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Titel: Der Ghostwriter

Untertitel: Novelle

Autor:: Cecelia Ahern

Erzähler: Stephan Benson

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 3 hrs and 55 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-22-14

Herausgeber: Argon Verlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Herman Banks hat es vom armen Farmersjungen zum Multimillionär gebracht. Nur ein Wunsch treibt ihn noch um: Er möchte ein Buch schreiben, den großen, vollendeten Roman - und bezieht deshalb mit seiner jungen Frau das abgelegene Anwesen eines verstorbenen Autors in Südengland. Doch statt Inspiration zu finden, gerät Herman in eine mächtige Schreibblockade. Bis er im Zimmer mit der Kollektion alter Schreibmaschinen etwas Unheimliches vorfindet: das erste Kapitel seines geplanten Buchs "Der Büßer", von Geisterhand verfasst. Gleichzeitig beginnen Gegenstände aus dem Haus zu verschwinden. Ist Herman bereit, für seinen Lebenstraum alles zu opfern - wirklich alles?

©2014 FISCHER Krüger / S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. Die Originalausgabe erscheint 2014 unter dem Titel "The Ghostwriter" im Verlag Harper Collins, London. Aus dem Englischen von Christine Strüh. (P)2014 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin

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Title: Wise Guy

Subtitle: A Christmas Tale

Author: Joseph Bottum

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The 12 crimes of Christmas: Bart Sagan is a thief, yes, but more or less a good guy - at least, he wouldnt rob an orphanage if he didnt have to. Not at Christmastime, anyway. But then the local crime boss, Harry King, loses a shipment of drugs and orders Bart to burglarize the 12 addresses to which its been accidentally sent. Can Bart and his ragtag band of independent criminals keep their Christmas spirit while breaking and entering at the behest of a drug lord? Can they keep their lives if they dont?

A comic crime caper for the holiday, Wise Guy retells the story of Balthasar, one of the three Wise Men who followed a star from the east for the first Christmas. Or as much of Balthasar, anyway, as a confused and slightly hangdog minor thief can manage. As much of a Wise Man as a Wise Guy can be.

The author of three best-selling Kindle Singles, Joseph Bottum is a widely published essayist and poet - whose account of winter on the American prairie, The Christmas Plains (from Image/Random House), has been named an instant holiday classic. He is, as the essayist Andrew Ferguson has noted "one of Americas most gifted writers, with a perfect ear and a matchless style". He lives far off in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Wise Guy is his first foray into Christmas fiction.

Members Reviews:

Elmore Leonard meets "It's a Wonderful Life"

This is the kind of well-written story that would have provided "filler" in a "PODT" ("published on dead tree") magazine of the '50s through 80s, such as The Atlantic or Esquire. Now, sadly, those kinds of magazines are going the way of the Wooly Mammoth, but, happily, we are seeing writers connect directly with readers, without the mediation of those magazines and their many stories and much advertising, for less than a buck.

This story is a gem. It is a wonderfully crafted and written story about a thief who is impresssed into service to find 12 lost kilos of heroin in the week before Christmas. Bart Sagan is a thinking man's thief, but a bottom feeder in a city run by crime kingpin, Harry King. Bart also knows the other bottom feeders who are allowed to exist in King's city. Now, when King's heroin gets mailed out by a mistake to 12 civilians, Bart is told to get the heroin back or else his friends will suffer.

The story develops from there as a very human story of friends in low places and concludes with a satisfying surprise ending. The Christmas element consists of the Christmas deadline and the planting of parallels with the story of the Nativity. The story is a short read - around 20 - 30 pages. The characters are enjoyable, the writing is highly accessible and the biblical parallels make for a fun mental puzzle to reflect upon.

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Guaranteed for $.99 are these great features:

1. A relatively short read. The pace of the story is brisk, even though it is also layered with allusions, hints, and themes from the first Christmas.

