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Título: Retrato en Sepia [Portrait in Sepia]

Autor: Isabel Allende

Narrador: Javiera Gazitua

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 11 hrs and 34 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 04-27-17

Editor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 20 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Narrada en la voz de una joven mujer, ésta es una magnífica novela histórica, y una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de Hija de la fortuna y de La casa de los espíritus, novelas cumbres en la obra de Isabel Allende.

En el Chile del siglo XIX, Aurora del Valle sufre un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco años de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, libre de muchas de las limitaciones que oprimen a las mujeres de su época pero atormentada por horribles pesadillas. Cuando debe afrontar la traición del hombre al que ama y la soledad, Aurora decide explorar el misterio de su pasado.

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Crítica Comentarios:

"Una epopeya de los grandes sentimientos: tragedia esperanzada, fábula moral, esbozo de una familia y apunte de un país. En definitiva, un gran libro." (Ramón Ventura, El Periódico)

Opiniones de los miembros:

Four Stars

A good story of Chile in ira development

Apasionante historia.

Me encantó la historia de Aurora, los lugares, etapas y costumbres que forman parte de su vida. No cabe duda que Isabel Allende sabe atrapar la atención de sus lectores en cada una de sus obras literarias.

that any woman will see themselves as they would like to be

Need to read 'Hija de la Frontera' before you read this, but the stories are so compelling and intense, that any woman will see

themselves as they would like to be, filled with the courage to live their lives on their on terms. I believe that strong men love

these type of courageous women. God Bless them.

A great book, one of her best.

One of my favorite Isabel Allende books. It's the sequel to Hija de La Fortuna, which is also excellent. Good historical fiction about California and Chile.

Four Stars

Maravillosa novela. Interesante de principio a fin.

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Title: Music of the Ghosts

Author: Vaddey Ratner

Narrator: Jennifer Ikeda, Vaddey Ratner - afterword

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

An astonishing and powerful new novel from PEN/Hemingway finalist Vaddey Ratner.

Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician" and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared 25 years ago.

In Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of unfathomable violence live side by side, striving to mend their still beloved country. She meets a young doctor who begins to open her heart, immerses herself in long-buried memories, and prepares to learn her father's fate.

Meanwhile, the Old Musician, who earns his modest keep playing ceremonial music at a temple, awaits Teera's visit with great trepidation. He will have to confess the bonds he shared with her parents, the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge's illusory promise of a democratic society, and the truth about her father's end.

A love story for things lost and things restored, a lyrical hymn to the power of forgiveness, Music of the Ghosts is an unforgettable journey through the embattled geography of the heart and its hidden chambers where love can be reborn.

Members Reviews:

Please make a movie!

Wonderful story about an awful part of human history that perhaps too many of us in the US are too ignorant of. The story is gripping, well written, complex, and very interesting as it moves through this dark human history from so many perspectives.

The narrator is one of the best. Really. I wish she read me all of my books. Her voice is easy to listen to, very clear, and as far as I can tell, spot on in reading the French and Khmer/Cambodian words as well as perfect English. To my untrained ear, granted, she sounds like a native speaker in each tongue. (For reference, I am a native English speaker.) Hope this helps.

PLEASE MAKE THE MOVIE!

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Title: Springwater

Author: Linda Lael Miller

Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-13-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Evangeline Keating came West because she had to: after her husband's passing, she needed to build a new life for her young daughter, and marrying a stranger from Montana Territory was her best chance. After a difficult winter journey, she arrives at an isolated outpost called Springwater Station. But the handsome man who's come for her is not her husband-to-be, and Evangeline soon finds herself thrust into a most inconvenient - and highly improper - arrangement. Scully Wainwright never intended to be left alone with his ranching partner's fiancée. But his partner's not due back until spring, and he can't leave a defenseless woman and her child unguarded - not with wolves and Indians threatening. Biding his time with the lovely Evangeline begins to feel dangerously close to setting up a real home. But as a reckless passion sparks between them, Scully and Evangeline discover a destiny - and a passion - as boundless as the open frontier.

