Showing results by publisher "Blackstone Audio" in Contemporary Fiction
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The Lyre of Orpheus
- By: Robertson Davies
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4
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There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation must choose a worthy undertaking upon which to expend a portion of its considerable funds. As the Foundation's chairman, Arthur Cornish believes they should select a project worthy of the risk taker whose name the Foundation bears. And so it is decided: the Foundation will fund the doctoral work of one Hulda Schnakenburg, a grumpy, grimy, thoroughly difficult, and extraordinarily talented music student. Her task is to complete the score of an unfinished opera by the Romantic composer, writer, and music critic E. T. A. Hoffmann. In addition to this, the Foundation, against all common sense, will undertake to stage the opera. As the production takes shape, Hoffmann's restless spirit hovers rather too close for comfort, and his dictum "The lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld" proves prophetic for many a participant.
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The Lyre of Orpheus
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 21-06-01
- Language: English
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Herzog
- By: Saul Bellow
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance83
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Story82
Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness.
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Two Stars!?!?!?!
- By S. Wragg on 05-04-11
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Herzog
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-12-09
- Language: English
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A Bend in the River
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance73
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Story73
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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A flowing history from the heart of Africa
- By Nigel on 03-05-06
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A Bend in the River
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-09-04
- Language: English
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Paris Stories
- By: Mavis Gallant
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance7
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Story7
Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.
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Flawless writing, performance ok
- By Mariachi on 14-10-13
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Paris Stories
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-11-06
- Language: English
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Seventh Heaven
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance97
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Story96
Nora Silk doesn't really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She's divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants. And the way she raises her kids is a scandal. But as time passes, the neighbors start having second thoughts about Nora. The women's apprehension evolves into admiration. The men's lust evolves into awe. The children are drawn to her in ways they can't explain.
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Character-driven but a little unfocused
- By Joni J Mielke on 26-11-21
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Seventh Heaven
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-08-14
- Language: English
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So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away
- By: Richard Brautigan
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance26
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Story26
It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his 12th summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Through the eyes, ears, and voice of Brautigan's youthful protagonist, the listener is gently led into a small-town tale where the narrator accidentally shoots and kills his best friend. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy and its recurring theme of "what if", which fuels anguish, regret, and self-blame, as well as some darkly comic passages of bittersweet romance and despair.
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"Burgers or bullets? Dust, American dust"
- By Norma Miles on 28-03-23
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So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-11-16
- Language: English
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Matador
- By: Barnaby Conrad
- Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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It is the morning of Pacote's last fight, the finale of a great career. The city of Sevilla waits, heavy with anticipation. But Pacote finds he is afraid and fears disgrace in the ring. Time, once his friend, now presses him on to the moment when the gate opens and the first bull enters the ring.
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Matador
- Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 19-05-04
- Language: English
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Portrait of Jennie
- By: Robert Nathan
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Eben Adams is a young painter in Depression-era New York just looking to make a living. His work has thus far left influential art dealers unimpressed. Then Eben happens upon a young schoolgirl named Jennie in Central Park. Intrigued by her mystical quality and her knowledge of things that happened well before her time, Eben begins to sketch a portrait of the young girl. The drawing turns out to be the most emotional piece Eben has ever done, and he finally gets the boost in his career he's been seeking. But before he can finish the portrait, Jennie vanishes.
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Portrait of Jennie
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-12-13
- Language: English
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Vertical
- A Novel
- By: Rex Pickett
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
It’s seven years after the events of Sideways. Miles has written a novel that has been made into a wildly successful movie, and the movie has changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles’ mom, has suffered a stroke that’s left her wheelchair-bound and wasting away in assisted living. She desperately wants to live with her sister in Wisconsin. When Miles gets invited to be master of ceremonies at the International Pinot Festival in Oregon, he hatches a harebrained road trip.
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Vertical
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Series: The Sideways Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-03-13
- Language: English
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Scenes from Village Life
- By: Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange - translator
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds, too. Where has the mayor's wife gone, vanished without a trace, her note saying "don't worry about me"?
