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Salt to the Sea
- By: Ruta Sepetys
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron, Cassandra Morris, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer to safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes.
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Haunting Historical YA Fiction
- By FanB14 on 02-19-16
- Salt to the Sea
- By: Ruta Sepetys
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron, Cassandra Morris, Michael Crouch
A poignant tale
Reviewed: 10-07-19
This is a poignant World War II fiction. The author has used a brilliant, unique narrative style which is marked by clarity. We see the story through the eyes of four different characters belonging to different countries and with different emotions chasing them. Thoroughly enjoyavle.
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The Witness
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks.
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Classic Nora - Outstanding!!!!
- By M. Davis on 04-20-12
- The Witness
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Spellbinding...
Reviewed: 09-29-19
I started reading Nora Roberts only in the past one year. She has a very wide array of plots and scenarios that I am captivated. The subtle humour and punch in the repartees between the Chief Inspector and the protaganist is so impressive and so different. It has made me rush to get more of her audiobooks.
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Nothing special
- By suresh kumar on 09-24-19
Nothing special
Reviewed: 09-24-19
Nothing special in this story. But once again the narration by January Lavoy is masterful. I chose this book only because she is the narrator.
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The Escape Room
- By: Megan Goldin
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style - but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost. Invited to participate in an escape room as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival.
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Excellent story and narration
- By Michelle prime on 08-06-19
- The Escape Room
- By: Megan Goldin
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Ramon De Ocampo
Gripping...
Reviewed: 09-23-19
Initially I bought this book ONLY because January Lavoy was listed as a narrator. I love her voice, clarity, emotion and story telling. She is par excellence. As I started listening I found the presentation of the story to be very novel and original. The author has a very uncomplicatd way of presenting a wonderfully woven story. Tick marks for all aspecsts of this book.
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Blood, Fire and Ice
- By: C. Edgar North
- Narrated by: Henry Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Blood, Fire and Ice takes the listener into the realm of corporate terrorism. The global association of petroleum producers resorts to murder, sabotage, and political bribery to prevent the development of an abundant new fuel source that threatens their existence. Members of an international Arctic research team developing an abundant new fuel source are targeted. Labs are destroyed and members killed. Canadian team members have their funding cancelled at the request of three senators who are on the payroll of "Big Oil".
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Disappointing
- By suresh kumar on 08-08-19
- Blood, Fire and Ice
- By: C. Edgar North
- Narrated by: Henry Marshall
Disappointing
Reviewed: 08-08-19
I bought this book with lots of interest. But f was very disappointed. I found it to be ordinary.
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Compelling
- By suresh kumar on 07-21-19
Compelling
Reviewed: 07-21-19
I look at this novel from different angles from what I have understood or I think I have understood. To put in author's style :
1. A travel into the esoteric and mystic world of dreams where sometimes dream and reality weave around each other.
2. A young woman who seems to have lost her tether of love with her family and slowly discovers it was there all along and she could not recosgnise it.
3. A story of two friends whose lives are inter-linked through the medium of friendship and a common business intrest and how they discover hidden forces that spirals them up from depths of depression.
4. Identity crisis of immigrants in US where they can neither take the arms of the western world or leave the hands of their native world. And how when a catastrophe hits, though they stand up to their adopted country, are viewed as non-Americans by a few.
All these are crated into this story.
I was intrigued by one thing - who is the man in white who takes the mother to her death and who helps Raakhi to come out of stagnation and reclaim her creativity.
My interpretation is: The mother, like the unfortunate king in the story narrated within, has gone into a dream world of love and matrimony and taken back to her dream telling world by the man in white. Similarly, Raakhi who goes from the love-less dream world to the real world of love.
Perhaps we have to see thisnovel as a story of transformation: the dream world to be seen as a metaphorfor the space which the characters have entered bu wrong choice, wrong attitude and wrong thoughts and chastised they come back to the world of love and hope.
i HAVE TO MENTION ABOUT THE NARRATOR MS. DEEPTI GUPTA. How easily she is able to switch between the Indian accent of her mother and father to the cultivated American acccent! Superb! I was captivated by her clear pronunciation and the resonating voicce. A voice that spews forth emotions in such a wonderfully natural way. Accolades to this Narrator who lived the story.
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Being Different
- An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
- By: Rajiv Malhotra
- Narrated by: Kanchan Bhattacharyya
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
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In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challenges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselves and each other.
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A very profound read!
- By Sambeet M. on 09-13-18
- Being Different
- An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
- By: Rajiv Malhotra
- Narrated by: Kanchan Bhattacharyya
brilliant...
Reviewed: 07-18-19
This is a brilliant exposition, treatise and analysis of Hinduism Unot its teachings). Being such a heayy subject, I may have to read it once more to flly comprehed. Because the author has taken great pains to dig deep into the subject and give us the purest essence on what is hinduism, how different is itfromother religion, how open the architecture is aparat frombeing welcoming, and how this type of architecture eveloped, how pereptions helped inits formation, what is Sanatana Dharma, how Sanskrit was formed as sound and vibrtion, andh how it gives power to mantras and so on. Eceptional coverage. Please don;t give this a cursory reading.
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Interesting and informative
- By suresh kumar on 03-14-19
Interesting and informative
Reviewed: 03-14-19
The book gives a deep insight into the build-up to 9/11. The narration seems to go back and forth across dates and I felt the presentation could have been more cogent. But a book that one must read to know about the birth of a brand of terrorism and its development, the political, administrative/executive infights where security takes a beating and the pains of the innocents.
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A sense of satisfaction...
- By suresh kumar on 01-26-19
A sense of satisfaction...
Reviewed: 01-26-19
Many unanswered questions and mysteries nagging in our minds arising out of the ;previous eight books in the series, get answered and solved in this book, as they should be. Having traveled with and through the mind of Ben Samson and having evolved with all the characters in a natural way (I say this because the author has wonderfully portrayed the characters as they evolve and change) we know in a vague way where the story should move but the author hits hard with a final element of surprise. Ben, in spite of his seemingly action-oriented toughness is, at heart, a caring, loving and a family man. And this is emhatically driven in the conclusion where he cannot leave the girl he loved, in spite of whatever happened. I lisstened to the entire series at a stretch and there is a sense of satisfaction.
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Brilliant...
- By suresh kumar on 01-23-19
Brilliant...
Reviewed: 01-23-19
Brilliant writing to say the least. The sad world of spies. Their families, their love, their life. What do they know. What they don;t? What are they told? What aren;t? Are they just expendable in what is called a ;larger cause;? Life and death - are they mere statistics? I found this novel exemplary and unique in the way it is harrated. Not the mere action. But what goes on behind the senes, the planning, the practice, the preparatio, the execution and the unknown end. Tenable twits and turns with a surrising end. Being the first Le Carre novel I hae read, I have been gently and firmly driven into Le Carr;s world of books. I am sure I will be reading a lot of his books and soon.
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