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Sorcery and Small Magics
- By: Maiga Doocy
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Leovander Loveage is a master of small magics. He can summon butterflies with a song or turn someone’s hair pink by snapping his fingers. Though such minor charms don’t earn him much respect, anything more elaborate always blows up in his face, and so Leo vowed long ago never to use powerful magic again. That is, until a mishap with a forbidden spell binds Leo to obey the commands of his longtime rival, Sebastian Grimm. Grimm is Leo’s complete opposite—respected, exceptionally talented, and absolutely insufferable.
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11/10
- By Amazon Customer on 04-12-25
- Sorcery and Small Magics
- By: Maiga Doocy
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
A charming, inventive, well written tale, The reader is a perfect partner to the story I’m spell bound
Reviewed: 06-17-25
A charming story. A wonderfully inventive reality, that feels so real. Well written and the reader is a perfect compliment to the story. He successfully makes the annoying character traits annoying and uncovers the more formative tender parts with grace.
I find myself SO involved with the characters and the reality Maiga created I am hungry for more. , please
I anticipate some reviews will have commentary on the annoying aspects of a lead character, but for me, Maiga wrote that character so well, their annoying personality gave them more depth.
Not a flowery swards, and dragons, and swoonings romance, nor an adult erotic fantasy … but a sweet story of love and magic, strength and fears
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The Secret Language of the Body
- Regulate Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, Free Your Mind
- By: Jennifer Mann, Karden Rabin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Mann, Karden Rabin
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Your autonomic nervous system is responsible for the constant but mostly subconscious communication between your brain and body. When you experience stress, anxiety, or trauma, your nervous system formulates responses to keep you alive. But you can also become trapped in survival mode if you’re consistently exposed to unsafe environments, toxic relationships, or destructive thought patterns. Mind-body practitioners Jen Mann and Karden Rabin now provide the first in-depth look at nervous system regulation, somatic therapy, Polyvagal theory, the vagus nerve, and the mind-body connection.
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The Secret Language
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-24
- The Secret Language of the Body
- Regulate Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, Free Your Mind
- By: Jennifer Mann, Karden Rabin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Mann, Karden Rabin
The authors desperately needed a good audio editor … they read like middle school camp activities directors
Reviewed: 02-19-25
If you’re going to use people’s names, particularly as a 'credential' to support your work,
look up how they are pronounced. John Grinder, co-founder of NLP, his name is
not pronounced Grinder like a pepper grinder, like the author pronounced it,
But GRINder … the first syllable pronounced like “grin” like a smile ...
The book is a good compilation of a number of sources studying consciousness, with some well formulated exercises and somatic concepts culled from those sources. A Very good 'introduction' ... but I'd strongly suggest buying the hard-copy book, rather than this audio rendition. I typically avoid books "read by the author" and this one is the example that proves the rule... in my opinion, of course ...
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The Weirdies Get Weirder
- The Weirdies, Book 2
- By: Michael Buckley
- Narrated by: Kate Winslet
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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The Weirdie Triplets and Miss Emily are settling into Deadeye Manor when, against all logic, their parents return from the dead! Even worse, they want Barnacle, Melancholy and Garlic back, sparking a truly unusual effort to prove that Miss Emily is the best parent for them. Will the family get justice? Will the triplets succeed in their ridiculous fundraisers to pay for the lawyer? Why are there so many raccoons in the courtroom?
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Couldn’t stop laughing
- By Bookchick on 10-28-22
- The Weirdies Get Weirder
- The Weirdies, Book 2
- By: Michael Buckley
- Narrated by: Kate Winslet
Writing is so funny -Kate Winslet so so amazingly perfect
Reviewed: 03-02-24
Ok, do heed the warning in the beginning of the book … but if you can get past that
Both the Weirdies books are “oh, darn, is it OVER???? Nooooo!!! Is there another? “
books. Charming Brilliantly read (how Ever did they score Kate Winslet? she’s the perfect reader for these! )
Perhaps not a great child rearing instructional guide … but a fun fun fun read!
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#1 in Customer Service
- The Complete Adventures of Tom Stranger
- By: Larry Correia
- Narrated by: Adam Baldwin, Larry Correia
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Whether he’s underwriting for an overlord, or wearing a pocket protector in a pocket universe, Tom Stranger has just one policy: providing Quality Customer Service. No alien menace is too menacing, no galactic rift too rifty for the multiverse’s most-trusted Interdimensional Insurance Agent in these three brand-new adventures and two classic escapades.
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First half good
- By Ben Koch on 01-07-20
- #1 in Customer Service
- The Complete Adventures of Tom Stranger
- By: Larry Correia
- Narrated by: Adam Baldwin, Larry Correia
The book is fun nonsense, but one of the “extras” is solid FOX-politic promotion
Reviewed: 01-23-24
The book was fun nonsense. The second in the series for me.
But be forewarned one of the “extras” … while gently teasing the Fox-favorite …
echos the nastiest of Fox attacks about Fox-non-favorites.
I’m sure the author would try to claim,
“I poked at both sides…”
but … yeah, no
Of course, YMMV
If you are a Fox-fan, buy all of this author’s books … in fact buy eleven copies of each …
For me, it’s enough to make me hesitate about whether I’d enjoy any additional of his series.
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Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective
- By: Katie Siegel
- Narrated by: Katie Siegel
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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As a kid, Charlotte Illes’ uncanny sleuthing abilities made her a minor celebrity. But in high school, she hung up her detective’s hat and stashed away the signature blue landline in her “office”—aka garage—convinced that finding her adult purpose would be as easy as tracking down missing pudding cups or locating stolen diamonds.