Members Reviews:

As Abigail says "SPECTACULAR"

I love Linda Lael Miller's historical western novels. I gobble them up as quickly as Audible makes them available. At last count, I think I owned nearly 40 titles by this author. This one though, is hands down, my favorite of them all.

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Title: Lucy

Author: Jamaica Kincaid

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is.

At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis' and Mariah's lives, she is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest.

In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity - a captivating heroine for our time.

Members Reviews:

an existentialist novel with a twist

I had not expected to find Jamaica Kincaid's fiction to so resemble the (men's) existentialist fictions of another century. But there is a proto-feminist--or at least socially grounded twist to the alienated protagonist as she, Lucy, a West Indian Black is thrown into a white world--the au pair for an upper class white family in New england or some North East region of the states-- fleeing her island and mother. Her complicated love/hate feelings for her mother (shadowed by love hate feelings for the white woman she works for) twist the usual existentialist turn on identity, even race, from the usual tale of solitary ego to a troubled meditation on a daughter/mother dyad also complicated by race and cultural alienation. she experiences the burgeoning sexuality of her 19 year old self --sex with men mostly--as something outside of herself while describing it also as fun and adventurous. Actually I see how this review is obscure because i really have to go back to re-read to get more fully the different layers of what Kincaid is doing, but it's a very compelling and nuanced read.

I'm working on it

My daughter liked this as an audiobook, so I ordered the book. I've picked it up numerous times, but haven't made it to the end yet. I have found it difficult to get involved with the main character, Lucy. The writing hasn't drawn me in, and it has been difficult to continue. I plan to try again.

Quick coming of age story

Short book, somewhat interesting coming of age story. I was torn between feeling sorry for Lucy, feeling happy for her, or just examining her as if she was an empty shell. I wanted her to feel things. I was rooting for her to feel things. But maybe that's the point of the story... That when you are that full of anger, numbness is all you have. I still enjoyed the book, even though it left me feeling unsure of Lucy.

One of the Very Best Novels....

This is one of the best character driven novels ever written. It's studied in colleges and advance fiction writing workshops across the country.

... Caribbean who travels to America in hopes of a better future. Upon arrival she finds a job that ...

Lucy is a young girl from the Caribbean who travels to America in hopes of a better future. Upon arrival she finds a job that she likes, working for a family.

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Titel: Suleika öffnet die Augen

Autor:: Gusel Jachina

Erzähler: Frank Arnold

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 17 hrs and 49 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-17-17

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Suleika ist eine tatarische Bäuerin. Eingeschüchtert und rechtlos lebt die Mutter von vier im Säuglingsalter gestorbenen Kindern auf dem Hof ihres viel älteren Mannes. Ihr Weg zu sich selbst führt durch die Hölle, das Sibirien der von Stalin Ausgesiedelten.

Ein anrührendes und meisterhaftes Debüt, das in 21 Sprachen übersetzt ist. Vielfach preisgekrönt, u.a. als Großes Buch 2015 und mit dem Jasnaja Poljana-Preis 2015.

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Kritik Bewertungen:

Für mich bleibt es ein Rätsel, wie es einer so jungen Autorin gelungen ist, ein so eindringliches Werk zu schaffen.

-- Ljudmila Ulitzkaja

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Title: Desperation Road

Author: Michael Farris Smith

Narrator: Robin Bloodworth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.

For 11 years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives and breathes all around him.

On the same day that Russell is released from prison, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate and exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled in the middle of the road in the glow of his own headlights.

With the dawn, destinies collide, and Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save - his own or the lives of the woman and child.

Delivered in powerful and lyrical prose, Desperation Road is a story of troubled souls twisted with regret and bound by secrets that stretch over the years and across the land.

