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Title: The Telling

Author: Jo Baker

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-15

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

When Rachel sets off, alone, for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, back to normal. But, from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected: along with the memories of her mother, there is something else, a presence - not quite tangible - trying to make itself felt. As Rachel struggles to put her mother's affairs in order, she grows ever more convinced that the house holds a message for her. Can the ghosts of the past be nudging their way into the present, or is Rachel really beginning to lose her mind?

Critic Reviews:

"A knock-out ghost story." (Daily Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Terrible audio version

This story flips back in time in one chapter and then back to present in the next. This would be fine if each new chapter were announced in the audible version. It's impossible to follow especially since the narrator is the same for both. Might be a great book but I couldn't get past the first two hours of the audio version.

Compelling story with a very good narrator

Any additional comments?

Jilly Bond does an excellent job distinguishing the two central characters in this novel through the shift in her accent: British RP for Rachel in the present day, and a Northern accent for Lizzie in the 19th century past. I found the historical narrative trajectory to be more compelling than the present-day story, since Jo Baker is great at writing historical fiction and getting the details right. She does a great job of conveying the ideals of the Chartist movement without being pedantic. Lizzie's story takes time to develop, but it's completely absorbing in the end.

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Title: A Good Family

Author: Erik Fassnacht

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A dramatic, ambitious first novel of a Midwestern family's self-destruction and repair.

Meet the Brunsons of Downers Grove, Illinois: Henry, the once-magical father, whose fear of aging and endangered career lead him to the nightclubs of Chicago's Viagra Triangle; his wife, Julie, who struggles to reclaim her life with a bottle of Zoloft and dreams of her youthful independence; Charlie, the golden-boy son who leaves the lucrative job his father arranged to serve in Afghanistan - and returns angry, damaged, and uncertain of his place in the world; and Barkley, the bumbling youngest, an aspiring writer of geeky science fiction stories who is interviewing for his first job at a forbidding Catholic high school.

When Henry's health abruptly declines, he tries to return to the home and the life he had dominated. But his family - once totally dependent on his love, physical strength, and income - no longer needs him. As Julie, Charlie, and Barkley begin to find their ways forward, Henry tries desperately to bring them back together. In the end each one will arrive at a new understanding of what family can - and cannot - be.

Unusually assured and perceptive, combining narrative drive with humor, insight, and powerful family dynamics, A Good Family is a memorable debut.

Members Reviews:

Violent and all dislikable characters

Had I known it was this violent with graphic war details, I wouldn't not have ordered it. None of the characters have a shred of compassion. I know flawed characters make good novels, but there is nothing likable about any of them. Couldn't finish the book.

Move Over, Jonathan Franzen

This novel interrupted my life for 3 days and it just blew me away. I thought it was an even better modern family saga than The Corrections and I liked The Corrections a lot. Paul Michael Garcia was a great narrator.

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Title: The Path to the Moon

Author: Omiros Avramidis

Narrator: Omiros Avramidis, Natasa Bozini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-15

Publisher: Studio aMID

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

"When night falls, the moon will come towards you, and I, from the foreign contry I will be follow it every night. I will follow the way of the Moon and will fall in your lap... These thoughts that were never expressed were interrupted by the siren of Queen Mary that sounded for last time. The waters beneath the ocean liner began boiling, while over gunwale hundreds of bodies leaned towards the waterfront, and hundreds of hands waved swinging left and right in a farewell that came from the depths of the soul. Chrysa stood too long at the stern of the ship staring at the port that withdrew, the port where she had left her heart, getting in the way of immigration."

Omiros Avramidis illuminates human ideal starting from a love story and going through the tragedy of Turkish invasion in Cyprus in 1974. As an eyewitness of the events he describes historical moments by referring to photos - documents, published in international headlines at the time.

"The path to the Moon" is the second of the seventeen novels by Omiros Avramidis, and contains many experiential elements of the invasion in Cyprus and the waves of immigrants previous decades, which changed the human geography in many countries of the world.

Contributors:

©1999 Omiros Avramidis (P)2010 studio aMID

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Title: Where Angels Fear to Tread

Author: E. M. Forster

Narrator: Edward Petherbridge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian 12 years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempt to hide their disapproval, and when Lilia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition to face the uncouth foreigner. But when they are confronted by the beauty of Italy and the charm and vitality of the disreputable Gino, they are forced to examine their own narrow lives. Their reactions are emotional, violent, and unexpected.

