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Titel: Die Leute von Privilege Hill

Untertitel: Erzählungen

Autor:: Jane Gardam

Erzähler: Ulrike C. Tscharre, Martin Baltscheit, Felix von Manteuffel, Leslie Malton, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Gabriele Blum

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 56 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-25-17

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Dass Jane Gardam hinreißende Romane schreibt, war eine der wunderbaren Entdeckungen der letzten Jahre. Nun gibt es einen weiteren Schatz zu heben, Gardams Erzählungen: Hetty, die Familienmutter, die bei der Begegnung mit ihrem ehemaligen Liebhaber in einen somnambulen Zustand gerät. Der verstummte chinesische Junge, der einen vom Himmel gestürzten Schwan rettet und zur Sprache zurückfindet. Sie alle berühren uns und entwickeln ein Eigenleben, das über den Kosmos der Geschichten hinausgeht. Und in jeder Erzählung steckt die Verheißung eines ganzen Romans!

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Title: Edgar Allan

Author: John Neufeld

Narrator: Kitty Hendrix

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-17

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A white family adopts a small black child and then, because they are fearful of what will happen in their small town, make a terrible decision.

"This is not a novel about prejudice or race relations or brotherhood It is about parents and children, young people and older people, about love and failure, loss and discovery, coming to terms with ourselves and others. Edgar Allan is a work of art."- New York Times

Members Reviews:

Edgar Allan

I thought that Edgar Allan was a good book. It tells about how he was treated by his adopted family and how his older sister M.N. treated him because he was colored she was the only one that didn't like him out the whole family. He was adopted by a white family and lives in a community with only white people who don't like E.A. they didn't want their kids around E.A. because he was a colored little boy they would tell the reverned to don't bring E.A. to church if he did he would know longer be the reverned. I think this book relates to alot of peoples lives for the people who get adopted because they don't like their skin color so they don't like them they would say mean things to them. I really liked the book because it tells how some people live and what they have to go through because of their skin color.

This is a good book ...so read it

Edgar Allan is a good book.It's a touching story about a young african american boy trying to have a good family.I liked this book. It made me think twice about how african americns were treated back then. I thought that the book was something that I would have my little brother read when he gets older.

This book showed me many things about life in general. I could not imagine having people treat each other that way ,and it makes you think another way before you disrespect some one that you know and love. If I were you then I would read this good book.!!

Edgar Allan

Edgar Allan is a great book that has many facts that are protrayed in life. I learned how far people can go to discriminate against others for their skin color. The book Edgar Allan is about a little black boy who gets adopted into a white minister's family. There the family faces many problems in which the town people and Mary Nell(their daughter) causes. Finally the family came up with a decision. I would give this book a 5 star.

Neufeld broadens the minds of all, especially Christians.

This book brings a new understanding to the problems faced when couples adopt outside their race. This book hits right at the heart of those of us who love children. The way that Neufeld accurately depicts the emotions running through that family tear at the heartstrings of the reader.

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Title: Smile

Author: Roddy Doyle

Narrator: Roddy Doyle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Smile, written and read by Roddy Doyle.

Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humour, the superb evocation of childhood but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to re-evaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.

Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one.

One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers. He prompts other memories too of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor's own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio.

But it's the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.

Critic Reviews:

"Roddy Doyle's finest book in 20 years." (John Boyne)

"A book that made me feel I really was in the presence of a master." (Sebastian Barry)

"Doyle writes about damage without relish or sensationalism. In Smile he manages to be considered and to take risks at the same time." (Anne Enright)

Members Reviews:

Brilliant but disturbing

Roddy Doyle always brings you into the heart of Dublin life, the characters you recognise, the scenarios you've witnessed for yourself. The middle aged men he describes could be in any bar you walk into, the tiny world of Irish celebrity during the boom years is astutely accurate. As you believe the voice of the main character, you are drawn into the insecurities of the modern male, eclipsed by a more successful and stronger partner, emasculated, but sweet and supportive. Beneath it all, however, is a dark undercurrent, a scar that cannot heal. The ramifications of this are slowly revealed, the reconstructed outer personality hiding the horror within. I cannot help but hope none of this is biographical.

