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Everyone Worth Knowing
- Auteur(s): Lauren Weisberger
- Narrateur(s): Stina Nielsen
- Durée: 14 h et 26 min
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When 27-year-old Bette Robinson quits her Manhattan banking job, she knows she won't miss the 80-hour workweeks, her claustrophobic cubicle or her revolting boss's Quotes of the Day. Then Bette meets Kelly, head of Manhattan's hottest PR and events planning firm, and suddenly she has a brand-new job where the primary requirement is to see and be seen. The work at Kelly & Company takes Bette inside the VIP rooms of the city's most exclusive nightclubs, to parties crowded with celebrities and socialites.
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Everyone Worth Knowing
- Narrateur(s): Stina Nielsen
- Durée: 14 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2011-04-15
- Langue: Anglais
- When twenty-seven-year-old Bette Robinson quits her Manhattan banking job, she knows she won't miss the eighty-hour workweeks....
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The Deer Park
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Norman Mailer
- Narrateur(s): John Buffalo Mailer
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
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Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic of 1950s Hollywood, Desert D'Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want - and how far they are willing to go to get it.
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The Deer Park
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): John Buffalo Mailer
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2015-12-27
- Langue: Anglais
- Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs....
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When the Green Woods Laugh
- Auteur(s): H. E. Bates
- Narrateur(s): Philip Franks
- Durée: 4 h
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A year has passed, and in this third novel of the Pop Larkin series, Pop Larkin is preparing to build the bungalow he promised Charley and Mariette upon their engagement. He buys a country home slated for demolition, intending to convert it for the two, but it is not long before a London couple persuade him to sell it. Pop, ever the trickster, sells it for an extortionate price, as the two social climbers know little about country life.
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When the Green Woods Laugh
- Narrateur(s): Philip Franks
- Série: Pop Larkin, Livre 3
- Durée: 4 h
- Date de publication: 2016-02-19
- Langue: Anglais
- A year has passed, and in this third novel of the Pop Larkin series, Pop Larkin is preparing to build the bungalow he promised Charley and Mariette upon their engagement....
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Qualityland
- Auteur(s): Marc-Uwe Kling
- Narrateur(s): Patricia Rodriguez
- Durée: 10 h et 42 min
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Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.
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Qualityland
- Narrateur(s): Patricia Rodriguez
- Durée: 10 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2020-01-13
- Langue: Anglais
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Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward....
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A Long Way Down
- Auteur(s): Nick Hornby
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick, Simon Vance, Kate Reading
- Durée: 8 h et 55 min
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In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times best-selling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line.
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Thoughtful but not to heavy, with Hornby's signature wit
- Écrit par Al Ba le 2023-05-27
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A Long Way Down
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick, Simon Vance, Kate Reading
- Durée: 8 h et 55 min
- Date de publication: 2005-05-27
- Langue: Anglais
- In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times best-selling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line....
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The Arrangement
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sarah Dunn
- Narrateur(s): Ellen Archer
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb. They've got a 200-year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic, and 17 chickens, at last count. It's the kind of paradise where stay-at-home moms team up to cook the school's "hot lunch", dads grill grass-fed burgers, and, as Lucy observes, "chopping kale has become a certain kind of American housewife's version of chopping wood".
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Enjoyed it!
- Écrit par Iryna M le 2021-04-27
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The Arrangement
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Ellen Archer
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2017-03-21
- Langue: Anglais
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Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb. They've got a 200-year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic, and 17 chickens, at last count....
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Being There
- Auteur(s): Jerzy Kosinski
- Narrateur(s): Dustin Hoffman
- Durée: 2 h et 51 min
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Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture. Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon.
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cool story
- Écrit par samir Zoura le 2021-07-04
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Being There
- Narrateur(s): Dustin Hoffman
- Durée: 2 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2012-06-13
- Langue: Anglais
- Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture....
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The Fermata
- Auteur(s): Nicholson Baker
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
- Durée: 10 h et 47 min
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The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. "It's harder than I thought!" he admits. His "Fold-powers" are easier; he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions - always, in his view, with respect and love.
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The Fermata
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
- Durée: 10 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2011-11-29
- Langue: Anglais
- The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography.....
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O My America!
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Johanna Kaplan
- Narrateur(s): Romy Nordlinger
- Durée: 10 h et 54 min
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A delightfully funny and moving novel about the singular life of a cantankerous Jewish-American writer and anarchist troublemaker, as remembered by his daughter. In 1972, sixty-four-year-old Ezra Slavin's heart gives out at an anti-war rally. A contentious and irascible Jewish-American writer, anarchist, and inadvertent guru to discontented youth, he leaves behind a large extended family of ex-wives, lovers, and children, most of whom had cut all ties with the infuriating intellectual provocateur years earlier.
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O My America!
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Romy Nordlinger
- Durée: 10 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2013-09-24
- Langue: Anglais
- A delightfully funny and moving novel about the singular life of a cantankerous Jewish-American writer and anarchist troublemaker, as remembered by his daughter....
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Beyond Black
- Auteur(s): Hilary Mantel
- Narrateur(s): Anna Bentinck
- Durée: 17 h et 14 min
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Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past, who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists....
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Beyond Black
- Narrateur(s): Anna Bentinck
- Durée: 17 h et 14 min
- Date de publication: 2018-01-04
- Langue: Anglais
- Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors....
