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Baskets and Beignets
- Miss Fortune Mysteries, Book 27
- By: Jana DeLeon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Ten years ago, Ryan Comeaux was convicted of killing his girlfriend and was sentenced to life in prison. Now a witness has come forward who claims she was with Ryan the entire night and it’s not possible that he was the killer. But the local police assume she’s mistaken and aren’t interested in reopening what they view as an open-and-shut case. The witness, Kelsey Spalding, has her own reasons for wanting Ryan’s conviction overturned and hires Swamp Team 3 to prove him innocent.
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The Miss Fortune series never disappoints
- By Wayne on 10-05-24
- Baskets and Beignets
- Miss Fortune Mysteries, Book 27
- By: Jana DeLeon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
The Miss Fortune series never disappoints
Reviewed: 10-05-24
Author Jana DeLeon has another winner with Baskets and Beignets which is Book 27 in her Miss Fortune Mysteries series. Cassandra Campbell does a superb narration job as she did in the first 26 series novels. The series novels are a delightful mix of genuine mystery/thrillers mixed with laugh-out-loud comedy. Highly recommended.
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Deadly Defense
- Cass Leary Legal Thriller Series, Book 13
- By: Robin James
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Someone didn’t just want Megan Lewis dead. They wanted her obliterated. Even the most seasoned crime scene analysts were haunted by what they found. When Megan’s married ex-boyfriend admits to the murder, her family may at least get the mercy of swift justice. Defense attorney Cass Leary has every reason to steer clear of this case. Her client, Reed Karl might just be the most hated man in town. But one look at the police report and Cass knows something doesn't add up. And when Reed’s wife and young daughter beg her to help him, she can’t find the heart to say no.
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Another excellent Robin James legal thriller
- By Wayne on 10-04-24
- Deadly Defense
- Cass Leary Legal Thriller Series, Book 13
- By: Robin James
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
Another excellent Robin James legal thriller
Reviewed: 10-04-24
Deadly Defense is Book 13 in the outstanding Cass Leary legal thriller series. She also authors the Mara Brant series which I recommend. If you like legal thrillers give Robin James a try.
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Rich Justice
- Jason Rich, Book 3
- By: Robert Bailey
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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Once the flashy, successful lawyer known for his in-your-face billboards—IN AN ACCIDENT? GET RICH—Jason Rich has fallen from grace, his reputation scrubbed of its glitz and his life stripped of the people he cares about. All thanks to meth kingpin Tyson Cade. But when Cade is shot and killed in the heart of his territory, things go from bad to worse for Jason as he is charged with his murder.
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Outstanding legal thriller
- By Wayne on 05-30-24
- Rich Justice
- Jason Rich, Book 3
- By: Robert Bailey
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
Outstanding legal thriller
Reviewed: 05-30-24
Rich Justice is Robert Bailey's third legal thriller in in his Jason Rich series, his ninth legal thriller overall, and his tenth novel. In hs legal novels Bailey deals very effectively with shades of gray as he weaves his tales showing the character flaws in his protagonists, While doing that he does a terrific job of storytelling as he builds suspense. Rich Justice is a wonderful novel as are Bailey's other books.
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The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game
- By: Rizwan Virk
- Narrated by: Kory Getman
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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The Simulation Hypothesis, by best-selling author, renowned MIT computer scientist, and Silicon Valley video game designer Rizwan Virk, explains one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time. Drawing from research and concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, video games, quantum physics, and referencing both speculative fiction and ancient eastern spiritual texts, Virk shows how all of these traditions come together to point to the idea that we may be inside a simulated reality like the Matrix.
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A 90's thesis for a mail order university
- By Samwell on 05-26-19
- The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game
- By: Rizwan Virk
- Narrated by: Kory Getman
Disappointing
Reviewed: 05-20-24
This book has received a lot of positive attention in the press and blogs. The narration sound quality is poor. Redundancy is a bigger problem than the sound.
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Swamp Spies
- Miss Fortune Mysteries, Book 26
- By: Jana DeLeon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Most Sinful residents are unaware of Carter’s crisis and are going about their daily lives as they always have, including local prankster Gage Babin. Except this time, Gage’s attempt to elicit laughs leaves him on a slab in the medical examiner’s office. Everyone knows how unhealthy he was, but Fortune thinks there’s more to his death than a poorly timed prank that caused his bad heart to give out.
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Already waiting for the next!!!!
- By shelley on 05-16-24
- Swamp Spies
- Miss Fortune Mysteries, Book 26
- By: Jana DeLeon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Fun mystery/suspense series
Reviewed: 05-20-24
Jana DeLeon's Swamp Spies remains true to the Miss Fortune series norm of fun suspense while adding a bit of intense suspense as Fortune rescues her boyfriend Carter LeBlance from an Iranian prison. This is the 26th novel in the series and all 26 are 5-star winners. Highly recommended!!
