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A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting the welfare of a nearby homeless encampment, observing obnoxious hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious father, and the indignities of sentience. “I have so much language in my brain,” our lion says, “and nowhere to put it.”
When a man-made fire engulfs the encampment, the lion is forced from the hills down into the city the hikers call “ellay.” As the lion confronts a carousel of temptations and threats, they take us on a tour that spans the cruel inequalities of Los Angeles and the toll of climate grief, while scrambling to avoid earthquakes, floods, and the noise of their own conflicted psyche. But even when salvation finally seems within reach, they are forced to face down the ultimate question: Do they want to eat a person or become one?
In elegiac prose woven with humor, imagination, sensuality, and tragedy, Henry Hoke’s Open Throat is a marvel of storytelling, a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing world told by a lovable mountain lion. Both feral and vulnerable, profound and playful, Open Throat is a star-making novel that brings mythmaking to real life.
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With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
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Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
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By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, and others
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
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Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- By Kathi on 03-15-13
By: Eleanor Morse
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The Necromancer's House
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Andrew Ranulf Blankenship is a handsome, stylish nonconformist with wry wit, a classic Mustang, and a massive library. He is also a recovering alcoholic and a practicing warlock, able to speak with the dead through film. His house is a maze of sorcerous booby traps and escape tunnels, as yours might be if you were sitting on a treasury of Russian magic stolen from the Soviet Union thirty years ago.
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Finally - Magic / Fantasy Novel for adults.
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Zombies: More Recent Dead
- By: Neil Gaiman, Carrie Vaughn, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and others
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The living dead are more alive than ever! Zombies have become more than an iconic monster for the 21st century: They are now a phenomenon constantly revealing as much about ourselves - and our fascination with death, resurrection, and survival - as our love for the supernatural or post-apocalyptic speculation. Our most imaginative literary minds have been devoured by these incredible creatures and produced exciting, insightful, and unflinching new works of zombie fiction.
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A well blended mix
- By The Lone Mopper on 07-30-15
By: Neil Gaiman, and others
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Into That Forest
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- Narrated by: Lisbeth Kennelly
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Two girls survive a terrible flood in the Tasmanian bush and are rescued by a pair of Tasmanian tigers who raise them in the wild. Their story of survival is remarkable, as they adapt to the life of the tiger, learning to hunt and to communicate without the use of human language. When they are discovered and returned to civilization, neither can adapt to being fully human after their extraordinary experience. Totally believable, their story will both shock and captivate listeners as it explores the animal instincts that lie beneath our civilized veneer.
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When tigers are better parents than your own ...
- By nikiverse on 08-21-14
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Stories
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Something for Everyone
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Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his native guides abandon him to flee their Iroquois pursuers. A Huron warrior and elder named Bird soon takes him prisoner, along with a young Iroquois girl, Snow Falls, whose family he has just killed, and holds them captive in his massive village. Champlain's Iron People have only recently begun trading with the Huron, who mistrust them as well as this Crow who has now trespassed onto their land; and her people, of course, have become the Huron's greatest enemy.
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Thoughtful and interesting, if not always gripping
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Disappearing Act
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In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.
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as strange as he is
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Woof: A Bowser and Birdie Novel
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Bowser is a dog detective on the loose, paired with an 11-year-old girl, Birdie. Bowser and Birdie live on the Louisiana coast with Birdie's Grammy. When a prize stuffed marlin is stolen from Grammy's bait and tackle shop, Birdie and Bowser decide to take on the case. But what looks like a straightforward break-in soon becomes as tangled as a tourist's fishing line.
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Wonderful💎💍🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕
- By Amy on 05-15-15
By: Spencer Quinn
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Cryptids
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The Facility is a research centre that specialises in cryptozoology, the search for legendary creatures. Once these ‘cryptids’ are found, they are caged, abused and experimented on to graft their physical prowess onto ordinary soldiers. Even as the Facility’s troops hunt down Shaw, and the cunning Cryptid Nine plans her escape, something far more horrifying is emerging from hibernation to feed. And both human and cryptid will discover that nothing can stop the Wendigo....
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Awful Narrator!
