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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,640
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,636
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- By Cynthia on 12-11-13
Fabulous
Reviewed: 10-20-23
A fascinating and well researched history of the Genghis Khan written and read like a real page-turner. I was inspired to go out and buy the book for myself.
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Betrayal at Ravenswick
- A Fiona Figg Mystery
- By: Kelly Oliver
- Narrated by: Niki Delgado
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 71
What's the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course. Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover. At Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. His friends say he's a crack huntsman. The War Office is convinced he's a traitor. Fiona thinks he's a pompous prig. What sort of name is Fredrick Fredricks anyway? Too bad Fiona doesn't own a Wolseley pith helmet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t get past the fake accent.
- By Lori Willis on 05-20-20
- Betrayal at Ravenswick
- A Fiona Figg Mystery
- By: Kelly Oliver
- Narrated by: Niki Delgado
Did not finish
Reviewed: 10-20-23
Just silly and overarchly read. The bit I heard managed to include just about every period mystery trope imaginable. If I knew how I’d return it.
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The Last Rose of Shanghai
- A Novel
- By: Weina Dai Randel
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,634
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,464
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,462
1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz - but their differences seem insurmountable....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Soapy but fun
- By Padders- Padmini Sankar on 12-14-21
- The Last Rose of Shanghai
- A Novel
- By: Weina Dai Randel
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg, Emily Woo Zeller
Not what I’d hoped for
Reviewed: 01-08-22
What a huge mess of overwrought emotions, dropped story lines, and mangled metaphors. I’m keen on the history of the era and region and while I got a tiny bit of that, the story was overwhelmingly filled with baseless angst-ridden statements, many of them false to what we’d just read.
The narrator did the novel no favours with her emotive reading, and portraying male characters by dropping her voice. Think a preschool teacher reading as the monster.
I would have returned it straight away if I weren’t trying to burn through my remaining audible credits.
Give it a miss.
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Quartered Safe Out Here
- A Recollection of the War in Burma
- By: George MacDonald Fraser
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 227
George MacDonald Fraser beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the wars final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service
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4 out of 5 stars
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Accents
- By Andrew M. Woodward on 06-12-10
- Quartered Safe Out Here
- A Recollection of the War in Burma
- By: George MacDonald Fraser
- Narrated by: David Case
A great memoir, well told
Reviewed: 11-16-19
While a recollection of a brutal war, the writing and reading nearly had me in tears with laughter. Mr Fraser has strong opinions, well deserved, about army life, and war, the enemy he helped fight in Burma many years ago. Some listeners might be taken aback by his language and depictions of others. It came across, to me, as an account of a young man in an awful situation. His ear for accents is uncanny. It felt like Wodehouse in the jungle.
The reading was perfect with different voices and accents and regional dialects absolutely spot on!
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Lilac Girls
- A Novel
- By: Martha Hall Kelly
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kathleen Gati, Kathrin Kana, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21,985
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19,907
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19,852
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The cover is a bit misleading, but...
- By Joy Easton on 05-18-16
- Lilac Girls
- A Novel
- By: Martha Hall Kelly
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kathleen Gati, Kathrin Kana, Martha Hall Kelly
Jejune
Reviewed: 04-09-17
I would have quit listening but I was traveling and had nothing else. The characters were light on content and the story was riddled with anachronistic phrasing. It reads like a first novel: plot driven, lacks character development, unfinished lines of thought. Capably narrated.
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Villa on the Riviera
- By: Elizabeth Edmondson
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,259
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,144
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,140
Absorbing and escapist, The Villa on the Riviera is perfect summer listening for fans of Rachel Hore and Santa Montefiore. Polly Smith is struggling to make a living as an artist when her friend and patron, Oliver, invites her to the south of France. But her world is unexpectedly turned upside down when she digs out her birth certificate to apply for a passport. Her parents are not who she believed them to be - even her name is different.
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2 out of 5 stars
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too explicit
- By Gezzel Rogers on 12-17-20
- Villa on the Riviera
- By: Elizabeth Edmondson
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
It's a bit of fluff
Reviewed: 03-19-17
I liked the first of this series but on hearing the second, the formula becomes very apparent. Predictable, tied up in a neat bow, improbable relations and relationships. The author does give us lovely settings and a peek at life in the late 1930s. The narrator is terrific with appropriate accents and inflections. I won't rush to another of these but will remember them for a time when I need something cozy and light.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46,082
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41,694
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,524
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Wonderfully atmospheric
Reviewed: 03-13-17
An elegant and beautifully written novel. The author uses the house arrest of a Russian noble gentleman as a conceit to tell the story of St. Petersburg, and Russia, during the mid-20th century. The narrator did a fabulous job with all the characters; I will look for more of his work. I highly recommend this work.
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The Traitor's Story
- By: Kevin Wignall
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,893
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,886
When fifteen-year-old American Hailey Portman goes missing in Switzerland, her desperate parents seek the help of their neighbor, Finn Harrington, a seemingly quiet historian rumored to be a former spy. Sensing the story runs deeper than anyone yet knows, Finn reluctantly agrees to make some enquiries. He has little to go on other than his instincts, and his instincts have been wrong in the past - sometimes spectacularly wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exciting New Author for Me
- By Robert on 06-27-16
- The Traitor's Story
- By: Kevin Wignall
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Ripping good spy story
Reviewed: 01-25-17
Really had me riveted. The author artfully moved between "history" and present day. While a contemporary story, it had the feel of old Cold War intrigue and duplicity. Well done, I'll be looking for more from this author.
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The Coroner’s Lunch
- The Dr. Siri Investigations, Book 1
- By: Colin Cotterill
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,733
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,516
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512
Laos, 1975: The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a 72-year-old Paris-trained doctor, is appointed national coroner. Although he has no training for the job, there is no one else: the rest of the educated class have fled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something a little different
- By We4Williams on 11-22-11
- The Coroner’s Lunch
- The Dr. Siri Investigations, Book 1
- By: Colin Cotterill
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Enchanting!
Reviewed: 11-04-15
A wonderful tale of Southeast Asia, magical realism, and could temporary history. The characters are well drawn, the atmosphere is palpable, and the mysteries are both fun and complex. The reader imparts the gentle teasing and sly wit of the doctor while imparting unique characteristics of the other members of the story. Glad to have found a new author/reader combination.
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The Patriarch
- Bruno, Chief of Police
- By: Martin Walker
- Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 538
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 489
A beloved village, a renowned family, a suspicious death - it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne for police chief Bruno. When Bruno is invited to the lavish birthday celebration of World War II flying ace and national icon Marco "the Patriarch" Desaix, it's the fulfillment of a boyhood dream. But when the party ends in the death of Gilbert, Marco's longtime friend, it's another day on the job for the chef de police. All signs point to a tragic accident, but Bruno isn't so sure.
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3 out of 5 stars
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same old same old
- By Adam Shields on 09-19-17
- The Patriarch
- Bruno, Chief of Police
- By: Martin Walker
- Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Great for atmosphere-disappointing ending
Reviewed: 09-18-15
Love the author's obvious regard for this region of France. I listen to these for the description of life in Perigord and to follow the characters to which we've been introduced. This novel ended abruptly with loose ends that didn't quite fit together. A lackluster effort on the author's part.
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