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First Words
- Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
- By: Margaret Atwood, Roy Blount Jr., Pat Conroy, and others
- Narrated by: Elliott Gould, Kevin McCarthy, Judith Ivey
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Most kids write stories. Only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. But before there was Carrie, there was Jhonathan and the Witchs. And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota Dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? A funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by today's most celebrated writers.
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First Words
- Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
- Narrated by: Elliott Gould, Kevin McCarthy, Judith Ivey
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-05-09
- Language: English
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Miao Dao
- Dark Corners collection
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Bad things have been happening since Mia began to mature. Her dad left. Boys at school can’t keep their hands to themselves. A lecherous stepfather has moved in. Her only refuge is an abandoned lot on her suburban cul-de-sac, crawling with feral felines - one of which follows Mia home. Ghostly white and affectionate, she is Mia’s new companion and - as Mia’s tormenters will soon discover - her fierce protector.
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Miao Dao
- Dark Corners collection
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Series: Dark Corners Collection
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 27-09-18
- Language: English
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Cutting Edge
- New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
- By: Joyce Carol Oates - editor
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy listeners who are sick of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more.
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- By Bob Cunningham on 09-11-23
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Cutting Edge
- New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Selected Stories From the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002
- By: Larry Dark, Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, David Pittu, Barbara Caruso
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award the top prizes. The result is a superb collection of inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction.
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Selected Stories From the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, David Pittu, Barbara Caruso
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-08-02
- Language: English
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Hazards of Time Travel
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - ‘Wainscotia, Wisconsin’ - that existed 80 years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of ‘rehabilitation’ - but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.
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Hazards of Time Travel
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 27-11-18
- Language: English
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The Sacrifice
- By: Joyce Carol Oates, Adam Lazarre-White
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Karole Foreman
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.
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Compelling
- By Susan on 22-06-15
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The Sacrifice
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Karole Foreman
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-01-15
- Language: English
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The Perfectionist
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Barbara Bosson, Annabeth Gish, Harold Gould, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Prize-winning author Joyce Carol Oates turns her satiric eye to Tobias Harte, a man obsessed with perfection in everything from ethics to egg salad. Rollicking comedy ensues as Harte struggles with his highly imperfect family and friends.
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The Perfectionist
- Narrated by: Barbara Bosson, Annabeth Gish, Harold Gould, Valerie Landsburg, David Schwimmer, David Selby
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-03-09
- Language: English
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La notte, il sonno, la morte e le stelle
- By: Joyce Carol Oates, Carlo Prosperi - traduttore
- Narrated by: Riccardo Bocci
- Length: 29 hrs and 45 mins
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Il vecchio John Earle “Whitey” McClaren, è l'ex sindaco repubblicano di Hammond, editore, pubblicitario e patriarca di una famiglia di cinque figli. Mentre cerca di fermare il pestaggio di un sospetto da parte della polizia viene a sua volta violentemente picchiato, colpito con il taser e, di conseguenza, entra in coma. Muore in ospedale poco dopo. La scomparsa del capofamiglia porta i suoi figli e la moglie, Jessalyn, a intraprendere un percorso di inattese e imprevedibili trasformazioni.
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La notte, il sonno, la morte e le stelle
- Narrated by: Riccardo Bocci
- Length: 29 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-12-22
- Language: Italian
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The Bloodstained Bridal Gown
- The Mysteries of Winterthurn, Part Three
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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As detective Xavier Kilgarvan sorts through clues and rumors, facts and fantasy, he is united with his beloved Perdita in a perilous challenge - the case of The Bloodstained Bridal Gown. Twelve years after solving the mystery of The Devil’s Half Acre, Xavier has received an urgent plea for help. A young minister and a woman from his parish have been murdered. Their torn bodies are found in an oddly suggestive position: leaning tenderly upon each other on a sofa in the rectory. Yet something even stranger is discovered upstairs....
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The Bloodstained Bridal Gown
- The Mysteries of Winterthurn, Part Three
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
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It Occurs to Me That I Am America
- New Stories and Art
- By: Richard Russo, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, and others
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Francois Chau, Kyla Garcia, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from 30 best-selling and award-winning authors - including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child - with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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It Occurs to Me That I Am America
- New Stories and Art
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Francois Chau, Kyla Garcia, Parry Shen, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 16-01-18
- Language: English
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The Key/Tone Clusters
- Two Short Plays by Joyce Carol Oates
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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The Key and Tone Clusters are two one-act plays by 2009 Man Booker Nominee Joyce Carol Oates. The Key is a hilariously perverse encounter between a vacationing suburban housewife, recently separated from her husband, and a prosperous businessman. Tone Cluster is a chilling comedy that takes the form of an interview between a middle-aged, middle-class American couple and the media.
