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Little Women
- (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- By: Jane Smiley - introduction, Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Christina Ricci
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
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Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young listeners. The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom.
But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every listener must have their favorite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and beautiful Amy, the baby of the family?
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Really AWFUL reading of the story :(
- By Felicity on 29-10-13
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Little Women
- (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Narrated by: Christina Ricci
- Series: Little Women, Book 1
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 23-10-12
- Language: English
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The Greenlanders
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 27 hrs and 2 mins
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Set in the 14th century in Europe's most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of one family - proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable audiobook.
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Epic, intimate and transporting
- By tracy allen on 19-02-18
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The Greenlanders
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 27 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-12-14
- Language: English
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A Dangerous Business
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer.
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Childish story and performance
- By Anonymous User on 12-12-24
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A Dangerous Business
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-12-22
- Language: English
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Horse Heaven
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Shelley Thompson
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
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Many astonishing and affecting things happen at the racetrack, and the mysterious universe of horse racing, passionate, cold-hearted, pure, corrupt, is woven into a marvelous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed, and reckless courage. Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris, Horse Heaven, puts us among trainers, nervey jockeys, billionaire breeders, and restless track wives.
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is what is says horse heaven
- By vickee saville on 27-05-18
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Horse Heaven
- Narrated by: Shelley Thompson
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 20-12-05
- Language: English
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Some Luck
- Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
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1920: After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, their little family will grow: from Frank, the handsome, willful first-born, to Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him; from Lillian, beloved by her mother, to Henry who craves only the world of his books; and Claire, the surprise baby, who earns a special place in her father's heart.
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A really pleasant listen
- By Mikey on 13-11-14
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Some Luck
- Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Series: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-11-14
- Language: English
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A Year at the Races
- Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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"Every horse story is a love story," writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of her obsession. In particular she follows a sexy filly named Waterwheel and a grey named Wowie (he "tells" a horse communicator that he wants it changed from Hornblower) as they begin careers at the racetrack.
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Interesting but not an easy listen
- By Anonymous User on 09-09-21
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A Year at the Races
- Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-11-14
- Language: English
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The Strays of Paris
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one afternoon when she pushes open the gate of her stall and, travelling through the night, arrives quite by chance in the dazzling streets of Paris. She soon meets a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated crow, and life amongst the animals in the city’s lush green spaces is enjoyable for a time.
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The Strays of Paris
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Moo
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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Everyone at the large agricultural college dubbed Moo U. has an agenda. Whether it's massaging data, running secret experiments, or seducing the powerful, each person is dedicated to a plan. Meet Dr. Lionel Gift, who feels that his economic principles come directly from God. Visit with "Earl Butz", who is being groomed to be the biggest hog in history. Mull over The Common Wisdom, what every secretary knows. As these agendas begin to collide, Moo trots toward a deliciously loony climax.
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Moo
- By Ronald on 29-07-09
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Moo
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 29-12-06
- Language: English
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Duplicate Keys
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Everyone has keys to Susan's New York apartment: all her friends, and friends of friends. So one afternoon, when Alice unlocks Susan's door to water the plants, she isn't surprised to find two men sitting in the living room. That they are both dead is a shock, however.
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Reflections
- By Judith on 06-01-11
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Duplicate Keys
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-10-06
- Language: English
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Golden Age
- Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. It's 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm - a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have stayed, most have spread wide across the US, but all are facing social, economic and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors encountered.
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A story of yesterday, today and tomorrow
- By Claire FB on 03-04-16
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Golden Age
- Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Series: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-10-15
- Language: English
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Early Warning
- Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
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It's 1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores his troubled wife and instead finds himself distracted by a face from the past.
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Gentle narrative
- By Barbara on 04-10-15
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Early Warning
- Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Series: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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March Sisters
- On Life, Death, and Little Women
- By: Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and others
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong, lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel - what it has meant to them and why it still matters. These four voices come together to form a deep, funny, far-ranging meditation on the power of great literature to shape our lives.
