Beth D
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Learn Italian in Your Car
- Language Lessons for Beginners and Intermediate with Grammar Rules Used Daily in Italy, Short Stories, Phrases, Words and Practical Exercises. Best Italian Language Learning!
- By: Giorgio Mills
- Narrated by: Vita Wulff
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
Love Italian culture? Planning to travel for business or leisure and want to be able to hold real conversations? Maybe, you have previously tried to learn Italian before you gave up. We understand where you're coming from. In our experience, many students we had have taken a program or two before us, but found them either too difficult, time-consuming, or confusing.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad. I think it is just a reading of a textbook. L
- By Beth D on 07-07-21
- Learn Italian in Your Car
- Language Lessons for Beginners and Intermediate with Grammar Rules Used Daily in Italy, Short Stories, Phrases, Words and Practical Exercises. Best Italian Language Learning!
- By: Giorgio Mills
- Narrated by: Vita Wulff
Bad. I think it is just a reading of a textbook. L
Reviewed: 07-07-21
Long passages in Italian with no English translation. No exercises or repitition in the passages I tried. The rare English is not very fluent either
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The Deep, Deep Snow
- By: Brian Freeman
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23,344
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21,156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21,062
Deputy Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, saved by a stranger who found her in the freezing cold. Now, years later, a young boy is missing - and Shelby is the one who must rescue a child. The only evidence of what happened to 10-year-old Jeremiah Sloan is a bicycle left behind on a lonely road. After a desperate search fails to locate him, the close bonds of Shelby’s hometown begin to fray under the weight of accusations and suspicion. Everyone around her is keeping secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get this while it's the daily deal!!!!
- By shelley on 06-20-19
- The Deep, Deep Snow
- By: Brian Freeman
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Good page turner
Reviewed: 12-26-19
Lots of twists, good characters and i enjoyed the narrator. Not too dark, but some murder
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Heavier than Heaven
- A Biography of Kurt Cobain
- By: Charles R. Cross
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,211
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016
When Kurt Cobain died by his own hand in April 1994, it was an act of will that typified his short, angry, inspired life. Veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross fuses his intimate knowledge of the Seattle music scene with his deep compassion for his subject in this extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story - missing chapter 12
- By Mick on 02-15-07
- Heavier than Heaven
- A Biography of Kurt Cobain
- By: Charles R. Cross
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
Revealing and disturbing
Reviewed: 06-09-19
Great reading, and amazing detail. I doubt anything wad missed because the author evidently talked to anyone who knew Cobain at all. Courtney and Kurt's father come across more sympathetic then expected. Kurt- not so much. It seems he mistreated anyone who ever got close.
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Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- By: Joel Selvin
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 314
In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I was there...
- By Marcheta on 08-29-16
- Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- By: Joel Selvin
- Narrated by: John Pruden
Great journalim
Reviewed: 06-26-18
Fascinating reporting. His conclusion of responsibility I disagree with. Great stuff, of a now very different era, by someone who lived through it
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When Giants Walked the Earth
- A Biography of Led Zeppelin
- By: Mick Wall
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,043
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 911
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 905
They were the last great band of the '60s and the first great band of the '70s. They rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time - and eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction, and death.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very annoying but tolerable for serious fans.
- By M. Allen on 08-14-19
- When Giants Walked the Earth
- A Biography of Led Zeppelin
- By: Mick Wall
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
One of the best rock biographies.
Reviewed: 03-09-18
Factually very accurate and detailed. Not judgemental. I got a little tired of the imagined narratives from 'young' Pkant , Page, Bonham, Jones. But really good. His understanding of the occult and Pages involvement is spectacular.
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Thunder at Twilight
- Vienna 1913/1914
- By: Frederic Morton
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 117
It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here, Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph - and soon the bullet that killed the archduke would set off the Great War that would kill 10 million more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great era great book great narrator
- By John on 03-18-16
- Thunder at Twilight
- Vienna 1913/1914
- By: Frederic Morton
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
A classic
Reviewed: 03-09-18
Great story of Vienna and the mood that led to world war 1. Excellent reading
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One Second After
- By: William R. Forstchen
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29,800
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25,677
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25,679
Already cited on the floor of Congress and discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a book all Americans should read, One Second After is the story of a war scenario that could become all too terrifyingly real. Based upon a real weapon - the Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) - which may already be in the hands of our enemies, it is a truly realistic look at the awesome power of a weapon that can destroy the entire United States.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Civil War Re-enactor Saves a Community?
- By Cidney on 07-05-12
- One Second After
- By: William R. Forstchen
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Great storytelling
Reviewed: 01-10-18
It is a great, riveting story. I was apprehensive after seeing a foreword by Newt Gingrich. It is a male fantasy, and a little slanted towards glorification of the military. But in the near doomsday scenario described, our world would change in that survival of the fittest way. I don't think the EMP idea is plausible, but we could face many extreme events, and this book is a very well researched idea of what widespread loss of electricity would do after a week
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The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones
- By: Rich Cohen
- Narrated by: Rich Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 236
A book inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession, Rich Cohen’s fresh and galvanizing narrative history of the Rolling Stones begins with the fateful meeting of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on a train platform in 1961 - and goes on to span decades, with a focus on the golden run - from the albums Beggars Banquet (1968) to Exile on Main Street (1972) - when the Stones were at the height of their powers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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My eyes hurt from constantly rolling them.
- By Skater Dad on 07-04-16
- The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones
- By: Rich Cohen
- Narrated by: Rich Cohen
Disillusioning
Reviewed: 01-13-17
Engrossing, and well-researched. I learned a few things . the author has a perspective of a journalist who has spent a lot of time around them since the 90s. So he was never a super fan or an employee, and isn't under anyone's spell. But, maybe he's a little sick of the Stones post 1990, and a little harsh. To write a good story he reached too far for some themes. An example of that is how Brian Jones was treated. Keith and especially Mick cut him out, and it led to his death. And going a step farther, he thinks that was the kind of cruel machine the Stones were. To me it seems simpler that Jones was a pathetic junky, not a great friend or integral to the band anymore. As the author says about someone else, with a junky, at some point you have to drop them, or theyll drag you down with them.
And the whole " Altamont-Grand Finale of the Sixties" nonsense. Sometimes things just happen.
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Sound Man
- A Life Recording Hits With the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces…
- By: Glyn Johns
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 510
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 454
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 448
Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was 16 years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band's debut album, Children of the Future. He went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business, including Abbey Road with the Beatles. Even more impressive, Johns was perhaps the only person on a given day in the studio who was entirely sober, and so he is one of the most reliable and clear-eyed insiders to tell these stories today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No tell all ... not at all
- By MeDC on 07-04-15
- Sound Man
- A Life Recording Hits With the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces…
- By: Glyn Johns
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Objective music history
Reviewed: 01-13-17
Not a kiss and tell, but you certainly know who he liked and didn't. The list of groups he worked with is incredible. Loved the early tales when he was breaking in.
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The Flamethrowers
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 514
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 438
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 446
The year is 1975 and Reno - so-called because of the place of her birth - has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world - artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Test for Secure Men
- By Stacey on 01-29-14
- The Flamethrowers
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
Great novel with a lot of surprises
Reviewed: 09-21-14
Who was your favorite character and why?
Great strong women lead, most of the other characters are realistic but disgusting people.
Have you listened to any of Christina Traister’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Narrartor was perfect for the main character.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Great narrative and tension, although there were a couple philosophical tangents that lost me.
Any additional comments?
Not really a 'story of the 1970's' as some have said. Sure there is some of that detail of the times, but it's background to a personal drama.
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