Just Life
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Neil Abramson
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From Neil Abramson, the acclaimed author of Unsaid, comes a riveting novel that explores the complex connection between humans and animals.
Veterinarian Samantha Lewis and her team are dedicated to providing a sanctuary for unwanted, abused, and abandoned dogs in New York City. But every day it gets harder to operate her no-kill shelter. Sam is already at her breaking point when she learns of an unidentified, dangerous virus spreading through their neighborhood. The medical community can determine only that animals are the carriers. Amid growing panic and a demand for immediate answers, suspicion abruptly falls on dogs as the source. Soon the governor is calling in the National Guard to enforce a quarantine - no dog may leave the area.
Samantha knows from her own painful history that despite the lack of real evidence against the dogs, a quarantine may be only the beginning. As questions about the source of the virus mount and clash with the pressure for a politically expedient resolution, Sam is forced to make life-altering choices. She finds allies in a motley crew of New Yorkers - a local priest, a troubled teen, a smart-mouthed former psychologist, and a cop desperate to do the right thing - all looking for sanctuary from their own personal demons. But the person Sam needs the most to unravel the mystery of the virus and save the dogs is the last one she'd ever want to call on - because contacting him will mean confronting the traumatic past she has fought so hard to escape.
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If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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Fun, as long you don't think too much
- By Andrew Pollack on 01-17-14
By: F. Paul Wilson
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Deal Breaker
- The First Myron Bolitar Novel
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail.
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Deal Breaker
- By Lisa on 07-02-08
By: Harlan Coben
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Kiss Her Goodbye
- A Fourth Dimension Thriller
- By: Robert Gregory Browne
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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All ATF Agent Jack Donovan wants out of life is to do his job and work on his strained relationship with his daughter Jessie after a nasty divorce. But in a ruthless act of revenge by a charismatic madman, Jessie is kidnapped and buried alive, with barely enough oxygen to sustain her. Now the only man who can save her, the only man who knows where to find her, has just been shot dead - and the clock is ticking... So what's a father to do?
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Super supernatural thriller
- By shelley on 02-02-14
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Annabel Lee
- Coffey & Hill, Book 1
- By: Mike Nappa
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Private investigator Trudi Coffey is visited by a mysterious older man calling himself Dr. Smith. He's been trailing a man for a decade - a man she met through her ex-partner, Samuel Hill - and the trail has led him to her office. The last thing Trudi wants to do is to contact Samuel. But it will take both of them to unravel this mystery - before it's too late.
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Excellent Suspense
- By P. Hartman on 11-10-22
By: Mike Nappa
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Prepared
- Sundown Series, Book 1
- By: Courtney Konstantin
- Narrated by: Tess Irondale
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Alex Duncan is a mother, a sister - and the daughter of a doomsday prepper. She always thought her father was insane, raving about an apocalypse she never believed in, but when a plague hits the United States and the dead no longer stay dead, Alex discovers heeding her deceased father’s advice is what will keep her family alive. Before he died, Alex’s father created a compound in Montana just in case situations like this arose. The dead walk, hungry for human flesh. With little time to spare, Alex must make split-second decisions to prevent her family from being devoured.
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Preppers and Zombies
- By Amazon Customer on 06-19-18
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The Syndrome
- The Kingdom Keepers Collection
- By: Ridley Pearson
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd, Amy McFadden, Whitney Dykhouse, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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When Amanda travels east to Orlando on a hunch, she's met with the worst news possible. Kingdom Keeper Finn Whitman is missing. Calling on her own gift (she's telekinetic), her sister Jess' ability to dream the future, and their fellow Fairlie Mattie Weaver's unexplained ability to read minds through physical contact, the three gifted girls must navigate treachery, deception, and the stubborn, unwilling parents of the missing Keepers if they're to save their friends.
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Loved it!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-12-16
By: Ridley Pearson
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A Deeper Darkness
- Sam Owens, Book 1
- By: J. T. Ellison
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens knows her job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments. But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from Sam’s life. She has been pulled into a suffocating grief no amount of workaholic ardor can penetrate - until she receives a peculiar call from Washington, D.C. On the other end of the line is an old boyfriend’s mother, asking Sam to do a second autopsy on her son.
