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Title: In Free Fall

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Juli Zeh, Christine Lo (translator)

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A child is kidnapped but does not know it. One man dies, two physicists fight, and a senior constable falls in love. In the end, everything is different...yet exactly the same.

A rising star who has garnered some of Europe's most important literary prizes, Juli Zeh has established herself as the new master of the philosophical thriller. With In Free Fall, she now takes us on a fast-paced ride through deadly rivalry and loves infinite configurations.

Against the backdrop of Germany and Switzerland, two physicists begin a dangerous dance of distrust. Friends since their university days, when they were aspiring Nobel Prize candidates, they now interact in an atmosphere of tension, stoked by Oskar's belief that Sebastian fell into mediocrity by having a family. When Sebastian's son, Liam, is apparently kidnapped, their fragile friendship is further tested. Entrusted with uncovering the truth, Detective Superintendent Schilf discerns a web of blackmail, while at the same time the reality of his personal life falls into doubt.

Unfolding in a series of razor-sharp scenes, In Free Fall is a riveting novel of ideas from a major new literary voice. With the recent success of works in translation, such as Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire, Zeh is poised to take off.

Critic Reviews:

"The theoretical physics concept known as the Many-Worlds Interpretation, in which everything that is at all possible exists somewhere, forms the backdrop for Zeh's second novel, an engrossing if enigmatic story of a murder and its aftermath....Erudite digressions and vivid characterssuch as a detective with a trusting nature who learns always to assume the opposite of what she was thinkingcombine with a devastating 11th-hour reveal to make a memorable intellectual thriller." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Mixed.

A good story, but a little too much esoteric philosophizing. And I usually like that sort of thing.

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Title: The Cave Man

Author: Xaoda Xiao

Narrator: James Chen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The Cave Man is an extraordinary and moving portrait of a man brutalized in Maos China, stripped of his most basic human faculties and emotions.

The story begins as Ja Feng is contained within a three-foot by four-and-one-half-foot solitary confinement cell in a prison camp. He has survived this punishment for a miraculous nine months, a period of time that has forced him to question his most basic thoughts and perceptions.

The Cave Man follows Ja Feng once he is released from his solitary confinement, as he is forced to integrate with fellow prisoners who view his skeletal figure and erratic screaming fits as freakish, and as he makes heartbreaking attempts to assimilate into Chinese culture, reestablish familial bonds, and seek out an ordinary human experience.

Critic Reviews:

"Sometimes the survivors of oppression are able to speak up, to slip in a story or two of their own. The Cave Man by Xiaoda Xiao is one of those stories. The Cave Man is not an easy book to forget... a heartbreaking story of the struggle of an individual trying to assimilate back into a society that should welcome his willingness to conform, but instead forces him again and again back into isolation." (The Brooklyn Rail)

"[A] crushing debut. The book meanders through years and across continents in a life that is heroic in its resiliency. It's an excellent and moving novel. (Publisher's Weekly)

Members Reviews:

an insight to another world

Forget current affairs and dry historical non fiction, if you want to learn about the modern Chinese mindset and where it comes from then this is the book for you. Brilliant in its simplicity.

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Title: Equal Affections

Author: David Leavitt

Narrator: Suzanne Torren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

An elaboration of some of David Leavitt's early stories, Equal Affections - his second novel - is about the family of a woman, Louise Cooper, who is dying of cancer. The family has other problems: Nat, Louise's husband, is having an affair; her daughter April, a lesbian with a thriving career as a singer, finds herself pregnant; and her son, Danny, also gay, is worried about his lover's commitment to him. Leavitt's novel is a rich delineation of family life in all its complexity at the end of the 20th-century.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of David Leavitt's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

Critic Reviews:

"Leavitt is able to demonstrate his . . . talent for empathy, his ability to write persuasively about highly emotional issues." (New York Times)

"In understated, perfectly targeted prose, Leavitt illuminates the ordinariness of his characters, giving them and their sorrows and joys a long-lasting afterglow." (Publishers Weekly)

"A compassionate, moving work." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Brilliant reading.

