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Title: Little Deaths

Author: Emma Flint

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang, Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

It's the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York, shimmer in a heat wave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search, the police make a horrifying discovery.

Noting Ruth's perfectly made-up face and provocative clothing, the empty liquor bottles and love letters that litter her apartment, the detectives leap to convenient conclusions, fuelled by neighbourhood gossip and speculation. Sent to cover the case on his first major assignment, tabloid reporter Pete Wonicke at first can't help but do the same. But the longer he spends watching Ruth, the more he learns about the darker workings of the police and the press. Soon Pete begins to doubt everything he thought he knew.

Ruth Malone is enthralling, challenging and secretive - is she really capable of murder?

Haunting, intoxicating and heart-poundingly suspenseful, Little Deaths is a gripping novel about love, morality and obsession, exploring the capacity for good and evil within us all.

Members Reviews:

A gripping listen from start to finish!

This was a really great listen that kept me gripped all the way to the end! The contrast between Ruth being heartbroken for her children's deaths set against the prejudice and misogynist opinions of the police force is done really well and makes you realise the struggle women had (and often still do) back in the 60's for being independent, wearing certain outfits or having relationships with men out of wedlock.

We are told right at the beginning that Ruth went to prison for deaths of her children and therefore the books focus is about how the police came to convict her. I think the real questions this book makes you ask if what was Ruth really on trial for in the end? The murder of her children or her behaviour as a woman deemed inappropriate by a world run by men.

It was such a fascinating listen and the dual narration of the book between Ruth and the Journalist covering the story worked perfectly. I would highly recommend!

Was she on trial for murder - or immorality?

This debut novel is based on the true case of Alice Crimmins in 1960s New York who was found guilty of murdering her two young children even though there was no conclusive proof that she had killed them. Books have been written about the case, but what Emma Flint does with it is remarkable, not least in creating such a thoroughly American novel that it is hard to believe that she is British.

Alice Crimmins becomes Ruth Malone in Flint's novel. She's an 'attractive red-haired cocktail waitress' with all the sleazy connotations that entails, and is in the middle of a very bitter custody battle with her husband Frank over their two young children Frankie and Cindy. We know from the opening scene that Ruth ends up in prison, so we know she'll be found guilty. The interest then is in the how and why this verdict was returned.

Flint unpeels Ruth's life struggling to support the two little children she loves, failing to look after them in a conventional way and indulging in a great deal of noisy sex with a lot of men, much disapproved of by the neighbourhood in the mid-1960s district of New York.

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Title: Lotus

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Lijia Zhang

Narrator: Angela Lin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Inspired by the secret life of the author's grandmother, Lotus follows a young woman torn between past traditions and modern desires as she carves out a life for herself in China's "City of Sins." Reserved, at times defiant, Lotus is different from the other streetwalkers. Her striking eyes glow under Shenzhen's neon lights, capturing the attention of Funny Eye, Family Treasure, and a slew of other demanding clients determined to make Lotus their property. Choosing between wealthy, powerful, and dangerous men is no easy feat, but it is a surprising offer from Binbing, a soft-spoken and humble photojournalist, that presents the biggest challenge. Is Lotus willing to fall in love? Is she capable of it?

Inspired by the deathbed revelation that the author's grandmother had been sold to a brothel in her youth, Lotus offers compelling insight into China's bustling underground world and reveals the surprising strength found in those confronted with impossible choices.

Written with compassion and vivid prose, and packed with characters you won't soon forget, Lijia Zhang's Lotus examines what it means to be an individual in a society that praises restraint in and obedience from its women.

Members Reviews:

A review of Lijia Zhang's Lotus

The girl is a middle-school drop-out from rural Sichuan; she come to Shenzhen to make more money and evade her supressing father after her mother's untimely death, and the boredomness of village life, by working in a shoe factory. The man is an Tsinghua-trained engineer at a broke-down state enterprise in Beijing; he come to the southern city to evade his ambitious wife and snobbish mother-in-law, prove his worth, and make big money by entering the business world.

Failure is what they both found at the bustling city.