2. A layered story.

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Title: The Orange Tree

Author: Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdam (translator)

Narrator: Tony Chiroldes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In the five novellas that comprise The Orange Tree, Carlos Fuentes continues the passionate and imaginative reconstruction of past and present history that has distinguished Terra Nostra and The Campaign. From the story of Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean, to the fate of Hernan Cortes's two sons, to the destruction of the Spanish city of Numantia by the Romans and the annihilation of Hollywood by Acapulco, Fuentues couples the epic grandeur of the spiritual and the historical with the many pleasures of the flesh. In The Orange Tree, he remarks, "I gather together not only all my most immediate sensual pleasures - I see, touch, peel, bite, swallow - but also the most primordial sensations: my mother, wet nurses, breasts, the sphere, the world, the egg." The result is a sensitive exploration of cultural conflict that is also a feast for the senses.

Members Reviews:

Review of The Orange Tree

In his first work of fiction, The Orange Tree , Martin R. Ganzglass tells of experiences about two aspects of our lives. The first is one which most of us identify: the two wage-earning, middle class American family trying, simultaneously, to provide comfort and support to their parents while bringing up their own children within the American society and their religious background (in this case Judaism). Such are the common and widespread challenges imposed upon this group that the term "the sandwiched generation" has come to describe their lifestyle. But perhaps because they realize that satisfaction and pride often emanates from seeing their "sandwiched" challenges through, they do not feel their lives are put upon more than others.

The other aspect of life is more foreboding, exhibiting the darker side of humanity, and over which little control is available to individuals. In The Orange Tree these types of experiences are viewed through descriptions of vicious anti-Semitism, emerging after 1881 in Eastern Europe and Russia, resulting in harsh physical attacks on Jewish communities in those areas, and ultimately, the Nazi monstrous plan of Jewish elimination by murder. The parents, grandparents and great grandparents of both the husband and wife of the story (the Farbers), suffered from these events, which caused these hardy souls to leave their native homes and travel to America by various routes, enduring many hardships and life threatening situations .

These sadder parts of life as described in the book, however, were not limited to the Farber's. They also engulfed the parents of Amina who were killed in Somalia amid its terrible tribal warfare. Hatred, it appears, is universal. But the book fights against the inevitability of people doing bad things to other people by telling the story of humane actions by individuals to other individuals.

Amina, born in Somalia, is a woman from the Muslim tradition. Partly because of her failed marriage, which occurred outside of her Faith, and her obligations in bringing up her daughter, she became more observant and also determined to better her living conditions. So, starting as a Nurse's Assistant, she finds employment in the Hebrew Nursing Home in Rockville, Maryland, while contemplating additional education to advance herself to a RN.

It is in the Hebrew Nursing Home that her assigned duties brought her to the care of Aunt Helen, the aunt of Mr. Farber.

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Titel: Morgen kommt ein neuer Himmel

Autor:: Lori Nelson Spielman

Erzähler: Anja Stadlober

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 04-16-14

Herausgeber: Argon Verlag

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 2 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Elizabeth weiß, dass sie sterben wird. Und sie weiß auch, dass ihre 34-jährige Tochter Brett nicht glücklich ist. Brett hat einen erfolgreichen Freund, einen sicheren Job und eine schicke Wohnung - aber was ist mit ihren wahren Lebenszielen? Was ist mit all den Träumen, die sie einst gehegt hat und deren Erfüllung das Leben lebenswert macht?

Elizabeth hinterlässt ihrer Tochter Briefe. Briefe, die Brett dazu aufrufen, ihre Träume nicht aufzugeben und ihr Leben in die Hand zu nehmen - denn nur sie selbst kann es ändern.

©2014 S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (P)2014 Argon Verlag GmbH

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Träumerisch

Die Autorin scheint Geschichten zu lieben, in denen sich Menschen weg vom Materialismus bewegen, um in ihrem Leben das zu finden, was wirklich zählt (auch bei "Und nebenan warten die Sterne"). Das ist immer schön zu lesen (oder zu hören), besonders wenn man sich gerade in einer Stimmung befindet, in der man etwas Zuspruch und Hoffnung gebrauchen kann.

