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The House at Tyneford
- By: Natasha Solomons
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,681
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,462
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,451
It’s the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay, where servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn. But war is coming, and the world is changing. When Kit, the son of Tyneford’s master, returns home, he and Elise strike up an unlikely friendship that will transform Tyneford - and Elise - forever. An irresistible World War II story of a forbidden romance in a great English country house.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Opinion
- By Em on 04-24-12
- The House at Tyneford
- By: Natasha Solomons
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
A Must Listen!
Reviewed: 03-22-23
I was rocked on the ocean waves in this beautiful, poignant, enveloping saga. The author truly created a classic with this grand work. With each descriptive detail, I feel as if I lived inside Elise and experienced her life. Reaching the end left me wanting more!
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Thomas Prescott Series Premium
- Books 1 - 4
- By: Nick Pirog
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 34 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,869
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,073
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,029
A complete crime fiction box set! Homicide detective Thomas Prescott may be retired—but a serial killer, a high-profile murder, an ill-fated cruise, and a chilling small-town crime add more than enough excitement to his hard-earned rest. This collection includes the first four books: Unforeseen, Gray Matter, The Afrikaans, and Show Me.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE BEST DEAL I HAVE EVER HAD ON AUDIABLE
- By Count B on 10-08-19
- Thomas Prescott Series Premium
- Books 1 - 4
- By: Nick Pirog
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Great Listen!
Reviewed: 10-05-21
Between the narrator's voice and reading style, and the author's writing style with quick-witted humorous commentaries laced into everything, this was a pleasurable listen just for that. Then with the story itself, full of rich detail, well-developed characters, and the requisite careful unfolding of events to resolve the crime, elements make this book an all-around great piece of work, worth listening to or reading -- probably twice!
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The Romanov Empress
- A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
- By: C. W. Gortner
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,251
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,127
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125
Narrated by the mother of Russia’s last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia’s most compelling women, who witnessed the splendor and tragic downfall of the Romanovs as she fought to save her dynasty in its final years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pure Excellence!
- By Bunny on 09-09-18
- The Romanov Empress
- A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
- By: C. W. Gortner
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
Excellent story, narration mediocre.
Reviewed: 07-31-21
Narrator spoke in blurbs of words like a rough idling car, but still great listen.
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Innocent Traitor
- A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Davina Porter, Bianca Amato
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,871
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,975
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,979
The child of a scheming father and ruthless mother, Lady Jane Grey is born during a time when ambition dictates action. Cousin to Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, she is merely a pawn in a political and religious game in which one false step means a certain demise. But Lady Jane has remarkable qualities that help her to withstand the constant pressures of the royal machinery far better than most expect.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior listen!
- By Jt on 03-05-07
- Innocent Traitor
- A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Davina Porter, Bianca Amato
Painfully long
Reviewed: 10-07-20
Terribly bleak and monitone style of writing, but I also was unable to stop! Kept hoping history would not repeat itself. But, alas, it did not.
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If You Find Me
- By: Emily Murdoch
- Narrated by: Tai Sammons
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,176
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,867
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,826
Fourteen-year-old Carey and six-year-old Jenessa have been living in the woods with their mother for as long as they can remember; the sheltering trees and a broken-down camper are all they know. But what they’ve never been told is that Carey vanished from the real world ten years ago, when their mother took her, causing an uproar in the media - and in her father’s life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartfelt and Harrowing
- By The Reading Date on 02-05-14
- If You Find Me
- By: Emily Murdoch
- Narrated by: Tai Sammons
Beautiful, honest.
Reviewed: 09-16-20
Be forewarned that once you start listening you will not want to pause. Like the rhythmic sounds of a quiet stream, you will feel compelled to keep listening to the honest, painful story unfold, as viewed through the eyes of a young girl whose life has been lived in the most dismal isolation possible. Gut-wrenching, but also filled with the beautiful, steadfast love of a young girl for her younger sister, who is the only real goodness in her life. There is so much raw humanity exposed in this book. It is worth reading several times, to extract all the subleties.
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Necessary Lies
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Alison Elliott
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,547
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,088
Best-selling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town 50 years ago, and the darkest - and most hopeful - places in the human heart. After losing her parents, 15-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister, and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her grandmother’s aging, her sister’s mental illness, and her own epilepsy, she realizes they might need more than she can give. When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County’s newest social worker, she doesn’t realize just how much her help is needed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes the truth is hard to hear. Listen anyway
- By Nana on 01-26-15
- Necessary Lies
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Alison Elliott
Excellent and heartbreaking
Reviewed: 08-30-20
Be warned that this will be a book you must finish, once started. The author wraps the reader up in the emotions of the characters so much so that finding out what happens in their lives can keep readers page-turning far past bedtime!
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The Roommate
- The Cormac Reilly Series, Book 0.7
- By: Dervla McTiernan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18,901
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,920
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,835
This audio novella is a stand-alone prequel to the Cormac Reilly series. Twenty-two-year-old Niamh Turley thought she had problems dealing with the obnoxious principal of the school she’s teaching in as well as the anxious parents of her little charges, but when she wakes one morning to a missing roommate and a garda knocking on her door, her life spirals out of control fast....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Half hour story in two and a half hour book
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 07-03-20
- The Roommate
- The Cormac Reilly Series, Book 0.7
- By: Dervla McTiernan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Over Too Soon!
Reviewed: 07-06-20
Well written, well narrated, great little listen, even though it was obvious who the killer was, way too soon! Even with that, I was left wanting to hear more after the book was over!
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To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
- By: Connie Willis
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,681
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,635
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,635
In this Hugo-winner from Connie Willis, when too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun read
- By Sara on 07-23-08
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
- By: Connie Willis
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
A very long nothing.
Reviewed: 07-05-20
Struggled to finish. I kept waiting for the interesting part. After three exhausting parts, it never arrived. But strangely, it was impissible to leave without reaching the end.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22,988
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20,107
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20,063
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- By S. Blakely on 06-22-17
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
Narrator difficult to listen to
Reviewed: 04-04-20
The tone and style of narration by Ann Marie Lee is painful to endure. Otherwise a great listen!
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The Blue
- By: Nancy Bilyeau
- Narrated by: Eleanor Hicks
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4 out of 5 stars 24
In 18th-century London, porcelain is the most seductive of commodities; fortunes are made and lost upon it. Kings do battle with knights and knaves for possession of the finest pieces and the secrets of their manufacture. For Genevieve Planché, an English-born descendant of Huguenot refugees, porcelain holds far less allure; she wants to be an artist, a painter of international repute, but nobody takes the idea of a female artist seriously in London. If only she could reach Venice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an adventure!
- By Anonymous on 03-29-21
- The Blue
- By: Nancy Bilyeau
- Narrated by: Eleanor Hicks
Don't waste your time!
Reviewed: 01-15-20
Tough to listen to the end! The narrator's voicewas uncomfortable, and the charactors are whiney and artificial.
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