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Title: Med livet i haelene

Author: Michael Larsen

Narrator: Jesper Bllehuus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-16

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Iver bliver mistaenkt for at have slet Strand ihjel, da Strand falder dd om i hvidlgsdressingen. Og Doktor Magnus sender Iver trusselsbreve - tror Iver da. Iver er smaskforelsket i Sarah, der er fantastisk smuk og vidunderlig og soler sig ngen inde i nabohaven. Men Iver er gift med Ingrid. Og Ingrid har en affaere med Strand. Som faldt dd om i hvidlgsdressingen. Livet er hverken let eller simpelt for Iver og "Med livet i haelene" er hans beretning om hvordan livet ser ud fra en smneurotisk, forelsket og forvirret mands perspektiv. "

Med livet i haelene" er Michael Larsens debutroman. Siden har han udgivet de internationale spaendingsromaner "Uden sikker viden", "Slangen i Sydney" og "Femte sol braender".

Michael Larsen (1961) er journalist og fik efter sin uddannelse fastansaettelse p B.T., hvor han daekkede filmstof. I 1992 debuterede han med den humoristiske roman Med livet i haelene. Det var dog frst i 1994, han slog igennem med sin gennembrudsroman Uden sikker viden, der er oversat til flere sprog og har gjort Michael Larsen til en de mest oversatte danske forfattere. I 2002 blev han indstillet til The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for sin krimiroman Slangen i Sydney. Michael Larsen er kendt for sin filmiske skrivestil med replikskifte og fyldige handlingsbeskrivelser samt hans evne til at dreje et plot.

©2016 Lindhardt og Ringhof (P)2016 Lindhardt og Ringhof

Critic Reviews:

Hurra, en humorist! - en ny Finn Seborg med et kraftigt staenk Panduro. Kan det vaere bedre?

-- Poul Borum, Ekstra Bladet

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Titel: Aprikosenküsse

Autor:: Claudia Winter

Erzähler: Steffen Groth, Tanja Fornaro

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 42 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-15-16

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Contemporary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Verrückt, romantisch, köstlich - eine Liebeskomödie aus der Heimat des Dolce Vita.

Das Leben der jungen Foodjournalistin Hanna könnte so wunderbar sein. Hätte sie nur nicht diese Restaurantkritik geschrieben, wegen der eine italienische Gutsherrin einen Herzinfarkt erlitten hat! Als sie dann auch noch versehentlich in den Besitz der Urne gelangt, reist die von Schuldgefühlen geplagte Hanna nach Italien - und wird zum unfreiwilligen Opfer eines Testaments, das es in sich hat. Denn selbst über ihren Tod hinaus verfolgt Giuseppa Camini nur ein Ziel: ihren unleidlichen Enkel Fabrizio endlich in den Hafen der Ehe zu steuern. Eine Aufgabe, die ein ganzes toskanisches Dorf in Atem hält, ein Familiendrama heraufbeschwört und Hannas Gefühlswelt komplett durcheinanderwirbelt!

©2016 Goldmann (P)2016 Der Hörverlag

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Title: The Fate, Third Edition, Volume 3

Author: Daniel Allen DuBour

Narrator: Paul J. McSorley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-16

Publisher: mooredubour assoc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In Greek and Roman mythology, there are three goddesses who control human destiny and life: The first (Clotho) spins the thread of life, the second (Lachesis) determines its length, and the third (Atropos) cuts it off. What forces come into play that decide where and when we are born and what family we are born into?

James Harding was born into wealth and lives his life with riches beyond anyone's imagination. Not until he is diagnosed with a terminal illness does he realize all the riches and possessions mean nothing, and he generously makes provisions to liquidate all that he has obtained with through his wealth.

Members Reviews:

A great story about wealth and possessions

A great story about wealth and possessions, meaningless when it comes to good health and true happiness. James Harding found that out the hard way, however God, in His wonderful mercy accepts James into his Kingdom.

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Title: The Noise Effect: A Short Story

Author: Stevie Turner

Narrator: Fen Wilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-16

Publisher: Stevie Turner

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

What lengths would you go to in order to ensure a peaceful existence? Newlyweds Eve and Leigh Chandler are thrilled to be given a council house on a recently built estate after living with Eve's parents for a year, and are eager to get to know their new neighbors. Eve quickly forms a friendship with Tessa Patterson at number 16, but things turn sour when Mark Denny moves into number 18 with his two teenage sons.

