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[Spanish] - El rey se acerca a su templo

Provocativa, profunda y divertida, esta novela trastoca las buenas costumbres y da la visión de una utopía que sigue siendo necesaria. El rey se acerca a su templo está compuesta por dos novelas que se reflejan, interactuando de forma extraordinaria. Publicadaoriginalmente en 1975, esta obra novedosa completó la trilogía compuesta por Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna) y Círculo vicioso. Imbuida de las costumbres cotidianas de su época, El rey se acerca a su templo confirma a José Agustín como uno de los escritores más importantes de su generación y como la pluma que ha redactado el testamento de toda una época. A principios de los años setenta, cuando la rebeldía atrapaba a los jóvenes y las drogas, el rock y el sexo libre se volvían las banderas de una nueva generación, dos amigos diferentes entre sí se convierten en el vehículo de José Agustín para contar su visión de aquellos años. Ésta es la historia de dos búsquedas diferentes que, sin embargo, son conducidas por la misma necesidad: el amor y el erotismo, la experimentación con las drogas y el conocimiento de la naturaleza humana.

José Agustín (Author), Raúl Boxer (Narrator)

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The Book of Fire: The breathtaking new novel from the author of THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO

'Stunning... will long remain in the reader's mind' - Kristin Hannah This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be dead. Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love and loss and peace and war, and it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection. A family from two nations, England and Greece, live a simple life in a tiny Greek village: Irini, Tasso and their daughter, lovely, sweet Chara, whose name means joy. Their life goes up in flames in a single day when one man starts a fire out of greed and indifference. Many are killed, homes are destroyed, and the region's natural beauty wiped out. In the wake of the fire, Chara bears deep scars across her back and arms. Tasso is frozen in trauma, devastated that he wasn't there when his family most needed him. And Irini is crippled by guilt at her part in the fate of the man who started the fire. But this family has survived, and slowly green shoots of hope and renewal will grow from the smouldering ruins of devastation. Once again, Christy Lefteri has crafted a novel which is intimate and epic, sweeping and delicate. The Book of Fire explores not only the damage wrought by human folly, and the costs of survival in our changing world, but also - and ultimately - our powers of redemption and renewal.

Christy Lefteri (Author), Alix Dunmore (Narrator)

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Prophet: 'Fabulous...a page-turner' NEIL GAIMAN

Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want? An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and inviting but it has no power, no water, no connection to the real world. It's like a memory made flesh - a nostalgic flight of fancy. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past. And the deaths quickly follow. Something is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people with their own joy. This is a weapon like no other. But nobody knows who created it, or why. Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies: in objects, words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear. For Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future. ©2023 Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché (Author), Charlotte Davey, Jake Fairbrother, Ryan Forde Iosco (Narrator)

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Witch Wood

…for Witch Wood specially I am always grateful; all that devilment sprouting up out of a beginning like Galt's Annals of the Parish. That's the way to do it. — C. S. Lewis Published in 1927, Scottish writer John Buchan's Witch Wood is set in a rural parish located in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The story centers around newly-ordained minister David Sempill's arrival in Woodilee in the wake of the Church of Scotland's acceptance of the Solemn League and Covenant and explores themes and issues surrounding religious tolerance and seventeenth-century Calvinism. With pagan rituals, an outbreak of the plague, and rumors about fairies and the devil, Witch Wood also delves into the supernatural and occult. Written while doing research for his biography of Scottish nobleman James Graham, the 1st Marquess of Montrose, Witch Wood is considered Buchan's masterpiece by scholars and critics. Read by Scottish narrator Angus King, this audio edition maintains sections of dialogue originally written and published in Scots.

John Buchan (Author), Angus King (Narrator)

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Nobody's Pilgrims

No Country for Old Men meets Contagion in this story of three teens on the run, carrying a great menace, and chased by a greater evil. Three teenagers are traveling northeast in a navy blue Ford pickup. Turi fled his abusive family at the border to see the beautiful New England landscape he’s always dreamed about. Arnulfo is undocumented and wants only to find someplace safe and quiet. Molly seeks a new life far away from her nowhere Missouri town. Turi and Arnulfo are best friends. Molly and Turi are falling in love. But for all their innocence, violence follows the trio at every turn. The mean viejito who owns the truck wants it back. The narco who hid a deadly shipment in the truck really, really wants it back. And the imperturbable hitman the narco sends after the trio will kill anyone who stands in his way. Turi, Arnulfo, and Molly might outrun the carnage that’s stalking them … but they can’t elude the chaos they’re carrying, no matter how far they go. A literary novel with the propulsion of a thriller, a genre joyride written in the prose of a master, Nobody’s Pilgrims both offers and questions the possibility of escape—a great American road trip with a gritty frontera twist.

