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The Music of Chance
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom"....
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love the ambiguity of this story
- By Thomas Moulson on 11-01-15
By: Paul Auster
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Red Side Story
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Length: 10 hrs
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Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see....
By: Jasper Fforde
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The Eyre Affair
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages...
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Audio problems mar an otherwise entertaining read
- By Charlie on 06-06-13
By: Jasper Fforde
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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld....
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Much better
- By Celia 22 on 07-03-21
By: Jasper Fforde
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Dance Dance Dance
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, and the result is the remarkable story Dance Dance Dance....
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Brilliant - a Murakami 'Masterpiece of weirdness'
- By The Viscount on 04-10-16
By: Haruki Murakami
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The Constant Rabbit
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of the Year award....
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My favourite book of 2020
- By Miss Ah on 05-07-20
By: Jasper Fforde
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The Music of Chance
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom"....
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love the ambiguity of this story
- By Thomas Moulson on 11-01-15
By: Paul Auster
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Red Side Story
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see....
By: Jasper Fforde
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The Eyre Affair
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages...
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Audio problems mar an otherwise entertaining read
- By Charlie on 06-06-13
By: Jasper Fforde
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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld....
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Much better
- By Celia 22 on 07-03-21
By: Jasper Fforde
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Dance Dance Dance
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, and the result is the remarkable story Dance Dance Dance....
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Brilliant - a Murakami 'Masterpiece of weirdness'
- By The Viscount on 04-10-16
By: Haruki Murakami
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The Constant Rabbit
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of the Year award....
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My favourite book of 2020
- By Miss Ah on 05-07-20
By: Jasper Fforde
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Diary of a Void
- By: Emi Yagi, Lucy North - translator, David Boyd - translator
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut, Diary of a Void is about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant....
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Enjoyable but end confused
- By Lulu on 11-06-23
By: Emi Yagi, and others
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Pale Fire
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life....
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It's all very clever but...
- By CMV on 28-04-17
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]
- By: Luigi Pirandello
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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più celebre romanzo di Pirandello, scritto nel 1904, narra la storia del bibliotecario Mattia Pascal....
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Fantastico!! In pezzo inperdibile
- By Zefira Z on 19-02-18
By: Luigi Pirandello
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First Among Sequels
- Thursday Next, Book 5
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Emily Gray
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld....
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Fforde as good as ever.
- By Kindle Customer on 21-01-16
By: Jasper Fforde
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Harold
- By: Steven Wright
- Narrated by: Steven Wright
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Uniquely humorous and deeply profound, Harold documents the meandering, surreal, often hilarious, and always thought-provoking stream-of-consciousness ruminations of a 1960s third grader during a single day in class....
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okay
- By Anonymous User on 21-06-23
By: Steven Wright
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Terminal Boredom
- Stories
- By: Izumi Suzuki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina....
By: Izumi Suzuki
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A History of the Island
- By: Eugene Vodolazkin, Lisa C. Hayden - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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This ingenious novel is presented as a chronicle of an island from medieval to modern times. The island is not on the map, but it is real beyond doubt. It cannot be found in history books, yet the events are painfully recognizable....
By: Eugene Vodolazkin, and others
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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....
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Haunting and wonderfully sinister
- By S. Moorcroft on 22-03-22
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Unusual Uses For Olive Oil
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld....
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A True Delight
- By Patricia on 08-11-11
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Die Blechtrommel
- By: Günter Grass
- Narrated by: Günter Grass
- Length: 28 hrs
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Oskar Matzerath ist anders. Mit drei Jahren beschließt er, nicht weiter zu wachsen. Der groteske Außenseiter betrachtet die Welt mit...
By: Günter Grass
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The Elephant Vanishes
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi, Susan Momoko Hingley
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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A dizzying short-story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary....
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So disappointing
- By Susanne on 10-04-21
By: Haruki Murakami
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Stockholm
- A Novel
- By: Noa Yedlin
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Rebecca Stern
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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An ingeniously plotted dark comedy about aging and friendship following a tight-knit circle of seniors as they attempt to hide the death of one of their best friends so he can win the Nobel Prize for Economics–the inspiration for a popular Israeli TV series....
By: Noa Yedlin
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Antkind: A Novel
- By: Charlie Kaufman
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
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B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider....