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Sad. Weird. Sad.
- By Lisa Davidson on 04-30-16
By: J. T. Ellison
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The Lost Ones
- A Novel
- By: Sheena Kamal
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for 15 years - since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets.
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Would make a great movie!
- By Shay on 08-27-17
By: Sheena Kamal
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The Good Byline
- A Riley Ellison Mystery
- By: Jill Orr
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Meet Riley Ellison, a smart, quirky, young library assistant who's become known in her hometown of Tuttle Corner, Virginia, as Riley Bless-Her-Heart. Ever since her beloved granddaddy died and her longtime boyfriend broke up with her, Riley has been withdrawing from life. In an effort to rejoin the living, she signs up for an online dating service and tries to reconnect with her childhood best friend, Jordan James, a reporter at the Tuttle Times.
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Entertaining light mystery
- By Elisabeth Carey on 04-13-18
By: Jill Orr
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In the Still of the Night
- By: David L. Golemon
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Five years ago, the ghost hunting Supernaturals disbanded after being accused of faking their experiences at Summer House. Now, the eccentric, but brilliant, team of scientists and paranormal experts are being asked to join forces once again - this time to save the president. Through strenuous investigation and mysterious messages about returning home, the team soon discovers the long lost home of the president: a small town in California called Moreno, a modern ghost town.
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Excellent follow up tale to the Supernaturals
- By Not my name on 12-03-17
By: David L. Golemon
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Not in the Heart
- By: Chris Fabry
- Narrated by: Chris Fabry
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Truman Wiley used to report news stories around the world, but now the troubling headlines are his own. He’s out of work and out of touch with his family, but nothing keeps him awake at night more than his son’s failing heart. With hospital bills mounting faster than Truman can gamble his life savings, it seems there’s no way out... until his estranged wife throws him a lifeline - the chance to write the story of a death row inmate willing to donate his heart to Truman’s son.
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Fantastic book!
- By Sherry on 10-05-14
By: Chris Fabry
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Omens
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand, Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
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Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism and philanthropy, and is engaged to a handsome young tech firm CEO with political ambitions. But Olivia’s world is shattered when she learns that she’s adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving a life sentence.
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Great start to a new series, but... CRINGE!
- By BookMama on 12-22-13
By: Kelley Armstrong
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Justifiable Means
- By: Terri Blackstock
- Narrated by: Sandy Burr, Jay Charles
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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This rape case is different from most: the victim is more than willing to testify and there's ample evidence to put the suspect behind bars. But one thing gnaws at Detective Larry Millsaps - young and beautiful Melissa Nelson knows too much about the evidence needed to convict her attacker. Millsaps's investigation unearths the suspect's brutal track record, but also some stunning revelations about Melissa's own past. Caught in a deadly conflict between the ironies of the law and the demands of his Christian convictions, the detective finds himself protecting Melissa - even as evidence mounts that could imprison not only an inhuman criminal, but also the woman Millsaps has come to love.
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Seems like a shortened version of a book
- By Is5410 on 08-31-18
By: Terri Blackstock
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- Angelina Smith
- 06-22-17
Moving and beautifull
Absolutely loved it, I am a Catholic, dog lover, Animal control officer, National Guardsmen, and HAZMAT tech so I feel like this book pretty much summed up my life. I do not agree with how it portrays the National Guard but every good book needs an antagonist I guess. In reality the Guard had done great things to work alongside civil authorities and not against them.
I will definitely suggest this book.
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- Rebecca L. G. Verna
- 01-14-23
Great story of drugs and humans rescuing each other
Loved this story! Well written and enjoyable with plenty of tense moments and drama! I loved the animal shelter staff, the two opposing veterinarians, and best of all the feel-good pet rescue parts!
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- The Story Adict
- 08-20-16
Could Have Been Better, But Not by Much
I'll be honest, I usually avoid literary fiction because I find it boring, cliché, and trying too hard to be relevant or masterful. However when I picked up a printed copy of this book from my public library I knew I needed to get the audio book and that's exactly what I did. After finishing it in one sitting I thought I needed some time before I wrote a review and here we are.
