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- Narrated by: Emily Lahey Shoov
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be. In Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, Natasha Lance Rogoff brings this gripping tale to life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing in measures, needs Russian counterpoint
- By Buretto on 01-15-23
By: Natasha Lance Rogoff, and others
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The Hercules Text
- By: Jack McDevitt
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4 out of 5 stars 70
From a remote corner of the galaxy, a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular, and artificial. It can only be a code. Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication. And what the scientists discover is destined to shake the foundations of empires around this world - from Wall Street to the Vatican.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lots to recommend here!
- By Matthew on 10-19-18
By: Jack McDevitt
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Dutch
- A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
- By: Edmund Morris
- Narrated by: Edmund Morris
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4 out of 5 stars 90
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President - yet written with complete interpretive freedom - is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris developed a fascination for the genial yet inscrutable President and, after Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984, put aside the second volume of his life of Roosevelt to become an observing eye and ear at the White House.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful
- By john on 02-06-13
By: Edmund Morris
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Chiefs
- By: Stuart Woods
- Narrated by: Mark Hammer
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,312
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,450
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,440
In 1919, Delano, Georgia, appoints its first chief of police. Honest and hardworking, the new chief is puzzled when young men start to disappear. But his investigation is ended by the fatal blast from a shotgun. Delano's second chief-of-police is no hero, yet he is also disturbed by what he sees in the missing-persons bulletins. In 1969, when Delano's third chief takes over, the unsolved disappearances still haunt the police files.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In my 'Top Ten' books of all time!
- By karen on 09-17-13
By: Stuart Woods
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Savage News
- By: Jessica Yellin
- Narrated by: Jessica Yellin
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Be noisy. Natalie Savage grew up hearing these words from her father, who admired Walter Cronkite so much he named the family dog after him. Natalie - who spent her 20s missing out on life’s benchmarks - finally sees her efforts pay off when she’s assigned to cover the White House for her network. The problem? The position is only temporary, a test to see if she has what it takes. She has always relied on her grit, her principles and her news sense to gain success. But now her competition is a frat boy who got his big break by eating raw animal parts on a reality show.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great insight into newsworld, Just OK novel
- By Zack on 05-10-19
By: Jessica Yellin
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Eighteen Acres
- A Novel
- By: Nicolle Wallace
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 369
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Story4 out of 5 stars 254
From the former communications director for the White House and current political media strategist comes a suspenseful and smart novel about the first female president and all dramas and deceptions she faces both in politics and in love. Eighteen Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House complex, follows the first female President of the United States, Charlotte Kramer, and her staff as they take on dangerous threats.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Biased and Oh So Boring
- By Sara on 10-03-14
By: Nicolle Wallace
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Stand on Zanzibar
- By: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrated by: Erik Bergmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 328
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Story4 out of 5 stars 288
Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfect audio experience
- By Darryl on 03-24-14
By: John Brunner, and others
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Watergate
- A Novel
- By: Thomas Mallon
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 180
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Story4 out of 5 stars 177
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated - uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs - it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work of inference (and invention) that allows us to solve some of the scandal’s greatest mysteries - who did erase those eighteen-and-a-half minutes of tape? - and to see this gaudy American catastrophe in its human entirety. In Watergate, Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great listen
- By Tad Davis on 03-29-12
By: Thomas Mallon
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Transmission
- By: Hari Kunzru
- Narrated by: Hari Kunzru
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly Enjoyable
- By Don on 07-11-04
By: Hari Kunzru
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Frozen Out
- Gunnhildur Mystery, Book 1
- By: Quentin Bates
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4 out of 5 stars 73
The discovery of a corpse washed up on a beach in an Icelandic backwater sparks a series of events that propels the village of Hvalvik's police sergeant Gunnhildur into deep waters. Although under pressure to deal with the matter quickly, she is suspicious that the man's death was no accident and once she has identified the body, sets about investigating his final hours. The case takes Gunnhildur away from her village and into a cosmopolitan world of shady deals, government corruption and violence.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narration completely mismatched to genre and story
- By Knitosophy on 10-20-16
By: Quentin Bates
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WWW: Wake
- By: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy, Jennifer Van Dyck, A. C. Fellner, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,404
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,609
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,610
Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math - and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great, if Incomplete, Concept
- By Seth H. Wilson on 04-14-09
By: Robert J. Sawyer
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The Mark and the Void
- A Novel
- By: Paul Murray
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4 out of 5 stars 81
While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems - and neither is Claude's employer, the Investment Bank of Torabundo, which swells through dodgy takeovers and derivatives trading until - well, you can probably guess how that shakes out.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well read but frustrating story
- By Michael on 05-26-16
By: Paul Murray
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The Atrocity Archives
- A Laundry Files Novel
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Gideon Emery
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,782
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,449
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,447
Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great techno-spy-Lovecraftian-horror-comedy
- By A reader on 02-08-10
By: Charles Stross
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Hunter
- A Thriller
- By: Robert Bidinotto
- Narrated by: Conor Hall
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,091
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 998
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Story4 out of 5 stars 996
From its first moments, Hunter takes you on a nonstop thrill ride: from the top floor of the CIA, to the marbled corridors of Capitol Hill...from the posh hotels of downtown Washington, to the city's mean, violent streets. It introduces a colorful new hero for our time - and a dazzling heroine every bit his equal. A spy mystery...a crime thriller...a passionate romance: Hunter is a genre-bending novel unlike any you've read. Deviously plotted, filled with vivid characters, and propelled at a breakneck pace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Vigilante Story since Without Remorse
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 04-16-16
By: Robert Bidinotto