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The Mighty Red
- A Novel
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels.
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- De Jessica en 11-01-24
- The Mighty Red
- A Novel
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
Life is for the living
Revisado: 04-20-25
The author has historical roots in this NE part of North Dakota. One might assume she spent time here as a child or even as an adult and learned the ways of the land. She also has her own past from which I would guess she writes and weaves at least to an extent into her stories. Drawing from all this comes this book.
I'm from a small town in Iowa that could be just like the setting for this book in many ways. Normal people just trying to get by, eke out a living, live life on its terms.
One interesting tidbit was that several times it was mentioned there was mixed blood, the whites and the Native Americans. There were three tribes from around this area. But the author states that everyone knew who had mixed blood, not in a bad way but rather just that it existed. That wasn't the case in my hometown. But much of the way of life was and still is.
In listening to the book, I thought about what the book really all about. About life, how tough it can be and still wonderful.
Life has taught me, and this book reinforces the idea that life is for the living.
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Fugitive Colors
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Barr
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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Fugitive Colors is a gripping debut novel of an artist's indomitable vengeance after World War II. Julian Klein, a young American artist, rebels against his religious upbringing and is eager for the artistic freedom of 1930s Paris. He flees Chicago only to find himself consumed by a world in which a paintbrush is far more lethal than a gun. An artist turned spy, Julian at the same time competes with jealous inferior artists who feverishly attempt to destroy those with true talent.
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Good and Not So Good
- De Arizona Kitty Luvr en 11-29-18
- Fugitive Colors
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Barr
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
excellent
Revisado: 04-12-25
Who knew, not me anyway, that the Nazis started infiltrating France in the 1930s in preparation for the coming war. Most French citizens didn't realize it was happening but for those in certain situations they saw it coming and were afraid of it.
One of those area was the world of art. The Nazis early on decided that what they called degenerate art was unacceptable and had to be eradicated all across Europe. Into this void were many who wanted to profit from this effort and it's into this world the author writes this story. Lisa Barr must be an art expert herself or did a hell of a lot of research to accurately portray all that was going on.
This story evolves from Chicago to Paris to Berlin to Dachau around Munich to France again, Switzerland is in play then eventually back to the USA. In all these locales there are the good guys, mostly just wanting to paint, and the bad guys who wanted to take advantage of everything and destroy people along the way.
This book was a great listen, the debut novel of the author. The plot was great, character development great as well all adding up to the story that grabs you, makes you think and keeps you entertained until the end.
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Mary Jane
- De: Amy Herzog
- Narrado por: Rachel McAdams, April Matthis, Brenda Wehle, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
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Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.
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Amazing performance
- De Andrew Reynolds en 12-28-24
- Mary Jane
- De: Amy Herzog
- Narrado por: Rachel McAdams, April Matthis, Brenda Wehle, Lily Santiago, Susan Pourfar
searching for grace
Revisado: 04-12-25
First time author for me. When I plucked this listen out of the Plus catalog, I didn't realize it was the audio version of a Broadway play and that the author is a famous playwright.
It was pretty intense even if only 1 1/4 hour long. A chronically ill child and a mother that totally dedicates herself to his care. Between tough times at home and the hospital there are tough times all around. The mother comes in contact with other mothers in the same situation and takes comfort from that.
At the end someone seems to die but you aren't really sure who it is.
This wasn't a very happy listen, but it was interesting. Normally I don't like short stories, I like more character development, more time to develop the plot. But this one was OK being short.
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Lethal Vengeance
- Detective Erika Foster, Book 8
- De: Robert Bryndza
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
- Duración: 10 h
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When Detective Erika Foster finds politician Neville Lomas naked, hog-tied, and dead in his own bed, skittish higher-ups at the Met quickly rule the death from natural causes. Case closed...until two months later when a well-known casting director and a star footballer are found murdered and tied with the same knots. The Met can no longer ignore what’s staring them in the face: there’s a serial killer loose in London, and they’re out to settle a score. As Erika and her team investigate, things take a strange turn as CCTV footage turns up five female suspects...and they’re all identical.