The Pros to these Prose:
1. this book isn't perfect but it was a good listen, thoughtful and insightful. There were lot of things that I wasn't aware of that the book brought to life.
2. Most of the characters are interesting and the three main characters are fully realized and fleshed out, with their own backstories, desires and so on.
3. There was a lot of suspense and tension, with twists and turns that still made sense in the context of the book.
4. The exposition was done well, they were much less info dumbs and more peeks into the character's minds or history that couldn't be done any other way. Once more they were kept to the absolute minimum.
5. The performance was spot on, her male voices could use some work.
6. Everyone was nicely layered, nothing was fully revealed until it was time, which lent a lot of texture to the story. It wasn't the typical, here's everything you need to know about this character in twenty words and we'll go from there. The book instead waited and revealed bits and pieces about each character when it was relevant.
7. the pacing of the story is just right, not to slow that you get bored but not so fast that you lose track of what is happening.
The Cons: Because no book is perfect.
1. The writer clearly does not understand the military mindset. The soldiers in the book were stupid, paper cutter, one dimensional and flat. Their big surprise at the end wasn't that big to anyone that actually knows someone that has served.
2. While the message of the book is clear there are several points where that message overwhelms the story. Some images and thoughts repeat ad nauseum and does not go into depth nor add to the story. I don't need to hear about mute dogs every twenty minutes, or mass whole sale slaughter of animals every thirty minutes, nor sick and dying children every five, or so it feels like.
3. The romantic sub-plot seemed a bit forced and could have been left out completely and been just fine.
4. It assumes that the reader knows a lot of things, for instance dogs communicate in highly verbal manners and surgically muting them is almost as traumatic for the dog as it would be to a human.
5. It makes an argument, an impassioned one but doesn't really offer workable alternatives.
6. While most of the main character's are well fleshed out some were not. The Police officer's for one was very flat, almost simple.
Final evaluation: Thumbs up, it's worth a buy though not for a pleasure and relaxation read. If you want fluffy do not look here. However, if you want a good book that you can soak into this is definitely one such book. Also while I seem to be critical of the book, Just Life, is so close to perfect that these minor errors just stood out annoyingly bright to me. Hopefully his next book with be perfect.
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- R. Robinson
- 12-24-20
Stayed up all night listening to this book!
I loved this book! I am a dog foster and volunteer with a dog rescue so this book hit close to home. I know the trouble these groups have getting funding and help so I could relate to it.
The word “just” has several meanings. As an adverb it means only or merely. As an adjective it means based on what is morally right and fair. Both are used in this book. Veterinarian Sam Lewis runs a no-kill shelter in a neighborhood that currently has a virus killing children. The CDC has found a possible link to dogs and wants to gather them all up. QCK they call it-Quarantine, Cull, Kill. To the powers that be they are just dogs after all. Sam's helpers are a group of misfits: an abused teen, a recovering addict, a former psychologist who lost her license who is as she says the token fat girl, a priest struggling with dementia and doubting, and his friend a Jewish hardware store owner. They are all, especially the priest, trying to live a just life. They are determined to save the dogs and figure out what is causing the virus. Some may say the plot was predictable and perhaps it was a little but the way it developed held me rapt. The characters developed as the book moved along. Perhaps the most important character was the dogs. Their trust, love, and devotion set the scene for the story as it does for my life.
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- lifelong learner
- 02-04-19
Depressing book
I could not finish this book. After three descriptive dog euthanasias, I had to stop reading. It was literally making me depressed. I no longer cared about the plot after a character in the book takes an unwanted dog from the shelter, gives him a great day, the frightened dog begins to trust again and finally prances around happily with his toy turtle in his mouth. He is a changed pup as he is then returned to the shelter in the evening and killed. WHAT??? I couldn’t get that image out of my head. This is not the first description of a dead dog in this book, but we got to know the euthanized shelter dog really well. So, no thanks. To say this book is a downer is an understatement. It’s like stepping into a black cloud of despair and staying there.
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