Members Reviews:

Ironic Humor

I wasn't quite certain what to expect I dove into my first experience with Forster. I've heard opinions on him ranging from "brilliant" to "depressing tripe." I'm not willing to go quite so far as "brilliant," but it's much closer to that mark than the latter. All right, yes, it *is* depressing in many respects. But the subtlety, the irony, the characterizations, and the downright humor is a delight. I look forward to the rest of his books.

What I remembered

What I remembered from this novel was the opera scene (still glorious) and the tragic climax (still brutal so that I slowed down coming up to it in hopes of preventing its appearance). What I forgot was how witty it was, how warm, how accomplished for such an early novel in a writer's career. In short, it was actually better than I remembered, a rare accomplishment for an author I love so much. Not as magnificent as Proust nor as fine a writer as James, but equally as wise as both and much more welcoming than either.

I liked this book

I liked this book. I read it for my IB English class and enjoyed deciphering the hidden messages within it. It's a very dry read at some parts but overall it is very well written. I'd recommend this book to anyone.

Very operatic story

I read this because Opera San Jose (California) has commissioned an opera, to appear next spring (2015) based on this book. So I wanted background to appreciate the opera. It is the kind of good news-bad news book that could make a very good opera.

I did not like it at all

I did not like it at all. There was not enough character development for me to get to know the protagonists and either like them or not. I could not find the point of this story. This seems to me to be an episode without a beginning or an end.

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Title: Nattens cirkus

Author: Erin Morgenstern

Narrator: Mikkel Bay Mortensen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Cirkusset ankommer uden varsel. Der er ingen forudgende bekendtgrelser, ingen opslag p lygteple eller plankevrk i byen, ingen omtale eller annoncer i lokale aviser. Der er simpelt hen der, hvor det ikke var i gr.

1886: Et omrejsende cirkus, hvis lige aldrig er set, vkker opsigt. Nr tusmrket falder p, bnes portene til Nattens Cirkus, og indenfor venter en forunderlig verden i sort og hvidt. Stribede telte str langs endelse, bugtede stier og lokker med glansfulde numre af trapezartister og ildslugere, slangemennesker og illusionister. P den store plads brnder et bl med hvide flammer, og rgen i den fortttede luft blandes med en duft af karamel og kanel.

Men kun f mennesker ved, at der bag kulisserne foregr en hrd duel mellem to unge magikere. Celia og Marco er begge fra barnsben blevet trnet af deres respektive mentorer til at deltage i et "spil" mod en ukendt modstander, som de bindes til for livet. Da de omsider lrer hinanden at kende, str tiden stille, og luften vibrerer ved den mindste berring mellem dem. Uden at forst reglerne for spillet til fulde forelsker de sig hovedkulds i hinanden og erfarer frst for sent, at de er modstandere i en dyst p styrke og udholdenhed, hvor kun én kan st tilbage.

©2011 Forlaget Bazar ApS / Erin Morgenstern (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Titel: Schneetage

Autor:: Jan Christophersen

Erzähler: Sebastian Dunkelberg

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 16 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-29-15

Herausgeber: SAGA Egmont

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Vor der Kulisse der großen norddeutschen Schneekatastrophe um die Jahreswende 1978/79 erzählt Jan Christophersen eine packende Familiengeschichte. Darin schafft er unvergessliche Figuren und entwirft das beeindruckende Bild einer rauen Gegend voller Wasser, Sand und Schnee. Er erzählt von der Suche nach Identität in einer Familie, in der das Schweigen den Weg zueinander zu einer langen Reise werden lässt - atmosphärisch dicht, mit leisem Witz und einer kraftvollen, suggestiven Sprache.

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Debütpreis des Buddenbrookhauses und nominiert für den Franz-Tumler-Preis.

©2015 SAGA Egmont (P)2015 SAGA Egmont

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Title: The Invaders

Author: Karolina Waclawiak

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Over the course of a summer in a wealthy Connecticut community, a forty-something woman and her college-age stepson's lives fall apart in a series of violent shocks.

