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The Tiger Came to the Mountains
- Trespass Collection
- By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 50 mins
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She is the adventurer of the family. Her brother, the gentle dreamer. Even as they bond over folktales and hold each other close, their world has never felt so dangerous. Revolutionaries and pelones are in conflict, soldiers have turned into scavengers, and an escaped tiger has slipped up the mountain, looking for easy prey. As the darkest of legends becomes real, a young girl will do anything to save her brother’s life.
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Entertaining but unremarkable
- By Franki and Fantasy on 05-04-24
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The Tiger Came to the Mountains
- Trespass Collection
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Series: Trespass collection
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: English
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From Far Around They Saw Us Burn
- By: Alice Jolly
- Narrated by: The Red Dog Theatre Company
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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The extraordinary range of work gathered here is united by a fascination with how everyday interactions can transform our lives in unpredictable ways. These are stories of lonely people, outcasts and misfits, and the ghosts that inhabit our intimate spaces. The result is a compelling, arresting and, at times, devastating collection – not least in the title story, which was inspired by the tragic true events of the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire.
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From Far Around They Saw Us Burn
- Narrated by: The Red Dog Theatre Company
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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A Century of Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors
- 110 Fun & Easy-to-Read Tales of Love, Nostalgia, & Humor from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, & 80s to Today to Stimulate Your Mind and Spirit (Nostalgic Gifts for Seniors, Book 2)
- By: Garrett Monroe
- Narrated by: N.W. Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever worried that your golden years might be filled with moments of boredom? Picture yourself cozying up with stories so good they turn "another quiet evening" into "a walk down memory lane." From the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, & 80s to today, each story captures the essence of a different era, celebrating love, friendship, family, and the simple joys that make life beautiful. Whether you're reminiscing about the past or discovering these moments for the first time, this book is the perfect companion for a cozy afternoon.
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A Century of Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors
- 110 Fun & Easy-to-Read Tales of Love, Nostalgia, & Humor from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, & 80s to Today to Stimulate Your Mind and Spirit (Nostalgic Gifts for Seniors, Book 2)
- Narrated by: N.W. Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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Doce cuentos peregrinos [Strange Pilgrims]
- By: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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En el prólogo de estos Doce cuentos peregrinos, García Márquez nos regala su explicación de por qué doce, por qué cuentos y por qué peregrinos. En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena a su perro para llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica.
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Me ha encantado el libro y la narracion
- By A Kindle Customer on 31-08-18
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Doce cuentos peregrinos [Strange Pilgrims]
- Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-10-16
- Language: Spanish
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Noi siamo tempesta
- Storie senza eroe che hanno cambiato il mondo
- By: Michela Murgia
- Narrated by: Michela Murgia
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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"Sventurata è la terra che ha bisogno di eroi", scriveva Bertolt Brecht, ma è difficile credere che avesse ragione se poi le storie degli eroi sono le prime che sentiamo da bambini, le sole che studiamo da ragazzi e le uniche che ci ispirano da adulti. La figura del campione solitario è esaltante, ma non appartiene alla nostra norma: è l'eccezione. La vita quotidiana è fatta invece di imprese mirabili compiute da persone del tutto comuni che hanno saputo mettersi insieme e fidarsi le une delle altre.
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Storie importanti raccontate benissimo
- By mafalda on 20-10-23
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Noi siamo tempesta
- Storie senza eroe che hanno cambiato il mondo
- Narrated by: Michela Murgia
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-06-19
- Language: Italian
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A sangre y fuego
- Héroes, bestias y mártires de España
- By: Manuel Chaves Nogales
- Narrated by: Carlos Alsina
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Los relatos que componen este audiolibro están considerados por muchos como lo mejor que se ha escrito en España sobre nuestra guerra civil. Redactados entre 1936 y 1937 y publicados inicialmente en varias revistas internacionales, retratan distintos sucesos de la guerra que Chaves Nogales conoció directamente: "Cada uno de sus episodios ha sido extraído fielmente de un hecho verídico; cada uno de sus héroes tiene una existencia real y una personalidad auténtica", dirá en el prólogo.
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A sangre y fuego
- Héroes, bestias y mártires de España
- Narrated by: Carlos Alsina
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 24-07-21
- Language: Spanish
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Shelter
- By: Sarah Franklin
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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Connie Granger has escaped the devastation of her bombed out city home. She has found work in the Women's Timber Corps, and for her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose. Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. But in the forest camp, he finds a strange kind of freedom. In each other they find the means to imagine their own lives anew, and to face that which each fears the most. But outside their haven, the world is ravaged by war and old certainties are crumbling.
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Gripping story of love, loss, fear and strength
- By Sam on 27-06-23
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Shelter
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-09-17
- Language: English
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Loving Michael
- By: Kate Pearce
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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Since returning from the peninsular wars, Michael Waterstone has learned to live within restricted boundaries and taught himself not to yearn for what he can never have. Fortunately for him, ex-courtesan Angelique Delisle is no respecter of boundaries of any kind, and offers him a provocative Christmas wager that might change his life forever.
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Loved it
- By Sue h on 24-07-24
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Loving Michael
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Series: Diable Delamere, Book 3
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-12-16
- Language: English
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The Uncrowned Queen
- By: Anne O'Brien
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Her path to the throne is paved with treason.... 1330. Philippa of Hainault may be married to King Edward III, but she’s penniless and powerless. England quivers in the clutches of the Dowager Queen Isabella and her darkly ambitious lover Lord Mortimer while her husband rots in jail, a prisoner at Mortimer’s hand. It will take a courageous young man to emerge from the shadows and rise up against this formidable pair. Philippa won’t sit back and see Edward puppeteered. She is determined to see justice done.
