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Tom Stechschulte
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Cormac McCarthy
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In this taut, chilling audiobook, Lester Ballard - a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape - haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.
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- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 179
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 178
One of the world's most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose, but they must preserve their terrible secret.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of his best
- By Yennta on 04-03-10
By: Ian McEwan
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The Road
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23,067
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,017
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,029
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ARE YOU CARRYING THE FIRE?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-14-16
By: Cormac McCarthy
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Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,507
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,489
Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful nightmare
- By Ryan on 07-11-11
By: Cormac McCarthy
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No Country for Old Men
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,611
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,082
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,073
Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional, engrossing, frightening.
- By P. Giorgio on 07-27-13
By: Cormac McCarthy
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Starve Acre
- A Novel
- By: Andrew Michael Hurley
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 26
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, Juliette seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pointless book
- By Jessica on 02-05-25
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The Keep
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner, Geneva Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 882
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 740
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Story4 out of 5 stars 735
Two cousins, devastated by a childhood prank, reunite 20 years later to renovate a castle in Eastern Europe. The fortress has a bloody history that stretches back hundreds of years. Amid extreme paranoia and eerie silence, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Utterly disappointing.
- By J. Lee on 04-01-19
By: Jennifer Egan
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My Confession
- Recollections of a Rogue
- By: Samuel Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Nick Gallagher
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession is a quintessential American tale of a young man's unbridled escapades across the vastness of the Western Frontier. From humble beginnings in Boston, Chamberlain journeyed to Texas to fight in the Mexican-American War and eventually fell in with the notorious Glanton Gang, a brutal group of scalp-hunters immortalized in Cormac McCarthy's Western masterpiece Blood Meridian.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Abrupt Ending
- By Vladimir Taylor on 05-08-25
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Butcher’s Crossing
- By: John Williams
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 574
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Story4 out of 5 stars 512
In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Holocaust of Hides
- By Darwin8u on 11-13-15
By: John Williams
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The Violent Bear It Away
- By: Flannery O’ Connor
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,223
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,063
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,060
The orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousin, Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle - that Tarwater will become a prophet and will baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. A series of struggles ensue, as Tarwater fights an internal battle against his innate faith and the voices calling him to be a prophet, while Rayber tries to draw Tarwater into a more “reasonable” modern world. Both wrestle with the legacy of their dead relatives and lay claim to Bishop's soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Biblical, American and Absolutely Brutal
- By Darwin8u on 10-22-12
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Let the Right One In
- A Novel
- By: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ebba Segerberg - translator
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 209
It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing, a modern Gothic Tale
- By Brian H. on 11-27-22
By: John Ajvide Lindqvist, and others
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The Shining Girls
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Beukes
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,341
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,207
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,207
Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.
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3 out of 5 stars
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You will either love it or hate it
- By L. O. Pardue on 07-16-13
By: Lauren Beukes
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The Hollow Kind
- A Novel
- By: Andy Davidson
- Narrated by: Susie James
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4 out of 5 stars 57
Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow. It turns out that the "estate" is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old (rotting) pine forest, but Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start for her and Max. So it takes her a while to notice the strange scratching in the walls, the faint whispering at night, how the forest is eerily quiet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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not spoon fed
- By Amazon Customer on 03-02-23
By: Andy Davidson
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American Rust
- By: Philipp Meyer
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 603
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 502
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Story4 out of 5 stars 497
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
- By Darwin8u on 07-16-12
By: Philipp Meyer
the story
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Disturbing, but engrossing
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Meet Lester
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Stark, and beautifully written, as always.
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five stars
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Good but short
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Originally Published In 1973
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Hard to take, hard to put down, and definitely not a bedtime story.
A remarkable admixture of horror and beauty.
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Be there
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As good McCarthy as it gets
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