The Dennys enjoy playing their music loud enough for the whole street to hear. Leigh and Eve, both normally easy-going and placid, complain to the council after being driven to distraction by noise emanating from the house next door. However, this only serves to make them a sitting target for Mark Denny's anger, causing Eve to discover a previously hidden side of her new husband that she was totally unaware of.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

Great Read. I recommend.

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Title: Jonathan Unleashed

Author: Meg Rosoff

Narrator: Luke Kempner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

National Book Award finalist and best-selling author Meg Rosoff's charming, hilarious new novel about a young New Yorker's search for happiness and the two dogs who help him find it - the perfect summer listen.

Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling, and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and with a different sense of humor. He doesn't remember life being this confusing back before everyone expected him to act like a grown-up.

When his brother asks him to look after his dogs, Jonathan's worldview begins to shift. Could a border collie and a cocker spaniel hold the key to life, the universe, and everything? Their sly maneuvering on daily walks and visits to the alluring vet suggest that human emotional intelligence may not be top dog after all.

A funny, wise romantic comedy set in Manhattan, Jonathan Unleashed is a story of tangled relationships, friendships, and dogs. Rosoff's novel is for anyone wondering what to be when they grow up and how on Earth to get there.

Members Reviews:

Jonathan Unleashed

It took a lot to get used to the style of story telling that Luke gave, but once I had got into the story it was a good unusual tale.

Absolutely loved it

I totally loved this book. Already a devotee of Rosoff's YA books, I'm hoping that this will propel her into wider fame; it certainly deserves to. It will appeal to fans of books such as David Nicholl's One Day but it has a gentle, subtle yet incisive humour that is also entirely original. This is just beautiful writing.

As for the performance, I thought it would have been excellent, except for the constant mispronunciation of words. I don't mean American English, I mean that the narrator had apparently simply not come across certain words before: 'glutinous' pronounced as 'gluttonous', for example, or ' orange blossom ' pronounced as if it were blossom that was orange- coloured! These verbal typos and lots of emphasis in the wrong place occurred really quite frequently and were an irritation in what was otherwise a narrative voice well- suited to the story.

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Title: Time to Say Goodbye

Author: S. D. Robertson

Narrator: Paul Tyreman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A heart-rending story about the unique bond between a father and his daughter, for fans of Jojo Moyes and John Green.

How do you leave the person you love the most?

Will Curtis's six-year-old daughter, Ella, knows her father will never leave her. After all, he promised her so when her mother died. And he's going to do everything he can to keep his word.

What Will doesn't know is that the promise he made to his little girl might be harder to keep than he imagined. When he's faced with an impossible decision, Will finds that the most obvious choice might not be the right one.

But the future is full of unexpected surprises. And father and daughter are about to embark on an unforgettable journey together....

Members Reviews:

It was ok

It was a nice quick read. I dunno, maybe the book what have been better that the audiobook. A friend recommended it and said it was amazing. It was good, but it wasn't amazing. I thought it was going to be a lot more heart wrenching.

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Title: Behind the Ivy Walls

Author: Hal English

Narrator: Greg Walston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Behind the Ivy Walls is based on the true story of a young boy seemingly born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. It is written in the time-honored tradition of a feel-bad/feel-good story in which someone else's tragedy teaches us life lessons about positive thinking and seizing each day as a gift. This book details the quest for a true identity, the love of a family, and a safe place to call home.

After years of mental and physical abuse, the boy discovers that he was secretly adopted and begins an unlikely journey to search for his family. In this wonderful Huck Finn type story, one surprising deception after another surfaces, culminating in a secret so powerful it had to be buried for more than 50 years.

Peppered full of twists, life-determining challenges, positive role models, and many surprising skeletons in the closet, it ends with the unraveling of a father's ultimate vengeance and a mother's final retaliation.

Members Reviews:

Family differs as to what happened....

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We write in response to The Times' article "Trenton native Hal English authors memoir 'Behind the Ivy Walls'" (Jan. 4).

