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Celine
- A Novel
- By: Peter Heller
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense - the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.
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Murder HE Wrote
- By Mel on 03-16-17
- Celine
- A Novel
- By: Peter Heller
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Just buy it. Private eye. Yellowstone what else could you want?
Reviewed: 07-08-22
If you like Box, Atkins, Cameron but want something a bit more sophisticated like Mcguane, or Olmsted you’ll love Heller. The narrator was a bit gushy at the first yet calmed as the story developed. Def prefer Hellers other narrators.
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Bearskin
- A Novel
- By: James A. McLaughlin
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He’s found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It’s hard work, and totally solitary - perfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he’s so desperately sought is suddenly at risk.
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Other Reviews Pretty Accurate, Positive & Negative
- By Daniel McAfee on 03-04-19
- Bearskin
- A Novel
- By: James A. McLaughlin
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Sub genre: The Wilderness Crime Thriller
Reviewed: 05-24-22
I have a difficult time finding good suspense novels set in the outdoors. I generally get tipped to the standard serial novelists that run that wheelhouse. However, they never seem to hit the higher shelf literature chops that McCarthy, Olmstead and a Thomas Mcguane do. McLaughlin has with this first novel of his. I eagerly look forward his second.
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The Dog Stars
- By: Peter Heller
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists beyond the airport.
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Absolutely Stellar!
- By Mel on 08-10-12
- The Dog Stars
- By: Peter Heller
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
You might judge it by its cover.
Reviewed: 04-16-22
Gosh, I really wanted to enjoy this book, which I did at some level. . I’ve read most Hellers published works. Unfortunately, the preoccupation with a K9 made it difficult to stomach.. Waxing poetic about it, thousands of words, Just torture; Slogging through it. Not everyone anthropomorphizes animals. However, I couldn’t stop listening. It was a good book despite the dog fetish .
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Dust Off the Bones
- A Novel
- By: Paul Howarth
- Narrated by: David Linski
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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The author of the acclaimed Only Killers and Thieves returns to turn-of-the-century Australia in this powerful sequel that follows the story of brothers Tommy and Billy McBride, the widow of their family’s killer, Katherine Sullivan, and the sadistic Native Police officer Edmund Noone.
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So wrong
- By TxBwana on 11-04-24
- Dust Off the Bones
- A Novel
- By: Paul Howarth
- Narrated by: David Linski
A decent sequel.
Reviewed: 04-14-22
Despite “only Killers and Thieves”, having a far greater impact upon reading, this sequel as it is, does piggy back well onto It, In fact I would have rather it ended there with the first novel. I believe the character of inspector Noon being one amongst few of the great antagonist in lit. I did notice however the narrator wasn’t able to give Noon the sophisticated English/ Australian accent he was aiming, but rather someone more foreign. Do read
-Only Killers and Thieves.
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Way Down on the High Lonely
- The Neal Carey Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Neal Carey’s three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over—but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to find Cody McCall, a two-year-old boy recently abducted by his father in a bitter Hollywood custody battle—a task that will propel Neal from the glittering Hollywood hills to the remote wilds of Nevada.
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Superb- love the series!
- By Mark Hancock on 01-09-15
- Way Down on the High Lonely
- The Neal Carey Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Propaganda
Reviewed: 05-16-21
A lot of truth in the book, yet it’s disparaged and pushed to the point of unrealistic and insane so you’re forced to empathize with the alternative. A lot of a anti white man/pro Zionist, globalist perspective. With a terribly dull story. Despite the great setting.
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Small Moving Parts
- By: D. B. Jackson
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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When Harland Cain holds a .45 automatic to his head and bears down slowly upon the trigger, he experiences a profound sense of control over his destiny for the first time in his life. He savors the moment and imagines the click of the hammer, the explosion, and the bullet spiraling through the barrel before everything turns black. It's then he hears the out-of-control screaming of tires on the pavement, followed by the sickening sound of metal crashing against concrete. He lays down the pistol and crosses his yard in that predawn darkness to find a young boy, bloody and dazed.
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Excellent Narrator - Great Character Development
- By Andrea on 04-25-20
- Small Moving Parts
- By: D. B. Jackson
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Worth the listen.
Reviewed: 05-08-21
A pretty good book. Reminiscent of Steinbeck. The narration is also well done. However, no one character really gains your loyalty. Interestingly enough.
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Wuthering Heights
- An Audible Exclusive Performance
- By: Emily Brontë, Ann Dinsdale - introduction
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Rachel Atkins - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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The unapologetic intensity with which Emily Brontë wrote this story ensures that it will forever be considered one of the greatest works of English literature. A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights transcends your average romance and, with its Gothic undertones, takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge.
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Almost Peerless
- By Brad Simkulet on 02-04-18
- Wuthering Heights
- An Audible Exclusive Performance
- By: Emily Brontë, Ann Dinsdale - introduction
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Rachel Atkins - introduction
Wrong narrator.
Reviewed: 05-05-21
As the novel is told in the first person. That of our English gentleman protagonist of that century.
The choice to have a female narrator is baffling. Again and again as one listens, Which is not reading a book, one has to be constantly remind oneself that it’s a man that we’re listening to, rather than the ardently lovely and feminine voice of the narrator.
Could work on a different writing method, but of the first person. No
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Stone Cross
- By: Marc Cameron
- Narrated by: David Chandler
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska - and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses protection. Cutter and his deputy Lola Teariki have been assigned to shadow him on his trip to this icy outland to make sure that he's safe. But they quickly discover that no one is ever really safe in a place like this. And no one is above suspicion....
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Arliss Cutter series Book 2
- By Wayne on 04-03-20
- Stone Cross
- By: Marc Cameron
- Narrated by: David Chandler
Wanted to enjoy it..
Reviewed: 05-05-21
As it’s kinda up my ally. However,
Either the author or editor/publisher are the PC police, or...just bad judgment of the author.
The obvious feminism, fetishizing of demonic pre civilization practices(google maori war face)
And the constant anthropomorphizing of dogs ad nauseam was irrelevant and distracting to the story that could have earned some interest from the target audience. Also the plot included a side story that should have been entirely cut. But the cancel culture of today just can’t do without some rape and white man hating. Unfortunate.
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Descent
- By: Tim Johnston
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, R.C. Bray
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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From the day Caitlin vanishes the lives of her family members are irrevocably altered, each assuming blame for that day's tragic events. As the initial days of hope are replaced by weeks of anxiety and despair, they find themselves increasingly isolated, each wondering: Is she still alive? Will we ever know what happened?
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Even a Monkey Knows the Value of a Stick
- By tooonce72 on 01-09-15
- Descent
- By: Tim Johnston
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, R.C. Bray
Cluttered with filler. Not sharp or deft prose. But still..decent.
Reviewed: 04-30-21
The story had its moments for sure.
And a couple characters.
However, it dragged a bit and had segments with no bearing whatsoever.
Worst of all was the woman narrator. She spoke as if she had dropped molly before hand, gushing in a way that was half sobbing with giant tears of cheese, half hysterical laughter near to eruption. Thank goodness for the male narrator, otherwise it would have been dropped in two chapters.
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-05-15
They don’t write them like this anymore..
Reviewed: 04-26-21
Fantastic. Gothic by definition, performed near perfect. I would say apart from a personal read, that this is the best way to know the work, especially if you’ve never seen any film portrayal.
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