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Title: Baltasar and Blimunda

Author: Jose Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (translator)

Narrator: Tamir

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Portugal, 1711: an amorous friar is pursued naked through the rubble-strewn streets of Lisbon; an enthusiastic procession of flagellants roars with pleasure over the damnation of adultery; a royal prince uses hapless sailors for target practice; and women dressed in colorful finery watch as lapsed converts and sorcerers are put to death by flames. In the midst of the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague, a seemingly mismatched couple discovers the wonders of love. This poetic tale, graced with exquisite historical detail and full of magic and adventure, is a tapestry of human folly and human will. The best-loved of all of the great Jose Saramago's works, this novel radiates with achievement.

Critic Reviews:

"Much reverberates in memory after reading this enchanting novel, but most of all the love story which soars over the rest of the action like a flute above a heavy orchestra. Mr. Saramago, a writer of sharp intelligence, keeps this love story under strict control, free of pathos or sentimentality. It is a of, and on, the earth." (Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review)

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Title: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Author: Dave Eggers

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews, Various

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-14

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 95 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers the only way he knows how.

In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at his chain. But the ocean is close by, and nobody can hear him over the waves and wind. Thomas apologizes. He didn't want to have to resort to this. But they really needed to have a conversation, and Kev didn't answer his messages. And now, if Kev can just stop yelling, Thomas has a few questions.

Read by MacLeod Andrews with Mark Deakins, Michelle Gonzalez, John H. Mayer, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Rebecca Lowman, Bruce Turk, and Marc Cashman.

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Title: In the Light of What We Know

Author: Zia Haider Rahman

Narrator: Ralph Lister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-15

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack until he recognises a friend from his student days, a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. As the friends begin to talk, a journey begins that is by turns exhilarating, shocking, intimate and strange.

Critic Reviews:

"[A]n ambitious and extraordinary achievement.... A novel about the entwining of politics and love and the painful quest for identitythis is a dazzling debut." (Sunday Times)

"[A] heartbreaking love story and a gripping account of one man's psychological disintegration...an exploration of the post-9/11 world that is both personal and political, epic and intensely moving." (Observer)

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Title: American Appetites

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 36 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as Americas foremost woman of letters. She is at her best in American Appetites, weaving a masterful tale of personal entanglements, fatal decisions, and courtroom drama.

Ian and Glynnis McCullough, intelligent, professional, and successful, are the envy of their affluent friends. But suddenly, an unexpected plea for help and a cancelled check send their tranquility spinning out of control.

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Title: Damage

Author: Josephine Hart

Narrator: Jeremy Irons

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-12

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Damage, Josephine Hart's debut novel, was an international bestseller, filmed with Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche, and now read by Jeremy Irons. Here is one of the most chilling explorations of physical passion and dark, obsessive love ever written.

Critic Reviews:

"A remarkable first novel of awesome accomplishment and quite startling psychological insight." (Ruth Rendell)

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