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Squeeze Me
- A Novel
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,406
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,817
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,804
At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the President, who spends half the year at the “Winter White House” just down the road. Meanwhile, Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, is called to the island to deal with a monster-sized Burmese python that has taken residency in a tree. But the President is focused on the disappearance of Kiki Pew.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Political Bile Instead of Wit
- By Marian on 08-25-20
- Squeeze Me
- A Novel
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
classic Hiassen
Reviewed: 02-22-25
Just hilarious. Excellent satire. If you like Carl Hiassen, you will love this one as well. Scott Brick is one of my favorite narrators.
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Call Me Maybe
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27,490
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25,566
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25,477
Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth...when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Kal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Greatest Audible Preformance
- By Apple momma on 10-24-20
- Call Me Maybe
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
delightful!
Reviewed: 12-31-23
The characters were performed well and were very endearing. I was thoroughly entertained. I find Cara Bastone's romances fresh and original. They also don't seem to contain the stressful tropes and plot devices used in so many romances. I'd call them "cozy" romances. it's also very refreshing that the male lead characters are interesting and fleshed out. They are decent human beings who treat others well. I loved the plot of Call Me Maybe. It was different than anything I've read before and was just delightful. I highly recommend this author, and this book in particular.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,687
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,329
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,312
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- By Lucy A. Pithecus on 03-15-22
- The Kaiju Preservation Society
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Since the Magas hated it....
Reviewed: 05-07-22
I have never read anything by this author but I stumbled across it and it looked interesting enough so I looked at the reviews. The first twenty reviews were by Magas. You could tell from the random capitalization and the whining. They seemed really, really disturbed and upset by this story so I had to buy it right away and it was fantastic. Great story, great characters, very compelling. I'm going to check out other books by this author now. You can always count on Magas to steer you to a great book with their incessant butt hurt reviews. The more weepy and sniveling the better the story. Thanks again!
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The Nothing Man
- By: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, John Keating
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,999
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,616
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,594
At the age of 12, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man - the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family’s killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim’s not just interested in reading about the Nothing Man. He is the Nothing Man.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not sure
- By Tchela17 on 08-21-20
- The Nothing Man
- By: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, John Keating
Engaging and original
Reviewed: 07-12-21
I found this mystery to be compelling and the plot was very different than any other I've read. The way the novel was structured was very interesting.
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Gone to Dust
- By: Matt Goldman
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,802
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,107
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,087
A brutal crime. The ultimate cover-up. How do you solve a murder with no useable evidence? Private detective Nils Shapiro is focused on forgetting his ex-wife and keeping warm during another Minneapolis winter when a former colleague, neighboring Edina Police Detective Anders Ellegaard, calls with the impossible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great discovery
- By green ice cream garden on 10-04-17
- Gone to Dust
- By: Matt Goldman
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Surprisingly good
Reviewed: 06-05-21
First, the reader is fantastic. Normally, I'm either annoyed or simply tolerate the narration. I'm contenylt if I don't notice anything weird about the performance and I can forget about it and just listen to the story. This may be the first time I actually enjoyed the reader's voice and performance. The reader sounded masculine but he didn't do any goofy female voices, mispronounced words, overdo the Minnesota accent, or sound years older than his character. So refreshing!
I listen to detective books pretty much all day every day to quiet my loud, racing mind and most of them are roughly the same. Besides the great reader, this book stands out and I can't quite put my finger on why I feel that way. The story is run of the mill if you read this genre. I guess I really liked the protagonist. He was funny, likable, and clever. I enjoyed the writing and the other characters as well. I have only visited the twin cities, but my sister attended college at the U and stayed to live there after school was done, and so it was fun to hear the author's description of the area and of Minnesota life. I want to get my sister to read it to see if she approves of the way the author writes about the area. I'm guessing the author lived there at some point.
I download a lot of the free audio books because I rip through them so fast but I would be willing to spend my credits on the author's other work, especially if his books are as entertaining as this one.
