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Title: Den danske pige

Author: David Ebershoff

Narrator: Jette Mechlenburg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-16

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

I 1914 ankommer den unge amerikanske enke Gerda Waud til Kbenhavn for at g p Kunstakademiet. Her forelsker hun sig i sin laerer, maleren Einar Wegener. De gifter sig nogle r senere og slr sig ned i Nyhavn, hvor de indretter bolig og atelier. Et harmonisk aegteskab og et spaendende professionelt parlb tager sin begyndelse. Da Einar i 1925 accepterer at sidde model for Gerda, s hun kan faerdiggre et billede af en kvinde, skubber de i faellesskab dren op for en tredje person: Den unge pige Lili, der forsigtigt og en smule fortumlet traeder ind i deres aegteskab.

Det str lysende klart for dem begge, at der inden i Einar findes en kvinde, som kaemper for at komme ud, og Gerda indser, at Einar m tage skridtet fuldt ud og blive kvinde ogs i fysisk forstand. I Tyskland finder hun en specialist, der vil ptage sig opgaven, og p Dresden Kvindeklinik indleder Einar en raekke smertefulde knsskifteoperationer.

David Ebershoffs roman "Den danske pige" tager afsaet i Gerda og Einar Wegeners historie.

©2015 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Kirsten A. Nielsen (P)2015 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: 10 minutter i vor tid

Author: Leif Davidsen

Narrator: Paul Becker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-15

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

21 historier om menneskelige skaebner i vor tid. Om dramatiske livsvalg, forraederi og lurende katastrofer i svel internationale braendpunkter som under hjemlige himmelstrg. Leif Davidsen har i rtier vaeret Danmarks fremmeste thrillerforfatter, og i denne samling historier kan man nyde hans virtuositet som novellekunstner. Novellerne har tidligere vaeret trykt i Forraederen og andre historier, Utahs bjerge og en bonusnovelle fra romanen "Min broders vogter". Begge novellesamlinger har solgt i mange oplag.

©2015 Lindhardt og Ringhof (P)2015 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: The Restoration of Otto Laird

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Nigel Packer

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-15

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Retired architect Otto Laird is living a peaceful if slightly bemused existence in Switzerland with his second wife, Anika. Once renowned for his radical designs, Otto now spends his days communing with nature and writing eccentric letters to old friends (which he doesn't mail).

But Otto's comfortable life is rudely interrupted when he learns that his most significant and revolutionary building, Marlowe House, a 1960s tower block estate in South London, is set to be demolished. Otto is outraged. Determined to do everything in his power to save the building, he reluctantly agrees to take part in a television documentary, which will mean returning to London for the first time in 25 years to live for a week in Marlowe House. Once Otto becomes reacquainted with the city he called home for most of his life, his memories begin to come alive. And as he mines his past and considers life moving forward - for himself and his building - Otto embarks on a remarkable journey that will change everything he ever thought he knew.

Members Reviews:

"The chasm in human experience could not be breached."

Otto Laird, once an active and famous architect, has moved from London to Switzerland with his second wife, Anika. Many days, Anika arrives home to find Otto standing naked by the kitchen window staring at a block of concrete. Is he slipping into dementia or is something else going on?

Otto finds out that Marlowe House, one of the buildings he designed and built in London during the 1960's, is scheduled to be demolished. He enlists the assistance of his friend Angelo to help him have Marlowe house designated an historical site. Otto travels to London for the first time in 25 years. While there, he is scheduled to do a television show about Marlowe House and his work as an architect. He spends some of his time in London actually staying in Marlowe House. There he begins to remember a lot about Cynthia, his first wife and soulmate, and aspects of being a father to David, from whom he is now estranged.

This book is well-written and the characterization has depth and complexity. However, I just didn't find Otto all that interesting. I wish that the main character had been one I could identify with on a deeper level. Otto's interests and nostalgia just didn't coalesce with my own sensibilities. I gave the book a '4' because of the high quality of writing. I look forward to reading this author's future books.

Heartwarming story of a man who tries to save his past

I liked this novel far more than I had expected. The story is about Otto Laird, a retired architect living in Switzerland in near seclusion with his second wife. When the story opens it's not quite clear if Otto has lost his marbles yet ... or will very soon. Just a few pages in to the novel, Otto finds out that one of the buildings he designed in the 1960s is slated for demolition, and there begins his journey to London where he soon confronts his past.

Otto's trip is a physical one and one of memories, some pleasant, some not so pleasant. He has to admit things to himself that he'd rather blissfully ignore, but somewhere along the way Otto screws up the courage to do so and manages to let go of some hefty personal baggage. The author tells the story in third person, and there are flashbacks to fill in the backstory of Otto's life.

