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Only Say the Word
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God, although not necessarily in that order. Later, he loves Kate, enough to make her his wife; later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. This is Jim's story, from early days spent in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and back to Clare again.
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Well written, but depressing
- By Taisce Mara on 09-11-20
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Only Say the Word
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 31-07-14
- Language: English
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Der Koch
- By: Martin Suter
- Narrated by: Heikko Deutschmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Maravan, 33, tamilischer Asylbewerber, arbeitet als Hilfskraft in einem Zürcher Sternelokal, tief unter seinem Niveau, denn Maravan ist ein begnadeter, leidenschaftlicher Koch...
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Der Koch
- Narrated by: Heikko Deutschmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-02-10
- Language: German
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A Kind Man
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour of knowing him. There had never been a day when he had not shown her some small kindness. The birth of a daughter, Jeannie Eliza, crowns the young couple’s happiness - just as her shockingly early death casts them low. But they do not need to talk about Jeannie because she remains with them, and their love does not change.
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a kindman
- By barbara bar on 14-04-13
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A Kind Man
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 19-08-11
- Language: English
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The River Capture
- By: Mary Costello
- Narrated by: Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Luke O'Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family's heyday and turns to books for solace. One morning a young woman arrives at his door and enters his life with profound consequences. Her presence presents him and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.
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Beautifully Written but Disconcerting
- By cyclingcarol on 12-02-23
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The River Capture
- Narrated by: Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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Seesaw
- By: Deborah Moggach
- Narrated by: Josie Lawrence
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Take an ordinary, well-off family like the Prices. Watch what happens when, one Sunday, 17-year-old Hannah disappears without a trace. See how the family rallies when a ransom note demands half a million pounds for Hannah's safe return. But it's when Hannah comes home that the story really begins. Now observe what happens to a family when they lose their house, their status, all their wealth. Note how they disintegrate under the pressures of guilt and poverty and are forced to confront their true selves.
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Beautifully read
- By MS on 12-09-18
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Seesaw
- Narrated by: Josie Lawrence
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 08-02-07
- Language: English
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Die Wut, die bleibt
- By: Mareike Fallwickl
- Narrated by: Marie-Isabel Walke, Ulrike Kapfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Mareike Fallwickls neuer Roman über die Last, die auf den Frauen abgeladen wird, und das Aufbegehren: radikal, wachrüttelnd, empowernd. Helene, Mutter von drei Kindern, steht beim Abendessen auf, geht zum Balkon und stürzt sich ohne ein Wort in den Tod. Die Familie ist im Schockzustand. Plötzlich fehlt ihnen alles, was sie bisher zusammengehalten hat: Liebe, Fürsorge, Sicherheit. Helenes beste Freundin Sarah, die Helene ihrer Familie wegen zugleich beneidet und bemitleidet hat, wird in den Strudel der Trauer und des Chaos gezogen.
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Sehr zeitgemäß und einfühlsam
- By new_me on 30-10-22
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Die Wut, die bleibt
- Narrated by: Marie-Isabel Walke, Ulrike Kapfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: German
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The Ravenscar Dynasty
- By: Kati Nicholl - abriged, Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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The Ravenscar Dynasty, introducing the house of DeRavenel, launches Barbara Taylor Bradford’s epic new series. Ravenscar: A house, a legacy and a dynasty. On a bitterly cold day in 1904, the Deravenel family's future changes for ever. When Cecily Deravenel tells her 18-year-old son Edward of the death of his father, brother, and cousins in a fire, a part of him dies as well. Edward is comforted by his cousin Neville Watkins, who is suspicious of the deaths.
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Ravens car dynasty
- By Paul daysh on 26-12-22
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The Ravenscar Dynasty
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-10-12
- Language: English
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The Valley at the Centre of the World
- By: Malachy Tallack
- Narrated by: Robert Williamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Shetland: a place of sheep and soil, close ties and an age-old way of life. A place where David has lived all his life, like his father and grandfather before him. A place where Sandy, a newcomer but already a crofter, may have finally found a home. A place that Alice has fled to after the death of her husband. In the wind and sun and storms from the Atlantic, these islanders must decide: what is left of us when the day's work is done, the children grown, and all our choices have been made?
