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Bookshops & Bonedust
- By: Travis Baldree
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,661
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,399
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,399
Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it. What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's a prequel
- By Matthew Burd on 11-07-23
- Bookshops & Bonedust
- By: Travis Baldree
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
I love Viv!
Reviewed: 06-19-24
Another lovely cosy fantasy from Travis Baldtree. I am here for them all. And Fern and Porkchop are perfect.
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When Women Were Dragons
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,731
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,557
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,552
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons; left a trail of fiery destruction in their path; and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. It’s taboo to speak of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- By Jennifer Torres on 05-08-22
- When Women Were Dragons
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Barnhill
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall
I will be thinking of this for days.
Reviewed: 04-29-24
This story, this setting. I love what the dragons do for my imagination. And I wanted to dragon so I could eat Alex’s father. 4.5 stars rounded up.
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,959
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,713
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,698
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- By Michael Stansberry on 05-23-18
- The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Gorgeous story
Reviewed: 09-14-19
And the narrator really didn’t fit this book for me. Toooooo ponderous, too serious. And I wonder why she used such a painful speech pattern for a character who had hearing issues, when it was pretty clear from the text that this character no longer had her “childhood speech impediment” in most situations. Meh on that, but magic story.
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A Conjuring of Light
- Shades of Magic, Book 3
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,783
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,774
Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle. The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows and the final book in the Shades of Magic epic fantasy series, A Conjuring of Light sees the newly minted New York Times best-selling author V. E. Schwab reach a thrilling conclusion concerning the fate of beloved protagonists - and old foes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am absolutely wrecked
- By Reverie and Ink on 02-23-17
- A Conjuring of Light
- Shades of Magic, Book 3
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Not the right readers for me
Reviewed: 04-02-19
Sigh. I’ve liked Kate Readjng and Michael Kramer’s readings of other books, and both are very skilled readers, but this series needed more grit and less pomp. I gutted through the reading, felt like a chore. And I think the book would have been a lot better had it been about half as long. Perhaps 3 star story, but I gave a bonus for the last 5 hours. That’s where it finally got riveting.
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
- A Novel
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,155
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,508
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,477
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding. A Must listen.
- By Keith G on 09-04-17
- The Heart's Invisible Furies
- A Novel
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
Amazing
Reviewed: 06-27-18
This will go down as one of the best books I’ve listened to this decade. Heart-swellingly beautiful story, great reader (though his American accents made me, an American, giggle a bit). I feel incredibly fortunate that this was my first John Boyne. So much back catalog awaits!!
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Echo
- By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall, David deVries, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,340
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,986
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,981
Audie Award, Middle Grade, 2016. Lost and alone in the forbidden Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each become sinterwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives, binding them by an invisible thread of destiny. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best audio productions I have heard
- By tru britty on 07-28-15
- Echo
- By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall, David deVries, Corky Siegel
Magic
Reviewed: 06-05-17
This is simply, heart-swelling lay lovely. One of the best I have listened to in my thirteen years as an audible member. And yes, I am well out of the YA age demographic.
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A Discovery of Witches
- A Novel
- By: Deborah Harkness
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 23 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47,359
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41,315
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,272
Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A feast for the mind and imagination
- By Barbara on 02-21-11
- A Discovery of Witches
- A Novel
- By: Deborah Harkness
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Ham-fisted, overwritten, but okay escapism.
Reviewed: 09-20-12
Ikeda's reading is lovely; I'd give up in disgust without her understated accents and cadence. Harkness's writing, however, could have used a vigilant, firm editor (who could easily have cut a third of her words). I'm gritting my teeth and rolling my eyes at the description and over-description and repetitions of the same description of wine, vampire hairlines, demon kisses, and I'm only a third of the way through the book. I really wish Harkness didn't take herself so seriously. This a mediocre story that tries to be intelligent and scholarly, and it has nothing, nothing on any of the books in Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, which succeeds at being clever, silly fun. Still, it's an amusing enough listen while I clean the kitchen and do other boring household chores.
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