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Title: The Doctor's Daughter

Author: Hilma Wolitzer

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Alice Brill wakes up one day with a vague but nagging sensation of unease in her chest that signals trouble. Is it her marriage - drifting along for years on autopilot - that's so troubling? Her unrealized aspirations as a writer? Her unsettled younger son? Or is it something about her father, once a prominent surgeon but now slipping deeper into senility in a nursing home? There is also the matter of the writer whose book she's editing in her new profession as a "book doctor", with whom a deeper involvement looms. This is a smart, beautifully observed novel about a woman coming to terms with the hidden truths of her life.

Members Reviews:

Worth the wait for another book from this talented author!

I love this author so I was excited to read her newest book, especially since there was such a long hiatus between books. As I read, I couldn't help but wonder if Hilma Wolitzer drew on her own experience and if this helped explain the long wait between books. Everything just seemed so real that it made sense that she'd have been writing from personal experience, at least to some degree.

Based on her real life or not, this one is absolutely spell-binding, filled with characters that come alive and with a world which was so engaging that I didn't want to leave it, didn't want to finish the book.

At the heart of the book is Alice, in her 50s, a wife, a mother, a frustrated writer...and who is facing way too much pressure as one crisis after another emerges. She is being demoted at work, her children aren't turning out as she expected and her marriage is in major crisis. As if that wasn't enough, she has an aging parent to handle, leading to a review of her past, of her entire life.

I really related to this book, not because I face similar crisises in my life (at least, not yet) but because the writing was so sure and authentic. Everything seemed believeable and, as the best books so often do, this one revealed how hard true growth can be - but how necessary to a fulfilling life. Read this one carefully and you'll find yourself feeling richer for the experience - and perhaps even a bit wiser - all while being entertained by a very fine writer. What more could one ask?

Great writing

Great, easy read. Beautiful writing. Worth reading as a reminder of how our upbringing impacts our life, even so many years later...but shouldn't imprison us.

What a great writer

THis was the first book I have read by this author. The story held my interest from beginning to end. It is fast-paced but thought provoking about a woman whose marriage was unraveling at age 51 and realized it when she woke up one morning and felt that something wasnt righy

Not as good as I expected

I have to admit that I judged this book by its cover as I am a doctor's daughter. The book started off very interestingly, with the main character, Alice, reaching midlife and looking for answers, both in her past and present. The past is blurred as her mother is dead and her father has dementia.

From there the story does not know exactly what it wants to be, as it wonders off in many different directions. With the exception of Alice's best friend, I did not find the characters to be particurly likeable, so it was hard to get behind any of them. It did pick up toward the end, however the conclusion was evident long before I reached it.

On the plus side, the writing was excellent.

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Title: The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon

Subtitle: A Novel of Contemporary China

Author: Liu Zhenyun, Howard Goldblatt - translator, Sylvia Li-chun Lin - translator

Narrator: Ewan Chung

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun, is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption. The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a worksite cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it, he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, and sets off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, complex, and highly readable critique of the dark side of Chinas predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses. A movie adaptation and TV series appeared in 2008 in China.

Members Reviews:

A decent book, but not my cup of tea....

For some reason, this book didn't quite click for me. It may have been because none of the characters were particularly sympathetic, or because the plot twists felt like a wild goose chase to nowhere,but this turned out to be one of those "grind-it-out" books that I had to force myself to finish.

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Title: Search Party

Subtitle: Stories of Rescue

Author: Valerie Trueblood

Narrator: Kymberly Dakin, Christine Marshall, Corey Gagne, Moira Driscoll, Casey Turner, J. Paul Guimont

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In the epigraph to this volume, Penelope Fitzgerald tells us, "If a story begins with finding, it must end with searching". And so we discover each story here to follow the arc of a search, just as each also contains a rescue. What is immediately apparent is that it will be impossible to guess the form this rescue will take or even who it is who'll require it.

Instead the astonishingly talented Valerie Trueblood has imbued each story with its own depth and mystery, so rescue comes as a surprise to the listener, who is in intimate sympathy for the soul in extremity. And these are diverse characters whose fates, in lesser hands, might be thought of as hopeless: the fired cop turned security guard, the stolid 19-year-old nurses' aide who will not be going to art school, the cynical radio producer who is dying of breast cancer and on a plane on her way to Lourdes.

In these 13 stories, linked by a common transcendent human genius, the writing is confident, clear, original, and often drop-dead stunning - as if the stories are being told by the most casually eloquent among us.

Members Reviews:

Search Party;A wonderful read

Ms Trueblood deploys her amazing skills as a writer in service of telling fascinating stories. These are stories of rescue,but of an unexpected sort.

Each story is a completely different world. Each so fully realised in detail, that once you enter you are reluctant to leave, sad to turn the last page. But then, there is another story, another world.