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Title: The Interloper

Author: Antoine Wilson

Narrator: Andre Montgomery

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A novel about obsession that makes for obsessive reading.

All Owen Patterson wants is an normal life, a happy marriage, and a stable family. But following the brutal and random murder of his brother-in-law, that dream is shattered. A year later, his wife is still in mourning and his in-laws won't talk about anything but their dead son.

The murderer, Henry Joseph Raven, has been put in prison, but as far as Owen is concerned, prison isnt punishment enough. He embarks on a quest to "balance the scales of justice," writing letters to Henry Raven under the pseudonym Lily Hazelton. His plan: To seduce the murderer, make him fall in love with his fictional correspondent, and then break his heart. From one letter to the next, Lily Hazelton develops into a curious amalgam of details from Owens imagination, snatches of his difficult childhood, and memories of his cousin Eileen, a suicide who was his first true love. Not entirely in control of his own creation, Owen dives headfirst into the correspondence, only to find himself caught in the trap hes set for Henry Raven.

Bringing together an epistolary game of cat and mouse with the harrowing record of one mans psychological collapse, The Interloper is a compelling and original debut from a bold new writer.

Critic Reviews:

"As assured and sumptuously written as any first novel Ive encounteredAntoine Wilsons prose sings, and the story he tells here is both clever and compelling. This is writing at its very best." (T. Coraghessan Boyle)

Members Reviews:

I was totally engaged.

At first I struggled with the choppy narration of audio book, but was able to get past it due to the brilliant storytelling. I imagined several endings as I neared the conclusion, but am satisfied with the author's ending. Very well-done.

Silly, Twisted, and Funny

The concept of "The Interloper" is about the main character writing to the murderer of his brother in-law's killer, but instead writing as himself, he pretends to be a chick and they start to become pen pals. A little twisted and silly at the same time, but totally funny moments on how Owen develop this woman for the inmate and trying to break his heart to get revenge for the mourning family.

As you understand Owen, you will realize that he is just another ordinary guy, writing computer manuals for a living. He has another side of him (which we all have), that want to explore his quirkiness.

It is not something that I would read during the week, but as for weekend entertainment, just to lounge around, it was fast pace and fun. The last few hours of this audiobook is just freakin' hilarious.

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Title: October

Author: Zoe Wicomb

Narrator: Lisette Lecat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Mercia Murray is a woman of fifty-two years who has been left. Abandoned by her partner in Scotland, where she has been living for twenty-five years, Mercia returns to her homeland of South Africa to find her family overwhelmed by alcoholism and secrets. Poised between her life in Scotland and her life in South Africa, she recollects the past with a keen sense of irony as she searches for some idea of home.

In Scotland, her life feels unfamiliar; her apartment sits empty. In South Africa, her only brother is a shell of his former self, pushing her away. And yet in both places she is needed, if only she could understand what for. Plumbing the emotional limbo of a woman who is isolated and torn from her roots, October is a stark and utterly compelling novel about the contemporary experience of an intelligent immigrant, adrift among her memories and facing an uncertain middle age.

Members Reviews:

Tedious , slow, frustrating

I tried to get through it since the narrator is extremely talented - the story has several descriptions of child abuse and animal abuse that made it impossible - very disappointing

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Title: Damage Control

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Amber Dermont

Narrator: Eliza Aaron Foss, Danielle Ferland, David Aaron Baker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the best-selling author of The Starboard Sea Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In " Lyndon", a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In "Damage Control", a young man works at an etiquette school while his girlfriend is indicted for embezzlement. A widow rents herself to elderly women and vacations with them as a "professional grandchild" in " Stella at the Winter Palace". And in " The Language of Martyrs" a couple houses a mail-order bride on behalf of the husband's Russian mother.

Dermont's stories have previously been published in many literary magazines and have also been featured in anthologies edited by Jane Smiley and Dave Eggers. Damage Control includes three previously unpublished pieces.