The family of Hal English recognizes his achievement in writing a book. Yet, we need to make a statement as to the fiction in his memoir and to published articles about the book, including the article cited above, which we believe tarnish the legacy of our parents.

Although he had some affiliation with it, Dr. Harrison Force English, Hal's adoptive parent, was not the head of Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital, as the book and some reports indicate; the senior staff and their families lived on the grounds of the hospital, which we did not. Dr. Hubert M. Hoffmann was medical director at the time.

Dr. English worked at St. Francis Hospital in Trenton, starting in 1938. After serving in World War II as a lieutenant colonel, he returned there as senior psychiatrist until his death in 1970.

The Times' article states that Dr. English worked at a time "when doctors' mistreatment of the mentally ill was acceptable." There is no proof or records that our father abused or mishandled patients in any of his professional affiliations.

As to "the abusive hand of a drunkard (i.e. Dr. English)," mentioned in The Times' article about the book and interview with Hal, family, relatives, neighbors and friends had never seen alcohol abuse by Dr. English.

We remember our father as a loving, hard-working man who put in 50-60 hours weekly to provide for his family without complaint.

The parts of the memoir pertaining to Hal's parents have many inaccuracies. Hal wrote that his childhood was filled with pain and loneliness, but that does not entitle him to be insensitive to the family by misrepresenting his parents.

-- Elizabeth (Avery) V. English,

Stockton

Fredrick C. English,

Lambertville

Arthur R. English,

Chesterfield

Vernon L. English,

Palm Harbor, Fla.

The writers are the surviving children and adopted children of Dr. Harrison F. English.

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Title: If They Could See Me Now

Author: Denise Welch

Narrator: Denise Welch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Have you ever wondered if you made the right choices? Harper Clarke has....

Harper reminds me of many of the women I've known and cared about over the years. Now that her children are close to flying the nest, she is looking across the table and thinking, Is this really how my life was meant to be?

As women, we make sacrifices for our children, for our husbands and for our families. Some are worth it, and some we may regret. But there comes a point when it's time to follow our own hearts. This is the story of what happens when we do.

It probably helped to have been round the block a few times when it came to creating Harper, but I think her story can be enjoyed whoever you are and whatever your age. I hope you'll grow to love her, as I have - and to laugh and cry with her on her journey. Lots of love, Denise xx

Members Reviews:

loved it!!!!

I'm so pleased Denise narrated herself, no one could have done it better.

I didn't want it to end. a great listen.

Great read

Found myself wanting to shake Harper sometimes but like many women, she wanted it to work so stayed thinking it would get better, but once a bully always a bully. Got quite emotional listening to her husband belittle and berate her. Let's hope anyone reading this book will take strength from it. Loved it!

Briiliant

Would you listen to If They Could See Me Now again? Why?

Yes to take it all in again, well written, they way it flits between past and present is done very well.

What did you like best about this story?

Harper's character is down to earth trying to live in a "keep up with the jones" world, portrays how sometimes women can lose themselves when trying to keep everyone else happy. Aaron her husband is a

Which character as performed by Denise Welch was your favourite?

Harper - and Harpers Dad, totally down to earth, real life people

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

When Harper really realises what a git Aaron is after the incident with Georgie.

Any additional comments?

only small gripe, the voice of Aaron was so annoying, but so was he was a character so it worked in some ways lol and can imagine it is hard for a female narrator to try and pull off a guys voice - fab job though, loved it

Well what a read

This book was fab i chuckled cried and gasps roll on your next one Denise well done xx

Great performance and story by Denise

Excellent start got me hooked Too simplistic & predictable an end but very enjoyable . Would recommend

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Title: Sweetgirl

Author: Travis Mulhauser

Narrator: Cassandra Morris, Macleod Andrews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A tense cat-and-mouse game and a brilliantly realised story of hope in a seemingly hopeless place.

Percy is 16 and used to her mama disappointing her. But this time her mama's been gone for nine days, and she's been seen up at Shelton Potter's farmhouse. Which can only mean she's strung out on meth again, and who knows when she'll be back.

A blizzard rolls in, and Percy jumps in her pickup and sets off for the farmhouse. She finds Shelton and a woman passed out on the floor, sleeping off the latest binge. But no sign of her mama.

