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Title: The Séance

Author: Iain Lawrence

Narrator: Steven Bover

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In the midst of the roaring '20s, Scooter, the son of a psychic, admires Harry Houdini. He can't wait to see Houdini perform his amazing new illusion. But backstage at the show, Scooter finds something that he wishes were merely an illusion: a dead body floating in Houdini's tank.

Members Reviews:

ok

i like his stories of the high seas . this one did not do too much for me,see me later if you wasnt to discuss it

Lawrence's writing is always a literary delight to devour

"I could still hear him in my mind as we motored home a little later. Sitting high on the Steamer's seat, I thought I was maybe the only person in the world who figured things differently. For me, the case wasn't closed at all. But, then, I was the only one who'd seen the old man running from the Orpheum. No one else had seen the false hair thrown down on the street or the figure fleeing toward the stairs at Viktor Valerian's. No one else had gone through the Stranger's pockets and found a hat-check stub from the Limelight Club. To me, it seemed likely that the Stranger was the one who'd jammed a lock on the torture tank."

Scooter King and his mother lived the simple life of a psychic medium and assistant, but things got out of hand when Harry Houdini arrived at the Orpheum Theatre. Houdini was "the berries" as far as magicians went in Scooter's mind. He wanted to meet the great escape artist more than anything in the world, but when his wish came true, both he and his mother, Madame King, became embroiled in a murder spree the likes of which their small town had never known. And it seemed like Scooter was the only person who could solve the murders. He didn't know that associating with Houdini and solving murders could land both of them in a deadly pool of deceit and multiple attempts on their lives.

The Kings had a séance room at the front of their house. Here Madame King conducted meetings in which she contacted the spirits of the dead and relayed their messages to the living. They made a meager but sufficient living of telling visitors what they wanted to hear from their dearly departed loved ones. In 1926 Middle America, psychic readings and magic shows drew curious crowds and repeat audiences who tried to figure out how it was done or just wanted to see something strange.

Author Iain Lawrence captures the persona of the Roaring Twenties with well-chosen slang, clothing, settings and personalities that depict the romantic, free-spirited emotions of the era. From a billy-club-wielding police sergeant to a hat-check girl dressed in a fringed flapper dress, Lawrence weaves familiar markers into this story of murder and magic like a well-rehearsed performance. He never misses a beat or fails to explain the time period details that help move the action along. And there is plenty of action.

Undoubtedly, Lawrence's personal history as a journalist is responsible as he supports THE SÉANCE using newspapers as a common theme throughout the book. The local paper plays an important role in the story. Headlines, advertisements, articles, photographs, the obituaries and gossip columns provide a scaffold as events unfold.

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Título: La Prima Bette [Cousin Bette]

Autor: Honore de Balzac

Narrador: Carlos J. Vega

Formato: Abridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 51 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 03-10-06

Editor: Yoyo USA, Inc

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Cousin Bette (1846), long considered Balzac's last great novel, is a key work in his Comedie humaine. Grounded in a meticulous documentation of contemporary France, this tale is set in the prosperous Paris of Louis-Phillipe and details a jealous woman's campaign of persecution against her own family.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Aburrido

Me aburrió. Un solo lector. No lo pude escuchar en su totalidad. Me arrepiento de esta compra. Tal vez sea mejor en italiano. Dicen que la literatura se define como "lo que se pierde en la traducción." >;o]

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Title: Christmas Holiday

Author: W Somerset Maugham

Narrator: Ben Elliot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a cheerful disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with Simon, his oldest friend. Yet Paris is not what he expects : in just a few days his young eyes are opened to the tragedies and ugly dramas of its underworld.

Critic Reviews:

Contrasts the complacency of prewar Britain with the nastiness of what was brewing on the Continent. It remains effortlessly readable (The Times)

Brilliant (New York Times)

One reads it with a feeling of increasing respect for his mastery of the trade. One has the same delight as in watching a first-class cabinet-maker cutting dovetails (Evelyn Waugh)

Members Reviews:

Reading Maugham is always an enjoyable exercise

What's there to say about W. Somerset Maugham that hasn't already been expressed?