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Difficult to Judge
- De Lynn en 02-09-24
- Lethal Vengeance
- Detective Erika Foster, Book 8
- De: Robert Bryndza
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
Erika
Revisado: 04-05-25
Erike Foster is the keep at it despite all odds kind of detective. This story fits right into that mode. Some high up muckety mucks don't want any incriminating information coming out about top level people in government and the police coming out embarrassing them all. Erika has to work the case while being told to drop everything because these powerful people are weighing in.
Erika keeps at it.
You can't help but feel sympathy for the crime doer. But, still..........
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Fatal Witness
- Detective Erika Foster, Book 7
- De: Robert Bryndza
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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Detective Erika Foster is on a late-night walk near her new house in Blackheath when she stumbles upon the brutal murder of Vicky Clarke, a true-crime podcaster. Erika is assigned to the case and discovers that Vicky had been working on a new podcast episode about a sexual predator who preys on young female students around South London, staking out his victims in their halls of residence before breaking in at the dead of night.
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This last book of the series seemed.... disconnected?
- De GRP en 09-15-22
- Fatal Witness
- Detective Erika Foster, Book 7
- De: Robert Bryndza
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
Erika
Revisado: 04-01-25
It seems like it's been a while since I listened to a book by this author, but I remembered I had enjoyed his books and happily dove back in with this one. I really enjoyed it as it was suspenseful and kept you on edge. The author had you thinking there were several good candidates to who was guilty during the course of the story, and it wasn't until the end you find out who it was.
Erika, herself, kept fighting thru obstacles to solve the case. As always, she kept at it until the end.
I look forward to the next one.
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Last Twilight in Paris
- De: Pam Jenoff
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before, when she worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe—and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny during the war. Following the trail of clues to Paris, Louise seeks help from her former boss Ian, with whom she shares a romantic history.
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Syrupy dialogue w
- De Shirley S. en 04-23-25
- Last Twilight in Paris
- De: Pam Jenoff
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer, Saskia Maarleveld
a tale of two women in WWII
Revisado: 03-28-25
The author always writes World War II stories involving the Jewish people in some form or another. They are set in different countries, Poland, France, the UK, etc. The setting for this one is mostly Paris.
The author weaves a tale with two women at the stories core, one British, the other a French Jew. The story is a time slip taking place some in the 1930s before the war, some in the 40s during the war and some in the 50s. after the war.
I'm not an expert in how Jews in France were treated during the war but I know they weren't treated any better than anywhere else in Europe at that time. I knew many Jews had first been to a velodrome type of place before being processed to go further east where nothing good happened. The author in doing her research about the war learned that there were actually three sorts of auxiliary locations that served as prisons for Jews that for different reasons had a privileged status and were treated at least a little better but, most importantly, were not sent on east from there. unless they did something wrong.
The author then crafts a story around a locket that affected both ladies' lives in very meaningful ways.
This is a typical Jenoff tale, at least in my mind. Historical fiction centered around WWII involving Jews that were being persecuted and, while not being terrifying, comminate the horrors of the war but done in a heartwarming, in the end, fashion. I've enjoyed all of this author's books.
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Red Rising
- De: Pierce Brown
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.
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HUMANS ARE ALWAY NEGOTIATING,
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-30-15
- Red Rising
- De: Pierce Brown
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
sci fi at its best
Revisado: 03-22-25
First time author for me. This was a really imaginative, creative tale. To dream up a story set on the planet Mars sometime in the future with all the characters and everything that goes with the story is simply amazing.
The author himself is American, born in Denver, college in California and somehow able to dream u and write this story.
I am curious about the narrator. Seemingly an Irish accent and I'm not sure why the story needed an Irish accent. But the narrator is also American but I see that he studied at Trinity College in Dublin so he could have learned it there, if he somehow didn't have it already. I'd guess he learned it as good actors/narrators will do.
I could go into the story itself but there are so many reviews, the summary is readily available, I don't see the need.
I also see there is dramatization of the series from Audible Studios. I'm curious how that might work. Maybe I'll try that for the next book in the series.
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Negative Girl
- De: Libby Cudmore
- Narrado por: Libby Cudmore, Jay Karnes
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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For fans of Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford comes Negative Girl: an evocative, moody, neo-noir thriller that explores obsession and people dying across America's forgotten spaces.
