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Title: The Captive Condition

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Kevin P. Keating

Narrator: Michael Louis Serafin-Wells

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From a thrilling new voice in fiction comes a chilling and deliciously dark novel about an idyllic Midwestern college town that turns out to be a panorama of depravity and a nexus of horror. For years Normandy Falls has been haunted by its strange history and the aggrieved spirits said to roam its graveyards. Despite warnings Edmund Campion is determined to pursue an advanced degree there. But Edmund soon learns he isn't immune to the impersonal trappings of fate: His girlfriend, Morgan Fey, smashes his heart; his advisor, Professor Martin Kingsley, crushes him with frivolous assignments; and his dead-end job begins to take a toll on his physical and mental health. One night he stumbles upon the body of Emily Ryan, an unapologetic townie, drowned in her family pool. Was it suicide or murder?

In the days that follow, Emily's husband, Charlie, crippled by self-loathing and frozen with fear, attempts to flee his disastrous life and sends their twin daughters to stay with the Kingsleys. Possessed by an unnamed, preternatural power, the twins know that the professor seduced their mother and may have had a hand in her fate. With their piercing stares, the girls fill Martin with a remorse that he desperately tries to hide from his wife.

Elsewhere, a low-level criminal named the Gonk takes over a remote cottage, complete with a burial ground and moonshine still, and devises plans for both. Xavier D'Avignon, the eccentric chef of a failing French restaurant, supplies customers with a hallucinogenic cocktail. And Colette Collins, an elderly local artist of the surreal, attends a retrospective of her work that is destined to set the whole town on fire. Kevin P. Keating's masterly novel delves into the deepest recesses of the human capacity for evil.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic Literary Fiction at its Finest

This work delves into the dark and depressive state of an aging town and it's disturbed and disillusioned inhabitants. "Sobriety is a myth. We all live at various levels of intoxication," says one such resident of Normandy Falls. Keating's prose is smart, fluid and engaging,

"The Captive Condition" is an extraordinary example of literary fiction, and most definitely NOT a breezy beach read. Unless you like your beach reads full of "wrecked lives, wrecked marriages, wrecked college careers, wrecked cars," and maybe even a touch of "Red Death."

Five Stars

Dont want to put this book down! Fascinating! Must read.

Five Stars

This book allowed my erection to fly and my guilt to lie. Never forget the Alamo.

modern Gothic horror novel

The Captive Condition by Kevin P. Keating is a modern Gothic horror novel set in Normandy Falls a small Midwestern college town. Edmund Campion is pursuing a master's degree at the college while also working for the college growns-crew and physical plant. He notices that his professor, Martin Kingsley, is having an affair with his neighbor, Emily Ryan. One drunken night Edmund discovers Emily has drowned in her pool and he begins to obsess on the dead woman.

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Título: La Crin de Damocles [The Mane of Damocles]

Autor: Javier Pérez Fernández

Narrador: Hector Almenara

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 10 hrs and 38 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-17-15

Editor: Audible Studios

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Una sorprendente combinación de audio novela negra y audio novela histórica. En Múnich, el nuevo comisario de asuntos políticos, Müller, acaba de detener al líder Nazi, Hitler, tras su intento de golpe de estado y el robo de varios billones de marcos del Banco de Alemania. Con los Nazis controlados y los Comunistas amedrentados por sus últimas derrotas en la calle, Müller parece respirar tranquilo. Pero aparecen asesinados dos personajes: Strahler - secretario de alcalde - y el fiscal Seidl.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Titre: Une semaine avec lui

Auteur: Monica Murphy

Narrateur: Vera Pastrélie

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-17-15

Éditeur: Hardigan

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Temporaire. Ce mot résume parfaitement ma vie. J'ai un job temporaire jusqu'à nouvel ordre. Je suis temporairement la mère de mon petit frère. Et je suis la fille temporaire que tous les mecs désirent parce que j'ai la réputation d'être facile.

Depuis que sa mère a déserté le domicile familial, Fable travaille dur pour élever son petit frère. Victime de sa réputation de fille légère, elle enchaîne les aventures sans lendemain. Pour Drew, l'étudiant le plus en vue de la fac, c'est une chance inespérée. Il s'apprête à passer les fêtes de fin d'année dans sa famille au passé tourmenté - une épreuve qu'il ne se sent pas capable d'affronter seul.

Si Fable accepte de se faire passer pour sa petite amie pendant une semaine, elle recevra assez d'argent pour se mettre à l'abri du besoin. La jeune femme ne demande pas mieux que d'entrer dans la peau du personnage. Leur petit numéro de couple s'avère étonnamment convaincant : s'agit-il vraiment d'un rôle de composition ? Si seulement cette parenthèse pouvait s'éterniser...

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©2014 Milady (P)2015 Hardigan

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle :

"Un roman rythmé à souhait, aussi touchant que troublant."

New Adult Addiction

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Título: Stefano [Spanish Edition]

Autor: Maria Teresa Andruetto

Narrador: Juan Magraner

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 1 hr and 38 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-16-15

Editor: Audible Studios

Calificaciones: 2 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Stefano huye de la pobreza de la posguerra italiana hacia Argentina. Se despide de su madre y parte lleno de ilusiones y recuerdos: su travesía en barco, su primer trabajo en el campo, su paso por el mundo del circo y la música popular italiana como trasfondo de la historia, conforman al final de la novela un Stefano más maduro y lleno de experiencias. Este audio libro se recomienda para jóvenes de 14 a 18 años de edad.

