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Título: El alquimista de la serpiente ciega [The Alchemist and the Blind Snake]

Autor: Ralph Barby

Narrador: Jose Díaz Meco, Sonolibro

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 17 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-11-14

Editor: Sonolibro

Calificaciones: 3.5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Alice, al morir su tía asesinada, se ha convertido en propietaria por herencia de la mitad de un local llamado Half Moon. El local es un tugurio de los bajos fondos frecuentado por prostitutas y borrachos. Pero además algo nuevo está sucediendo en el Half Moon: alguien está provocando allí la muerte: parece que hay alguna razón obsesiva que a alguien le impide dejar de matar... Ian Trysh, psiquiatra aficionado a la resolución de misterios, va a ayudar a Alice a encontrar el "Libro de los antiguos alquimistas de Chelsea" que puede que sea la única pista que tengan para intentar parar los asesinatos.

Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Niceville

Author: Carsten Stroud

Narrator: Ann Marie Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When 10-year-old Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school in idyllic Niceville, Detective Nick Kavanaugh traces the boy to his last sighting - staring into the window of the old pawn shop in town. CCTV shows Rainey there one minute and then gone the next. In the days that follow, any hope Rainey's family has of finding him alive starts to fade but then Rainey is found - alive but in a coma, and there's no telling when, or if, he'll ever wake up....

One year on, Kavanagh is still haunted by the case. And now another member of the town - this time an elderly woman - has been reported missing. It's as though she vanished into thin air. Once again, Kavanagh's on the case and, as he starts to dig back through the town's history, he can't help but notice that Niceville has a much higher than average number of stranger abductions.

Members Reviews:

Lost interest

The story is interesting but I think I need the book. The narrator has struggled to keep my attention. I'm about half way through and I'm giving up. The story is good, but the narrator is just a bit weak. Every character has the same voice, and she struggles to bring them to life. Shame really.

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Title: The Chisellers

Author: Brendan O'Carroll

Narrator: Brendan O'Carroll

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-14

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Fans of Agnes Browne craving further hilarious and heartwarming adventures will be delighted with The Chisellers.

Agnes, the lovable and determined heroine, returns with her seven children - whom she affectionately calls 'the chisellers' - all struggling to make their way in the world with varying degrees of success. To make matters more difficult, as Agnes struggles along the bumpy road of parenting, she learns that the family is about to be forced out of their tenement home in the name of urban renewal. Pierre, Agnes' persistent suitor, is thankfully on hand to console her.

Like all good Irish stories, The Chisellers includes a wedding and a funeral, much laughter and some tears - and it is sure to please newcomers as well as loyal fans of this terrific series.

Critic Reviews:

"It's refreshing to enter O'Carroll's fun-loving working-class world." (Entertainment Weekly)

"Shades of O'Casey, as well as Brendan Behan. A story as colourful as Moore Street itself, but there is also pathos, compassion and irony." (Entertainer)

"This lively novel features a wedding, a funeral and an ending that will melt the hardest heart. Readers will eagerly await the third book in this series." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

5 star audio book

Really enjoyable listen,would love it to be filmef for TV or DVD ,or live show

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Title: Chequered Justice

Author: John Bartlett

Narrator: Leslie Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-14

Publisher: Amazing Journeys Ltd

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Only a handful of individuals ever make it in the world of professional racing. Only a minute few of those who do make it experience the devastating effects of becoming seriously injured, with the inevitable collapse of their lifes dreams. Imagine the trauma and torment of losing it all, only to be accused of having deliberately constructed the event of your downfall...by the Crown!

Chequered Justice is the story of a court case that many say should never have been heard and, some say, couldnt have happened - and yet.... Chequered Justice is a story inspired by true events!

Will Middleton lives to race. More than just a sport, more than a hobby, it's his first love, his livelihood, and the centre of all his dreams. Thatcher's Britain is in meltdown, yet, despite the deepening recession, Trans-Atlantic, his new racing team, has just pulled off a major coup - sponsors are queuing up, nothing can go wrong now, surely.

The police raid comes out of the blue. Will is questioned under caution. He is charged with fraud and finds himself in a Kafkaesque world where his guilt appears to have been decided in advance. How could a riding accident, an insurance claim, a bounced cheque, and a brief moment of temptation all converge into such a nightmare?

Even as his legal team fights for his acquittal, Will knows in his heart that there is a conspiracy, and the roots of it lie deep in the ancient secret society of the Masons. Trans-Atlantic becomes a distant memory as Will encounters a darker side of life and leaves the glamorous world of motor racing far behind.

Members Reviews:

Made my road trip enjoyable!

Would you consider the audio edition of Chequered Justice to be better than the print version?

Having read the book in print when it came out I still thoroughly enjoyed the audiobook version just as much on a 20 hour road trip over 3 days.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

It gave a gripping insight into how the corruption portrayed can happen, and really does happen, within the justice system. It kept my interest by making me want to see how and if the injustices would be put right which is what we are taught to believe and expect.