Percy heads upstairs and finds a neglected baby girl in urgent need of care and attention. Percy knows she has no choice. She has to take the baby and get her to a hospital as soon as she can.

But the blizzard shows no sign of stopping, and soon her pickup is snowed in. Now she's on foot, and before long two-bit criminal Shelton wakes up and heads out with four of his associates, on the hunt for whoever has taken the baby....

Taut, darkly humorous and told in Percy's unflinching voice, Sweetgirl is a moving exploration of courage and sacrifice that is horrifying, tender, and hopeful.

Critic Reviews:

"Compulsively readable...finish the first chapter and you will be hooked." (Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Beneath the Bonfire)

"There's a big old neon heart pulsing on every page of Sweetgirl, like the sign to a bar you can't help but enter. I couldn't stop turning the pages." (Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls and Don't Kiss Me)

"If you're a fan of Charles Portis and Denis Johnson this book is exactly what you've been waiting for." (Brock Clarke, author of The Happiest People in the World)

"Gritty, compelling...Mulhauser depicts his people and their landscape with uncompromising fidelity." (Ron Rash, author of Above the Waterfall)

"This novel comes on like the blizzard at its centre, and leaves you dazzled and dazed not only by how much Travis Mulhauser knows, but how deeply he cares." (Michael Parker, author of All I Have in This World)

Members Reviews:

Engaging story, good characters, realistic setting

This is a thoroughly engaging and sometimes gritty story about a teenage girl whose family life has forced her to grow up too soon. Most of it is narrated in the first person by the main character, Percy James, although in a few chapters the action shifts to one of the other characters in the third person. Although vivid and at a few turns graphic, the novel achieves realism without resorting to graphic sexual themes or excessive profanity. It is a smoothly flowing, engaging and very readable novel.

Starting early in the book, Percy finds herself presented with difficult choices, and exhibits an almost unrealistic maturity. All of the main characters are well drawn, but although it was quite easy to engage with both the story and the Percy herself, I would have to say in retrospect that this is probably the closest thing I found to a flaw in this book. The 16-year-old teen is actually, by her actions and compassion, the most adult character in the novel, and definitely not a typical 16-year-old.

As I read, I found myself rooting for Percy as she slogged through a northern Michigan winter with a small baby in tow.

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Title: Pathways

Subtitle: Searching for Love, Volume 1

Author: J. Michael George

Narrator: Tom Taverna

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-16

Publisher: J Michael George

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This story follows the life of a man from the age of three to the age of 70. It is a story of love and tragedy. It is the quest of a man searching for love. The death of his mother, when he was three years old, and the absence of his father for the first seven years of his life, sets the stage for the choices he makes throughout his life. The story begins in the late 40s, early 50s, and progresses to present day.

Early in this book, scenes depict his living in a very poor environment. Fourteen people lived in a shack on the poor side of town. Good food and clothing were scarce. Oversight, discipline, and love were not part of his early life. Be patient as an old man reflects on his past, and he wonders why he chose the paths he took searching for someone to love him. The early part of this book depicts the environment that molded his character. His undisciplined youth and the puppy loves he encounters in his early years give a slightly comical, yet tender, insight into why he makes the choices he makes later in life. Just as you think you know where this story is going, it takes many twists and turns you do not expect. Tragic things happen to him along the way. He emerges from an abusive childhood to face challenges he is unprepared for. The book is based on a true story. It is unlike any story you have ever heard.

Members Reviews:

Great read

Touching story of a life that once lost finds true love, and endures heartaches looking forward to eternity in heaven.

Great

This book will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. It really makes you stop and think and reflect on the pathways you have crossed personally.

A great read

A great read that follows the decisions a man makes over the course of his life to bring him to where he is today.

This is great reading

I truly enjoyed reading this book, It brought back memories of my life, and reminded me of the wild feelings and emotions that I had when I was young. It touched me, and I highly recommend it!

Life is a gift . . . to those who aren't afraid to live it.

This book is a celebration of life within each of us. Even though reading about someone else's journey I couldn't help but reflect back on my own. This book is a must read for anyone who still wants to experience life as the gift it truly is.