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Title: The Catherine Wheel
Author: Elizabeth Harrower
Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-10-18
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
A psychological mystery filled with droll humour, brilliant language and unforgettable characters.
Twenty-five-year-old Clemency James has moved from Sydney to a chilly bedsit on the other side of the world. During the day she studies for the bar by correspondence; in the evenings she gives French lessons to earn a meagre wage. When she meets Christian, a charismatic would-be actor, she can see he's trouble - not least because he's involved with an older woman who has children. She is drawn to him nonetheless: drawn into his world of unpayable debts and wild promises.
First published in 1960, The Catherine Wheel is Elizabeth Harrower's third novel and the only one of her books not set in Australia. In it she turns her unflinching gaze on the grim realities of 1950s London and the madness that can infect couples. -
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Title: Mohawk
Author: Richard Russo
Narrator: William Hope
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-10-18
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
An unforgettable tale of life, love and passion in a decaying mill town in upstate New York.
Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his schoolwork - because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't pay to be too smart.
In Mohawk, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo explores these lives with profound compassion and flint-hard wit. Out of derailed ambitions and old loves, secret hatreds and communal myths, he has created a richly plotted, densely populated and wonderfully written novel that captures every nuance of America's backyard. -
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Title: Hide and Seek
Author: Wilkie Collins
Narrator: Caroline Collins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-31-17
Publisher: Audioliterature
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
"Hide and Seek" (1854) is a story with an intricate plot, in two parts: the history of "Madonna" Grice and Matthew Grice's discovery of her. Mary Grice is courted and seduced by a man. Mary's sister, Joanna drives the pregnant, unmarried Mary from the family home. Mary gives birth to a daughter and dies miserably, attended only by performers from a travelling circus. Martha, wife of one of the clowns, adopts the baby (also Mary), who becomes a circus performer and is struck deaf and dumb after a riding accident. The circus owner exploits her. To rescue Mary, Martha takes her to the home of a minister. There a painter adopts her, and she acquires the nickname Madonna. The painter's friend, Zack, admires her. Zack defends a man who turns out to be Matthew (Mat) Grice, Mary Sr.'s brother. Mat has spent decades wandering, but returns home after making his fortune. His next concern is to find out the fate of his family.
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Title: The Jade Peony
Author: Wayson Choy
Narrator: Sean Sonier, Sharon Lambert
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-18-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the realities of Canada and the horror of war are the magic, ghosts, paper uncles and family secrets of Poh-Poh, or Grandmother, who is the heart and pillar of the family.
Wayson Choy's Chinatown is a community of unforgettable individuals who are "neither this nor that," neither entirely Canadian nor Chinese. But with each other's help, they survive hardship and heartbreak with grit and humor. -
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Title: Nocturnes
Subtitle: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator: Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-28-17
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music, and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the "hush-hush floor" of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians, and faded stars, all at some moment of reckoning.
Gentle, intimate and witty, Nocturnes is underscored by a haunting theme: the struggle to restoke life's romance, even as relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.
Critic Reviews:
"A fine and moving collection of stories, displaying [Ishiguro's] unique combination of the sad, the stoic and the consoling. It's about failure, but it dignifies failure, and with it, the human condition. There is nobody like him." (Margaret Drabble, The Guardian Books of the Year)
"Each of these stories is heartbreaking in its own way, but some have moments of great comedy, and they all require a level of attention that, typically, Ishiguro's writing rewards." (The Observer)
"An amusing read, at times very funny.... There are a number of scenes in Nocturnes that are almost worth the price of admission on their own." (The Globe and Mail) -
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Title: Det europiske forr
Author: Kaspar Colling Nielsen
Narrator: Dan Schlosser
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-20-17
Publisher: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
"Det europiske forr" er en kontroversiel fortlling om fire menneskers livsbaner og Europas forfatning i begyndelsen af et nyt rtusinde.
P Lolland etablerer en rkke internationalt anerkendte forskere og ivrksttere et nyt samfund, der skal kombinere det mest idylliske fra den gamle verden med de seneste teknologiske landvindinger. Ind i denne teknologiske bondehusidyl flytter den afdankede galleriejer Stig og hans kone Elisabeth, der er blevet headhuntet til en stilling i forskningsteamet takket vre sine resultater inden for hjerneforskning.