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Nice world. Want more
- De Daron Dickens en 02-08-25
- Negative Girl
- De: Libby Cudmore
- Narrado por: Libby Cudmore, Jay Karnes
who is the negative girl
Revisado: 03-11-25
First time author for me. In researching the author, I learned she attended Binghamton University in upstate New York. The setting of this book was in an unnamed upstate New York. So, it stands to reason the author wrote some of this book from firsthand knowledge. Just a guess on my part.
I really enjoyed listening to this book. The two main characters had dealt with heroin in their lives. one had been a user. His life had crashed and burned, and he left his environment and got sober. In this story he'd been sober for 19 years. The second character had been a minder, not sure of the correct term, of a best friend that had been a user, and she had helped this friend stay alive. In their own ways. Having plenty of regrets they were both just trying to move forward the best they could.
The author threw the two of them together as private investigators working to solve a case and both striving to put themselves together.
The mystery was a good one. It took them into the punk rock scene of this upstate New York university town. Working the case brought back many memories to both of them. A lot of the life described in the book is not pretty, in fact, it was pretty sad.
One aspect the book brought to me was thinking of the life I lived in younger days. As you get older you have regrets about some of the stupid stuff you did in your own live. I smoked some pot, drank too much sometimes but never sank into the dark depths this book describes in detail. Still, it made me think of that old life and that, to me, was the most important aspect of this book.
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Woman on Fire
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Barr
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth.
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Thrilling mix of history and suspense
- De Trisha A. Harkness en 04-02-22
- Woman on Fire
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Barr
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan
stolen Nazi art
Revisado: 02-21-25
This is historical fiction set in current day but going clear back to the 1930s when the higher ups in the Nazi party started stealing art from everyone for their own use and/or profit. The story revolves around a pointing of a woman titlds 'Woman on Fire'. It tracks the story of the painting over the eight decades or so when people were looking for it. There is a psychopathic bad actor that is very resourceful and will stop at nothing to get the painting. It's an interesting thriller but not really a keep you on the edge of your seat type thriller wanting to know what happens. It's a fun listen.
One of the interesting aspects of the book is the description of the world of art in the 1930s in Nazi Germany and the ensuing years when everyone dealing with stolen art in all its aspects were looking for the stolen art, some to return it to its rightful owners, others based on greed trying to make lots of money no matter what. Learning how art dealers, forgers, thieves, investigators all worked was good. The author really did her research in this area and communicated it well.
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Across a Hundred Mountains
- A Novel
- De: Reyna Grande
- Narrado por: Marisa Blake, Cynthia Farrell
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García leaves in search of her father, who left them two years earlier. Out of money and in need of someone to help her across the border, Juana meets Adelina Vasquez, a young woman who left her family in California to follow her lover to Mexico. Finding themselves - in a Tijuana jail - in desperate circumstances, they offer each other much needed material and spiritual support and ultimately become linked forever in the most unexpected of ways.
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Women
- De BB en 05-02-22
- Across a Hundred Mountains
- A Novel
- De: Reyna Grande
- Narrado por: Marisa Blake, Cynthia Farrell
el otro lado
Revisado: 02-17-25
First time author for me. There's some Spanish in this book, not a lot but more than just a little bit. I studied quite a bit of Spanish in my younger days and have forgotten lots of it, but I remembered enough that I could make out most of the Spanish used in the book. The one word I didn't know and looked up because it was used so much was lado or side in English. El otro Lado is the other side or the United States on the other side of the border where many from south off the border go to make their way in life.
Most of this book takes place in Mexico. The protagonist, Juana, is a little girl at the beginning of the book living in extreme poverty in a little small town. Her father wants to make for a better life for his family and decides he has to go to el otro lado to earn enough money to provide a better life for his family. He leaves and never comes back which sets other bad parts of life in motion for those left behind. The gist of the story is Juana growing up not believing her father had abandoned them and wanting to know what happened to him. Juana eventually makes her way to el otro lado in search of the answers and that's a big part of this book.
The author took elements of her own life and put it into this story. In researching her, she, in real life, came from this same part of Mexico where the story begins. At age 9 she travels with her family to el otro lado. No, she isn't abandoned by her father as it happens in the story, but she likely experienced at least some of what you listen to in the tale.
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