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Jennifer Grace
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Elizabeth Bear
About this listen
Listeners met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bear's 2015 novel Karen Memory and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city and her down-to-earth storytelling voice. Now Karen is back with Stone Mad, a new story about spiritualists, magicians, con men, and an angry lost tommy-knocker - a magical creature who generally lives in the deep gold mines of Alaska but has been kidnapped and brought to Rapid City.
Karen and Priya are out for a night on the town, celebrating the purchase of their own little ranch and Karen's retirement from the Hotel Ma Cherie, when they meet the Arcadia Sisters, spiritualists who unexpectedly stir up the tommy-knocker in the basement. The ensuing show could bring down the house, if Karen didn't rush in to rescue everyone she can.
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Light Fantasy With A Compelling Story
- By Jeff Jackson on 11-14-12
By: Tina Connolly
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The Jewel
- By: Amy Ewing
- Narrated by: Erin Spencer
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for the royalty - because in the Jewel the only thing more important than opulence is offspring. Purchased at the surrogacy auction by the Duchess of the Lake and greeted with a slap to the face, Violet (now known only as #197) quickly learns of the brutal truths that lie beneath the Jewel's glittering facade.
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Left Me Feeling Annoyed
- By Carol Dunn on 11-04-15
By: Amy Ewing
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Amberlough
- A Novel
- By: Lara Elena Donnelly
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Covert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he's good at keeping secrets, especially from Aristide Makricosta. They suit each other: Aristide turns a blind eye to Cyril's clandestine affairs, and Cyril keeps his lover's moonlighting job as a smuggler under wraps. Cyril participates in a mission that leads to disastrous results, leaving smoke from various political fires smoldering throughout the city. Shielding Aristide from the expected fallout isn't easy, though.
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good story, terrible voices
- By Josh on 04-29-17
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High Country Bride
- By: Linda Lael Miller
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides.
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good book but not what was in the summary:
- By Zandra Zavalza on 01-30-16
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The Mangle Street Murders
- The Gower Street Detectives, Book 1
- By: M. R. C. Kasasian
- Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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After her father dies, March Middleton has to move to London to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, the country's most famous private detective. It is 1882, and London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant, wealthiest yet most poverty-stricken. No sooner does March arrive than a case presents itself: A young woman has been brutally murdered, and her husband is the only suspect.
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Witty and clever British mystery
- By Kathi on 03-22-14
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The River of No Return
- By: Bee Ridgway
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Bee Ridgway’s wildly inventive debut novel, The River of No Return, blends romance, conspiracy, and time travel for a tale sure to intrigue listeners. When soldier and aristocrat Nick Falcott is sent from a Napoleonic battlefield in 1815 to modern-day London, he never expects to go back - until the Guild calls for him. Returning home as if from the dead, Nick reunites with his lost love, Julia Percy, and enlists her help in finding a mysterious object known as the Talisman.
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great book, but sudden ending ruined the good will
- By Shelly on 04-27-14
By: Bee Ridgway
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A Touch of Frost
- By: Jo Goodman
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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After his train is robbed at gunpoint, Remington Frost awakens from a blow to find the bandits gone - along with the woman he was shadowing for protection. No stranger to risk, Remington will do what it takes to bring Phoebe Apple to safety and her kidnappers to justice. But ransoming Phoebe is just the start of trouble....
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Loved this book
- By VL Garcia on 08-17-17
By: Jo Goodman
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Desdaemona
- Desdaemona, Book 1
- By: Ben Macallan
- Narrated by: Richard Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Jordan helps kids on the run find their way back home. He's good at that. He should be - he's a runaway himself. Sometimes he helps the kids in other stranger ways. He looks like a regular teenager, but he's not. He acts like he's not exactly human, but he is. He treads the line between mundane reality and the world of the supernatural. Desdaemona also knows the nonhuman world far too well.
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Clever story line
- By Kathryn E. Nicholson, DMD, PC on 12-22-20
By: Ben Macallan
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The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
- By: Genevieve Valentine
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Jo, the firstborn, The General to her 11 sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of their father's townhouse and into cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their controlling father. Meanwhile, they continue to dance, until one night when they are caught in a raid, separated, and Jo is thrust face-to-face with someone from her past: a bootlegger named Tom whom she hasn't seen in almost 10 years.
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Poor narration choice
- By K B on 01-13-15
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The Dead Cat Bounce
- By: Sarah Graves
- Narrated by: Lindsay Ellison
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Since she bought her rambling fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick planted firmly in his cranium. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine.
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too slow of a story...
- By Annette on 03-13-18
By: Sarah Graves
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- Curtiss C. Potter
- 07-07-23
I want to like these books….
….but I just cannot. I read an Elizabeth Bear short story of Karen Memery in an anthology once and really liked it. So, I looked up a couple books hoping for more of the same. This is the second disappointment. It really seems these are written for a completely introspective, constantly second guessing, feeling like an outsider, teenage girl. There’s nothing wrong with that audience, but it’s not for me. That focus leaves the story light on detail and adventure while overburdening it with miscellanea, too much internal monologue, and not nearly enough storyline. This story could’ve been narrated in less than an hour and should’ve been edited down to a short story instead of a novella. If you like all the stuff I mentioned, though, go for it as I’m sure you’ll enjoy the book. It fills that niche well. Just don’t expect hard adventure, fantasy, or sci-fi.
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- tstray1 llc
- 04-04-24
Wonderful character and relationship story
Narrator did a great job. Story reminiscent of Mark Twain's style. it was easy to listen to and think about.
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- S. C. Blackard
- 10-26-20
Elizabeth bear is brilliant
Elizabeth Bear's foray into this unique world (almost a new genre?) is so very worth the ticket to ride. The Karen Memory books (including this story) in all their western/steam punk glory are amazingly good -- like genuinely great stories. They are brilliantly writen, funny, exciting, heartwarming, occasionally profound...really, most sincerely fun to read. Especially the original Karen Memory book (titled aptly, Karen Memory). Thoroughly enjoyed! A+!!
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