Ady Hirsch
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The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
- A Satirical Short Story
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car. My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many deep, dark secrets which I never really ever bothered to ask him about. He is never coming back.
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lol LED Lights!
- By Lulu Dx on 10-25-24
- The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
- A Satirical Short Story
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Waste of time and money
Reviewed: 10-23-24
I expected a lot better from McFadden. This is pointless, idiotic, and what's worse - totally not funny, so much so it's embarassing. Idiotic twists, cringeworthy playplays on words (LED? really? with this kind of stupidity one wonders how the heroine even manages to breathe on her own). Save you money - even the $5.90 was way to much for this bilge.
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Suicide Med
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Scott Merriman
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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One suicide. Every year. Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her. But after Heather’s longtime boyfriend dumps her and she finds herself failing anatomy, her world starts to crumble. The pressure is intense. People crack.
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Couldn’t put it down!
- By YOANKA on 02-24-23
- Suicide Med
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Scott Merriman
A diappointment
Reviewed: 04-09-23
Not what I'vd grown to exowct from this writer. This one relies more on gore and gruesomeness than solid mistery. I barely managed to plod through.
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The Change
- A Novel
- By: Kirsten Miller
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.
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Great book until you realize what it’s about
- By Kaitlin Rosenthal on 05-16-22
- The Change
- A Novel
- By: Kirsten Miller
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Great read, superbly narrated
Reviewed: 01-06-23
Ever wanted to even the score with all the leering, grabbing, drooling, mansplaining jerks every woman encounters on a daily basis? Then this one's for you. A bit of fantasy, a spot of Karma doing its bit, and lots of, well, not sure fun is the right term, considering the victins, but a very good read. And the narration takes it to the next level. I'm off to look up Ms. Miller's other works.
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Pandora's Jar
- Women in the Greek Myths
- By: Natalie Haynes
- Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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The tellers of Greek myths—historically men—have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil—like Pandora, the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world’s suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But, as Natalie Haynes reveals, in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar . . . which is far more likely to tip over.
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The Golden Age Continues
- By Stefan Filipovits on 03-29-22
- Pandora's Jar
- Women in the Greek Myths
- By: Natalie Haynes
- Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
If I could give it ten stars, I would
Reviewed: 11-17-22
By far the best read in a long while - enlightening, scolarly, profound, and at the same time witty, humorous snd sometimes indignant or enraged, for all the right reasons. My first, and certainly not my last Natalie Haynes book.
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Stepsister
- By: Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Stepsister takes up where Cinderella's tale ends. We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella's two stepsisters. Ella is considered beautiful; stepsister Isabelle is not. Isabelle is fearless, brave, and strong-willed. She fences better than any boy, and takes her stallion over jumps that grown men fear to attempt. It doesn't matter, though; these qualities are not valued in a girl. Others have determined what is beautiful, and Isabelle does not fit their definition.
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An enjoyable read.
- By Ady Hirsch on 11-13-22
- Stepsister
- By: Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
An enjoyable read.
Reviewed: 11-13-22
Nicely written, despite a few anachronisms. Much improved by the superb narrator, whom I cannot praise highly enough.
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 38 hrs
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Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.
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Beautiful story, amazing narration
- By Marcus Vorwaller on 08-02-08
- Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
Stelkar narration
Reviewed: 03-17-22
Tolstoy certainly does not need my endorsement. But this translation, coupled with DavidHorowitch's exenplary narration, take it even further into the realm of the sublime.
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Zuleikha
- By: Guzel Yakhina, Lisa C. Hayden - translator
- Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
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Soviet Russia, 1930. Zuleikha, the “pitiful hen,” lives with her brutal husband Murtaza and her mother-in-law in a small Tartar village. When Murtaza is executed by communist soldiers, she is sent into exile to a remote region on the Angara River in Siberia. Hundreds die of hunger and exhaustion on the journey and over the first difficult winter, yet exile is the making of Zuleikha. As she gets to know her fellow survivors, Zuleikha begins to build a new life far removed from the one she left behind.
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Aweful
- By Alex Kustanovich on 02-13-20
- Zuleikha
- By: Guzel Yakhina, Lisa C. Hayden - translator
- Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
Wonderful book
Reviewed: 02-11-22
A masterfully drawn, spellbinding portrait of a woman's life in a turbulent period. One of the best books I've read in the past year. Even the harshest parts are written with such a delicate hand.
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Highfire
- A Novel
- By: Eoin Colfer
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs - now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his La-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie - now he goes by Vern.
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Fun
- By Alex Sumner on 02-28-20
- Highfire
- A Novel
- By: Eoin Colfer
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Priceless
Reviewed: 11-03-21
Loved it - hilarious and well written, I read it in one go, not least thanks to the fantastic narration. Each character aas perfectly portrayed - I was actually sorry to have reached the end.
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Cold Cold Heart
- By: Tami Hoag
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she defeated her attacker, but Dana is still physically, emotionally, and psychologically scarred by her ordeal, with aftereffects including PTSD and memory loss. In an attempt to put herself back together after surviving the unthinkable, Dana returns to her hometown. But it doesn't provide the comfort she expects.
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Chapter 1 grabs you and sucks you in
- By Anne on 01-25-15
- Cold Cold Heart
- By: Tami Hoag
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
An excellent read
Reviewed: 10-25-21
Suspenseful, well written and on the whole very, very good. As usual, Julia Whelan's flawless narration enhances an already good book - I'd read anything narrated by her.
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Matthew Flinder's Cat
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
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The story of a drunk, a boy, and a cat. Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a 10-year-old, a near-street kid heading for the usual trouble. The two form an unlikely bond.
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Extraordinary Story
- By CYNTHIA L SPANNUTH on 08-11-06
- Matthew Flinder's Cat
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
Outstanding.
Reviewed: 10-05-21
A wonderful, albeit at times dofficult read, and extraordinary narration that merits more than merely 5 stars.
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