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descriptively outstanding
- By Daniel on 17-06-21
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Scenes from Village Life
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-01-17
- Language: English
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Dogs Don’t Lie
- The Pru Marlowe Pet Noir Series, Book 1
- By: Clea Simon
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, the dog’s guardian. Now Charles is dead, and Lily appears to be headed for the same end, for after all, Lily is a pit bull, a fighting-ring dropout.
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Surprisingly enjoyable murder mystery
- By Jessica Wolfe on 20-09-18
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Dogs Don’t Lie
- The Pru Marlowe Pet Noir Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Series: Pru Marlowe, Pet Noir, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-04-11
- Language: English
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Seducing the Spirits
- By: Louise Young
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jenny, a graduate student in ornithology, is assigned to a birding project in a remote area of Panama, she is given one directive by her superior: Don't piss anyone off. Almost immediately, this proves difficult, for the study site is located near an indigenous village. At first, Jenny finds the Kuna people to be a prickly lot, quick to take offense. But as the weeks pass, she becomes better acquainted with the natives, including Pedro, a man cynical and detached from his own culture.
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Seducing the Spirits
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-11-09
- Language: English
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After the First Death
- By: Lawrence Block
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why, before the police do.
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After the First Death
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Series: The Classic Crime Library, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-08-11
- Language: English
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Deep Kiss
- By: Tobias Wolff
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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When Joe Reed was a teenager, he fell so deeply in love with Mary Claude Moore that his parents threatened to send him away. Decades later, he's living a normal life with his wife and their two children; yet in the thirty years since he's last seen Mary Claude, he hasn't stopped thinking of her. With recent news of her in hand, Joe begins to understand the reasons for which he has never stopped loving her - and just how pivotal that time in his life had been.
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Deep Kiss
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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The Bottom of the Sky
- A Novel
- By: William C. Pack
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
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Performance5
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The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags to riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned to a life of sexual desecration and addiction. The other escapes with his demons to wield fragile, uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth.
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The Bottom of the Sky
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-10-09
- Language: English
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Blow Hot, Blow Cold
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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There is an epidemic of death in the town. Lila Connor, neighborhood flirt and sex goddess, lay dead in her home, victim of a nill-placed letter opener. Larry Connor, successful accountant and distraught husband, lay dead in his office, slain by the giant Mickey Finn. And at Shady Acres, Nancy Howell is crazy wondering who killed Lila and Larry. Is a killer even now hidden in Shady Acres, waiting for a chance to slay again?
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Blow Hot, Blow Cold
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 29-10-14
- Language: English
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Nightingale
- By: Tobias Wolff
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Dr. Booth drives his son, Owen, to Fort Steele Academy, where he hopes his son will thrive in a structured, disciplined environment that mirrors Booth's own upbringing. But after he drops Owen off at his new school, he's filled with a deep sense of doubt - about his decision to send his son away, about his childhood - and finds himself lost in more ways than one.
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Nightingale
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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Raj
- By: Gita Mehta
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
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Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
With rare subtlety, impressive scope, and a keen eye for detail, Gita Mehta lays bare the complexities of Indian culture and history in Raj, the remarkable story of a woman of royal birth coming of age during India’s fight for independence.
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Raj
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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A Town Divided by Christmas
- By: Orson Scott Card, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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It began with a quarrel over which newborn should be the baby Jesus in the town's Christmas pageant. Decades later, two scientists arrive to study small-town genetic patterns, only to run up against the invisible walls that split the leading citizens into two congregations that can only be joined by love and forgiveness - and maybe a little deception, because there might be some things people just don't need to know.
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A Town Divided by Christmas
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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The Long Grass
- By: Ryan W. Bradley
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 19 mins
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Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. In The Long Grass, a young man struggles with the expectations of becoming a man and receiving his father's approval.
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The Long Grass
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 19 mins
- Release date: 14-10-15
- Language: English
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