Thrust
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Lidia Yuknavitch
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
THRUST IS:
“Epic.”–The New York Times
“A triumph.”—Elle
“Stunningly beautiful.”—The Daily Beast
“Both of the moment and utterly timeless.”—Chicago Review of Books
“A book to take in wide-eyed.”—Rebecca Makkai
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
As rising waters—and an encroaching police state—endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a "carrier" travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history
Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins—vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence. Now, Yuknavitch offers an imaginative masterpiece: the story of Laisvė, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as the Brook, she discovers a talisman that will mysteriously connect her with a series of characters from the past two centuries: a French sculptor; a woman of the American underworld; a dictator's daughter; an accused murderer; and a squad of laborers at work on a national monument. Through intricately braided storylines, Laisvė must dodge enforcement raids and find her way to the present day, and then, finally, to the early days of her imperfect country, to forge a connection that might save their lives—and their shared dream of freedom.
A dazzling novel of body, spirit, and survival, Thrust will leave no listener unchanged.
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Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
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Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
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Pronunciation
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Anna O’Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm, and she’s trying to re-create herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege, status, and a reprieve from the crushing pain of present-day life. For both Anna and her nephew, the past offers them a chance at love.
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Loved This Book
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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!
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Because You Love to Hate Me
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In this unique YA anthology, 13 acclaimed, best-selling authors team up with 13 influential BookTubers to reimagine fairy tales from the oft-misunderstood villains' points of view. These fractured, unconventional spins on classics like Medusa, Sherlock Holmes, and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' provide a behind-the-curtain look at villains' acts of vengeance, defiance, and rage - and the pain, heartbreak, and sorrow that spurned them on. No fairy tale will ever seem quite the same again!
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I enjoyed more than I expected
- By Doha on 08-30-17
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An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side". Unsettling, heart-wrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family.
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Just ok.
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In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis' last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known.
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a hot mess
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Priestdaddy
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Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.
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Terrible narration--read, don't listen
- By Penelope on 08-06-17
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Everything Is Illuminated
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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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Astounding reading
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Her Body and Other Parties
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In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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Beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 11-17-17
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The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
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Hard to categorize, hard to put down
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American War
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Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.
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Best listen in years
- By odin on 04-08-17
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- P. C. Jorgensen
- 11-24-22
Phenomenal
An amazing fluid story with all that is to be human: fear, longing, sex, absolution, redemption and more. The cast here is overwhelmingly good, bringing each different aspect of the story to shimmering life.
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- Sd
- 01-24-23
A fabulous tale that took me for a ride
I'll never hear the word "object" the same again. This story is magical, beautiful, sad, and informational. I love the monologs about Earth's history, or detailed information about the makeup of an earthworm. There are some very graphic sex scenes, but they fit this tale so perfectly. I am so pleased to have listened to this book.
The narrations were all amazing. Each narrator fit their role so well, especially the "main" narrator. I drank in her every word.
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- Annie Armstrong
- 06-30-22
Extraordinary. A masterpiece.
This audiobook and story is absolutely phenomenal… a total masterpiece! I binged it in one day! And I found my new favorite writer and new favorite narrator, yay! All the narrators did an extraordinary job, but it was the woman who was the primary narrator (Natasha Soudek) and voiced Liceveh the time traveler (and other characters too) who left me absolutely breathless. Her voice had me utterly spellbound, brimming with magic, and hanging on every word. Hoping she will be narrating more books in the future by this remarkable and unique author. Can’t wait!!!! Also, the author’s writing style is like listening to a timeless song, or the best music in the world, or like listening to a master play the cello in English. Brilliant, unique, inter-dimensional, and better than kundalini or drugs. I’m totally serious. So, thank you for this audiobook!!!
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- Stephanie Johnson
- 02-10-24
Interesting…
Interesting listen. I love Lidia’s writing. The imagery in this book is magical. It kept me hanging on. However, the story was just too quirky for me.
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- Hattie Carr
- 03-09-24
It’s a no for me.
I just…not my cup of tea. Not sure what cup it belongs to, but not mine. Felt weird. Couldn’t really tell you what it was about without sounding like I needed a trip to the hospital. Anyway, maybe don’t read, but if you do and you get it I’m happy for you.
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- E.K. Lanier
- 07-05-22
Beautiful prose ruined by Sapphic and Homoerotic excess
The images, themes, ideas and exquisite language of Thrust was unnecessarily compromised not by Sapphic and Homoerotic themes but by the excessiveness of these themes. I can’t recommend a book that I mostly love if a big chunk embarrasses me.
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- James
- 10-27-22
gave my best effort
I kept thinking the book would make so sort os turn toward the interesting but I give up. I have no idea what the professional reviewers see in this other than maybe agreeing how bad humans are for the planet and each other.
WASTE OF A CREDIT
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- Anna
- 07-27-22
Tedious Manifesto
This was a tedious read. The kind of book where you keep checking to see how much longer you have till it's over. I prefer my history, biology, anthropology, environmental science, and philosophy straight up. The thinnest of plot lines and shoddy world building stitches together the monologues of sketchily developed characters who mouth the endless didactic rants about all of the above. While I was interested in the content and agreed with the general philosophy delivered through the story, centered around the apocalyptic results of humankind's brutal treatment of the planet and each other, I was overwhelmed by the ponderous detail and tended to zone out during the disconnected and decontextualized encyclopedic entries delivered by the characters. The endlessly detailed kinky and anachronistic sex interludes did nothing to enhance the storyline and were frankly cringy.
I'm not sure why I persevered to the end of this book but I would certainly not recommend it nor read another by this author.
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- Anja A
- 07-29-22
Waste of credit
I came across this book on Time Magazine’s list for recommended summer 2022 reads. I was looking forward to listening to it after I read the summary about a girl who travels through time. That really sounds like a great sci-fi fiction, however that was not the case at all.
The author mixes human suffering with sexuality in a cumbersome way that makes absolutely no sense at all. It sounds like it was written by somebody with serious mental issues and high on LSD.
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- Jennifer Mclaurin
- 09-01-22
I tried to like it
I felt like I was missing the whole time, like there was something I just didn't get.
I was listening to it one night in bed when my partner crawled in and I told her, "if things get weird, it's because it's a weird book." and I think that sums it up.
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