Critic Reviews:

"Smith is a meticulous craftsman who evokes his protagonists and their world with patience and subtlety. Ultimately, the road of the novel's title moves just through desperation, but also into a tentative landscape of hope, and perhaps even redemption." (Publishers Weekly)

"Desperation Road is an elegantly written, perfectly paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence. Characters who would be mere stereotypes in a lesser writer's hands are fully realized, and we come to care deeply as they attempt to create a better life for themselves. An outstanding performance." (Ron Rash)

"Michael Farris Smith's Desperation Road reads as if it were forged in a fire stoked by the ghosts of Carson McCullers, Larry Brown, and William Gay. The result is a novel rife with violent beauty and incredible grace. Smith's terse, muscular prose encapsulates a heart that renders this novel as rich and alive and wounded as any you'll find in contemporary fiction." (Wiley Cash, New York Times best-selling author of A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy)

Members Reviews:

Collision Course of Psychic Wounds

An Audible reviewer that I follow [Ted] once wrote that a book he'd just finished was "average--and that ain't bad," loosely paraphrased. You read enough new releases and you're going to read a lot of average books -- and that ain't saying anything bad.

DR is predominantly a plot-driven book placed in a small town in Mississippi -- Faulkner's Mississippi where the past is never dead. It's not even past. You feel it coming...backwoods swamps, desolate farmlands, oppressive heat, a town where the air is thick with the ghosts of a violent past. The locals have long and unforgiving memories (as do most inhabitants of this genre) and a seeming prerequisite thirst for bourbon, beer, guns and revenge. Women don't fare well in this environment, neither do children and a good portion of the local law enforcement.

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Title: The One Inside

Author: Sam Shepard, Patti Smith - foreword

Narrator: Bill Pullman, Patti Smith - foreword

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright - a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life.

This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him: in his mind he sees himself in a movie-set trailer, his young face staring back at him in a mirror surrounded by light bulbs. In his dreams and in visions he sees his late father - sometimes in miniature, sometimes flying planes, sometimes at war. By turns, he sees the bygone America of his childhood: the farmland and the feedlots, the railyards and the diners - and, most hauntingly, his father's young girlfriend, with whom he also became involved, setting into motion a tragedy that has stayed with him. His complex interiority is filtered through views of mountains and deserts as he drives across the country, propelled by jazz, benzedrine, rock and roll, and a restlessness born out of exile. The rhythms of theater, the language of poetry, and a flinty humor combine in this stunning meditation on the nature of experience, at once celebratory, surreal, poignant, and unforgettable.

With a foreword written and read by Patti Smith

Critic Reviews:

"The gravelly voice of narrator Bill Pullman sets the mood for this introspective monologue of an aging actor who dreams of his late father and contemplates the women who remain vivid in his memory. Pullman finds the soul of this short novel, pulling out the rhythm of the prose, transforming it to poetry.... Don't expect a straightforward plot - the beauty of this audiobook is in Shepard's words and Pullman's performance. An extra treat for listeners is author-musician Patti Smith's deft reading of her insightful foreword." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

SHEPARD GETS INSIDE

Pullman is a GREAT choice for capturing late-act Shepard's dry snarl. Patti Smith's intro is worth the price of the whole book. That Everlastingest Eulogy/Elegy for her old flame and kindred spirit is a love letter to Letters and to her Sam himself. Gabriela DeCuir 's direction is spot-on as usual and Kelly Gildea's skillful "sheparding" of the whole project is certainly in evidence.

A Brilliant Woven Tapestry

First Bill Pullman does a remarkable job with this piece. I listened to it twice one right after the other as with Shepard it is pealing an onion.

So many layers!

The last book or written collection published prior to Sheppard's death in July 2017 is so true to who he was as a man and a writer.

It also made his very first place make sense (Rock Garden)

Don't expect a neat bow at the end. It's left open as if there will be more. And to that I suggest we return to his writing before all of this happened

Shepard Lives On

Great vignettes of a story tellers view of the chapters of his own life, of the world he moves in. Remembrance bits and glimpses into a rocky childhood, a troublesome father and his own aging. Thank you Sam for giving voice to the one within.

Fantastic narration as if Shepard were across from the table, musing about life. Thank you Bill Pullman for your beautiful read, for bringing Sam Shepard back once again.

Good. Great at times.

Enjoyed it. Felt I needed to repeat listens.

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Title: Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine

Subtitle: An Isabel Dalhousie Story

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Karlyn Stephen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A charming and gentle novella featuring one of Alexander McCall Smith's most loved characters: Isabel Dalhousie.

