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Jess Walter
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One of President Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2019
From the New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter - a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and favorite
These 12 stories - published over the last five years in Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's, Playboy, and other publications - veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing.
We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a "ridiculously talented writer" (New York Times), "one of the freshest voices in American literature" (Dallas Morning News).
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Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone - the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to? Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: Smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving, disturbing, and humorous
- De Julie en 08-26-11
De: A. S. King
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The Switch
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: Mark Hammer
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 104
Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they were both doing time for grand theft auto. Now that they're out, they're joining forces for one big score. The plan is to kidnap the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer and hold her for ransom. But they didn't figure the lowlife husband wouldn't want his lady back. So it's time for Plan B and the opportunity to make a real killing - with the unlikely help of a beautiful, ticked-off housewife who's hungry for a large helping of sweet revenge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Annoying reader
- De Randall en 12-15-11
De: Elmore Leonard
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American Rust
- De: Philipp Meyer
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 601
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 496
Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation-as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love-that arise from its loss. From local bars to train yards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Web of Despair and Desperation
- De Darwin8u en 07-16-12
De: Philipp Meyer
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Domestic Violets
- A Novel
- De: Matthew Norman
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned 35, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality, though, is far different. He’s got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he’s written a novel, but the manuscript he’s slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords....
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a rollicking ride!
- De Pamela Harvey en 08-13-11
De: Matthew Norman
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The Drop
- De: Dennis Lehane
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 474
Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets a damaged woman looking for something to believe in. As their relationship grows, they cross paths with the Chechen mafia; a man grown dangerous with age and thwarted hopes; two hapless stick-up artists; a very curious cop; and the original owner of the puppy, who wants his dog bac.k…
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3 out of 5 stars
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THAT IS LIFE,
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 12-06-14
De: Dennis Lehane
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The Free
- A Novel (P.S.)
- De: Willy Vlautin
- Narrado por: Willy Vlautin
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In his heartbreaking yet hopeful fourth novel, award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for illuminating the disquiet of modern American life, captured in the experiences of three memorable characters looking for meaning in distressing times. Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy Kervin has lived in a group home for eight years. Frustrated by the simplest daily routines, he finds his existence has become unbearable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Free Fallin', Brilliantly
- De W Perry Hall en 03-11-14
De: Willy Vlautin
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- De: Juliann Garey
- Narrado por: Dan Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 454
In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- De Vira en 04-02-13
De: Juliann Garey
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Samaritan
- De: Richard Price
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
After a successful L.A. television career, Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey housing project where he grew up, to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter, and give back to the community. Things are looking up: he's seeing a woman from the old neighborhood and teaching at his high school. But suddenly, he is found savagely beaten. He knows who did it, but won't talk. It's up to Nerese Ammons, a childhood acquaintance and now a police detective, to get Ray to tell what happened.
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5 out of 5 stars
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another fix for Wire fans
- De AmazonShoppingQueen en 04-19-08
De: Richard Price
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The Turner House
- De: Angela Flournoy
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 667
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 597
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 599
The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over 50 years. Their house has seen 13 children grown and gone - and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. But now, as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a 10th of its mortgage.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narrator's performance made the difference.
- De KT en 06-11-15
De: Angela Flournoy
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Baltimore Blues
- Tess Monaghan, Book 1
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Deborah Hazlett
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,505
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,204
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,196
Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- De connie en 02-19-12
De: Laura Lippman
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The Winter of Frankie Machine
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,087
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,700
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,696
Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. An affable Italian with a love of people and life, he's a stand-up businessman, devoted father, and a beloved fixture in the community. He's also a hit man - specifically, a retired hit man. Back in the day when he was one of the most feared members of the West Coast Mafia, he was known as Frankie Machine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five stars straight across the board
- De Eric Taylor en 06-28-12
De: Don Winslow
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Out of Sight
- A Novel
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 356
World-class gentleman felon Jack Foley is busting out of Florida's Glades Prison when he runs head on into a shotgun-wielding Karen Sisco. Suddenly he's sharing a cramped car trunk with the classy, disarmed federal marshal and the chemistry is working overtime - and as soon as she escapes, he's already missing her. But there are bad men and a major score waiting for Jack in Motown. And the next time his path crosses Karen's, chances are she's going to be there for business, not pleasure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely classic Leonard: as good as it gets.
