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Andy Ingalls
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Francis Spufford
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“Dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times * “Energetic and hugely enjoyable.” —The Guardian, Best Fiction of the Year * “As intoxicating as a swig of bathtub gin.” —Good Housekeeping
The bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a “smoky, brooding noir set in the 1920s” (Slate) that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had thrived.
Like his earlier novel Golden Hill, Francis Spufford’s Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered 1920s—a fully imagined world filled with fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. In the main character of hard-boiled detective Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly epic proportions, a troubled soul to fall in love with as you are swept along by a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot.
One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the tempo of modern times. But this is Cahokia, the ancient indigenous city beside the Mississippi living on as a teeming industrial metropolis containing people of every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. Yet that corpse on the roof will spark a week of drama in which this altered world will spill its secrets and be brought, against a soundtrack of jazz clarinets and wailing streetcars, either to destruction or rebirth.
“Atmospheric…many of us will recognize our own held-breath bafflement, caught, as we are, on the darkling plain of our own barely believable times” (The Washington Post).©2024 Francis Spufford (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio
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When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos. Unsatisfied with the officials' response, sardonic and headstrong Sister Holiday becomes determined to unveil the mysterious attacker herself and return her home and sanctuary to its former peace. Her investigation leads down a twisty path of suspicion and secrets in the sticky, oppressive New Orleans heat, turning her against colleagues, students, and even fellow Sisters along the way.
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Great start to a new series!
- De todd wonders en 02-22-23
De: Margot Douaihy
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The Night Guest
- De: Hildur Knútsdóttir, Mary Robinette Kowal - translator
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Duración: 2 h y 42 m
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Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause. When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same—have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps. Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night.
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Interesting & creepy
- De Jaimie Welbourn en 09-20-24
De: Hildur Knútsdóttir, y otros
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By Way of Sorrow
- De: Robyn Gigl
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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Erin McCabe has been referred the biggest case of her career. Four months ago, William E. Townsend, Jr., son of a New Jersey state senator, was found fatally stabbed in a rundown motel near Atlantic City. Sharise Barnes, a 19-year-old transgender prostitute, is in custody, and given the evidence against her, there seems little doubt of a guilty verdict. Erin knows that defending Sharise will blow her own private life wide open, and doubtless deepen her estrangement from her family. Yet as a trans woman, she feels uniquely qualified to help Sharise.
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Excellent book!
- De adair look en 04-23-25
De: Robyn Gigl
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Rough Trade
- A Novel
- De: Katrina Carrasco
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers' market funneling product their way, Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spend their days moving product and their nights at the Monte Carlo, the center of Tacoma's queer scene, where skirts and trousers don't signify and everyone's free to suit themselves.
De: Katrina Carrasco
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May the Wolf Die
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Heider
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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Nikki Serafino is enjoying the sunset from her boat in her beloved port city of Naples, Italy, when she discovers the body of a man in the warm waters of the bay. An investigator working as the liaison between local police and American troops, Nikki is certainly no stranger to violence and organized crime, but this case grows complicated when the victim turns out to be a U.S. Navy captain stationed at the nearby military base—and the autopsy reveals foul play.
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Gripping story from the first page!
- De L. Roach en 08-07-24
De: Elizabeth Heider
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Gringos
- De: Charles Portis
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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For a time, Jimmy spent his expat days in Mexico unearthing pre-Columbian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing-person situation. But Jimmy’s laid-back lifestyle is being seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker named Louise. Add to this a sudden wave of hippies led by a murderous ex-con guru in search of psychic happenings, archaeologists unearthing (illegally) the Mayan tombs, and Louise and her weirdo husband’s quest for UFO sites, and Jimmy’s south-of-the-border existence is in danger.
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A modern Mark Twain
- De Patrick King en 06-29-23
De: Charles Portis
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Creation Lake
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Kushner
- Narrado por: Rachel Kushner
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.
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Author should not have been the reader
- De Raj A. en 09-11-24
De: Rachel Kushner
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Dissolution
- A Novel
- De: Nicholas Binge
- Narrado por: Charlotte Strevens, David Thorpe, Joe Eyre
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life. When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isn't losing his memories. Someone is actively removing them to hide a long-buried secret from coming to light. If Maggie does what she's told, she can reverse it. She can get her husband back.
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Lost interest after 25%
- De holly b en 04-08-25
De: Nicholas Binge
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Colored Television
- A Novel
- De: Danzy Senna
- Narrado por: Kristen Ariza
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her “mulatto War and Peace,” she’ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp. But things don’t work out quite as hoped.
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Frustrating
- De Carolyn White en 12-12-24
De: Danzy Senna
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Havoc
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Bollen
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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Eighty-one-year-old widow Maggie Burkhardt came to the Royal Karnak to escape. But not in quite the same way as most other guests who are relaxing at this hotel on the banks of the Nile. Maggie, a compulsive fixer of other people’s lives, may have found herself in hot water at her last hotel in Switzerland and just might have needed to get out of there fast. But here at the Royal Karnak, under the hot Saharan sun, she has a comfortable suite, a loyal confidante in the hotel manager, Ahmed, and a handful of sympathetic friends. One morning, however, Maggie notices a new arrival at check-in.
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Well written but not for animal lovers
- De Erin G en 01-11-25
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The Heart in Winter
- A Novel
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.
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Road to nowhere
- De Glenda O'Rourke en 07-29-24
De: Kevin Barry
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Liliana's Invincible Summer
- A Sister's Search for Justice
- De: Cristina Rivera Garza
- Narrado por: Victoria Villarreal
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she writes in her request to the attorney general, “and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.” It’s been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend.
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Incredible weaving of texts and perspectives to tell a compelling story
- De Jules en 08-17-24
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True Grit
- De: Charles Portis
- Narrado por: Donna Tartt
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie, as vital as she is innocent, outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages.
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So worth it!
- De Tommygaus en 12-29-10
De: Charles Portis
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So Far Gone
- A Novel
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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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.
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Masterful characters; gripping story.
- De LFR en 06-24-25
De: Jess Walter
Fantastic the whole way through.
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Amazing creative, gorgeous prose
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complex mystery with mystic undertones
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This novel resonates profoundly with me
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Cahokia feels so real
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I love how the author keeps dribbling out just enough detail to help understand the story. In a noir police procedural with a detective who’s part Native American — and in which larger political questions about control of Alaska loom! — he owes Chabon some kind of explicit nod to Berko Shemets and Meyer Landsman. Maybe it’s there but I missed it, or maybe I haven’t heard it yet.
The readers voice is just right. He does a wide variety of accents, possibly well, including Boston Brahmin, which isn’t easy!
If I have any complaints so far, it’s only that the audiobook should include maps of this fictional city and fictional world. I know they exist because I was able to find them by downloading a free sample of the Kindle book.
I’ll be buying a physical copy of this one sooner or later. Thanks!!
There’s a third alt-hist noir thriller!
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Imaginative noir
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Twist and turns, jazz
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Difficult to follow
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Interesting
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