What about Leslie Phillipss performance did you like?

Leslie Phillips is wonderful to listen to and really brought to life the interest and emotion from the story .

Any additional comments?

I look forward to more from the author, John Bartlett!

Excellent

Any additional comments?

Totally riveting and wonderfully narrated, read by Leslie Phillips (the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter)! It had me laughing one minute and crying the next. Infuriated by the first reviewer; Didn't he realise it MUST be a true story of so called British justice? Google it for the background - I was fascinated but horrified! It was also reviewed by a top British QC, Michael Mansfield, who must surely understand the British legal system? Lastly, Im not a racing fan but I loved this story about a family. Just so sorry its obviously true. Really recommend this!

Not even a brilliant narrator can save this

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

No one familiar with the law could possibly get over the many legal errors.

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Titel: Eines Tages, Baby

Untertitel: Poetry Slam-Texte

Autor:: Julia Engelmann

Erzähler: Julia Engelmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 2 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-14-14

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Contemporary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

"Eines Tages, Baby, werden wir alt sein, oh Baby, werden wir alt sein und an all die Geschichten denken, die wir hätten erzählen können." Julia Engelmanns Slam "One Day" hat über Nacht eine Welle der Begeisterung ausgelöst und Millionen Fans im Netz gefunden. Ihre Message, Träume endlich in die Tat umzusetzen, trifft den Nerv der Zeit. Denn in jedem von uns steckt so viel mehr! Mal zart, mal kraftvoll und immer berührend, ruft Julia Engelmann dazu auf, mutig zu sein, das Glück zu suchen und das Leben zu leben, bevor es zu spät ist: "Los, schreiben wir Geschichten, die wir später gern erzählen."

Poetry-Slam-Texte - Mit "One Day", dem Poetry-Slam-Smash-Hit mit über 6 Mio. Fans auf YouTube.

©2014 Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München (P)2014 Der Hörverlag

Kritik Bewertungen:

Der neue Star im Internet.

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Title: Adjunctivitis

Author: Gordon Haber

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A witty and touching novella about life on the periphery of academia and Hollywood. Robert is an adjunct, a university lecturer commuting between two-far flung Los Angeles colleges. He doesn't have health insurance - a serious problem when he develops a violent allergy to student writing. Meanwhile he's trying to keep his car, and his relationship with a successful but skittish TV writer, from falling apart.

Members Reviews:

You'll feel as bad as he does

Slow, dull, depressing and filled with the minutiae in a life of quiet desperation. I didn't make it too far through this one and I wouldn't advise giving it a try; anti-depressants can only do so much.

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Title: Digging to America

Author: Anne Tyler

Narrator: Blair Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-03-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Friday August 15th, 1997: the night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this.

First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident relatives, taking delivery with characteristic American razzmatazz. Then there are the Yazdans, pretty, nervous Ziba (her family 'only one generation removed from the bazaar') and carefully assimilated Sami, with his elegant, elusive Iranian-born widowed mother Maryam, the grandmother-to-be, receiving their little bundle with wondering discretion.

Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as tiny, delicate Susan, wholesome, stocky Jin-ho and, later, her new little sister Xiu-Mei, take roots, become American.... While Maryam, the optimistic pessimist, confident that if things go wrong - as well they may - she will manage as she has before, contrarily preserves her 'outsider' status, as if to prove that, despite her passport, she is only a guest in this bewildering country.

Full of achingly hilarious moments (Xiu-Mei's 'pacifier' party is worthy of The Simpsons) and toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel with a deceptively small domestic canvas, and subtly large themes - it's about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds.... And the end catches you by the throat, ambushes your emotions when you least expect it, as only Tyler can.

Members Reviews:

Funny and thought-provoking

Any additional comments?

This story describes what happens when people from different cultures meet and I found it a very enjoyable listen. It is sometimes funny, sometimes embarrassing, but its strength is that it rings true. It demonstrated the complexities of our feelings for others, how we value eachother and are annoyed with eachother at the same time.

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Title: The Living

Author: Christopher Castellani

Narrator: Allan Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Even with a successful career as a lawyer and a beautiful wife, Tony Greto is tormented by his secrets - secrets that finally begin to surface at his 25th high school reunion. An impromptu speech in front of his entire class and an encounter with a former classmate's son begin to unravel the threads of Tony's seemingly settled life.

In this modern retelling of James Joyce's "The Dead," acclaimed novelist Christopher Castellani ensnares you with a night in the life of an ordinary man struggling to reconcile the rift between who he is and who he's pretending to be.

Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.

Members Reviews:

Worth a read.