Sergio Troncoso (Author), Johnny Rey Diaz (Narrator)

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[German] - Tausend und ein Morgen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Unter Piraten in der Karibik, mitten in der Russischen Revolution - Zeitreisen sind voller Überraschungen. Fest entschlossen betritt Cya die fremden Welten. Inspiriert von der friedlichen und selbstbestimmten Gesellschaft der Zukunft, in der sie lebt, reist sie von Zeit zu Ort und versucht, die Vergangenheit von ihren Fesseln zu befreien - mit unterschiedlichem Erfolg. In Tausend und ein Morgen entwirft Ilija Trojanow ein leidenschaftliches Porträt seiner mutigen Heldin. Wie kein anderer Autor verbindet er erzählerische Virtuosität und kritisches Denken zu einem modernen Epos, das alle Grenzen überwindet, Raum und Zeit ausleuchtet und einen frischen Blick in die Zukunft wagt. Mit sinnlichen Bildern und überbordenden Geschichten erfindet Ilija Trojanow den utopischen Roman neu - ein Roman, der von der unerschöpflichen Kraft unseres Denkens erzählt.

Ilija Trojanow (Author), Achim Buch, Birgit Minichmayr, Ilija Trojanow (Narrator)

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The Centre

'Absolutely stunning . . . thrilling and unique' - GILLIAN FLYNN 'Creepy, provocative and wildly entertaining' - EMMA STONEX 'A banger!' - CHELSEA G SUMMERS 'Fantastic . . . compelling . . . wonderful' - THE OBSERVER Welcome to The Centre. You'll never be the same . . . Anisa Ellahi spends her days writing subtitles for Bollywood films in her London flat, all the while longing to be a translator of ‘great works of literature’. Her boyfriend Adam’s extraordinary aptitude for languages only makes her feel worse, but when Adam learns to speak Urdu practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam tells Anisa about the Centre, an elite, invite-only programme that guarantees total fluency in any language in just ten days. Sceptical but intrigued, Anisa enrols. Stripped of her belongings and contact with the outside world, she undergoes the Centre’s strange and rigorous processes. But as she enmeshes herself further within the organization, seduced by all that it’s made possible, she soon realizes the disturbing, hidden cost of its services. By turns dark, funny and surreal, The Centre takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London and New Delhi, interrogating the sticky politics of language, translation and appropriation with biting specificity, and ultimately asking: what price would you be willing to pay for success? A remarkable debut from Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, announcing the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (Author), Balvinder Sopal (Narrator)

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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The International Bestseller for lovers of Before the Coffee Gets Col

Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier. When Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop. As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.

Satoshi Yagisawa (Author), Susan Momoko Hingley (Narrator)

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The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place

From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. In the style of her memoir Girl with Dove, this book explores a child’s search for artistic education and a sense of self. Lyrical and playful, Sally Bayley’s writing transports the reader into an eccentric world of teachers, guardians and guiding spirits of place. Moved by her female teachers, and guided by the artist J.M.W. Turner, Bayley’s protagonist goes in search of her maternal ancestors, in particular her grandmother, Edna May Turner. Following the narratives of other women in history who have taken different routes to independence and artistic freedom – including the educational suffragist Mary Neal, actress Margaret Rutherford, and poet Stevie Smith – Bayley considers the paths to happiness and the limitations social convention imposes. Part novel, part memoir, The Green Lady continues the traditions of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as an imagined biography which urgently understands the need for a space of one’s own in which to thrive. As one of the book’s several foster children, Bayley reminds us that families and homes can be found and built within literature and the arts as well as nature's green spaces.

Sally Bayley (Author), Sally Bayley (Narrator)

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The Rain

Perfect for fans of the hit TV series The Last of Us and novels like Camp Zero, this riveting novel set in a postapocalyptic America brings us a chilling look at survival in the face of a catastrophic climate disaster and the collapse of civilization as we know it. The rain began nineteen years ago, and it never stopped: more than a foot of rain per day until almost the whole of North America was underwater. Those who survived the first year were forced to take drastic measures, and those who held to the veneer of civilization were few and very far between. Seventeen-year-old Tanner grew up after the rain began. She and her adoptive caretaker, Russell, have long sought a fabled Colorado refuge, a dream that has kept them going through years of brutal trials as they try to stay one step ahead of the “face eaters”—people addicted to a mysterious drug that drives them to murder and cannibalism. When the rain began, Rook Wallace was a meteorologist who joined a company called Yasper that, years after its emergency funding dried up, continues its stated mission to help survivors by maintaining a trade network among isolated island communities. But when Rook learns the insidious truth of what keeps the Yasper mission going, he is forced to risk everything that remains of his former life to try to stop it. As Tanner’s and Rook’s stories converge in time and geography, readers will be thrilled by this postapocalyptic tale for fans of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Josh Malerman’s Bird Box.

