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Stars Above
- A Lunar Chronicles Collection
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's summary
"Soler's narration fits the tone of each story and provides unique voices for each character, including a breathy, high-pitched voice for Winter and a harder, cruel voice for Mistress Sybil." - AudioFile Magazine
The #1 New York Times Best-selling Series!
The enchantment continues....
The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories - and secrets - that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?
With six stories - two of which have never before been published - and an exclusive never-before-heard excerpt from Marissa Meyer's novel, Heartless, about the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Stars Above is the essential audiobook for fans of the best-selling and beloved Lunar Chronicles.
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Seattle, 1913. Dorothy spent her life learning the art of the con. But after meeting a stranger and stowing away on his peculiar aircraft, she wakes up in a chilling version of the world she left behind - and for the first time in her life, realizes she’s in way over her head. New Seattle, 2077. If there was ever a girl who was trouble, it was one who snuck on board Ash’s time machine wearing a wedding gown - and the last thing he needs is trouble if he wants to prevent his terrifying visions of the future from coming true.
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Boring!
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One for All
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Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl.” But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father—a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. It’s a secret training ground for new Musketeers.
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Good story, marred by fractured French
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Wolves
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In the middle of America, Amy Lewis is on her way to her grandma's house. She's being chased by a very bad wolf. Galaxies away, Loki is waking up in a prison cell, strangely without a hangover and with no idea what he's done wrong - this time, anyway. But he does know that Thor is hiding something, Odin is up to something wicked, and there seems to be something that he's forgotten....
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Grim
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Inspired by classic fairy tales, but with a dark and sinister twist, Grim contains short stories from some of the best voices in young adult literature today: Ellen Hopkins, Amanda Hocking, Julie Kagawa, Claudia Gray, Rachel Hawkins, Kimberly Derting, Myra McEntire, Malinda Lo, Sarah Rees-Brennan, Jackson Pearce, Christine Johnson, Jeri Smith Ready, Shaun David Hutchinson, Saundra Mitchell, Sonia Gensler, Tessa Gratton, Jon Skrovron.
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amazing
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Unremembered
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When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why the 16-year-old girl discovered floating among the wreckage - alive - is making headlines across the globe. Even more strange is that her body is miraculously unharmed and she has no memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life before the crash. She has no memories period. No one knows how she survived. No one knows why she wasn't on the passenger manifest.
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Invested In the Tale
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Stella Ainsley leaves poverty behind when she quits her engineering job aboard the Stalwart to become a governess on a private ship. On the Rochester, there’s no water ration, more books than one person could devour in a lifetime, and an AI who seems more friend than robot. But no one warned Stella that the ship seems to be haunted, nor that it may be involved in a conspiracy that could topple the entire interstellar fleet.
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Out of this world!
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Seventeen-year-old Julia is finally living the good life. She's traded a hard cot in a Memphis orphanage for her very own room in a perfect little house, on a perfect little street, with a perfect set of parents who picked her to be their daughter. But Julia is hiding a secret - and one fall night, she returns home from a friend's house to find that her secret has found her. Her 'forever home' is ashes. Her parents are dead. And, in the sky above the flames, a winged creature hunts her.
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Horrendous -- Run Away
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On the day of her Presenting, in front of the entire Byern Court, 17-year-old Cyrene Strohm's lifelong plans come to fruition when she's chosen for one of the most prestigious positions in her homeland - an Affiliate to the Queen. Or so she thinks. When Cyrene receives a mysterious letter and an unreadable book, she finds nothing is as it seems.
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Not a fan of Narrator
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Ink Witch
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Kat Dubois is immortal, and she's retired. She's long since hung up her sword and left assassinating immortals to someone else...anyone else. She's now a hard drinking, sass-flinging Seattle tattoo artist with the innate ability to read people's fortunes using her charmed deck of tarot cards. Her days of bloodshed are over, and she has nothing but time - an eternity, in fact - to hide from her past. Until someone from her past shows up on her doorstep with news that her beloved older brother and mentor, Dominic, has gone missing.
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"Twilight" with more backbone
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Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the 16-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.
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You are warned
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Royally Rearranged
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An arranged marriage isn’t the worst fate for a princess like me. Especially because I’ve been in love with my intended groom since we were children. But when my prince shows up with an American girlfriend instead of an engagement ring, all arrangements are off. The clock is nearing midnight; I won’t turn into a pumpkin, but if I’m not wed by summer’s end, I’ll forfeit my kingdom. Just your typical royal dilemma. Out of sheer desperation, I make a deal with a devilish duke. Rafe de Silva is the prince’s rival and has a plan so ridiculous it just might work.
