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At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light.
As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of earthlings.
For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. But at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she's not alone?
A blazing novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life in our universe, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a remarkable evocation of feeling in exile at home and introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times.
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- By: Venita Blackburn
- Narrated by: Lynnette Freeman
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay’s dead body in the wake of his suicide. There’s no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit dystopian novel, Wildfire, becomes increasingly untethered from reality. Blindsided by grief and operating with reckless determination, she doubles—and triples—down on posing as her brother.
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Great Literary Work
- By Dr Ag on 02-25-24
By: Venita Blackburn
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The Book of Love
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Link
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 23 hrs and 31 mins
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In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
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Waste of Time
- By Margaret Longenecker on 04-17-24
By: Kelly Link
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River Mumma
- By: Zalika Reid-Benta
- Narrated by: Tymika Tafari
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won’t stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store. Then, one evening, the Jamaican water deity River Mumma appears to Alicia, telling her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb. Alicia doesn’t understand why River Mumma would choose her. She can’t remember all the legends her relatives told her, unlike her retail co-worker Heaven, who can reel off Jamaican folklore by heart.
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Thrilling, instructive, and fun!
- By Lala on 05-05-24
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Parakeet
- A Novel
- By: Marie-Helene Bertino
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, The Bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried.
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Well written, but lackluster main character
- By GG on 06-12-20
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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Intriguing but disturbing
- By C. Parham on 01-01-21
By: Sayaka Murata
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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
- A Novel
- By: Marisa Crane
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third, fourth, and fifth) shadow as a reminder of their crime—and a warning to those they encounter. Within the Department, corruption and prejudice run rampant, giving rise to an underclass of so-called Shadesters who are disenfranchised, publicly shamed, and deprived of civil rights protections.
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visuals would be better
- By Ophelia Bee on 04-30-23
By: Marisa Crane
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Dead in Long Beach, California
- A Novel
- By: Venita Blackburn
- Narrated by: Lynnette Freeman
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay’s dead body in the wake of his suicide. There’s no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit dystopian novel, Wildfire, becomes increasingly untethered from reality. Blindsided by grief and operating with reckless determination, she doubles—and triples—down on posing as her brother.
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Great Literary Work
- By Dr Ag on 02-25-24
By: Venita Blackburn
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The Book of Love
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Link
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 23 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
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Waste of Time
- By Margaret Longenecker on 04-17-24
By: Kelly Link
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River Mumma
- By: Zalika Reid-Benta
- Narrated by: Tymika Tafari
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won’t stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store. Then, one evening, the Jamaican water deity River Mumma appears to Alicia, telling her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb. Alicia doesn’t understand why River Mumma would choose her. She can’t remember all the legends her relatives told her, unlike her retail co-worker Heaven, who can reel off Jamaican folklore by heart.
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Thrilling, instructive, and fun!
- By Lala on 05-05-24
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Parakeet
- A Novel
- By: Marie-Helene Bertino
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, The Bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried.
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Well written, but lackluster main character
- By GG on 06-12-20
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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Intriguing but disturbing
- By C. Parham on 01-01-21
By: Sayaka Murata
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Floating Hotel
- By: Grace Curtis
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury—and an absolute magnet for intrigue. Intrigues such as: Why are there love poems in the lobby inbox? How many Imperial spies are currently on board? What is the true purpose of the Problem Solver’s conference? And perhaps most pertinently—who is driving the ship?
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A great little sci-fi mystery
- By Jon McIntosh on 03-25-24
By: Grace Curtis
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Clockwork Boys
- Clocktaur War, Book 1
- By: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It's not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher's new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager's city.
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Enjoyable, entertaining adventure
- By Elisabeth Carey on 08-06-19
By: T. Kingfisher
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The Coin
- A Novel
- By: Yasmin Zaher
- Narrated by: Sarah Agha
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.
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Interview of author on podcast piqued interest
- By amybarnard on 08-03-24
By: Yasmin Zaher
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Good Material
- A Novel
- By: Dolly Alderton
- Narrated by: Arthur Darvill, Vanessa Kirby
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . Without a home Waiting for his stand-up career to take off Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking. Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story…
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not what I expected
- By Amazon Customer on 05-01-24
By: Dolly Alderton
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All This and More
- A Novel
- By: Peng Shepherd
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her career is stagnant, her marriage has imploded, and her teenage daughter grows more distant by the day. Marsh is convinced she’s missed her chance at everything—romance, professional fulfillment, and adventure—and is desperate for a do-over. She can’t believe her luck when she’s selected to be the star of the global sensation All This and More, a show that uses quantum technology to allow contestants the chance to revise their pasts and change their present lives.
