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The spellbinding story of a young woman’s dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summer
In their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close—unnaturally close. They’ve grown more intimate still as Folkví learns her shaman mother’s craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. Áslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkví to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, he’s done the unthinkable: He’s found someone else to love.
Sick with grief, Folkví rages to the gods where they sit at the foot of an ancient tree, contemplating the twisted passions of humans that play out in the face of an ever-approaching end of days. Will none of them save her now? Very well, Folkví will save herself. The wedding date is set. But first comes a fateful summer. . .
Deeply unsettling and brilliantly imagined, First Comes Summer captures the terror of losing the world you’ve always known—and the uncanny extremes to which you might go to hold on to it.
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In the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca - The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers.
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Grim but ultimately worth it
- De Ellie en 08-29-20
De: Caroline Lea
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People of the Wolf
- A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past
- De: W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 19 h y 19 m
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In the dawn of history, a valiant people forged a pathway from an old world into a new one. Led by a dreamer who followed the spirit of the wolf, a handful of courageous men and women dared to cross the frozen wastes to find an untouched, unspoiled continent.
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Magnificent performance of a book I read yesrs ago
- De Albert en 08-05-18
De: W. Michael Gear, y otros
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The Continent
- De: Keira Drake
- Narrado por: Fiona Hardingham
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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For her 16th birthday, Vaela Sun receives the most coveted gift in all the Spire - a trip to the Continent. It seems an unlikely destination for a holiday: a cold, desolate land where two nations remain perpetually locked in combat. Most citizens lucky enough to tour the Continent do so to observe the spectacle and violence of battle, a thing long vanished in the peaceful realm of the Spire.
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amazing!!
- De Newtothis en 05-29-18
De: Keira Drake
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Mark of the Raven
- The Ravenwood Saga, Book 1
- De: Morgan L. Busse
- Narrado por: Jaimee Draper
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate. As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy - a legacy that supports her people - or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift.
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So glad this is on audiobook!
- De Amazon Customer en 11-09-18
De: Morgan L. Busse
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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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Ransom
- De: David Malouf
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.
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Ponderous narration, tortured prose
- De Gail N. en 01-26-20
De: David Malouf
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The Door on Half-Bald Hill
- De: Helena Sorensen
- Narrado por: Robert Hook, Janet Devlin, Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 8 h
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When the Bloodmoon rose, death came rushing into the world. Now the water is bitter, blight consumes everything, and the Crone haunts the hills. While the Druid of Blackthorn searches desperately for hope, the Ovate returns from the underworld bringing omens of despair. But Idris, the young bard, Keeper of the Sacred Word, will walk through fire and iron to uncover a question no one has ever dared to ask - a question that carries a world of answers on its back, a question that can change everything.
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Interesting concept, but it felt incomplete.
- De W. Scott en 10-07-20
De: Helena Sorensen
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Daughter of the Forest
- Sevenwaters, Book 1
- De: Juliet Marillier
- Narrado por: Terry Donnelly
- Duración: 26 h y 45 m
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Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives and they are determined that she know only contentment. But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift - by staying silent.
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Compelling story--but only at 1.5x
- De barefoot rabbit en 09-09-13
De: Juliet Marillier
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The Hero and the Crown
- De: Robin McKinley
- Narrado por: Roslyn Alexander
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Uncertain of the past, Aerin-sol, daughter of King Arlbeth, decides to forge her own future by challenging the lashing tongues of the dragon’s fire. Aerin’s proficiency as "the Dragon-slayer" sets her on a quest for the stolen Crown of Damar, believed to be in the hands of rebellious northerners who threaten to destroy the Damarian people and their home forever.
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Second only to Blue Sword
- De mkc en 01-18-13
De: Robin McKinley
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The Beast That Never Was
- De: Caren J. Werlinger
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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Lise’s father is dead, and the life of plenty and freedom that she has known as the daughter of the King’s Huntsman is gone. She must now live a life of duty to her mother and sisters, helping them to cope in their altered circumstances. But where her mother would have her wed a childhood friend to secure their future, Lise knows that is not what she longs for.
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Classic fairytale remade into a lesbian romanc
- De Army Vet en 01-28-22
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The Blue Guitar
- A Novel
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught.
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Masterful
- De Amazon customer en 11-25-15
De: John Banville
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The Autumn Castle
- De: Kim Wilkins
- Narrado por: Richard Aspel
- Duración: 19 h y 19 m
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Berlin in autumn: Christine Starlight lives in an artists' colony with her lover Jude, whose patience and beauty have eased her battle with chronic pain. But Christine begins to be haunted by childhood recollections of a little girl's disappearance and the flapping of a blackbird's wings. Then her world is rocked by the return of a childhood friend... Mayfridh rules over a land where a wolf is the queen's counsellor, fate turns on the fall of an autumn leaf and mortals feel no pain.
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Great Story, Horrible Narration
- De KathyDB en 03-24-15
De: Kim Wilkins
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Chalice
- De: Robin McKinley
- Narrado por: Rachael Beresford
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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The earthlines speak to Mirasol, but her family has lived in the demesne for centuries, and many of the old families can hear the land. She knows that the violent deaths of the last Master and Chalice have thrown Willowlands into turmoil; but she is only a beekeeper, and the problems of the Circle that govern Willowlands have nothing to do with her - although she wonders what will become of her demesne, because the Master and Chalice left no heirs to carry on their crucial duties.
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A favorite McKinley
- De Shannon GC en 03-29-20
De: Robin McKinley
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Flight to Eden
- Cradleland Chronicles #1
- De: Douglas Hirt
- Narrado por: Michael Taylor
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
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A dark power is at work, intent on gaining complete control of the CradleLand, the birthplace of the still-young world. All that stands in the Power's way is one troublesome line of humans: descendants of Seth. They are of the only remaining clan clinging to an all-but-dead faith. And yet it's from that faith that a prophecy threatens all plans of world dominion.
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Great story, buy the book instead.
- De Joshua en 07-23-11
De: Douglas Hirt
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Death and the Maiden
- Mistress of the Art of Death
- De: Samantha Norman, Ariana Franklin
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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England. 1191. After the death of her friend and patron, King Henry II, Adelia Aguilar, England's vaunted Mistress of the Art of Death, is living comfortably in retirement and training her daughter, Allie, to carry on her craft—sharing the practical knowledge of anatomy, forensics, and sleuthing that catches murderers. Allie is already a skilled healer, with a particular gift for treating animals. But the young woman is nearly twenty, and her father, Rowley, Bishop of Saint Albans, and his patron, the Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, have plans to marry Allie to an influential husband.
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Wanted to love it
- De Jeffrey J. en 02-15-21
De: Samantha Norman, y otros
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- Alexa Graves
- 08-16-23
Eh
It was okay, not much happened, at least what did happen didn’t really shock or fill me with any feeling other than “okay”…
I actually feel like the book is probably good in it’s native language, but it seems to lose pretty much all feeling in English translation.
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