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Road Dog
- Life and Reflections from the Road as a Stand-up Comic
- By: Dov Davidoff
- Narrated by: Dov Davidoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Road Dog is comedian, actor, and writer, Dov Davidoff's unflinching memoir told through reflections of twelve months on the road. Davidoff travels across the country from college campuses to local theaters doing stand-up comedy and telling it like it is. He's been known to wax poetic about everything from encounters with large fake breasts, to people who have too many kids, to magnum condoms the size of CD cases. He is hilarious and relatable and will have you laughing at yourself in no time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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dark, real, & exceptional
- By Luis F Rodriguez on 11-22-17
By: Dov Davidoff
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The Upper Hand
- By: Johnny Shaw
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Fifteen years ago, Axel, Gretchen, and Kurt Ucker lost their father. At the same time, they learned that he had secretly been a thief their whole lives - and left a fortune unaccounted for. Since then, the Uckers have lived a precarious existence. Their small town shunned and shamed them. Their mother, Bertha, retreated into her religion and her favorite televangelist, Brother Tobin Floom. Axel got a dead-end job. Gretchen turned to petty crime. And Kurt stayed with his mom and his garage band.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Awsome Shaw Book!
- By Kindle Customer on 10-14-20
By: Johnny Shaw
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Bright Lights, Big City
- By: Jay McInerney
- Narrated by: Daniel Passer
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 319
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Story4 out of 5 stars 268
The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Curiously, mundanely real
- By Amber on 01-07-12
By: Jay McInerney
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Drunkard
- A Hard-Drinking Life
- By: Neil Steinberg
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 245
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Caution: Triggering Content for Alcoholics!
- By Gail on 08-10-14
By: Neil Steinberg
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Girl Walks Out of a Bar
- A Memoir
- By: Lisa F. Smith
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,849
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,525
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,517
Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in New York City when alcoholism and drug addiction took over her life. What was once a way she escaped her insecurity and negativity as a teenager became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith's formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Good Look At The Dual-Diagnosis...
- By Gillian on 06-14-17
By: Lisa F. Smith
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Maybe We'll Make It
- By: Margo Price
- Narrated by: Margo Price
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story5 out of 5 stars 123
When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and plenty of heartache. Maybe We’ll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the midst of the agony.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read!
- By Gail Cruz on 10-06-22
By: Margo Price
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Delta County
- A Novel
- By: J.L. Hyde
- Narrated by: Alena S Chesney
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 231
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Story4 out of 5 stars 213
The greatest days of Heather Matthews' life have taken place in Delta County. Unfortunately, so have the worst. Ten years after an unspeakable tragedy took the lives of the two people she loved the most, Heather returns to her hometown for a class reunion with her high school sweetheart, who is now her husband. Just when she recalls all the reasons to love the idyllic lakeside town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, her life is once again turned upside down. Heather must push her grief aside and investigate the events that occurred the night of the reunion.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don’t Waste Your Credits!!
- By Sarah Smith on 10-18-22
By: J.L. Hyde
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Leaving Las Vegas
- By: John O'Brien
- Narrated by: L J Ganser
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it, a powerful tale of hard luck and hard drinking and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in the last great binge of his hopeless life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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REAL
- By Derek on 04-23-12
By: John O'Brien
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Love in a Nutshell
- By: Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,048
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 921
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Story4 out of 5 stars 917
Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor, Michigan. Kate's plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like an Ice Cream Sundae
- By Martha on 03-11-13
By: Janet Evanovich, and others
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Seen It All and Done the Rest
- By: Pearl Cleage
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 650
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 580
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 578
The toast of Europe, Josephine Evans had spent 30 years abroad establishing her reputation as one of the finest actresses of her generation. In Amsterdam, she redefined who and what an African American diva could be, and her legions of loyal fans loved her for it. But when a war she didn't even understand suddenly makes her the target of angry anti-American protests, Josephine is forced to return to America to see if she can find a new definition of home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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as good as it gets
- By Ladonna on 04-25-08
By: Pearl Cleage
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Femme
- By: Marshall Thornton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 447
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 446
Queeny cocktail waiter Lionel wakes up to find himself in bed with Dog, a straight-acting softball player, and the two embark on a rocky road to romance. A journey that requires coming out of the closet, going into the closet, a pair of red high heels, many pairs of red high heels, a failed intervention, a couple of aborted dates, and homemade pom-poms. Mostly, Lionel and Dog learn what it means to be a man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Heels, Better Romance...
- By HZ on 07-02-17
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The Dangerous Animals Club
- By: Stephen Tobolowsky
- Narrated by: Stephen Tobolowsky
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 318
If you ran into Stephen Tobolowsky on the street, you would not be mistaken: Yes, you’ve seen him before. A childhood dentist? A former geometry teacher? Your local florist? Tobolowsky is a character actor, one of the most prolific screen and stage presences of our time, having appeared in productions that range from Deadwood to Glee, from Mississippi Burning to Groundhog Day. But Stephen Tobolowsky, it turns out, is not just an actor; he is also a dazzlingly talented storyteller and writer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will Rogers, Spalding Gray, Alexandre Dumas HACKS!
- By HB Radke on 09-27-12
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Uncommon Grounds
- By: Sandra Balzo
- Narrated by: Karen Savage
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4 out of 5 stars 151
A body in a pool of skim milk. An unsavory discovery at any time, but especially inconvenient when the milk puddle is in front of the espresso machine the very morning you're scheduled to open your chic suburban coffee house, Uncommon Grounds. AND the body is one of your partners, leaving you and your other partner - the one who's still alive - as suspects. Which would all be bad enough, even if your husband HADN'T just dumped you for his dental assistant....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'll have another cup please
- By beatrice on 05-08-12
By: Sandra Balzo
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A Good and Useful Hurt
- By: Aric Davis
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 290
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 253
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Story4 out of 5 stars 253
Mike is a tattoo artist running his own shop, and Deb is the piercing artist he hires to round out his studio’s motley crew of four. The last either expects is romance, but that’s what they get as they follow their off-kilter careers and love lives into complete and total disaster. When Mike follows a growing trend and tattoos the ashes of deceased loved ones into several customers’ tattoos, he has no idea that it will one day provide the solution - and solace - he will sorely need.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A New and Different Horror Story/Mystery
- By Jan on 12-15-14
By: Aric Davis
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Boys Come First
- By: Aaron Foley
- Narrated by: Jelani Alladin
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Suddenly jobless and single after a devastating layoff and a breakup with his cheating ex, advertising copywriter Dominick Gibson flees his life in Hell's Kitchen to try to get back on track in his hometown of Detroit. He’s got one objective—exit the shallow dating pool ASAP and get married by 35—and the deadline’s approaching fast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story.
- By Rob Brown on 05-18-23
By: Aaron Foley