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Not good at all
- By Joy on 08-18-24
By: Peng Shepherd
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The Hanging City
- By: Charlie N. Holmberg
- Narrated by: Amy Bentley
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Seven years on the run from her abusive father, and with no hope of sanctuary among the dwindling pockets of human civilization, Lark is out of options. Her only leverage is a cursed power: she can thrust fear onto others, leaving all threats fleeing in terror. It’s a means of survival as she searches for a place to call home. If the campfire myths of her childhood are true, Lark’s sole chance for refuge could lie in Cagmar, the city of trolls—a brutal species and the sworn enemies of humanity.
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Not what I expected
- By Gigien on 08-30-23
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Still the Sun
- By: Charlie N. Holmberg
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Pell is an engineer and digger by trade—unearthing and repairing the fascinating artifacts left behind by the mysterious Ancients who once inhabited the sunbaked planet of Tampere. She’ll do anything to help the people of her village survive and to better understand the secrets of what came before.
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DNF. Hours of woman fixing machines
- By NMwritergal on 11-01-24
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Plastic
- A Novel
- By: Scott Guild
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Erin is a plastic girl living in a plastic world. Every day she eats a breakfast of boiled chicken, then conveys her articulated body to Tablet Town, where she sells other figurines Smartbodies: wearable tech that allows full physical immersion in a virtual world, a refuge from real life’s brutal wars, oppressive governmental monitoring, and omnipresent eco-terrorist insurgency. If you cut her, she will not bleed—but she and her fellow figurines can still be cracked or blown apart by gunfire or bombs, or crumble away from nuclear fallout.
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Unique
- By Anonymous User on 06-19-24
By: Scott Guild
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Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart
- And Other Stories
- By: GennaRose Nethercott
- Narrated by: GennaRose Nethercott, January LaVoy, Gabra Zackman, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are. In these lush, strange stories, GennaRose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.
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Folklore for the Modern Age
- By Annie on 03-06-24
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Our Hideous Progeny
- A Novel
- By: C.E. McGill
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her name in this world of science alongside her geologist husband, Henry—but despite her sharp mind and sharper tongue, without wealth and connections their options are limited.
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Incredible
- By M on 07-19-23
By: C.E. McGill
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Clytemnestra
- By: Costanza Casati
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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You are born to a king, but marry a tyrant. You stand helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. You play the part, fooling enemies who deny you justice. And slowly, you plot. But when your husband returns in triumph, what then? Acceptance or vengeance—death follows both. So you bide your time and force the gods' hands in a wretched game of vengeance.
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A killer story for the killer Queen
- By Stefan Filipovits on 05-02-23
By: Costanza Casati
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Godkiller
- By: Hannah Kaner
- Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world—but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays “godkillers” to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows. As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with a god problem. The child’s soul is bonded to a tiny god of white lies, and Kissen can’t kill it without ending the girl’s life too.
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Good story but the Narration is so bad
- By Nino Svanidze on 10-31-23
By: Hannah Kaner
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- Emily Allred
- 07-06-24
What do you believe?
Loved the narrator. Loved the story. Do we all have a delusion we believe? What does that say about ourselves? Who was answering this woman/alien?
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- B.K.
- 06-09-24
Observation of Americans
I liked the story enough to finish it, but -like the narrator-it left me with nothing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-04-24
Unforgettable
One of those books that perfectly hits the spot. It was a joy to listen to, and will stay with me for a long time.
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- Andrea
- 06-23-24
Such a wonderful book!
This book made me think, laugh, cry and wonder. I liked it so much I want the paper version as well!
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- Judy in Salt Lake
- 12-16-24
Alien or imaginative or highly observant snd somewhat neurotic human being?
I’m going to vote for the latter. There are countless novels about highly observant and somewhat neurotic human beings - so the author, who is a very good writer, chose to be clever and have her main character believe she was an alien. So interesting to see ordinary life through the eyes of an alien, right?
While there are many many, many, many clever musings about human nature and an equal number of clever turns of the phrase, character development is pretty much nonexistent in this novel.
I’m not sure how it made so many ‘best books of 2024’ lists. I almost gave up about halfway through but because of those lists I stayed till the end which was standard issue tear jerker author manipulation.
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- paris1230
- 07-17-24
Glorious!
Strange, tender, bittersweet and completely compelling. So unlike my usual selections but I’m thrilled to have read this. Heartbreaking and lovely.
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- Celine
- 07-20-24
Brilliant!
A perfect, deeply human story—with a brilliant narrator. This is one that’ll stick with me.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-30-24
Strangely relatable
This book was great to listen to while multi_tasking. It’s observational, almost listicle style morphed into something chillingly touching.
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- Nicki Goodman
- 06-27-24
Exquisitely written
I've never read a story that hit my true life in words I could only imagine
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- Michele Elizabeth
- 06-02-24
Unique story
Really well written. Unique story. Good pace. I really enjoyed and definitely recommend. I was never quite sure . , .
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