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The Mistress and the Key
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Corey Carthew
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Card shark Hailey Gordon and ex-con Nick Patterson—fresh off of uncovering one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War alongside American history professor Adrian Jensen—now find themselves in Philadelphia, immersed in the history of Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. The Liberty Bell, Charles Willson Peale's Museum, and the Tomb of The Unknown Revolutionary Soldier are connected to Franklin in amazing ways. The more they discover, the more shocking the implications become.
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Highly recommend
- By Krista Steele on 11-07-24
- The Mistress and the Key
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Corey Carthew
Historical fiction
Reviewed: 06-18-25
I found this book hard to follow. The narration is terrible in my opinion. I enjoyed the historical elements but found the book a little tedious, and over the top.
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A Kid from Marlboro Road
- By: Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Edward Burns
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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In A Kid from Marlboro Road, past and present intermingle as family stories are told and retold. The narrative careens between the prior generation’s colorful sojourns in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen and the softer world of Gibson, the town on Long Island where they live now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont racetrack, and in Montauk. Edward Burns’s buoyant first novel is a bildungsroman, yet out of one boy’s story a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American tale, raucous and joyous.
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Marlboro Road
- By Elizabeth K. Scheer on 11-11-24
- A Kid from Marlboro Road
- By: Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Edward Burns
Heartfelt
Reviewed: 05-23-25
I didn’t want this book to end. I wanted to hear more about Ed Burns life as a teenager. A very heartfelt sweet book. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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The Glitter and the Gold
- The American Duchess - In Her Own Words
- By: Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfill her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home: Blenheim Palace. The ninth Duchess gives unique first-hand insight into life at the very pinnacle of English society in the Edwardian era.
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Facinating Story- Terrible reading
- By Ashley D on 03-27-14
- The Glitter and the Gold
- The American Duchess - In Her Own Words
- By: Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Boring
Reviewed: 05-06-25
I love history and I love reading about the Gilded Age. Anderson Cooper’s books about the Astros and the Vanderbilts were fantastic. I really enjoyed the novel of well-behaved woman about Alva Vanderbilt and so I naturally was very interested in reading this autobiography by Consuelo her daughter. It’s extremely boring. It feels like all fluff. I was really hoping for some honest insight and revelations. The things that she writes about all just seem so trivial. And don’t even get me started on the horrid narration! Ugh. Awful. I listen to a lot of audible books and I couldn’t even finish this one which says a lot because it really bothers me not to finish a book.
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Angel of Vengeance
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life—but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. Unknown to Leng, Pendergast’s brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help—for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five Points slum, manipulating events like a chess master, watching Leng’s every move…and awaiting his own chance to strike.
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Great follow up!
- By shelley on 08-15-24
- Angel of Vengeance
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Thoroughly enjoyable
Reviewed: 04-16-25
This is the first Pendergast novel I have listened to, and it was fantastic. Never a dull moment. It was a little hard to follow at first since I wasn’t familiar with any of the characters, but it was super exciting! I also loved learning historical bits about New York City in the 1800s etc. and the narration was superb! I hope there’s another one with the same narrator.
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Tell No One
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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It has been eight years since Dr. David Beck’s wife, Elizabeth, was murdered by a serial killer. When Beck receives a message containing a phrase only Elizabeth should know, he is tormented to tears. Either someone is playing a sick joke, or the wife he’s never stopped loving is still alive. He’s been warned to tell no one, and as the desperation of his search for the truth intensifies, he heads straight toward a deadly secret.
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Listen to sample first...
- By Dawn on 09-15-14
- Tell No One
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
Decent story
Reviewed: 04-12-25
Not my favorite Harlan Coben book. I think the worst part was the terrible narration. The narrator is clearly old and he’s supposed to be doing the voice of someone young in their 30s. It was absolutely distracting for the entire book. I fell in love with Harlan Coben’s books when he first started the Myron Boat series and the narrator for those Jonathan Marosz was amazing and then he got Stephen Webber, and he was also good. I don’t know why he stopped using them because this person wasn’t very good. The story overall was decent. I like the little twist at the end but not my favorite. It’s worth reading though.
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Nobody's Fool
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts—and then he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna.
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Had to return.
