Shamona Thomas
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Love, Honor, Betray
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss, Tracey Conyer Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 415
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 390
With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins’ steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel—or stop the growing distrust between them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed this installment
- By Andra D. Johnson on 05-20-23
- Love, Honor, Betray
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss, Tracey Conyer Lee
I was not disappointed
Reviewed: 04-23-23
This was a great addition to the series, the ending seemed finite, it makes me wonder if there will not be another book to the series
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The Truth About Melody Browne
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,968
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,608
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,594
When she was 9 years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, and it took all of her childhood memories with it. Now she's a single mother of a teenage boy living in Central London. She hasn't seen her parents since she left home at 15, but she doesn't mind. She's better off on her own. She works as a dinner lady at her son's school and has no idea where her humdrum life is heading. But one summer's night, a hypnotist inadvertently unlocks memories of her childhood, and her whole life is turned upside down.
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2 out of 5 stars
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So much potential.....what a letdown!!!
- By Cheryl Coen on 11-15-20
- The Truth About Melody Browne
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
Long book
Reviewed: 04-01-21
very slow book...lots of details, but the narration was great, at times I felt like I was there.
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Then She Was Gone
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82,590
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73,519
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73,291
Fifteen-year-old Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenage golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone. Now her mother, Laurel Mack, is trying to put her life back together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD
- By Ashleigh on 05-24-18
- Then She Was Gone
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
Very Slow Start up!
Reviewed: 03-27-21
This novel started out completely slow, a lot of the building up could have been left out or downsized. It picked up 23 chapters later, then it was up and down.
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 55,174
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 47,654
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Story5 out of 5 stars 47,303
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Color me grateful.
- By Angela on 11-19-20
- A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
Details of all the Decisions
Reviewed: 12-01-20
First I loved that the book was narrated by himself. Enjoyed hearing his feelings about his family and close constituents. Expressions of his own emotions and put in a different light when I heard a curse word or 2...he is human. I honestly thought he did just fall on the U.S out of now where but he really did have a political background with true intentions to lead and make things better for the United States of America. Some details were over my head as I don't have a degree in political science, but it makes me wish I did take a class. But he did a great job at wrapping those details up by the end of the chapters or segments. If you don't know his story hear it personally from the man yourself.
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The Blackbird Papers
- A Novel
- By: Ian Smith
- Narrated by: Brent Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
When Professor Wilson Bledsoe is brutally murdered, two loathsome white supremacists seem like the obvious culprits. But Bledsoe's younger brother Sterling, an FBI agent in New York, has other ideas. A look around Wilson's lab and interviews with his students, his fellow professors, and the college's president pique Sterling's curiosity about Wilson's nearly-completed project on the mysterious death of hundreds of local blackbirds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Predictable plot, awful narration
- By Woody on 07-20-04
- The Blackbird Papers
- A Novel
- By: Ian Smith
- Narrated by: Brent Jennings
Keep you on your toes!!!
Reviewed: 09-25-20
Surprise ending, took a little too long to reveal all the secrets but it came together in the end. I felt like I was watching a movie.
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Girls of Storm and Shadow
- By: Natasha Ngan
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 159
Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel monarch wasn't the culmination of her destiny - it was just the beginning. Now Lei, with a massive bounty on her head, must travel the kingdom with her warrior love Wren to gain support from the far-flung rebel clans. Meanwhile, a plot to eliminate the rebel uprising is taking shape, fueled by dark magic and vengeance. Will Lei succeed in her quest to overthrow the monarchy?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too Much Detail
- By Shamona Thomas on 09-23-20
- Girls of Storm and Shadow
- By: Natasha Ngan
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
Too Much Detail
Reviewed: 09-23-20
Well, the war did not get finished. I am expecting Lei to finish the war and it just fell flat at the end. The details were way to much, they spent too much time on the quest getting around. I liked how she explained her sanity at the end in her notes, but she could not speak to conquering her traumatic event and coping in the book.
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Unspeakable Things
- By: Jess Lourey
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,950
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,125
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6,107
Cassie McDowell’s life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents’ strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she’s grown accustomed to them. All that changes when someone comes hunting in Lilydale. One by one, local boys go missing. One by one, they return changed - violent, moody, and withdrawn. What happened to them becomes the stuff of shocking rumors. The accusations of who’s responsible grow just as wild, and dangerous town secrets start to surface.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oof
- By Derek Brown on 01-07-20
- Unspeakable Things
- By: Jess Lourey
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Will Keep You On Your Toes!
Reviewed: 07-11-20
Just a bored lil girl in a small town trying to find an adventure. The story is not clear on some details, has a small level of racism, big level of classic. Some details used through out the story did not come full circle in the end. The use of context clues just fell flat.
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The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- By: John Bolton
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,376
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,491
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,477
As President Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is one of the few White House memoirs to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the president, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a necessary read regardless of your politics
- By CriticalEye on 06-23-20
- The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- By: John Bolton
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
Too many details
Reviewed: 07-08-20
The memoir is very descriptive, perhaps too many small details that could have been wrapped up. Two hour chapters are a bit ridiculous. I would have preferred more emphasis on the actual Ukraine and leakage. I did learn a lot about foreign affairs, and that Trump is busyier than I thought. I don't k ow if at some points was to benefit Bolton or Trump.
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Butterfly 2
- By: Ashley Antoinette
- Narrated by: Nicole Small
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,318
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,056
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,042
Morgan Atkins is used to losing, but losing Messiah Williams was the most tragic of them all. Surely, after Messiah, no other man could compare. Settling with Sebastian Fredrick didn't seem like such an impossible task. He treated her well enough, he accepted her children, and he offered her entrance into a well-connected world. There was only one problem: He wanted to change her into someone else. The rules that went along with his lifestyle suffocated her, and when Morgan reconnected with Messiah's crew, she no longer wanted to play by Bash’s rules.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Decent at BEST
- By Anonymous User on 06-16-20
- Butterfly 2
- By: Ashley Antoinette
- Narrated by: Nicole Small
Wait for the twist!!!
Reviewed: 06-18-20
This story just keeps going, but I love it! I feel a twist coming up, trying to put the pieces together.
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Her One Mistake
- By: Heidi Perks
- Narrated by: Kirsty Dillon, Julie Maisey, Sally Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,182
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,916
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,916
Charlotte was supposed to be looking after the children, and she swears she was. She only took her eyes off of them for one second. But when her three kids are all safe and sound at the school fair, and Alice, her best friend Harriet’s daughter, is nowhere to be found, Charlotte panics. Frantically searching everywhere, Charlotte knows she must find the courage to tell Harriet that her beloved only child is missing. And admit that she has only herself to blame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow!
- By lisa on 03-04-19
- Her One Mistake
- By: Heidi Perks
- Narrated by: Kirsty Dillon, Julie Maisey, Sally Scott
Kept the momentum
Reviewed: 05-21-20
This book had a good pace with the occurance of events. But using context clues you could kinda tell what was going to next. Mystery turns thriller real quick, and will pull on your heart strings.
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