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Tom McCaffrey
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"Witty, gritty, and full of heart." (Nick Atlas, author of The Light Travelers)
After his brothers are murdered, a New York mob lawyer testifies against his associates and is forced to enter WITSEC (the Witness Protection Program). He and his wife are relocated to a rural area outside a small town in Colorado, where he is compelled to adapt to his new life under the constant threat of mafia reprisal. Reflexively resisting his immersion into all things country, this life-long city boy meets and adopts a loquacious mule and befriends his closest neighbors, who have even greater secrets to conceal.
A renegade US Marshall, a lesbian couple that includes a powerful psychic-medium-witch and an ex-army ranger complete his new circle of friends. When the mob associates are released due to the lawyer's intentionally prejudicial testimony at trial, they come gunning for him before the retrial can occur.
When wise guys meet the wise ass and friends, all hell breaks loose.
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Blake's dead. They say his wife killed him. If so...which one? Polygamist Blake Nelson built a homestead on a hidden stretch of land - a raw paradise in the wilds of Utah - where he lived with his three wives: Rachel, the first wife, obedient and doting to a fault, with a past she'd prefer to keep quiet. Tina, the rebel wife, everything Rachel isn't, straight from rehab and the Vegas strip. And Emily, the young wife, naïve and scared, estranged from her Catholic family. The only thing that they had in common was Blake. Until all three are accused of his murder.
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interesting story
- By Fae on 06-19-24
By: Cate Quinn
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Into the Storm
- Destroyermen, Book 1
- By: Taylor Anderson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker---a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer---finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover---and emerges somewhere else.
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It just never grabbed me.
- By Lore on 05-01-12
By: Taylor Anderson
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Sisters
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Sybil Johnson, Xe Sands, Abby Craden
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Experience three novellas about the joys and trials of sisterhood.
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Repeat of 2 books i previously listened to
- By Jamey Ann Harvey on 10-07-20
By: Lisa Wingate
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Facts Are Stubborn Things
- By: Richard A. Danzig
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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“Facts Are Stubborn Things” by Richard A Danzig offers a gripping glimpse into the legal world through attorney Chance Cormac’s perspective. Blending vivid descriptions and well-crafted characters, it is an immersive and thought-provoking narrative with hints of intrigue and moral complexity. — The Chrysalis Brew Project "A captivating series debut that will have fans eagerly awaiting Chance Cormac’s next adventure." — BestThrillers.com Facts are Stubborn Things is the story of Chance Cormac, a litigator, boxer and lapsed Catholic who confronts some hard facts about the law and ...
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interesting story
- By Rooinek on 07-30-24
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The Victims' Club
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Scott Merriman
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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At an off-campus party, university professor Rose Taylor is drugged, undressed, and photographed on a burner phone. In seconds her humiliation is uploaded, and millions of JPEGs are zipping like immortal wasps through the Internet. But why would someone target her? She has no vengeful exes or rival academics, no stalkers, or unhinged students. Jon Avery, the sharpest, most experienced investigator in the sheriff’s office, is determined to find out who’s behind this horrific invasion of privacy.
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A detective who didn’t give up
- By Karenique on 01-21-19
By: Jeffery Deaver
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The Perfect Death
- Brannon House Series, Book 1
- By: Stacy Claflin
- Narrated by: Tina Wolstencroft
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Kenzi Brannon loves the single life in California. She hasn't looked back since the day she walked away from her painful past. Everything comes crashing down when Kenzi gets a call about her estranged sister's suicide. If that news isn't shocking enough, she also learns that she is now guardian to Ember, a niece she doesn't even know. Kenzi heads up north and finds herself in her family's long-abandoned house. Neighbors whisper rumors of hauntings, but Kenzi has a more serious concern-mounting evidence points to her sister's death not being self-inflicted.
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Annoying narrator
- By Rebecca on 08-30-24
By: Stacy Claflin
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Black Widows
- A Novel
- By: Cate Quinn
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon, Katherine Fenton, Jennifer Woodward
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Blake's dead. They say his wife killed him. If so...which one? Polygamist Blake Nelson built a homestead on a hidden stretch of land - a raw paradise in the wilds of Utah - where he lived with his three wives: Rachel, the first wife, obedient and doting to a fault, with a past she'd prefer to keep quiet. Tina, the rebel wife, everything Rachel isn't, straight from rehab and the Vegas strip. And Emily, the young wife, naïve and scared, estranged from her Catholic family. The only thing that they had in common was Blake. Until all three are accused of his murder.