Cheryl has never been the right kind of country-club wife. She's always felt like an outsider, and now, in her midforties - facing the harsh realities of aging while her marriage disintegrates and her troubled stepson, Teddy, is kicked out of college - she feels cast adrift by the sparkling seaside community of Little Neck Cove, Connecticut. So when Teddy shows up at home just as a storm brewing off the coast threatens to destroy the precarious safe haven of the cove, she joins him in an epic downward spiral.

The Invaders, a searing follow-up to Karolina Waclawiak's critically acclaimed debut novel, How to Get into the Twin Palms, casts a harsh light on the glossy sheen of even the most "perfect" lives in America's exclusive beach communities. With sharp wit and dark humor, The Invaders exposes the lies and insecurities that run like fault lines through our culture, threatening to pitch bored housewives, pill-popping children, and suspicious neighbors headlong into the suburban abyss.

Members Reviews:

Meh

I was enjoying the book, but then it ended... Abruptly. It was very strange. There were too many loose ends. This was not one of my favorite books!

Awful book .

This book is a waste of time. Do not spend a credit on this story. There is not one character that you will like and care what happens.

depressing

Wish the narrator had use different voices , at times it was hard to tell who was speaking. The novel is graphic, depraved and gross where it doesn't need to be and depressing by nature.

Plot?

I kept waiting for a plot to start and I'm not sure it ever did. A bratty rich community with obnoxious characters that lie, cheat, beat on each other emotionally and physically just isn't my taste.

A good story, but disappointing...

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I would have liked more character development- somehow I could not understand the motivations, or lack thereof, of the two main characters. I kept reading and waiting to try to figure out why the main characters were acting the way that seemed illogical. It left a lot of unanswered questions.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

I think the ending would have been great if I could have understand more about the choices that the characters made.

What about Bernadette Dunnes performance did you like?

Great narration.

What character would you cut from The Invaders?

I never did get the Steven character- and Jeffrey was just a huge jerk.

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Titel: Wenn der Wind singt (Trilogie der Ratte 1)

Autor:: Haruki Murakami

Erzähler: David Nathan

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 57 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-20-15

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

"Wenn der Wind singt", Haruki Murakamis Debüt, folgt einem namenlosen 21-jährigen Studenten, der die Semesterferien (und damit den August 1970) in seinem kleinen Heimatort verbringt. Die Zeit vertreibt er sich mit seinem besten Freund, genannt "Ratte", einem Mädchen mit vier Fingern an der linken Hand und einem Barkeeper.

Nach langem Zögern hat Haruki Murakami die Bitten seiner Fangemeinde erhört und der Veröffentlichung dieses außerhalb Japans nie erschienenen Frühwerks zugestimmt. Zusammen mit "Pinball 1973" und "Wilde Schafsjagd" bildet der Roman die "Trilogie der Ratte".

©2015 DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Köln. Übersetzung von Ursula Gräfe (P)2015 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

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Title: The Delivery Man

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Joe McGinniss, Jr.

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The Delivery Man is a thrilling and astonishing debut - a scary, fast-paced, and illuminating portrait of the MySpace generation. It is a love story set against the surreal excess of Las Vegas - and the artificial suburbs, gated communities, and freeways that surround it - where broken lives come to seek new beginnings and casinos feed the lust of tourists and residents alike. Ultrasophisticated local kids grow up fast and burn out early.

After attending college in New York, Chase returns to Vegas and is drawn into the lucrative but dangerous world of a teenage call-girl service with his childhood friend, Michele, a beautiful Salvadoran immigrant with whom he shares a tragic past. Over the course of one extraordinary summer, they will confront the violence and emptiness at the heart of the city and their generation. At once stark and electrically atmospheric, horrifying, and hopeful, The Delivery Man is an ambitious literary novel as well as a fast and absorbing pause resister - and a powerful indictment of a society in which personal responsibility has been abandoned, lust is increasingly mistaken for love, and innocence is an anachronism.