Edinburgh basks in glorious, but brief, summer sunshine, and Isabel Dalhousie - philosopher, philanthropist and mother - searches for the perfect birthday present for her husband Jamie. While carefully seeking out a gift, Isabel finds herself at a viewing for an auction, and happens upon an old friend in distress - a friend who decides to unburden herself of her secrets, and to reveal a clue within a painting hanging on the walls of the auction house.

Soon Isabel discovers that this secret binds her not only to her friend, but also to another woman. Questions about morality and loyalty disturb Isabel's peaceful existence with her young son and precious family, but she must face up to them in order to ensure that no-one is led astray.

Critic Reviews:

"Smith's writing has tons of charm and kindly wisdom." (The Times)

"McCall Smith makes the sublime look easy.... [He] has few peers in capturing the quiet moments of people's lives." (Publisher's Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Wished it was longer!

Highly enjoyable as ever. I love the Isobel Dalhousie books. She's an inspiration.

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Titel: Geister

Autor:: Nathan Hill

Erzähler: Uve Teschner

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 23 hrs and 47 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-05-17

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein Anruf der Anwaltskanzlei Rogers & Rogers verändert schlagartig das Leben des Literaturprofessors Samuel Anderson. Er, der als kleines Kind von seiner Mutter verlassen wurde, soll nun für sie bürgen: Nach ihrem tätlichen Angriff auf einen republikanischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten verlangt man von ihm, die Integrität einer Frau zu bezeugen, die er seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren nicht gesehen hat. Ein Gedanke, der ihm zunächst völlig abwegig erscheint. Doch Samuel will auch endlich begreifen, was damals wirklich geschehen ist.

Ein allumfassender, mitreißender Roman über Liebe, Unabhängigkeit, Verrat und die lebenslange Hoffnung auf Erlösung, ein Familienroman und zugleich eine pointierte Gesellschaftsgeschichte von den Chicagoer Aufständen 1968 bis zu Occupy Wall Street.

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Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Wonderful novel. I'm learning German so decided to read ...

Wonderful novel. I'm learning German so decided to read it, or in reality to listen it by audible. One of the best things I ever read. Now consider to get into the original Nix. :) It is a great debut, really super-funny-terribly-serious-great debut! Waiting for the next novel!

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Title: The Autobiography of My Mother

Author: Jamaica Kincaid

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal comes an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming of age.

Powerful, disturbing, and stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own.

Jamaica Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she can hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack La Batte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's intensely physical world is redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road. It seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, and her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is "the black room of the world" that is Xuela's barrenness and life without a mother.

The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical poetry.

Members Reviews:

A beautifully written and deeply touching book

In rich and poetic prose, Kincaid powerfully describes the life story of Xuela, a woman with an alienated and barren soul, who cannot love and does not want to be loved, yet surprisingly is very sensual. Kincaid points to the role of motherly love, and the bond to the homeland in forming the individual personality and consequently one's flow of life.

My quote: "A human being, a person, many people, a people, will say their surroundings, form their consciousness, their very being; they will get up every morning and look at green hills, white cliffs, silver mountains, fields of golden grain, rivers of blue-glinting water, and in the beauty of this- and it is beautiful, they cannot help but find it beautiful - they invisibly, magically, conquer the distance that is between them and the beauty they are beholding, and they feel themselves become one with it, they draw strength from it, they are inspired by it to sing songs, to compose verse ..."

A highly recommended read.

My classmates and I love this

I bought this book for my English class and this is most cultural,life lesson book. My classmates and I love this book

This was real work

This book got me curious because of the reviews. I now see what a lot of people meant. The story is a very (and I mean very) dark tale. There are some pivotal insights, but my feeling is that it is one long brooding about the way her birth circumstance colored her whole being and relations with the world. Written in a very complex fashion that demands you stay with the story and not get lost in the side thoughts.

Too much self absorption

The author's intense focus on the main character's inner thoughts and feelings limits the reader's scope and prevents a broad view of the social environment of the book's setting.