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From the day Caitlin vanishes the lives of her family members are irrevocably altered, each assuming blame for that day's tragic events. As the initial days of hope are replaced by weeks of anxiety and despair, they find themselves increasingly isolated, each wondering: Is she still alive? Will we ever know what happened?
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- Narrated by: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, and others
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Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- By Pedro Ramirez on 12-03-15
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Provinces of Night
- By: William Gay
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
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E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after 20 years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife's lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can posion a man's soul.
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Story and Narration a perfect match
- By 99hedys on 10-03-15
By: William Gay
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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- By: Tobias Wolff
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
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Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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Great
- By chris on 04-11-08
By: Tobias Wolff
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The Fireman
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No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it's Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies - before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.
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GOD'S WAITING ROOM; AKA FLORIDA
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The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the dusty red roads trying to find the brothers and break the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
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Just outstanding!
- By Rich on 08-18-12
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4
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With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
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Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
- By Jerry on 12-06-14
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In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead, Henry’s search for the killer will open old wounds.
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Authentic background, excellent narration.
- By Patricia McKinney on 03-11-15
By: Tom Bouman
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Mine
- By: Robert R. McCammon
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Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade - a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen - Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell's only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage.
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American Radical nightmare!
- By Rob Malone on 04-30-18
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Last Call
- By: Tim Powers
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Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player 20 years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in 10 years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969—and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card.
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Powers is Under-represented on Audible
- By tim on 01-18-11
By: Tim Powers
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Pandemonium
- By: Daryl Gregory
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It is a world like our own in every respect, save one. In the 1950s, random acts of possession begin to occur. Ordinary men, women, and children are the targets of entities that seem to spring from the depths of the collective unconscious, pop-cultural avatars some call demons. As a boy, Del Pierce is possessed by the Hellion, an entity whose mischief-making can be deadly. With the help of Del's family and a caring psychiatrist, the demon is exorcised... or is it?
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loved it
- By swyrlgirl on 09-17-19
By: Daryl Gregory
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Praying for Sleep
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When paranoid schizophrenic killer Michael Hrubek escapes from an institution, there’s no doubt of where he’s headed: to find the woman who put him away and to finally get his revenge. Lis Atcheson knows he’s out there - the man who killed two of her students. He’s haunted every sleepless night ever since she testified against him. Now, the nightmares are coming true. He’s watching...and waiting...and he’s going to take Lis to hell with him. With a massive storm coming - in more ways than one - Lis can barely prepare for the dark cloud that approaches.
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Better than most Jeffery Deaver
- By Arwyn B. on 04-12-20
By: Jeffery Deaver
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- tooonce72
- 01-09-15
Even a Monkey Knows the Value of a Stick
A family’s Rocky Mountain family vacation turns tragic when their high school graduate daughter is kidnapped.
Do yourself a favor and not allow yourself to read any reviews that want to give you a book report review giving any additional information that what I wrote above.
This literary thriller is written by an extremely talented author. His writing style is on the edge of poetic, quite lyrical, and just so powerful. You will be blown away just hearing the descriptive justice given to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Next you become lost in this unique story. Not your average kidnapping story. No one that actually read the book will ever describe it as predictable. Only one word describes the last half of this book – CAPTIVATING.
I was a bit put off by the narration at first but, it grew on me.
What a GREAT read!
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- Marjorie
- 02-22-15
Disappointing Descent
After reading many raving reviews about this mystery, I gave it a listen. Unfortunately, I found the story to be maddeningly slow. It reminded me of watching a bad television mystery; predictable and lacking any character depth. I wanted to like this book but, from start to finish, it lacked in development of the characters, lacked in developing the investigative inquiry, and just, overall, lacked imagination. I do not recommend.
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- Patti
- 04-28-15
Not your Average "Girl Goes Missing" Story
Would you consider the audio edition of Descent to be better than the print version?
I would like a physical copy of the story to review some great quotes, but the audio version would definitely be my primary recommendation because of the exceptional performances.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Grant and Shawn ("Dudley") were wonderful characters...unique perspective in that it followed the father/son dynamic and their coping mechanisms.
