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Title: Black Butterflies

Subtitle: The Greek Village Collection, Book 2

Author: Sara Alexi

Narrator: Jan Cramer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-16

Publisher: Sara Alexi

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Marina is a gentle soul who makes a modest living in her corner shop. Her husband died years ago, and her children have grown up. Life is pleasantly predictable, if a little dull.

But not even her daughters know that 35 years ago Marina spent lonely months on a nearby island, and the events of that summer have haunted her ever since.

Now Marina's daughter is planning to move to the same island and the past and present threaten to collide with dreadful consequences.

Black Butterflies follows Marina reluctantly revisiting the island. She has a plan, of sorts, to avert possible tragedy but in doing so she will come face to face with the consequences of her long-kept secret. Will she be in time, and why does she never go anywhere without her big black bag?

Packed with a troupe of colorful characters that intertwine in a gripping story, Black Butterflies is by turns uproariously funny, touching, or sad. Exploring themes of bigotry and how doing what we think is for the best can unwittingly harm those we love, this is a gentle journey to one woman's redemption.

Members Reviews:

Not for me; slow and lacking stimuli

The book is beautifully read by the narrator but content is very slow and I kept going to sleep I was so unstimulated.

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Title: Small Great Things

Author: Jodi Picoult

Narrator: Noma Dumezweni, Jeff Harding, Jennifer Woodward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 55 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The new audiobook from number one best-selling author Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility.

When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.

Small Great Things is about prejudice and power; it is about that which divides and unites us. It is about opening your eyes.

Critic Reviews:

"It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes." (Financial Times)

Members Reviews:

Spectacular!

Difficult topic, but so effective in addressing the white elephant in the corner. Well done Jodi! It is a book that changed me, my thoughts.

Change start with you! Do small great things to change the view of others !

Go on and read this book

As a South African, this American scene story unashamedly raw and relevant. A must read

Jodi Picoult amazes

once again Jodi has managed to make me feel so many emotions and thoughts. she is amazing

not bad ... but she has done much better

Was Small Great Things worth the listening time?

Yes..

Any additional comments?

expected better based on past books. Jodi has set her standards much higher, so call lower rating for this book a victim of her own successes.

Essential for all of us

A remarkable story.

I grew in myself through the words of this talented writer.

Thank you Jodi Picoult, for being brave enough to write this book.

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Title: The Angel of History

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Rabih Alameddine

Narrator: Alex Hyde White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

"There are many ways to break someone's heart, but Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life." - Yiyun Li

Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval.

Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan, who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past, and dour, frigid Death, who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound, philosophical, and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives.

"Rabih Alameddine is one our most daring writers - daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy, but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer." - Michael Chabon

Members Reviews:

Couldnât finish

I started out liking it but eventually became too confusing and uninteresting. Not sure what he was trying to say.

A masterpiece

The Angel of History is about remembering. This much is clear from the very beginning. The angel of choice, we're reminded even by itself at some point, is Satan. He wants Ya'qub (or Jacob in his immigrant, gay SF life) to remember all the horrible things he has tried hard to forget so he can keep wallowing in self-pity and depression. A tug of war, thus, ensues between father Satan and son Death. Death, for his part, wants Jacob to finally give up, surrender, resign to forget in his welcoming arms, as it seems though remembering is difficult, forgetting entirely is impossible.

The story is told in different narrative threads that weave in and out; a web of truths and paths that connect invisible, forgotten dots as they are revealed, if you will. Satan holds court with Death and fourteen saints who have, at one time or another, helped Ya'qub, slowly revealing things Ya'qub is not willing to remember, lies he tells himself, untruths he has precariously built to cover up the past. The testimonies of the saints as witness to Ya'qub's life cause him to remember, or erode his ability to keep forgetting. In a way, the novel is about witnessing, too (as Alameddine mentions in an interview that when there is nothing one can do, one can witness.) While Satan holds court in Jacob's apartment, Jacob has gone to the clinic to commit himself, all the while talking to his long dead lover and trying to shut out Satan's voice. It is in these conversations with his lover, often interrupted by Satan, Jacob remembers and recounts all that has led him here.