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Then We Came to the End
- Auteur(s): Joshua Ferris
- Narrateur(s): Deanna Hurst
- Durée: 4 h et 29 min
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No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best. The characters in Then We Came to an End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
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Then We Came to the End
- Narrateur(s): Deanna Hurst
- Durée: 4 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2007-03-01
- Langue: Anglais
- The characters in Then We Came to an End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks....
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El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó [The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared]
- Auteur(s): Jonas Jonasson
- Narrateur(s): Jordi Boixaderas
- Durée: 13 h et 21 min
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Jonas Jonasson nos regala un personaje maravilloso. Un abuelo sin prejuicios que no está dispuesto a renunciar al placer de vivir. Momentos antes de que empiece la pomposa celebración de su centésimo cumpleaños, Allan Karlsson decide que nada de eso va con él. Vestido con su mejor traje y unas pantuflas, se encarama a una ventana y se fuga de la residencia donde vive, dejando plantados al alcalde y a la prensa local.
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El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó [The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared]
- Narrateur(s): Jordi Boixaderas
- Durée: 13 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2020-06-11
- Langue: Espagnol
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Momentos antes de que empiece la pomposa celebración de su centésimo cumpleaños, Karlsson decide que nada de eso va con él. Vestido con su mejor traje y unas pantuflas, se encarama a una ventana y se fuga de la residencia donde vive, dejando plantados al alcalde y a la prensa local....
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A Children's Bible
- Auteur(s): Lydia Millet
- Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
- Durée: 5 h et 34 min
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Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, the group's ringleaders - including Eve, who narrates the story - decide to run away, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.
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Fascinating, stirring, utterly unique
- Écrit par Deborah K. Wolfe le 2021-07-21
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A Children's Bible
- Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
- Durée: 5 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2020-05-12
- Langue: Anglais
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Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time....
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
- Auteur(s): Charles Yu
- Narrateur(s): James Yaegashi
- Durée: 6 h et 8 min
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Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally.
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
- Narrateur(s): James Yaegashi
- Durée: 6 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2011-04-05
- Langue: Anglais
- Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business....
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The Luck of the Bodkins
- Auteur(s): P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Cecil
- Durée: 9 h et 5 min
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Things on board the R.M.S. Atlantic are terribly, terribly complicated... Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet, who definitely adores Ambrose, who thinks that she has a thing for his brother, Reggie, who is struck by Mabel Spence, sister-in-law of Ikey Llewellyn (movie mogul, Ambrose's prospective employer and reluctant smuggler), but hasn't the means to marry her.
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Lighthearted and sweet
- Écrit par Corrie le 2023-11-20
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The Luck of the Bodkins
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Cecil
- Série: Drones Club, Monty Bodkin, Livre 1
- Durée: 9 h et 5 min
- Date de publication: 2008-09-03
- Langue: Anglais
- Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet, who definitely adores Ambrose....
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Very Good Jeeves, Volume 1
- Auteur(s): P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrateur(s): Martin Jarvis
- Durée: 4 h et 5 min
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Jeeves and Wooster never disappoint on audio and these unabridged stories are of course no exception. Wodehouse/Jarvis deliver another excellent audio collection featuring all your favourite characters, not forgetting our intrepid duo of course! Full Story Listings: 1. Jeeves and the Impending Doom, 2. The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy, 3. Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit, 4. Jeeves and the Song of Songs, 5. Episode of the Dog McIntosh, and 6. The Spot of Art
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Very Good Jeeves
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-02-04
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Very Good Jeeves, Volume 1
- Narrateur(s): Martin Jarvis
- Durée: 4 h et 5 min
- Date de publication: 2011-09-08
- Langue: Anglais
- Jeeves and Wooster never disappoint on audio and these unabridged stories are of course no exception....
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Trio
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): William Boyd
- Narrateur(s): Imani Jade Powers
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
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A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968 - a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and zags, these layers of secrets become increasingly more untenable. Pressures build inexorably. The FBI and CIA get involved.
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Trio triumph
- Écrit par andrew le 2021-02-04
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Trio
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Imani Jade Powers
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2021-01-19
- Langue: Anglais
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A rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set - from the award-winning, best-selling author of Any Human Heart....
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An Object of Beauty
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Steve Martin
- Narrateur(s): Campbell Scott
- Durée: 7 h et 23 min
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Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights - and, at times, the dark lows - of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.
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An Object of Beauty
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Campbell Scott
- Durée: 7 h et 23 min
- Date de publication: 2010-11-23
- Langue: Anglais
- Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm....
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Offshore
- Auteur(s): Penelope Fitzgerald, Stephanie Racine, Alan Hollinghurst - introduction
- Narrateur(s): Jot Davies, Alan Hollinghurst
- Durée: 5 h et 1 min
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On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames. There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach.
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Offshore
- Narrateur(s): Jot Davies, Alan Hollinghurst
- Durée: 5 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2016-12-15
- Langue: Anglais
- Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst....
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Spoonbenders
- A novel
- Auteur(s): Daryl Gregory
- Narrateur(s): Ari Fliakos
- Durée: 14 h et 2 min
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Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. There he meets Maureen McKinnon, and it's not just her piercing blue eyes that leave Teddy forever charmed but her mind - Maureen is a genuine psychic of immense and mysterious power.
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Great story but not my style
- Écrit par snowana le 2021-12-15
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Spoonbenders
- A novel
- Narrateur(s): Ari Fliakos
- Durée: 14 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2017-06-27
- Langue: Anglais
- Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study....
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