A high school reunion, a clumsy speech, a missing watch. Castellani guides us through an awkward gathering of aging men who were once and, to the annoyance of their wives, remain boys. Through seemingly mundane exchanges, Castellani unfolds a brief (and not quite fully told) story of a man who has long carried a secret loss and longing.

The main character is drawn sparingly. Perhaps too sparingly.

A powerful tribute to Joyce's "The Dead"

In what is purportedly an outtake from an early draft of his 2013 novel, "All This Talk of Love," Castellani deftly re-casts James Joyce's beloved tale, "The Dead," with a number of modern twists and turns. "The Dead," published as part of the collection, "Dubliners," exactly 100 years ago, was part of Irish writers' efforts to forge a sort of national identity by examining contemporary middle-class life. In "The Living," Christopher Castellani updates this to late 20th century middle-America, where a man and his wife attend a party--a Catholic high school reunion--and this event, and a chance encounter with a ghost, dredges up memories that intersect with more recent struggles. In its way, "The Living" attempts to address mid-life questions of identity and choices made, as well as the emerging presence of public gay life and what it means to be gay in the United States (not unlike the questions Joyce and his peers were asking of their countrymen: "Who are we, anyway? Where did we come from? Where are we going?") As Castellani makes clear, there's no path forward to happiness that will not leave collateral damage, and no morality that quite fits--certainly not the moral certainty amid which his characters were so surely raised. One of the questions I took away from it was, "Given that we are alive--that we survive, while others we love or loved may not--what do we do with it that honors both them and ourselves?" This is a highly recommended selection.

Very interesting story

I liked the way the writer revealed the main character: slowly and from a distance, first, especially through scenes with other characters. Then at just the right moment, the protagonist is captured alone, with only his thoughts and deepest feelings, leaving the reader with a haunting sense, which remains long after the story's been put back on the shelf. This story kept me completely absorbed, beginning to end.

An unfinished thought

You think this could be a good story but it doesn't get to anything more than an idea for one.

Superb Storytelling from Christopher Castellani

I already knew that Christopher Castellani is a gifted writer, so I purchased this story as soon as I heard it was available. I wasn't disappointed.

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Title: Six Clever Girls Who Became Famous Women

Author: Fiona Farrell

Narrator: Elizabeth McRae

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-14

Publisher: Penguin Books NZ

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On 22 September 1960, six girls gather behind the school toilets to read Peyton Place: Caroline the leader, Heather the caregiver, Kathy the actress, Raeleen the explorer, Greer the mystic and Margie the rebel. Like the historical heroines whose stories are repeatedly held up to them as models, these girls confront in their various ways the uncertainty and fears of adolescence.

On 22 September 1995 we meet them again, confronting the issues of middle age. Caroline's on the way up, Raeleen's now Ra, Margie climbs higher and higher. They're all relearning in the process the joy of making that vital, terrifying, thrilling leap 'out into the sun'....

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Title: Golden Handcuffs

Author: Polly Courtney

Narrator: Anne Day-Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-14

Publisher: Polly Courtney

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"A job at Cray McKinley is whatever you make of it. For the real high flyers, there's no limit to what you can achieve."

Abby is a high flyer. But she's not your average banker. Driven by something other than money and status, she has her own reasons for climbing the ladder. And so does Mike. An ambitious young graduate with an equally impressive CV, Mike is in it for the six-figure salaries and fast cars. He's got the skills, the grades and the swagger to make it all the way to the top.

But neither Abby nor Mike is prepared for the life that awaits them behind the mirrored glass doors. In a world where verbal abuse is commonplace, greed is everywhere and sexual harassment is just part of the fun, the young bankers are forced to find new ways to compete - and not just against one another.

Based on the author's experiences as a junior investment banker, Golden Handcuffs is a fresh, gripping insight into life inside a Wall Street bank and what it really means to sell your soul to the City.

Members Reviews:

Paints a grim picture

Is there anything you would change about this book?

It is way too long.

Would you recommend Golden Handcuffs to your friends? Why or why not?

I would recommend it to any young person looking to get a position in banking or any highly paid corporate position but can't think of any of my friends I would recommend it to.

What three words best describe Anne Day-Joness voice?

British, pleasant and well-paced.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

I'd watch if it ever came on Netflix just to see how it was different from the book.

Any additional comments?

The book truly paints a grim picture of the experience of working in the banking industry. The horrible greed and deceit fostered by competition to climb the corporate ladder would make it hard to trust co-workers. Any young person who wants to go into banking should read (or listen) so they'd know that the prestige of the position and the financial rewards may not be worth the abuse they would face.

Another great listen from Polly Courtney!

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

Yes. Exciting storyline with likeable and believable characters.

What did you like best about this story?

The lead character Abby. You really feel you get to know her and her position.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

When Abby stands up for herself and her hard work.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

My Life With The Bankers

Any additional comments?

Another great title by Polly Courtney and yet another fine performance by Anne Day-Jones. Enjoyed from start to finish