Five Stars

This is a wonderful novel, somewhat dated, but not much.

Five Stars

Excellent

Shallow Foundation

Summary: Charley, 23, was a son of an upper-class English family. Charleyâs father sent him to Paris for Christmas holiday. Charley hoped to spend time there with his old friend Simon, but Simon was not much interested in Charleyâs friendship due to Simonâs devotion to harsh self-discipline in preparation for his imagined role as a powerful man in some future revolution. However, Simon did take Charley to a brothel and introduced him to Lydia, a young Russian prostitute. When Charley left the brothel to go to church, Lydia insisted on going with him. Lydia and Charley were together for most of Charleyâs remaining days in Paris.

Much of the novel portrays Lydiaâs description to Charley of her life story. Lydia was the wife of a convicted killer. She told Charley about her husbandâs life of crime and the details of the murder. She loved her husband in spite of it all, and claimed that the reason she prostituted herself was to atone for his sins. Her story led Charley to consider his own life of affluence and familial affection in comparison to Lydiaâs lonely life of suffering.

Lydia treated Charley as a child of little consequence. She told him he was nave, that he could not appreciate Russian music, and implied that he did not truly understand art despite his years of education on the subject. Simon too seemed to have little respect for Charley, even telling him that he would rather throw himself in front of a bus than live Charleyâs life. This in spite of the fact that Simon lived in a grim cold studio apartment, friendless, steeling himself for a position as a brutal tyrant in a fantasy revolution.

In sum, this novel depicts a sheltered and wealthy young man encountering, seemingly for the first time, the life of the lower classes.

Pros: This is an engrossing story and an easy read. There is little melodrama. The characters are fairly realistic and believable.

Cons: The book ends with Charley in his room having just returned home from his Paris trip. He sat and smoked, and looked back on his journey. Though he didnât have any adventures in the common sense of the word, Charley mused that the bottom had fallen out of his world. Presumably this is because his encounter with Lydiaâs difficult life altered his perspective on his own life such that he no longer felt his own life as real.

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Title: 1900 morgenrde (Bergen-trilogien 1)

Author: Gunnar Staalesen

Narrator: Carsten Warming

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-17

Publisher: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Nytrsnat r 1900 bliver konsul Carl August Frimann drbt i sit hjem i Bergen. Dette gdefulde mord danner udgangspunkt for frste bind i Gunnar Staalesens bredt fortalte og farverige romantrilogi om livet i det myldrende Bergen op igennem det 20. rhundrede.

P baggrund af verdenshistoriens dramatiske begivenheder, oplsningen af den svensk-norske union, ubdskrig, strejker og politiske modstninger - vver Gunnar Staalesen et tt billedtppe af skbner og vanskbner, krlighed og ulykke, fdsel og dd fra rhundredskiftet og frem til begyndelsen af 1930'erne. Og bag om det hele slynger sig stadig mordgden fra nytrsnatten 1900.

©2017 Gyldendal. Translated by Ilse M. Haugaard (P)2017 Gyldendal

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Title: Greatest Hits

Author: Laura Barnett

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-17

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Cass Wheeler - a British singer-songwriter, hugely successful since the early '70s, whose sudden disappearance from the music has been the subject of intense speculation among her fans - is in the studio that adjoins her home, taking a journey back into her past. Her task is to choose 16 songs from among the hundreds she has written since her early teens, for a uniquely personal greatest hits record, describing the arc of her life through song.

It has been over a decade since Cass last put out an album, 10 years since a tragedy catapulted her into a breakdown. In the course of this one day - both ordinary and extraordinary - each song Cass plays sets off a chain of memories, leading us deep into her past and into the creative impulse that has underpinned her work.

This is the story of a life - of highs and lows, love and separation, success and failure. Of what it is to live a fulfilled life and how to make peace with our mistakes.

Read by Imogen Church. This audiobook features extracts from the album Songs from the Novel Greatest Hits by Kathryn Williams. Songs from the Novel Greatest Hits is available from One Little Indian Records. Full copyright details and the complete lyrics to each song are included in the PDF that accompanies this audiobook. For more about Kathryn Williams' music, and One Little Indian Records, visit indian.co.uk.

