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Titre: Noël à la petite boulangerie (La petite boulangerie 3)

Auteur: Jenny Colgan

Narrateur: Christel Touret

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-22-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Découvrez enfin le dernier tome des aventures gourmandes de Polly, l'héroïne emblématique de La petite coulangerie du bout du monde, la série aux centaines de milliers de lectrices !

Polly Waterford ne voit pas le temps passer... Sa petite boulangerie l'occupe du matin au soir, au désespoir d'Huckle, son compagnon, qui rêve de profiter d'une simple grasse matinée avec elle. À l'approche des fêtes de fin d'année, Huckle rêve aussi d'un Noël en amoureux, bien au chaud dans leur grand phare, avec leur petit macareux Neil.

Mais quand Kerensa débarque à Mount Polbearne pour dévoiler à sa meilleure amie un terrible secret sur son passé, Polly voit soudain son avenir s'assombrir. D'autant que la révélation de Kerensa menace la belle histoire qu'elle a construite avec Huckle. Jusqu'à présent, Polly a toujours réussi à surmonter les épreuves en cuisinant. Pourtant, cette fois-ci, préparer de bons petits pains risque de ne pas suffire à la sortir d'affaire.

Polly est-elle prête à affronter son passé ? Réussira-t-elle à remettre sa vie sur de bons rails pour passer un joyeux Noël auprès de ceux qu'elle aime ?

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©2017 Prisma. Traduit de l'anglais par Anne Remond (P)2017 Audible Studios

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Titre: Par un matin d'automne

Auteur: Robert Goddard

Narrateur: Olivier Chauvel, Bénédicte Charton

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 13 hrs and 45 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-21-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Fin des années 1990. Leonora Galloway entreprend un voyage en France avec sa fille. Toutes deux ont décidé d'aller à Thiepval, près d'Amiens, au Mémorial franco-britannique des soldats décédés durant la bataille de la Somme. Le père de Leonora est tombé au combat durant la Première Guerre mondiale, mais la date de sa mort gravée sur les murs du mémorial, le 30 avril 1916, pose problème. Leonora est en effet née près d'un an plus tard. Ce qu'on pourrait prendre pour un banal adultère de temps de guerre cache en fait une étrange histoire, faite de secrets de famille sur lesquels plane l'ombre d'un meurtre jamais résolu et où chaque mystère en dissimule un autre. Le lecteur est alors transporté en 1914 dans une grande demeure anglaise où va se jouer un drame dont les répercussions marqueront trois générations.

Dans ce livre envoûtant à l'épaisseur romanesque exceptionnelle, Robert Goddard allie le cadre et l'atmosphère des plus grands romans anglais, ceux d'Elizabeth George ou de Ruth Rendell, à un sens du suspense et de la réalité historique remarquables.

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©2010 ILA. Traduit de l'anglais par Marie-Jo Demoulin Astre (P)2017 Audible Studios

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Titre: La patience du franc-tireur

Auteur: Arturo Perez-Reverte

Narrateur: Marie-Christine Letort

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-21-17

Éditeur: Sixtrid

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Un éditeur charge Alejandra Varela, spécialiste de l'art urbain, de retrouver Sniper, graffeur célèbre pour son talent exceptionnel et ses actions de rue à la limite de la légalité et de la guérilla. Elle doit lui proposer, en même temps qu'une édition de ses œuvres, une grande rétrospective au MoMA. Mais personne n'a jamais vu le visage de Sniper ni ne sait où il se trouve. De Madrid à Lisbonne, de Vérone à Naples, Alejandra se lance alors sur ses traces et se retrouve prisonnière d'un piège mortel à mesure qu'elle comprend les véritables objectifs des performances stupéfiantes de cet artiste radical.

Après Le Peintre de batailles, Arturo Pérez-Reverte revient à l'un de ses thèmes de prédilection en interrogeant, au fil d'une traque haletante et impitoyable dans l'univers du graffiti, la fonction de l'art aujourd'hui, pure beauté ou objet de spéculation, et les nouvelles formes de rébellion dans nos sociétés occidentales mondialisées.

