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Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places.
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Engaging story spanning three generations.
- By LilMissMolly on 09-23-16
By: Heather Young
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The Stolen Child
- By: Keith Donohue
- Narrated by: Andy Paris, Jeff Woodman
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 543
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4 out of 5 stars 181
Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped and renamed "Aniday" by changelings, ageless beings who inhabit the woods near his home. The changelings also leave behind one of their own, who flawlessly impersonates Henry except for one noteworthy detail: the new Henry is a prodigiously talented pianist.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Anything Close to the Hype
- By Jon on 06-20-06
By: Keith Donohue
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The Boy Who Drew Monsters
- By: Keith Donohue
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 179
Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, 10-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire.
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3 out of 5 stars
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troubled boy, troubled waters
- By Debra B on 10-29-14
By: Keith Donohue
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Haunted Ground
- By: Erin Hart
- Narrated by: Jennifer McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 694
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 384
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Story4 out of 5 stars 383
When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery, the perfectly intact body of a young woman with long red hair, archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared scientific interest in human remains. Because of the preservative effect of the bog, it is difficult to tell whether the body has lain there for two decades, two centuries, or two millennia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mysteries old and mysteries new
- By Linda on 11-25-03
By: Erin Hart
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Firefly Beach
- Hubbard's Point/Black Hall, Book 1
- By: Luanne Rice
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5
Coolly sophisticated and steadfastly single, Caroline Renwick has always been the sister everyone could count on. As she and Clea and Skye gathered at Firefly Hill, their childhood home, Caroline thought that they had all put the past behind them. But as summer gets under way, a mysterious man arrives—a man who has the power to bring it all back....
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1 out of 5 stars
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sorry, boring
- By Sara V. on 04-02-24
By: Luanne Rice
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- By: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, and others
- Narrated by: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 880
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 687
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Story4 out of 5 stars 687
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- By Nicole on 05-24-17
By: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, and others
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Come to the Edge
- A Memoir
- By: Christina Haag
- Narrated by: Christina Haag
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep-school friends. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly enjoyed Come to the Edge
- By CapeCodLady on 11-15-19
By: Christina Haag
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The Beach Trees
- By: Karen White
- Narrated by: Ki Gottberg, Gin Hammond
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 612
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 550
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 550
For Julie Holt, travelling to the beautiful but ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi, is a journey into a secret past, and a life she never expected.... Julie first knew loss at the age of 12, when her sister disappeared, never to be found. As her once close-knit family grew apart, Julie's mother obsessively searched for the girl, and when her mother died, Julie took up the search, never letting go of the hope. Then, at an art exhibition in New York, she meets Monica....
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4 out of 5 stars
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The ending was very weak
- By Missi Boyd on 10-31-16
By: Karen White
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The Drowning Tree
- By: Carol Goodman
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4 out of 5 stars 96
Stained glass artist Juno McKay is forced to confront the events that shattered the intense friendship between herself, her best friend, Christine, and her husband, Neil, when she discovers, after years of absence, that Christine is to deliver a lecture at their college reunion. Despite her misgivings, Juno finds herself compelled to attend the lecture about the history of one of Penrose College's most hallowed works of art.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Read in print.
- By Susan on 10-14-12
By: Carol Goodman
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The Seas
- By: Samantha Hunt, Maggie Nelson - introduction
- Narrated by: Samantha Hunt
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean 11 years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid.
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4 out of 5 stars
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bizarre and interesting.
- By Sadie on 03-11-21
By: Samantha Hunt, and others
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Her Body and Other Parties
- Stories
- By: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 603
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 519
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 526
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 11-17-17
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Harrison Squared
- By: Daryl Gregory
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 473
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Story4 out of 5 stars 438
Harrison Harrison - H2 to his mom - is a lonely teenager who's been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished. One of the "sensitives" who are attuned to the supernatural world, Harrison, along with his mother, has just moved to the worst possible place for a boy like him.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The premise sounded so interesting...
- By shirley on 03-26-15
By: Daryl Gregory
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If I Forget You
- A Novel
- By: Thomas Christopher Greene
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
Twenty-one years after they were driven apart by circumstances beyond their control, two former lovers have a chance encounter on a Manhattan street. What follows is a tense, suspenseful exploration of the many facets of enduring love. Told from alternating points of view through time, If I Forget You tells the story of Henry Gold, a poet whose rise from poverty embodies the American dream, and Margot Fuller, the daughter of a prominent, wealthy family, and their unlikely, star-crossed love affair.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but not great.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-01-16
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The Child Finder
- A Novel
- By: Rene Denfeld
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,730
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,564
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,560
Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's Skookum National Forest. She would be eight years old now - if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder", Naomi is their last hope.
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1 out of 5 stars
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One Dimensional
- By Sara on 10-04-17
By: Rene Denfeld
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A Doubter's Almanac
- A Novel
- By: Ethan Canin
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 232
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Story4 out of 5 stars 207
Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of Northern Michigan in the 1950s, he gives little thought to his own talent. But with his acceptance at UC Berkeley, he realizes the extent - and the risks - of his singular gifts. California in the '70s is a seduction, opening Milo's eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets there - and the rival he meets alongside her - will haunt him for the rest of his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The curse of genius?
- By Bonny on 03-03-16
By: Ethan Canin
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- DevoW
- 07-24-19
Beautiful and a bit haunting
Absolutely loved this listen—the author captures the area and time in perfect fashion. Knowing the author creates some bias but I enjoyed unraveling mysteries of his life “on the lake”.
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