Members Reviews:

Best book I've read in ages

I enjoyed this book so much! Great story and the songs! Must get the album

Unoriginal

Liked the idea of the book with music but the story was a very clichéd 70s singer tale, abusive partner on drink and drugs, troubled daughter.... Too predictable unfortunately.

Excellent

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Absolutely brilliantly read by Church. A novel that examines our capacity to grow and forgive. The audiobook has excerpts from an album of greatest hits by our heroine to structure the novel as she looks back over her music career. A minor quibble would be that the female characters are perhaps better drawn than the male, but a sincere and thoughtful piece, not scared to pursue sadness. Definitely worth a read!

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Titel: Warten auf Bojangles

Autor:: Olivier Bourdeaut

Erzähler: August Zirner, Robert Stadlober

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-01-17

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Sie tanzen zu "Mr. Bojangles", sie mixen sich Cocktails, gemeinsam mit ihrem Sohn reisen sie in ihr Schloss nach Spanien. Sie ist charmant und charismatisch, nimmt alle für sich ein mit ihrer extravaganten Art. Georges liebt sie hingebungsvoll, die beiden feiern das Leben, wann immer es geht, denn sie kennen auch seine dunklen Momente: Georges' schillernde Frau ist manisch-depressiv. Als diese bittere Wahrheit ihr Paradies zu zerstören droht, entführen Vater und Sohn die Frau, die sie lieben, kurzerhand aus der Psychiatrie. In einem englischen Oldtimer nehmen sie Kurs auf Spanien, in der Hoffnung, dort so weiterleben zu können wie bisher.

"Warten auf Bojangles" ist eine originelle und literarische Liebesgeschichte aus Frankreich, traurig und schön zugleich, leichtfüßig erzählt von Robert Stadlober (als Sohn) und August Zirner (als Vater).

©2017 Piper Verlag GmbH, München. Übersetzung von Norma Cassau (P)2017 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

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Title: Joe, Spain, 1971

Author: Stephen Smith

Narrator: Derek Shetterly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-17

Publisher: McSweeney's

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A child travel writer visits Spain. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

©2008 Stephen Smith (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Title: I Would See Everything

Author: Jessica Barksdale Inclán

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

After her husband Simon is killed by a teenaged drunk driver, Dana moves to a new city with her two young boys. Stunned by the newness of everything around her, Dana finds familiarity in an unexpected place.

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Title: The Brightness of Things

Author: Jessica Barksdale Inclán

Narrator: Tamara Marston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Maxine Whitshaw, a middle-aged copyeditor frustrated with her humdrum existence, wins a lottery for a trip to the moon alongside the rich and famous. But once she leaves her husband in charge of their two boys in order to take flight, she lets go not only of gravity, but of the rules and expectations that have been guiding her all along.

Members Reviews:

Mesmerizing tale

This rich fantasy of one woman's spaceship escape from the mundanity of marriage and middle class life is wonderfully told. With humor, social satire, and a generous heart, it's a story that will charm and surprise you. Perfect escape for your commute or gym workout!

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Titel: Fremde Gäste

Autor:: Sarah Waters

Erzähler: Sabina Godec

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 23 hrs and 6 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-14-16

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

London, 1922. Die 28-jährige Frances Wray und ihre Mutter sind gezwungen, Untermieter in ihrem Stadthaus aufzunehmen, um über die Runden zu kommen, seit der Vater und die beiden Brüder im Krieg gefallen sind. Mit der Ankunft von Lilian und Leonard Barber, einem modernen jungen Ehepaar, ändern sich die Atmosphäre und die Routinen des Hauses auf ungeahnte Weise. Und als sich eine zarte Liaison zwischen den beiden jungen Frauen anbahnt und das anfängliche Misstrauen des Ehemannes in blanken Hass umschlägt, nimmt eine Tragödie unaufhaltsam ihren Lauf...

©2016 Bastei Lübbe (P)2016 Lübbe Audio