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Tracking Game
- The Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Margaret Mizushima
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,464
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,090
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,067
An explosion outside a community dance sends Mattie Cobb and Cole Walker reeling into the night, where they discover a burning van and beside it the body of outfitter Nate Fletcher. But the explosion didn’t kill Nate - it was two gunshots to the heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quite enjoyable
- By Mb4pax on 11-14-19
- Tracking Game
- The Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Margaret Mizushima
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Good character development
Reviewed: 10-07-20
I really enjoyed the fifth book. I feel that the author has really grown as a writer. It's just a fun mystery, but the characters are endearing, and it's been nice to see the author flesh them out more as the series has progressed. I really, really enjoyed the mystery in this installment.
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Killing Trail
- A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, Book 1
- By: Margaret Mizushima
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,031
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,144
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,119
When a young girl is found dead in the mountains outside Timber Creek, lifelong resident Officer Mattie Cobb and her partner, K-9 police dog Robo, are assigned to the case that has rocked the small Colorado town. With the help of Cole Walker, a local veterinarian and single father, Mattie and Robo must track down the truth before it claims another victim. But the more Mattie investigates, the more she realizes how many secrets her town holds. And the key may be Cole's daughter, who knows more than she's saying.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For GSD or any dog-lover as well as crime fans
- By GSDNH on 10-14-16
- Killing Trail
- A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, Book 1
- By: Margaret Mizushima
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Lovable characters for dog people
Reviewed: 09-19-20
The narrator is great. If I listen to a book and never think about the narrator, that's my idea of a perfect reader. She didn't annoy me once and did a good enough job with the make voices that I never gave it a second thought, so I didn't get distracted from the story.
If you love dogs and mysteries, I think you'll like this book. The protagonist is worth cheering for. I think the author is setting her up with lots of room for character development over the next five books. The other "good guys" are a little one dimensional but very, very likable, and sometimes it's nice to have good guys just be good guys without adding a bunch of angst and existential crises. The author is clearly a dog owner and writes Robo a
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Black Rock Bay
- By: Brianna Labuskes
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 460
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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Story4 out of 5 stars 415
Detective Mia Hart never planned to return home. One terrifying summer night, Mia lost two of her closest friends to suicide. Scarred and broken, she fled St. Lucy’s, a small island off the coast of Maine. Now fifteen years later, when the body of a journalist is fished out of the bay near St. Lucy’s cliffs, Mia is forced to help with the case - and face all she’s been running from. As she approaches the island, the wintery winds of Black Rock Bay usher Mia home again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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to many characters
- By Kelly on 10-30-19
- Black Rock Bay
- By: Brianna Labuskes
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
It was OK
Reviewed: 08-26-20
It was OK, not the author's best but entertaining enough. I really liked her newest book. I'm not ready to give up on her, I'll go try another one. The performance was great.
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The Kind Worth Killing
- By: Peter Swanson
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,884
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,077
On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers begin to play a game of truth, revealing very intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his marriage that's going stale and his wife, Miranda, who he's sure is cheating on him. Ted and his wife were a mismatch from the start - he the rich businessman, she the artistic free spirit - a contrast that once inflamed their passion but has now become a cliché.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Kind Worth Killing - A Book Worth Getting
- By AudioAddict on 08-23-15
- The Kind Worth Killing
- By: Peter Swanson
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, Keith Szarabajka
Good, fun crime novel
Reviewed: 08-09-20
The "Ted" narrator sounded way too old to play Ted, but he was fun to listen to. Fun read, nothing special. There were very few redeeming characters to root for but it was interesting enough.
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34,108
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29,146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28,967
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I almost feel sorry Donald Trump.
- By Deb on 07-15-20
- Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
Perspective from a doctor of clinical psychology
Reviewed: 07-17-20
Holding a PhD in clinical psychology, Mary Trump is in the unique position to accurately diagnose Donald Trump as a malignant narcissist and ultimately, a sociopath. Her personal experiences and insights are fascinating, giving the reader an understanding of the baffling and bizarre behavior of Donald Trump.
This is the first, and possibly only book, that will ever give the public the "why", and not just the "who, what, and how." This devastating and heartbreaking account of an abusive and dysfunctional family will almost have the reader feeling pity for Donald Trump. Almost.
Hopefully the insights contained in this memoir will allow the media and other politicians to start calling Trump's behavior what it is, instead of dancing around the truth, while normalizing and permitting it.
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