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Strange Sally Diamond
- By: Liz Nugent
- Narrated by: Jessica Regan, Stephen Hogan, Sara Lynam, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Reclusive Sally Diamond is thrust into the media spotlight when she tries to incinerate her dead father, causing widespread outrage. Now she’s the center of attention, not only from hungry reporters and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the repressed memories of her horrific early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don’t always mean what they say.
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Kept me listening.
- By Amazon Customer on 11-06-23
- Strange Sally Diamond
- By: Liz Nugent
- Narrated by: Jessica Regan, Stephen Hogan, Sara Lynam, Liz Nugent
Different
Reviewed: 04-15-24
Good book. Happy to have found a new author that I like and can’t wait to listen to her other stories
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- And Other Lessons from the Crematory
- By: Caitlin Doughty
- Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty - a 20-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre - took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. With an original voice that combines fearless curiosity and mordant wit, Caitlin tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters, gallows humor, and vivid characters (both living and very dead).
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Loved it So Much I Bought it After Reading it Free
- By J. Mattox on 05-17-17
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- And Other Lessons from the Crematory
- By: Caitlin Doughty
- Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
Changed my mind
Reviewed: 11-04-23
As a former nurse, death does not scare me. However, this book did change my mind about traditional burials. Now on to “Swedish Death Cleaning”
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The Personal Assistant
- By: Kimberly Belle
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Megan Tusing
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and motivational messages online, she had no intention of becoming an influencer. Overnight it seemed she’d amassed a huge following, and her hobby became a full-time job—one that was impossible to manage without her sharp-as-a-tack personal assistant, AC. But all the good-will of her followers turns toxic when one controversial post goes viral in the worst possible way.
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Thank you.... kind-of???
- By ROBIN on 12-07-22
- The Personal Assistant
- By: Kimberly Belle
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Megan Tusing
Vocal Fry ruined it for me
Reviewed: 12-15-22
The first narrator had terrible vocal fry. The other narrators were great, story was ok.
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The Story Keeper
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Successful New York editor Jen Gibbs is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing - until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of Sarra, a mixed-race Melungeon girl trapped y dangerous men in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.
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Unraveling Truth Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains
- By Debbie on 07-20-15
- The Story Keeper
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Bahni Turpin
BEWARE VOCAL FRY
Reviewed: 11-02-22
Narrator Abby has cringe worth vial fry. Couldn’t get past her 1st chapter. Bahni Turpin is a great narrator, too bad she had to share this story with Abby
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Fled
- By: Meg Keneally
- Narrated by: Nano Nagle
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Based on the true story of Mary Bryant, an iconic figure in the foundational lore of Australia as Great Britain's penal colony, Fled is a sweeping, heart-wrenching account of one woman's lifelong search for freedom.
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Meh
- By Tam on 04-25-22
- Fled
- By: Meg Keneally
- Narrated by: Nano Nagle
Meh
Reviewed: 04-25-22
I was excited to start this book, esp since it was based off a true story. It could’ve been a great book but the writing was mediocre, and the character development just wasn’t there. I kept listening, hoping it would get better but at 75% completion, I just don’t care enough about the characters to finish. If you’re looking for a book about penal colonies in Australia, try “The Exiles” by Christina Kline. Though not a masterpiece, it will at least hold your attention.
The narrator of this book was absolutely great, no criticisms there.
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The Price of Blood
- Emma of Normandy, Book 2
- By: Patricia Bracewell
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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Unwillingly thrust into marriage to England's King Æthelred, Emma has given the king a son and heir, but theirs has never been a happy marriage. In The Price of Blood, Bracewell returns to 1006 when a beleaguered Æthelred, still haunted by his brother's ghost, governs with an iron fist and a royal policy that embraces murder.
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Stick with the other narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 02-06-15
- The Price of Blood
- Emma of Normandy, Book 2
- By: Patricia Bracewell
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
Different Narrator
Reviewed: 09-23-21
Why do authors switch narrators mid series? It just doesn’t work. Disappointed in this 2nd book....could’ve been the narration.
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No One Ever Asked
- A Novel
- By: Katie Ganshert
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge: Camille Gray - the wife of an executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman, and champion fund-raiser - faced with a shocking discovery; Jen Covington, the career nurse whose long, painful journey to motherhood finally resulted in adoption; and 22-year-old Anaya Jones - the first woman in her family to graduate college and a brand-new teacher at Crystal Ridge's top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg situation....
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Thought Provoking
- By Tamara on 06-22-18
- No One Ever Asked
- A Novel
- By: Katie Ganshert
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
White woman writes of POC’s struggles
Reviewed: 09-10-21
Wish I’d known this was Christian Fiction genre. Also wish I’d researched the book more to find out it was written by a white woman. The author explains how POC still struggle with racism today. Their thoughts, feelings, etc. Sorry, but no. There are plenty authors of color that can TRULY explain. I’d rather purchase from them.
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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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It is 1936, and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca. No sooner does Henri sweep Nancy off her feet and convince her to become Mrs. Fiocca than the Germans invade France and she takes yet another name: a code name. As Lucienne Carlier, Nancy smuggles people and documents across the border and earns a new nickname from the Gestapo for her remarkable ability to evade capture: The White Mouse.
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Mixed Feelings
- By carpsmarsh on 02-14-21
- Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
Extremely Unrealistic
Reviewed: 04-14-21
The female character is perfect. She’s beautiful, witty, married to a billionaire, and picked up the skills of GI Jane out of nowhere. Women fear her and men obey. Ugh......
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Tandia
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 26 hrs and 35 mins
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Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only 16 when she is first brutalized by the police. Her fear of the White man leads her to join the Black resistance movement. With her in the fight for justice is the one White man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay. Now he must fight their common enemy in order to save both their lives.
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Thanks for this wonderful collaboration
- By Thomas Andrews on 05-17-06
- Tandia
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
Could’ve been edited
Reviewed: 03-02-20
You can’t go wrong with Mr Courtenay, however this book could’ve been shortened. Long winded with info that got boring at certain parts. I sped through those parts at 2x speed. Problem solved.
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- By: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate; she works an easy job at a hip art gallery and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
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I love it...
- By Claudia Gallegos on 07-12-18
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- By: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Refund requested because....
Reviewed: 01-03-19
A year in the life of a clinically depressed female that watches VHS movies and abuses sedatives. She basically "sleeps" her depression away. After her big long sleep, she is mysteriously cured of depression. The end.
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