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Title: Summary of The Catcher in the Rye

Subtitle: Reading Hacker Summaries, Book 1

Author: Reading Hacker

Narrator: Eddie Leonard Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-16

Publisher: Ayala Media

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

This summary of Catcher in the Rye provides and in depth overview of J.D. Salinger's best-known work. You will get to know the main character Holden Caulfield and journey with him as he learns the important lessons of growing up.

This guide is concise and short without leaving anything out, easy to understand and will provide everything you need to know about this timeless classic.

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Title: Nutshell

Author: Ian McEwan

Narrator: Rory Kinnear

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-16

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 62 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master.

To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things?

Members Reviews:

Hilarious, thrilling story

What a blast! A terrifically funny and thrilling murder story, told by an unforgettable narrator. One of the most entertaining books I've read in quite some time: this is Ian McEwan at his mischievous, exuberant best.

i wanted more

beautifully crafted, creative, insightful - i wanted more . I will listen to it again.

Best Ian's book

One of best book i ever read. It shall be awarded by a Nobel prize

"a lucky beach"

Bless me! Here is Rory Kinnear reading Ian McEwan

I have only enjoyed language as much as I have this, with my first reading of Virginia Wolf.

We read or listen for all sorts of reasons. I am 'catching up' on all those decades when I had to get up for work in the morning. Taste does change and still some books can only be read in hard copy to be slowly enjoyed like Nabakov and. I had begun to think like Virginia Wolf. And Ian McEwan.

My choice of genre ranges far and wide and at times takes huge leaps of hope in choosing an audiobook.

Here we have Ian McEwan being read on audio by Rory Kinnear

Delight.

I will have to find a hard copy though to learn if Ian M wanted a 'bow' to mean a pretty knot or a masculine curtsy. Such (maybe small) things pull up my blissful enjoyment of both story and words being read with so easy a voice.

Great performance, reader and author well matched.

My wife and I listened in the car during a long drive. We both loved it. Very erudite. Highly recommended especially if you like wine tasting. The nutshell perspective works brilliantly.

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Title: Seven Themes You Can't Escape

Subtitle: How Our Deepest Longings Keep Showing Up in Story

Author: David R. Megill

Narrator: Stephen M. Schedra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-16

Publisher: Discipleship Matters

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

What do Sherlock Holmes, Star Wars, A Christmas Carol, and Charlotte's Web have in common? Seven identical and profound themes.

Actually we use only these four stories as examples of seven inescapable themes, found in whole or in part in every story in every medium from books to movies. I believe these themes are inescapable, not because our culture imposes them upon creators but because they reflect our deepest longings. Even in our current climate of deconstruction, any story that truly denies all these themes at once does so only with the clear intention of ignoring these very themes, thus providing greater support for the inherent expectation for and love of these concepts in us.

We would really like to believe this is real: this longing for meaning, for plot and design and divine appointment, for redemption, for justice. I have come to believe the good news that our desire for meaning arises from the truth that there is meaning. There is a story behind the universe that makes it all makes sense. Every story we write, draw, compose, or perform is a seeking after that one true story of the universe. This is why the themes continue to pop up in story after story.

Members Reviews:

Quick read, but insights will stay with you beyond the book.

Megill is clear, witty, and engaging. His analysis is insightful and made me think about books, movies, stories in a new way, yet what he said made sense because he tapped into truths we all know about stories. The best stories resonate because they have these seven themes. I liked his follow up questions, which could make for deep discussion with friends, even if they haven't read the book. Accessible yet deep book.

Will help you appreciate familiar stories in new ways

This will change how you take in and evaluate stories that you read and watch. I was aware of some of these themes, but not all of them. As you become aware of these themes, you'll see them showing up everywhere! Also, don't skip the anti-themes chapter in the appendices.

