Linda Lewis-White
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Crossroads of Granite
- Orphans of War, Book 3
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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Nora Brouwer, a radar operator, watches as Allied bombers crest the horizon. A cryptic call tempts her—safety or a daring mission? Her brother-in-law, Christiaan Brouwer, ensnared in an SS prison, faces a dire choice: betray his secrets or forfeit his life. What will honor demand? Floris Brouwer, once a Waffen-SS titan, now languishes at Mauthausen concentration camp. A chance to regain past glory beckons, but at war's dark price. Lisa Abrahams, master of espionage, yearns for more than London's shadows. With victory nearing, her heart races to find Christiaan and alter fate.
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Realistic and horrifying
- By Linda Lewis-White on 03-24-25
- Crossroads of Granite
- Orphans of War, Book 3
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Realistic and horrifying
Reviewed: 03-24-25
While I hate the ending, the series gives us an understanding of the horrors that the Nazi regime perpetrated on Europe during WII. At every step the Nazis lied to gain the trust of the people. Wake up America, they are trying to do the same thing here!
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The Last Flight
- A Novel
- By: Julie Clark
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of 10, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move, making sure she's living up to his impossible standards. But what he doesn't know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish.
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Intriguing premise
- By SGS on 06-28-20
- The Last Flight
- A Novel
- By: Julie Clark
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Lauren Fortgang
Surprising Twist at the End
Reviewed: 09-21-24
The Last Flight unfolds in alternating character voices - those of Claire Cook and Eva James. Both women running for their lives- one from an abusive husband and the other from a drug boss. When they switch places at the airport, one flies to Berkeley and the other to Puerto Rico. The flight to Puerto Rico goes down killing all 96 people aboard or were there only 95? The tension in the story builds chapter by chapter as the reader learns more about the two women and their lives.
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In the Heart of the Fire
- Nameless: Season One, Book 1
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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A bloodthirsty sheriff is terrorizing a small Texas town where justice has been buried with his victims. Until Nameless arrives - a vigilante whose past is a mystery and whose future is written in blood. Anyone who crosses Sheriff Russell Soakes is dead, missing, or warned. One of them is a single mother trying to protect her children but bracing herself for the worst. Nameless fears the outcome. He’s seen it in his visions. Now it’s time to teach the depraved Soakes a lesson in fear. But in turning predators into prey, will Nameless unearth a few secrets of his own?
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Great short stories!
- By shelley on 11-12-19
- In the Heart of the Fire
- Nameless: Season One, Book 1
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Great Story
Reviewed: 12-15-23
I love it when the evil villain gets justice- legally or otherwise. Our hero is an interesting character without an identity or memory of who he is. He experiences visions of both past and future events. A question to Koontz - are the past visions leading us to eventually discover what happened to Nameless as we read the series? I certainly hope so because the final vision in this book leaves us with a lot of questions and any number of possible theories. Going to buy the next book right now!
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What's Left Unsaid
- A Novel
- By: Emily Bleeker
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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After a series of devastating losses, Chicago journalist Hannah Williamson has landed in Senatobia, Mississippi, to care for her bedridden grandmother and endure grunt work at a small newspaper. But in cleaning out its archives, Hannah discovers a compelling distraction from her life: a series of rejected articles from the 1930s that illuminate a long-hidden mystery.
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Too much profanity but good story
- By GreenEyes on 10-06-21
- What's Left Unsaid
- A Novel
- By: Emily Bleeker
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Parallel lives
Reviewed: 12-10-23
Family secrets across generations lead a struggling reporter on a search that just might give her back her life. After a disastrous breakup with her longtime boyfriend, Hannah Williamson’s life falls apart. She loses everything - her father dies, she loses her job and friends, and she falls into a deep depression as she struggles to cope with the loss and grief. Moving to Mississippi to help care for her 90-something grandmother, Hannah stumbles upon a 100-year-old mystery as she scans old newspaper records as part of her job at the local newspaper office. Intrigued by the story, she searches for more information drawing others into the drama of finding out what happened to Evelyn. What she finds will change the lives of several people and just might give her the courage to find happiness for herself.
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Jet Girl
- My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
- By: Caroline Johnson
- Narrated by: Hof Williams, Caroline Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviator candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Operator. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and she was the first woman to drop bombs on ISIS. Jet Girl tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks and yet is in many respects still a fraternity.
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self-destruction; empaths beware
- By Eve on 02-07-20
- Jet Girl
- My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
- By: Caroline Johnson
- Narrated by: Hof Williams, Caroline Johnson
Tells it like it is
Reviewed: 11-17-23
Caroline Johnson tells her story in remarkable detail. I felt like I was in the cockpit with her as she described the frustration of not being allowed to engage with ISIS and then being given the green light to finally engage. However, her story is more than a story about flying jets. It’s also about the ways in which the Navy is failing women and people of color within its ranks. One can only hope that by sharing her story others will step up and confront the sexism and racism that is so prevalent in our armed forces.
This book should be mandatory reading for all military personnel in leadership roles- enlisted and officers. Johnson hits the target when she writes that changing this toxic culture begins at the top.
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The Scenic Route
- A Short Story
- By: Christina Baker Kline
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Once happily married with a young son, Jess takes to the road to escape her failed relationship and the disappointment of losing touch with her son. Four years into a nomadic existence, she has learned the hacks of van life and promotes a fantasy version of it on Instagram that bears little resemblance to her eclectic community of fellow travelers. But it’s that camaraderie, and the vastness of the great outdoors, that gives Jess the space she needs to find out what really matters to her. And act on it.
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Simple yet complicated.
- By jolleyreader on 09-13-23
- The Scenic Route
- A Short Story
- By: Christina Baker Kline
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
Wow!
Reviewed: 09-11-23
As a mom, like all parents, we make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes cause a a deep rift in our relationships with our children. Sometimes, the cause of that rift is not ours alone, but is shared with other parenting figures in a child’s life. A powerful story of how one trauma early in one’s life can lead to further trauma and then to generational trauma.
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