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Playground
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- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 155
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills.
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The descriptions of undersea life were vivid and captivating.
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Playground
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- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, Krys Janae, Kevin R Free
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-24-24
- Language: English
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,842
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,610
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,595
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond....
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- By Michael Stansberry on 05-23-18
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The Overstory
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-03-18
- Language: English
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The Time of Our Singing
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 33 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story5 out of 5 stars 122
Set against the backdrop of postwar America, The Time of Our Singing is a magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted - and divided - family....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Undigested Erudition
- By Dr. Blue Jacaranda on 11-11-20
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The Time of Our Singing
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 33 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-19-18
- Language: English
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Bewilderment
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- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,570
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,193
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,184
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Usually a Richard Powers Fan
- By Billy on 09-28-21
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Bewilderment
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-21-21
- Language: English
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The Echo Maker
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 120
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Story4 out of 5 stars 120
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too much time for a boring story
- By HannahMK on 08-06-20
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The Echo Maker
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-20-17
- Language: English
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Gain
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body plunges into a new existence when she learns she has ovarian cancer. In the other, soap manufacturer Clare & Company grows into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown....
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Gain
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-27-18
- Language: English
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Playground
- By: Richard Powers
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- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Overstory comes an epic tale of love, friendship and humanity’s next great adventure.
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Playground
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Eunice Wong, Kevin R. Free, Chris Janney, Pun Bandhu, Robin Siegerman
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-24-24
- Language: English
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Plowing the Dark
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett, Michael Braun
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not quite sure how to take this one...
- By Matthew on 05-14-20
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Plowing the Dark
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett, Michael Braun
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-04-19
- Language: English
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Prisoner's Dilemma
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn, Lori Gardner, Morgan Hallett, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4 out of 5 stars 19
Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness....
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5 out of 5 stars
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DEEP AS THE FOREST
- By Rosa Belle on 11-11-19
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Prisoner's Dilemma
- Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn, Lori Gardner, Morgan Hallett, Tom Picasso, Richard Poe, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-18-19
- Language: English
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Operation Wandering Soul
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor performance
- By Amazon Customer on 03-16-24
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Operation Wandering Soul
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 07-09-19
- Language: English
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Orfeo
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 227
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Story4 out of 5 stars 193
In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present....
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Lost Chord
- By Mel on 02-04-14
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Orfeo
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-20-14
- Language: English
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: John Skelley
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 18
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 18
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't Waste Your Time.
- By Trevor Morris on 08-01-24
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- Narrated by: John Skelley
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-20-20
- Language: English
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Playground
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- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
PLAYGROUND follows four lives – a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer – that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity’s next great adventure....
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Playground
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Eunice Wong, Kevin R. Free, Krys Janae, Pun Bandhu, Robin Siegerman
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-26-24
- Language: English
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Bewilderment
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Promising more than it delivers
- By Ania on 06-07-23
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Bewilderment
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-21-21
- Language: English
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 103
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enchanting, tragic, hopeful
- By Lisl Barry on 10-14-19
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The Overstory
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-06-18
- Language: English
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Generosity
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4 out of 5 stars 83
What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination....
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5 out of 5 stars
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All About Fiction
- By James on 11-30-10
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Generosity
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-29-09
- Language: English
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The Gold Bug Variations
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan, Andrew Garman
- Length: 32 hrs and 21 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4 out of 5 stars 23
Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the '60s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Expectations, Bigger Disappointments
- By tom on 03-23-19
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The Gold Bug Variations
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan, Andrew Garman
- Length: 32 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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Galatea 2.2
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
After several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the US where a cognitive neurologist involves him in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Complex verbiage with a very self-centered focus
- By Trevor C. on 07-28-21
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Galatea 2.2
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-10-19
- Language: English
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L'Arbre-Monde
- By: Richard Powers, Serge Chauvin
- Narrated by: Leah Vaidis-Bogard
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Après des années passées seule dans la forêt à étudier les arbres, la botaniste Pat Westerford en revient avec une découverte sur ce qui...
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L'Arbre-Monde
- Narrated by: Leah Vaidis-Bogard
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: French
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Playground (German edition)
- By: Richard Powers, Eva Bonné - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Heike Warmuth, Richard Barenberg
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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ine Insel. Vier Suchende. Verbunden durch das vielleicht letzte große Abenteuer der Menschheit. – Das bewegende Meisterwerk vom Pulitzer-Preisträger...
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Playground (German edition)
- Narrated by: Heike Warmuth, Richard Barenberg
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-30-24
- Language: German
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