03-16-20
Didn't live up to potential
The concepts, character development, and description of the ways in which the characters experience time was phenomenal. However, the overall story felt lacking. After the climax (at least, I think it was the climax because it took almost the entire book to get there), the story faded away a bit and I was close to losing interest. By the ending, I wasn't really invested anymore. Interesting, but I feel like it had so much more potential.
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- Tyler
- 04-23-21
Great book. Wow.
I loved this novel. Would have loved for it to last a bit longer, but wow, ended it misty eyed.
I will say the narrator did a pretty great job, despite her portrayal of male characters being hard to distinguish at times. Other than that she was great.
Great book if you love space opera. Highly recommend.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-08-25
The Narrator's Melancholy Was Too Much
I read the first 30 or so pages of this book and very much enjoyed it. Like a lot of best sellers, it's heavy on despair but there was enough levity for me to want to continue the journey.
The audiobook made that despair much more prevalent. The narrator has a Melancholy delivery. words are drawn out in a dramatic way that reminds me of when a friend is quietly explaining something very sad and personal. after hours of this delivery and the sad tones of the book itself, I was done. It was no longer a fun adventure balanced by moments of seriousness, it was simply a sad trudge through other people's lives.
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- Andrew W. Taylor
- 08-23-23
Ambitious premise that fails to deliver
The story starts out with incredible promise and an intriguing premise but I had a hard time connecting emotionally to the characters. The author has a habit of switching view point characters frequently seeming to abandon their story once you get invested as a reader. Without revealing spoilers I felt like the second half of the novel dragged and the resolution was not as satisfying as I hoped it might be.
While the narrator does a good job infusing this story with emotion their range of voices left me wanting after to many characters started to sound like kids from a cartoon.
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- Liliana
- 06-29-24
really enjoyed it.
Fantasy with a splash of sci fi. perfect for those of us who don't gravitate toward Sci fi as much
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- Brenda
- 02-15-20
Incredible Deeply moving
I love science fiction for its exploration of big themes like what does it mean to be human and what is our place in the universe. This story delivers one that is much more personal and specific. It destroyed me. Reduced to tears so that I had to pull over to the side of the road more than once. Deeply moving on many levels. Also delivers the space tech and world building if that is your thing. This is an immediate favorite , an incredible debut novel, and I can’t wait to see what Jimenez comes up with next.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 07-12-22
Avian jaunts
Simon Jimenez' The Vanished Birds is an intriguing story spanning one thousand years. During Earth's environmental collapse a young engineer is critical to the design of space stations and manages to get off planet (although leaving her lover behind). Throughout successive cryogenic sleep cycles she manages to amass fortune and influence. The 1K future world is a bit colonial with planets supplying foodstuffs and other materials for the conglomerate that owns the space stations. One one world, a boy is found among space wreckage and becomes the key in a power struggle between the engineer and the conglomerate. The boy has the ability to 'jaunt; or travel interstellar distances directly. Eventually he is captured, and the conglomerate learns his secret, but keeps him in coma using his blood for the interstellar drive. The engineer takes her revenge on the conglomerate and the boy and the captain who raised him are re-united.
Jimenez provide quite a bit of backstory for the characters such that the tale is more a story, rather than a novel. The secret of the boy's jaunts remains a mystery, nor was it ever clear how he was first identified and how everyone seems to know of him.
The narration was reasonable with decent character distinction. Pacing is smooth and brisk.
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- Rachel
- 06-28-23
Unusual
I really liked it a lot. It’s not your usual sci-fi and that’s part of its charm. Can’t say it was a happy ending, but it was an excellent one. You can’t be a lazy listener or you will get a little lost.
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- David
- 02-08-20
Character driven, tech minimum space opera
Unusual book about chosen families and memory (and colonialism, too) in a space opera setting. Some beautiful writing. Will look forward to author’s next book. Narrator conveys story well.
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