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Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
- The Speediest Car on the Road
- Narrated by: John Michaels
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout takes us back to gentler times when the bad guys weren't really that bad, didn't carry Uzis, and being an inventor like Thomas Edison was the dream of many young boys. In this book our hero creates an electric automobile with a top speed of over 100 mi./h, saves the bank, gives the bully two black eyes, wins the prize for the fastest automobile in a 500 mile race, only stopping once to recharge his batteries. Without a NASCAR pit crew, it only took Tom 25 min. The narrator, John W Michaels reads this thrill a minute treasure of yesteryear, tongue-in-cheek, a true melodrama. Reading from the original text, there are some portions of the book that are unfortunately not politically correct, and the publisher apologizes for this.
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Narrator has flat, almost mechanical voice!
- By Jaegersmum on 05-21-14
By: Dick Francis
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 49 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- By Barbara on 03-16-24
By: John Buchan
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Tales of the Red Panda: The Android Assassins
- By: Gregg Taylor
- Narrated by: Gregg Taylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story5 out of 5 stars 48
A city beset by the darkness and desperation of the Depression balances upon the knife edge, ready to plunge into chaos and despair. The forces of darkness have thus far been held at bay by a pair of red-gauntleted fists, but on how many fronts can Toronto's masked champion fight at one time? An unseen manipulator is pulling the city's surviving businesses to the brink of collapse for his own fiendish purposes, just as an old foe returns to unleash his bitter fury upon innocent lives. Who will survive the power of...The Android Assassins?
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Interesting point"
- By Anonymous User on 11-08-20
By: Gregg Taylor
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Crewel World
- By: Monica Ferris
- Narrated by: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,006
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 909
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Story4 out of 5 stars 905
When Betsy Devonshire arrived in Excelsior, Minnesota, all she wanted was to visit her sister Margot and get her life in order. She never dreamed her sister would give her a place to stay and a job at her needlecraft shop. In fact, things had never looked so good - until Margot was murdered. In a town this friendly, it's hard to imagine who could have committed such a horrible act, but Betsy has a few ideas. There's an ex-employee who wants to start her own needlework store. And there's the landlord who wanted Margot out. Now Betsy's putting together a list of motives and suspects....
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4 out of 5 stars
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British style mystery set in America
- By Sara on 01-13-14
By: Monica Ferris
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Raffles
- The Amateur Cracksman
- By: E W Hornung
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
By day, AJ Raffles is a debonair man-about-town and one of England's finest cricketers. By night - he's London’s most notorious thief! Classic crime to rival Sherlock Holmes. If you walk down London’s Piccadilly, you come across an elegant Georgian building set back from the constant stream of traffic. This is The Albany, an imposing warren of “bachelor” apartments which has been home to a string of celebrities for over two centuries, from Lord Byron to Terence Stamp. But The Albany was also the address for one of the greatest fictional creations of late 19th-century crime writing, AJ Raffles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raffles and Bunny Are Bad. And That’s Good.
- By John on 02-27-17
By: E W Hornung
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Gerald and Elizabeth
- By: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Gerald Brown is a handsome and brilliant young engineer - wrongfully accused of stealing diamonds from his South African firm. Why has he been framed? Elizabeth Burleigh is a beautiful and talented West End actress – compelled to deny herself what marriage could bring her. What is the secret that impairs her love? Gerald and Elizabeth are half-brother and sister. They are reunited in London and together they face the mysteries that have made them both so unhappy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The story is dated
- By mpmkennedy on 02-14-18
By: D. E. Stevenson
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The Stainless Steel Rat
- Stainless Steel Rat, Book 1
- By: Harry Harrison
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,111
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,764
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,775
DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes and recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships anymore, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. DiGriz' hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself and the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who his planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Rat Race Worth Running!!
- By M. Stephenson on 10-28-10
By: Harry Harrison
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The Invaders Plan
- Mission Earth, Volume 1
- By: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 325
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Story4 out of 5 stars 249
They are the Voltarians of Voltar - an empire 110 planets strong. They are already among us. And the invasion is about to begin...in a hundred years or so. Or is it? The truth is far more sinister. Undercover, underground, and out of sight, the invaders plan what may in fact be a massive diversion. In the darkest recesses of Voltar’s Coordinated Information Apparatus (otherwise known as the CIA), a tyrant of terror sets out to exploit the invasion in order to seize power. All that stands in his way is a planet that doesn’t exist.
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1 out of 5 stars
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overly abridged
- By Pielle Szabo on 01-10-17
By: L. Ron Hubbard
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Red Planet
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 444
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 384
Jim Marlowe and his strange-looking Martian friend, Willis, are allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tunes in to a treacherous plot that threatens all the colonists on Mars, and it sets Jim off on a terrifying adventure that could save - or destroy - them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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RED PLANET--- by Robert A. Heinlein
- By Stephen Hickman on 12-29-16
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Waldo & Magic, Inc.
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 225
North Power Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate and no one can figure out the cause. Desperate for an answer, they turn to Waldo, a crippled misanthropic genius who lives in a home in orbit around Earth, where the absence of gravity means that his feeble muscle strength does not confine him helplessly in a wheelchair. But Waldo has little reason to want to help the rest of humanity - until he learns that the solution to Earth’s problems also holds the key to his own.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I'M NEVER IN A HURRY
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 02-13-16
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The Virginian
- By: Owen Wister
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 211
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 210
He is the Virginian-the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks the birth of a legend that lives with us still.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could have read it better
- By Emily Adams on 09-29-20
By: Owen Wister
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The Half-Made World
- By: Felix Gilman
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 108
The world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared - the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Story, Terrible Narrator
- By Aaron on 10-21-10
By: Felix Gilman
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The Virginian
- A Horseman of the Plains
- By: Owen Wister
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In this romantic and raw adventure set in the untamed wilderness of Wyoming of 1886, an anonymous college graduate ventures out west where he encounters gun fights, lynching, cattle rustlers, high-stake poker games, Indian attacks, and a brave, honest and imposing cowboy known simply as the Virginian. Presented as the archetypal, ideal hero of the "western" genre (which was novelized for the very first time in this same book), the Virginian, a foreman at Shiloh Ranch, carries a strong sense of justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Book of Perpetual Period Small Talk
- By wbiro on 02-06-21
By: Owen Wister
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The Great Train Robbery
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,561
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,958
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,939
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unusual but rewarding listen
- By Matthew on 11-21-15
By: Michael Crichton