E Hempel
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A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
- An Audible Original
- By: Ben Garrod
- Narrated by: Ben Garrod
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,048
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,878
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,810
Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue-twisting names, picking favourites based on ferocity, armour, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All those fancy names slowly forgotten, no longer any need for a favourite. For all those child dino fanatics who didn’t grow up to become paleontologists, dinosaurs seem like something out of mythology. They are dragons, pictures in books, abstract, other, extinct.
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3 out of 5 stars
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strong performance, misleading title
- By MT on 07-05-19
- A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
- An Audible Original
- By: Ben Garrod
- Narrated by: Ben Garrod
Enjoyed- helpful perspective
Reviewed: 02-02-25
Interesting dinosaur review, including review of their extinction. So different than what we knew 40 years ago in my childhood. A helpful connection to climate concerns. Worth a listen.
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An Imperfect Plan
- A Novel
- By: Addison McKnight
- Narrated by: Julie McKay, Samara Naeymi
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 771
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 708
After decades of pushing away traumatic memories from childhood, Colette De Luca is ready to start a family of her own. It’ll be healthy, a wish come true, with a man she believes is the love of her life. Thankfully, she thought ahead when she was younger and froze her eggs for this very moment. Greta O’Brien, a wealthy hedge-fund manager, is forced to confront the making of her own family when tragedy strikes her twin teenage sons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By john calkins on 08-20-22
- An Imperfect Plan
- A Novel
- By: Addison McKnight
- Narrated by: Julie McKay, Samara Naeymi
Bit of complicated social setting, interesting
Reviewed: 01-05-25
Worth reading through, but somewhat simplistic. Some of the IVF science referenced isn’t correct- seems like a bit more research would have added a lot. But the characters were 3-dimensional and likable.
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The Paleontologist
- A Novel
- By: Luke Dumas
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 218
Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent breakup and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never found.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting Mystery Tale
- By Allen Dunn on 02-03-24
- The Paleontologist
- A Novel
- By: Luke Dumas
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Interesting, a bit predictable
Reviewed: 10-31-24
Enjoyed this one enough to make it through, though I sorted the twists out early. Entertaining enough!
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Only If You're Lucky
- A Novel
- By: Stacy Willingham
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 713
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Story4 out of 5 stars 690
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no—something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Slow Rolling Cleverness
- By George on 01-31-24
- Only If You're Lucky
- A Novel
- By: Stacy Willingham
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Too long, not enough depth
Reviewed: 07-09-24
I was hoping for something similar to Willinghams previous books, but this one was disappointing. I did finish it, but the first 3/4 could have been summed up in 3 chapters. Tons of details were included without ever going too deep on even the main characters. I was left not sure I believed the profile of any of the 3 lead female characters. In the end there were a number of twists and turns, which I appreciated, but the story just wasn’t all that compelling.
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The Midwife's Secret
- A missing girl, an accused woman and a family secret in this gripping, heartbreaking historical fiction
- By: Emily Gunnis
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 159
When six-year-old Alice Hilton disappears on New Year's Eve 1979 from Yew Tree Manor, suspicion immediately falls on local boy Bobby James. Bobby claims he knows nothing about it, but his family has a grievance against Alice's landowner father. Tragically the child is never found. Decades later, Willow James, an architect working on a development at Yew Tree Manor, discovers that the land surrounding the house is holding a secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful…Poignant
- By Kelly on 04-08-22
- The Midwife's Secret
- A missing girl, an accused woman and a family secret in this gripping, heartbreaking historical fiction
- By: Emily Gunnis
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
Intriguing, worth a read
Reviewed: 07-08-24
Worth picking up. Complex story over generations of several close families. Strong female characters and compelling mystery.
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Level Six
- Killday, Book 2
- By: William Ledbetter
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 779
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 650
Fifteen years after warring artificial intelligences nearly destroyed Earth, a young woman finds an artifact from that struggle, upsetting a delicate balance of power and dragging her into the middle of a new fight for humanity's survival.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Could’ve but Wasn’t
- By Suspect on 12-10-20
- Level Six
- Killday, Book 2
- By: William Ledbetter
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Interesting, but slower to start then 5 or 7
Reviewed: 05-07-24
This one was a little disappointing. The development of Julio and Abby’s relationship wasn’t believable and didn’t totally make sense.
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Level Five
- Killday, Book 1
- By: William Ledbetter
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,579
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,084
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,079
In Level Five, the debut near-future thriller by Nebula Award winner William Ledbetter, AIs battle for dominance, and nanotechnology is on the loose. And all that stands in the way of the coming apocalypse is a starry-eyed inventor who dreams of building a revolutionary new spacecraft and an intelligence agency desk jockey faced with the impossible choice of saving her daughter - or saving the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Techno thriller? Or hard science fiction? Either way, it’s excellent!
- By Martin L. Shoemaker on 07-22-18
- Level Five
- Killday, Book 1
- By: William Ledbetter
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Interesting, engaging
Reviewed: 05-06-24
Worth a read, this man vs the machine book is the first in a series. I read the third book first by chance and enjoyed seeing the parallels and connections. I’ll likely read the rest of the series.
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Hard Eight
- By: Janet Evanovich
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,257
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,393
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,383
This time Stephanie, Morelli, Ranger. Lula, Valerie, and Grandma Mazur are strapped in for the ride of their lives. Stephanie is hired to find a missing child. But things aren't always as they seem and Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the law. Plus, there's the Morelli question: can a Jersey girl keep her head on straight when more than just bullets are aimed for her heart?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard Eight
- By jamie on 01-09-03
- Hard Eight
- By: Janet Evanovich
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
Entertaining, predictable
Reviewed: 04-25-24
Entertaining story, though predictable and full of tropes. Easy to read and follow without too much thought.
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The New Saints
- From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors
- By: Lama Rod Owens
- Narrated by: Rod Owens
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story5 out of 5 stars 25
Saints are not unattainable beings of stained glass or carved stone. “Saints are ordinary and human, doing things any person can learn to do,” teaches Lama Rod Owens. “Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, who speak the language of this moment, and who integrate both social and spiritual liberation. I believe we all can and must become New Saints.” With The New Saints, Lama Rod shares a guidebook for becoming an effective agent of justice, peace, and change.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book, more like a personal diary
- By Amazon Customer on 04-24-24
- The New Saints
- From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors
- By: Lama Rod Owens
- Narrated by: Rod Owens
Moving, thoughtful, heartbreaking
Reviewed: 04-17-24
Lama Rod’s honesty, poetry and concrete tools combine in this inspired and epic work. Reading through is literally important work for the reader, each section a reckoning offering challenge, invitation and guidance.
I’ve already re-read several sections, shared quotes and the whole book with folks I love who it would sing to in their current moment. I would recommend this book to everyone; To anyone trying hard to figure out how to be in the world.
As always, Lama Rod show up. He sits with conflicting emotions and realities and finds truth that can hold them all.
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Level Seven
- Killday, Book 3
- By: William Ledbetter
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 189
In Level Seven, the exciting culmination of the Killday series, AIs strive to evolve into a super intelligence and might destroy humanity in that pursuit. But could their hopes of achieving godhood actually lie with the nearly extinct humans they intend to eradicate?
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent series
- By Alex Shvartsman on 02-07-24
- Level Seven
- Killday, Book 3
- By: William Ledbetter
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Interesting, complex enough, thoughtful
Reviewed: 03-26-24
I enjoyed the details the author had thought through: Interesting, complex enough, thoughtful; worth picking up
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