Deres anorektiske datter, Emma, flytter kortvarigt med, men bliver i sin idealistiske tro p menneskerettigheder ansporet til at hjlpe med at f et ganske andet parallelsamfund p benene i Afrika. Her deporteres alle unskede muslimske flygtninge fra Danmark hen, og Emma bliver en central figur i opbygningen af en ny kultur og nye samvrsformer i et samfund, der skabes i gamle Mrsk-containere.
Stig har mistet troen p kunstens rolle i samfundet. Kunsten var iflge ham mere autentisk i firserne, og han har nu kun foragt for kunstnere, der maler cirkler. Dog har han stadig en gnist af respekt for den i offentligheden anerkendte kunstner Christian, som maler degenererede mennesker, der gr i ét med naturen. Stig fr overtalt Christian til at flytte med ned til det ny samfund p Lolland, hvor Stig anskaffer sig en alaskan malamute hvalp og bliver stadig mere optaget af naturen og af den mde, hvorp Flora Danica kortlagde den p.
Christian er ogs blevet desillusioneret p kunstens vegne, men inspirationen blusser voldsomt op, da han mder den purunge og tankevkkende naive Mia, som er glad for hans pik og ikke stiller alt for mange sprgsml. Ved et voldsomt uheld fr Stig mulighed for at forlse et kunstvrk, som efter hans opfattelse vil kunne stte nye standarder for, hvilke spor kunsten kan stte i samfundet. Men kunstvrket krver sine ofre.
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Title: Wilde, Yeats, Stoker: Great Writers of Ireland
Author: Oscar Wilde, Tim Dalgleish, William Yeats, Bram Stoker
Narrator: Tim Dalgleish
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-14-17
Publisher: Wonky Octopus Press
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
This is a selection of works by three famous Irishmen: Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Bram Stoker. It includes: the short story by Bram Stoker, "Dracula's Guest", which is thought to be the original opening chapter of his famous novel Dracula; Oscar Wilde's poem "Humanitad" and three versions of his "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (with the original preface by his friend Robert Ross); and finally, an early collection of poetry called The Rose by W. B. Yeats, which includes his famous poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree".
There is a general introduction by the writer and actor Tim Dalgleish and other additional material. As the editor writes in the introduction:
"One should think of this little collection as if one, that is you yourself, had just walked into a pub in Dublin: You hand over a few coppers to the landlord and stand sipping your pint of the dark, black stuff. In the corner you spy three eccentric looking characters deep in concentrated conversation. As you make your way over you realise they are telling stories. One is an odd looking fellow, with untidy white hair and pince-nez, he is sonorously declaiming, in a sing-song voice, a tale of mythic, even epic, proportions... this will be a night to remember." -
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Title: The Ninth Hour
Author: Alice McDermott
Narrator: Ash Rizi
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-17
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove - to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife - 'that the hours of his life belong to himself alone'. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.
In Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the 20th century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man's brief existence, and yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives - testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable lucidity and intelligence, Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today. -
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Title: Children of the Salt Road
Author: Lydia Fazio Theys
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, P. J. Ochlan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-26-17
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
For New Yorkers Catherine and Mark, a picturesque coastal village in Sicily offers an escape from the shadow over Catherine's career and a chance to rebuild their eroding marriage. Catherine sets up an art studio, while Mark explores the exciting potential of Italy's languishing agricultural regions. For a moment, there's hope for healing on the banks of the sparkling lagoon.
But the appearance of a mysterious young boy shakes their relationship to its core. As Catherine begins to devote her attention to the child, Mark follows a troubling path of destruction, betraying Catherine's trust in devastating ways. Catherine discovers their idyllic surroundings also belie a sinister history, driving the couple even further apart. As they delve deeper into the secrets of their town and in their marriage, will the truths they uncover separate them for good? -
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Title: Montpelier Parade
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Karl Geary
Narrator: Karl Geary
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-22-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Montpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach.
Hoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belonging - at high school, in his part-time job at the butcher shop, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own family - Sonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future?
Unfolding over a bright, rain-soaked Dublin spring, Montpelier Parade is a rich, devastating debut novel about desire, grief, ambition, art, and the choices we must make alone.
Critic Reviews:
"Geary enters the literary arena with a bang: this debut about an unconventional love affair between a teenage boy and an older woman is unassuming but gorgeously rendered." (Publishers Weekly) -
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Titel: Möge die Stunde kommen (Die Clifton-Saga 6)
Autor:: Jeffrey Archer
Erzähler: Erich Räuker
Format: Unabridged
Spieldauer: 14 hrs and 1 min
Sprache: Deutsch
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-08-17
Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland
Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen
Kategorien: Fiction, Literary
Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:
Dramatische Zeiten für die Cliftons und Barringtons
Die Erfolgs-Saga geht weiter!
