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Title: The Dead Lands

Author: Benjamin Percy

Narrator: Holter Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-15

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Like Stephen King's The Stand before it, The Dead Lands is an incredible novel set across the sprawling landscape of a nightmarish postapocalyptic American West.

The world we know is gone, destroyed by a virus that wiped out nearly every human on the planet. Some few survivors built walled cities, fortresses to keep themselves safe from those the virus didn't kill...but did change.

Sanctuary. A citadel in the heart of the former United States of America. Hundreds of miles in every direction beyond its walls lies nothing but death and devastation. Everyone who lives in the safety Sanctuary provides knows that.

Until the day a stranger appears. He speaks of a green and fertile land far to the west, a land of promise and plenty, safe from the ruin the virus has wreaked. He has come to lead the survivors away from Sanctuary, to the promise of a new life without walls.

But those who follow him will discover that not everything he says is true.

Critic Reviews:

"Benjamin Percy's The Dead Lands is a case of wonderful writing and compulsive reading. You will not come across a finer work of sustained imagination this year. Good God, what a tale. Don't miss it." (Stephen King)

"The Dead Lands is a bomb-blast of a novel, casting its tremors in every direction. Benjamin Percy's range grows broader with every book he writes. Here he takes a journey across a cataclysmic future American West, sending his band of seekers, scholars, assassins, and explorers through a landscape as dangerous and surreal as it must have seemed to the original Lewis and Clark. Their adventure, like the novel itself, travels far past the frontier, into the deepest and most thrilling of wildernesses." (Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead)

"Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years... His prose has the masculine power of Ernest Hemingway's, but also the sensibilities and compassion of Eudora Welty. His writing is like a meeting of Shakespeare and rock 'n' roll. Benjamin Percy knows how to keep it in E-major, and what a ride it is." (James Lee Burke, author of Feast Day of Fools)

"With Red Moon one of our most blazingly gifted young writers stakes his claim to national attention. Benjamin Percy has one great advantage over most writers who attempt "literary horror": he understands the literature of real horror from the inside out, and he speaks it like a native. This is a novel with the power to thrill and transport, also to lead the reader welll out of her comfort zone and into emotional territory few people have ever seen." (Peter Straub)

Members Reviews:

zombie free dystopia!

Found the narrator's pace a bit fast at times but got used to it. might even buy the kindle book :-)

The dead lands

Worth a read , just sounded ok and wasn't disappointed , not a book I normally would have chosen but made you think.

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Titre: After: Saison 4

Auteur: Anna Todd

Narrateur: Bénédicte Charton

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 04-02-15

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Grâce à Zed, Tessa échappe au pire et soulagée, elle peut commencer une nouvelle vie indépendante à Seattle. Hardin se rapproche de plus en plus de Richard, le père de Tessa, jusqu'à l'héberger dans leur ancien appartement pour l'aider à s'en sortir ! L'occasion parfaite pour prouver qu'il a changé et que, peut-être, il peut devenir quelqu'un de bien. Ou est-ce une manipulation de plus à son actif ? Reste-t-il un espoir pour Tessa et son incorrigible bad and loveboy ?

Les nuits entre les deux amants sont plus passionnées que jamais, et Tessa se jette à corps perdu dans cette liaison tumultueuse. Pourtant son entourage semble croire que sa relation avec Hardin va la plonger dans une spirale destructrice dont elle ne pourra sortir indemne. Grâce au soutien de Landon, elle va mener sans doute l'un de ses plus durs combats pour sauver son couple. C'est sans compter sur un cruel coup du destin qui va faire ressortir les pires démons d'Hardin...

Tessa arrivera-t-elle à chasser les ténèbres dans l'esprit torturé de son homme ?

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©2015 Hugo Roman. Traduit de l'anglais par Marie-Christine Tricottet et Eugénie Chidlin (P)2015 Audible FR

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Title: Little Boy Brave

Subtitle: Judith McCain, Book 6

Author: Peggy Holloway

Narrator: Duane Sharp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-15

Publisher: Peggy Holloway

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Billy is eight years old. He has had many hardships in his life. His mama died giving him life; his dad had a hard time coping and started drinking. Out of desperation his dad marries Rose, hoping to have a mother for his son. Rose is very abusive to Billy and fights constantly with his dad. During a camping trip that was planned to bring the family together, the fighting becomes intense. Billy packs up his tent in the middle of the night and runs away, hiking through the hills of Tennessee. Billy is not missed until the next morning. He has many adventures before being reunited with his dad.