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Check the details before you buy
- By The Curator on 01-02-19
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The Uncrowned Queen
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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An Indecent Wager
- A Steamy Regency Romance Book, Book 3
- By: Georgette Brown
- Narrated by: Em Brown
- Length: 1 hr
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For debt-ridden Deana Herwood, losing a hand of cards to the wealthy Lord Rockwell was bad enough. To settler her loss, she must offer her body to him for one night of pleasure. When she expresses her reservations, he offers an even more outrageous proposition. Can she win the wager or will her body succumb to the wicked attentions of Lord Rockwell?
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Terrible narration
- By TW on 06-10-21
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An Indecent Wager
- A Steamy Regency Romance Book, Book 3
- Narrated by: Em Brown
- Series: Steamy Regency Romance, Book 3
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 22-06-17
- Language: English
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In a Free State
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims.
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Masterful storytelling
- By bookylady on 04-10-18
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In a Free State
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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Protest
- By: Ra Page - editor
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power. In this timely and evocative collection, 20 authors have assembled to reimagine key moments of British protest, from the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003.
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Protest
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-01-18
- Language: English
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Everything My Mother Taught Me
- Inheritance collection
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 50 mins
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In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first. For fatefully observant Adeline, growing up carries an ominous warning from her adulterous mother: don’t say a word. Adeline vows to never speak again. But that’s not her only secret. After her mother takes a housekeeping job at a lighthouse off the tip of Cape Ann, a local woman vanishes. The key to the mystery lies with Adeline, the silent witness.
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Skillful tale-telling in a short story
- By AZ on 03-04-21
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Everything My Mother Taught Me
- Inheritance collection
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Series: Inheritance
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Indifference
- By: Sarah Hall
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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Uniquely disturbing and deeply erotic, this collection confirms Sarah Hall as one of the greatest writers of her generation. From the heathered fells and lowlands of Cumbria with their history of smouldering violence, to the speed and heat of summer London, to an eerily still lake in the Finnish wilderness, Sarah Hall evokes landscapes with extraordinary precision and grace.
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Wow. A knockout!
- By D. Lloyd on 25-08-23
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The Beautiful Indifference
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 30-05-14
- Language: English
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The Shawl
- By: Cynthia Ozick
- Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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At once fiercely immediate and complex in their implications, “The Shawl” and “Rosa” succeed in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the emptiness of its aftermath. They were written in 1977 but were first published in the early 1980s in The New Yorker. Both “The Shawl” and “Rosa” won first prize in the O. Henry Prize Stories and were chosen for Best American Short Stories.
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Direct and visceral
- By Melancholy Harold on 04-10-20
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The Shawl
- Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-11-11
- Language: English
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Cry of the Wind
- By: Sue Harrison
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
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Winter looms in this place of icy splendor near the top of the world-chilling a heart already frozen by hatred and cold dreams of revenge? Experience and adversity have made the storyteller Chakliux a wise and powerful hunter and a man of great respect. But a tender heart is his weakness. In his village lives the beautiful Aqamdax for whom he yearns, though she is mated to a cruel and dangerous tribesman she does not love. It is Chakliux she runs to under a clear, moonlit sky while the village sleeps.
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Cry of the Wind
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Series: Storyteller Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 13-11-13
- Language: English
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Meryton Vignettes
- Tales of Pride and Prejudice
- By: Elizabeth Adams
- Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In this collection of six short stories, the people of Pride and Prejudice move on, grow up, and explore paths not taken. Time leads these beloved characters down roads of self-discovery, courage, and heartbreak. And sometimes the journey takes them to surprising places.
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Meryton Vignettes
- Tales of Pride and Prejudice
- Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-04-17
- Language: English
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Darcy Interrupted
- A Pride and Prejudice Steamy Variation
- By: Demi Monde
- Narrated by: Piers Ryman
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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The newly married Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy arrive at Pemberley ready to enjoy the benefits of marriage...especially the one benefit they'd yet to savor. Their hopes are deflated, among other things, when his aunt Lady Catherine de Bourgh makes an unexpected and unwanted visit.
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A fun adult extension to the story
- By Micky - bookphenomena on 13-01-20
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Darcy Interrupted
- A Pride and Prejudice Steamy Variation
- Narrated by: Piers Ryman
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-11-19
- Language: English
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The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
- By: Julia Navarro
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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A cop as well as an art historian, Marco Valoni leads a crack team of investigators in a race to solve a crime he's certain is about to shock the world: someone is planning to steal the Holy Shroud of Turin.
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The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-12-06
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond, Caroline Lennon, Maggie Mash, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Resurrecting buried scandals, audacious hoaxes and private tragedies, Emma Donoghue has written a sequence of short stories about peculiar moments in the history of the British Isles. Here artists mix with poisoners and countesses rub shoulders with cross-dressers, vicars and revolutionaries; the Second Coming is proclaimed in Scotland; and a miniature girl becomes a tiny skeleton in a London museum.
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VERY DISAPPOINTING
- By Highlight on 18-12-16
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The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond, Caroline Lennon, Maggie Mash, Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 06-06-13
- Language: English
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