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The only sign of life for miles is an empty BMW. Inside the expensive car he finds clothes that fit perfectly, shoes for his tattered feet, a Rolex, and an auto registration in the name of Daniel Hayes, resident of Malibu, California. None of it is familiar. How did he get here? Who is he? Who was he? While he searches for answers, the world searches for him - beginning with the cops that kick in the door of his dingy motel with guns drawn. Lost and alone, the man who might be Daniel Hayes flees into the night. All he remembers is a woman’s face, so he sets off for the only place he might find her.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Never Ending Soap Opera
- By Lu on 06-20-11
By: Marcus Sakey
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A Nail Through The Heart
- A Poke Rafferty Thriller
- By: Timothy Hallinan
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 520
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 442
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Story4 out of 5 stars 440
Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ever been to Bangkok?
- By Richard Delman on 12-11-11
By: Timothy Hallinan
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Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
- By: Jonathan Evison
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 209
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Story4 out of 5 stars 184
Benjamin Benjamin has lost virtually everything - his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. With few options, Ben enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving taught in the basement of a local church. There Ben is instructed in the art of inserting catheters and avoiding liability and how to keep physical and emotional distance between client and provider. But when Ben is assigned to 19-year-old Trev, he discovers that the endless mnemonics and service plan checklists have done little to prepare him.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unlike!
- By Pamela Harvey on 01-02-13
By: Jonathan Evison
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Outside Looking In
- A Novel
- By: T. C. Boyle
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Story4 out of 5 stars 181
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- By Christopher Meeks on 05-25-19
By: T. C. Boyle
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Last Call
- By: Tim Powers
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 492
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Story4 out of 5 stars 422
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Powers is Under-represented on Audible
- By tim on 01-18-11
By: Tim Powers
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Good People
- By: Marcus Sakey
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean, Dan John Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
The $400,000 would take care of the mortgage payments that are starting to back up on Tom and Anna Reed. It would cover the credit-card debt they can't get out from under. It would help them find a way to have the child they desperately want but can't seem to conceive. It is more money than either of them has ever seen in one place. But they have no idea what it's doing in their house.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What were the producers thinking?
- By cristina on 08-04-13
By: Marcus Sakey
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The Happy Man
- A Tale of Horror
- By: Eric C. Higgs
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
Charles Ripley has a good job as an engineer, a pretty wife, and an expensive house in a fashionable San Diego suburb. But it isn't until Ruskin Marsh moves in next door that Ripley realizes how passionless his life really is. Marsh, a connoisseur of the arts, high-powered lawyer, model husband and father, and effortless seducer of women, is so supremely alive that Ripley finds himself irresistibly drawn to him. But after Marsh's arrival, local girls begin to vanish, marriages end violently, and horribly mutilated corpses are found.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a neighborhood friend telling you a crazy story
- By Midwestbonsai on 04-15-18
By: Eric C. Higgs
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Strong Motion
- By: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 220
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 193
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Story4 out of 5 stars 196
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Story, Ridiculous Narrator
- By DianeReads on 02-28-16
By: Jonathan Franzen
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The Blue Hour
- Merci Rayborn, Book 1
- By: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 225
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 187
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Story4 out of 5 stars 185
Tim Hess is a semiretired veteran cop staring at a death sentence - his own. Detective Merci Rayborn, young enough to be his daughter, is brash, impatient, and not someone from whom Hess wants to be taking orders. He certainly isn't planning on falling in love with her. Together, they must track down a psychopathic killer who's been abducting beautiful young women from the malls of Orange County.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book, exceptional reader
- By Jan on 03-24-10
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Killing Raven
- Arapaho Indian Mysteries
- By: Margaret Coel
- Narrated by: Stephanie Brush
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
When the body of a white man is recovered from a shallow grave in one of the most troubled corners of the Wind River Reservation, Father John O'Malley knows that if the murderer isn't caught quickly, this tragedy will only be the beginning. The victim's widow is already out for revenge. And the one person Father John believes could lead him to the killer is a terrified 15-year-old girl running for her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gambling, Greed and Murder
- By Debbie on 01-08-20
By: Margaret Coel
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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- By: Tobias Wolff
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By chris on 04-11-08
By: Tobias Wolff
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How Like a God
- By: Brenda W. Clough
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 328
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Story4 out of 5 stars 286
What would it be like, to get absolute power? Would you wear a cape and fight crime? Rule the planet? Or perhaps you would be like Rob Lewis, and watch your world collapse around you. Does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Rob is going to find out.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At one point the main character rapes at 13 year old girl
- By Richard Davis on 05-29-21
By: Brenda W. Clough
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The Dead Cat Bounce
- By: Sarah Graves
- Narrated by: Lindsay Ellison
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
Since she bought her rambling fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick planted firmly in his cranium. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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too slow of a story...