Totally absorbing tale of finding a way to live

A close relative of mine went to a Christian Brothers institution so at times-even though the descriptions of casual cruelty are low key- this was amost too much for me. But, but the writing kept me coming back. Brilliant.

Brilliant!!!

I was blown away by this work, I wanted to get back into fiction & this definitely got me there!

Not as good as the hype portrayed

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I downloaded this book having heard it reviewed on Radio 4. Unfortunately I didn't feel it deserved the glowing report. Although the setting and characters were portrayed eloquently, there was little substance to the story. I felt little for the characters and found even less that hooked me into their predictable disclosures. A disappointing purchase.

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Title: Livets gave

Author: Danielle Steel

Narrator: Vibeke Hastrup

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-17

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Det er en varm majaften i San Francisco, og balsalen p Hotel Ritz-Carlton glimter i lyset fra krystallysekronerne. Et glamourst selskab er samlet til et stort velgrenhedsbal. Aftenen er intet mindre end perfekt - lige indtil et voldsomt jordsklv rammer byen. Alt er kaos, og mens San Francisco kmper for at komme p fode igen, begynder en kdereaktion af begivenheder, der kommer til at berre fire vidt forskellige menneskers liv for evigt.

Sarah Sloane, der er gift med en stenrig finansmand, opdager, at katastrofen har afslret mere om hendes mands forretninger, end godt er. Og hun er tvunget til at finde en indre styrke, som hun ikke anede, hun havde. Den Grammy-vindende sangerinde Melanie Free har et srdeles problematisk forhold til bde sin mor og sin kreste, men mske findes lykken slet ikke hos dem, der str hende nrmest? Everett Carson er tidligere krigskorrespondent, men hans indre dmoner har tvunget hans liv ned i gear.

Jordsklvet giver ham en ny chance, ikke mindst da han mder nonnen Maggie Kent. Hun kmper for at redde de overlevende fra katastrofen, men hvad hun ikke ved, er, at hun str over for den strste udfordring af alle: at leve op til sit kyskhedslfte.

©2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Malene Bjerre (P)2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: Charles Street Nr. 44

Author: Danielle Steel

Narrator: Liselotte Krogager

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-17

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Da 35-rige Francesca Thayers forhold til sin mand og forretningsspartner Todd gr i stykker, str hun pludselig i en konomisk vanskelig situation. Hun vil gerne beholde sit elskede hus i nr. 44 p Charles Street i New York, men vil heller ikke af med det galleri, som hun og Todd har haft i fem r. Francesca er selv fra en kunstnerisk familie og har hjertet det rette sted. Hendes ambition er at fortstte med at hjlpe "sm" kunstnere frem i lyset.

Men Todd, som oprindelig er brsmgler, vil ikke lngere vre medejer af et galleri, der ikke giver nogen fortjeneste. For at skaffe penge nok til at beholde bde hus og galleri lejer Francesca nogle af husets mange vrelser ud. Den smukke skolelrer Eileen er den frste, der flytter ind. S kommer den unge enlige far Chris, og til sidst stder kogebogsforfatteren Marya til. Sammen vender de med hver deres historie og baggrund op og ned p Francescas hidtil ordinre liv. De fylder huset i Charles Street nr. 44 med latter, hjertesorger, hb, og nye venskaber opstr.

©2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Lene Schitt (P)2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: You Remind Me of Me

Author: Dan Chaon

Narrator: Jim Soriero

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother's pet Doberman; in 1997, another little boy disappears from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny summer morning; in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home with the intention of giving her child up for adoption; in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something better.

With penetrating insight and a deep devotion to his characters, Dan Chaon explores the secret connections that irrevocably link them. In the process, he examines questions of identity, fate, and circumstance: Why do we become the people that we become? How do we end up stuck in lives that we never wanted? Can we change the course of what seems inevitable?

In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of "ordinary" people.

Members Reviews:

Should have been narrated by Kirby Heyborne

A few years ago, Kirby Heyborne narrated Dan Chaon's book, Await Your Reply, and I thought it was unique and fantastic. This new book is almost as good, but the narrator is too monotone ... or too "white bread" ... just not as good as Heyborne.

Still worth a listen!

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Title: What We Lose

Author: Zinzi Clemmons

Narrator: Nicole Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death.