Lotus, after working at the neck-breaking factory floor for over a year and her cousin who come with her is killed in a fire at the workshop, quit working as a factory girl and take on some odd jobs that turn out not any better. Disillusioned by the prospect of ever getting rich and lured by quick and easy money, she turn to the oldest profession for a woman with good looking and young body.

Bing, after his modestly successful business is ruined by his calculated relative-by-marriage through a classy prostitute, turn to his passion in photography and want to use his skills with camera to uncover the lives of the working girls, one of which brought him down.

Thus the two improbable person met, and a mutual necessity brought them closer. For her he provide the modest protection from brutal and corrupt cops; for him she provide a window into the secret world he want to peek.

This is the setting of the latest novel by Lijia Zhang, an heretofore unheard-of author from Beijing. Through her observant eye, compassionate description and considerable skill in story-telling, we see an encyclopedic view of the lives of all walk of people, from poor migrate workers, to wealthy business men, corrupt government officials, brutal policeman, conscious journalists and of course, the working girls, at the sin city that is the window of China to the world at the turn of the century.

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Title: How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company

Subtitle: A True Story

Author: Varun Agarwal

Narrator: Raj Sidhu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Varun is a recent engineering graduate. His hours are filled with friends, pub hopping, and stalking his love interest on Facebook. Through it all, though, Varun harbours ambitions of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Meanwhile, Varun's mother, who is disturbed by her son's lack of focus on life, enlists her good friend Anu Aunty to put him on track. The meddling Anu Aunty is more than willing to take up this assignment. How Varun dodges Anu Aunty's nosey, irksome ways en route to realizing his entrepreneurial dreams makes for a story worth hearing.

Members Reviews:

recommended reading for aspiring Indian entrepreneur

1 a good theme. Entrepreneurship is rarely promoted in india there are many anu aunties in all our lives. The book provides interesting perspective on the same

2 the book provides good inspiration to youth without being preachy the characters are relatable Would definitely recommend to aspiring entrepreneur

3. I enjoyed reading the refrances of the Bangalore city. I have been to many places discussed.

Best book read in recent time

Simple and straightforward story. Light hearted, entertaining, fun with a message. Lot of information on ecommerce and start ups. Must for all Indian parents and youngsters.

An amazing debut for Varun

I picked up the book after listening to his speech on INKTalks. I wasn't expecting much after I read Varun's statement in the beginning. With that said, The book definitely surpassed what I gave it credit for. A nice memoir of his 1 year journey in which his idea transpired from his brain to reality. Enjoyed reading it.

Good light read

Has some very simple but important lessons for someone starting on their own. However, the book tells a fairy tale story because you do not get lucky at every turn. But overall I enjoyed reading it.

Five Stars

A very good book for budding entrepreneurs... enjoyed reading it.

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Titel: Heimsuchung

Autor:: Jenny Erpenbeck

Erzähler: Jenny Erpenbeck

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-28-16

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Autorin liest ihre Geschichte: von einem Haus am See - und wie ein ganzes Jahrhundert in ihm wütet.

Ein Haus an einem märkischen See: Es ist der Schauplatz für fünfzehn Lebensläufe, Geschichten, Schicksale von den Zwanzigerjahren bis heute. Das Haus und seine Bewohner erleben die Weimarer Republik, das Dritte Reich, den Krieg und dessen Ende, die DDR, die Wende und die Zeit der Nachwende. Jedem einzelnen Schicksal gibt Jenny Erpenbeck eine eigene literarische Form, jedes entfaltet auf ganz eigene Weise seine Dramatik, seine Tragik, sein Glück. Alle zusammen bilden ein Panorama des letzten Jahrhunderts, das verstört, beglückt, verunsichert und versöhnt.

Die Autorin Jenny Erpenbeck liest ihren eindrucksvollen, poetisch verdichteten Roman selbst - ein Hörerlebnis höchster Intensität.

©2007 Eichborn AG, Frankfurt am Main (P)2016 Der Hörverlag

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

An exceptional book

One of those books that really touched me and which I will read again. Makes you think about your own life, the lives of others, our interaction with others, the meaning of life, love, cruelty and all of this woven into the turbulent German history of the last one hundred years.

gut gezeichnete Figuren außerdem fließende und malerische Sprache

Ich genoss den Roman für gut gezeichnete Figuren außerdem fließende und malerische Sprache. Ich hoffe, weitere Bücher des Autors zu lesen. Tatsächlich gab es nur einziges schwierige Kapitel, unter den Letzten über die endlosen juristischen Streit, randvolles mit abstoßenden Rechtsbegriffe.

