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The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 43,136
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39,005
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Story5 out of 5 stars 38,887
The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race. Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dear Publishers of Audio Books
- By Lynn on 08-04-14
- The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Amazing story!
Reviewed: 03-13-24
One of the best books I've ever heard or read. The narration was superb, aside from mispronouncing almost every Washington place name. 😂
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The Art of Us
- By: KL Hughes
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 715
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 679
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 675
Eighteen-year-old Charlee Parker met the love of her life in a parking lot-a leggy brunette with a valedictorian medal hanging from her rear-view mirror and an attitude as biting as a Boston winter. Alexandra Woodson was guarded, a 19-year-old orphan set on a bright future in hospitality administration. She never imagined an art student with a penchant for cheesy pick-up lines and stealing parking spaces would crack her rigid exterior and claim her heart. For four years, theirs was an enviable love - evergreen and growing. Unbreakable... until it broke.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now That's a Love Story!!!!
- By Sondra A., Cobb on 03-29-18
- The Art of Us
- By: KL Hughes
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
The time jumps force you to concentrate more than I like when listening in the car
Reviewed: 02-18-24
Abby Craden is amazing as always. Her first words were like a warm blanket wrapping around me after not hearing one of her performances in several months. The story was nice but disjointed because of the random time jumps without warning. I don't know if the printed book had visual clues, but the audio left me wondering when the flashback sta
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Shattered Hearts
- By: Noelle Winters
- Narrated by: Rebecca Estrella
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4 out of 5 stars 84
Two shattered hearts. One fateful meeting. Zoe Matthews depends on no one, not even after her husband died - and it was her fault. The last thing she wants to do is hurt someone again. But the moment she meets her sexy new neighbor, George, she recognizes in her a soul as broken as her own. When one night leads to a passion unexpected, she's drawn to the physical comfort George offers, without pity. Again and again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book!
- By Mrs. NY on 11-04-17
- Shattered Hearts
- By: Noelle Winters
- Narrated by: Rebecca Estrella
confusing story with terrible narrator
Reviewed: 01-15-24
I'm not sure if it was the machine like narration or if the story was jumbled but had trouble following the plot and had to back up a lot to figure out what just happened. The character voices were ok, but in between the narration sounded like Alexa was reading the book. Be ready for a LOT of guilt and self loathing repeated in the same way over and over.
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Bluebird
- By: Ciel Pierlot
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4 out of 5 stars 124
Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving rebel-with-a-cause, doesn’t give a damn about them, and she hasn’t looked back since abandoning them three years ago. That is, until her former faction sends her a message: Return what she stole from them, or her twin sister will die. Rig embarks on a journey across the galaxy to save her - but for once, she’s not alone. She has help from her network of resistance contacts, her taser-wielding librarian girlfriend, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lazy world building
- By Eric P Anderson on 06-19-22
- Bluebird
- By: Ciel Pierlot
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
I struggled to get this book.
Reviewed: 06-14-23
Replace the spaceships with transit routes and this story could have been about several teenage gangs fighting over a few blocks of abandoned buildings in a run down city. Every encounter devolved into petulant whining until someone finally did what they should have done at the beginning, kill a bunch of people before running away.
I admit I bought this book because the description started with "Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space! " in bold type, but the thoroughly unlikable MC could have been any gender and orientation without changing the story.
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Timber Falls
- By: Gerri Hill
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 458
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 427
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 427
The isolated, sleepy little village of Timber Falls—built on the bend of a swift mountain river—swells during the summer months as tourists flock to town to run the river, lured there by the Class IV and Class V rapids. A gruesome murder of a college student—a river rat—brings the FBI to town. Lynn Carter, a disgraced LAPD detective, was offered an out—a position on a team of unorthodox FBI agents. When her commander sent her to Timber Falls—a town by only the stretch of the imagination—she had no idea she would find her peace there. No idea she might find love.
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1 out of 5 stars
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lackluster
- By Millennial Dog Mom on 02-28-23
- Timber Falls
- By: Gerri Hill
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
Well read but a bit horrific.