- By Roni on 05-18-22
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Storm in a Teacup
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Mediator Ayala Storme kills demons by night and handles PR by day. She avoids Mediator luncheons and a fellow Mediator who’s been trying to get in her pants for years. She does her job. She keeps her sword clean and her body count high. But when a rash of disappearances leads her to discover that Nashville’s hellkin are spawning a new race of monster on human hosts, Ayala will be the first line of defense against these day-walking killers. That is until one of them saves her life.
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Paranormal Urban Fantasy without the explicit sex
- By Natalie C on 12-03-15
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Far Cry: Absolution
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Hope County, Montana. Land of the free and the brave, but also home to a fanatical doomsday cult known as The Church of Eden’s Gate that has slowly been infiltrating the residents’ daily lives in the past years. Mary May Fairgrave, a local barkeep, has lost almost everything to the Church: her parents died in suspicious conditions and her brother, entranced by the cult leader’s charismatic words, has vanished. When the authorities refuse to investigate further, she decides to take matters in to her own hands.
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Good story but generic for gameplay story
- By LITRPG Audiobook Reviews on 03-30-19
By: Urban Waite
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- me, mara
- 07-16-24
Wonderful Story
I had to listen to this short novella 2x it was so wonderfully written and performed. Loved that it was narrated by the main character... a young mountain lion. This is not a children's story...it is definitely a story that makes you pause and think about our world today. It's so many things... amusing, sweet, touching, ugly, truthful and thought provoking. I highly recommend it.
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- Andre
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An Entertaining Book
This is an entertaining book featuring a compelling narrator—a non-binary mountain lion. It helps that I am from L.A. and used to hike there. I could easily imagine the story unfolding before me as I listened. This is thrilling queer fiction.
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- Heather Tilert
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Quick listen. Funny, heartfelt, imaginative
Wasn’t sure where it was going at first with the opening scene, and then I quickly fell in love with the first person narrator. Found the objective descriptions of overheard in LA convos funny and painfully true, and was pleasantly surprised to hear the narrator with through things like abandonment, pleasing one’s parents, loss, etc. Great recco from a friend!
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- Lauren Alwan
- 07-07-23
Inventive, wry, and wistful LA story
Henry Hoke’s strange and absorbing short novel is a wonder of voice, setting, and character. A mountain lion whose separation, longing, and animal violence is the perfect narrator, and his view of the human world is a wonder of defamiliarization—that fresh descriptive power that shows us a familiar we haven’t seen before.
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- JoJo Bear
- 04-11-24
Beautiful and heartbreaking story
As a former Angeleno this story felt so special to me and it was not hard to fall in love with the main character; a sensitive queer cougar who is struggling to stay alive.
I cried my eyes out at the end.
Definitely a great read.
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- Mrs. Jones
- 07-03-24
Original, Powerful, Touching
A quick listen filled with sharp, simple writing and universal themes of identity, home, and longing for connection to name a few. You don’t have to be from L.A. to fully immerse yourself in this (having lived there, the main character’s POV was great fun for me). The story is straightforward, a good balance of interior/exterior observations. Certain listeners (like me) will find OPEN THROAT brilliantly heartbreaking, a book that will stay with you indefinitely. The narrator was fantastic.
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- mom of teens
- 03-18-24
Delightful!
Original and fun! I must read for those who live in Los Angeles.
I look forward to reading more of Henry Hoke’s work.
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- Ann L
- 06-15-24
Read or listen?
I had access to the book as well as audio. Some recommended reading over listening. I'll disagree because to me the audio had better flow. The narrator was just right. Maybe there were some print nuances, like "scare city" vs. scarcity, or "elay" vs LA, but that didn't detract from the author's purpose.
Of titles narrated from the animal's POV, this was one of the strongest I've experienced.
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- Caleb Clark
- 08-01-23
Gentle storytelling that packs a punch.
Open Throat is some of the most gentle, concise, elegant prose I’ve read in years. The story is so straightforward and yet it ended and I felt like someone had slapped me in the face. I’m totally in love with it. What a story about when to leave. About wanting to know who you are. This is worth a third or fourth read and may become one of my favorite books.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-31-24
A gem
Surprisingly moving, excellent performance. Who knew a genderqueer mountain lion’s inner monologue would be so insightful, relatable?
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