©2014 Éditions du Seuil (P)2015 Sixtrid SAS

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Title: Fiver and the Psychology of Rabbits

Author: Frank J. Page

Narrator: John Roorda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-17

Publisher: Fiver LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This novel is about a man and a dog, both contending with modern realities. As an adventure and a love story, the author's hope is that you find it exciting, yet touching, while often funny and extremely controversial.

Written with humility and honesty, may it spark imagination and an appreciation for all of life.

Members Reviews:

Fiver and the Psychology of Rabbits. by Frank Page

I loved this book! I suppose, If you HATED DOGS AND RABBITS you would only give it 4 stars but, if you have a heart for dogs, and if you have ever talked to your dog, and if some of those words are _______insert dogs name,______"I love you." This is the perfect book for you! That being said, it was well written, not rushed but not too slow in character development . The story line was very believable and the description of the surrounding nature came alive. I read a lot and I think I know where a story is going, but this story kept me changing the end in my mind and I approve of the conclusion that Page ended his with. Tell your dogs you love them and your people too!

Quick

Good Read

Fiver

I enjoyed the story. Very fast reading.

I loved this book

I loved this book. What a beautiful story about an incredible dog and his owner Mitchell. I liked how the story progressed with the characters in the small town. I did shed some tears. I recommend !

Five Stars

Great thoughtful book!

Thought provoking philosophical ideas, mingles within a exiting novel.

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Title: Blissful and Other Stories

Author: Steven Huff

Narrator: Steven Huff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-16-17

Publisher: Cosmographia Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In these 10 unforgettable tales written and read by award-winning author Steven Huff, we are let in on what feels like secrets: the more sardonic and salacious details of men and women both whimsical and dark, desperate and hopeful, absurd and yet undeniably recognizable.

Members Reviews:

Bears multiple readings

Full disclosure: I am Steve Huff's editor and publisher. But before that, I was a fan of his work. There is a lot here to unpack and each stories bears multiple readings, disclosing new secrets with every turn. And I should know, I've read each story at least a dozen times in preparation for publication and audiobook recording.

Blissful reading!

I remember, decades ago, falling in love with J.P. Donleavy's work and had the exact same "joy of discovery" with Blissful & Other Stories by Steve Huff. I love the sometimes tender, and at other times wry humor in these stories with their odd, often most endearing characters and their original habits & lives. The dialogs are remarkable. These are ten, most entertaining stories. A blissful reading indeed!

Five Stars

I've long been a fan of Steve Huff's fiction and poems both--with Blissful, he's outdone himself! BUY THIS BOOK.

Five Stars

Funny, sharp, and full of wit. What a great collection of stories.

Steve Huff is one of fiction's most original minds

Steve Huff's latest combines the musical ear and eye for imagery of a poet with the wild imagination of one of fiction's most original minds. In stories that reveal both dry humor and compassion for his subjects, Huff takes the reader to places most of us wouldn't think to go, and then we're glad to have been there.

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Title: Little Wrecks

Author: Meredith Miller

Narrator: Khristine Hvam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-17

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In this haunting and explosive debut, Meredith Miller explores the truth behind three girls on the cusp of adulthood and all the shocking realizations that come under the guise of growing up. Perfect for fans of I'll Give You the Sun and Girl in Pieces.

Ruth, Magda, and Isabel are different from everyone else. They can see beneath the seemingly perfect, cookie-cutter exterior of their small town of Highbone, Long Island. They know that below the surface, each house is filled with secrets, indifference, and violence.

These girls refuse to become willing participants of these fake lives. Instead they are determined to fight every condescending comment, every unwelcome touch, and every lie they've been told.

When the opportunity to commit the perfect crime appears, the girls finally start to see their way out of Highbone. But for the first time, Ruth, Magda, and Isabel are keeping secrets from each other. As they drift apart, the weight of reality starts to set in. These girls can't save each other. They might not even be able to save themselves.

Members Reviews:

I was bored and disliked the writing

GRADE: D-

1 STAR

LITTLE WRECKS takes place in 1979, which I guess makes this novel a period piece. I was around the same age as the three friends during 1979 and Meredith Miller does a good job accurately depicting the era.