Thandi is American, but not as American as some of her friends. She is South African, but South Africa terrifies her. She is a black woman with light skin.

Her mother is dying.

In exquisite vignettes of wry warmth and extraordinary emotional power, What We Lose tells Thandi's story. Both raw and artful, minimal yet rich, it is an intimate portrait of love and loss and a fierce meditation on race, sex, identity and staying alive.

Critic Reviews:

"Penetratingly good and written in vivid still life, What We Lose reads like a guided tour through a melancholic Van Gogh exhibit - wonderfully chromatic, transfixing and bursting with emotion. Zinzi Clemmons's debut novel signals the emergence of a voice that refuses to be ignored." (Paul Beatty)

"Wise and tender and possessed of a fiercely insightful intimacy, What We Lose is a lyrical ode to the complexities of race, love, illness, parenthood, and the hairline fractures they leave behind. Zinzi Clemmons has gifted the reader a rare and thoughtful emotional topography, a map to the mirror regions of their own heart." (Alexandra Kleeman)

"I love how Zinzi Clemmons complicates identity in What We Lose. Her main character is both South African and American, privileged and outsider, driven by desire and gutted by grief. This is a piercingly beautiful first novel." (Danzy Senna)

"An intimate narrative that often makes another life as believable as your own." (John Edgar Wideman)

Members Reviews:

2018 Must-Read

A caption for this book could easily turn into an essay. I felt so many things when reading What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons @zinziclemmons. Itâs a young womanâs coming of age story set in Philadelphia and Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to addressing race, sex, family, country, and identity, a common thread throughout the book is the loss of her mother and how that impacts all aspects of her life. She feels caught between two worlds - not quite American yet not quite South African. After losing her mother Clemmons struggles to find her way while learning to live without the person who most profoundly shaped her existence. This is an extraordinary book and I highly recommend it as a must-read for 2018.

Clemmons knows grief

4.5 stars really.

This is such a slow burn of a book, and yet I couldnât put it down. I loved the narrative style, even though at times it was hard to place the chronology of things. The grief in this book is so tender, so palpable, your heart will break for Thandi.

What We Lose is a semi-autobiographical account of Zinzi Clemmonsâ life as a mixed race girl in the US and also in South Africa. Her vignettes on identity and race are thought provoking but her portrayal of love, the mistakes of youth and loss after the death of a loved ones are my favorite things about this book.

Her writing, full of imagery and strong emotion is simple and moving. Overall, a strong debut in my opinion.

Heartfelt. Important

As seen on africanbookaddict.com :

Laden with meditative, intimate and at times unsettling vignettes, What We Lose will leave you in a pensive state.ÂThandi - the heroine of this novel, is the only child of her mother (a coloured South African) and father (a light skinned African American) who is very aware of her privileged, multicultural background.

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Title: The Traitor

Subtitle: The Mitchells and O'Haras Trilogy, Book 2

Author: Kimberley Chambers

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

She fell for the enemy. Now she must pay the price.

The gripping second novel from the number one best-selling author in the Mitchells and O'Haras trilogy.

The Mitchells and the O'Haras have been enemies for years.

One a gangland family, the other travellers, they resort to violence to solve problems between them. So when Frankie Mitchell fell for Jed O'Hara, it was only going to be a matter of time before all hell broke loose.

Clever, ruthlessly attractive to women and slippery as a snake, Jed O'Hara has Frankie exactly where he wants her - pregnant and estranged from her family. Even Eddie Mitchell, Frankie's terrifying father, is no threat - he's in prison awaiting trial for murder.

But Frankie is not a Mitchell for nothing, and when she begins to suspect the extent of Jed's treachery, she puts together a lethal plan.

Critic Reviews:

"This beautifully crafted, sharp, well-paced novel will keep you hooked until the very end. An outstanding tale of betrayal, violence and love. Buy it. Read it. You'll love it. I did." (Amanda Prowse)

"Brilliantly delivers a story of violence, treachery and family ties.... Easy to read and hard to put down. " (News of the World)

"A fast-paced tale with gritty authenticity." (The Guardian)

Members Reviews:

Warning strong language

A good story about ravel families, could be quiet dis-stressing at times. Not for the faint hearted. The language, a certain word was used a bit to often. Not my cup of tea.