A woman reading a male author's story absolutely brilliantly. Voices are remarkable except for the masculine characterisations which tend to sound a bit too similar. But I recommend it wholeheartedly. Full of heart and compassion. What a second novel!

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Title: Electric Literature No. 3

Author: Aimee Bender, Rick Moody, Patrick deWitt, Jenny Offill, Matt Sumell

Narrator: Matthew Korahais, Katya Schapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-10

Publisher: Electric Literature

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Electric Literature is a quarterly anthology of short stories with a strong voice that capture readers and listeners and lead them somewhere exciting, unexpected, and meaningful.

In this third anthology, Aimee Bender introduces us to a young woman unable to summon the desire to sleep with her husband without payment in cash. Matt Sumell's protagonist feels capable of anything but can save no one. Rick Moody charts the rise an fall of a romance via Twitter. Patrick deWitt presents a bleak, funny tale of two movers who are going nowhere. And Jenny Offill chronicles the awkward vigil of a man caring for his terminally ill ex-wife.

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Titel: Der Tod des Bunny Munro

Autor:: Nick Cave

Erzähler: Blixa Bargeld

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-16-09

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Während Bunny Senior also seinem Job nachgeht und vor eifersüchtigen Ehemännern flieht, sitzt Bunny Junior im Auto und versucht, dem Geist seiner Mutter zu glauben, dass alles gut wird. Doch als Bunny seinen alten Vater aufsucht, die Boshaftigkeit in Person, hat seine Stunde scheinbar geschlagen.

Kritik Bewertungen:

Ein düsteres Audio-Roadmovie zwischen Melancholie und Coolness.

-- Musik.woche

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Title: Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Rafael Yglesias

Narrator: David Dukes

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil is a powerful breakthrough, as intimate as it is sprawling, as thought-provoking as it is utterly entertaining. An American literary phenomenon who published his first novel at age 16, Rafael Yglesias' most recent book Fearless was an enormous critical success that later became an acclaimed movie.

Members Reviews:

mixed feelings

This is several stories told in three parts. First, the therapist's childhood. Which includes his history and that of the members of his maternal and paternal families. Second, the early life of his key patient. This time frame also covers the therapist's personal love stories. Finally, the aftermath of the key patient's treatment, and the stories of how the therapist inserts himself into the lives of those who surrounded the key patient.

It sounds convoluted. But it's really well told; I couldn't put it down, finishing nearly 700 pages in two days. The writing is superb, the psychology fascinating, the characters believable. To a point. My personal mixed feelings were this: I found that the therapist was too genius (and the people around him too patently "diagnosed" perhaps) and therefore unlikely. This almost wasn't a huge problem, but it kept stopping me dead and pulling me out of the narrative. Perhaps it was an intentional irony on the author's part, to make the therapist the biggest narcissist of all?

Ultimately, it didn't matter. I devoured this book and can't wait to read more from this author.

Very well written

Very well written story told by a psychiatrist narrator. I enjoyed it tremendously, but it did get very weird at the end.

Different, worth reading, don't hope for too much at end

I reviewed it on Goodreads, but will say a quick word: I really enjoyed it a lot for the majority of the story (and it was a very long book); but, toward the end, I was losing that sense of "willing suspension of disbelief", and was hugely disappointed in the ending. There was so much potential in the story, and I felt like the author just quit at the end. I am no critic, but I really hoped for more at the end.

This is a very interesting book, especially if you ...

This is a very interesting book, especially if you are interested in psychology. I don't agree with some of it but maybe that's what makes it interesting. Well written but long.

Enjoying the book but...

Editing errors crop up in Kindle editions from time to time but the ONE in this edition is driving me a little nuts. EVERY single time the word 'get' shows up it is in italics. So you are happily reading along and this sort of thing happens. "...as we walked out the back way to GET a coke." It trips you up and right out of the flow of the book. Please someone - fix it.