One house and its occupants in twentieth century Germany.

Using an imaginative structure, written in a dense and memorable way, the book explores various German lives from just before the Nazi years up to German reunification. Insightful and enriching.

it's good to see what's going on in German literature these ...

Overall, it's a bit disjointed. Still, it's good to see what's going on in German literature these days.

Scenes from a summer house at the lake...

"Farbig ist nur das, woran sie sich erinnert, mitten in dieser Dunkelheit, die sie umgibt, deren Kern sie ist, farbige Erinnerungen hat sie in ihrem vom Licht vergessenen Kopf, Erinnerungen von jemand, der sie einmal war. Wer war sie? Wessen Kopf war ihr Kopf? Wem gehörten jetzt diese Erinnerungen?"

The "Girl ", who ponders these questions, is one of the protagonists in Jenny Erpenbeck's innovative and powerful novel Heimsuchung (translated expertly into "Visitation" by Susan Bernofksy). Memories of innocent excitement and youthful happiness, of arriving, settling down, and then having to leave again and of families and people loved and lost form the core of the story. Everything is centred around a lake-side summer house, surrounded by expansive woods and gardens in the region just east of Germany's capital, Berlin, affording it the role as the central character and integrating force of the narrative. Using her zooming lens, the author condenses many decades of twentieth century German history into time-specific, intricate and intimate glimpses into the lives of twelve different residents and their families living on the property.

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Titel: Der Seher

Autor:: Lars Muhl

Erzähler: Thorsten Breitfeldt

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-13-16

Herausgeber: SAGA Egmont

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein Musiker ist für drei Jahre ans Bett gefesselt bis er eines Tages ein Telefongespräch mit einem Fremden führt.

Geschrieben mit außerordentlicher Energie, Aufrichtigkeit und Demut, ist dies die fesselnde Erzählung über das Erwachen eines Mannes.

Der Seher, das erste Buch aus Lars Muhls Trilogie "The O Manuscript", ist der Beginn einer persönlichen und philosophischen Suche, die die Seele für eine neue Wahrheit öffnet. Es ist die mitreißende Geschichte einer fundamentalen Verwandlung, die vielschichtige, weltumfassende Themen mit großer Einfachheit behandelt. In einer von Verwirrung und Widersprüchen heimgesuchten Welt sind Bücher wie dieses, wahre Schätze, weil sie Antworten geben.

©2016 SAGA Egmont (P)2016 SAGA Egmont

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Title: Another Place You've Never Been

Author: Rebecca Kauffman

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Most of us have experienced what it's like to know what someone is going to say right before they say it. Or perhaps you have been shocked by the irrefutable phenomena of coincidence, when your life intersects with another's in the most unlikely way. In gripping prose marked by stark simplicity, Another Place You've Never Been by debut novelist Rebecca Kauffman explores the intersection of human experience amidst the minutiae of everyday life.

In her mid-30s and living in Buffalo, New York (where she is originally from), Tracy spends most days at the restaurant where she works as a hostess, despite her aspirations of a career that would make use of her creative talents. Tracy's life is explored not only though her own personal point of view, but also through the viewpoints of other characters, wherein Tracy may only make a peripheral appearance or even emerge at different periods in her life.

Kauffman subtly exposes the lives of these characters - alongside the presences of spiritually mysterious Native American figures that appear throughout - and gradually reveals the true purposes of both as their paths intersect.

Critic Reviews:

"In clear and vivid prose, Kauffman potently depicts lonely and isolated lives, marked by rash decisions made in the hope of finding connection. . . . an undeniably moving and emotionally true portrayal of the kitchen sink of human experience." (Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Members Reviews:

Truely beautiful reflection on the lives we lead

I adored this novel. Kauffman's characters are rich and thoughtful, and she weaves together their lives with a refreshing naturalness. Each vignette is powerful and insightful, beautiful and hauntingly real. Even more impactful is how in the dark moments that freckle these characters lives, there is more beauty and resiliency than doom and gloom. I found my self often in tears not over the sadness they felt, but because of how they bore through it. Tracy, the central figure in the book, is someone we all have known or have been at certain times in our lives. This one sits with you long after you've finished. I am recommending it to everyone I know.