Reviewed: 05-20-23
As always, Abby Craden is amazing. I'm still up in the air about the author. I'm not into horror stories so I may hold off on listening to any more of her works.
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The Secret Pond
- By: Gerri Hill
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,268
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,167
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,167
Grieving over the loss of her family and feeling like her life is unraveling, Lindsey McDermott quits her job, gets a puppy, and retreats to her grandparents' home in the Texas Hill Country. She spends her solitary days walking childhood trails and reminiscing, trying to reconcile the conflict within her as she struggles with survivor's guilt. After the death of her husband, Hannah Larson needs a change. At the suggestion of her mother-in-law - and against her better judgment - she and her son Jack move to tiny Utopia and into her husband's grandmother's house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful, loved it
- By Pat on 11-26-17
- The Secret Pond
- By: Gerri Hill
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
Seems incomplete
Reviewed: 04-17-23
The story built wonderfully but at the end it just cut off with looming problems totally unresolved. Narration by Abby Craden was brilliant as always.
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Dead Letters from Paradise
- By: Ann McMan
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 248
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Story4 out of 5 stars 211
One sunny Spring morning, EJ's simple life is turned upside down when the town's master gardener unceremoniously hands her a stack of handwritten letters that have all been addressed to a nonexistent person at the garden. This simple act sets in motion a chain of events that will lead EJ on a life-altering quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious letter writer―and into a surprising head-on confrontation with the harsh realities of the racial injustice that is as deeply rooted in the life of her community as the ancient herbs cultivated in the Moravian garden.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection
- By AGC on 09-08-22
- Dead Letters from Paradise
- By: Ann McMan
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
I wish it never ended.
Reviewed: 03-14-23
I have come to love Ann McMan's writing and Christine Williams ' narration so I wish this story could go on for ever, but I think the ending was just perfect. I can't wait for their next collaboration. I think I'll finally listen to "The Price of Salt" which has been waiting in my library for more than a year.
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Triple Dog Dare
- By: Georgia Beers
- Narrated by: Keira Grace
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Sasha Wolfe has been talking up her new girlfriend to her overbearing mother for months, and when her skeptical sister dares her to invite this new squeeze over for family Christmas, Sasha accepts the challenge. After all, how hard can it be to bring your nonexistent girlfriend home for the holidays?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent story - horrible narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 08-22-23
- Triple Dog Dare
- By: Georgia Beers
- Narrated by: Keira Grace
Nice short story.
Reviewed: 02-26-23
The story is cute but the narration sounded like Alexa was reading the text. It actually broke my concentration at times. The timing and inflection were off.
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If the Shoe Fits
- By: E. J. Noyes
- Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,658
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,504
Jana Fleischer loves her life - wonderful family, best sister in the world, awesome soon to be sister-in-law, fabulous job, and a never-ending stream of men to chew through and spit out. So what if everyone says she’s too picky and she’s never had a real relationship? When a chance meeting with Brooke Donnelly leaves Jana literally and figuratively off-balance, it doesn’t take long for her initial annoyance to turn into the first sparks of friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another fabulous release from E.J. Noyes!
- By MissLynn on 11-26-19
- If the Shoe Fits
- By: E. J. Noyes
- Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro
All the main characters sound the same.
Reviewed: 09-15-22
I had to repeat sections to figure out who was saying what. The narrator used the same voice for all the main characters.
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The Last Lavender Sister
- By: Melissa Brayden
- Narrated by: Lula Larkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 216
The youngest daughter, Aster always keeps her head down and lets her siblings stand in the spotlight. She sells her gourmet doughnuts from Hole in One, the small drive-through stand in sleepy Homer’s Bluff, Kansas, and daydreams about seeing the big beautiful world. Love is never going to happen, especially when the only other lesbians in town are already married to each other.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Stopped listening at end of Chapter 12
- By Wende B on 07-27-22
- The Last Lavender Sister
- By: Melissa Brayden
- Narrated by: Lula Larkin
Couldn't understand Brinn
Reviewed: 09-06-22
The story moved well until Boston, then it made no sense to me. It was like fighting quicksand for 5 years then suddenly being teleported to Shangra La.
Lula Larkin was awesome as always.
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