These stories will merit re-reading for their insight and beauty.

Fabulous stories

Trueblood has the unusual ability to write on many levels at once, an ability shared by only the best contemporary short story writers such as Alice Munro. Her stories are meaty and thought provoking and I can read no more than one per day. Sometimes the writing moves me to start again at the beginning of the story to savor it one more time. A treasure.

These stories are revelations.

I don't know how Trueblood does it. I had to stop once or twice each page because a sentence startled me -- with recognition of something I dimly knew but hadn't put into words, or with a depth of seeing into the human predicament that made me want to pause and ponder. This may be my favorite of her books.

Four Stars

I really liked this book. The characters are interesting and the stories are well written.

Misled by title and descriptions

I read this book, finished it, like eating my vegetables as a child. I thought it was going to be a collection of stories about search and rescue parties who rescue people after some accident or disaster. I was anticipating stories about the risks that the search party members take to find or save those people/children who have been injured or lost, a different viewpoint from that of the person who was lost and found. I had my sites set on something else and I was disappointed.

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Title: The Incomparable Atuk

Author: Mordecai Richler

Narrator: Luke Humphrey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Transplanted to Toronto from his native Baffin Island, Atuk the poet is an unlikely overnight success. Eagerly adapting to a society steeped in pretension, bigotry, and greed, Atuk soon abandons the literary life in favour of more lucrative - and hazardous - schemes.

Richlers hilarious and devastating satire lampoons the self-deceptions of "the Canadian identity" and derides the hypocrisy of a nation that seeks cultural independence by slavishly pursuing the American dream.

Members Reviews:

A Canadian in-joke?

I'd heard good things about the book, including the urban legend about the movie that was never made because every person who read for it died.

Nope, very lame. I grew up reading books in the 60's and recognize the Vonnegut/Heller style to which he aspired but it's just not worth reading. I gave up one third of the way through because, as short as the book is, 178 pages, LIFE is too short to waste on a book with no characters that held my interest.

Hilariously brilliant.

As political satire goes, this book is hard to beat. It paints a vivid picture of Canada in the 60s (it was published in 1963) yet manages to ring even truer today. Hilariously brilliant.

"Canada wake up..."

Biting satire and black humour characterize this short novella about an Inuit poet who leaves his remote community for a visit to the big city, Toronto. Having been discovered by a fur trader, his poem had reached such popularity among the city folks that they wanted to see the "Eskimo" from Baffin Bay in person. Atuk, however, finds urban life so rich, in many different ways, that he decides to stay. Initially he may come across as an innocent fool, easily exploited and controlled by his "benefactors", but he is a fast learner and soon joins the games and schemes successfully to his own advantage. Until...

Published in 1963 when Richler was living in England, having left Canada in the 1950s, the story benefits from the author's physical and intellectual distance from his country. It thrives on the caricature of a set of Canadians and their machinations. There are, among others, the Uber-Canadian tycoon, the undercover police officer searching for a American colonel who disappeared on Baffin Island while spying, and the investigative journalist who discovers truths mainly about herself. The powerful TV chat show host meddles in controversy and the nice professor has his own secrets. The storyline cannot be revealed without giving too much away. Suffice to say, that it is deliberately farcical and outlandish, yet fast moving and at times confusing enough to keep the reader intrigued.

With Atuk Richler brings out the different political and social stereotypes of the day and, above all, takes Canadians to task over their self image and their national identity, their latent or conspicuous racism and bigotry, their consumerism, greed and tendency to admire all that is American. While written more than 40 years ago, his book has meaning beyond the historical. In addition is a fun read! [Friederike Knabe][

Timeless

Atuk is a Baffin Island artist, or sort of. He gets an invite to Toronto to read his poetry, which is awful, but which intellectuals applaud in an attempt at inclusion, or, in Canada speak, cultural nationalism.

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Titel: Johann Strauss und Richard Wagner

Autor:: Daniel Spitzer

Erzähler: Walter Gellert

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 10 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 06-11-15

Herausgeber: Audio Media Digital

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Daniel Spitzer gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten Satiriker und Humanisten Wiens. Seine Erzählungen sind humoristisch und apokryphisch, ein echter Genuss.

6. Januar 1877 - Die Woche hat sehr melodisch mit einer neuen Operette von Johann Strauss begonnen, ich war seit einigen Jahren nicht im Karl-Theater und ich kenne daher den jetzigen Direktor der Hofoper Herrn Jauner schon lange nicht, da sich unsere Unbekanntschaft noch vom Karl-Theater herdatiert, wo er früher ein ziemlich beliebter Schauspieler und später ein sehr glücklicher Direktor gewesen sein soll...