Members Reviews:

`You would drive a nun to drink'.

Author Peggy Holloway came to writing late. She has a long and interesting career of teaching mathematics in both the high and college level, working as a geophysicist in a major oil company exploring for oil and gas and working as a counselor/psychotherapist with adults, groups, families, couples and teens. Credential? - a BS in geology, an MCS in mathematics and an MA in Psychology. Her first forays as an author were technical - reports as a geophysicist, research papers in psychology, and letters to authorities while counseling adolescents. She has now written almost twenty novels ranging from romance to paranormal to mysteries and psychological thrillers. She now addresses familial idiosyncrasies and their permutations on children in this very touching new novel.

As is her style Peggy opens her book with a setting that reaches out to the reader and immediately pulls them in to discover where the situation she first describes will lead: `They were fighting again. He couldn't take it. He had to get out. He was only eight years old, but he had to leave. He was going to take care of himself. Throwing everything into his duffle bag, and unzipping his small tent, Billy crawled out and stood listening. "Why do you always have to drink? We can't even go camping without you bringing a bottle?" That was Daddy talking. Mama was a drunk. She was mean. She sometimes hit Billy and screamed at him. "Oh, shut up! You sound like a baby. It's your fault anyway. You would drive a nun to drink, always on me about something." "Keep your voice down. You'll wake Billy. This camping trip was supposed to be something to bring our family together. It was your idea. `Let's take Billy camping, Kenny. Let's get away, get out into nature. It'll be good for us,'" he mimicked.'

To retrace some steps that will develops as the novel unfolds, the author briefly states, `Billy is only eight years old, but has already had a rough life. He never knew his mama, she died giving birth. His daddy married Rose, when Billy was five years old. Both Rose and his daddy drank and fought continuously. Rose was very abusive to Billy. During a camping trip, planned to bring the family together, Billy sees that things will never change. He decides to run away. Packing his tent in the middle of the night, he hikes through the mountains, facing many challenges before reuniting with his daddy.'

Few writers are able to convey the abuse, the pain, and the scars of unhappy family units as well as Peggy. It is a turn in direction for her, and if this novel is any marker we should anticipate more psychological studies as thrillers in the near future. A well-sculpted story, a topic worth of investigating.

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Title: Mischief

Author: Fay Weldon

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-15

Publisher: Lamplight Audio

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Waspish, wise, and wickedly witty, this is a collection to treasure forever. Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon's inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words, selecting and introducing her favourite short stories from across her career as one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists.

Critic Reviews:

"Sharp, witty, incisive." (The Times)

"Wise, knowing, forthright." (Independent)

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

this had too many characters. too hard to keep up with them all

Five Stars

87th Precinct books are awesome! My

Went astray

Finished Mischief by Fay Weldon and gave it 3 1/2 stars. I thought I was going to love this as FW is one of my favourite authors. The 1st half is wonderful with lots of typical FW wry comments by the woman whose husband dies and she remarries very soon thereafter. BUT then it went weird with supernatural exploration which is not my thing.

A magical, marvelous novel

Mischief has the Deaf Man as its main character and what a main character he is. Is there a smarter character, hero or villain, in crime fiction than the Deaf Man? No way. (Is he McBain's DARK alter ego, as Hope and Carella are his "good" alter ego?) As per usual, bad things are happening in the big bad city. But the Deaf Man creates special problems for the 87th. He provides (and harrasses) Carella and his mates with clues etc. to his upcoming nefarious action, which will take place on a grand scale. But the best part of this story concerns a black rap band and its leader--no p.c. condescension in his treatment of the band, the rock concert of which they are to be a major act and their plot action, just honest, good and accurate writing about our "in trouble" society and about the individuals whose stories actually make this society come to life. A killing near the end of the story takes your breath away and gives much "haunting" food for thought. Much mischief in the city. Cops really are having trouble capturing and containing the bad guys. No plot spoilers here. Read the book. It is great.

Reading these stories is like a trip down memory lane

I adore Ms. Weldon, and have for years. Reading these stories is like a trip down memory lane.

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Titre: Vivre vite

Auteur: Philippe Besson

Narrateur: Sébastien Hébrant, Nathalie Hugo, Olivier Prémel

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 03-18-15

Éditeur: Audiolib

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Aucun comédien de sa génération n'a réussi à incarner avec autant de naturel cette jeunesse rebelle prête à faire sauter les tabous de l'Amérique puritaine. Mais qui était vraiment James Dean, cet enfant terrible et surdoué du cinéma américain ? Que cachait-il en réalité derrière cette moue sensuelle et cette chevelure en bataille gravées dans toutes les mémoires ?