5 years ago Jana DeLeon last produced a novel in her Shaye Archer series of very dark psychological thrillers. I'd love to see more novels in that series.
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The Client List
- Cass Leary Legal Thriller Series, Book 12
- By: Robin James
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Cass is stunned when a man she hasn’t seen or spoken to in twenty years wills his law practice to her. His client list contains a single name. Farrah Sibley. Accused of murdering her boss, Farrah has femme fatale written all over her. Beautiful. Smart. Cunning. But is she capable of such a cold-blooded killing? Shot once through the heart, the victim, prominent lawyer Terrence Dowd only had one enemy.
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Wonderful legal thriller
- By Wayne on 05-20-24
- The Client List
- Cass Leary Legal Thriller Series, Book 12
- By: Robin James
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
Wonderful legal thriller
Reviewed: 05-20-24
The Client List is Book 12 in the Cass Leary series by Robin James. In both the Cass Leary and Mara Brent legal series, one about a criminal defense attorney and the other about a prosecutor, Robin James consistently authors fascinating legal thrillers with lots of twists and turns. Both of her protagonists are family oriented but Cass Leary's large family is more interesting. I highly recommend this book and the entire Cass Leary series as well as the Mara Brent series.
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A Calamity of Souls
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: David Baldacci, MacLeod Andrews, Sisi Aisha Johnson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
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Loved this book!!!!
- By shelley on 04-17-24
- A Calamity of Souls
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: David Baldacci, MacLeod Andrews, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Kiiri Sandy, Cary Hite
A very special novel
Reviewed: 04-17-24
I see that Shelley of Raleigh NC has already written a superb review of the newly released A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci. Shelley has been my favorite Audible reviewer of novels of the mystery/thriller genre for well over a decade. Please read her review.
With 52 David Baldacci novels in my Audible library it's safe to say I'm a fan. A Calamity of Souls is one of my favorites. I recommend it without reservation.
This novel is set in rural Virginia in 1968. The theme is whether a innocent poor black man who is accused of murdering a wealthy white couple can receive a fair trial in very rural southern Virginia. I grew up in the rural south during the Jim Crow era and I celebrated my 25th birthday during 1968. I was 11 years old inn 1954 when the Supreme Court in the Brown v Board of Education decision said that schools must be desegregated. When my oldest child entered kindergarten in 1974, 20 years after Brown, our local schools were not desegregated.
Sadly, the plot of this novel is entirely credible in the 1968 rural south.
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The Two-Parent Privilege
- How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
- By: Melissa S. Kearney
- Narrated by: Cait Raymond
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution's decline has led to a host of economic woes—problems that have fractured American society and rendered vulnerable populations even more vulnerable.
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Get the printed or ebook version!
- By Wayne on 03-10-24
- The Two-Parent Privilege
- How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
- By: Melissa S. Kearney
- Narrated by: Cait Raymond
Get the printed or ebook version!
Reviewed: 03-10-24
This book which includes many, many references data charts and graphs that are in the print and e-book versions but are not available to the audiobook purchaser. There is a tried and true way to handle the issue (make available a downloadable PDF file of the charts and graphs), but the publisher does not do that. The result is the audiobook is useless.
The Two-Parent Privilege is an important book written by a very capable economist. I'm saddened to have to return it.
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Social Justice Fallacies
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed.
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Timely book by 93 year old Thomas Sowell
- By Wayne on 09-27-23
- Social Justice Fallacies
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Timely book by 93 year old Thomas Sowell
Reviewed: 09-27-23
I have greater admiration for Thomas Sowell than for any other human. At age 93 Dr. Sowlll (PhD Economics) tackles the social justice canard with the same thoughtful logic, facts and sound argument that he is so well known for. I'm happy to add Social Justice Fallacies to my collection of Thomas Sowell books. I've had success at getting one of my six grandchildren to read Sowell's books and I'm still working on convincing the other five. This book would be a excellent place for them to start.
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Herman Melville’s tale of corporate discontent, Bartleby, the Scrivener, tells the story of a quiet, hardworking legal copyist who works in an office in the Wall Street area of New York City. The business where he works handles the official financial paperwork of wealthy men. One day, Bartleby’s employer requests he proofread one of the documents he has copied. Bartleby declines the assignment with the inscrutable “I would prefer not,” the first of what will become many refusals.
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Very strange, very haunting
- By Tad Davis on 11-24-11
The perfect short story
Reviewed: 08-10-23
Written by Herman Melville in 1853 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a wonderful story. The publisher's summary is excellent so I will not add to it. The Bartalby character is one that you will never forget. The story is a true American classic. Narration by Stefan Rudnicki is outstanding.
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