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Narrated by:
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Susan Dalian
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By:
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Nghi Vo
About this listen
Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, BookPage Best Books of the Year, 2024
In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pick
A demon. An angel. A city.
The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.
And then the angels come, and the city falls.
Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.
She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever.
Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.
The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to reduce a world to ashes and remake it anew.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
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Critic reviews
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pick
“Echoing with strains of myths like a familiar tune half-heard in a distant room, The City in Glass is a treasure, as fragile as its namesake and relentless as granite, filled with exquisite sorrow, fury, and desire.”—Jacqueline Carey, author of Kushiel's Dart
“Satisfying as a leisurely stroll along the streets of some historic city, The City in Glass opens up like a treasure box to reveal glittering jewels of insight, exploring the nature of love and destruction with a sharp and delicate touch.”—Sacha Lamb, Mythopoeic Award-winning Lambda Literary Fellow
“Evokes the best of Italo Calvino and Ursula K. Le Guin.... This beautifully crafted tale of resilience and transformation may be Vo’s best yet.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded. Now, snow blankets Grey in the height of summer. Rats erupt from beneath the earth, fleeing that which comes. Crops fail. Hunger looms. And none stand ready to face the Beast, stirring beneath the poisoned soil. The fate of all who live in the palace hangs on narrow shoulders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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for lovers of strangeness
- By Kat on 09-18-24
By: Jared Pechaček
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
- Singing Hills Cycle, Book 1
- By: Nghi Vo
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 476
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Story4 out of 5 stars 419
A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to understand why this is supposed to be so great
- By J. Angel on 08-06-20
By: Nghi Vo
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Don't Sleep with the Dead
- By: Nghi Vo
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922. On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face at a club one night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting take on a well known topic
- By Erin on 05-04-25
By: Nghi Vo
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The Melancholy of Untold History
- A Novel
- By: Minsoo Kang
- Narrated by: Keong Sim
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story2.5 out of 5 stars 3
A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation’s literary narrative through the themes of love and grief.
By: Minsoo Kang
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The Chosen and the Beautiful
- By: Nghi Vo
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 264
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4 out of 5 stars 228
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society - she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ignore the Boring Brigade
- By Jo on 09-28-21
By: Nghi Vo
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
- By: P. Djèlí Clark
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins—resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories—have only three unbreakable vows. First, the contract must be just. That’s above Eveen’s pay grade. Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. The third and the simplest: once you accept a job, you must carry it out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funnier and lighter than I expected
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 02-17-25
By: P. Djèlí Clark
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The West Passage
- By: Jared Pechaček
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded. Now, snow blankets Grey in the height of summer. Rats erupt from beneath the earth, fleeing that which comes. Crops fail. Hunger looms. And none stand ready to face the Beast, stirring beneath the poisoned soil. The fate of all who live in the palace hangs on narrow shoulders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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for lovers of strangeness
- By Kat on 09-18-24
By: Jared Pechaček
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The Siege of Burning Grass
- By: Premee Mohamed
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.
By: Premee Mohamed
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Asunder
- By: Kerstin Hall
- Narrated by: Alyssa Appleton
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch being—three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving—who has granted her the ability to communicate with the newly departed. She pays the rent by using her abilities to investigate suspicious deaths around the troubled city she calls home. When a job goes sideways and connects her to a dying stranger with some very dangerous secrets, her entire world is upended.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Asunder
- By G Family on 10-16-24
By: Kerstin Hall
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Foundryside
- A Novel
- By: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrated by: Tara Sands
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,501
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,223
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,222
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic - the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience - have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Parts & Sums
- By CaffineFreeJAVA on 05-07-19
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The Saint of Bright Doors
- By: Vajra Chandrasekera
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4 out of 5 stars 92
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but hard to follow on audio
- By S. Browne on 07-09-24
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Siren Queen
- By: Nghi Vo
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Story4 out of 5 stars 127
Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill—but she doesn't care. She’d rather play a monster than a maid. But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not the ones on screen. The studios want to own everything from her face to her name to the women she loves, and they run on a system of bargains made in blood and ancient magic, powered by the endless sacrifice of unlucky starlets like her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dark magic masterpiece
- By Rachel Fisher on 05-19-22
By: Nghi Vo
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The Book of Love
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Link
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 23 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 151
In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book.
- By T on 04-06-25
By: Kelly Link
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The Witness for the Dead
- Book One of the Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy
- By: Katherine Addison
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 439
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 438
When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father’s Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Same feel, not as satisfying as Goblin Emperor
- By CalyEk on 07-02-21
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The Nightward
- Book One of the Waters of Lethe
- By: R.S.A. Garcia
- Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
For 500 years Gaiea’s Hand has stood as a ward against the Dark. The Age of Chaos is a faded memory. The Goddess has left Gailand and given her Blessing to the Queens to rule in her stead. Princess Viella of the court of Hamber is the Spirit of Gaiea, presumptive heir to the throne and budding wielder of magic. And yet she’s still a child—not yet ten years old—and a day spent evading her teachers and her dutiful bodyguard, Luka, is much more satisfying than learning about telepathy, illusions, and other spells, or obeying even her mother, the Queen. There is time enough…until there isn’t.
By: R.S.A. Garcia
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Three Eight One
- By: Aliya Whiteley
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
In January 2314, Rowena Savalas—a curator of the vast archive of the twenty-first century's primitive internet—stumbles upon a story posted in the summer of 2024. She's quickly drawn into the mystery of the text: Is it autobiography, fantasy, or fraud? What's the significance of the recurring number 381?
By: Aliya Whiteley
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Metal from Heaven
- By: August Clarke
- Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16
Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory illness befalling them. Marney Honeycutt, a luster-touched child worker, stands proud at the picket line with her best friend and family. That’s when Chauncey sends in the guns.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narration ruined it for me
- By Bob Winning on 02-09-25
By: August Clarke
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The Society of Unknowable Objects
- A Novel
- By: Gareth Brown
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
The world of unknowable objects—magical items that most people have no idea possess powers—has been quiet for decades, but the three members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop in London. They are pledged to protect their archive of magical items hidden away, safe from the outside world—and the world safe from them. But when Frank Simpson, the longest-standing member of the Society of Unknowable Objects, hears of a new artifact coming to light in Hong Kong, he sends Magda Sparks—author by day and newest member—to investigate.
By: Gareth Brown
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Rakesfall
- By: Vajra Chandrasekera
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages.
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