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Blair Brown
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Isabel Allende
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A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young-adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende.
Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their team - including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor - is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast.
Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest. Drawing on the strength of the jaguar, the totemic animal Alexander finds within himself, and the eagle, Nadia's spirit guide, both young people are led by the invisible People of the Mist on a thrilling and unforgettable journey to the ultimate discovery.
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Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in poverty, survived the killing fields of Vietnam, and is now a lawyer in San Francisco. Though he has successfully survived this hard journey, Gregory’s life has suddenly gone off the rails thanks to an illusory and wrongheaded quest that has left him feeling lost and listless. To find what he is missing and what his heart truly wants, he must return to his roots. Only by excavating the past can he see the way to his future.
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...it is so current, how is it possible?!
- By Sra. Dominguez on 07-28-22
By: Isabel Allende
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Beasts of a Little Land
- A Novel
- By: Juhea Kim
- Narrated by: Sue Jean Kim, Raymond Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected — and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century.
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- By Ann L on 01-06-22
By: Juhea Kim
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The Lost War
- The Eidyn Saga, Book 1
- By: Justin Lee Anderson
- Narrated by: Euan Morton
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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With a ragged peace in place, demons burn farmlands, violent Reivers roam the wilds and plague has spread beyond the Black Meadows. The country is on its knees. In a society that fears and shuns him, Aranok is the first magically-skilled draoidh to be named King's Envoy. Now, charged with restoring an exiled foreign queen to her throne, he leads a group of strangers across the ravaged country. But at every step, a new mystery complicates their mission.
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Holy Cow!
- By Lisa M. Perkey on 05-11-20
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Of Love and Shadows
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist, an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing, she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. Together, they are an inseparable team and - despite Irene’s engagement to an army captain - form a passionate connection.
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Good story, but difficult to follow at times
- By Carmen on 04-21-20
By: Isabel Allende
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A Quantum Love Story
- By: Mike Chen
- Narrated by: Patti Murin
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career—after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her…and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he’s saying.
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Excellent narration & worthwhile, but NOT a romance
- By Emily on 02-08-24
By: Mike Chen
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The Entire Sky
- A Novel
- By: Joe Wilkins
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain—a resemblance that has often marked him an outcast. When the long-simmering abuse from his uncle finally boils over, Justin has no choice but to break free, in a violent act that will haunt him, and try to make it on his own as a runaway. Meanwhile, in rural Montana, Rene Bouchard, a rancher nearing retirement, grieves the recent death of his wife. Her passing has revealed precisely how fractured the family has become—particularly the relationship between Rene and his daughter, Lianne.
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A literary masterpiece!
- By Susan on 07-14-24
By: Joe Wilkins
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Tezcatlipoca
- By: Kiwamu Sato, Stephen Paul - translator
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Ousted by a rival cartel, a brutal drug lord flees Mexico to the distant East. An unwanted child commits a terrible deed and is locked away for years. A Japanese heart surgeon is shunned by the medical community and turns to working as an illegal organ broker. Three lives become entangled in threads of flesh and are plunged deep into a world of blood and bone. Together, they carve out a new criminal empire, but how long can a dynasty last? Destiny is not for mortals to decide. It is cast by the Night and Wind. It is cast by Tezcatlipoca.
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Incredible Story
- By Jam on 04-15-24
By: Kiwamu Sato, and others
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Beep
- A Novel
- By: Bill Roorbach
- Narrated by: Bill Roorbach
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In this immensely enjoyable novel, it takes a sweet and personable squirrel monkey, Beep, to help us see the world we live in more clearly. While intending only to go deeper and higher into the Costa Rican rain forest to find a mate, he instead meets Inga, a kindly and loving American teenager on vacation with her family. Inadvertently, often hilariously, Beep makes his way back to New York with Inga, and with her courageously devoted help—and a bit of inspiration from Greta Thunberg—and with the help of just about every animal on earth, Beep manages to change the destiny of the world.
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I wubbed this book
- By ElectricalSock3 on 02-25-25
By: Bill Roorbach
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Calling for a Blanket Dance
- By: Oscar Hokeah
- Narrated by: Oscar Hokeah, Rainy Fields
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all intensify Ever’s bottled-up rage. Meanwhile, all of Ever’s relatives have ideas about who he is and who he should be.
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Like listening to a symphony
- By BEE on 08-11-22
By: Oscar Hokeah
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Ines of My Soul
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Isabel Allende, Alma Cuervo
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Though she was born into poverty, Inés Suárez, a seamstress in 16th-century Spain, embodies the same restless hope and opportunism that fuels her nation’s conquest of the Americas. Learning that her shiftless husband has vanished, Inés uses his disappearance to embark on her own adventure. It is a journey will lead her to Pedro de Valdivia - a conquistador who becomes the first royal governor of Chile - and to a love that not only changes her life but the course of history.
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Disappointed
- By Elva Pulido on 04-01-21
By: Isabel Allende
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You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
- A Novel
- By: Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Adepero Oduye
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Born at the end of the old world, Miriam grows up during The Great Reckoning, a sprawling, decades-long war that nearly decimates humanity and strips her of friends and family. Devastated by grief and loneliness, she emotionally exiles herself, avoiding relationships or allegiances, and throws herself into her work - disengagement that serves her when the war finally ends, and The New Society arises.
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Title should be "Stories from a narcissist"
- By Aurora M. Long on 02-07-23
By: Jeffrey Cranor, and others
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A Blossom at Midnight
- The Scented Court, Book 1
- By: A.L. Knorr
- Narrated by: Manon Kahle
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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Jess, a half-fae hidden in the shadows of a rural life, craves more. Her longing for adventure and the magic that pulses through her veins leads to a fateful flower festival, where her dormant ability blooms into the open. Thrust into a world of opulence and competition, Jess discovers a devastating truth kept from her by her mother–a secret that alters her very identity.
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loved this!!
- By Jamie Roberts on 06-25-25
By: A.L. Knorr
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Seven Blades in Black
- By: Sam Sykes
- Narrated by: Daisy-May Parsons
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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Betrayed by those she trusts most and her magic ripped from her, all Sal the Cacophony has left is her name, her story, and the weapon she used to carve both. But she has a will stronger than magic and knows exactly where to go. The Scar, a land torn between powerful empires, where rogue mages go to disappear, disgraced soldiers go to die and Sal went with a blade, a gun, and a list of seven names.
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Need audio editor
- By N. Cannon on 11-21-19
By: Sam Sykes
engaging
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The reader was quite good, performing accents, and keeping a pace that was just right. My only complaint is a stylistic one, being that I might have had some of the lines read differently; but didn't detract from the story at all, and was still quite good.
One of My Favorites
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An inspiring adventure
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