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Almost perfectly predictable
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Hex on the Beach
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Lily Locke has never believed in witches and wizards, ghosts and magic, shifters and vampires - especially cute blonde vamps with blood-intolerance issues. A rising star at a hotshot marketing agency in Minneapolis, Minnesota, all Lily knows is that she's a PowerPoint guru, an Excel ninja, and a coffee-maker extraordinaire. Not to mention she's next in line for a huge promotion.
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Watered Down Stephanie Plum Plot
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- rebecca carlisle
- 08-29-20
Perfect
I loved hearing their stories and the connections that brought them all together. The end was happy and satisfying.
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- Amanda Coble
- 02-09-22
If you like the main books you want to hear this!
Character development was fantastic 👏 Loved the new characters and getting to see some more of the OG characters back story and futures. Great tie in that left me very satisfied. Also 12 out of 10 narration
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- t.preston
- 08-04-16
Performance issues
I have loved all of the books in this series. I have a problem with the narration of this last book. It sounds like Rebecca has a head cold, her voice is nasal. Plus parts of the book sound like they were recorded later and inserted it. It's distraction.
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- NikkiatBooksMW
- 03-28-18
Bonus stories to fix a Lunar craving!
Awesome background stories for the Lunar Chronicles, but the narration is off on this book. I love this narrator, but I think they had a cold during the recording (it happens and is absolutely forgivable). However, the editing/splicing on the re-recorded segments was horrible and made the book jumpy.
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- eddie hofmeister
- 02-22-16
Love the narrator for the Lunar series, but ...
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
I have loved the narrator for the series, but it sounds like she had a cold when they recorded this book... it is a bit distracting to me.
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- Christina A. Sidders
- 04-04-17
wonderful story
i have very much enjoyed this series, the characters are fun and lively. the story line is exciting and makes you want more. So sad it is over, but the ending was wonderful
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- Katherine
- 06-03-17
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the narrator sounds like she has a cold through a lot of it? it's hard not to notice and she probably could have used a decongestant before recording or something.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-07-18
Fantastic
Loved every little story in this book it explained a lot of the story that wasn't one in the Lunar Chronicals. plus the last story was amazing!
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- Trudy Owens
- 02-07-16
Fairytale ending, utterly delightful!
Love, love, love this addition! Always ready to read more about my friends whom I miss now that the series is over.
The stories here are cutting-room-floor deleted scenes from Cinder, Scarlett, and Cress. Some people may be annoyed that there is no "advancement" to the stories; we already know these little events in their lives. (Everybody loves watching deleted scenes from movies.) These are the scenes that are the basis of the fairy tales: Red Riding Hood's journey to her grandmother's house, the witch locking Rapunzel in the tower, and the wicked stepmother thrusting Cinderella into the cold kitchen and making her work. These were glossed over in the Chronicles; in this book we get the details: Thorne's episode with the math whiz Falo girl, Cress being imprisoned in the satellite, and Scarlett leaving her lay-about father and traveling by herself to live with her grand-mère, then overhearing the conversation with Lin Garren regarding the princess. Sure, the stories are repetitive since we know what happened from the series books. Sure, you could be annoyed that there is nothing new. But it was all enjoyable and pleasing to revisit. Even when it gets around to Kai's first trip to the fix-it shop in the marketplace, and it sounds just like the beginning of Cinder, we get it from his side, and it is delightful all over again. There are smiles and chuckles all the way through, as we go with our friends to the last, inevitable scene of every fairy tale. And again, as throughout the whole series, it is totally modern, totally believable, not childish or simplistic as most fairy tales are.
And, AND! There is a completely new story in the middle! It really has nothing to do with anything, but it shows M.M's ability to take a tale and make it futuristic and grown-up.
You don't need to check the cover to verify the narrator even though it does not sound like Rebecca Soler at first. Good news is it IS R.S. and she gets over the stuffy head and laryngitis she has at the beginning of the book, and then sounds like herself again. As the hyper-critical listener that I am, I noticed several misplaced emphases that would have delivered better if corrected, but most people won't notice. And her Chinese pronunciation has degraded from the Chronicles readings, but then most readers don't speak Chinese, so, again, they won't notice (I do and I did.) Despite all that, she delivers most of the conversational lines flawlessly, adding to the humor and pathos. I can't imagine anyone else reading these stories.
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- Brigid
- 08-17-18
amazingly creative
I adore this story line and LOVE the Author.... I would most definitely recommend this series to anyone who likes gritty magical characters that are seeded in dystopian societies. . not the fluffy sparkle fairytale or boring run of the mill story of future societies.... it's different not just another way to tell the story of hunger games
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