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Title: The Art of the Engine Driver

Author: Steven Carroll

Narrator: David Linski, Tom Bromhead, Fiona Hardingham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

On a hot summer's night in the 1950s, the old and the new, diesel and steam, and town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected. As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, a family of three - Vic, Rita, and their son, Michael - are off to a party. George Bedser has invited the whole neighborhood to celebrate the engagement of his daughter. Vic is an engine driver, with dreams of being like his hero Paddy Ryan and becoming the master of the smooth ride. As the neighbors walk to the party, the story delves into the lives of a bully, a drunk, a restless girl, and a young boy forced to grow up before he is ready. The Art of the Engine Driver is a luminous and evocative tale of ordinary suburban lives, told with an extraordinary power and depth.

Members Reviews:

Far too long and drawn out.

Set during a fateful night with the omnipresence of a comet commanding the sky and a inter-city train careering the lives of the characters off the rails, this is an examination of suburban Australian life in the 1950's told through the eyes of an innocent young boy, whose father is an abusive alcoholic train driver. Key themes are the lack of opportunity and empowerment for women, the sense of hopelessness of the migrant and working class, but nicely contrasted by the mastery of the train drivers skill. The story is told in the lead up to and during a suburban engagement party with the back story of the characters well intertwined into the tale.

However the languid mood of the book leads to a sense of irritation as the book takes way too long to reach its inevitable end.

A great read about everyday life

A great read about everyday life. Ordinary lives need to be documented and what I liked the most was the documentation of the inner lives of the characters in the novel. Well written and pacey. Loved it and I am now enjoying the next 2 in the series.

Great Aussie author

Loved this especially as it was reminiscent of the time.

Four Stars

Character development very good. A nice sense of impending drama.

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Title: Chance Developments

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-15

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more.

In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them.

Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling, what made them sad? What emerges are surprising and poignant tales of love and friendship in a variety of settings - an estate in the Highlands of Scotland, a travelling circus in Canada, an Australian gold-mining town, a village in Ireland, and the Scottish capital, Edinburgh.

Some will find joy and fulfilment - others would prefer happier endings. Each of them, though, will find love, and that is ultimately what matters.

Members Reviews:

Good stories!

These are excellent stories. I love the writing of Alexander McCall Smith.

SOUNDS INTRIGUING

This was a stocking gift for a family member, so I did not read it I can only hope it was as interesting as the # 1 Detective Agency.

Good Read

Delightful as expected from Alexander McCall Smith.

It is a wonderful collection of short stories

It is a wonderful collection of short stories. I like the way A. McCall Smith spins a charming sometimes bittersweet story around these old photographs. I also like the sense of humor and self-deprecating irony of some of his characters. I was particularly moved by "He wanted to believe in tenderness."

Lovely

As expected, another wonderful book by Alexander McCall Smith.

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Title: Biting the Moon

Author: Joan Frank

Narrator: Tamara Marston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

It's been years since the woman in "Biting the Moon" has seen her former lover, Felix, a famous, Oscar-winning composer. But upon hearing the news of his sudden death, she mourns his loss by revisiting moments of their former life. Jumping in time from the pair's first encounter at an artists' colony to their rendezvous in cities across the US, the path the narrator takes toward acceptance is much like the jazz the couple loved so much: winding, unexpected, and beautiful.

Joan Frank is the author of five books of fiction and a book of collected essays. Her last novel, Make It Stay, won the Dana Portfolio Award. Her last story collection, In Envy Country, won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction and the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award and was named a finalist for the California Book Award. Joan's book of essays, Because You Have To: A Writing Life, won the Silver ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. A MacDowell Colony Fellow and recipient of many grants and awards, Joan is also a book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in Northern California.

Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College

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Title: The Illuminations

Author: Andrew O'Hagan

Narrator: Cathleen McCarron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-15

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography.

Only when her beloved grandson, Luke, returns home to Scotland does Anne's secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

Critic Reviews:

"The Illuminations is a book at once both tender and ambitious." (Observer)

"A bold and significant work of art...an eloquent and often beautiful anatomy of the way we live now - in love, in war and in our imagination." (Evening Standard)

Members Reviews:

I couldn't finish this

I listened to a few chapters and gave up. I had no sympathy for the characters, especially the army ones. And too much unnecessary swearing. I bought this after a positive review in the SMH and I am very disappointed and sorry I bought the book

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Title: Lovesick

Author: James Driggers

Narrator: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Susan Bennett, Jeffrey LaHoste

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Spanning the 1930s to the present day, James Driggers' evocative Southern Gothic collection introduces the intriguing inhabitants of Morris, South Carolina - a small town where a mix of rich, poor, and in between coexist, grappling with desire, ambition, hope, and loneliness....