Finally

I have been waiting for this book for a long time. I enjoy the game of searching out each theme in all the books and movies and even kids shows I come across. Great work Dave.

Great book!

A great book about the themes in our favorite stories-and why the presence of those themes make certain stories our favorites! I've had fun finding these themes in the stories that surround me in books and movies. Discussing these themes with friends and family has challenged me to think more deeply and thus enriched my experience of "story". Enjoyable read!

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Title: The Summer That Melted Everything

Author: Tiffany McDaniel

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 137 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the long, crazy summer of 1984, when a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. It was the year he became friends with the devil.

Sal seems to appear out of nowhere - a bruised and tattered 13-year-old boy claiming to be the devil himself answering an invitation. Fielding Bliss, the son of a local prosecutor, brings him home, where he's welcomed into the Bliss family, who assume he's a runaway from a nearby farm town.

When word spreads that the devil has come to Breathed, not everyone is happy to welcome this self-proclaimed fallen angel. Murmurs follow him, and tensions rise along with the temperatures as an unbearable heat wave rolls into town right along with him. As strange accidents start to occur, some in the town, riled by the feverish heat, start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be.

While the Bliss family wrestles with their own personal demons, a fanatic drives the town to the brink of a catastrophe that will change this sleepy Ohio backwater forever.

Members Reviews:

Absolutely amazing!!! I'd give it 10 Stars if I could!!!

This is my favorite book since "A Little Life". I'm not huge on magical realism but this book did it right! This book packs a powerful punch and it is literary fiction at it's finest. The narrator, Mark Bramhall, was amazing! Read it!

Syrup Saps Town Full of Stereotypes

A debut author I know is writing a novel set in Boston and its courtrooms. He's not visited Boston, but he watched "Good Will Hunting" six times and all Cheers episodes. All his Boston characters under 40 are much like Will Hunting's pals; the older ones like Clifford Clavin. The Boston lawyers have southie accents, grew up poor and drunk, cuss at judges and each other, frequently settle matters via fists and say things like "how you like them apples?" They hang out at a bar in Cambridge (near Hahvahd), telling dirty jokes and trying to pick up wicked smaht women whom they may impregnate and then, of course, abuse.

The lawsuit involves disputes among Boston mobs (most Bostonians are Red Sox fans and connected in some way to organized crime). The Russian mobsters are scary evil, drink vodka all day and run whores; Italian guidos are chatterboxes who love coffee with pizza and spaghetti and say "mamma mia" in every conversation.

Irish goons are red-headed local hotheads, who are all alcoholic and beat up their wives.

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Title: The Broken Hours

Subtitle: A Novel of H. P. Lovecraft

Author: Jacqueline Baker

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, as a live-in secretary/assistant for an unnamed shut-in.

He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an author of disturbing, bizarre fiction. Health issues have confined him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows only as "Ech-Pi", refuses to meet him, communicating only by letters left on a table outside his room. Soon the home reveals other unnerving peculiarities. There is an ominous presence Crandle feels on the main stairwell. Light shines out underneath the door of the writer's room, but is invisible from the street. It becomes increasingly clear there is something not right about the house or its occupant.

Haunting visions of a young girl in a white nightgown wandering the walled-in garden behind the house motivate Crandle to investigate the circumstances of his employer's dark family history. Meanwhile, the unsettling aura of the house pulls him into a world increasingly cut off from reality, into black depths, where an unspeakable secret lies waiting.

Members Reviews:

One of the best dramatic tales I've ever read

Anyone who likes drama, weird fiction, and unsettling tales that could be true - please do yourself the favor of reading The Broken Hours. The narrator does the story complete justice with his tone and pacing - and it gave me chills many times.

If you enjoy this story please also look for Jacqueline Baker's other books!

