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Title: Ghost Stories to Tell in the Dark

Author: Anthony Masters

Narrator: Brian Bascle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The storm rages. They huddle closer round the flames as the wind howls in the night. Another ghost story begins. But is the old house really deserted, or is something screaming in the darkness? Do you dare to find out?

Anthony Masters is the author of eleven works of adult fiction - notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) - and, prior to his death, was in the process of completing another, Dark Bridges, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry deep insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other ethnic minorities. Masters is also known for his eclectic range of non-fiction titles. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the Father of Anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: A Life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalized by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the Life of Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam, 1977).

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Title: Carolina Moon

Author: Jill McCorkle

Narrator: Margaret Daly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Energetic, voluptuous, and well past sixty, Queen Mary Purdy opens a smoke-enders clinic in the resort town of Fulton, North Carolina. Her unorthodox approach (aroma therapy? Massage?) provides much grist for the rumor mill.

But Quee's new venture is the least of the many scandals brewing in Fulton: a happily married woman entrusts her illicit secrets to a dead letter file; a mad-as-hell property owner seeks revenge for his recently-submerged investment; a radio talk show host longs to hit the big time, by any means. Quee knows these folks need help with more than their nicotine fits, and their troubles are all tied to that resilient little muscle known as the heart.

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Title: Into the Light

Author: Darcia Helle

Narrator: Paul Fleschner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-13

Publisher: Darcia Helle

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Max Paddington refuses to go into the light until he finds his killer. This presents a dilemma, since Max is even less competent as a spirit than he was as a live person. No one sees or hears him and he can't manage to get anywhere or do anything on his own. Joe Cavelli is a private investigator, living an ordinary life.

Then one day he walks across a parking lot, gets yelled at by a ghost, and his life only gets stranger from there. Max and Joe team up to find Max's killer. In the process, they form an unlikely friendship and change each other's lives in ways they never expected.

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Title: Quiet As They Come

Author: Angie Chau

Narrator: Chantal Tran Thuy, Freda Foh, Caroline Shen, VyVy Do, Thuc Hanh Nguyen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Quiet As They Come is a beautiful and at times brutal portrait of a people caught between two cultures. Set in San Francisco from the 1980s to the present day, this debut collection explores the lives of several families of Vietnamese immigrants as they struggle to adjust to life in their new country, often haunted by the memories and customs of their old lives in Vietnam. While some are able to survive and assimilate, others are crushed by the promise of the "American Dream". No matter their fate, you will never be able to forget the people you meet in this remarkable collection.

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Title: The Life You've Imagined

Author: Kristina Riggle

Narrator: Tess Malis Kincaid

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From Kristina Riggle, author of the brilliant debut Real Life & Liars, comes The Life Youve Imagined, an astonishing new novel about love, loss, life, and hope. Its the story of four former high school friends who are forced to examine what happened to their high school dreams which are now at odds with their grown-up reality.

Critic Reviews:

A richly woven story laced with unforgettable characters.A beautiful book. (Therese Walsh, author of The Last Will of Moira Leahy)

The Life Youve Imagined is a terrific novel about love and loss, letting go and holding on. A book to share with family and friends - I loved it. (Melissa Senate, author of The Secret of Joy)

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Titre: Home

Auteur: Toni Morrison

Narrateur: Anna Mouglalis

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 04-04-13

Éditeur: Audiolib

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Amérique 1950 : le "White only" s'applique partout : bus, hôtels, culture ; pour un soldat noir, voyager d'un Etat à l'autre est une odyssée. C'est dans un pays au bord de l'implosion que, de retour de la guerre de Corée, Frank Money, miné par de terribles crises d'angoisse et une incapacité totale à renouer avec les autres, reçoit un appel au secours de sa sœur gravement malade, lui demandant de venir à Atlanta. Il se lance alors dans la traversée de cette Amérique ségrégationniste pour la ramener à Lotus, ville de leur enfance. Un voyage emblématique vers ce lieu fantasmé comme détesté, aimé et subi, durant lequel Franck Money se redécouvrira pour se reconstruire.

Toni Morrison fait de ce roman, condensé au vitriol de la mémoire honteuse de cette époque, un miroir tendu à l'Amérique d'aujourd'hui.

Approuvée par l'auteure elle-même, Anna Mouglalis donne au roman de Toni Morrison ce mélange de gravité et de sérénité qui en font déjà un texte mémorial.

L'auteure

est née en 1931 à Lorain (Ohio) dans une famille ouvrière de quatre enfants. Après des études de lettres et une thèse sur le thème du suicide dans l'oeuvre de William Faulkner et de Virginia Woolf, elle fait une carrière de professeur aux universités de Texas Southern, Howard et Princeton à partir de 1989. Après avoir travaillé chez Random House, elle obtient en 1988 le prix Pulitzer avec

. C'est en 1993 que le prix Nobel de littérature lui est décerné.

