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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- A Novel
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,427
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,309
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,279
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who spoke for the black boys?
- By Darwin8u on 02-06-20
- The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- A Novel
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead
Sad and Ugly part of American history
Reviewed: 05-29-25
This broke my heart to find out this place actually existed and that type things that went on in the school really happened. Disturbing, Sad, heartbreaking and inhumane. The story was captivating, engaging and paced very well. The narrator was great. I could tell which character was which. The twist at the end did surprise me in a heart-felt way. The actual history of the Doizer School for Boys is a sad, ugly part of American history. Those boys deserved so much better.
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'Salem's Lot
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Stephen King
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27,584
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24,691
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24,637
Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Performance of an Excellent Story
- By Tami on 10-02-12
- 'Salem's Lot
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Stephen King
Still holds up!
Reviewed: 12-19-24
I haven't read this book since high school and this novel still holds up. It gave me all of the thrills and chills it did the first time that I read it. Such a chilling story. Still one of my top favs from Stephen King. Loooooved it!
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White Smoke
- By: Tiffany D. Jackson
- Narrated by: Marcella Cox
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 714
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 643
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Story4 out of 5 stars 644
Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty 10-year-old stepsister, Piper.
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2 out of 5 stars
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So Much Potential
- By J. on 10-26-21
- White Smoke
- By: Tiffany D. Jackson
- Narrated by: Marcella Cox
I wanted something more from this
Reviewed: 10-23-24
It was okay, but I expected more nail-biting suspense. I didn't like how the ending abruptly ended. Some of characters got on my nerves. I wanted something more sinister with a cliffhanger for a potential sequel.
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How to Sell a Haunted House
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng, Mikhaila Aaseng
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,652
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,385
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,384
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nope, nope, nope.
- By Karen Johnson on 01-24-23
- How to Sell a Haunted House
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng, Mikhaila Aaseng
Finally an ACTUAL doll/puppet horror book!!!
Reviewed: 10-08-24
OMG! This story was engaging and I ate every bit of it up. I love horror movies featuring creepy, evil living dolls/puppets. It is so hard to find them in book form. This suppressed my expectations. I loooooved it! More evil/possessed dolls/puppets stories please and thank you! PupKin puppet is what nightmares are made of. I need a sequel! lol The movie adaptation of this better do this story justice or level it up! Can't wait to see this on the big/small screen.
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The It Girl
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,930
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,885
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9,855
April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Way too long and way too whiney - needed editing
- By Lynn on 07-14-22
- The It Girl
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
Meh
Reviewed: 10-02-24
I wasn't that impressed. The ending was too long. This could have been a short, quick suspense with a short, quick tie up. I am soooooo glad to be done with this and I can finally move on with my life lol #NoTeaNoNoTeaNoShade
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The Church of Frendo
- Clown in a Cornfield, Book 3
- By: Adam Cesare
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4 out of 5 stars 117
Quinn has just survived yet another bloody run-in with the murderous clown Frendo, but somehow still she knows this won’t be the last. Tired of being hunted and seeing innocent people hurt, Quinn believes the only way to beat the horror is to take justice into her own hands—and stop the Frendo followers herself. Little does she know that this path will take her across cornfields and state lines, to where she will have to face the most dangerous and bloody menace yet: True believers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad to finally be done with the series.
- By Dillon M. on 04-28-25
- The Church of Frendo
- Clown in a Cornfield, Book 3
- By: Adam Cesare
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Can't get enough of Frendo
Reviewed: 09-13-24
This was a good addition to the book series. I love Adam Cesare's writing style. The story is fast-paced and engaging. I love that Quinn Maybrook went vengeful rogue on the Frendo followers. There were definitely some gnarly kills in this one. Adam never fails with the horror. He gives his readers what they want and I love that. The narrator of this series is amazing. Please, keep using her! 🙏🏾 My only con is I wish Cole and Russ were more iinvolved in this book like the first two. That being said, bring on more FRENDO! The ending of this book would be a great setup and concept for the next book. Can't wait to see the movie adaptation of the first book. 😍
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The Watchers
- By: A.M. Shine
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,007
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,007
This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surprising and original
- By Leia Schoeck on 10-08-22
- The Watchers
- By: A.M. Shine
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne
Creepy, gripping and chilling!
Reviewed: 05-06-24
I really enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Great plot that had a nice pace to it. Narrator was superb! This world felt dark, creepy, chilling and terrifying. Loved the ending, too. They'll never stop watching Mina.......
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The Color Purple
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,728
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,571
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,566
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By elizabeth h correa on 05-19-20
- The Color Purple
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
Timeless story
Reviewed: 04-04-24
I have seen the original movie and the new musical movie adaptation. I have seen the revival of The Color Purple on Broadway. I have performed in the musical at a local community theatre in Carmel, IN. I finally read the novel and my love for this story has deepen. There was trauma through this book, but continued to shine through and never die is the LOVE!!!! BEAUTIFUL! "Look What God Has Done.....AMEN!"
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The Reformatory
- A Novel
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,626
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,541
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,541
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Worth a listen
- By LadyLove on 11-07-23
- The Reformatory
- A Novel
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Phenomenal
Reviewed: 02-02-24
I loved it. It kept me engaged from beginning to end. The "real" Horror of the Reformatory was the evil ways of man. The racism. The cruelty of white people towards Black folks. Just inhumane. Evil. Pure evil!
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Playground
- By: Aron Beauregard
- Narrated by: Lila Kerry
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,300
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,181
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,181
Three low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment Geraldine has been working on for decades. But there’s a reason the structures in the bowels of her gothic castle have taken so long to develop—they were never meant to see the light of day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the weak-stomached.
- By Dan Bugbee on 01-26-23
- Playground
- By: Aron Beauregard
- Narrated by: Lila Kerry
Not for the faint of heart
Reviewed: 12-02-23
There were some gross out chapters, especially when the character Geraldine comes in the picture with her backstory. Most disgusting, disturbing and pure evil character I have ever encountered. Overall, it kept me engaged and couldn't stop listening till the very end. if violence towards children don't mix well with you, AVOID IT! Not for the faint of heart.
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