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The Story Keeper
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,896
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,361
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,327
Successful New York editor Jen Gibbs is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing - until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of Sarra, a mixed-race Melungeon girl trapped y dangerous men in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unraveling Truth Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains
- By Debbie on 07-20-15
- The Story Keeper
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Bahni Turpin
Don’t like the narrator
Reviewed: 02-05-23
Don’t enjoy the narrator enough to listen to the whole book but others might. It’s not that she don’t do a good job it’s just her bratty voice.
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A Line to Kill
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,516
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,192
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,184
When ex-detective inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don’t expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation - or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I have learned my lesson...make a one night listen
- By C. A. Cameron on 10-20-21
- A Line to Kill
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
loved this series and Magpie Murders too.
Reviewed: 10-26-21
very good story, literary fiction with wit and a touch of sarcasm. good plot. not a good as magpie murders but still very worth the credit.
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The Scorpion's Tail
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,673
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,292
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,281
A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Corrie Swanson is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in agony, in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, with a rictus of horror frozen on his face. Hidden on the corpse lies a 16th-century Spanish gold cross.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Swanson and Kelly really need Pendergast!
- By shelley on 01-13-21
- The Scorpion's Tail
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
good story but
Reviewed: 04-12-21
I loved the story but I hated the narrator's giving Pendergast an English accent.
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The Liar's Room
- By: Simon Lelic
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman, Nancy Carroll
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago, she left her identity behind, reinventing herself as a therapist and starting a new life. It was the only way to keep her daughter safe. But when a young man, Adam Geraghty, walks into her office, claiming he needs Susanna's help but asking unsettling questions, she begins to fear her secret has been discovered. Who is Adam, really? What does he intend to do to Susanna? And what has he done to her daughter?
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1 out of 5 stars
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ANIMAL ABUSE
- By VLG on 06-23-23
- The Liar's Room
- By: Simon Lelic
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman, Nancy Carroll
excellent
Reviewed: 05-17-20
hats off to the author for keeping the suspense going as the story unfolds,I thought I had it figured out but I was wrong. well worth the credit.
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The Facility
- By: Brandon Ford
- Narrated by: Carly Kincaid
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17
A picture-perfect life is shattered when Holly Vogel discovers her husband has crossed an unthinkable line - with their five-year-old daughter. She immediately takes the child and flees, closing all communication with a man, now seen only as a monster. Reeling, Holly wrestles with innumerable possibilities. She can’t bear the thought of putting her only child through a lengthy trial. And though he’s committed an unforgivable sin, she can’t escape the love she feels for the man once seen as her one and only.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unique and creative
- By Kelvin L. Reed on 02-24-20
- The Facility
- By: Brandon Ford
- Narrated by: Carly Kincaid
The moral of the story...
Reviewed: 02-06-20
The moral stance of the story was hard to agree with for me. Spoiler: She has kidnaps him and castrated and we're supposed to feel like he's the total villain and she's completely been victimized? He ends up dead and she lives happily ever after cause that's what they deserve - I disagree.
The story was consistent as far as the characters actions. Ex. All along the little girl wants to see her dad. Asks about him, the last chapter before anything happens, she's afraid of him.
Ex. 2 There are many indications that the "facility" has hidden intentions but that never comes to fruition
I think the novel had a good premise but wasn't finished or fleshed out enough. It was more like a rough draft.
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The Glister
- A Novel
- By: John Burnside
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4 out of 5 stars 12
Leonard, The Glister's 15-year-old narrator, lives in the decaying coastal community of Innertown. Every year or so, a boy from Leonard's school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go or whether they are alive or dead, and without evidence to the contrary, the authorities claim they are simply runaways.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I can honestly say that this is the first book....
- By Tracy Walters on 04-30-12
- The Glister
- A Novel
- By: John Burnside
- Narrated by: John Lee
nor what I expected- in a good way
Reviewed: 07-10-18
This book is on the same plane with some great works of literature. It leaves you thinking. The writing is wonderful. Some of the phrases will haunt you. Full of symbolism and allegory and a bit abstract in that I'm still trying to decide what happened metaphorically and what happened literally.
It takes a little patience in the first 3 chapters, but pay attention because those 3 chapters are important to the story.
I'm not sure why but I was expecting a horror novel or thriller, which it was, but it was more than those things.
The performance was excellent. Great listen.
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A House by the Sea
- Winthrop House, Book 1
- By: Ambrose Ibsen
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 480
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 427
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Story4 out of 5 stars 427
After his book becomes a best seller, novelist Jack Ripley moves into a house on the edge of Cutler Harbor with his wife and two daughters. Nearly a century old, Winthrop House is newly-restored and boasts a gorgeous oceanfront view. But everything is not what it seems. Though picturesque, Jack learns that the house has been shunned for decades by the locals, owing to a number of mysterious disappearances and inexplicable deaths on the grounds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pretty creepy
- By Lizzystick on 03-07-17
- A House by the Sea
- Winthrop House, Book 1
- By: Ambrose Ibsen
- Narrated by: James Foster
scary
Reviewed: 07-08-18
took a while to get into but once it got going it was good. scary.
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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4 out of 5 stars 155
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nabokov's Strange Violin Playing in the Void
- By Darwin8u on 10-28-12
- Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
this novel was meant to be read aloud - great job
Reviewed: 11-01-17
I couldn't stop listening to this rendering of Nabokovs best novel - IMO. I read this book in college while studying English literature. I was fascinated with the story and the exquisite prose. The narrator did a great job. I was uncertain whether I would enjoy listening to him at first, as his voice is a bit gravelly and didn't seem suites to the story. His voice quickly grew on me, however, as he read the somewhat challenging prose very much the way I heard it in my mind when I read it years ago. He did an exceptionally good job at bringing what I'll call the Frenchman in the in the neighboring cell- so as not to include a spoiler - to life for me in a new way. He also handled very well the sometimes complicated dialogue that goes on both within and around Cincinnatus. This is Nabokovs best work IMO and the narrator only added to the story. I'd recommend this book to any serious reader.
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The Great Train Robbery
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,672
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,053
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,033
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unusual but rewarding listen
- By Matthew on 11-21-15
- The Great Train Robbery
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
Crichton brings Victorian England to vivid life.
Reviewed: 02-15-17
Loved it. Crichton puts you right there. The characterization, especially of Pierce, was excellent. Thoroughly entertaining. A darkly humorous peek into the lives of the Victorians, both in the mundane and in the larger-than-life characters and scenarios. They seem so different from us here in 2017. And yet, their motivations and desires, their weaknesses and strengths, are much like ours , as they go about their various lives. Well worth a credit and a listen.
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