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  • The Help | [Kathryn Stockett]
    The Help
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    The Help

    • UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Kathryn Stockett
    • Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (24213)
    Performance
    (10920)
    Story
    (10944)

    Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another.

    Jan says: "What a great surprise!"
    "Perspective"
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    Having grown up in the waning days of the black maids coming out on the bus to the white suburbs, this is a spell-binding tale of perspectives that I had not known. Well written and performed, especially the maids.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think | [Louann Brizendine]
    The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think
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    The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 26 mins)
    • By Louann Brizendine
    • Narrated By Kimberly Farr
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (186)
    Performance
    (59)
    Story
    (58)

    From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.
     
    Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the "male reality" is fundamentally different from the female one. Exploring the latest breakthroughs in male psychology and neurology with her trademark accessibility and candor, she reveals that the male brain:

         *is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine. Faced with a personal problem, a man will use his analytical brain structures, not his emotional ones, to find a solution. 

         *thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rank and hierarchy. 

         *has an area for sexual pursuit that is 2.5 times larger than the female brain, consuming him with sexual fantasies about female body parts.

         *experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceive others' faces to be more aggressive.


    The Male Brain finally overturns the stereotypes. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own.

    Praise for The Female Brain:
    "Louann Brizendine has done a great favor for every man who wants to understand the puzzling women in his life. A breezy and enlightening guide to women and a must-read for men."
    —Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
     
         
     
     


    From the Hardcover edition.

    Daren says: "Facts mixed with interpretation"
    "Get it if you have a son"
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    This is for all mothers who have a son - very insightful and rang true to this father. The facts (studies) don't drag on as the author gives good examples and dialog to explain. I relayed facts almost daily to friends who have just had sons.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Atomic Lobster: A Novel | [Tim Dorsey]
    Atomic Lobster: A Novel
    UNABRIDGED

    Atomic Lobster: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 21 mins)
    • By Tim Dorsey
    • Narrated By Oliver Wyman
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (146)
    Performance
    (48)
    Story
    (48)

    Serge is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs. So is Coleman, torn between getting hammered and getting more hammered. Then there's good ol' Jim Davenport, the E-Team, the Diaz Brothers, and Johnny Vegas, the Accidental Virgin, cranking up the fevered action as the pot boils over on a street called Lobster Lane.

    Jose says: "Serge rules!"
    "Good listen"
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    This is a bit of a ripoff of Dave Barry, but still pretty amusing. The manic character is especially inventive in his responses to situations, but the partier friend gets kinda old. Not out loud laughing like Barry but just an occasional chuckle as the adventure unfolds.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery | [Walter Mosley]
    Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
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    Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

    • UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 35 mins)
    • By Walter Mosley
    • Narrated By Michael Boatman
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (291)
    Performance
    (133)
    Story
    (134)

    Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.

    richard says: "Nice history lesson"
    "Nice history lesson"
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    This was an interesting listen with many twists. But I found the setting - post-WWII California - even more entertaining.

    7 of 7 people found this review helpful

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