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Título: Los enamoramientos [Crushes]

Autor: Javier Marias

Narrador: Anabel Moreno

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 10 hrs and 45 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 06-14-16

Editor: Audible Studios para Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 17 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Un libro sobre el estado de enamoramiento, que parece justificar todas las cosas.

MEJOR LIBRO DE 2011 PARA BABELIA

"La última vez que vi a Miguel Desvern o Deverne fue también la última que lo vio su mujer, Luisa, lo cual no dejó de ser extraño y quizá injusto, ya que ella era eso, su mujer, y yo era en cambio una desconocida..."

Así comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marías, consagrado como uno de los mejores novelistas contemporáneos. María Dolz, la narradora y protagonista, sólo supo su nombre "cuando apareció su foto en el periódico, apuñalado y medio descamisado y a punto de convertirse en un muerto: lo último de lo que se debió de dar cuenta fue de que lo acuchillaban por confusión y sin causa".

Con una prosa profunda y cautivadora, esta novela reflexiona sobre el estado de enamoramiento, considerado casi universalmente como algo positivo e incluso redentor a veces, tanto que parece justificar casi todas las cosas: las acciones nobles y desinteresadas, pero también los mayores desmanes y ruindades.

Los enamoramientos es también un audio libro sobre la impunidad y sobre la horrible fuerza de los hechos; sobre la inconveniencia de que los muertos pudieran volver, por mucho que se los haya llorado y que en apariencia nada se deseara tanto como su regreso, o al menos que siguieran vivos; también sobre la imposibilidad de saber nunca la verdad cabalmente, ni siquiera la de nuestro pensamiento, oscilante y variable siempre.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Girls on Fire

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Robin Wasserman

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Simone Lewis, Allyson Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-16

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 227 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

On Halloween 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later he's found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand - a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region.

In the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshiping bad influence in lip gloss and Doc Martens. The charismatic, seductive Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making her over in her own image and unleashing a fierce defiance that neither girl expected. But as Lacey gradually lures Dex away from her safe life into a feverish spiral of obsession, rebellion, and ever greater risk, an unwelcome figure appears on the horizon - and Lacey's secret history collides with Dex's worst nightmare.

By turns a shocking story of love and violence and an addictive portrait of the intoxication of female friendship set against the unsettled backdrop of a town gripped by moral panic, Girls on Fire is an unflinching and unforgettable snapshot of girlhood: girls lost and found, girls strong and weak, girls who burn bright and brighter - and some who flicker away.

Members Reviews:

Shocking isn't the word I'd use.

I didn't find this book to be "shocking" as the summary implies, it all seemed quite normal to me. High school is hard on everyone, there are mean girls, nice girls, and sad kids, some who even kill themselves. Girls have special bonds at that age, because it can be so hard, and it's a time of change, and sometimes, those close friends become something else. Girls you thought you hated, turn out to not be so bad. It all sounds very normal

I think that's supposed to be the thing that messes with you. How so many things that are so common can go wrong in a way that seems to snowball until it's out of control. I think the author was reaching with a lot of stuff, and didn't always hit the mark (like three-somes in an abandoned train car), but when it does, it hits hard (drunk girl defiled at a party, in graphic detail).

The graphic details and language try and put you on edge, make you uncomfortable, and drive home the passion the author is trying to portray, but I think it misses the mark. I think she's trying too hard and it just comes across vulgar for the sake of it.

All that aside, I like this book, but I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone. I'd suggest they read the summary, tell them that it's "just OK", and if they still felt inclined to read it, that's on them.

Meh. Not impressed.

It felt like the book was a little impressed by itself, much like the girls. And, I didn't think it was realistic.

Little bit of an eye-roller

GIRLS ON FIRE starts out strong, but quickly I became dubious due to the exaggerated use of vulgar language. The unceremonious use of the "c" word right away, constant f-bombs, and graphic sexual imagery end up cheapening the overall dark mood. The plot is not really shocking at all; its "dangerous" content is hit-you-over the head with zero subtlety.