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- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Ever since she was a child, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf—her life with this invisible disability has been one of in-betweenness. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests a cochlear implant. This irreversible operation would give Louise a new sense of hearing—but it would come at the expense of her natural hearing, which has shaped her relationship with the world, full of whispers and shadows.
Hearing, for Louise, is inseparable from reading other people’s lips. Through sight, she perceives words and strings them together like pearls to reconstruct a conversation. When the string breaks, misunderstandings result and eccentric images fill her thoughts. As she weighs the prospect of surgery, fabulous characters begin to accompany her: a damaged soldier from World War I, an irritable dog, and a whimsical botanist.
With Jellyfish Have No Ears, Adèle Rosenfeld shines an extraordinary light on the black hole of losing a sense and on the vibrancy that can arise to fill the void.
“Will a cochlear implant change the way one unforgettable young woman experiences the world? Adèle Rosenfeld’s narrator grapples with this question as she navigates work, love, and her own unruly imagination. In lush, startling prose, made vivid by Jeffrey Zuckerman’s translation, her agonizing choice becomes relevant to us all.”—Nell Freudenberger
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The mass suicide of a cult known as The Flock sent shockwaves through the small rural town of Iola, Michigan. Led by the charismatic Dominic Bragg, The Flock camped at an abandoned bird sanctuary before their sudden and shocking demise. The deaths came just weeks after one of their members, Laurel Tai, a local pageant queen, was abducted. The town turned its blame and fear onto the sole survivor, Claire Kettler—Laurel’s best friend. Burdened by grief and unanswered questions about her friend’s murder and her fellow cult members’ deaths, Claire can’t help but wonder what really happened.
By: Kate Robards
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Eye of the Beholder
- By: Emma Bamford
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds, she thinks it might just be her chance to get her career back on track. She travels to Angela’s remote estate in the Scottish Highlands to hunker down and learn everything she can. But the deeper she digs, the more elusive the doctor becomes. Is there more hidden beneath the surface of the kaleidoscopic beauty industry than Angela wants to reveal? Sharing the estate is Angela’s business partner, Scott, whose mercurial moods change as quickly as the conditions on the darkening moors.
By: Emma Bamford
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Unspeakable Home
- A Novel
- By: Ismet Prcic
- Narrated by: Ismet Prcic
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A linguistically adventurous, structurally ambitious, and emotionally brave odyssey, Unspeakable Home takes us through the memories and confessions of our refugee narrator as he reflects on his bomb-ravaged childhood, the implosion of his relationships, and an agonizing battle with alcoholism. As multiple narrators surface in fragments with increasingly tenuous connections to reality, Prcic unearths the psychological cost of exile and shame with a roving, kinetic energy and a sharp, searching sense of humor.
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Really engaging to listen to
- By Steve B on 09-02-24
By: Ismet Prcic
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Five-Star Stranger
- A Novel
- By: Kat Tang
- Narrated by: Julian Cihi
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app—a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But, when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past.
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Had good parts that kept me engaged.
- By C. Dad on 09-06-24
By: Kat Tang
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Hum
- By: Helen Phillips
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in taut, urgent prose, Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities.
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Why Literary "Speculative Fiction" Doesn't Work
- By NMwritergal on 08-06-24
By: Helen Phillips
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The Horse
- A Novel
- By: Willy Vlautin
- Narrated by: Willy Vlautin
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Al Ward lives on an isolated mining claim in the high desert of central Nevada fifty miles from the nearest town. A grizzled man in his sixties, he survives on canned soup, instant coffee, and memories of his ex-wife, friends and family he’s lost, and his life as a touring musician. Hampered by insomnia, bouts of anxiety, and a chronic lethargy that keeps him from moving back to town, Al finds himself teetering on the edge of madness and running out of reasons to go on—until a horse arrives on his doorstep: nameless, blind, and utterly helpless.
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Wonderful audio book!
- By Carolina Wilde on 08-15-24
By: Willy Vlautin
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After Oz
- By: Gordon McAlpine
- Narrated by: Maria Ru-Djen
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. As the days pass, the Gales are increasingly terrified the worst has happened. But when the girl turns up unharmed four days later, the townsfolk breathe a sigh of relief. That is, until Dorothy herself relates her account of the events that took place during her disappearance. In vivid detail, Dorothy describes a fantastical land and its magical inhabitants: a scarecrow, a tin man, a cowardly lion, a wizard, a witch.
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A Twist on a Classic
- By Garrett on 11-01-24
By: Gordon McAlpine