What about Xe Sands and R.C. Bray ’s performance did you like?
There is a female and male narrator, but the male narrator (R.C Bray) stole the show. His deep, rich voice was perfect for reflecting hope and despair, and scary in it's power to demonstrate barely veiled rage.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I have many favorite scenes in this book, but the ones that gave me chills I can't discuss due to spoilers.
Any additional comments?
I was heavily invested in this book and give it a wholehearted 5 stars. The story was exceptional from beginning to end and I want to push it into many reader's hands. The story is a difficult one, so save it for a time when you can be mentally engrossed in it. If you have experienced recent loss or a similar traumatic situation, this might not be for you. Otherwise, this is storytelling at it's best. Descent is not to be missed!
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- Jan
- 01-08-15
Just WOW !!
The Descent is the best Mystery I have read in years. Xe Sands gives the performance of her career, and RC Bray is great.
The 18 year old daughter of a couple whose marriage is already in trouble disappears. That's all I can say without giving away more of the storyline.
What Tim Johnston has done is taken a sensative subject (the possible loss of a child) that I usually cannot handle, but he doesn't over-emotionalize the tragedy, so the story flows without the reader feeling like they are looking at a bad wreck they don't want to see, yet can't turn away.
Johnston has written a mystery with powerful descriptors you can feel, smell, and almost touch. He put his characters in the majestic Rocky Mountains, and kept the secret until the last chapters of the book. This mystery was perfect for me.. who truly is the pickiest reader out there.
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- Debra
- 01-29-15
Could have been 6 hours long
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Way too long. Too many characters that didn't really seem to add to the story.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Way too many descriptive words. Really could have made the book a lot shorter... Very hard to follow at times. Kept thinking the book would get better.
What does Xe Sands and R.C. Bray bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I liked having two different readers. Much easier to differentiate the characters.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Probably not. Main theme of book seemed like a few movies I've already seen.
Any additional comments?
Disappointed by the book.
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- K. Schlembach
- 01-10-15
simply marvelous
What made the experience of listening to Descent the most enjoyable?
I usually listen to audio books at night to help with insomnia. This book was so beautifully written, paced, and sensitively narrated that I ended up making time during the evening to listen. Satisfying through the last page.
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- FoCoBuzz
- 03-05-15
The cover says thriller...huh?
From the description, I had such high hopes for this book. I thought it might be something in the vein on Gone Girl. No...not even close. Other than the first chapter or two, the subsequent parts of the story meander, go into great depth on a bunch of tangentially - at best, irrelevant at worst - related plot points. In the first quarter of the novel, the points of the main plot could have been compressed into less than a chapter. The timeline seems to jump and the context clues for the temporal relationship of the various parts are very opaque. I finally gave up about a quarter of the way through. The story showed little momentum and promise and I realized I was simply continuing only because I don't like to give up. Perhaps, I will come back to this book at some point, but I am onto a new book that is far more interesting in the first few pages than "Descent" was in first few chapters.
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- Susan
- 01-23-15
Tragic.
A story about the hell a family endures after the disappearance of their daughter/sister, while on vacation in Colorado. They assume it is a kidnapping after their daughter chooses to get into a strangers truck during an emergency and then ends up missing. The story bounces around in a two year timeline and keeps you guessing until the end of where and what actually happened to the girl. The only character I related to was the girl and she had a very minor part. Some are comparing this book to "Gone Girl", however, for me it was very different except for my detachment from the characters.
The narration was excellent and added to the story. Xe Sands is one of my favorites and I was so glad that to see that she was part of this highly toughted new release.
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- Jason
- 01-10-15
Compelling
Great book. Highly recommended. Beautifully written. Excellent pace. Great story. Excellent narration. Couldn't put it down. A rare page turner.
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- Judy Murray
- 01-14-15
Not WOW
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This book is not for me. I had a difficult time with the switching past and present. A lot of other story lines that really didn't tie in with the story.
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