Pat Wick
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One Good Turn
- A Novel
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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On a beautiful summer day, crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage: a tap on a fender triggers a nearly homicidal attack. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders. The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement.
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A Cluster of Confusion
- By elizabeth craven on 05-31-21
- One Good Turn
- A Novel
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Convoluted but intriguing.
Reviewed: 04-03-25
There’s a lot of characters to keep track of, so you’ll want to listen closely and not nod off to the delicious sound of being read to.
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Here One Moment
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee, Geraldine Hakewill
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother frantically tries to keep her toddler and baby quiet. Honeymooners still in their wedding finery dream of their new lives, while a chatty emergency room nurse dreams of retirement.
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Very interesting premise
- By RondaR on 09-16-24
- Here One Moment
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee, Geraldine Hakewill
We’re all superstitious and hesitate talking about death
Reviewed: 12-17-24
Great readers! Very heartwarming story. So well done you don’t want the story to end.
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The Idea of You
- By: Robinne Lee
- Narrated by: Robinne Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles, is reluctant to take her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band. But since her divorce, she's more eager than ever to be close to Isabelle. The last thing Solène expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident, and posh, and the attraction is immediate. That he is all of twenty years old further complicates things. What begins as a series of clandestine trysts quickly evolves into a passionate relationship.
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Fantasy meets Reality
- By Renee on 08-08-18
- The Idea of You
- By: Robinne Lee
- Narrated by: Robinne Lee
Listen! Ignore the movie
Reviewed: 05-17-24
This is so good on every
Level…believable, sensual, heartwarming, heartbreaking, unforgettable. I started to watch the movie once I was half way thru the book but stopped. They did not capture the heart of this book, they couldn’t. You just have to listen, this author grabs you and doesn’t let go…promise!
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The Bookshop Murder
- An Absolutely Gripping Cozy Mystery (A Flora Steele Mystery, Book 1)
- By: Merryn Allingham
- Narrated by: Charlie Norfolk
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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The young man with the shock of white-blond hair lay spread-eagled on the floor, surrounded by fallen books. His hand reached out to the scattered pages, as though he was trying to tell her something. But who is he? How did he come to be killed in Flora’s ordinary little bookshop? Flora finds out he was staying at the Priory Hotel, and when the gardener suddenly dies in its beautiful grounds only a few days later, she is certain that something untoward is happening in her quiet village by the sea.
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Good start to a cozy series
- By twoseagreeneyes on 01-17-22
- The Bookshop Murder
- An Absolutely Gripping Cozy Mystery (A Flora Steele Mystery, Book 1)
- By: Merryn Allingham
- Narrated by: Charlie Norfolk
Simplistic mystery
Reviewed: 05-08-24
This is a rather shallow story, plodding along, and predictable. If you want to go to sleep while listening, this one’s for you!
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The Unknown Beloved
- A Novel
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there’s more to the situation—and to Dani Flanagan herself—than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland.
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Historical murder mystery
- By Buzy_reading on 06-01-22
- The Unknown Beloved
- A Novel
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Sweet love story
Reviewed: 05-08-23
This is my third Amy Harmon story. This gal knows how to write a story that pulls you in and the reader grew on me as I listened. I came quickly to trust his voice and allowed myself to relax into a harrowing tale, skillfully told,
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Cutting for Stone
- A Novel
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
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An Epic Medical Novel
- By Audiophile on 07-11-09
- Cutting for Stone
- A Novel
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
A keeper
Reviewed: 03-08-23
a wonderful story with the most amazing reader. I’ve listened to it more than once whenever I am unable to sleep I turn it on and listen again no matter where in the story and I am blessed+ soothed and refreshed. The reader is a treasure
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From Sand and Ash
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent.
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Such beauty in the darkest of times <3
- By featherlashes on 12-04-16
- From Sand and Ash
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Serves as a reminder
Reviewed: 02-08-23
It is important to remember the danger of tolerating evil and to rejoice in the resilience and courage of those who insist on preserving all that is good and kind about humanity,
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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
- A Novel
- By: Robert Dugoni
- Narrated by: Robert Dugoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design.
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Wow..allow yourself to be submerged in this book
- By Donna Smith McG on 05-18-18
- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
- A Novel
- By: Robert Dugoni
- Narrated by: Robert Dugoni
Commercial for Catholicism
Reviewed: 12-10-21
Perhaps this very very long story would be best appreciated by a Christian believer! I found it predictable and slurpy.
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The Outside Boy
- By: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Alan Devally
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother’s death in childbirth. The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions.
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Pure Torture
- By Nena on 01-27-21
- The Outside Boy
- By: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Alan Devally
The reader makes it grand!
Reviewed: 11-30-21
The story, the exquisite writing is breathtaking but the reader brings it to life…it’s masterful! You don’t want to stop listening.
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Our Country Friends
- A Novel
- By: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist, his Russian-born psychiatrist wife, their precocious child obsessed with K-pop, a struggling Indian American writer, a wildly successful Korean American app developer, a global dandy with three passports.
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Beautifully written, painful, but very, very moving
- By Jim on 11-08-21
- Our Country Friends
- A Novel
- By: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Boring narration
Reviewed: 11-14-21
The story and the reader are all wrong. Little inflection in his voice got redundant. It felt like the author trying tritely to make the story relevant to Covid with comments about social distancing. I returned it!
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