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Título: La habitación cerrada [The Locked Room]

Autor: Paul Auster

Narrador: Joan Mora

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 06-13-14

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

El narrador y Fanshawe se conocían desde muy niños. Antes de cumplir los siete años ya se habían pinchado en los dedos con un alfiler y se habían hecho hermanos de sangre. Estaban siempre juntos, compartían los pensamientos, y era el rostro de Fanshawe lo que el narrador veía cada vez que apartaba la vista de sí mismo. Pero eso fue hace mucho tiempo, en el remoto territorio de la infancia. Después crecieron, fueron a distintos sitios, se distanciaron y ahora Fanshawe no es más que un fantasma que el narrador, un joven crítico y periodista que ha abandonado ya la idea de escribir un gran libro, lleva dentro de sí. Hasta que un día recibe una carta de la mujer de Fanshawe. Va a verla, descubre que su amigo ha desaparecido misteriosamente hace meses y ha dejado dos maletas llenas de manuscritos que nunca quiso publicar. Y un mensaje para su antiguo amigo, o quizás una misión: que sea él quien decida si su obra debe sobrevivir o ser destruida. "La habitación cerrada" es el último volumen de La trilogía de Nueva York y cierra espléndidamente esa magistral banda de Möbius literaria, ese conjunto de thrillers fascinantes, de pesadillas implacablemente lógicas en las que pareciera, según Pascal Bruckner, que la única libertad del hombre fuera la de imaginar su prisión, descubrir los límites antes de ser apresado dentro de ellos.

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Title: Black Lake

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Johanna Lane

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-14

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland.

The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough - an idyllic, rambling estate isolated on the Irish seaside - for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers, and so John Campbell must be bold: to keep Dulough, he will open its doors to the public as a museum. He and his wife, daughter, and son will move from the luxury of the big house to a dank, small caretaker's cottage. The upheaval strains the already tenuous threads that bind the family and, when a tragic accident befalls them, long-simmering resentments and unanswered yearnings surface.

As each character is given a turn to speak, their voices tell a complicated, fascinating story about what happens when the upstairs becomes the downstairs, and what legacy is left when family secrets are revealed.

Members Reviews:

Moody, atmospheric, with wonderfully rich characters.

Black Lake, Johanna Lane's debut novel, is a fantastic read. Set at Dunlough, a provincial Irish estate, the elegiac mood and atmosphere simply ooze off the page. Lane's troubled characters are at once complex and rich with emotional weight, the bleakness manifested in their hearts portrayed with verisimilitude. At just over 200 pages, this is not a long read, but one that carries a punch and is well worth adding to your fall reading list.

Subtle brilliance

In this quiet, measured tale of how a possession -- in this case the inherited manor house Dulough -- can possess its inhabitants, Ms. Lane conveys this story of loss with remarkable restraint. Highly recommended!

a deep and very dark novel

The novel begins in fact with the end: the peak of events is right here, in the initial chapter, and everything that happens on the following pages is the background, the characters study, attempt to understand the causes of the incident.

Dulough, estate with house-castle, located in the north of Ireland, near the ocean, was inherited by John Campbell, one of the main characters of the book, the father of the family which is at the center of the novel. Besides John here live his wife Marianne and their two children - the eldest daughter Kate and son Philip. Due to excessive cost of maintaining of the estate, John is forced to pass the estate over to the government. The family for the season has to move to a small cottage where their servants lived. Philip will drown in the sea, Kate will be sent to the boarding school (previously she studied at home), and Marianne will be stressed, she will become strange, without her husband's consent will pick her daughter up from school and will close herself with Kate in a large ballroom on the third floor of the castle and will refuse to leave. John and Mrs. Connelly, the servant, will bring the food to mother and daughter every day, John will allow to his family stay in self-imposed captivity. Only a few weeks later, John will call the police and his wife's parents, to move Marianne from the room with force. Police breaks down the door, and John will give his wife to her parents.

After this disarming beginning the novel brings us back to the time when John still only signs documents with the municipal authorities. The middle part of the novel is written from the perspective of John and Philip. John's father died long ago, and his mother died shortly before John had married. John and his brother inherited from his mother some funds, as well as Dulough.

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Title: Worth the Weight

Author: Eileen Palma

Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

How much weight is too much for one romance to bear?

When Kate Richards, the effervescent host of television's KidFit and the author of kid-friendly diet cookbooks, runs into Jack Moskowitz at a dog park, sparks fly. He's attractive, charming, and single. She has no idea that he's also the one man who could cost Kate her career - the CEO of Considerable Carriages, a company that profits from childhood obesity. Jack knows exactly who Kate is, though. She tore his company apart on television only the day before!