Kauffman is brilliant in her storytelling- a weaving of vignettes that meld ...

Kauffman is brilliant in her storytelling- a weaving of vignettes that meld together magically to tell the story of Tracy. Reading this like looking at snapshots of a beautiful and indescribable lake from every different angle and throughout all the seasons. I found the language to be incredibly fluid and engaging, easy to read, but with real weight. I read the entire second half in one sitting. I can't wait for more from this author!

Masterful

Kauffman's characters are deeply, deeply flawed. But it's love they're driven by, love and the belief that there's never going to be a slice of it for them. There's Tracy, raised by a pill-popping mother, cheated out of summer visits by her father's jealous girlfriend.

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Title: The Tengu's Game of Go

Subtitle: The Tale of Shikanoko, Book 4

Author: Lian Hearn

Narrator: Neil Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The rightful emperor is lost to the world, further from the throne than ever before.

The lord of the usurper clan has fallen ill, and further unrest looms.

Shikanoko has withdrawn to the farthest reaches of the country, leaving his allies stranded and the Spider Tribe unchecked.

Lakes are drying up, rivers receding - have the powers of Heaven abandoned the Eight Islands?

The Tale of Shikanoko began with an unusual game of Go, as young Shikanoko's father sat down to an ill-advised match against a tengu. Now, in the last chapter of The Tale of Shikanoko, the stones are arrayed in their final positions on the board.

In The Tengu's Game of Go, all are forced to confront the missteps of the past as the wrath of Heaven weaves tight around its mortal players. Hidden identities are revealed, loyalties are put to their ultimate test, and death appears around every corner.

Throughout The Tale of Shikanoko, Lian Hearn has masterfully captured the thrilling danger and beauty of the medieval and magical. In the final installment, Shikanoko risks everything for fate and justice - an exhilarating ending to an unforgettable adventure.

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Titel: Am anderen Ende der Nacht (Die China-Trilogie 3)

Autor:: Jan-Philipp Sendker

Erzähler: Hans-Werner Meyer

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-22-16

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Nach "Das Flüstern der Schatten" und "Drachenspiele": Der Abschluss der China-Trilogie.

Als Paul mit Christine und Sohn David seinen alten Freund Zhang besucht, wird der Vierjährige entführt. Durch glückliche Umstände gelangt er wieder zu seinen Eltern. Doch die Entführer wollen ihn zurück. Es beginnt eine Verfolgung quer durch das Reich der Mitte und in die Abgründe einer Gesellschaft in Aufruhr, immer begleitet von der Angst, David wieder zu verlieren. Kann die Liebe zweier Menschen eine solche Herausforderung, bei der das eigene Leben und das des Kindes ständig in Gefahr sind, überstehen?

Hans-Werner Meyer liest Sendker spannend und ausdrucksstark.

©2016 Jan-Philipp Sendker / Carl Blessing Verlag (P)2016 Random House Audio

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Title: The Tidal Zone

Author: Sarah Moss

Narrator: Toby Longworth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A poignant, funny and engrossing exploration of family life centred around a cataclysmic event and its aftermath, from the author of Night Waking and Signs for Lost Children.

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man, and he is happy. But one day he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that for no apparent reason, 15-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing.

In that moment he is plunged into a world of waiting, agonising, not knowing. The story of his life and the lives of his family are rewritten and retold around this shocking central event, around a body that has inexplicably failed.

In this exceptionally courageous and unflinching novel of contemporary life, Sarah Moss goes where most of us wouldn't dare to look, and the result is riveting - unbearably sad but also miraculously funny and ultimately hopeful. The Tidal Zone explores parental love, overwhelming fear, illness and recovery. It is about clever teenagers and the challenges of marriage. It is about the NHS, academia, sex and gender in the 21st century, the work-life juggle and the politics of packing lunches and loading dishwashers. It confirms Sarah Moss as a unique voice in modern fiction and a writer of luminous intelligence.

Members Reviews:

In a league of its own for excellence!