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Title: The Lieutenant

Author: Kate Grenville

Narrator: Tom Hollander

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-09

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

By 1788, Daniel has become Lieutenant Rooke, astronomer with the First Fleet as it lands on the unknown shores of New South Wales. As the newcomers struggle to establish a settlement for themselves and their cargo of convicts, and attempts are made to communicate with those who already inhabit this land, Rooke sets up his observatory to chart the stars.

But the place where they have landed will prove far more revelatory than the night sky. Out on his isolated point, Rooke comes to know the local Aboriginal people, and forges a remarkable connection with one child, which will change his life in ways he never imagined.

Based on real events, Kate Grenville's stunning new novel conveys the poignancy and emotional power of an extraordinary friendship, and how through it a man might find himself: a story that resonates across the oceans and across the centuries.

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

The first and third book of the trilogy are great. This one s little boring

Strong story, beautiful perspectives

The vision, imagery and emotional connections in this book were stunning. However, I get the feeling that this book just slightly missed the mark on its way to being a classic.

I found some of the more extraneous characters almost a little jejune, that is to say they didn't seem to click well into the Lieutenants story. Whilst still a fantastic read I feel a little deflated in that this book didn't quite live up to its full potential. Despite the well achieved ending, I was left baffled by some of the simplistically defined motivators for his choices.

Still a great book and worth a read.

A disappointment

The lead character is painfully meticulous and detailed and Kate has tried to do the same with the book. It was so painful that I gave up halfway through because it wasn't getting anywhere. It's a shame as I loved Secret River and its sequel but I couldn't recommend this.

too many words

As the Emperor told Mozart ---"there are too many notes" so too with this book----too many words. This is the weakest of this brilliant author's books on the settlement of Australia. Her descriptions of winds, skies, bodies of water, landscape and her pages of the protaganist's thoughts, feelings,internal ruminations seem to go on and on. Not too much of a story here. The most interesting parts are the protagonist's interactions with the natives in an effort to learn their language. However, if you are interested in early Australian history, as I am, it is worth a read.

A book that I was glad to finish

I found it an interesting subject matter, but I did not find it a satisfying book to read. A lot of aboriginal "words" to read and a very big jump in imagination as to how he understood them. Last part of story where he ended in Batavia left me a little bewildered. A book that I was glad to finish.

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Titel: Zeiten des Glücks

Autor:: Anthony de Mello

Erzähler: Hans-Peter Bögel

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 4 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-03-09

Herausgeber: Verlag Herder

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Zum Glück gibt es Anthony de Mello: Geschichten für alle Lebenslagen. Heitere, fröhliche und tiefe Weisheiten, die die Seele verwandeln. Und ein Geschenk, das jeden Tag verzaubert.

(p) + (c) 2008 Kreuz Verlag in der Verlagsgruppe Dornier GmbH

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Title: The Mammoth Cheese

Author: Sheri Holman

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The cheese is the brainchild of August Vaughn, a farmhand by day and a President Jefferson impersonator by night, and the creation of Margaret Prickett, a single mother and cheese maker trying to save her century-old family farm. As Margaret slips deeper into debt and desperation, her 13-year-old daughter, Polly, slides closer to an inappropriate relationship with her radical, attentive history teacher.

Members Reviews:

Not as riveting as I had hoped

This may be interesting but the narrator's voice changes were at times did more to distract than add.

Not interesting or exciting

I found this book to be lackluster and quite boring. The plot was tedious and overwritten. The book never drew me in, I never felt like I was in the story. In the end, I just wanted to be done with the book and forget I ever read it.

Give this one a miss

I picked this book up at a Book Exchange and took a gamble on it since it was a hard-cover book without the slip cover to give any information on what the book was about. It turned out to be a disappointment, but I managed to get through it to the end.

Fortunately, the 2nd half had more substance, but it wasn't enough to save this book. It is a discombobulated story about a woman who delivered 11 children after fertility drugs. Add in a woman who is about to lose her farm and along the way discovers that the man she has taken for granted for 13 years may be more than a friend.

Top this off with a new President being elected and the community deciding to reenact delivering a "mammoth cheese" to him. Too absurd to really explain.

Would give this book a miss!