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The weirdest thing
- By Malwina Tritt on 18-01-21
By: Charlie Kaufman
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Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär
- Zamonien 1
- By: Walter Moers
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach, Wolfgang Völz
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
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Ein Blaubär entführt den Hörer in eine Welt, in der Phantasie und Humor auf abenteuerliche Weise außer Kontrolle geraten sind...
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Delightful Time-waster
- By Diane Severson on 04-10-22
By: Walter Moers
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Temporary
- By: Hilary Leichter
- Narrated by: Carly Robins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own....
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A surreal fable for the modern age
- By Luce Briggi on 27-03-20
By: Hilary Leichter
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The Thing in the Snow
- A Novel
- By: Sean Adams
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel—equal parts satire and psychological thriller—that holds a funhouse mirror to the isolated workplace and an age of endless distraction....
By: Sean Adams
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Little Siberia
- By: Antti Tuomainen
- Narrated by: Ville Leppanen, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car....
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Quirky black humour
- By p h merrill on 13-04-21
By: Antti Tuomainen
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A Country Road, a Tree
- By: Jo Baker
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfalls of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees....
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Fantastic
- By Amazon Customer on 09-07-17
By: Jo Baker
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Spike Unleashed
- The Wonder Dog Returns: As Told to Bill Boggs
- By: Bill Boggs
- Narrated by: Jon Waters
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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Our English Bull Terrier hero and his master Bud continue their hilarious antics in this latest installment of Spike the Wonder Dog's adventures....
By: Bill Boggs
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Oblomov
- By: Ivan Goncharov
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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A member of the landed gentry, with a seemingly guaranteed income from his estate in the country, Oblomov lives in Petersburg, uninterested in the business that provides his living and barely aware that the revenue is diminishing....
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Oblomov
- By Anonymous User on 19-07-23
By: Ivan Goncharov
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Sea Change
- By: Gina Chung
- Narrated by: Jeena Yi
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss has to find her way back to stable shores with the help of a giant Pacific octopus....
By: Gina Chung
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The Late Mattia Pascal
- By: Luigi Pirandello
- Narrated by: Peter Tucker
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The Late Mattia Pascal (Italian: Il fu Mattia Pascal) is a 1904 novel by Luigi Pirandello. It is one of his best-known works and was his first major treatment of the theme of the mask....
By: Luigi Pirandello
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Hell of a Book
- By: Jason Mott
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ronald Peet
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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An author goes on a book tour for his new bestseller which, as people keep telling him, is one hell of a book. One morning, he meets The Kid: a young Black boy who looks just like the one he keeps seeing on the news. And The Kid wants him to tell his story....
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Predictable
- By Paul on 16-02-22
By: Jason Mott
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The Seep
- By: Chana Porter
- Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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A blend of searing social commentary and speculative fiction, Chana Porter’s fresh, pointed debut explores a strange new world in the wake of a benign alien invasion....
By: Chana Porter
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The Loneliest Band in France
- A Novella
- By: Dylan Fisher
- Narrated by: Jimmy Moreland
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator—a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier—finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: Noël, Guy, Lucien, and Michel. Not only is there prize money attached to the concert, the bandmates also see this as an opportunity to debut a new song—one, they claim, that can hurt—even kill—its listeners.
By: Dylan Fisher
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Spike Unleashed
- The Wonder Dog Returns: As Told to Bill Boggs
- By: Bill Boggs
- Narrated by: Jon Waters
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This laugh-out-loud novel, with its interwoven and inventive plotlines, could be called Game of Bones. In the midst of being ensnared in a devious revenge plot, Spike the Wonder Dog manages to unleash his celebrated brand of absurdist humor, shrewd social commentary, and certifiably funny grievances at human shortcomings, while romping through all manner of sexy scenarios in the rich and famous playgrounds of Palm Beach, Manhattan, and East Hampton.
By: Bill Boggs
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Birthweek of a Hikikomori
- By: Kameron Rex Hansen
- Narrated by: Eric Sweigert
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audacious and honest debut, a college student’s life in New York City serves as a satirical endorsement of modern life everywhere. Collin finds the self-service kiosks at McDonald’s consistent and calming in an otherwise chaotic world. He stands before one, swiping through the interactive menu as a way to ground himself more firmly in his reality—a reality of video games, posting furniture on Craigslist, and chatting with strangers on Discord. He mutters, “No man is an island,” and then realizes he hasn't spoken out loud since he last said, “semipermeable membrane."