Seeing an opportunity, Jack starts digging up dirt on his nemesis, to put her crusade on ice once and for all. But the more time the two spend together, the more his lie - and his feelings for Kate - spiral out of control. When Jack and Kate try to tip the scales of romance it brings chaos, heartbreak, and hilarity and more than a few laps around loves track.

Members Reviews:

Likeable but routine plot

Too much gratuitous sex for this type of book. The storyline was cute but I got sick of them having sex every time they see each other.

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Title: The Stonehenge Letters

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Harry Karlinsky

Narrator: John Wray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

While researching why Freud failed to win a Nobel Prize at the Nobel Archives in Sweden, a psychiatrist makes an unusual discovery. Among the piles of papers in the "Crackpot" file are letters addressed to the executor of Alfred Nobel's will, written by several notable Nobel laureates - including Rudyard Kipling and Marie Curie - each offering an explanation of why and how Stonehenge was constructed. Diligent research uncovers that Alfred Nobel added a secret codicil to his will, a prize for the Nobel laureate who solves the mystery of Stonehenge.

Weaving together a wealth of primary sources - photos, letters, wills - The Stonehenge Letters tells the tale of a fascinating secret competition.

Members Reviews:

Really ? This Wasn't a True Story? 4.5 stars

This book is labeled as a novel but when I first started reading it I thought I had misread the description because while I was reading it I thought you mean this isn't a true story? The story begins with a retired psychiatrist going to Sweden to learn why Sigmund Freud never received the Nobel Prize and discovers a series of letters and documents titled the "crackpot files". Alfred Nobel had also setup in his will a prize for discovering the secrets of Stonehenge and besides being secret only winners of the Nobel prize were permitted to enter submissions and the contest only lasted for a period of 10 years.

Among those invited to submit the theories were Teddy Roosevelt, Rudyard Kipling, Madame Curie and Ivan Pavlov and each of their entries are seriously considered but this story isn't true (but the people in the book are real) so what made me keep reading this book because I honestly did not expect to like this book. The book reads like an excellent historical biography of Alfred Nobel complete with a bibliography, footnotes,(for kindle just touch the footnote and it shows as a pop-up) photographs of the people in the book and more but it's fiction or at least a good bit of it is. In some of the footnotes the author gives comments on what Freud would have thought. It is a quirky book in a class by itself a fictional non fiction book. I read this as a netgalley copy and really enjoyed reading it.

The Stonehenge Letters

What if Alfred Novel beside the usual prizes also had a "secret" prize for whoever could explain the origin of Stonehenge?

A psychiatrist stumbles over some letters from Nobel laureates with explanations for Stonehenge when he is researching why Freud never got a Nobel Prize.

Harry Karlinsky has really written a book that feels like it could be real. It really feels like reading a thesis and I had to double-check to see that this was fiction. Just to be sure. LOL I mean it sounded ludicrous, but hell, who knew.

The problem I had with this book was the thesis feeling. It made it very dry to read. The part of the book I liked best was actually the biographical part, getting to know the basic fact about Alfred Nobel, Marie Curie, Teddy Roosevelt and Rydyard Kipling. The whole Stonehenge part, the letters from the Nobel laureates was the dry part that and that was unfortunately since that is kind of the point of the book.

But it was interesting to read and I would very much read more about Alfred Nobel.

Clever But Needs Better Execution

The fictional conceit here--that Alfred Nobel endowed a separate, secret prize for whomever could solve the "mystery" of Stonehenge--is rather clever.

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Titel: Alice

Autor:: Judith Hermann

Erzähler: Judith Hermann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 3 hrs and 50 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-13-14

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 1 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Wenn jemand geht, der dir nahe ist, ändert sich dein ganzes Leben, es ändert sich, ob du willst oder nicht. Alles wird anders. Alice ist die Heldin dieser fünf Geschichten, alle erzählen von ihr - und davon, wie das Leben ist und das Lieben, wenn Menschen nicht mehr da sind.

Judith Hermann erzählt mit fester und berührender Stimme, wie Lebenswege sich kreuzen, die Richtung ändern und unwiederbringlich auseinandergeführt werden...