Joseph A. Turkot (Author), Charlie Thurston, Lily Ganser (Narrator)

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A Tidy Armageddon

“Samuel Beckett meets Stephen King in an absurd and eerie coming-of-end tale that should serve as some sort of warning.”— Peter Darbyshire, author of Has the World Ended Yet? “This book is the furthest apocalypse from Mad Max that you can get. Instead, it’s a transfixing and brilliant attack on consumerism and, in a way, humanity’s inability to look before we leap…”— Post Apocalyptic Media The world is transformed into what looks like a massive warehouse overnight, and the result is a suspenseful and action-rich tale as humanity is forced to face the scale of its consumption A provocative eco-novel featuring an apocalypse like no other, A Tidy Armageddon describes the current world transformed. Civilization has been dismantled by an unknown hand and reassembled into a vast maze of blocks, each comprised of a single item, packed Tetris-style and stacked nine storeys tall: watering cans, electrical transformers, fake Christmas trees, helicopters, plastic spoons, and everything else human culture has ever produced. In rich, descriptive prose shattered by moments of suspense and action, the novel chronicles the journey of a diverse group of soldiers led by Elsie Sharpcot, a Cree sergeant and Afghanistan vet, who must reconcile a desperate hunt for her daughter with the responsibility to safeguard the recruits under her command. Passing with fear and wonder through this mausoleum of human excess, provisioning themselves from its treasures while searching for those they love, this band of misfits amalgamates into their own dysfunctional family as they race to outrun the approaching winter.

Bh Panhuyzen (Author), Brianne Tucker (Narrator)

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[Russian] - Про драконов и людей

«Про драконов и людей» — это сборник историй, каждая из которых интерпретирует крылатых созданий по-своему: где-то это большие страшные чудовища, где-то — разумные интеллигентные создания, а где-то и вовсе — плод человеческого воображения. Но если присмотреться, драконы у автора — это все вместе и даже больше. Несмотря на очевидно сказочное происхождение, драконы — это люди. В их образах проявляются наши страхи, мечты и пронзительные качества: пылкость характера, преданность, целеустремленность или огнедышащая ненависть. Эти истории словно зеркало, в котором отражаются человеческие взлеты и падения и по ходу развития каждой из них удивление и смех быстро сменяются страхом, а сказочные декорации все больше напоминают до боли знакомую реальность. «Дело в том, что эта книга не о драконах, а о людях. Драконы в ней только помогают людям быть такими, какие они есть. И если драконов никогда не существовало, то стоило бы их выдумать. Чем я, собственно, и занимаюсь. И, поверьте, это очень увлекательное занятие», — Михаил Чумалов Аудиоверсия сборника записана при участии звездного состава актеров: Алексея Кортнева, Валдиса Пельша, Василия Соловьева-Седого (младшего) и Алексея Багдасарова. «Замечательные остроумные, иногда страшные, иногда поучительные, но никогда не скучные истории», — Алексей Кортнев «Это хороший сборник рассказов, и я рекомендую их читать. В них есть всё, что делает чтение увлекательным. Небанальные сюжеты, неожиданные развязки, яркие типажи героев, узнаваемый авторский стиль и богатый русский язык. Книга читается легко, на одном дыхании. Но за этой легкостью скрываются серьезные размышления автора о вещах экзистенциальных, о природе человека», — Валдис Пельш «Я давно и профессионально занимаюсь чтением литературных произведений со сцены. Тексты Михаила Чумалова читать просто и приятно. Они написаны легким, почти разговорным языком, но при этом насыщенным и лексически богатым. Автор точен в деталях и описывает события и мизансцены так, что ты будто видишь их своими глазами. У автора отличное чувство стиля и тонкий юмор», — Василий Соловьев-Седой (младший)

михаил чумалов (Author), алексей багдасаров, алексей кортнев, валдис пельш, василий соловьев-седой, михаил чумалов (Narrator)

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