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interesting story
- By Fae on 06-19-24
By: Cate Quinn
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Into the Storm
- Destroyermen, Book 1
- By: Taylor Anderson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker---a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer---finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover---and emerges somewhere else.
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It just never grabbed me.
- By Lore on 05-01-12
By: Taylor Anderson
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Sisters
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Sybil Johnson, Xe Sands, Abby Craden
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Experience three novellas about the joys and trials of sisterhood.
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Repeat of 2 books i previously listened to
- By Jamey Ann Harvey on 10-07-20
By: Lisa Wingate
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Facts Are Stubborn Things
- By: Richard A. Danzig
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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“Facts Are Stubborn Things” by Richard A Danzig offers a gripping glimpse into the legal world through attorney Chance Cormac’s perspective. Blending vivid descriptions and well-crafted characters, it is an immersive and thought-provoking narrative with hints of intrigue and moral complexity. — The Chrysalis Brew Project "A captivating series debut that will have fans eagerly awaiting Chance Cormac’s next adventure." — BestThrillers.com Facts are Stubborn Things is the story of Chance Cormac, a litigator, boxer and lapsed Catholic who confronts some hard facts about the law and ...
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interesting story
- By Rooinek on 07-30-24
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The Victims' Club
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Scott Merriman
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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At an off-campus party, university professor Rose Taylor is drugged, undressed, and photographed on a burner phone. In seconds her humiliation is uploaded, and millions of JPEGs are zipping like immortal wasps through the Internet. But why would someone target her? She has no vengeful exes or rival academics, no stalkers, or unhinged students. Jon Avery, the sharpest, most experienced investigator in the sheriff’s office, is determined to find out who’s behind this horrific invasion of privacy.
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A detective who didn’t give up
- By Karenique on 01-21-19
By: Jeffery Deaver
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The Founders
- FBI Agent Kate Walsh, Book 1
- By: Stacy M. Jones
- Narrated by: Claire Duncan
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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A serial killer has the city of Boston in his grip. He's killing with antique Revolutionary War weapons and leaving bodies at markers on the city's historical Freedom Trail. No one is safe—especially those with ancestry ties back to the Patriots. FBI Special Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James rush to the aid of local authorities to help catch a killer in their hometown. As a descendant of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Agent Walsh is in the killer's crosshairs. Part madman and part mastermind—no one knows who is next.
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The Founders
- By Karen on 12-10-24
By: Stacy M. Jones
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Catwings
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Length: 24 mins
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Ursula K. Le Guin wrote this highly acclaimed novel about a very special litter of kittens. Mrs. Jane Tabby has always longed toget away from the cramped alleys of the city. She knows it is too late for her, but she thinks her longing may be the reason her litter of kittens was born with wings. When they are old enough to fly, she sends the four kittens, who become known as catwings, out into the world to find their home. But they find that danger does not lurk only in city alleyways.
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A Childhood Favorite
- By CSP on 11-14-17
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The Coroner
- By: Jennifer Graeser Dornbush
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Recently engaged and deeply ensconced in her third year of surgical residency in Chicago, Emily Hartford gets a shock when she is called home to Freeport, Michigan, the small town she fled a decade ago after the death of her mother. Her estranged father, the local medical examiner, has had a massive heart attack. At the hospital, she finds her father in near total denial of the seriousness of his condition. He insists that the best thing Emily can do to help him is to take on the autopsy of a senator's teen daughter whose sudden, unexplained death has just rocked the sleepy town.
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Like a Hallmark Movie, Except for Dead Bodies
- By B. Snowden on 02-19-19
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Fairytale
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Deeply in love, Christophe and Joy Lammenais built Chateau Lammenais into a small but renowned Napa Valley winery and an idyllic home where they raised their beloved daughter, Camille, who takes on increasing responsibilities for the estate they all treasure. But after Joy's early death from breast cancer, a lonely Christophe soon falls prey to the machinations of a sophisticate from his native France - who moves, with her two reprobate sons, to consolidate her power over Camille and the property when Christophe is killed in a plane crash.
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There is a story in the telling
- By cindi wallace on 11-16-17
By: Danielle Steel
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Sisters Behaving Badly
- By: Maddie Please
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Sisters Kitty and Jenny haven’t spoken since a very disappointing Carvery lunch. Kitty, sixty-two, thinks Jenny is turning grey. Jenny, sixty-six, thinks Kitty needs to grow up! So when both sisters inherit a farmhouse in rural France, it gives them the perfect chance to heal the rift between them. Except the farmhouse is a wreck, the garden is terrorized by a flock of chickens, not to mention a donkey with a serious flatulence problem!