Members Reviews:

Fourplay

Amber Dermont's generous collection of stories, fourteen in all, showed up in the March 24 issue of the New York Times Book Review as worthy of note among a host of books "written by first or second time authors ... new to the scene..." I chose it among the others because because twelve of the stories are written in the first person. And so they are, several by sexually self-confident women, ages fourteen and up, who know, or quickly learn their way around.

Take "Afternoon in the Museum of Childhood" for example. Amanda, fifteen years old when she tells the story, sets the stage by telling us that, "More than nine months ago, I was abducted from our home in the desert. She escapes, her abductor, she calls him "Messiah", is arrested and imprisoned awaiting trial while Amanda's parents take her to Scotland -- they are related to Robert Louis Stevenson -- to recover from her traumatic experience. But was it? Her Mom wants to know, but Amanda isn't telling. But she wants her mother to understand That I was quiet, studious, and desperate to do wrong" before she was taken.

Genie, the twenty-six-year old narrator of "Sorry, You Are Not a Winner", sexually accomplished by the summer between her junior and senior years in high school, makes her living cleaning apartments for the nouveau riche. Mainly bachelors, but never professional women because they "feel guilty about hiring help, and in turn, compensate for their guilt with criticism." Matt, her "accidental fairy godfather" who has "set me up with my own roster of cleaning clients," is an off and on lover. When he learns that his date for a big party Genie is helping him prepare for can't make it, he asks Genie to step in. She does. And how, she is the runner-up in the Connect Four contest (see end note), defeating Matt's current lover in the process, and steals the show in other ways.

"Number One Tuna", told by a man required by circumstance to live with his college roommate's astounding and rapid climb to the near top in Hollywood, pivots on the useful insight provided at the outset: "Malcolm and I stayed in touch only because each of us was privately convinced that the other deserved to fail." It's a good line, a grabber, one that makes you want to read the story.

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Titel: Zone One

Autor:: Colson Whitehead

Erzähler: David Nathan

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 5 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-03-14

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

Bewertung: 1 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

New York nach der Apokalypse: Es gibt nur noch zwei Sorten von Menschen, Nicht-Infizierte und Infizierte, die als Zombies ihr Unwesen treiben. In Zone One, dem südlichen Teil von Manhattan, soll Mark Spitz, ein Held von konkurrenzloser Mittelmäßigkeit, mit einem Trupp Zivilisten die Zombies bekämpfen und die Menschheit retten. Doch ist er vielleicht selbst schon einer von ihnen?

Colson Whitehead hat eine grandiose Persiflage des Horror-Genres geschrieben, in der sich Trash-Talk mit feinstem Humor verbindet, ein Porträt der Megapole New York - wie sie werden könnte oder bereits schon ist.

©2014 Hanser Verlag (P)2014 Random House Audio

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Title: Whit

Author: Iain Banks

Narrator: Helen McAlpine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-14

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing....

Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four-yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold.

But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon... Truth and falsehood; kinship and betrayal; 'herbal' cigarettes and compact discs - Whit is an exploration of the techno-ridden barrenness of modern Britain from a unique perspective.

Members Reviews:

Haggis pakora and a slow reveal...

I've read many Iain Banks novels, but this is the first audiobook of his work that I've listened to. The story, which I won't re-hash here, follows a familiar Banks theme of a first person narrator faced with a challenge or mystery and coming to a striking realisation that things are not as they had assumed. The reveal, in the last few chapters, is deeply satisfying. One of his best.

Helen McAlpine's narration is excellent. From Isis Whit's posh Scots to Glaswegian, Texan, Jamaican and estuary Essex accents she barely falters, although I did think that Great Aunt Zhobelia's mix of Indian sub-continent and Harris Scots sounded a little like she was from the Welsh valleys, but that's really nitpicking. The effect is that it's always clear who is speaking.

