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The Kremlin Conspiracy
- A Marcus Ryker Novel, Book 1
- By: Joel C. Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. But in his blind spot is the former U.S. Secret Service agent, Marcus Ryker.
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Outstanding thriller
- By DIANE M TINKLE on 03-12-18
- The Kremlin Conspiracy
- A Marcus Ryker Novel, Book 1
- By: Joel C. Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Not my cup of tea
Reviewed: 12-02-24
The writing was good and the reader was excellent. But the long long lead up to the actual events just got a little old. It was so clear that the writer had to engage us with his people so we got lots and lots of details but it was almost to the end of the book before the real story started. I think that books about military maneuvers are just not my thing.
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Jesus for Everyone
- Not Just Christians
- By: Amy-Jill Levine
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Two thousand years after his birth and death, Jesus of Nazareth continues to be of vital interest. Yet much of the scholarship around Jesus focuses on his religious significance. Jesus for Everyone examines his most famous teachings from a fresh perspective, exploring how they have continued to shape ethics and civilization in the West for two millennia. Even for those who reject faith, Jesus’s life and his philosophy are important to study, writes renowned biblical scholar and author Amy-Jill Levine, because of the insights they hold for us today.
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Great insights
- By Marsha on 09-12-24
- Jesus for Everyone
- Not Just Christians
- By: Amy-Jill Levine
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Great insights
Reviewed: 09-12-24
I love hearing new but loving and careful perspectives. AJ Levine always brings brilliance. And she’s always respectful of differing points of view.
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The Bad Weather Friend
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.
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Funny, Fearful, Fanciful Adventure
- By R. Wilcox on 02-09-24
- The Bad Weather Friend
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
Are you sure Koontz wrote this?
Reviewed: 07-03-24
What a miserable book. It’s like one of those click-bait stories that says, “You’ll never believe who it turns out to be,” and then 50 pages or clicks later, it still hasn’t told you. I keep trying to force myself through another 15 minutes only to discover that nothing has happened. I am also NOT appreciative of horror or demon stories. So be aware.
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There Is No Ethan
- How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
- By: Anna Akbari
- Narrated by: Anna Akbari, Justin Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged countless messages with Ethan, staying up late into the evenings to deepen their connections with this fascinating man. His detailed excuses about broken webcams and complicated international calling plans seemed believable, as did last minute trip cancellations. After all, why would he lie? Ethan wasn't after money—he never convinced his marks to shell out thousands of dollars for some imagined crisis.
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An instant classic
- By 6catz on 06-07-24
- There Is No Ethan
- How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
- By: Anna Akbari
- Narrated by: Anna Akbari, Justin Price
Great writing, fascinating documentary
Reviewed: 06-26-24
Documentaries can sometimes get dry and the writing can get over technical. This kept things moving along, so it was hard to put down and her descriptors were interesting and accurate. Also frightening. If you’re thinking of online dating OR of seeing an ob/gyn in New Jersey, read this first!!
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The Moonlighters Series Collection (Includes Three Novels)
- Truth Stained Lies, Distortion, and Twisted Innocence
- By: Terri Blackstock
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Nan Gurley
- Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
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Sisters Cathy, Juliet, and Holly moonlight as private investigators in Terri Blackstock’s Moonlighter series: Truth Stained Lies, Distortion,and Twisted Innocence—now available as a 3-in-1 audiobook....
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Moon lighting so good!
- By Denice Leavitt on 02-09-24
- The Moonlighters Series Collection (Includes Three Novels)
- Truth Stained Lies, Distortion, and Twisted Innocence
- By: Terri Blackstock
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Nan Gurley
Hallmark-ish
Reviewed: 03-27-24
I like Blackstock’s books in general. You don’t have to run afowl of kids or grandkids popping to hear horrible language or bloody descriptions. This reader interprets a lot of dialog as whiny which I find irritating but I think is supposed to evoke pity and sympathy. It makes me fast forward. I feel like the books have become more flat - everyone has a heterosexual partner with whom they’re engaged or married by the end of the book. Everyone has been told that God loves them. But a few of the good Christians have delighted that the bad guys were killed and they were happy the bad guys would “burn in hell.” This will probably be my last Blackstock book.
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Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- By: Liz Cheney
- Narrated by: Liz Cheney
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on our Capitol.
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Most important book I've ever read.
- By James m Finamore jr on 12-07-23
- Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- By: Liz Cheney
- Narrated by: Liz Cheney
Fascinating for all the moderates
Reviewed: 02-27-24
I’m always so surprised when people are “all Republican” or “all Democrat”. I feel like I see value on both sides. So it was nice to hear someone who’s conservative, but balanced, listening to other people, but able to express herself, firmly entrenched in American politics, but not jaded. Really insightful book.
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Now is the Time to Open Your Heart
- A Novel
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alfre Woodard
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover, Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains but love.
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Food for the intellect, heart, and soul
- By sweet_elizabeth on 02-12-09
- Now is the Time to Open Your Heart
- A Novel
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alfre Woodard
Sorry. Tedious.
Reviewed: 02-06-24
As much as I love, Alice Walker, this was a total miss for me, really tedious and boring and disconnected. I have no idea even what the story was supposed to teach me. Of course, Woodard is a wonderful reader, that didn’t improve the story for me at all.
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Drift
- The Unmooring of American Military Power
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan.
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Half the National Debt?
- By Dolf Beil on 04-07-12
- Drift
- The Unmooring of American Military Power
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
The clarity of military workings
Reviewed: 11-20-23
While I am sure that I disagree with partisan views of Maddow and others, the clarity of message and backing facts was really fascinating.
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Girl, Forgotten
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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A girl with a secret. Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night that should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever. Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from her grisly attack. But all that’s about to change.
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Good book but why so political
- By Christine Short on 09-02-22
- Girl, Forgotten
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Tired of this kind of female character
Reviewed: 10-21-23
I made it through the whole book, but the main character is so weak and scared and just unable to resist the big strong man who lies to her and about her, but ONLY to keep the poor little woman safe. She’s just so overwrought that she just can’t help leaning her little head against his big chest so he can protect her. Ugh.
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
- Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
Thank you so much for no whiny women
Reviewed: 08-31-23
Having female characters that do not whine but do other annoying things like turn on one another, is really refreshing in today’s market. This book has people who are just like the ones I know in real life. Complicated, malleable, stubborn. Really a refreshing read.
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