The Tidal Zone is quite a difficult title to write about because no other novelist at present is writing in this unique way to produce such a (almost literally) stunning impact on the listener. It richly deserves its 5+ stars.

Sarah Moss the author is an academic and The Tidal Zone is a highly sophisticated and multi-layered portrait of both a family and British culture, packed tightly with challenging and stimulating ideas and analysis. But don't be put off if this sounds a bit heavy - it is also utterly and beguilingly ordinary, presenting with stunning reality a family with all the stresses and strains of just about every family we know.

Adam looks after 15 year-old Mimi and 8 year-old Rose at home, putting his own academic work on hold as his GP wife Emma earns the money, returning home late each day drained by working for a struggling NHS, too exhausted to eat. All's well if stressful in a different way for Adam juggling household chores, children's needs, a preoccupied wife and his own attempts to keep up some vestige of academic research - until the call from school that Mimi has stopped breathing and has been rushed to hospital where she stays for the next fortnight before being returned home with the life-saving Epipen she must always carry with her in case the same happens again.

The power of the writing is in the portrayal of the effect of this shattering experience on each member of the family, the strain on the tenuous 'cobweb' which was holding Adam and Emma together even before the shock, and the painful lessons Adam has to learn in allowing Mimi to live again without strangling her with his overwhelming anxiety.

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Title: The Adventurist

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: J. Bradford Hipps

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In the anonymous office park of a modern software company, whip-smart software engineer Henry Hurt is a man in the middle: of life, of career, and of self-assessment. Mired in his corporate responsibilities, Henry's deathless office existence is torpedoed by losing his mother.

Overcome by "the pall", Henry seeks escape in a quest for love and purpose occasioned by a crisis in his company's fortunes. Dodging an Iago-like rival, he finds love with a colleague in his department, endangers his bond with his family, and finally confronts the single urgent question of his life.

The Adventurist is about relationships: Henry has complicated ones with his sister, Gretchen, who has stayed at home with their father; his lover, Jane, a sleek and efficient mirror image of Henry; and a tantalizing potential girlfriend, Madison, the ultimate free spirit. But his relationship to his corporate and familial responsibilities may change his fortunes even more than the women in his life.

Members Reviews:

Excellent, but for a very particular audience

Excellent, but for a very particular audience. The prose has high expectations of the reader, which is not to say that those who don't enjoy the book are fools, lazy readers, etc. It's simply to say the drama here is largely internal and will not suit everyone. But the language is breathtaking. I point to a line near the end. The narrator is describing a nurse's sponge bath for his terminally ill mother:

"The eyes were done first, the nurse's hand moving from nose to cheek, as a tear would run."

The statement is precise, ruminative and poetic. If that line prods you, the book is for you.

A masterpiece of a first novel!

Buy this book and prepare to be deeply moved as software engineer, Henry Hurt stares into the abyss. This novel offers us an empathetic view into our human existential condition as it plays out in marbled city skyscrapers, suburban technology office parks, and lonely hotel bars. If we have looked deeply, we will see ourselves in Henry Hurt, both alienated and propped up by these edifices. In this story we also find Henry (and ourselves) struggling with the messiness, complexity, pain, and comfort of relationships. We meet love at it is, forever entangled in loss. Mr. Hipps paints Henry with eloquent, intelligent, and poetic strokes, and ultimately blows open the questions without placating us with trite answers. Absolutely brilliant!

Extraordinary Writing and a Great Story

It's hard to believe this is J. Bradford Hipps' first novel. But maybe he has a dozen manuscripts in a desk drawer. He writes beautifully of one ordinary man's life, capturing the nuances of moods and feelings in a way I found remarkable. For example, you know that mood slump you can get when the light in a room falls in a certain way? Hipps has put words around that ineffable experience. I loved this novel and have recommended it to a handful of friends. If you enjoy novels that really do capture what being a live and sentient human feels like, pick up The Adventurist.

I have not read prose like this in many years -- indeed

This novel is a work of art -- the words and phrasing are as exquisite as they are delicious. Mr. Hipps' descriptions are richly vivid and come alive in the mind. I have not read prose like this in many years -- indeed, it's mind-boggling that this is his first work. The characters are real.