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Dollface
- A Novel of the Roaring Twenties
- Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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America in the 1920s was a country alive with the wild fun of jazz, speakeasies, and a new kind of woman - the flapper.
Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. Bobbing her hair and showing her knees, the lipsticked beauty dazzles, doing the Charleston in nightclubs and earning the nickname “Dollface”.
As the ultimate flapper, Vera captures the attention of two high rollers, a handsome nightclub owner and a sexy gambler. On their arms, she gains entrée into a world filled with bootleg bourbon, wailing jazz, and money to burn. She thinks her biggest problem is choosing between them until the truth comes out. Her two lovers are really mobsters from rival gangs during Chicago’s infamous Beer Wars, a battle Al Capone refuses to lose.
The heady life she’s living is an illusion resting on a bedrock of crime and violence unlike anything the country has ever seen before. When the good times come to an end, Vera becomes entangled in everything from bootlegging to murder. And as men from both gangs fall around her, Vera must put together the pieces of her shattered life, as Chicago hurtles toward one of the most infamous days in its history, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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Sarita Grayson is desperate. That's the only explanation for her late-night rendezvous with a bag of stolen diamonds. But then a handsome stranger stands between her and a clean getaway. In the struggle for freedom, she accidentally shoots him. Mykal Chandler, head of a covert government agency NIA, can't believe he's been shot. He's shocked, he's furious, but he's also attracted to this sassy woman. Unfortunately, Sarita has stumbled onto a smuggling plot and he'll need to protect her, even if he has to kidnap her to do it. But Sarita isn't one to go quietly into the night....
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Literary Excellence, another masterpiece
- By Marquita n Dallas on 03-24-21
By: Beverly Jenkins
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Tryin' To Sleep In the Bed You Made
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Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her life complete. Patricia was the intellectual who thought that rising to the top of her career would make her happy. And then there is Marcus Carter, who has been linked to both Gayle and Pat since the tragedy that occurred when they were all children. Can either one save him from himself? Can friends survive a love that comes between them? Each of them gets what she wants, but no one counts on the price they have to pay.
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Better with each chapter!
- By Cyn B. on 02-09-16
By: Virginia DeBerry, and others
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Spellbound
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- By: Allie Therin
- Narrated by: Erik Bloomquist
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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1925 New York. Arthur Kenzie's life's work is protecting the world from the supernatural relics that could destroy it. When an amulet with the power to control the tides is shipped to New York, he must intercept it before it can be used to devastating effects. This time, in order to succeed, he needs a powerful psychometric...and the only one available has sworn off his abilities altogether. Rory Brodigan's gift comes with great risk. To protect himself, he's become a recluse, redirecting his magic to find counterfeit antiques.
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Audiobook Review
- By Alaska on 07-29-20
By: Allie Therin
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Quarry
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- By: Max Allan Collins
- Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them…and then removing that problem, as well. So far he's rid of the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights?
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The great Max Allan Collins
- By Bradley Paul Valentine on 09-25-16
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A Nail Through The Heart
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- By: Timothy Hallinan
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Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
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Ever been to Bangkok?
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Where I'm Calling From
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By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.
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Love Carver, But Dietz Ruins It With Reading
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By: Raymond Carver
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Ten years after disappearing from Antietam, Maryland, the bad boy has come home. Cleaned up and successful now - though still dangerously good-looking - Rafe MacKade sets the town on fire…and tongues wagging. Not even lovely newcomer Regan Bishop is immune to his charms. Though Regan claims to not want to get involved with a rebel, Rafe's pretty sure that her reaction to their sizzling kisses suggests otherwise.
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Who wrote this from Nora's formula?
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By: Nora Roberts
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The Recognitions
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- By andrew on 11-17-10
By: William Gaddis
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A Hard Ticket Home
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Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and more money, than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he’s willing to admit it to himself (and he usually isn’t), Mac is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy: Nine-year-old Stacy Carlson has been diagnosed with leukemia, and the only one with the matching bone marrow that can save her is her older sister, Jamie. Trouble is, Jamie ran away from home years ago.
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Finally on Audible...
- By shelley on 03-14-20
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
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It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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The narrators are outstanding here.
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
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Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the award-winning and best-selling author of Tumbling, presents Trading Dreams at Midnight - - an Essence Book Club Recommended Read. Back in 1984, 15-year-old Neena's mother left and never came back. And now Neena is following in her footsteps.
