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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30,080
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27,202
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27,136
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Ok…not great.
Reviewed: 02-09-24
Ok…not great… and not worthy of a pulitzer in my opinion.
Another sad story full of expletives over and over since that apparently that makes books and shows more “real”.
I think it makes for lazy writing.
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Counting the Cost
- By: Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard - contributor, Craig Borlase - contributor
- Narrated by: Jill Duggar
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5,524
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,225
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,220
Jill and Derick knew a normal life wasn’t possible for them. As a star on the popular TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting, Jill grew up in front of viewers who were fascinated by her family’s way of life. She was the responsible, second daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle’s nineteen kids; always with a baby on her hip and happy to wear the modest ankle-length dresses with throat-high necklines.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Naive Account from a Reality TV Personality
- By Lora Kyle on 09-12-23
Enjoyed
Reviewed: 09-18-23
I enjoyed the book and thankful that Jill was able to look to the Lord for her healing.
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36,623
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32,026
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31,950
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
- Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
Betrays men and religion as evil and ignorant
Reviewed: 01-10-23
What a waste of money and time. I am all for books encouraging women to be their best self, but this book tried to do this at the expense of portraying most men as people of faith as either evil or stupid.
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1 person found this helpful
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The Clover Girls
- By: Viola Shipman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Teri Schnaubelt, Vivienne Leheny, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 374
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Story4 out of 5 stars 343
Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls—inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom—until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror. Then Liz, V and Rachel each receive a letter from Emily with devastating news. She implores the girls to reunite at Camp Birchwood one last time.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Predictable and bland
- By just a girl on 06-11-21
- The Clover Girls
- By: Viola Shipman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Teri Schnaubelt, Vivienne Leheny, Caitlin Kelly
Another liberal agenda driven novel
Reviewed: 06-15-22
This book makes women seem like unfulfilled whiners, until they wake up and become liberal achievers. This author needs to get a clue that Republican conservative woman are intelligent equals to men and not backward woman who feel like their only place is barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. What a terrible stereotype this author portrays of Republican conservative women.
Just another agenda pushing book made to separate and divide.
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Dragon Ghosts
- The Unwanteds Quests, Book 3
- By: Lisa McMann
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story5 out of 5 stars 89
Devastated by loss and hampered by war, Fifer struggles to regroup and continue the search for her twin. Meanwhile, Thisbe, pounded by images of Grimere’s dark history, contemplates her abandonment and considers leaving Rohan behind in a risky move that could take her home...or to her death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cliffhanger
- By M. James on 03-09-19
- Dragon Ghosts
- The Unwanteds Quests, Book 3
- By: Lisa McMann
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Good story…but the performer lacks
Reviewed: 05-06-22
The readers voice of Simba was almost painful to listen to. Simba was such a great character in the original series and while I understand the new series has different reader, Simba’s regal nature was lost and he almost sounds mentally slow in this rendition. The rest of her character voices are fine ….just not nearly as good as the original.
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Find Another Dream
- By: Maysoon Zayid
- Narrated by: Maysoon Zayid
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,511
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,480
Find Another Dream, written and performed by Maysoon Zayid, is the true story of how a Muslim Jersey girl with cerebral palsy creates her own path to stardom. The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, as a child she dreamed of one day dancing on Broadway. As a teen, a bubble-bursting choreographer told her to “find another dream”, so she set her sights on becoming a soap star, undeterred by the fact that the odds were against her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- By Amazon Customer on 11-04-19
- Find Another Dream
- By: Maysoon Zayid
- Narrated by: Maysoon Zayid
So sad
Reviewed: 11-22-19
She speaks about love and acceptance...but what she really means....is only if you believe what she believes.
She mocks white conservatives and has no respect for other people’s views and beliefs. She has bought into the lie that southern conservatives are hateful, deceived people....when nothing could be farther from the truth. This book only widens the racial divide and it saddens me when it could have been a book to bring together different races and beliefs.
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Oathbringer
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Length: 55 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 64,957
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 57,655
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Story5 out of 5 stars 57,555
Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost. The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A mixed bag of brilliance, marred by missteps
- By Leo on 11-24-17
- Oathbringer
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Little disappointed
Reviewed: 08-11-18
I have loved all of Brandon‘s books so far, however I was a little disappointed with Oathbringer. It was a little slow.
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The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 175,841
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 161,646
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Story5 out of 5 stars 161,466
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plainold "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Macgyver on Mars
- By Michael G Kurilla on 06-21-13
- The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Incredible Story, Incredible Narrator
Reviewed: 04-30-18
If you haven’t yet, buy this audio book. The story is exciting and pulls you deep into the plot. But what ties the 100% review together is the audio book narrator. R.C Bray is the one of the greatest voice actors I have had the pleasure of listening to. I loved it so much, I listened to it twice.
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