In the Beauty of the Lilies
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John Updike
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Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows listeners an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the moving picture. Paterson, New Jersey, 1910: When a Presbyterian minister suddenly loses his faith and leaves the pulpit to become a salesman, he becomes a movie addict as well.
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With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isn’t like the other women in her shtetl in the Pale of Settlement - certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose “philosopher” of a husband has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children. As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward her father’s profession of ritual slaughterer and, under his reluctant guidance, became a master with a knife. And though she long ago gave up that unsuitable profession, Fanny still keeps the knife tied to her right leg.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The narration - why?????
- De agarista en 07-20-21
De: Yaniv Iczkovits
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A House Among the Trees
- A Novel
- De: Julia Glass
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 13 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 161
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When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was 12 and he was working on sketches for the book that would make him a star.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Glass Fan
- De G Eliot en 07-17-17
De: Julia Glass
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Mount Misery
- A Novel
- De: Samuel Shem
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 21 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 6
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On rounds at Mount Misery, it's not always easy for Basch to tell the patients from the doctors: Errol Cabot, the drug cowboy whose practice provides him with guinea pigs for his imaginative prescription cocktails . . . Blair Heiler, the world expert on borderlines (a diagnosis that applies to just about everybody) . . . A. K. Lowell, née Aliyah K. Lowenschteiner, whose Freudian analytic technique is so razor sharp it prohibits her from actually speaking to patients . . . And Schlomo Dove, the loony, outlandish shrink accused of having sex with a beautiful, well-to-do female patient.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as The House Of God
- De Thomas C. Kelley en 02-03-23
De: Samuel Shem
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All over Creation
- A Novel
- De: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrado por: Ruth Ozeki
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Yumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend, and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in an altogether new drama. The post-millennial farming community has been invaded by Agribusiness forces at war with a posse of activists, the Seeds of Resistance, who travel the country in a camping car, “The Spudnick,” biofueled by pilfered McDonald’s french-fry oil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ozeki !!!
- De Leah en 01-03-25
De: Ruth Ozeki
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A Brief History of Living Forever
- A Novel
- De: Jaroslav Kalfar
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the daughter she gave up at birth, decades earlier. But the country Adéla experienced as a young woman, when she eloped with a filmmaker and starred in his cult sci-fi movie, has changed entirely. In 2030, America is ruled by an authoritarian government increasingly closed off to the rest of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not so distant future
- De Kindle Customer en 05-14-23
De: Jaroslav Kalfar
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A Season of Perfect Happiness
- A Novel
- De: Maribeth Fischer
- Narrado por: Beth Hicks
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Ten years after an unspeakable tragedy caused Claire to flee her hometown in Delaware, she finally feels content. She has a quiet, tidy life in Wisconsin, a place she picked at random for its shape on a map. Her careful existence centers on a simple plan: keep her social circle small and keep the past a secret. But when she meets Erik—a lighthearted theater nerd who gives Claire more of a chance than she’s given herself in a long time—that plan seems increasingly impossible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t put it down!
- De Lawrence S. Weigand en 11-19-24
De: Maribeth Fischer
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The Incorrigibles
- A Novel
- De: Meredith Jaeger
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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1890, San Francisco. Seduced by her employer’s nephew, Annie Gilmurray, an Irish maid, is accused of stealing the ring he promised her. Sentenced to one year in San Quentin, Annie is heartbroken and frightened among the inmates of the women’s ward: prostitutes, murderers, and pickpockets. But Annie finds beauty and friendship in a brutal place, where the women look out for one another, dreaming of a better life after release. But their world inside San Quentin's walls is a dangerous one, and when the unthinkable happens, Annie makes a choice that will alter the course of her future forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A page-turner following strong women finding their agency imbued with rich, local SF history
- De S. Brett en 06-04-24
De: Meredith Jaeger
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Water Finds a Way
- A Novel
- De: Meghan Perry
- Narrado por: Elsa Lepecki Bean
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Can coming home bring redemption? Or at least a measure of peace? Recently released from prison, Blake Alvares returns to the only place she ever felt safe, the now derelict Maine town in which she harbored as a teen. Determined to conceal her secrets and losses, she soon finds herself dragged into others’ lives when she takes a job on a boat owned by a notorious young lobsterman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Water Finds a Way
- De accordion thief en 05-17-25
De: Meghan Perry
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The Burning Island
- De: Hester Young
