eileen walsh
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After We Were Stolen
- By: Brooke Beyfuss
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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When nineteen-year-old Avery awakens to flames consuming her family's remote compound, she knows it's her only chance to escape her father's grueling survival training, bizarre rules, and gruesome punishments. She and her brother Cole flee the grounds for the first time in their lives, suddenly homeless in a world they know nothing about. After months of hiding out, they are arrested for shoplifting and a shocking discovery is made—Avery and Cole were kidnapped fifteen years earlier, stolen by cult leaders they knew as Mom and Dad.
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What a treat!
- By eileen walsh on 09-28-22
- After We Were Stolen
- By: Brooke Beyfuss
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
What a treat!
Reviewed: 09-28-22
Brook was my niece Georgia’s best friend. I listened to the book out of courtesy. Boy, Brook is a beautiful writer. Skillfully drawn characters and a nuanced handling of a theme that could have been overdone. Engaging and just splendid. Can’t wait for more!
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The Ink Black Heart
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 32 hrs and 42 mins
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When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.
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Great so far, but grab a physical book…
- By Stephanie on 08-30-22
- The Ink Black Heart
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Chaotic!
Reviewed: 09-20-22
I love this series, but the social media conversations made my eyes cross! I get it. Cyber bullying is unconscionable, but it made the story tooooo chaotic. I stuck it out to the end, because I love your main characters and their story. Robert Glenister is extraordinary as Strike. Still looking forward to the next one!
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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
Wonderful
Reviewed: 08-25-22
One of the most uplifting novels I’ve listened to in a very long time. Well written and well read.
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Another Woman's Husband
- A Novel
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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1911: When 15-year-old Mary Kirk meets Wallis Warfield at summer camp, she’s immediately captivated by her fearless, brazen, and self-assured personality. Though Mary’s family isn’t crazy about Wallis, Mary stands by her side - even years later when rumors swirl about Wallis and her reckless behavior with the Prince of Wales. But when Mary’s loyalty to Wallis comes into question, their friendship will be put to the test. 1997: After a romantic proposal in Paris, Rachel and her fiancé Alex are in a cab when the car ahead crashes.
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Binge worthy
- By Amanda on 12-24-19
- Another Woman's Husband
- A Novel
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman
Not good
Reviewed: 07-06-19
The true part of the story was interesting enough but the fiction part was ridiculous and the ending was insipid and flat.
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Beautiful Ruins
- By: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
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My mind wandered
- By Ella on 11-25-12
- Beautiful Ruins
- By: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Beautiful
Reviewed: 08-03-17
This was the story in which you lose yourself in the moments of the characters' lives. The characters were wonderfully drawn and events and locations were wonderfully visual. I had to stop what I was doing towards the end of the story to cry, not because it was sad, but that the story was ending.
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An Irish Country Doctor
- A Novel
- By: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree and little else in the way of worldly possessions, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice. At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly.
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Something's Missing ... But It's Not the "F Bomb"!
- By Bookworm on 09-06-13
- An Irish Country Doctor
- A Novel
- By: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: John Keating
Delightful
Reviewed: 01-26-17
You can't help but smile as you listen to John Keating narrate this lovely Irish tale. Wonderful characters and moments are captured in this book. Will listen to more of them
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Hell Is Empty
- A Walt Longmire Mystery
- By: Craig Johnson
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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Spur Award-winner Craig Johnson has garnered critical acclaim for his Walt Longmire mysteries. In this riveting seventh entry, Wyoming’s Absaroka County sheriff, Walt Longmire, is pushed beyond his limits. When three hardened convicts escape FBI custody in a mountain blizzard, an armed psychopath leads them up Big Horn Mountain. As Longmire struggles to track their treacherous ascent, he’ll need all the help he can get from the tribal spirits of the towering summit.
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Hang in there if you love Walt
- By Anne of Thieves on 01-16-16
- Hell Is Empty
- A Walt Longmire Mystery
- By: Craig Johnson
- Narrated by: George Guidall
Put the "Th" at the end of the words!
Reviewed: 10-09-16
Guidall reads a great story. He drives me crazy "wif" his lazy diction. Words such as breath, truth, and breath are spoken like " bref, truf, and breave! Come on George, fix it!
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Ireland
- By: Frank Delaney
- Narrated by: Frank Delaney
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
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One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced at a house in the Irish countryside. In exchange for a bed and a warm meal, he invites his hosts and their neighbors to join him by the wintry fireside and begins to tell formative stories of Ireland's history. Ronan, a nine-year-old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves abruptly under mysterious circumstances, the boy devotes himself to finding him again.
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Best Listen In A Quite While
- By John on 03-17-05
- Ireland
- By: Frank Delaney
- Narrated by: Frank Delaney
Just a Joy
Reviewed: 08-11-16
This is an absolutely beautiful novel. The author brought you into the world of the traveler. Delaney's narration is brilliant. I wanted it to go on and on.
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic.
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- By Sara on 03-05-16
- Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Riveting
Reviewed: 07-28-15
As always, Erik Larson brings history to life. The stories of the people aboard the ill fated ship bring you to a moment in history that you knew about, but knew little about.
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The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race. Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
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Dear Publishers of Audio Books
- By Lynn on 08-04-14
- The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Inspiring and heartfelt.
Reviewed: 07-12-15
This book took me on a magnificent journey. I was totally caught up in the lives of the boys and the history of the period. Herrmann was brilliant. His warm voice was captivating. Utterly profound piece of historical literature.
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