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Narrated by:
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Yung-I Chang
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Kailee Pedersen
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Long-listed, NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology.
The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there, including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so large in memory, forever.
But neither Nick nor his brother Joshua, disowned for marrying Emilia, a woman of Asian descent, can ignore such summons from their father, who hopes for a deathbed reconciliation. Predictably, Joshua and Carlyle quickly warm to each other while Nick and Emilia are left to their own devices. Nick puts the time to good use and his flirtation with Emilia quickly blooms into romance. Though not long after the affair turns intimate, Nick begins to suspect that Emilia’s interest in him may have sinister, and possibly even ancient, motivations.
Punctuated by scenes from Nick’s adolescent years, when memories of a queer awakening and a shadowy presence stalking the farm altered the trajectory of his life forever, Sacrificial Animals explores the violent legacy of inherited trauma and the total collapse of a family in its wake.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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"This novel presents a contemplatively paced supernatural horror tale, centering family, trauma, and revenge, with unease infused into every detail...the tightly coiled tension will eventually explode; when it does, [readers] will be left gasping in awe. Pedersen’s debut skillfully balances character and atmosphere." —Library Journal, starred review
"This incantatory debut builds menace from its opening phrase. The author is merciless. She writes with a rare acuity...few readers are likely to quit before the final chapter...An assured and bloody fable heralds the arrival of a gifted new voice." —Kirkus Reviews
"The mythic Chinese figure of the nine-tailed fox spirit goes Midwestern Gothic in Pedersen’s unsettling debut. Literary horror that isn’t afraid to show its teeth. Pedersen is sure to win fans." —Publishers Weekly
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Blade Runner meets The Fifth Element in this eccentric cyber-noir thriller series about a bleak world ravaged by corrupt leaders, mega-corporations, and crime lords… and the washed-up cyborg detective who might be the only one crazy enough to take them on.
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Pretty sci-fi noir for having an MC named Bubbles
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 04-21-25
By: S.C. Jensen
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The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco
- A Mystery
- By: Michelle Chouinard
- Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The chill of a San Francisco summer can be deadly. No one knows this better than Capri Sanzio, who makes her living giving serial killer tours of the city. Capri has been interested in the topic since she was a kid, when she discovered she’s the granddaughter of serial killer William "Overkill Bill" Sanzio. She’s always believed in his innocence. But now an Overkill Bill copycat has struck in San Francisco. And Capri’s former mother-in-law, Sylvia, just cut off Capri’s daughter’s tuition payments. Needing cash, Capri wonders if this is the time to exonerate her grandfather.
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Not stingy with the clues
- By SammiG on 04-19-25
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The Ancient Nine
- A Novel
- By: Ian K. Smith
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Spencer Collins thinks his life at Harvard will be all about basketball and pre-med. The friends he’s made when he hits the storied ivy-clad campus from a very different life in urban Chicago are a happy bonus. But Spencer is about to be introduced to the most mysterious inner sanctum of the inner sanctum: to his surprise, he’s in the running to be “punched” for one of Harvard’s elite final clubs. As Spencer is considered for membership for the Delphic Club, he’s plunged not only into the secret world of male privilege, but also a century-old club mystery.
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DO NOT PURCHASE THE AUDIO BOOK
- By CHG on 11-03-18
By: Ian K. Smith
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Ararat
- By: Christopher Golden
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Christopher Golden's Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong - on a biblical scale. When an earthquake reveals a secret cave hidden inside Mount Ararat in Turkey, a daring, newly engaged couple are determined to be the first ones inside...and what they discover will change everything. The cave is actually a buried ancient ship that many quickly come to believe is Noah's Ark. When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses.
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Chilling then dragged on too long.....
- By Barbara on 05-17-17
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Red River Road
- A Novel
- By: Anna Downes
- Narrated by: Maddy Withington
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Katy Sweeney is looking for her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, her free-spirited younger sister, Phoebe, vanished without a trace on the remote, achingly beautiful coastal highway in Western Australia. With no witnesses, no leads, and no DNA evidence, the case has gone cold. But Katy refuses to give up on her.