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Journalist Charlie Cates has always believed in facts, in what can be proved - her career depends on it. Which is why she has never truly accepted the supernatural visions that guide her to children in danger. After her work on a high-profile missing-child case brings unwanted fame, she reluctantly flees to the lush Big Island of Hawaii with her best friend, Rae. Determined to avoid her disturbing visions, Charlie begins writing what seems to be a harmless interview of a prominent volcanologist. But soon, she's haunted by dreams of a local girl who went missing six weeks earlier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed the story
- De M. Abrego en 03-04-20
De: Hester Young
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The Romantic
- A Novel
- De: William Boyd
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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From the award-winning, internationally best-selling author, a beguiling romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a nineteenth-century everyman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read the Author's Note first, not in the audiobook
- De Paul Haahr en 12-02-23
De: William Boyd
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Rosie
- De: Anne Lamott
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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If Elizabeth Ferguson had her way, she’d spend her days savoring good books, cooking great meals, and waiting for the love of her life to walk in the door. But it’s not a man she’s waiting for. It’s her daughter, Rosie - her wild-haired, smart-mouthed, and wise-beyond-her-years alter ego. With Rosie around, the days aren’t quite so long, but Elizabeth can’t keep the realities of the world at bay, and try as she might, she can’t shield Rosie from its dangers or mysteries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ms Lamott captured all the correct emotions of her topic
- De Amazon Customer en 07-06-23
De: Anne Lamott
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The Road to the Country
- A Novel
- De: Chigozie Obioma
- Narrado por: Junior Nyong'o
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who must go to war to free himself. When his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission. Kunle’s search for his brother becomes a journey of atonement that will see him conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army and forced to fight a war he hardly understands, all while navigating the prophecies of a local Seer, he who marks Kunle as an abami eda—one who will die and return to life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Romance in war
- De Anthony Nana Kwamu en 03-15-25
De: Chigozie Obioma
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The Heavenly Table
- A Novel
- De: Donald Ray Pollock
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 486
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It is 1917, in that sliver of borderland that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest, handsome, intelligent); Cob (short, heavyset, a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest, thin, ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in Southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Transgressive, just not transcendent.
- De Darwin8u en 09-27-16
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Just an Ordinary Day
- Stories
- De: Shirley Jackson
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House - classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe - Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death in 1965, Jackson’s children discovered a treasure trove of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, many of which are brought together in this remarkable collection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captures a Bygone Era
- De Anonymous User en 11-11-22
De: Shirley Jackson
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Daughters of the Dust
- A Gullah-Geechee Novel
- De: Julie Dash
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 64
Drawing from the magical world of her iconic Sundance award-winning film, Julie Dash’s stand-alone novel tells another rich, historical tale of the Gullah-Geechee people: a multigenerational story about a Brooklyn College anthropology student who finds an unexpected homecoming when she heads to the South Carolina Sea Islands to study her ancestors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My BFF Bahni...
- De Lillian Collins en 12-31-22
De: Julie Dash
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Everything Here Is Beautiful
- De: Mira T. Lee
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Emily Woo Zeller, Ozzie Rodriguez, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 417
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Two sisters - Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. But Lucia impetuously plows ahead, marrying a bighearted, older man only to leave him, suddenly, to have a baby with a young Latino immigrant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review
- De Sherri H Skalski en 01-30-18
De: Mira T. Lee
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The Hotel New Hampshire
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 19 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the strange times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have a XX rating for sex including incest.
- De psychodr1 en 09-02-20
De: John Irving
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My Name Is Venus Black
- A Novel
- De: Heather Lloyd
- Narrado por: Alex McKenna, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Venus Black is a straitlaced A student fascinated by the study of astronomy - until the night she commits a shocking crime that tears her family apart and ignites a media firestorm. Venus refuses to talk about what happened or why, except to blame her mother. Adding to the mystery, Venus’ developmentally challenged younger brother, Leo, goes missing. More than five years later, Venus is released from prison with a suitcase of used clothes, a fake identity, and a determination to escape her painful past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Yikes en 03-24-18
De: Heather Lloyd
Pacing of read aloud was perfect
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Life lessons
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updike certainly can paint a picture with his words and has such beautiful little insights on human nature .
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Family saga
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In the Beauty of the Lillies
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Interesting story and excellent reading
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Could Barely Keep Interested
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Story of multiple generations of a family
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