La narratrice

Après un bref passage par la Fémis,

rentre au prestigieux Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris et a pour professeur Daniel Mesguich. Sa carrière théâtrale et son goût pour les films d'auteur ne l'empêchent pas d'incarner de grandes figures féminines comme Juliette Gréco, Simone de beauvoir et Coco Chanel. Karl Lagerfeld la choisit pour être l'égérie de la marque Chanel. Au cinéma, on l'a vue dans Merci pour le chocolat, Romanzo criminale, J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster, Mammuth.

©2012 Toni Morrison; 2012 Christian Bourgeois éditeur, pour la traduction française. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Christine Laferrière (P)2013 Audiolib

Revues par les critiques:

A propos de ce titre

Grand Prix du livre audio La Plume de Paon : La Plume d'Or 2014.

La presse en parle

"Sous son écriture parfaite de maîtrise, volontairement accessible et musicale, Home est un livre social, une manière littéraire et subtile d'articuler classe, race et genre, (...)."

Sylvain Bourmeau, Libération

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Title: The Last King of Lydia

Author: Tim Leach

Narrator: Christian Rodska

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A defeated king stands on top of a pyre. His conqueror, the Persian ruler Cyrus, signals to his guards; they step forward and touch flaming torches to the dry wood. Croesus, once the wealthiest man of the ancient world, is to be burned alive. As he watches the flames catch, Croesus thinks back over his life. He remembers the time he asked the old Athenian philosopher, Solon, who was the happiest man in the world.

Croesus used to think it was him. But then all his riches could not remove the spear from his dying elder son's chest; could not bring his mute younger son to speak; could not make him as wise as his own chief slave; could not bring his wife's love back; could not prevent his army from being torn apart and his kingdom lost. As the old philosopher had replied, a man's happiness can only be measured when he is dead. The first coils of smoke wrap around Croesus' neck like a noose...

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Title: As Sweet as Honey

Author: Indira Ganesan

Narrator: Meetu Chilana

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In her latest novel, Indira Ganesan, a writer often likened to Arundhati Roy and Chitra Divakaruni, gives us an enchanting story of family life that is a dance of love and grief and rebirth set on a gorgeous island in the Indian Ocean.

The island is filled with exotic flora and fauna and perfumed air. A large family compound is presided over by a benign, stalwart grandmother. There is a very tall South Asian heroine with the astonishing un-Indian name of Meterling, who has found love at last in the shape of a short, round, elegant Englishman who wears white suits. There are also numerous aunts, uncles, and young cousins - among them, Mina, grown now, and telling this story of a marriage ceremony that ends with a widowed bride who, in the midst of her grief, discovers she is pregnant. While enjoying their own games and growing pains, Mina and her young cousins follow every nuance of gossip, trying to puzzle out what is going on with their favorite aunt, particularly when the grooms cousin arrives from England and begins to woo her. As Meterling - torn between Eastern and Western ideas of love and family, duty and loyalty - struggles to make a new life, we become as entranced with this family, its adventures and complications, as Mina is.

And with her we celebrate a time and place where, although sometimes difficult, life was for the most part as sweet as honey.

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Title: The Cutting Edge

Author: Darcia Helle

Narrator: Johanna Fairview

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-13

Publisher: Darcia Helle

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

My name is Skye Summers. I'm a hairstylist and I can't stop fantasizing about killing my clients. Not all of them, of course. I only want to kill the ones who irritate me, which, if I'm being honest, is most of them. My occasional fantasies have turned into chronic daydreams. They're bloody and vivid, like watching a slice-and-dice movie on IMAX.

I also want to kill my husband's ex-girlfriend. She's not a client but she tops my list. Eighteen years ago, she gave birth to his daughter and she has tormented him ever since. I should be troubled by this growing desire to use my surgically sharpened shears for more than a haircut. Instead, I wonder how I can get away with it.

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Title: Joy

Author: Jonathan Lee

Narrator: Mandy Weston, Rupert Farley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Did she jump? Did she fall? Will she wake? On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets forty feet onto a marble floor. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of those closest to her begin to collide and change in unexpected ways. There is Dennis, her disgraced husband, who finds consolation in books; her colleague Peter, whose refuge is a mix of hedonism and hard work; Barbara, Joy's prickly PA, who'd be content if only she could get away to New York; and Samir, Joy's hygiene-obsessed personal trainer, who escapes into exercise routines and other, stranger rituals. In a sparkling glass office in London's Square Mile - a place bursting with flirtations, water cooler confrontations and dangerous amounts of abject boredom - each of them is forced to question what they've witnessed, and to face past moments that have defined Joy's life, as well as their own.

Jonathan Lee was born in 1981 and lives in London. His first novel, Who is Mr Satoshi?, was nominated for the Desmond Elliot Prize 2011 and shortlisted for an MJA Open Book Award 2011. The BBC's Culture Show programme recently featured him as being one of Britain's 'best new novelists'.

Critic Reviews:

A brilliant book... Jonathan Lee is one of those rare, agile writers who can take your breath away. (Catherine Oflynn, author of What Was Lost)

With its supple prose, ingenious structure, wit and slow-burn sympathy, Joy is a sly miracle of a novel. (A.D. Miller)

Exquisitely and surprisingly written.[Joy] proves that Lee is a significant talent and that his future work should be well worth awaiting. (Observer)

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