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So boring
- By natalie on 11-26-24
By: Anna Downes
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All Is Not Forgotten
- By: Wendy Walker
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Everything seems picture-perfect in the town of Fairview, Connecticut, until one night the unthinkable happens: a young woman, Jenny Kramer, is brutally attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately thereafter, Jenny is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, she wrestles with her raging emotional memory.
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Disturbing in a bad way
- By Heather on 08-03-16
By: Wendy Walker
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Gods of Howl Mountain
- By: Taylor Brown
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted 1940 Ford coupe.
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Appalatia Noir
- By meanwhile on 09-18-18
By: Taylor Brown
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Hawke: Three Black Ops
- Alex Hawke Series
- By: Ted Bell
- Narrated by: John Shea
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This set includes Crash Dive, What Comes Around, and White Death, three Alex Hawke novellas never available before on audio. In Crash Dive, Alex Hawke is on a highly covert mission to enter another nation’s airspace undetected and find a way to avert a global war. In What Comes Around, two CIA officers are found dead. Hawke discovers that the victims are connected through one man: Spider Payne, a rogue intelligence officer. In White Death, M16 suspects a bizarre conspiracy when two bankers are found dead, and vast sums are plundered from the Queen of England’s accounts.
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Scam
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-18
By: Ted Bell
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The Island
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Mela Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they’re deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong.
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Love McKinty, but ....
- By Emily S. on 05-22-22
By: Adrian McKinty
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Death Under a Little Sky
- A Novel
- By: Stig Abell
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jake Jackson inherits his reclusive uncle’s property in the country, the detective seizes the opportunity for a new life away from the hustle of London. The new home in this charming rural idyll is beautiful and the surroundings are stunning. While the locals are a bit eccentric, they’re also friendly and invite the newcomer to join their annual treasure hunt. When a young woman’s bones are discovered, Jake finds himself pulled back into the role of detective, and on the trail of a dangerous killer hiding within this most unlikely of settings.
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WAY TO GO!!
- By Mason AB on 05-12-24
By: Stig Abell
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We Love the Nightlife
- By: Rachel Koller Croft
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan, Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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London 1979. Two women with a deep love for disco meet one fateful night on the dance floor, changing the course of both their lives forever. Nicola, a beautiful and brooding vampire for nearly two centuries, can’t resist fun-loving and feisty Amber from America, ultimately offering an eternity together where the glamour of nightlife always takes center stage. But not all is what it seems.
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We love the night life
- By Hanazon on 01-14-25
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The Gatekeeper
- A Thriller
- By: James Byrne
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Desmond Aloysius Limerick (“Dez” to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying the sun and sitting in on the occasional gig, when the hotel he's at falls under attack. A skilled team attempts to kidnap the chief legal counsel of Triton Expeditors, a major military contractor—in fact, Petra Alexandris is the daughter of the CEO—but their meticulously planned, seamlessly executed scheme runs into the figurative "spanner-in-the-works," Dez himself.
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Very good
- By Amazon Customer on 06-13-22
By: James Byrne
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- Voodoodaddy
- 12-09-24
Slow burn
Have to say I really enjoyed it, the voice performer nailed it. Small things like tone and mannerisms were amazing. The story was certainly enjoyable, just hold on for the climb
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- Mewt
- 01-23-25
this book is 10/10
Beautiful writing, gripping narrative, absolutely haunting. A chilling end to a slow burn. One of my new favorites. the storytelling is masterful.
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- Dynomite
- 08-26-24
Beautifully Written
I'm emotionally destroyed, in a great way. The switch from the past to present is done well. You emphasize with Nick as a child but feel kind of disappointed with the man he grew up to be. The story has a very slow build but the writing holds you in. The last few chapters everything ties together spectacularly.
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