Brilliant

Lots of twists and turns to keep you interested. The characters are so real. A throughly good read.

Brilliant as always cannot fault the author .....

loved it ! story was fantastic, author was fantastic. I would highly recommend this book.

Second book can't wait for the third

Fantastic narration she gives it her all, worryingly I liked some of the villains as well!

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Title: Hame

Author: Annalena McAfee

Narrator: Cathleen McCarron, David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-17

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.

In the wake of the breakdown of her relationship, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her nine-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray. Mhairi has been commissioned to write a biography of the late Bard of Fascaray, Grigor McWatt, a cantankerous poet with an international reputation.

But who was Grigor McWatt? Details of his past - his tough childhood and his war years as a commando - are elusive, and there is evidence of a mysterious love affair which Mhairi is determined to investigate. As she struggles to adapt to her new life and put her own troubled past behind her, Mhairi begins to unearth the astonishing secret history of the poet regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray's - and Scotland's - soul.

A dazzling, kaleidoscope of a novel, Hame layers extracts from Mhairi's journal, Grigor's letters and poems and his evocative writing about the island into a compelling narrative that explores identity, love and the universal quest for home.

Members Reviews:

Fake History

If you're a big fan of academic histories about fake places and people, than this is your book. The characters aren't interesting enough to hold your attention: the main character Mhairi is a self-absorbed bore while the fake poet she's researching is even worse. Neither have anything interesting to say so you're left with the thorough history of a fake hebridiean island. The Hebrides are a faschinating place; you'd be better off reading an actual history of any of the isles.

No lift-off for this reader

I admit to two personal reasons for reading this book. 1) I am going to Scotland next year, and I wanted to get some insight on the culture, geography, and anything that would be helpful. 2) Annalena McAfee is married to one of my favorite authors, so was hoping the electric charge is in the very air of their home! I am still glad I read it, as it certainly did raise my Scotland IQ from zero to novice-at-armâs-reach. The story itself, however, never did have lift off for me. The fictional Bard of Fascaray and the fictional Isle of Fascaray demonstrated the authorâs glittering imagination and intelligence for creating this microcosm of setting and character, but I didnât emotionally connect to the story.

The intertextual story alternates between past and present. Mhairi McPhail, academic writer from Brooklyn (by way of Canada), whose marriage to Marco is on the rocks, receives a grant to research her beloved (fictional) Scottish poet, the bard of Fascaray, Grigor McWatt. Mhairi and Marco both had torrid affairs that I canât imagine happening around their nine-year-old daughter, Agnes. For a chance to escape and recoup some stability away from Marco, Mhairi takes Agnes to Fascaray to write a full bio on the hard-drinking, curmudgeonly, English-hating poet that moved to the island after serving in WW II.

The narrative is divided between Mhairi and Agnes; her research writing titled âThe Reimagining of Grigor McWatt;â extracts from the Bardâs editorial column in a newspaper called âThe Fascary Compendium;â and poems by many, such as Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Percy Shelley, and others, translated into McWattâs Scots language.

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Titel: Ein wenig Leben

Autor:: Hanya Yanagihara

Erzähler: Torben Kessler

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 35 hrs and 54 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-30-17

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

"Ein wenig Leben" handelt von der lebenslangen Freundschaft zwischen vier Männern in New York, die sich am College kennengelernt haben. Jude St. Francis, brillant und enigmatisch, ist die charismatische Figur im Zentrum der Gruppe - ein aufopfernd liebender und zugleich innerlich zerbrochener Mensch. Wie in ein schwarzes Loch werden die Freunde in Judes dunkle, schmerzhafte Welt hineingesogen, deren Ungeheuer nach und nach hervortreten.

"Ein wenig Leben" ist zugleich realistischer Roman und Märchen - ein rauschhaftes, mit kaum fasslicher Dringlichkeit erzähltes Epos über Trauma, menschliche Güte und Erlösung. Es begibt sich an die dunkelsten Orte, an die Literatur sich wagen kann, und bricht dabei immer wieder zum hellen Licht durch. Ein unvergleichlich mutiger und erschütternder Roman über Freundschaft als wahre Liebe - und die Frage, ob sie uns retten kann.

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