On raconte souvent James Dean par le prisme de sa mort prématurée. Philippe Besson a fait le choix inverse : décrire une enfance singulière, heureuse, une adolescence tourmentée, une jeunesse fulgurante, tenter de cerner un jeune homme dans toute sa complexité, dans toute son ambiguïté, aussi.

Un mythe du XXème siècle revisité avec acuité par un auteur subtil au talent reconnu.

©2014 Éditions Julliard, Paris (P)2015 Audiolib

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Title: Keeping Score

Author: Jami Deise

Narrator: Lugene Ganley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-15

Publisher: Jami Deise

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When her nine-year-old son wanted to play summer travel baseball, Shannon had no idea the toughest competition was off the field...

When her son Sam asks to try out for a travel baseball team, divorced mom Shannon Stevens thinks it'll be a fun and active way to spend the summer. Boy, is she wrong! From the very first practice, Shannon and Sam get sucked into a mad world of rigged try-outs, professional coaches, and personal hitting instructors. But it's the crazy, competitive parents who really make Shannon's life miserable. Their sons are all the second coming of Babe Ruth, and Sam isn't fit to fetch their foul balls. Even worse, Shannon's best friend Jennifer catches the baseball fever. She schemes behind the scenes to get her son Matthew on the town's best baseball team, the Saints. As for Sam? Sorry, there's no room for him! Sam winds up on the worst team in town, and every week they find new and humiliating ways to lose to the Saints.

And the action off the field is just as hot. Shannon finds herself falling for the Saints' coach Kevin. But how can she date a man who didn't think her son was good enough for his team... especially when the whole baseball world is gossiping about them? Even Shannon's ex-husband David gets pulled into the mess when a randy baseball mom goes after him. As Sam works to make friends, win games, and become a better baseball player, Shannon struggles not to become one of those crazy baseball parents herself. In this world, it's not about whether you win, lose, or how you play the game... it's all about keeping score.

Members Reviews:

Does/did your kid play a travel sport?

If your kid plays/ed a travel sport, particularly baseball, just click add to cart!!! This book made me laugh, smile, and just left me feeling lighter somehow.

This book is about the relationship between a mother and son and their introduction to travel baseball at age 9. There were no steamy scenes but there were several romances going on that had you rooting for some couples and cringing at others, and all the while there was a 9 year olds journey into Travel Baseball, and a mothers journey about watching her son grow up.

Sam was so happy to be invited to play Travel Baseball with a REAL summer team, but the experience wasn't exactly what he thought it would be. His mother, Shannon, has her own problems with Travel Ball, culture shock doesn't exactly cover it. As she battles to not turn into one of THOSE parents...the parents that are rooting for a 10 year old to drop the ball, or engaging in brawls in the stands about a little kids ball game; she is faced with her ex husbands antics, his new hot (and barely legal) girlfriend, her own attraction to an opposing teams coach, former friends turning on her, learning what snack-shack time was...and all this before the first tournament!?!?!?!?

This story was great! I laughed at all the real life people it reminded me of (why exactly do parents feel the need to facebook status every move their kids make?) But I also really enjoyed the way it made me remember my sons first few years in travel ball. I sincerely hope there is a sequel!!! *hint hint*

Great for sale, credit or *gasp* PURCHASE (yeah I liked it that much folks!)

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Title: The Garden Party and Other Stories

Author: Maeve Binchy

Narrator: Niamh Cusack, Dervla Kirwan, Doreen Hepburn, Stella McCusker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-15

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of short stories from the Archives, read for Radio 4, by best-selling author Maeve Binchy.

Stories included are: "The Garden Party" - Helen looked down at Mrs. Kennedy's garden. It was cheerfully coloured yet ordered, like Mrs. Kennedy. But first impressions are not always reliable.

"The Special Sale" - Yvonne's good deed leads to a romantic encounter on the day after Christmas.

"The Sensible Celebration" - Are the picture-perfect couple really the ones to envy? All is not as it seems....

"Dolly's Mother" - If you were square and solid and without colour and grace, it was sometimes easy to hate Mother.

Members Reviews:

Fabulous!

I could've listened for hours. Great stories and reading from all the narrator's!