Critic Reviews:

"A dead-of-night story surehandedly told in a pared-down, teeth-bared style reminiscent of Joan Didion." (Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander)

"[A] brisk, bleak debut novel... McGinniss manages to whip the yearning and confusion of the woefully inarticulate Chase into dramatic, even gripping fare.... The Delivery Man offers unflinching glimpses at mores in free fall.... Searing... Memorable... Not for the faint of heart." (Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review)

"McGinniss offers a fresh take on the seamy side of Vegas by focusing on the wasted lives of burned-out teens hooked on drugs and money. Even CSI doesn't dig this deep." (Carol Memmott, USA Today)

"Grim, convincing, and compelling... McGinniss charts [his characters'] aimlessness with insight and dexterity. Dare I say it? The Delivery Man really delivers." (Art Taylor, The Washington Post)

Members Reviews:

The Addictions of the Vegas Sex World

This is a gritty and realistic novel about what it must be like to be young and hooked on the "easy" money of the Vegas sex worker's world of young girls and their male pimp partners. The main character has moved into a more legitimate world of education, art and business, classy future wife, etc., but is pulled into the shallow lifestyle of some of his previous high school girlfriends and friends, to temporarily get by and have somewhere to hang out. But like people who get hooked on drugs, he is pulled into this world gradually, fighting it, and yet it is always clear that he will be unable to pull out of his descent into this hellish world. The sex and drugs are never glamorized. It is clear that they all fall gradually into the pit and then can't get out because the money is good, their lives are clouded by drugs and alcohol and it is the world that they are given.

It would have been a better book if we were left with any hope for any of the characters. Perhaps he's telling us it's like having hope for heroin addicts. Once addicted, it's pretty hard to get out.

The book is pretty compelling, it moved well, had interesting characters and painted a realistic world.

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Titel: Bittersweet

Autor:: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Erzähler: Katharina Wackernagel

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 12 hrs and 47 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-09-15

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Eine perfekte Familie. Zu viele perfekte Lügen.

Ev Winslow ist reich, beliebt und wunderschön. Alles, was ihre College-Zimmergenossin Mabel nicht ist. Umso mehr freut sich Mabel, als Ev sie einlädt, den Sommer mit ihr in Bittersweet zu verbringen, ihrem eigenen Ferienhäuschen auf dem Landsitz der Winslows. Mabel genießt Segeltörns und Sommerfeste und plötzlich hat sie alles, wovon sie je geträumt hat: Freunde, die erste Liebe und zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben das Gefühl dazuzugehören. Doch auf die Idylle fällt ein Schatten, als Mabel eine schreckliche Entdeckung macht und entscheiden muss, ob sie aus dem Paradies vertrieben werden will - oder die dunklen Geheimnisse der Familie bewahrt, um eine von ihnen zu werden...

©2014 / 2015 Miranda Beverly-Whittemore / Insel Verlag Berlin. Übersetzung: Anke Caroline Burger (P)2015 Der Hörverlag

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Very Bittersweet

Oh, my God, this has to be the most depressing novel I have ever read in my life but it's so well written and engaging I have to give it five stars. I suppose what stayed with me the most was that she used historical diaries for research and many of the things that happened in the book could very well have happened to real people. There were many women who lived as men in the past that we know of. What got to me a lot was the powerlessness of being a woman back then. Part of my anger at the book was Sarah who I think is undeserving of such devoted love; some people are so ungrateful. Still, I suppose I shouldn't judge her too harshly, she was young, only sixteen when she was married, seventeen when she went off with Imogene. She was too young to know better but by the time they reached Nevada she should have grown up a little. If it wasn't for her weakness, they could have stayed teaching in the school and Imogene/Karl wouldn't have died in such a horrible accident. The whole time I was reading, my stomach was tight, wondering when the next horrible thing would happen but I guess that's how people back then lived and their lives were short.

Beautifully written

I will admit to having some reservations about this book but relied on my faith in Nevada Barr and, as expected, she delivered! I am a heterosexual although I have relatives that are gay that I support in their lifestyle. However, I shy away from blatant, cram-it-down-your throat books regarding alternative lifestyles. Ms. Barr wrote a beautiful book that will touch every reader. This isn't a book about lesbians-it is a book about love. And it is a book about the life of women, regardless of sexual preference, and the lives they lived. During a time when marriage was the only option and women were chattel, the additional poignancy of being homosexual makes for an outstanding, enlightening book that should encourage all women. Don't skip this because of the supposed content--it isn't what you expect and you'll be missing a wonderful book.

I LOVED Bittersweet, and can't remember when I've cried so ...

I just finished this book, ordered some weeks ago when it was among an assortment of reduced price books for Kindle. The first I've read by Nevada Barr though I've been aware of her from various lists, etc. for several years.