I preordered and eagerly anticipated the release of LITTLE WRECKS and I was disappointed. Miller's writing turned me off with lots of telling and little showing. Simple sentence structure can be an effective means of creating intensity, emotion and tension like in GIRL IN PIECES and SPEAK. To me LITTLE WRECKS read more like a high school English story and I was bored throughout the book. I felt nothing for the characters.

I'm clearly in the minority with others rating higher on Goodreads so read the preview before deciding whether you want to read LITTLE WRECKS.

Thanks Meredith Miller for this great story. Authentic characters

Thanks Meredith Miller for this great story. Authentic characters, drawn with kindness; immersive setting with loving detail; questions unflinchingly asked. Draws you in, keeps you there, and lingers long after. Just W O W!

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Title: A Book of American Martyrs

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Neil Hellegers, Tavia Gilbert, Kristen Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.

Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead.

The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts.

When the daughters of the two families, Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, glimpse each other at the trial of Luther Dunphy, their initial response is mutual hatred. But their lives are tangled together forever by what has happened, and throughout the years to come and the events that follow, neither can quite forget the other.

A heart-rending reckoning with some of the most incendiary issues that divide us in our troubled times - religious extremism; abortion; gun violence; capital punishment - this is a novel Joyce Carol Oates was born to write. To listen to it is to encounter the full spectrum of humanity - its ugliness, misery, beauty and hope.

Members Reviews:

Abortion is not the theme of this novel!

This novel may be promoted around the idea that the martyrs are those on either âsideâ of the abortion issue. Some have accused the author of promoting tired stereotypical characters representing these sides. But from my standpoint, abortion made the perfect âfoilâ for a powerful examination of family; how families connect, disconnect, re-form and blow apart. Just as there are nuances in the abortion debate (unless you find yourself on one extreme end or the other), so there are nuances in what it means to be in a family. And as this novel so powerfully displays, family may or may not be your birth family, it may or may not be that you were actually a âwantedâ child (even though you were not aborted); it may or may not be that the family you are in is the family you eventually choose for yourself or is perhaps chosen for you by circumstance. It may take part of a lifetime to realize who actually comprises your family; your âloved onesâ. Family is a choice. A commitment. A result of all our life decisions. In the end, we have all, in one way or another, chosen our families.

I was actually hesitant to read the book because I have been so discouraged by all the polarization arising from the âculture warsâ in our society. But by the end of the novel, I was actually in tears and had to get up and walk around. The ending was stunning. If you read the last pages first, your library card should be revoked!

Joyce Carol Oates does not disappoint

Wow! This book delves into the controversy over abortion without making a statement, but rather delving into the minds of two men and their families on opposite sides of the equation. It's a fantastic book which will keep you thinking about it long after you've read it.

Joyce Carol Oates

I have read a majority of her books and enjoyed this one as well. Like her style of writing.

Three Stars

Surprising to me for JCO. Found it a bit laborious and the ending silly.

A well told tragedy.

This book was one I couldnât put down.

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Titre: Et j'ai dansé pieds nus dans ma tête

Auteur: Olivia Zeitline

Narrateur: Perrine Megret

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 2 hrs and 54 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-01-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Un soir, une phrase étrange au ton mélodique, comme un air de musique, résonne dans la tête de Charlotte. Peur ou prémonition ? Après un burn-out, Charlotte, une jeune trentenaire, quitte son job dans le marketing et tire un trait sur son ancienne vie. Elle retourne à ce qui la fait vibrer depuis toujours, la danse. Mais rien ne se passe comme elle le voudrait : les factures s'accumulent, sa relation amoureuse s'étiole, son rêve s'éloigne. Stella, une amie musicienne, lui conseille alors d'écouter sa voix intérieure et lui ouvre le chemin de l'intuition. De rencontre en rencontre, pas à pas, Charlotte apprendra à apprivoiser cette voix mystérieuse, à se fier aux signes du hasard et à suivre les mouvements de son corps.