©2009 S. Fischer Verlag (P)2009 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg / Der Hörverlag

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Title: Trest, kotoryj lopnul

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: Andrey Zaretsky, Alexander Khorlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

V sbornik voshli smeshnye i pechal'nye, sentimental'nye i iskrennie rasskazy odnogo iz samyh chitaemyh literatorov v mire, mastera korotkoj formy O. Genri. Geroi ego proizvedenij obychnye amerikancy s ih povsednevnymi problemami i trudnostjami, schast'em i radost'ju. Smeshnye situacii, v kotorye nezadachlivye geroi novell popadajut po sobstvennoj prihoti ili stecheniju obstojatel'stv, i po proshestvii veka vyzyvajut u nas ulybku. Izvestnost' proizvedenij avtora v nashej strane svjazana s udachnoj jekranizaciej rasskazov: Vozhd' krasnokozhih, Trest, kotoryj lopnul i mnogih drugih.Soderzhanie: 1. Vozhd' krasnokozhih 2. Dary volhvov 3. Dorogi, kotorye my vybiraem 4. Iz ljubvi k iskusstvu5 . Kafedra filantromatematiki6. Mladency v dzhungljah 7. Kvadratura kruga 8. V antrakte 9. Persiki 10. Porosjach'ja jetika 11. Poslednij list 12. Razvlechenija sovremennoj derevni 13. Rodstvennye dushi 14. Russkie sobolja 15. Sanatorij na rancho 16. Trest, kotoryj lopnul 17. Sredi teksta 18. Tuman v San-Antonio 19. Obrashhenie Dzhimmi Vjelentajna20. Elka s sjurprizom

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Title: Velikie moreplavateli. Kruzenshtern i Lisjanskij

Author: Nikolaj Chukovskij

Narrator: Elena Kuzmicheva, Denis Nekrasov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Otvazhnye russkie kapitany sdelali nemalo zamechatel'nyh otkrytij. Oni issledovali ne tol'koSevernye morja i Aljasku oni oboshli vokrug sveta, i v ih jekspedicijah bylo mnozhestvo zahvatyvajushhih prikljuchenij.Kniga Nikolaja Chukovskogo rasskazyvaet uvlekatel'nuju istoriju morskih puteshestvij, proslavivshih rossijskij flot i rossijskuju geograficheskuju nauku.Pust' nashi deti znajut jeti velikie imena!

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Title: Lednikovyj period. Ohotniki na mamontov [Ice Age Mammoth Hunters]

Author: Sergej Pokrovskij

Narrator: Sergey Kirsanov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Lednikovyj period. Ohotniki na mamontov Kak zhili ljudi v lednikovom periode? Byli li oni neodertal'cami? Kuda ischezli mamonty? V zamechatel'noj knige S. Pokrovskogo doistoricheskie sobytija predstajut kak jarkaja i zhivaja kartina. Vozhak revel i busheval v jame, kak uragan. S trudom udalos' emu vstat' na nogi. On toptal provalivshiesja brevna. Oni lomalis' pod nim, kak hrupkie spichki. On shvyrjal hobotom hvorost i pesok i pytalsja podnjat'sja na dyby. Ogromnye dugi ego bivnej vrezalis' v kraja lovushki. Ohotniki krichali i vizzhali krugom kak bezumnye. Velikan byl v plenu, no i v plenu on byl uzhasen!

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Title: A Mature Student

Author: Tobias Wolff

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Theresa left the Marines after twenty-two years to start a new life. Her husband had moved on to a second wife, and her son had recently enlisted. Now Theresa is going to school, getting a degree in hotel management. But it is her art history class she finds most interesting, and a chance encounter with her professor leaves her with new fears for her life, for the future - and for her son.

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Title: Wives of the Fishermen

Author: Angela Huth

Narrator: Louise Jameson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Ravishing, extravagant, flirtatious Annie MacLeoud and kind, plain, virtuous Myrtle Duns cannot remember a time when they were not the most loving, rivalrous and unlikely of friends; unflinchingly loyal to each other in the harsh climate of the Scottish fishing village which is their home. Their friendship has been tested many times, most of all when Myrtle embarks upon the great love affair of her life, while the beautiful Annie finds only disappointment.

Still the friendship survives, until a horrifying accident destroys the equilibrium and exposes the secret sadness, jealous and betrayal each has hidden over the years.

Angela Huth has written eleven novels, four collections of short stories as well as plays for radio, TV and the stage. Two of her earlier novels - Virginia Fly is Drowning and Sun Child - she adapted for the BBC and Land Girls was made into the 1998 feature film The Land Girls. She is also a well-known freelance journalist, critic broadcaster. She is married to a don, lives in Oxford and has two daughters.

Critic Reviews:

A slow burning bonfire of a novel ... a subtle, powerful story (Mail on Sunday)

An elegantly plotted tale which owes something to Aesop and something to Jane Austen (Sunday Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Slow start, great middle, abrupt end

While this book started out quite slowly, it did blossom into a fascinating story. The narrator is wonderful, the accent easy to understand and also adding much to the story. I was disappointed with the abruptness of the ending, probably because I had grown to love each character in this book with the exception of Annie. The author did a fantastic job of developing Annies character; There were so many facets of Her personality and behavior that I felt as if she were real; I truly did want to strangle her several times. All in all a very worthy reading experience, but I wish there was a sequel; I miss Myrtle already!