Für die Cliftons und Barringtons, die seit Jahrzehnten schicksalhaft verbunden sind, beginnt eine dramatische Zeit. Giles Barrington muss sich zwischen der Karriere als Politiker und seiner großen Liebe entscheiden, während für Emma und Harry Clifton eine Welt zusammenbricht, als sie einen Selbstmordbrief entdecken. Für beide Familien.
Erich Räukers tiefe Erzählerstimme lässt das Familien-Epos lebendig werden.
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Title: Pushkin Hills: Zapovednik
Author: Sergei Dovlatov
Narrator: Dmitry Kreminsky
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-22-17
Publisher: Dialar Navigator
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha, but during Alikhanovs stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, his life continues to unravel.
Populated with unforgettable characters - including Alikhanov's fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky, and the KGB officer Belyaev - "Pushkin Hills" ranks among Dovlatov's renowned works "The Suitcase" and "The Zone" as his most personal and poignant portrayal of the Russian attitude towards life and art.
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Titel: Karolinas Töchter
Autor:: Ronald H. Balson
Erzähler: Peter Weiß
Format: Unabridged
Spieldauer: 12 hrs and 45 mins
Sprache: Deutsch
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-18-17
Herausgeber: Audible Studios
Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen
Kategorien: Fiction, Literary
Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:
Aus Verzweiflung gab sie einst ein Versprechen.
Nun ist es an der Zeit, es zu erfüllen und zwei verlorene Töchter zu finden.
Die hochbetagte Lena Woodward will ein Versprechen erfüllen, das sie ihrer Freundin Karolina vor langer Zeit gab - mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert zuvor. Mit Hilfe einer Anwältin begibt sich Lena auf die Suche nach den Zwillingstöchtern ihrer Freundin, die seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs verschwunden sind. Doch es kommen Zweifel an ihrer Geschichte auf, und aus Sorge um seine Mutter versucht ihr Sohn Arthur, sie zu bremsen.
Warum sucht sie die Mädchen erst jetzt? Und was ist damals im polnischen Ghetto wirklich geschehen? Bald ist klar, dass das Schicksal der beiden Freundinnen ein Geheimnis birgt, das Lena seit Jahrzehnten verfolgt - und das gelüftet werden muss, um die Kinder von damals zu finden.
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©2017 Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG. Übersetzung von Max Stadler (P)2017 Audible GmbH
Kritik Bewertungen:
Eine herzzerreißende Geschichte über die Liebe einer Mutter, Freundschaft und Familie im Angesicht des Todes - fesselnd.
-- Library Journal
Leser, die auf mehr Bücher wie Kristin Hannahs "Die Nachtigall" warten, werden begeistert sein.
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Title: The Story of Avis
Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Narrator: Alice Johnson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-24-17
Publisher: Audioliterature
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
"Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her."
That is the dilemma this powerful and beautifully observed work centers around. Our heroine, Avis, a professor's daughter and a very talented painter, has to come to terms with marriage meaning potential sacrifice of her artistic career and future.
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Title: About Grace
Author: Anthony Doerr
Narrator: George Newburn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-20-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
About Grace is the brilliant debut audiobook from Anthony Doerr.
Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach.
Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter, Grace, is born. And then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees.
He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades he musters the strength to find out....
Critic Reviews:
"I loved this wonderful book - its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences." (Monica Ali)
"Doerr's sublime renditions of Winkler's attonement to the world around him turn his story into a prolonged epiphany, a blissful parable about grace. This is a formidable literary achievement that, link Winkler's snow crystals, integrates facets and dimensions into near-perfect whole." (Independent)
"Doerr's gifts as a stylist are powerfully in evidence: his writing is crystalline, his attention to detail intense and evocative. That Doerr is a writer of exceptional gifts is not in question, and there is much to admire in this novel." (Daily Telegraph) -
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Title: Pretend We Are Lovely
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Noley Reid
Narrator: Brittany Pressley, Abigail Revasch, Jorjeana Marie, MacLeod Andrews
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-18-17
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
It's the summer of 1982 in Blacksburg, Virginia - seven years after the suspicious death of a son and sibling - and the Sobel family is hungry.