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Fabulous combination of story and narration.
- By ALP on 24-01-23
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The Valley at the Centre of the World
- Narrated by: Robert Williamson
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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The Time Being
- By: Antonia Honeywell
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 31 mins
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At 11 Lalla should be enjoying her childhood in London. But this is not London as we know it. In a collapsed society, Lalla struggles to imagine her future. When a government announcement invites her to enjoy a new life in Regent’s Park, Lalla sees a glimmer of hope. But what is she willing to risk? The Time Being is the short-story prequel to The Ship by Antonia Honeywell, if you enjoyed this, you’ll love the full-length novel sequel.
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Captivating.
- By VJ on 20-02-15
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The Time Being
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 12-02-15
- Language: English
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Der Wald
- By: Eleanor Catton, Melanie Walz - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Cathlen Gawlich
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Der neue Roman der Booker Prize-Gewinnerin Eleanor Catton, ein rasanter Öko-Thriller um idealistische Umweltaktivisten, die auf einen charismatischen Milliardär ohne Moral treffen. Mira Bunting ist die Gründerin einer Guerilla-Gardening-Gruppe namens Birnam Wood. Als nicht gemeldeter und sich an der Grenze des Legalen bewegender, philanthropischer Zusammenschluss von Freunden pflanzt und erntet das Kollektiv, wo es niemand bemerkt: an Straßenrändern, in vergessenen Parks und vernachlässigten Hinterhöfen.
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Der Wald
- Narrated by: Cathlen Gawlich
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-03-24
- Language: German
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Rauch und Schall
- By: Charles Lewinsky
- Narrated by: Silke Geertz
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Goethe kommt zurück aus der Schweiz und hat zu Hause in Weimar plötzlich eine Schreibblockade. Da kann sein kleiner Sohn August noch so still sein und seine Frau Christiane noch so liebevoll um sein Wohl besorgt. Ausgerechnet sein Schwager Christian August Vulpius, ebenfalls Schriftsteller und von Goethe verachteter Viel- und Lohnschreiber, kommt ihm in dieser Situation zu Hilfe. Zu einer Hilfe, die Goethe nicht will und doch dringend braucht.
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Rauch und Schall
- Narrated by: Silke Geertz
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 25-10-23
- Language: German
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Paper Trail
- By: John Timpson
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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When young Charles Benson arrives in Toftham, a sleepy Norfolk market town, on a miserable Sunday afternoon in January 1952, he has only the vaguest idea what Fate has in store for him. It is at the hands of the editor of the Toftham and Wettleford Journal, Mr Juby, that Charles is introduced to local reporting and Norfolk ways.
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funny and sad.
- By Mrs. K. I. Richards on 09-02-16
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Paper Trail
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-04-14
- Language: English
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Und alle so still
- By: Mareike Fallwickl
- Narrated by: Marie-Isabel Walke, Astrid Kohrs, Henning Nöhren
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Was wäre, wenn alle Frauen sich verweigern und in einen Care-Streik treten würden? Ein großer feministischer Gesellschaftsroman über Widerspruchsgeist und Solidarität. Elin ist Anfang zwanzig und lebt mit ihrer Mutter in einem Wellnesshotel. Während des Lockdowns ist sie Influencerin geworden. Seither sieht sie sich mit misogynem Hass im Netz konfrontiert. Nuri stammt aus prekären Verhältnissen, einen Schulabschluss hat er nicht. Nun versucht er, sich als Fahrradkurier, Bettenschubser und Essenslieferant über Wasser zu halten. Der Spätkapitalismus hat ihn fest im Griff.