©2015 Audio Media Digital (P)2015 Audio Media Digital

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Título: La Historia De Luz [The Story of Luz]

Autor: Fernando Gamboa

Narrador: Jose Javier Serrano

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 3 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-22-15

Editor: Booka

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Booka Audiobooks presenta el audiolibro La Historia de Luz del autor best seller internacional Fernando Gamboa. Déjate sumergir en esta increíble y tierna historia a través de una de las mejores voces del doblaje español. COMENTARIOS DE LOS LECTORES: "Quería leer algo realmente bueno, que me llegase al corazón una y cien veces, vivir aventuras, viajar, arriesgarme. Creo que este libro es extraordinario. Debería existir en todas las bibliotecas. Este libro no necesita este comentario pero el mundo sí necesita este libro. La novela que al pobre García Márquez le quedó por escribir." "Linda, dulce, bella y emotiva. Para mi este libro ha sido como un regalo inesperado que, desde una aparente sencillez, despliega una belleza que en pocos libros he encontrado. Una obra absolutamente recomendable." "Un relato cautivante que llega al corazón por la historia, los personajes, las descripciones. Tiene aventura, magia, poesía, emoción. Una historia donde el lado bueno del ser humano se sobrepone a las dificultades, la desesperanza y la maldad.""¡Qué preciosidad! Estaba claro que esta historia tenía que ser contada. Y Fernando Gamboa lo hace tan bien que parece que estás ahí. Las descripciones de lugares, olores, colores y sentimientos son tan reales que los ves, los hueles, los notas.... Hacía tiempo que no llegaba a mí algo tan bonito. Desde el principio hasta el final te encuentras en conexión con la pequeña Luz. Vives la historia con ella y deseas que todo llegue a buen puerto. Te das cuenta de que es cierto que el amor puede con todo, por difícil que sea. "HAY ALGUNAS HISTORIAS, TAN HERMOSAS, QUE NO PUEDEN DEJAR DE SER CONTADAS Esta que tiene en sus manos me la explicó una amiga colombiana mientras tomábamos tinto con almojábanas en un café de Cali, al sur de Colombia, y narra los increíbles acontecimientos que hace unos años le sucedieron a una niña llamada Luz.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

!Increiblemente hermosa y de una sensibilidad exquisita¡

Nunca habia leído una historia tan sinceramente hermosa y soy una lectora voraz. Que sensibilidad, compasión y belleza la narración. Sobre todo felicito al autor por lo bien iluminado que ha estado al capturar de manera tan amorosamente sencilla la inocencia de la niñez que nace de los pobres pero con un corazón tan rico como un tesoro. Lo más sorprendente en que este basada en unos hechos reales que parecen un milagro que la intervención divina le regala a los verdaderamente limpios de corazón. Es magistral como describe ese amor tan puro y desinteresado de una niña hacia su madre y como en esa pobreza la madre siembra los sentimientos más nobles que puede haber en un ser humano. También el autor retrata muy bien los sentimientos de los corazones crueles que sólo creen en las apariencias y lo material.

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Title: The Mountain Can Wait

Author: Sarah Leipciger

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

"Her face in the headlights flashed like a coin. She was an instant, the sulphuric flare of a match."

Tragedy erupts in an instant. Lives are shattered irrevocably. A young man drives off into the night, leaving a girl injured, perhaps fatally so.

From that cliffhanger opening, Sarah Leipciger takes listeners back and forward in time to tell the haunting story of one family's unraveling in rural logging country where the land is still the economic backbone. Like the novels of Annie Proulx, this extraordinarily lyrical debut is rooted in richly detailed nature writing and sharply focused on small-town mores and the particularities of regional culture.

Marrying the propulsive story of a father and son who, in the wake of catastrophe, must confront their private demons to reach for redemption with an evocative meditation on our environmental legacy, The Mountain Can Wait introduces Leipciger as a talent to watch.

Critic Reviews:

"In this assured debut novel Leipciger beautifully captures the tender and mercurial relationship between father and son, Tom and Curtis Berry. These are characters you care about, flawed and haunted by regret, existing in the harsh yet undeniably radiant world of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Leipciger writes with great compassion and precision, her language is an exquisite mix of muscle and grace. The Mountain Can Wait resonated with wonderful imagery which will stay with me for a very long time." (Michele Forbes, author of Ghost Moth)

"It's clear and beautiful, like swimming in a mountain lake." (Mark Haddon, author of New York Times best seller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)

"The Mountain Can Wait is a taut, psychologically gripping novel populated by original characters constantly at battle with nature, family, society, and themselves. This is a book that kept me up at night. Leipciger has Margaret Atwood's rare flair for crafting an intelligent and suspenseful novel." (Nickolas Butler, best-selling author of Shotgun Lovesongs)

Members Reviews:

Returning this book

What would have made The Mountain Can Wait better?