- By Annette on 03-13-18
By: Sarah Graves
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Since We Fell
- A Novel
- By: Dennis Lehane
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,173
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,994
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,986
Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wait ....
- By Ann on 05-17-17
By: Dennis Lehane
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Winter at the Door
- A Lizzie Snow Mystery, Book 1
- By: Sarah Graves
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 164
Moving from Boston to remote Bearkill, Maine, isn't homicide cop Lizzie Snow's idea of a step up. But breaking away from tragedy and personal betrayal is at least a step in the right direction. Her dead sister's fate still torments her, as does her long-missing niece's disappearance. The town is full of people who see everything, say little, and know more than they'll share with an outsider.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tough Police Procedural Set In Wild North Maine Woods
- By Sara on 02-16-15
By: Sarah Graves
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Lie Still
- A Novel
- By: Julia Heaberlin
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 214
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 192
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Story4 out of 5 stars 191
Nursing the faded scars of a long-held trauma, Emily Page and her husband, awaiting the arrival of their first child, move from New York City to the uber-wealthy Clairmont, Texas. There, Emily is swept into a world of opulent privilege and shifting loyalties. But the secrets she keeps follow her south, and with them comes the danger that her new friends can't protect her from, and her new enemies will not hesitate to use to destroy her once and for all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lie Still
- By Mary K on 06-27-17
By: Julia Heaberlin
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The Brass Cupcake: A Novel
- By: John D. MacDonald
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. Ex-cop Cliff Bartells might be the last honest man in Florence City, Florida. After quitting the force over a crisis of conscience, he takes a job at an insurance company buying back stolen jewelry. Cliff is focused on keeping the bottom line down and staying out of the spotlight.But when an affluent tourist from Boston is murdered over a hefty collection of jewelry, Cliff finds himself wrapped up in a case that’s making national headlines.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Social History ...
- By Montana on 05-14-17
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- Ha
- 12-29-08
what a ride
Vivid storytelling that had me hanging to every word.
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Richard Hallum
- 05-03-17
Not that interesting
I am on a quest to read all of Mr. Boyle's books. Or was. The writing was awesome as always. The subject of the story was not that great. Better than most books but not something I anticipated listening to every day.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Donald
- 10-29-06
Words without content
I do not recommend this book. It is hard to sympathize with any of the characters. What character development there is, is unbelievable. The author has the annoying habit of repeating parts of the book from different perspectives. And its unnecessary as the story is not that complicated.
And the ending is anticlimatic and unsatisfying.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- James C.
- 08-19-09
Eyes roll
This book has many problems, not the least of which is the irritating writing style of TC Boyle. After I picked up on it my eyes rolled ever time he started on one of those seemingly interminable lists of descriptors. They go on and on, it's pure torture. If this not the worst book I've gotten on Audible, it's close.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- dlsidrn
- 11-18-08
Please stop talking!
I have listened to alot of audiobooks and this is only the second book I couldn't finish. In fact I didn't even make it the first hour. The first book I had to quit was Tortilla Curtain by the same author. Bought both at the same time based on the reviews...never again. The narration was annoying and the story was making no sense. Do not recommed.
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