- De Richard Delman en 08-12-12
De: Elmore Leonard
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Chelsea Girls
- A Novel
- De: Eileen Myles
- Narrado por: Eileen Myles
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinatingly skanky
- De Megon J. Walker en 07-15-16
De: Eileen Myles
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The Last Place You Look
- De: Kristen Lepionka
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 297
Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alcoholic PI
- De Karwyn en 05-17-18
De: Kristen Lepionka
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Cold City
- Repairman Jack: Early Years Trilogy, Book 1
- De: F. Paul Wilson
- Narrado por: Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,057
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,052
If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun, as long you don't think too much
- De Andrew Pollack en 01-17-14
De: F. Paul Wilson
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- De Monique en 01-08-19
De: Tim Gautreaux
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361
- A Hard Case Crime Novel
- De: Donald E. Westlake
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 195
The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospital, it was a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad. From the mind of the incomparable Donald E. Westlake comes a devastating story of betrayal and revenge, an exploration of the limits of family loyalty and how far a man will go when everything he loves is taken from him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Numbers mean violence
- De Ryan en 03-23-21
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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The Angel of Rome
- And Other Stories
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 310
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 307
We all live like we’re famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing and narration
- De Robyn en 09-30-22
De: Jess Walter
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The Cold Millions
- A Novel
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 970
The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains, and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While 16-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar, and who introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: A wealthy mining magnate who will stop at nothing to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story ....Hard to follow on Audio
- De zman en 11-13-20
De: Jess Walter
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So Far Gone
- A Novel
- De: Jess Walter
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
A few weeks after the 2016 election, at Thanksgiving with his daughter’s family, Rhys Kinnick snapped. After an escalating fight about politics, he hauled off and punched his conspiracy theorist son-in-law. Horrified by what he'd done, by the state of the country and by his own spiraling mental health, Rhys chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, off the grid and with no one around—except a pack of hungry raccoons. Now, seven years later, Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep.
De: Jess Walter
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The Financial Lives of the Poets
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Jess Walter
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 540
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 446
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 448
A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. When his big idea - and his wife's eBay resale business - ends with a whimper (and a garage full of unwanted figurines), they borrow and borrow, whistling past the graveyard of their uncertain dreams.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Want What They're Having.
- De Amanda en 06-21-12
De: Jess Walter
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The Way the World Ends
- Warmer collection
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 1 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 380
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 379
For three strangers whose paths will cross, the storm hasn’t even reached its peak. Two of them are the kind of climate scientists no one ever listens to in disaster movies. The third, against even icier opposition, has just moved to the Magnolia State to come out. Soon they’ll all be pushed closer to the edge, where the bracing winds of cataclysmic change can be so wildly liberating.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Excuse for Political Rambling
- De Abby en 09-07-19
De: Jess Walter
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The Dollmakers
- A Novel from the Fallen Peaks
- De: Lynn Buchanan
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
In the country called One, dollmakers are vital members of the community. An artisan’s doll is the height of society’s accomplishments, while a guard’s doll is the only thing standing between the people of One and the Shod: vicious, cobbled monstrosities that will tear apart any structure—living or dead, inanimate or otherwise—to add to their horde. Apprentice Shean of Pearl is a brilliant dollmaker. With her clever dolls, she intends to outsmart and destroy the Shod, once and for all—a destiny she’s worked her whole life toward accomplishing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cozy-creepy story set in a richly developed world
- De Annia en 08-24-24
De: Lynn Buchanan
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The Angel of Rome
- And Other Stories
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 310
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 307
We all live like we’re famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing and narration
- De Robyn en 09-30-22
De: Jess Walter
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The Cold Millions
- A Novel
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 970
The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains, and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While 16-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar, and who introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: A wealthy mining magnate who will stop at nothing to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story ....Hard to follow on Audio
- De zman en 11-13-20
De: Jess Walter
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So Far Gone
- A Novel
- De: Jess Walter
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
A few weeks after the 2016 election, at Thanksgiving with his daughter’s family, Rhys Kinnick snapped. After an escalating fight about politics, he hauled off and punched his conspiracy theorist son-in-law. Horrified by what he'd done, by the state of the country and by his own spiraling mental health, Rhys chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, off the grid and with no one around—except a pack of hungry raccoons. Now, seven years later, Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep.
De: Jess Walter
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The Financial Lives of the Poets
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Jess Walter
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 540
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 446
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 448
A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. When his big idea - and his wife's eBay resale business - ends with a whimper (and a garage full of unwanted figurines), they borrow and borrow, whistling past the graveyard of their uncertain dreams.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Want What They're Having.