- By Mimi Marie C on 03-28-25
- Nobody's Fool
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Just ok.
Reviewed: 04-09-25
I am a major Harlan Coben fan. I have read practically every one of his books. This one was probably my least favorite. It almost didn’t even feel like a Harlan Coben book. I wonder if he used a ghostwriter? Anyway, it never got off the ground for me and was truthfully kind of boring and very anticlimactic. I suppose if you’ve never read any of his other books, you might like it but compared to those this one wasn’t nearly as good.
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The Swimmer
- A Novel
- By: Loreth Anne White
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Socially awkward Chloe Cooper divides her time between dog walking, bartending, caring for her ailing mother, and at a safe distance, watching people and inventing the stories of their lives. Like Chloe’s new neighbors: glamorous influencer Jemma Spengler and Jemma’s husband, Adam, a renowned surgeon. They’re attractive, wealthy, and in a house of open windows, so exposed.
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Captivating Characters
- By K. Elle Kinsey on 11-15-24
- The Swimmer
- A Novel
- By: Loreth Anne White
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr
Repetitive
Reviewed: 03-22-25
I’m having a really hard time with this book. I don’t really even care to finish it. It just keeps getting worse and worse repetitive and boring and I’m so tired of hearing about the ridiculous clichés of older men with younger women. The author is just fixated on how life seems to suck for older women and how middle-aged men and older men are all cheating on their wives and leaving there for younger women, which is absolutely absurd. There are lots of women that cheat on their husbands and leave their middle-aged husbands, and there are lots of women that date younger men. It’s not all one-sided! Older men have to deal with getting older too their bodies get saggy just like women they have to deal with losing their hair, etc.- & just because men can father children when they’re older doesn’t necessarily mean that’s a great idea. It’s been proven that sperm from older men is not as good quality as younger, more virile men. All of this is really is besides the point though. I’m just really frustrated with the authors repetitive description of all middle-aged men being cheating jerks.
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Disorder
- By: Rokia, Beth Hickling-Moore – translation
- Narrated by: Diane Guerrero, Freya Allan, William Gao, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
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Part dark romance, part fairy tale, DISORDER marks the arrival of bestselling Italian author Rokia, available for the first time in English, in a vibrant translation by Beth Hickling-Moore. The production is voiced by an all-star cast: Diane Guerrero (Orange is the New Black), William Gao (Heartstopper), Freya Allan (The Witcher) and Connor Swindells (Sex Education.)
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Too much
- By P. Stewart on 12-22-24
Insipid
Reviewed: 03-10-25
dislikable characters. Ridiculous plot also very difficult to follow. I couldn’t even finish. It would not recommend.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- By: Agatha Christie, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Peter Dinklage, Himesh Patel, Harriet Walter, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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England, 1914. The world is at war. Captain Hastings, injured and shaken, is invited to Styles Court to recover. It’s a grand old country house - the family home of his old friend - and a perfect haven. Or so it seems. But in the blistering summer heat, trouble is afoot. Simmering tensions are tearing the family apart, and it all comes to a head in the most horrifying way.
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It’s a perfect audible movie!
- By Malissa Caudell on 11-15-24
Outstanding cast
Reviewed: 01-17-25
Awesome performance of Agatha Christie’s novel. thoroughly enjoyed all of it. Love Peter Dinklage. He’s awesome.
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The Fixer
- Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn
- By: Josh Young, Manfred Westphal
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays, Manfred Westphal
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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During the height of Hollywood’s golden age, one man lorded over the city’s lurid underbelly of forbidden sin and celebrity scandal like no other: Fred Otash. An ex-Marine turned L.A.P.D. vice cop, Otash became the most sought-after private detective and fixer to the stars by specializing in the dark arts that would soon dominate the entertainment industry. The Fixer delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood’s most infamous private detective and “fixer” to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files.
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For Hollywood gossip lovers!
- By Janna Wong Healy on 06-01-24
- The Fixer
- Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn
- By: Josh Young, Manfred Westphal
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays, Manfred Westphal
Outstanding
Reviewed: 01-05-25
What a fantastic informative book! I learned so many things about not only the entertainment industry Hollywood in the 1950s and 60s- just absolutely fascinating. And the narrator was amazing. I didn’t want to end.
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