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Don’t recommend
- By Brett M. Stevens on 10-12-23
- Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective
- By: Katie Siegel
- Narrated by: Katie Siegel
Just a delightful read
Reviewed: 01-23-24
The writing is wonderful, the performance is an excellent augmentation of the writing.
There is a sense of it being aimed at a younger reader … which I not … and I found the whole book delightful. Well played laugh-out-loud in my car moments as well as many ‘let me back that up and enjoy that turn of a phrase again’ times.
I’ll be watching for more in this series and from this author.
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Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways - by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such "slow horse", is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself.
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Fun premise, Slow start, excellent entertaiinment.
- By Dustmouse5 on 07-07-17
- Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
A rare time when the book and the TV series are both equally good and both support each other … view first or read first
Reviewed: 01-23-24
A captivating read. I saw the season One of the TV series first … and, for me, the book filled out the video … and the video filled out the book. Definitely do both!
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Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll!
- The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business
- By: Kenny Aronoff, Neil Peart - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Kenny Aronoff
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Talent, energy, dedication, discipline, passion, innovation, education, drive, mind, body, spirit, vision, honor, truth, and drums make the man: Kenny Aronoff. Voted by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest drummers of all time, Aronoff is arguably the most sought-after recording and touring beat master ever.
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Great stories, narration could be better
- By Dry Toast Fan on 10-24-21
- Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll!
- The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business
- By: Kenny Aronoff, Neil Peart - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Kenny Aronoff
Great Insight into the Life of a Rock Professional
Reviewed: 12-23-23
Lemme say this right off the top... Kenny is a drummer, not a narrator ...
but you get used to his speech patterns
With that said... He was the perfect choice to narrate his own book ... you not only get the story,
you get a real sense of the guy ...himself.
This is a great trip through the intensity and the business of Music Professional
Well worth the read.
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Eliza Starts a Rumor
- By: Jane L. Rosen
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. When Eliza Hunt created the Hudson Valley Ladies’ Bulletin Board 15 years ago, she was happily entrenched in her picture-perfect suburban life with her husband and twin preschoolers. Now, with an empty nest and a crippling case of agoraphobia, the once-fun hobby has become her lifeline. So, when a rival parenting forum threatens the site’s existence, she doesn’t think twice before fabricating a salacious rumor to spark things up a bit. It doesn’t take long before that spark becomes a flame.
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Reader's Digest Meets Hallmark
- By Ashleigh Marie Brown on 11-30-21
- Eliza Starts a Rumor
- By: Jane L. Rosen
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
for some reason I got Completely Caught Up in this
Reviewed: 12-23-23
I could not for the life of me give a friend a description of the story line here, and have them say, "Oh,,you'd Love that"
But .. I got captivated by the characters and the good solid psychological insights into each of them.
Loved the book.
Hated when it was done. (Nothing wrong with the ending ... just it came way sooner than I wanted it to.)
I will look for other books by Jane L Rosen
(and will keep my eye out for narrations by Lisa Flanagan)
That's sort of my highest praise ... when it's "I'd like more of that, please..."
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Vikings!
- Scandinavians Who Shaped the World
- By: Scott McCormick
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Gabriel Vaughan, Josh Hurley, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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Ride along with Rollo, the raider who spent decades laying waste to France and whose descendants eventually would rule over much of Europe. Rule with Olga of Kyiv, the most letha saint in history. Learn the incredible stories behind Erik the Red’s and Leif Erikson’s adventures in the New World. And hold on tight for the unbelievable adventures of Harald Hardrada, whose exploits are like a Viking’s greatest hits.
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Fun and educational listen!
- By K Meyer on 07-08-23
- Vikings!
- Scandinavians Who Shaped the World
- By: Scott McCormick
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Gabriel Vaughan, Josh Hurley, Khristine Hvam, Cary Hite, Ramon De Ocampo, Kevin T. Collins, Elizabeth Evans, Therese Plummer, Marc Vietor
Middle-School Improve with some great History info
Reviewed: 12-23-23
If you've always dreamed of your History Professor being randomly interrupted by the local middle school Improve group, dashing in, trying out the various accents they play with in front of their mirror or tried once and thought they sounded cool with it ... then dashing out again...
as 'filler' for otherwise very interesting History information
Or if you'd just feel great that a bunch of people who like doing improv ... got to get hired for this gig
You'll Love This Presentation ...
otherwise ... I'll say ..
Excellently well curated history with a solid story-line that puts the pieces in place ... and you'll get to where you can listen past the goofy 'filler' stuff. I really can't decide if the author didn't think they had enough material to fill out the book, or if they just saw a chance to get their "theatre" friends a gig ...
But the historical information, how they carried the story thread through. and the level of research they reference from are all excellent...
and who doesn't appreciate a producer who grabs at any chance they can find to give the local theater kids a gig?.
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Indigo Isle
- By: T. I. Lowe
- Narrated by: Justis Bolding
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she’s a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is wherever she lands, and between her busy schedule and dealing with her boss’s demands, she has little time to think about the past . . . until her latest gig lands her a stone’s throw from everything she left behind.
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Cannot put it down
- By Janice E. Rockwood on 08-19-23
- Indigo Isle
- By: T. I. Lowe
- Narrated by: Justis Bolding
If I could give the reader 8 stars I would
Reviewed: 11-08-23
Good story. Carried me right through, was sorry when it was winding up to close. Great sense of the language and dialect. Characters are well created … villain so well written as to make me clench my teeth … really got under my skin.
The reader is superb, giving life to the text and the soeach patterns of each character … which in one case is quite a gift.
Well worth the read.
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