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The Key/Tone Clusters
- Two Short Plays by Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce Van Patten, JoBeth Williams
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-09-09
- Language: English
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Black Water
- An American Opera
- By: John Duffy, Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Karen Burlingame, Patrick Mason
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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Based on National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates' novella about the Chappaquiddick scandal, this tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce, and carelessly destroy.
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Black Water
- An American Opera
- Narrated by: Karen Burlingame, Patrick Mason
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 19-06-01
- Language: English
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Gulf War and Black
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Gulf War and Black are two one-act plays by acclaimed American author Joyce Carol Oates. This full cast production stars: Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, Rif Hutton, Nan Martin, and Joe Spano.
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Gulf War and Black
- Narrated by: Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-05-01
- Language: English
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Sourland
- Stories of Loss, Grief, and Forgetting
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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A gripping and moving new collection of stories that reimagines the meaning of loss - through often unexpected and violent means. Joyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. Sourland - 16 previously uncollected stories that explore how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soul - shows us an author working at the height of her powers.
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Sourland
- Stories of Loss, Grief, and Forgetting
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-09-10
- Language: English
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The Truth Teller
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Charles Durning, Arthur Hanket, Gary Kroeger, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Joyce Carol Oates' hilarious take-off on a classic Southern play begins when liberated Hedda arrives home to visit the family estate, ruled by the family’s tyrannical patriarch, “Tiny” Culligan. Tiny doesn’t know what to make of Hedda’s intellectual boyfriend, Saul. But then, Saul doesn’t know what to make of Hedda’s sister, the slinky Maggie, who finds Jewish professors very sexy indeed. A full cast L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring: Charles Durning, Arthur Hanket, Gary Kroeger, Marsha Mason, Priscilla Pointer, William Schallert and JoBeth Williams.
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The Truth Teller
- Narrated by: Charles Durning, Arthur Hanket, Gary Kroeger, Marsha Mason, Priscilla Pointer, William Schallert, JoBeth Williams
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 22-11-11
- Language: English
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Zombi
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Pau Ferrer
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Perturbadora novela, ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker a mejor novela de terror en 1995, en la que nos adentramos en la psique de un asesino en serie obsesionado con crear su propio zombi. Un viaje tan lisérgico como aterrador al corazón de alguien capaz de matar para satisfacer sus fantasías.
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Zombi
- Narrated by: Pau Ferrer
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 17-02-22
- Language: Spanish
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Una famiglia americana
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Riccardo Bocci
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
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Tutti ammirano i Mulvaney, tutti li invidiano. Sono un clan chiassoso e allegro, una famiglia perfetta; la loro fattoria nel nord dello stato di New York è una casa da fiaba abitata da uno stuolo di cani, gatti, cavalli, mucche e pecore, sempre piena di amici e parenti. Michael, il padre, ha un'impresa edile ben avviata, è conosciuto, rispettato, membro orgoglioso del country club. Sua moglie Corinne è una donna "nervosamente allegra", visceralmente anticonformista, con una solida fede religiosa, la mente sempre in fermento, la passione per l'antiquariato e la politica.
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Una famiglia americana
- Narrated by: Riccardo Bocci
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: Italian
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Will You Always Love Me?
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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Joyce Carol Oates paints a haunting tapestry of American life in 22 short stories that take the listener from tempestuous inner cities to isolated rural backwaters. Obsession with loss, fear of betrayal, and sudden violence plague Oates’ characters as she examines the lives of the working poor and follies of the irresponsible rich with searing clarity. George Guidall’s and Barbara Caruso’s masterful performances make this rich collection of stories a must-listen.
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An unfulfilling listen.
- By Derek on 22-04-11
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Will You Always Love Me?
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-09-10
- Language: English
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La hija del sepulturero [The Gravedigger's Daughter]
- By: Joyce Carol Oates, José Luis López Muñoz - translator
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
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En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos. El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al único trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio.
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La hija del sepulturero [The Gravedigger's Daughter]
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: Spanish
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Broke Heart Blues
- A Novel
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Finlay Stevenson, Cassandra Campbell, Fred Berman, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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In the heart of a languid July, eleven-year-old John Reddy Heart drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy—already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley—who will claim the town itself.
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Broke Heart Blues
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Finlay Stevenson, Cassandra Campbell, Fred Berman, Brittany Pressley, Linda Jones, Vas Eli, Barton Caplan, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Joyce Carol Oates
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 19-11-24
- Language: English
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