The Potato Factory: The Australian Trilogy, Book 1
UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 27 mins)
By Bryce Courtenay
Narrated By Humphrey Bower
Overall
(1969)
Performance
(1124)
Story
(1115)
Always leave a little salt on the bread. Ikey Solomon's favorite saying is also his way of doing business, and in the business of thieving he's very successful indeed. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from thriving nineteenth century London to the convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land.
Yocheved says:
"Best audiobook of the year!"
NOS4A2: A Novel
UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 41 mins)
By Joe Hill
Narrated By Kate Mulgrew
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(211)
Performance
(190)
Story
(186)
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
Jacqueline says:
"Finish to Start Excellent is Novel This"
White Queen
UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 3 mins)
By Philippa Gregory
Narrated By Susan Lyons
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(401)
Performance
(309)
Story
(308)
They ruled England before the Tudors, and now internationally best-selling author Philippa Gregory brings the Plantagenets to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women.
Teddy says:
"Your ambition will be your curse...."
Lay Down My Sword and Shield
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 45 mins)
By James Lee Burke
Narrated By Will Patton
Overall
(281)
Performance
(139)
Story
(137)
Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney Hackberry Holland yields to the myriad urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat - and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers.
Cat F. says:
"The Publisher's Summary is Anemic"
Patient Zero: The Joe Ledger Novels, Book 1
UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 45 mins)
By Jonathan Maberry
Narrated By Ray Porter
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(2087)
Performance
(1538)
Story
(1526)
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there’s either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills - and there’s nothing wrong with Joe Ledger’s skills. And that’s both a good and a bad thing. It’s good because he’s a Baltimore detective who has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new task force created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can’t handle....
James says:
"Drop Dead and get back up great."
Orphan Train: A Novel
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
By Christina Baker Kline
Narrated By Jessica Almasy, Suzanne Toren
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(202)
Performance
(181)
Story
(179)
Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to "aging out" out of the foster care system. A community-service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
Kathi says:
"Moving story of sharing and transformation."
Publisher's Summary
When her boorish father dies, fat, unsophisticated Mousumi is sent from India to her cosmopolitan relations in London. This is a witty social comedy of cultural misunderstanding and people who simply don't get on.
"Biswas mixes dashes of magical realism with insights into what family life can really be like, as the actions of grandparents echo down the generations." (Marie Claire)
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