- De Amanda en 06-21-12
De: Jess Walter
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The Way the World Ends
- Warmer collection
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 1 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 380
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 379
For three strangers whose paths will cross, the storm hasn’t even reached its peak. Two of them are the kind of climate scientists no one ever listens to in disaster movies. The third, against even icier opposition, has just moved to the Magnolia State to come out. Soon they’ll all be pushed closer to the edge, where the bracing winds of cataclysmic change can be so wildly liberating.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Excuse for Political Rambling
- De Abby en 09-07-19
De: Jess Walter
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The Dollmakers
- A Novel from the Fallen Peaks
- De: Lynn Buchanan
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
In the country called One, dollmakers are vital members of the community. An artisan’s doll is the height of society’s accomplishments, while a guard’s doll is the only thing standing between the people of One and the Shod: vicious, cobbled monstrosities that will tear apart any structure—living or dead, inanimate or otherwise—to add to their horde. Apprentice Shean of Pearl is a brilliant dollmaker. With her clever dolls, she intends to outsmart and destroy the Shod, once and for all—a destiny she’s worked her whole life toward accomplishing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cozy-creepy story set in a richly developed world
- De Annia en 08-24-24
De: Lynn Buchanan
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Beautiful Ruins
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 12,495
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,963
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10,958
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
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3 out of 5 stars
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My mind wandered
- De Ella en 11-25-12
De: Jess Walter
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City of Light
- DI Dan Clement and Snowy Lane, Book 1
- De: Dave Warner
- Narrado por: Ric Herbert
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
'Jesus Christ. I found one.' These words are blurted over the phone to Constable Snowy Lane, who is preoccupied with no more than a ham sandwich and getting a game with the East Fremantle league side on Saturday. They signal the beginning of a series of events that are to shake Perth to its foundations. It is 1979, and Perth is jumping with pub bands and overnight millionaires. 'Mr Gruesome' has just taken another victim. Snowy's life and career are to be forever changed by the grim deeds of a serial killer and the dark bloom spreading across the City of Light.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not great
- De tobias schneider en 11-27-24
De: Dave Warner
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Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
- A Novel
- De: Alexandra Potter
- Narrado por: Sally Phillips
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 187
Meet Nell. Her life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell's happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she’s been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, a sky-high real estate market forces her to rent a room in a stranger’s house, and everyone has seemingly perfect Instagram-ready lives. Starting from scratch she feels like a f**k up . . . a forty-something f**k up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Enjoyable! Not Really Like The Show...
- De Kindle Customer en 09-20-23
De: Alexandra Potter
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Ruthless Sinner
- Empire of Sinners, Book 1
- De: Faith Summers
- Narrado por: Ada Sinclair, Stephen Borne
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
I'm the governor's daughter, and he's a mafia boss in the Bratva. It was a no-brainer. I was forbidden to him and him to me. But when we met at his nightclub, I thought he was my prince charming. I couldn't fight my attraction to the tattooed Russian god any more than he could for me. Dante Levitsky is tall, dark, and dangerously handsome with Mediterranean blue eyes you could swim in forever. Our chemistry is the type people read about and wish for their whole lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story
- De Flawesome en 02-01-24
De: Faith Summers
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His Dark Materials: Once upon a Time in the North
- De: Philip Pullman
- Narrado por: David Harewood
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
In this prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby—Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua—is just 24 years old, and he's recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are quickly tangled in a deadly plot involving an oil magnate, a corrupt mayoral candidate, and Lee's longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country, a hired killer with at least twenty murders to his name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Wendy Strgar, sagebrushbooks en 10-04-24
De: Philip Pullman
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For She Is Wrath
- De: Emily Varga
- Narrado por: Safiyya Ingar
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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Framed for a crime she didn't commit, Dania counts down her days in prison until she can exact revenge on Mazin, the boy responsible for her downfall, the boy she once loved—and still can't forget. When she discovers a fellow prisoner may have the key to exacting that vengeance—a stolen djinn treasure—they execute a daring escape together and search for the hidden treasure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MASTERFUL
- De ER en 01-08-25
De: Emily Varga
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Servant of Earth
- The Shards of Magic, Book 1
- De: Sarah Hawley
- Narrado por: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 107
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Kenna Heron is best known in her village for being a little wild—some say half feral—but she’ll need every ounce of that ferocity to survive captivity in the cruel Fae court. Trapped as a servant in the faeries’ underground kingdom of Mistei, Kenna must help her new mistress undertake six deadly trials, one for each branch of magic: Fire, Earth, Light, Void, Illusion, and Blood. If she succeeds, her mistress will gain immortality and become the heir to Earth House. If she doesn’t, the punishment is death—for both mistress and servant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great find!
- De adblackburn9 en 03-01-25
De: Sarah Hawley
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Beating Heart Baby
- De: Lio Min
- Narrado por: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, Jensen Silvio
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone except for the prickly, proud musical prodigy Suwa, who doesn’t think Santi has what it takes to be in the band. But Santi and Suwa share painful pasts, and when they open up to each other, a tentative friendship begins. And soon, that friendship turns into something more.