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Hard to follow
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-06-21
Excellent book
A fun read that is easy to listen to Compared to most of the books I have listened to here
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- EmilyTheStrange
- 09-06-21
Chicago in the 1920’s!
This book had a wonderful story line set in Chicago 1920’s. I found it easy to connect with the characters. The book was easy to follow and was a wonderful listen. I highly recommend!
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- justkeepswimming05
- 09-09-21
So much fun!
I need to find another book like this. I enjoyed it so much. Worth the credit!
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- Laura
- 10-03-21
Great Listen!
I loved hearing the story of Chicago's Prohibition era and dynamics of navigating its life. Hated to put this on pause!
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- Stefanie M. Lane
- 02-03-24
4 stars
I love the roaring twenties and love historical fiction. I enjoyed the book although felt it was a bit long and the main character got annoying after a while due to her back and forth of emotions. Overall not my favorite book by this author but thought it was pretty good.
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- Sheryl A.
- 06-30-23
Couldn’t bring myself to finish it…
I picked up one of the Gilded Age novels written by Renee Rosen and thoroughly enjoyed it. Based on that experience, I decided to go through and read all of her novels. It has been hit, or miss. This one, DOLLFACE, is a miss for me. It is well written. Rosen does an excellent job of describing characters and settings in a way that makes the reader feel like they are right there. This was just a little too extra for me. Too many gangsters, too much crime, too much glamorizing of crime, too much graphic sex between the leading character and multiple men. Again, and I have said this about this author’s characters before, not a lot to like or root for!! I read up through the 8th chapter and then I skipped to the end and read the authors notes and the last chapter and that pretty much did it for me. 18-year-old Jewish girl from a hard-working family seeks a better, more glamorous life than the one she grew up in. A cute little teenager living in the fast lane of 1920 Chicago takes up with two gangsters from two rival gangs. She finds herself right in the middle of it all, culminating in the Valentine’s Day massacre. We are both are killed. I learned from the last chapter that at some . she finds herself pregnant from one of them. They both die so she becomes a single mother at a time in life when it would be difficult for any woman. Her loving mother takes her in and helps her get back on her feet and she puts her life back together again as the 1920s rages into the Great Depression of the 1930s. If gangster-era, Chicago is your thing, my take is that this book provides a blow by blow into the bootlegging, and back-alley goings on‘s of the wettest county in the country! But if bootlegging, violence, gangster culture, and page after page of reading about an 18-year-old, consort with men almost twice her age and making really stupid choices is not your thing, take a hard pass.
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- LAMP
- 08-26-24
Enjoyable but dragged a bit
It was an enjoyable story but the action got repetitive. I found myself tuning out parts as they were similar to previous action. Affair sex, followed by guilt, decision to stop, try to be a good wife,, then return to afternoon lover and repeat, repeat, repeat.
The basic story line was good but could have been told more succinctly. I did learn more about Chicago gangs during prohibition.
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- Bruno Roger
- 09-11-21
Unsympathetic characters
The narrator was a good narrator, but she wouldn’t have been my pick for this character/time period - too soft and didn’t speak like someone from a “gritty” background.
I enjoyed the parts at the beginning with the Roaring 20’s clubs and flappers. But that all ended suddenly and without me really growing to care for Vera or understand her what drove her relationships. There was nothing helping me sympathize for her or struggle with liking her or the men in her life despite the immorality. I just didn’t get attached, so I didn’t feel much emotion during the book (except disgust in a few scenes) - no excitement, no sadness, no real fear bc i could see where things were leading.
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- Shesgotmmph
- 12-16-21
“Dollface”: Save your points and $
I wouldn’t recommend this book even if it was free. The overall rating is just average. The narrator redeems the thin overworked storyline for the female characters but the male character voices sounded almost comical. It was very difficult to sympathise with the protagonist. In fact, I almost disliked her and not in a villainous- dislike way. The plot is cheesy and exaggerated. I feel the time spent listening to this was wasted.
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- Etoile NEOhio
- 11-16-22
Not for the faint of stomach
A well told story about a fictional gun moll and her exploits in Prohibition era Chicago. I could have done with a little less graphic gore, fair warning.
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