Diana Young- World Traveler - currently sailing in the South Pacific for six month and #1 Amazon Best-selling author of Financial Fitness for Beginners.

breathtaking read

What do Thomas Jefferson impersonators, cheesemakers, cows, drug-induced multiple births, and presidential elections have to do with each other? Everything, if you read this remarkable novel. I had this book for a number of years and didn't read it because the title just didn't appeal to me. I bought it because I loved the author's previous novel, "The Dress Lodger". I am happy to say, I loved this book as much as her previous ones. I am amazed at her range of writing with such authority of different locales and even time periods. Her talent for description from everything from a piece of hail bouncing off from an umbrella to the interior of a dairy barn are so refined and beautiful that I feel I was actually living in some of the scenes. I especially enjoy reading a book that makes you work a little appreciate all the nuances of the writer. I loved this book, the characters, the story, and the magnificent prose of this gifted author. I read for many reasons, but this author makes me realize that one of the main reasons is the pure enchantment of old-time story telling, done by a master craftsman.

Penance Reading

Offer it up for the souls in Purgatory. That's the only reason to finish this book. The main character, Margaret, is beyond quirky. Maggie is one of those delusional characters who seem to be drawn from the symptoms list in a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In fact, every character in the book is quirky in a "Northern Exposure" way - interesting for a bit, not increasingly annoying as the book continues.

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Titel: Small World

Autor:: Martin Suter

Erzähler: Dietmar Mues

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 6 hrs and 27 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-11-08

Herausgeber: Diogenes Verlag AG

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 2 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der Autor:

Martin Suter wurde 1948 in Zürich geboren und ist Schriftsteller, Kolumnist und Drehbuchautor. Bis 1991 verdiente er sein Geld als Werbetexter und Creative Director, bis er sich ausschließlich fürs Schreiben entschied. 1997 erschien sein erster Roman "Small World". Es folgten "Die dunkle Seite des Mondes", "Ein perfekter Freund", "Lila, Lila" und "Der Teufel von Mailand". Sämtliche Romane waren auch international große Erfolge. Seine Kolumne "Business Class" für die Schweizer "Weltwoche" und das "Magazin" der Tamedia und die Geschichten um Geri Weibel für das "NZZ-Folio", ebenfalls im Diogenes Verlag veröffentlicht, erfreuen sich großer Beliebtheit. Martin Suter lebt mit seiner Familie in Spanien und Guatemala.

Der Sprecher

Dietmar Mues, geboren 1945 in Dresden, hat an verschiedenen Theatern in Deutschland gespielt und gehörte 12 Jahre zum Ensemble des Hamburger Schauspielhauses. Seit 1986 ist er als freier Schauspieler und Drehbuchautor tätig. Er hat in vielen Film- und Fernsehproduktionen mitgespielt. Daneben spricht Dietmar Mues Rundfunk- und Fernsehfeatures, Hörbücher und Hörspiele und veranstaltet eigene Theater-Leseabende, z. B. über Karl May. Er lebt in Hamburg.

Kritik Bewertungen:

Ich schreibe nur, was ich selbst gerne lesen würde. Daß ich meinen Geschmack mit so vielen anderen Lesern teile, ist Glück.

--Kleine Zeitung

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Some people thought this one sucked or was a big letdown and the band forgot ...

Some people thought this one sucked or was a big letdown and the band forgot how to rock and roll after the last two Huey albums . I disagree. I saw them back in May 2017 and they put on a great show. This one is a little more mellow, a little jazzier and there is a hint of both Fore and Sports in some of the songs and shows where the band wanted to take the music. No it doesn't really rock and it isn't what you would call a fun album but I like it.

Great record, from a great band...must have Huey!!

Love this album, always have...if you love Huey, it should please.

A big shout out and thank you to the seller. Bought new for far less than others were trying to extort out of us Huey fans. Top notch....came quickly and intact. Thank you!!

Five Stars

Best of it was the Tower Of Power horns.

Thier best album!

This is the best album they ever did. Very hard to find now a days. This album is a must for your collection.

Three Stars

It was just okay