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Title: Pretty Is

Author: Maggie Mitchell

Narrator: Jennifer Woodward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-15

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Lois and Carly-May are just 12 years old when they're abducted, driven across the country, and imprisoned in a remote, isolated hunting lodge for two months. That summer, under the watchful gaze of their kidnapper, they form a bond which will never be broken....

Decades later,both Lois and Carly-May have built new lives and identities for themselves. Lois, a professor of literature, is shaken when an obsessive and disturbing student begins to remind her of the man who kidnapped her, a man she saw shoot himself on the porch twenty years before. Writing gives her a chance to make sense of her life and control her own destiny, albeit on paper.

Out in LA, Carly-May is drinking too much and watching her beauty-queen looks fade, clinging to the last remnants of a once-promising career as an actress. When she reads a shockingly familiar screenplay, she warily she takes a role she knows is based on events from her own life.

Increasingly haunted by the devastating experience that shaped both their lives, Lois and Carly-May are drawn together again in a world that both echoes and falsifies their beautiful, terrible story.

An enthralling portrait of two young victims, this chilling debut novel explores the very nature of survival and the triumph of hope over experience.

Members Reviews:

Very very disappointed

Characters were unrealistic and unlikely. Events were unbelievable. Dreadful with not one positive thing about it.

Very disappointing

If you could sum up Pretty Is in three words, what would they be?

Uninspiring awkward disjointed

What didnt you like about Jennifer Woodwards performance?

two voices almost indistinguishable at times, story jumped around and at times seemed to make no sense

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Did not get to the end so no.....have tried to apply for a refund but so far no luck

Any additional comments?

Unlike all other audible books which have been brilliant this one failed to please

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Title: To Miss the Stars

Author: Barbara Lieberman

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-15

Publisher: Barbara Lieberman

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

John Worthington is a man who knows his place in the world and keeps to it. That is, until a letter he writes is misdirected. A simple and thoughtful reply begins a correspondence that will turn that well-ordered life upside down.

Members Reviews:

Perfect Narrator for a Perfect Story

I loved it! The narrator sucks you in with his voice making the characters in this beautiful story come to life!

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Title: The Revenge of Esther Norman Book Three

Author: Barry Gray

Narrator: Dora Gaunt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-15

Publisher: Barry Gray

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Esther Norman has beauty, money, social status, and a handsome and successful husband with two adorable children. She lives seemingly without a care in the world, wanting for nothing and receiving everything.

Book Three: While Steve and Esther embark upon a new adventure in their marriage, trouble continues to loom in the background in the form of Mary Frost.

Members Reviews:

Love Love Love the Esther Norman books!

I just finished the third book in the Revenge of Esther Norman series and I have to say that I loved it more than the first two. Reading Barry Gray's writing is like watching a film noire rolling through the motion picture viewer in your mind. The style is crisp and clean, entertaining, fast paced and light. This is true, in spite of the unspeakable actions of the main villain, Mary Frost, who needs a high heeled shoe planted firmly into her derriere. Immediately upon finishing book three, I did what I did when I finished the first two. I bought the next book in the series. Read any of these books and you will most likely find yourself doing the same.

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Title: The Revenge of Esther Norman Book Five

Author: Barry Gray

Narrator: Dora Gaunt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-15

Publisher: Barry Gray

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Esther Norman has beauty, money, social status, and a handsome and successful husband with two adorable children. She lives seemingly without a care in the world, wanting for nothing and receiving everything.

Book Five: You can run but you can't hide.

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Title: The Revenge of Esther Norman Book Four

Author: Barry Gray

Narrator: Dora Gaunt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-15

Publisher: Barry Gray

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Esther Norman has beauty, money, social status, and a handsome and successful husband with two adorable children. She lives seemingly without a care in the world, wanting for nothing and receiving everything.

Book Four: Mary Frost gets a private tour of the Normans' new country home.

Members Reviews:

Love This Series!

I absolutely adore the Revenge of Esther Norman books! And Book 4 was no exception as it opened the story to two new main characters and deepening complications in the lives of Steve and Esther Norman due to the scheming of the evil Mary Frost. Again, as I read, I could see the book unfolding like a film noire in my mind and I found myself enjoying the book page by page. Once again, a fabulous and fun read! Bravo!

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Titre: Comment Wang-Fô fut sauvé

Auteur: Marguerite Yourcenar

Narrateur: Christian Gonon

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 25 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-14-15

Éditeur: Gallimard

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Voici l'histoire de Wang-Fô, le célèbre peintre chinois. Il parcourait le royaume des Han en compagnie de Ling, son fidèle disciple, à la recherche de nouveaux paysages. Ses tableaux étaient si beaux qu'on les disait magiques. Mais un jour, l'empereur convoqua le vieux maître pour le menacer d'un terrible châtiment...

©1938 Editions Gallimard (P)2012 Editions Gallimard

Avis des membres:

Five Stars

A beautiful little book. Great for practicing French.