Cette belle histoire vous entraîne dans son sillage magique et vous donne envie de suivre votre intuition. Vous ne lirez pas ce livre par hasard. Comprendre les mécanismes de l'intuition, savoir l'accueillir, développer cette énergie du cœur pour s'accepter et faire les meilleurs choix de vie, c'est ce que nous apprend ce roman, à travers les nombreux conseils pratiques et pistes de réflexion distillés dans le récit.

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Title: The President's Gardens

Author: Muhsin Al-Ramli, Luke Leafgren - translator

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-17

Publisher: MacLehose Press

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite-Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated. How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death?

The answer lies in his lifelong friendship with Abdullah Kafka and Tariq the Befuddled, who each has his own remarkable story to tell. It lies on the scarred, irradiated battlefields of the Gulf War and in the ashes of a revolution strangled in its cradle. It lies in the steadfast love of his wife and the festering scorn of his daughter. And above all it lies behind the locked gates of The President's Gardens, buried alongside the countless victims of a pitiless reign of terror.

Critic Reviews:

"A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting." (Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ)

Members Reviews:

Great story but open ended. Ok performance

Good performance let down by very terrible pronounciation of arabic words and names. The narrator should have invested more time learning this or else there are many competent bilingual narrators who are up to the task that could better recreate the accent and the feel of common expressions used.

Loved the story however if you're a person that hates loose ends you maybe frustrated by the ending.

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Title: The Hidden Hours

Author: Sara Foster

Narrator: Georgia Maguire

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-17

Publisher: Wavesound Audio

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Found dead in the Thames one frosty winter's morning, no one is sure whether she jumped or was pushed. The one person who may know the truth is the newest employee at Parker & Lane - the office temp, Eleanor.

Eleanor has travelled to London to escape the repercussions of her traumatic childhood in outback Australia, but now tragedy seems to follow her wherever she goes. To her horror, she has no memory of the crucial hours leading up to Arabella's death - memory that will either incriminate or absolve her.

As Eleanor desperately tries to remember her missing hours and uncover the events of that fateful night, her own extended family is dragged further into the dark, terrifying terrain of blame, suspicion and guilt.

Caught in a crossfire of accusations, Eleanor fears she can't even trust herself, let alone the people around her. And soon, she'll find herself in a race against time to find out just what happened that night - and discover just how deadly some secrets can be.

A new suspense thriller from the bestselling author of All That Is Lost Between Us.

Critic Reviews:

"Classic suspense with a wonderful modern edge." (Australian Women's Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Fabulous

This was a fabulous novel. Having never read Sara Foster before I am now such a fan and have more of her books in my to be read pile.

I loved the changing landscape between what occurred in Australia, contrasting with what occurred in England. This transition between the two stories was seamless, and in the end I couldn't decide which I needed the answers too quicker.

Cannot wait to get started on another Sara Foster novel soon.

Four Stars

Well developed characters, enough mystery to keep you interested, entertaining read.

One Star

Boring

A compelling story

The Hidden Hours begins with a suspicious death, but it is more the story of 21 year-old Eleanor Brennan. Eleanor spent time with the deceased but her drink was drugged, and she has large gaps in her memory. Eleanor is a broken character. At first, she comes off as wishy-washy in her actions. Sheâs lost, lonely in London since she hasnât been there for long and staying with an uncle who she has never met before.

Gradually the layers of her past peel away and the reader learns why she is the way she is. One thing I donât understand is that she knew her drink was drugged, but she still drank it. Given her past, why did she drink it? She desperately wants to fit in, so I suppose this played into her decision to drink from the drugged glass.

When it becomes obvious that the death is suspicious, the police swing into action, but to me, they didnât ring true in their investigation. The investigation takes a back seat to Eleanorâs story.

Despite my quibbles, this is a compelling story. Itâs not always a comfortable read, but it is a page-turner. I finished it knowing Eleanor emerged stronger, having been forced to face the truth of her traumatic past.

Four stars for me.

Excellent Suspense

The Hidden Hours took me a while to get into, but once I did, I found it was gripping reading. Most of the story is told from the point of view of Eleanor, and itâs in present tense (which I always find takes me a while to get my head around). To add to the complexity, each chapter begins with a short piece from the point of view of a minor character.