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Und alle so still
- Narrated by: Marie-Isabel Walke, Astrid Kohrs, Henning Nöhren
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: German
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Die Hauptstadt
- By: Robert Menasse
- Narrated by: Christian Berkel
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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Fenia Xenopoulou, Beamtin in der Generaldirektion Kultur in Brüssel, steht vor einer schwierigen Aufgabe. Sie soll das Image der EU-Kommission aufpolieren. Aber wie? Sie beauftragt den Referenten Martin Susman, eine Idee zu entwickeln. Die Idee nimmt Gestalt an - die Gestalt eines Gespensts aus der Geschichte. David de Vriend dämmert in einem Altenheim seinem Tod entgegen. Als Kind ist er von einem Deportationszug gesprungen, der seine Eltern in den Tod führte.
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Wer hätte es für möglich gehalten,
- By taptoflow on 10-12-23
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Die Hauptstadt
- Narrated by: Christian Berkel
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-09-17
- Language: German
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Paris Stories
- By: Mavis Gallant
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
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Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.
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Flawless writing, performance ok
- By Mariachi on 14-10-13
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Paris Stories
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-11-06
- Language: English
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Nachts erzähle ich dir alles
- By: Anika Landsteiner
- Narrated by: Rebecca Veil, Gabriele Blum
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Léa flieht vor ihrem Leben. Sie tauscht den deutschen Sommer gegen den südfranzösischen und fährt auf das alte Familienanwesen an der Côte d’Azur. Doch ihr Plan, dort zur Ruhe zu kommen, geht nicht auf: Am Abend ihrer Ankunft unterhält sie sich mit einer jungen Frau, die noch in derselben Nacht ums Leben kommt – und Léa ist die letzte, die sie gesehen hat. Plötzlich steht Émile, der Bruder der jungen Frau, vor Léas Tür. Ihn quälen viele Fragen, weil er erfahren hat, dass seine Schwester schwanger war.
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Nachts erzähle ich dir alles
- Narrated by: Rebecca Veil, Gabriele Blum
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-09-23
- Language: German
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Lichtungen
- By: Iris Wolff
- Narrated by: Marek Harloff
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Als der elfjährige Lev über Wochen ans Bett gefesselt ist, wird ausgerechnet die schlaue, aber von allen gemiedene Kato geschickt, um ihm die Hausaufgaben zu bringen. Zwischen dem ungleichen Paar entsteht eine unverbrüchliche Verbindung, die den beiden Heranwachsenden im kommunistischen Vielvölkerstaat Rumänien Halt bietet. Ein halbes Leben später läuft Lev noch immer die Pfade ihrer Kindheit ab, während Kato schon vor Jahren in den Westen aufgebrochen ist. Geblieben sind Lev nur ihre gezeichneten Postkarten aus ganz Europa. Bis ihn eines Tages eine Karte aus Zürich erreicht, darauf nur ein einziger Satz: "Wann kommst du?"
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Lichtungen
- Narrated by: Marek Harloff
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-01-24
- Language: German
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Escute as feras
- By: Nastassja Martin, Camila Vargas Boldrini, Daniel Lühmann, and others
- Narrated by: Maria Manoella
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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Após ser atacada por um urso ao pé de um vulcão na Sibéria, região onde realizava pesquisas sobre o povo even, Nastassja Martin luta por sua sobrevivência, enquanto passa por internações em hospitais da Rússia e da França. Neste livro, misto de relato etnográfico e autobiografia, a antropóloga francesa reflete sobre esse acontecimento, no qual, segundo ela própria, "um urso e uma mulher se encontram e as fronteiras entre os mundos implodem".
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Escute as feras
- Narrated by: Maria Manoella
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-11-23
- Language: Portuguese
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Even Dogs Learn How to Swim
- By: Gene Wilder
- Narrated by: Gene Wilder, Joie Lee
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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Gene Wilder's audiobook is the story of Lonny Serkin, a boy dealing with the curves life throws at him. With just his father and then the love of a new mother to guide him, he does his best to navigate the twin countries of humor and tragedy that he must travel through. Even Dogs Learn How to Swim is a story of growing up, deciding to move forward when all seems lost, and appreciating love when and where you find it.
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Very sad but positive
- By Ardeshir Sarosh on 26-11-23
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Even Dogs Learn How to Swim
- Narrated by: Gene Wilder, Joie Lee
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 21-02-18
- Language: English
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