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Juan and Willy
- By: Lorraine Ray
- Narrated by: Gordon B. Diamond
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Who hasn't dreamed of finding a fortune in gold? After Juan Verdugo and Willy Jent are fired from their jobs as car detailers at a dealership, a desire for gold possesses them. Locating a lost mine, however, means they have to outsmart a kid, a huge challenge for this pair. With an idea of where some lost gold might be, they search for a truck with an intact transmission that isn't full of feral cats. Of course, abandoned mines aren't safe places either, a fact especially true for these buddies.
By: Lorraine Ray
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Sea Change
- By: Gina Chung
- Narrated by: Jeena Yi
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro’s only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro’s last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.
By: Gina Chung
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Florida Hustle
- By: Paul Wilborn
- Narrated by: Dan Levy, Abigail Reno
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Embark on a rollicking Florida escapade through this masterfully crafted, wickedly funny comic novel. Set in 1980s Florida, this coming-of-age adventure follows the journey of a 17-year-old aspiring horror filmmaker captivated by a B-movie scream queen. Stealing away from his family’s Palm Beach mansion, he joins forces with an aging con man and his ambitious girlfriend. Together, they race into the heart of the Everglades, where his dream girl is filming Swamp Fiend 2. However, their plans bog down in a treacherous swamp teeming with competing cons and hustles, and a whole lot of alligators!
By: Paul Wilborn
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The Loneliest Band in France
- A Novella
- By: Dylan Fisher
- Narrated by: Jimmy Moreland
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator—a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier—finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: Noël, Guy, Lucien, and Michel. Not only is there prize money attached to the concert, the bandmates also see this as an opportunity to debut a new song—one, they claim, that can hurt—even kill—its listeners.
By: Dylan Fisher
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Spike Unleashed
- The Wonder Dog Returns: As Told to Bill Boggs
- By: Bill Boggs
- Narrated by: Jon Waters
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This laugh-out-loud novel, with its interwoven and inventive plotlines, could be called Game of Bones. In the midst of being ensnared in a devious revenge plot, Spike the Wonder Dog manages to unleash his celebrated brand of absurdist humor, shrewd social commentary, and certifiably funny grievances at human shortcomings, while romping through all manner of sexy scenarios in the rich and famous playgrounds of Palm Beach, Manhattan, and East Hampton.
By: Bill Boggs
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Birthweek of a Hikikomori
- By: Kameron Rex Hansen
- Narrated by: Eric Sweigert
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audacious and honest debut, a college student’s life in New York City serves as a satirical endorsement of modern life everywhere. Collin finds the self-service kiosks at McDonald’s consistent and calming in an otherwise chaotic world. He stands before one, swiping through the interactive menu as a way to ground himself more firmly in his reality—a reality of video games, posting furniture on Craigslist, and chatting with strangers on Discord. He mutters, “No man is an island,” and then realizes he hasn't spoken out loud since he last said, “semipermeable membrane."
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Juan and Willy
- By: Lorraine Ray
- Narrated by: Gordon B. Diamond
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Who hasn't dreamed of finding a fortune in gold? After Juan Verdugo and Willy Jent are fired from their jobs as car detailers at a dealership, a desire for gold possesses them. Locating a lost mine, however, means they have to outsmart a kid, a huge challenge for this pair. With an idea of where some lost gold might be, they search for a truck with an intact transmission that isn't full of feral cats. Of course, abandoned mines aren't safe places either, a fact especially true for these buddies.
By: Lorraine Ray
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Sea Change
- By: Gina Chung
- Narrated by: Jeena Yi
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro’s only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro’s last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.
By: Gina Chung
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Florida Hustle
- By: Paul Wilborn
- Narrated by: Dan Levy, Abigail Reno
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Embark on a rollicking Florida escapade through this masterfully crafted, wickedly funny comic novel. Set in 1980s Florida, this coming-of-age adventure follows the journey of a 17-year-old aspiring horror filmmaker captivated by a B-movie scream queen. Stealing away from his family’s Palm Beach mansion, he joins forces with an aging con man and his ambitious girlfriend. Together, they race into the heart of the Everglades, where his dream girl is filming Swamp Fiend 2. However, their plans bog down in a treacherous swamp teeming with competing cons and hustles, and a whole lot of alligators!
By: Paul Wilborn