De: Lio Min
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Half Past
- A Novel
- De: Victoria Helen Stone
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 677
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At forty-five, Hannah Smith is at a crossroads. That's her spin on it. The reality is she's divorced, jobless, and moving back to her family home in Iowa to keep an eye on her mother, who's slipping into dementia. Her return stirs up the same unnerving sense of disconnect Hannah has felt since childhood - always the odd girl out, the loner outshone by her two older sisters. Hannah knew the feelings of hurt would come back. But she never expected fear....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Imagine being 45 years old and...
- De shelley en 09-22-17
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
- De: Candace Fleming
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr, Eugene Alper, Mark Deakins, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs - at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns) deftly maneuvers between the imperial family’s extravagant lives and the plight of Russia's poor masses, making this an utterly mesmerizing listen as well as a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards.
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2 out of 5 stars
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terrible narration
- De michael en 09-09-14
De: Candace Fleming
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The Matchmaker
- De: Paul Vidich
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door. She had been targeted by the Matchmaker—a high-level East German counterintelligence officer who runs a network of Stasi agents.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful to listen
- De English major en 05-13-22
De: Paul Vidich
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Devil's Mark
- The Reckless Damned, Book 1
- De: Lark Taylor
- Narrado por: Joel Leslie, Dan Calley
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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I’ve never wanted a relationship—especially not with a human. With my father demanding my return to Hell and a demon leaving dead bodies in my bookshop, now is not the time to lose my heart. One look in Oscar’s broken eyes, and I know I’m in trouble. Oscar’s been hurt before, and everything in me screams to keep him safe. How can I do that when I know being with me will only put him in more danger? More importantly, am I strong enough to walk away from him?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dan Calley's voice could pull me out of a coma
- De Amber Norsworthy en 09-22-23
De: Lark Taylor
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- Kevin Crumpton
- 04-16-21
Very dark stories
I love Jess Walter but found most of these stories very dark and depressing. The last story about Spokane read by Jess pretty much explains where his thoughts are these days.
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- Debo
- 05-30-23
Insightful stories
Jess Walter is an extremely talented author. This collection offers debut of the characters and insightful stories providing a slice of life that is new to me. The narration is impeccable.
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- Shannaz
- 02-03-21
Sad, funny, painfully reality
Beautiful narration, humorous, but such wrenching reality about the poor, disenfranchised, hopelessly lost segment of society that everyone above that level try to forget.
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- Aerin Dunford
- 05-09-15
Great stories!
Really drew me in and kept me interested in the characters... Specially cuz I lived in Spokane for a bout!
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- A Peaceful One
- 10-22-18
Such a beautiful collection of short stories!
If you love Jess, pick up this book. He is a word master! I look forward to his next book :)
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- Michael Beilenson
- 01-25-17
Wonderful stories
The stories are engaging quickwitted and a joy to read. Each individual story draws you in quickly And keeps you interested throughout the entire process. Well written, i'll be very sorry when it's over. Overall a great read
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- One Wendy
- 06-26-21
I really enjoyed this book!
These stories portray unexpected protagonists and is very witty and clever. There where many unexpected twists which kept me engaged. I stumbled into the this book but it makes me want to read more from Jess Walter
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- Manifesta
- 09-19-15
Devastating and graceful stories
This is Jess Walter's first story collection, and whether you're a fan of his novels, or coming to his work for the first time, this is a must read. The stories are generally sad, but leavened with humor, empathy-inducing characters, and universal truths. The first two stories, especially, broke my heart wide-open. Edoardo Ballerini's beautifully moderated narration adds immensely to the beauty of these stories. The final one, and autobiographical listing read by Walter himself, is the perfect finishing touch. An excellent collection that I know I will revisit.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-05-21
Fellow Spokanites thoughts
The stories were a little depressing but real for our area. I’m still here too. The people are mostly good and hard working. It is a beautiful place to live if you like being outdoors. The reader using the New York accent whenever hie was the tough guy was weird. And he mispronounced some of the local area names.
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- Bonny
- 04-08-13
We Live in Gritty Realism...
With this story collection, it's clear that we're no longer at the Hotel Adequate View with Jess Walter. I loved Beautiful Ruins and think it showed the incredible range of Walter's writing ability, but these stories show mainly gritty realism, those broken and dispossessed, maladjusted and malfunctional. Some of these stories are very short, too short for me to understand the characters in any depth. Some of them also end very abruptly, which left me with the feeling that they were more verbal "descriptions" than stories. With the last story, "Statistical Abstract For My Home Town, Spokane, Washington", Walter does a good job tying the collection together. While We Live in Water is perfectly adequate, it's just not my personal favorite from Jess Walter.
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