Do not bother with this book. It is boring and really doesn't focus on what the summary says it does.

What was most disappointing about Sarah Leipcigers story?

BORING

What didnt you like about Robert Petkoffs performance?

His performance was find, but the book was so boring that he couldn't have made it into a good performance.

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Title: Disclaimer

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Renée Knight

Narrator: Laura Paton, Michael Pennington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-15

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Imagine reading a novel in the sanctuary of your own home only to realize in one heart-stopping moment that it is a novel about you...and about one awful day, 20 years ago, that you've spent the rest of your life trying to forget.

When a book entitled The Perfect Stranger lands in her mailbox, successful documentary filmmaker Catherine is intrigued. But as she turns its pages, she realizes its dark story is inspired by her own life. In vivid and harrowing detail, the narrative describes the day on which her life changed forever and she became hostage to a dark secret. Desperate to discover who the author is and what he or she wants, Catherine races to the end - only to be confronted by a portrayal of her death.

Intertwined with Catherine's narrative is that of Stephen Brigstocke, a grieving widower who discovers among his late wife's possessions a manuscript that horrifies him. Convinced that it tells the truth - that Catherine caused their son's death 20 years ago - he cannot rest until he exposes her guilt. He shares it not only with her but also with her husband and son, both of whom react violently to its contents. As Catherine's world falls apart, she knows that the only way forward is to confront Brigstocke and tell him what really happened that day, even if the reality is even more agonizing than what he currently believes.

Disclaimer is a breathtakingly suspenseful debut novel about a woman haunted by secrets, the corrosive power of grief, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible price we pay for hiding the truth.

Members Reviews:

You never know if you are right

I really enjoyed reading it. It is itriguing, with certain twists I could never guess about. I also like the story told from different points of view, at different time periods that give a fuller picture and so many details. I could really see in my imagination what was going on. It is also a very powerful and yet tough book. I cannot even imagine how a person may even think that he has a right to riun other people's lives. That is horrible, and it really shocked me. I can say I was really nervous about the main character's (Catherine) life because what she had to go through was something that could easily crash, destroy life, hope, belief, and personal integrity.

Makes you think twice about what you think you know

Very quick, great read. Once you start, you won't want to stop. Makes you second guess things you think you know. Definitely recommend

Really different thriller

Great writing and a very unique story for the thriller/suspense genre. Highly recommended.

You'll know when you know.

Very well crafted, perhaps to a fault. It's a story of shifting perceptions. Well worth the read but at the end you may feel as I did, a bit manipulated by a very strict timeline releasing of key facts. I do recommend it in spite of that nit picky critique. It provokes thoughts of something we all do, judge the book by the cover.

Good build-up

Lots of twists and turns, and it kept me reading to find out how it would end. But I have to say I didn't like the characters in the book. I don't think it was as good a read as either Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train

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Titel: Das Kind, das nachts die Sonne fand

Autor:: Luca Di Fulvio

Erzähler: Philipp Schepmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 25 hrs

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-12-15

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 4 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Raühnval, ein opulentes Herrschaftsgebiet in den Ostalpen. Der junge Marcus lebt ein privilegiertes Leben als Sohn des Landesfürsten. Elisa ist die Tochter der Dorfhebamme und weiß, was Entbehrung heißt. Bei einem Massaker werden Marcus' Familie und alle übrigen Burgbewohner ermordet. Dank Elisas Hilfe bleibt Marcus unentdeckt und findet mit einer neuen Identität Aufnahme bei den Dorfbewohnern. Doch er spürt schon bald, dass ihm ein anderes Schicksal vorherbestimmt ist: Sein Herz brennt für Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit...

©2015 Bastei Lübbe (P)2015 Lübbe Audio

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

it was a wonderful book and I could not stop reading it

it was a wonderful book and I could not stop reading it. the author has a language that you can visualize what he is saying

Five Stars

Excellent reading!

Two Stars

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Title: Around the World in Eighty Days

Author: Jules Verne, Tony Evans

Narrator: Rob Penman

Format: Abridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-15

Publisher: Real Reads

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

"Today is Wednesday 2nd October. If I am back in this very room in the Reform Club on Saturday 21st December by eight forty-five in the evening, I win."

Phileas Fogg bets 20,000 that he can go round the world in eighty days--a huge sum of money in 1872, worth more than a million pounds today. When he sets off on his amazing journey with his clever servant, Passepartout, they cannot afford the slightest delay.

Will the two travellers have time to help Princess Aouda when the brave and beautiful young woman is threatened with a cruel fate? Detective Fix believes that Mr. Fogg is a bank robber and plans to arrest him. Will that be the end of Phileas Foggs chance to save his fortune?