Amid a landscaped dotted with farms, trailers, and genteel homes, there lives a talented baker who desperately needs to win a cooking contest but must team up with a down-on-her-heels society matron to do it...the Bramble sisters, whose husbands tend to be short-lived and wealthy but whose latest prospect arrives with complications...a widow who becomes dangerously obsessed with a snake-charming televangelist...and a lonely florist who will do anything for the sake of a ruthless local mechanic. With wit and insight lurking beneath a palpable air of menace, James Driggers' debut is a tautly plotted, evocative exploration of love - and all that we do in its name....

The full voice cast includes Jeffrey LaHoste.

Members Reviews:

Alluring and Tragic

This book gives the reader a collection of Novellas that are both alluring and tragic. The yearning the the characters have for a love that is out of their reach is truly is both captivating and heartbreaking. All of the stories provide a peak into the very human feelings of love, rejection, and the sadness felt when you realize that what you love the most is out of your reach forever and no amount of trying or scheming will bring you closer to what you really want. Love truly has its "price to pay". Of all the stories, I loved Butcher, the Baker. I can relate with using cooking and baking as an escape even if it is just for the moment. I think the saddest part of the story is the fact that Butcher no longer wants to cook in the end; the ability to create a beautiful dish when everything around you is chaotic transports you into a bubble of peacefulness even if it is only for a moment. It is about being able to create something beautiful when you feel anything but. If you are looking for a great awesome read this summer, I would highly recommend this book. I dare say there will be a character in this book you will be able to relate to.

Dark Southern Lit Full of Beauty and Pain

Lovesick is a panoply of Southern love stories gone awry, with each of the four novellas offering tragedy, comedy, unusual twists, and yet evoking Southern traditions while turning them on their heads simultaneously. Iâm a dark Southern lit junkie and had just read Harry Crewsâ A Feast of Snakes before picking up Lovesick, and the two seem to complement each other. A Feast of Snakes (and Harry Crews in general) is often characterized as âgrit lit,â whereas Lovesick is Southern gothic with an injection of Shakespearean tragedy.

The first novella, âButcher, the Baker,â is about a master chef who is forced to work various low-wage jobs cooking plain foods on the railroad and at the Volunteers of America relief house. His talents as a cook seem to rival even Edna Lewisââlook her up if you havenâtâand yet, due to a life of poverty, some jail time, and persistent racism in the South, the reality of living his dream of owning his own bakery continually evades him. The characterization in this story, as in all the others, is amazing.

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Title: Ravenscars arvinger (Ravenscar 2)

Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrator: Louise Herbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Ravenscar - et gods, en legende og et dynasti.

Verdenskrig er slut, og alt ser lovende ud for Edward, det karismatiske overhoved for familien Deravenel. Hans kone og brn er i sikkerhed p familiens hovedsde - Ravenscar, og hans forretningsimperium blomstrer.

Men under overfladen lurer ufreden. Elizabeth, Edwards smukke kone, er jaloux p hans elskerinde, og de ondsindede rygter, Elizabeth spreder, begynder at skade familien. Endnu vrre str det til med Edwards bror, George. Hans svage karakter frer familien ud i afpresning og bedrag. Familien Deravenel str over for sin strste udfordring hidtil, da den ene tragedie efter den anden ramler ned over dem. Det bliver Edwards elskede datter Bess og hendes sn Harry, der skal bre familien ind i en ny tid og sikre den legendariske arv.

"Ravenscars Arvinger" er andet bind i trilogien om en slgts storhed og fald. En historie om magt, penge, utroskab og bedrag, men ogs om krlighed og livets gang i en af Englands strste og rigeste familier.

©2008 Lindhardt og Ringhof, Barbara Taylor Bradford (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Title: Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book

Subtitle: The Mowgli Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Bill Bailey, Richard E. Grant, Colin Salmon, Tim McInnerny, Bernard Cribbins, Celia Imrie, Martin Shaw

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-15

Publisher: Audible Ltd.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the 2016 Audie Award for Best Audio Drama

Winner of the 2016 Audie Award for Excellence in Production

The magical story telling and unforgettable characters in Bev Doyle and Richard Kurti's audio adaptation of this children's classic have been brought to life by many well known voices from film, TV, radio and comedy.

Audible recommends an audience age of eight years plus for this title.

Members Reviews:

Incredible!

Goose bumbs and shivers; the story madr me smile and brought a tear to my eye. The performance? Absolutely fantastic!

Great

Good to hear the stories of childhood & very apt at this time of great danger for all the animals within the story. Why am I not surprised that poor Kaa the snake, who was only ever a friend to Mowgli, got cast as a villain by Disney!

Brilliant

Really well done and most enjoyable :)

Highly recommended. Thank-you Audible for such a great listen. One to play again and again...

Beautiful and Savage... Heartwarming and Heartbreaking...

This classic tale has it all. Heart in your throat moments, heart rending moments, hearty laughter moments... All in all... This tale is all heart.

I loved this performance.

A brilliant dramatisation of the book. So lucky to get it as part of Audible's free-give-away.

If not, download it now. You will listen to it again and again.