Overall, this was really excellent. I was sad when I had finished it. You'll need to listen to it yourself to learn about the Haggis pakora though.

I couldn't get into the main character

I found Helen McAlphine's narration of the story really worked and brought the main character to life.

Unfortunately this is one of a small number of Ian Bank's novels that left me cold and struggling to stick with it. I could not find any real engagement with the characters or the storyline and nearly gave up several times.

Excellent

The story is full of twists and intrigues and very well performed, but it is the quality of the writing that gets the fifth star.

Typically quirky for Iain Banks

Would you try another book written by Iain Banks or narrated by Helen McAlpine?

Probably not. The setting was barely believable and the transformation of the main character unbelievable.

If youve listened to books by Iain Banks before, how does this one compare?

Did not have the end at the beginning so started out better, but if it had I would not have gone on.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Female voices were great. The male voices far from it.

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

Certainly not.

I really enjoyed this

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

I have e not read the print version but really enjoyed the narration in the audio version.

What did you like best about this story?

I enjoyed Whits journey and development, I thought she was an interesting character and was sad when the book came to an end.

What about Helen McAlpines performance did you like?

Helen has a very nice voice with a lovely tone and accent.

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Title: Bingo's Run

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: James A. Levine

Narrator: Peter Macon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

For fans of DaveEggers, Teju Cole, and James McBride comes this extraordinary novel of morality and the redemptive powers of art that offers a glimpse into an African underworld rarely described in fiction.

Meet Bingo, the greatest drug runner in the slums of Kibera, Nairobi, and maybe the world. A teenage grifter, often mistaken for a younger boy, he faithfully serves Wolf, the drug lord of Kibera. Bingo spends his days throwing rocks at Krazi Hari, the prophet of Kibera's garbage mound; "lipping" safari tourists of their cash; and hanging out with his best friend, Slo-George, a taciturn fellow whose girth is a mystery to Bingo in a place where there is never enough food. Bingo earns his keep by running "white" to a host of clients, including Thomas Hunsa, a reclusive artist whose paintings, rooted in African tradition, move him. But when Bingo witnesses a drug-related murder and Wolf sends him to an orphanage for "protection," Bingo's life changes, and he learns that life itself is the "run."

A modern trickster tale that draws on African folklore, Bingo'sRun is a wildly original, often very funny, and always moving story of a boy alone in a corrupt and dangerous world who must depend on his wits and inner resources to survive.

Members Reviews:

A gorgeous perfect book

Sometimes a book is so great that I don't feel worthy to review it. I don't have the words to describe how amazing this story is, but to make sure as many people as possible enjoy it, I'll try.

I LOVED Bingo. He's edgy, and dirt-on-the-floor real, and so smart, and funny. Sometimes he's funny on purpose, and sometimes he's funny because he's so smart but yet knows so little.

The story is perfectly paced and is a human, emotional story that also keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Often it's the characters around the main character that actual make a story great. In this case, it's how Bingo relates to each one that makes the story so rich. His descriptions and perceptions of people around him give an insight that cuts straight to their soul. You get an intimate view of the other characters while being barely introduced. It's very powerful.

The last quarter of the book was exhausting. I held my breath, and didn't want it to end, and then really wanted to know how it ended, and dreaded the ending, and cheered, and laughed out loud. I sat holding perfectly still and cherished every word of the last chapter. Seriously, it's that good, it's that special.

I loved the narrator after he spoke 2 words. Macon is perfect. His accent is enchanting, and I especially loved his voice for the priest.

Stop what you are doing and buy this book.

Bingo is the best runner!

I used a credit because I am going back to Kenya and thought this would be a good and fun read prior to my trip. It is a fun read but is sobering. Bingo is a character that stays with you and breaks your heart. The story is fast paced and the descriptions makes Kibera come alive - you can see the trash heap and smell the stench. Levine develops characters through Bingo's eyes and it really works well. Peter Macon is the perfect voice for Bingo. It is a great listen and credit worthy. Jumbo!