Thank you

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Title: Clay

Author: Melissa Harrison

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-15

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the citys overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, 78, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the park. Jozef cant forget the farm he left behind in Poland, its woods and fields still a part of him although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC, he finds a kindred spirit: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost.

Critic Reviews:

"Heartfelt, elegaic.... Lovingly observed." (Sunday Times)

"Harrison gives lovely expression to her vision of an ecosystem thrumming away beneath the grime of city life." (Guardian)

Members Reviews:

Fantastic reading

This is one of the best - no, THE best! narrating I've heard on a spoken book. Great story too. Highly recommend.

A tale of nature and grit in the city

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes very much so. I loved her descriptions of the natural world in the city, and the human characters are well formed too.

Any additional comments?

I loved all of this book. It is read perfectly by Clare Corbett. It is about what goes on in the 'undergrowth': in the bits of greenery that form background to our city lives and how we notice it or ignore it. The main characters are 2 children from very different backgrounds whose paths cross and a Polish man who daringly befriends one of them.Melissa Harrison's descriptions are beautiful. She writes lyrically without being sentimental.I wish Audible would have more books like this including Melissa Harrison's latest 'In Hawthorn Time'

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Title: The Prodigal

Author: Michael Hurley

Narrator: Elaine Dillon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-15

Publisher: Ragbagger Press

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Pride, betrayal, forgiveness... and the eternal sea. The Prodigal tells the mystical tale of four people on Ocracoke Island whose destiny is tied to an abandoned schooner, thought to have been lost at sea more than a century ago, that one day drifts ashore. Marcus O'Reilly, a renegade Catholic priest, must confront his inner demons. Ibrahim Joseph, a Bahamian fugitive, must face his past. Aidan Sharpe, a fallen lawyer, struggles with self-doubt and his growing affection for Molly McGregor, a fearless towboat captain who cannot find the courage to love. They will all be drawn into a 2,000-year-old mystery that unfolds with the reappearance of the ship.

Members Reviews:

A Riptide of a Novel -- Powerfully Written and Finely Nuanced

Undoubtedly one of the best new books I've read, "The Prodigal" by Michael Hurley is the novel I tell everybody they must read. It is a story that you will not soon forget.

"The Prodigal" could be interpreted as a coming of age story, not of teenagers or young adults, but of the middle-aged. Mature adults who seem to have it all together, but grapple with insubstantiality. Adults, who as arrows of Life's bow, are missing their true target. These are the vividly drawn characters of Michael Hurley's novel.

A riveting and socially relevant tale, The Prodigal is a contemporary marvel of an legorical story of vices and virtues, of Achilles' heels, and odysseys into the unknown. Hurley spans two thousand years, several oceans, and eternal love with adventure and captivation.

The protagonist, Aidan, finds himself stripped of all his privileged-trappings: professional kudos, private clubs, top level connections, cash, even credit cards, due to a quick and nearly fatal bite from one of his own kind, an attorney of law. Aidan's mentor sends him to the backwaters of Okracoke Island in North Carolina, a land sequestered between the Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, to get his bearings.

Okracoke is often described as a geographical oddity with the folks to go with it. This quirky island has a single paved road and is only accessible by boat; it is so isolated that you can still hear traces of Elizabethan English spoken by the locals. It is as it has always been--a place treacherous enough to be a safe haven. It is here in Okracoke that Aidan meets the others whose fates and chances are bound up with his.

The tides, winds, and currents of life propel us along in directions that, unless we take notice and change our sails, might endanger us, indeed, ensnare our very souls. Hurley captures the forces that swirl among us; sometimes with dangerous gale strengths, sometimes with stalling headwinds, and sometimes becalming. And then there are those magical times in our lives when we have the wind at our backs and our sails on a broad reach going faster than hull speed--our eyes on the prize.

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Titolo: MalomBra

Autore: Antonio Fogazzaro

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 14 hrs and 27 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 02-17-15

Editore: Collina d'oro

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

Il romanzo, scritto nel 1881, è ambientato nel 1864 in un luogo non ben precisato, sulle rive di un lago lombardo. Il Palazzo è invece la villa Pliniana, sul Lago di Como, visitata da Fogazzaro, la cui atmosfera cupa si adattava all'ambientazione del romanzo. Il libro fu ignorato dalla maggior parte delle riviste letterarie ma lodato da Verga, che lo definì una delle più belle concezioni romantiche mai apparse in Italia. Ne fu realizzato un film famoso nel 1942. Cornice musicale di Franz Strauss: notturno n. 7.

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.