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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 555
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 508
In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is...different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and Boring, Both.
- By Ryan on 04-05-19
By: Rachel Hartman
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Beka Cooper Book 1
- The Legend of Beka Cooper #1
- By: Tamora Pierce
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,861
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,565
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,568
Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy by introducing Beka Cooper, an amazing young woman who lived 200 years before Pierce's popular Alanna character. For the first time, Pierce employs first-person narration in a novel, bringing readers even closer to a character they will love for her unusual talents and tough personality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love it
- By Clara on 07-26-08
By: Tamora Pierce
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Midnight Robber
- By: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 451
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 451
It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even Through the Dimensions, Girls Are Not Safe
- By mary on 12-11-12
By: Nalo Hopkinson
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Catherine, Called Birdy
- By: Karen Cushman
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
In 1290, her 14th year, Catherine begins a diary that quickly fills with the irrepressible joys and frustrations of her days. Always looking for ways to avoid drudging hours of embroidery, Birdy fills her time with pranks, celebrations of feast days, and local gossip. Wriggling out of her father's plans to find a prosperous husband for her proves to be Birdy's greatest challenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Corpus bones! What a great heroine.
- By Hilary on 08-30-12
By: Karen Cushman
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The Luck Uglies
- By: Paul Durham
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Strange things are happening in Village Drowning, and a terrifying encounter has 11-year-old Rye O'Chanter convinced that the monstrous, supposedly extinct Bog Noblins have returned. Now Rye's only hope is an exiled secret society so notorious its name can't be spoken aloud: The Luck Uglies. As Rye dives into Village Drowning's maze of secrets, rules, and lies, she'll discover the truth behind the village's legends of outlaws and beasts…and that it may take a villain to save them from the monsters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story
- By Elicia on 07-05-16
By: Paul Durham
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The Sea of Trolls
- By: Nancy Farmer
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 533
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 465
In the year 793, siblings Jack and Lucy are captured by fearsome Vikings with a thirst for battle and pillaging. Taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless, Jack and Lucy are sent on a perilous journey - full of dragons and giant spiders - deep into the magical kingdom of the trolls!
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5 out of 5 stars
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NO KINDNESS IS EVER WASTED
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-03-17
By: Nancy Farmer
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Kill the Farm Boy
- The Tales of Pell Series, Book 1
- By: Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,445
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,259
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,255
A plucky farm boy will find more than he's bargained for on his quest to awaken the sleeping princess in her cursed tower. First there's the Dark Lord, who wishes for the boy's untimely death...and also very fine cheese. Then there's a bard without a song in her heart but with a very adorable and fuzzy tail, an assassin who fears not the night but is terrified of chickens, and a mighty fighter more frightened of her sword than of her chain-mail bikini. This journey will lead to sinister umlauts, a trash-talking goat, and the Dread Necromancer Steve....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Bruce D. Parker on 07-18-18
By: Kevin Hearne, and others
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Chains
- The Seeds of America Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story5 out of 5 stars 96
As the Revolutionary War begins, 13-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate, become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous!!!
- By Myrisha Goodson on 06-12-22
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Amber Magic
- Haven Series, Book 1
- By: B. V. Larson
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Story4 out of 5 stars 249
The humans have no magic and are hunted for sport, but that is about to change. War is coming.... The Sun Dragon spawned nine lesser dragons which devoured their parent for the power the elder possessed. These young dragons fought for choice bits of the Sun Dragon, but each only managed to eat a portion, thus giving them specific powers. Over time, these foul dragons were hunted down and slain by heroes of old.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Undying Mercenaries Thats for sure
- By John on 10-21-15
By: B. V. Larson
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Fever 1793
- By: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 904
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 721
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 719
During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out. Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city frantic with disease.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good book, unbearable narration
- By Maura on 07-29-18
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The Door by the Staircase
- By: Katherine Marsh
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Twelve-year-old Mary Hayes can't stand her orphanage. But when an attempted escape doesn't go quite as well as she'd hoped, Mary fears she'll be stuck in the Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies forever. The very next day, a mysterious woman named Madame Z appears at the orphanage requesting to adopt Mary. The matron's all too happy to get the girl off her hands. Soon Mary is fed a hearty meal, dressed in a clean, new nightgown, and shown to a soft bed with blankets piled high.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very creative tale
- By Audible Dad on 02-01-19
By: Katherine Marsh
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The Dog Who Was There
- By: Ron Marasco
- Narrated by: Ron Marasco
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 127
No one expected Barley to have an encounter with the Messiah. He was homeless, hungry, and struggling to survive in first-century Jerusalem. Most surprisingly, he was a dog. But through Barley's eyes, the story of a teacher from Galilee comes alive in a way we've never experienced before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of love, forgiveness and hope beautifully told
- By Jocelyn Chandler on 06-19-17
By: Ron Marasco
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The Book of Kells
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 155
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Story4 out of 5 stars 158
A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough, confrontational, strong and warrior-like lover) time travel to ancient Ireland to avenge a Viking attack. Packed with fascinating details of historical time and place in Irish history and delicately balanced on the border between realism and fantasy, the story centers around one of the most famous and beautiful illuminated manuscripts in history, the legendary but entirely real Book of Kells.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Book of Irish Fantasy
- By S. Wells on 12-10-12
By: R. A. MacAvoy
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Hetty Feather
- By: Jacqueline Wilson
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Wilson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
London, 1876. Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at the Foundling Hospital. The Hospital cares for abandoned children - but Hetty must live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school. Life in the countryside is hard but she has 'brothers' Jem and Gideon to play with, and together they sneak off to visit the travelling circus. Hetty is mesmerised by the show, especially Madame Adeline and her performing horses.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Extremely disappointing
- By ilene on 01-18-16
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The Grey Horse
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Set against the colorful and magical backdrop of Ireland, The Grey Horse chronicles a time when the Irish people suffered under harsh English overlords who sought to destroy their culture and way of life. Into the Irish town of Carraroe, a magnificent, completely grey stallion appears. The horse brings with him the promise of better times and magical happenings, for he is actually the shape-shifted form of Ruairi MacEibhir, journeyed to a time of danger in order to win the hand of the woman he loves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good enough irish tale
- By Ellenaeddy on 03-20-13
By: R. A. MacAvoy