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lovely to read have a story with older characters
- By Dee Z on 01-28-24
By: Maddie Please
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A Marriage Well Done
- By: Boo Walker
- Narrated by: Connie Shabshab
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Margot Simpson was raised to believe that you don’t run for cover the moment it rains. You don’t slide divorce papers across the kitchen island, especially when you have a teenage son. You roll up your sleeves, toss your hair in a bun, and dance in the downpour. When Margot abandoned her singing career on Broadway to follow the man of her dreams to Burlington, Vermont, she never looked back. She embraced her new role as a wife, mother, and homemaker with an artist’s passion.
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A great series. You can't go wrong listening.
- By Dawn White on 07-07-20
By: Boo Walker
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The Sisters
- By: Dervla McTiernan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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In this prequel to the international best seller The Ruin, set 10 years prior, bright-eyed Carrie Ryan is at the very start of her career. When she has a hunch about an ongoing murder investigation, she knows it could be her only chance to prove herself and truly break into the “boys' club” of Dublin’s police force.
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Look forward to hearing more from this author
- By C. E. Pitchford on 09-09-19
By: Dervla McTiernan
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The Stationmaster's Cottage
- Rivers End, Book 1
- By: Phillipa Nefri Clark
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Near the rugged Australian coastline beaten by the winds of the wild, great Southern Ocean sits a forgotten stationmaster's cottage holding secrets of a tragic love story. These are secrets Christie Ryan knows nothing about when she unexpectedly inherits her estranged grandmother's cottage in the small seaside town of River's End. There, Christie finds love letters that have remained unopened for close to 50 years.
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Good story
- By Kim on 12-03-20
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Water for Elephants
- By: Sara Gruen
- Narrated by: David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Why we think it’s a great listen: Some books are meant to be read; others are meant to be heard – Water for Elephants falls into the second group, and is one of the best examples we have of how a powerful performance enhances a great story. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.
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Rosie the bull elephant?
- By Randall on 07-22-07
By: Sara Gruen
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North and South
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
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Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion that poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Gaskell expertly blends individual feeling with social concern and her heroine, Margaret Hale, is one of the most original creations of Victorian literature. When Margaret Hale's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience she is forced to leave her comfortable home in the tranquil countryside of Hampshire....
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Delightful
- By Sally on 01-04-10
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Nameless: Season One
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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If our memories make us who we are, who is a man without any? Nameless has only a gun, missions from a shadowy agency, and one dead aim: dispense justice when the law fails. As he moves from town to town, driven by splintered visions of the past and future, he's headed toward the ultimate confrontation in this propulsive series of short thrillers by number one New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
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Koontz is finally back!!!
- By Areana S on 11-25-19
By: Dean Koontz
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The Bookstore Sisters
- The Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories, Book 1
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.
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The Bookstore Sisters
- By GSmith on 11-21-22
By: Alice Hoffman
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- Ana S.
- 09-29-23
Unexpected fun
I had no idea what the book was about, just heard it was funny. Quite entertaining, indeed. Fun read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-20-24
weird but interesting story
interesting story. not like most books I read. but entertaining and fast moving. will look for more from this author
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- Kevin Lawrence
- 04-15-23
masterpiece of fun
such a fun trilogy. I laughed, I cried (well felt sad anyway) and loved the way the author seamlessly wove in real world events into a great story. loved it, sad it ended.
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- Shirley
- 11-27-23
variety of characters
beginning up until the witness protection relocation seemed too long and repetitive. I think I would rather like to read this.
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- Veronica Redmyer
- 03-02-24
Amazing
This story is captivating. It leaves you anxious to read more. It is inspiring to anyone with imagination.
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-10-21
Fun!
This story was strange and delightful! I loved the pace, the characters and the change in the lead character's life and "friends." Thanks!
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- Amanda Velasquez
- 07-21-24
Chapter 22
if you can make it to chapter 22 - you're in for a wild, fun, excellent story!! It is worth it, so good luck!
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- Laurel Dobert
- 01-23-22
Entertaining
Entertaining. Something i. it for every storylover, whether you love animals, westerns, sci-fi or mafia. Easy read.
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- Karen Anderson
- 09-22-21
Thoroughly enjoyable
A wonderful book that took me on a journey of the imagination. These characters are each so memorable as we get to know so many details about them and who they are in an easy descriptive way. TOM MCCAFFREY has such an eye for detail. The characters of the book kept coming to mind for weeks after the meeting. Wonderful go enjoy it!
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- CAROLYN K COGAN
- 08-10-23
Not what I expected but fun.
I was expecting another mob story. This has enough funny turns to make me want to read the next one.
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