Francie dresses in tennis skirts and ankle socks and weighs her grams of allotted carrots and iceberg lettuce. Her semi-estranged husband, Tate, prefers a packed fridge and hidden doughnuts. Daughters Enid, 10, and Vivvy, almost 13, are subtler versions of their parents, measuring their summer vacation by meals had or meals skipped. But at summer's end, secrets both old and new emerge, and Francie disappears, leaving the family teetering on the brink.
Told from alternating points of view by the four living Sobels, Pretend We Are Lovely is a sharp and darkly funny story of forgiveness, family secrets, and the losses we inherit. At its core is the ever-complicated and deeply devoted bond of sisterhood as the girls, left mostly to their own devices, must navigate their way through middle school, find comfort in each other, and learn the difference between food and nourishment. -
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Título: Los boys [The Boys]
Autor: Junot Díaz
Narrador: Yamil Ureña
Formato: Unabridged
Duración: 5 hrs and 51 mins
Idioma: Español
Fecha de publicación: 07-13-17
Editor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 1 votos
Categorías: Fiction, Literary
Resumen del editor:
La ópera prima de Junot Díaz.
Premio Pulitzer 2008.
Junot Díaz hizo su entrada en la escena literaria con esta colección de diez relatos que se desplazan de los barrios de la República Dominicana a los suburbios de Nueva Jersey. Díaz, que según Newsweek combina la mirada objetiva de un periodista con el verbo de un poeta, evoca un mundo del que han desaparecido los padres, en el que las madres luchan con determinación por sus hijos, y en el que los más jóvenes heredan la crueldad y el avispado humor de unas vidas determinadas por la pobreza y la incertidumbre. Pocas veces un autor publica un primer libro precedido por el reconocimiento unánime de la crítica.
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Crítica Comentarios:
"Junot Díaz es un escritor de reciente aparición y gran valía. Sus personajes tienen vida propia fuera de la página, en el seno de nuestra tradición literaria y en el ámbito de nuestro corazón." (Walter Mosley) -
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Title: Modern Gods
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Nick Laird
Narrator: Sarah-Jane Drummey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-27-17
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with "a wonderfully original and limber voice" (The New York Times)
Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father's real estate agency, she hopes to pick up the pieces and get her life back together. Her sister, Liz, a fiercely independent college professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison's second wedding before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world's newest religion.
Both sisters' lives are about to be shaken apart. Alison wakes up the day after her wedding to find that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape. In a rainforest on the other side of the planet, Liz finds herself becoming increasingly entangled in the eerie, charged world of Belef, the subject of her show, a charismatic middle-aged woman who is the leader of a cargo cult.
As Modern Gods ingeniously interweaves the stories of Liz and Alison, it becomes clear that both sisters must learn how to negotiate with the past, with the sins of fanaticism, and decide just what the living owe to the dead. Laird's brave, innovative novel charts the intimacies and disappointments of a family trying to hold itself together and the repercussions of history and faith.
Critic Reviews:
"Nick Laird takes two experiences poles apart and unites them in gorgeous language...[with] fierce tenderness." (Dave Eggers, author of Heroes of the Frontier) -
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Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Narrator: Tadhg Hynes
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-22-17
Publisher: SAGA Egmont
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
First published in 1766, the loveable and innocent Dr Primrose and his family have given pleasure to all that have read it. The story opens with the vicar losing his fortune and moving to another parish. What follows is a tale of love, deceit, betrayal, humour and a hidden hero...
It was one of Charles Dickens favorite books and a source of inspiration to him. No further recommendation is needed. Enjoy.
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Title: The Hemingway Files
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: H. K. Bush
Narrator: Joe Barrett, Andrew Eiden
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-20-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995.
An English professor receives a mysterious package with several smaller packages within it, including a manuscript, from a recently deceased former student. The manuscript tells the former student's story - a story he had never revealed to anyone. As a newly minted PhD from Yale, Jack Springs ended up in Kobe, Japan, circa 1992, where he encountered a mysterious Japanese professor of American literature named Goto. The second son of a family of immense wealth and power, Goto was a clandestine collector of literary rarities, manuscripts, and books. Through a series of meetings, Goto provided Jack with a systematic set of revelations about Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and other literary giants, all of which were supported by unknown documents in Goto's possession. With the allure of these revelations as well as Goto's beautiful niece, Jack was drawn back to Goto's house again and again until the tragic events on the day of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995 threatened to destroy all that had been revealed - including Jack's sense of who he was and what he was capable of. - Show more
