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Holiday Buzz
- A Coffeehouse Mystery, Book 12
- By: Cleo Coyle
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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At the Great New York Cookie Swap, pastry chefs bake up their very best for charity. Clare is in charge of the beverage service, and her famous Fa-la-la-la Lattes make the gathering even merrier. But her high spirits come crashing down when she discovers the battered body of a hard-working baker's assistant. Police suspect a serial attacker whose escalating crimes have become known as "the Christmas Stalkings". Clare'sboyfriend, NYPD detective Mike Quinn, finds reason to believe even more sinister forces are involved.
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Startlingly dreadful
- By Farfromthefar on 03-22-17
- Holiday Buzz
- A Coffeehouse Mystery, Book 12
- By: Cleo Coyle
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
no way to delete crap from library
Reviewed: 03-06-22
Please tell me how to delete unwanted titles from my library. Thank you. Thank you.
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If This Was Happiness
- A Biography of Rita Hayworth
- By: Barbara Leaming
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s glamour. A legendary "Love Goddess", she was a huge box-office star, and her sultry beauty and sensational figure made her into one of Hollywood's greatest sex-symbols: a pin-up so incendiary that GIs pasted it on to the first atom bomb ever detonated.
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Sad but true
- By Placeholder on 10-19-14
- If This Was Happiness
- A Biography of Rita Hayworth
- By: Barbara Leaming
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
So Sad to Realize
Reviewed: 12-11-21
So sad to realize how many glamorous movie stars were abused and damaged and further how the studio industry perpetuated the abuse in full.
After hearing so many stories similar to Ms. Hayworth's, I'm forced to conclude there were no stars unscathed.
Disillusioned and disgusted.
this well done reading was interesting in its cleansing out of Mr Wells' goings on at the time with more detail than Mr. Bogdonavich had in his biography of Wells.
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Euphoria
- A Novel
- By: Lily King
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband, Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nell and Fen have just fled the bloodthirsty Mumbanyo and, in spite of Nell's poor health, are hungry for a new discovery.
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Anthropologists in Love
- By David on 08-21-14
- Euphoria
- A Novel
- By: Lily King
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Xe Sands
Literature
Reviewed: 12-07-21
Gobsmacked at the level of this writing. More so because it is from a woman. Sexist of me, no doubt, but astonishing honestly.
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Five Tuesdays in Winter
- Stories
- By: Lily King
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Mark Bramhall, Stacey Glemboski, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Lily King’s literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.
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Depressing and Unfulfilling
- By Anonymous User on 11-16-21
- Five Tuesdays in Winter
- Stories
- By: Lily King
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Mark Bramhall, Stacey Glemboski, Cassandra Campbell, Christa Lewis
Excellent Writing
Reviewed: 12-01-21
Well then, I've a new favorite writer, just like that. Moments in these stories were pure art.
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Cut and Run
- A Light-Hearted Dark Comedy
- By: Ben Acker, Ben Blacker
- Narrated by: Meg Ryan, D’Arcy Carden, Sam Richardson, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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Samantha is a professional seductress and con artist with a heart of gold. If she talked about her work, she’d tell you she only pilfers organs for medical research and that she only takes one kidney, and she only steals those kidneys from dishonest people. It’s hell on her social life. Abe is the doctor and Sam's partner in crime. He isn’t much of a criminal. Except for the kidney stealing. But he’s using that money to fund his research that he anticipates will be able to cure diabetes. So, all for a good cause...? You decide. Of course, it's hell on his social life.
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Dumb and funny
- By R. MCRACKAN on 02-01-20
- Cut and Run
- A Light-Hearted Dark Comedy
- By: Ben Acker, Ben Blacker
- Narrated by: Meg Ryan, D’Arcy Carden, Sam Richardson, Rachel Bloom, Ed Begley Jr., Thomas Lennon, Eugene Cordero, full cast
stealing organs is no joke
Reviewed: 11-30-21
How on earth did this talented cast lower their souls enough to try (and rightly fail) to make organ theft, for any rationalized reason, funny??
What was the moment when lying, cheating, stealing, violating stranger's bodies, and committing all sorts of amorality became ok?
Hard pass.
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Today We Go Home
- A Novel
- By: Kelli Estes
- Narrated by: Amy Landon, Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it's surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest, or riding on a dusty convoy in Afghanistan. But all that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held dear. Soon after, Larkin discovers an unexpected treasure: the diary of Emily Wilson, a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union in the Civil War. As Larkin struggles to heal, she finds herself drawn deep into Emily's life and the secrets she kept.
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Well-written, powerful, and very entertaining
- By Deborah Meadows on 09-04-19
- Today We Go Home
- A Novel
- By: Kelli Estes
- Narrated by: Amy Landon, Sarah Mollo-Christensen
excellent job
Reviewed: 11-29-21
eye-opening in terms of women's contribution to historical and current military. performances remarkable for characterizations.
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Audrey Hepburn
- A Biography
- By: Warren G. Harris
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Beginning with her harsh childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland, Warren Harris chronicles Audrey Hepburn's meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom: her chance encounter with Colette that led to the lead role in the Broadway version of Gigi, and her first starring role in Roman Holiday, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Hepburn played opposite the top leading men, worked for the best directors, and picked from a wide range of roles.
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Disappointing
- By Lisa on 12-09-18
- Audrey Hepburn
- A Biography
- By: Warren G. Harris
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
fantastic in every way
Reviewed: 11-25-21
The story frank and engaging. The performance pitch perfect. each accent/character incredibly well done. Loved what I learned about the years of Ms. Hepburn's upbringing, personal life, and career, her contemporaries and friendships.
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
- By: Kelli Estes
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara's life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein, a young Chinese girl mysteriously driven from her home a century before. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core - and force her to make an impossible choice.
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1880s Washington Territory and Chinese Exclusion
- By Debbie on 12-11-15
- The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
- By: Kelli Estes
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
strong writing strong performance
Reviewed: 11-24-21
Moments were top-tier quality. Would have made its best version if started with chapter 4 and ended with chapter 10 as a stand alone novella.
There were a few additional great moments in other chapters too but perhaps if those were worked into the main body, you'd have something even more extraordinary.
Narrator's performance was exceptional. each character voiced distinct enough to follow through crowd dialog.
spoilers: if rewritten, would remove the corporate name mentioned over a dozen times as repetitive. A fictitious area company would have made the point of contrast without feeling sponsored. Also overused was a particular body reaction/illness. A few dramatic vomits for the main protagonist can be effective. But here it was used too frequently, nearly each chapter had her emptying her stomach.
The strong moments make this worthwhile. I was taken by it in places.
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The Sound Inside
- By: Adam Rapp
- Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker, Will Hochman
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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The Sound Inside follows Bella Baird, an accomplished English professor at an Ivy League university who prizes her solitude. But when she faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with a brilliant and mysterious student, Christopher.
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Not sure if this is as great as people think..
- By cthomas on 03-25-21
- The Sound Inside
- By: Adam Rapp
- Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker, Will Hochman
Can't imagine a better experience
Reviewed: 11-18-21
My first proper audiobook and I feel dumb for not understanding how rich an experience they can be now. I thought they were just a robotic voice reading text. But this excellent story was instead so finely read and performed it left me stunned.
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