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March Sisters
- On Life, Death, and Little Women
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 30-09-19
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented the Computer
- The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Why don’t we know the name of John Atanasoff as well as we know those of Alan Turing and John von Neumann? Because he never patented his computing machine, and because the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. Jane Smiley tells the quintessentially American story of John Atanasoff with technical clarity and narrative drive, making the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.
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Technical but fascinating
- By Goldfrapper on 27-05-20
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The Man Who Invented the Computer
- The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-10-10
- Language: English
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The Hillside
- Warmer collection
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 40 mins
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Now the Congress of Animals is in control, unforgiving, and debating the fate of the planet’s most reviled species. The popular ruling: Exterminate humankind without exception. But a curious mare, coming of age, is making a case for a seemingly gentle person she longs to save - a wish for mercy that could once again unbalance the new and righteous nature of the world.
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What if animals ruled over us.
- By Gareth Johnson on 10-08-22
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The Hillside
- Warmer collection
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Series: Warmer Collection
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 30-10-18
- Language: English
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Barn Blind
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Kate Karlson's only focus in life is her Midwestern horse farm. Ignoring her husband, she spends long days giving riding lessons and training horses. To showcase her teaching ability, she enters her three sons and daughter in all the equestrian shows. But when her family dares to thwart her interests, the results bring tragedy and devastation.
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Barn Blind
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-06-08
- Language: English
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The Best American Erotica, Volume 12: Surviving Darwin
- By: Susie Bright, Jane Smiley, Mary Gaitskill, and others
- Narrated by: Susie Bright, Nelson George, Lenore Zann, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley details a beautiful erotic interlude in an otherwise sordid real estate deal; Mary Gaitskill celebrates the unexpected ardor of one middle-aged couple; Steve Almond reminisces about the best one-man/three-girl Ecstasy party ever; Nelson George recounts the erotic escapades that befall a young man who accompanies a celebrity athlete when he picks up a gaggle of girls; and Carol Queen explores the joys of making love with summer fruit.
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The Best American Erotica, Volume 12: Surviving Darwin
- Narrated by: Susie Bright, Nelson George, Lenore Zann, Daleena Valdatti, Ax Norman
- Series: The Best American Erotica, Book 12
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-05-06
- Language: English
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Good Faith
- A Novel
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts, comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit, to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy.
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Impressive but hard work
- By Tim on 22-02-20
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Good Faith
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-11-05
- Language: English
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Ten Days in the Hills
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 23 hrs and 36 mins
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On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max, an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned, and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But their house is full of guests demanding attention.
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Gave up...
- By Orchard Riser on 28-01-12
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Ten Days in the Hills
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 23 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 20-11-07
- Language: English
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The Age of Grief
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi, Jessica Almasy, Jeff Woodman, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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In “The Pleasure of Her Company,” a lonely, single woman befriends the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret of their happiness. In "Long Distance," a man finds himself relieved of the obligation to continue an affair that is no longer compelling to him, only to be waylaid by the guilt he feels at his easy escape. And in the incandescently wise and moving title novella, a dentist, aware that his wife has fallen in love with someone else, must comfort her when she is spurned....
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The Age of Grief
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi, Jessica Almasy, Jeff Woodman, MacLeod Andrews, Gabra Zackman, Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-10-14
- Language: English
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The Questions That Matter Most
- Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Jane Smiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Jane Smiley has long been acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent novelists. Less known is her nonfiction, her steady and penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that mark any serious engagement with reading and writing. Her approach is both enthusiastic and meticulous, always quick to dive beneath surface-level interpretations of authors and their work. This volume of nonfiction begins with a personal introduction that traces Smiley’s migration from Missouri to California a quarter-century ago.
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The Questions That Matter Most
- Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
- Narrated by: Jane Smiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-06-23
- Language: English
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