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James Patrick Cronin
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Benjamin Warner
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On a searing summer Friday, Eddie Chapman has been stuck for hours in a traffic jam. There are accidents along the highway, but ambulances and police are conspicuously absent.
When he decides to abandon his car and run home, he sees that the trees along the edge of a stream have been burnt, and the water in the streambed is gone. Something is very wrong.
When he arrives home, the power is out, and there is no running water. The pipes everywhere, it seems, have gone dry. Eddie and his wife, Laura, find themselves thrust together with their neighbors while a sense of unease thickens in the stifling night air.
Thirst takes place in the immediate aftermath of a mysterious disaster - the Chapmans and their neighbors suffer the effects of the heat, their thirst, and the terrifying realization that no one is coming to help. As violence rips through the community, Eddie and Laura are forced to recall secrets from their past and question their present humanity.
In crisp and convincing prose, Ben Warner compels listeners to do the same. What might you do to survive?
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- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, he's a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: He is queer - an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders - and the one person who seems not to judge him.
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So incredibly sad
- By Amazon Kunde on 02-08-20
By: Uzodinma Iweala
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Zombies: More Recent Dead
- By: Neil Gaiman, Carrie Vaughn, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and others
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
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The living dead are more alive than ever! Zombies have become more than an iconic monster for the 21st century: They are now a phenomenon constantly revealing as much about ourselves - and our fascination with death, resurrection, and survival - as our love for the supernatural or post-apocalyptic speculation. Our most imaginative literary minds have been devoured by these incredible creatures and produced exciting, insightful, and unflinching new works of zombie fiction.
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A well blended mix
- By The Lone Mopper on 07-30-15
By: Neil Gaiman, and others
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The Marbury Lens
- By: Andrew Smith
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time: he is kidnapped, but escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for their summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury. There is war in Marbury, which is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys.
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Like an addiction, I just couldn't stop listening.
- By Gini McKellar on 11-24-10
By: Andrew Smith
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The Remaining
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts. The infected turn into hyper-aggressive predators, with an insatiable desire to kill and feed. Someday soon, the soldier will have to open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into this new wasteland, to complete his mission....
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Die Hard Meets 28 Days Later
- By G Wallace on 01-10-14
By: D. J. Molles
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Bloodman
- By: Robert Pobi
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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In this psychological thriller, Jake Cole returns to his childhood home after his elderly father nearly kills himself by setting himself on fire and plowing through a plate-glass window. Jake’s father - a great American painter - is a man whose shadow Jake has tried to outrun since he was a boy. Now a contractor for the FBI who possesses a unique gift for recreating crime scenes, Jake is pulled into a hauntingly familiar double homicide investigation. He recognizes the artistic signature in the slayings from his childhood.
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Cop Out
- By Alan on 05-28-12
By: Robert Pobi
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The Salt House
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Duffy
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly have settled down to a life of wedded bliss. They have a beautiful family, a growing lobster business, and the Salt House - an oceanfront cottage they're renovating into their dream home. But tragedy strikes when their young daughter doesn't wake up from her afternoon nap, taking her last breath without making a sound. A year later each member of the Kelly family navigates the world on their own private island of grief.
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Culturally closed minded to what going on today.
- By Susan Griggs on 01-11-22
By: Lisa Duffy
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Here After
- By: Sean Costello
- Narrated by: Timothy McKean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Following the death of his 10-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing child, risking his sanity, even his life in a grief-induced quest. His journey propels him into the darkest reaches of human suffering and pits him squarely against an adversary whose own obsession defies all reason.
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This one will really stick with you
- By Matthew on 04-13-16
By: Sean Costello
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
- A Novel
- By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
- By Amazon Customer on 12-12-18
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Panic: Ghosts and Legends
- A Novella
- By: Lauren Oliver
- Narrated by: Camron Jones, Ray Nicholson, Olivia Welch
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Panic is a legendary game played by graduating seniors in the middle-of-nowhere town of Carp, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher: After a series of challenges ranging from sleeping in a haunted house to running across a highway blindfolded, one winner takes home a cash prize in the tens of thousands at the end of the summer. Participating players are sworn to secrecy, which means little is known of Panic’s history. Until now.
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A great story!
- By Carole Davies on 05-29-21
By: Lauren Oliver
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Replica
- By: Lauren Oliver
- Narrated by: Sarah Drew, Erin Spencer
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Lyra's story begins in the Haven Institute, a building tucked away on a private island off the coast of Florida that from a distance looks serene and even beautiful. But up close, the locked doors, military guards, and biohazard suits tell a different story. In truth Haven is a clandestine research facility where thousands of replicas, or human models, are born, raised, and observed. When a surprise attack is launched on Haven, two of its young experimental subjects - Lyra, or 24, and the boy known only as 72 - manage to escape.
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The format is a gimmick, but still a good read
- By NMwritergal on 10-06-16
By: Lauren Oliver
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- Kirk Evans
- 01-22-19
Good performance but a frustrating story
The premise of the story is a refreshing change in the genre. However, the behavior and actions of the main characters are just not believable. {Spoiler alert}: In an end of the world scenario, the main characters would rather die of thirst than break into an abandoned house for water because that is against the law. That is a bit of an over-simplification of the story elements but is generally true. The characters drink distasteful things to prolong their lives and are smart enough to take water from their toilet tanks, but even as they are slowly dying, using the 40 gallons of water in their hot water tank never occurs to them? I just couldn't get past stuff like that. It reminded me of a horror movie when you are yelling at the screen for the main character to turn on the light or PICK UP THE GUN!
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