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The papers call it “The Suicide Virus.” The teenagers of Gethsemane, Ohio, are killing themselves at an alarming rate.
Steven Wrigley is trying to survive his senior year of high school, still reeling from the death of his mother and adjusting to life with his father. Along the way, he meets a girl who becomes another kind of obsession: Elise Devon.
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Matt hasn't eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won't give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp - and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he's going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. Matt's hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have...powers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transformative book!
- By Uno Person on 01-01-20
By: Sam J. Miller
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4
- By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 189
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 188
With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
- By Jerry on 12-06-14
By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, and others
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A Fraction of the Whole
- By: Steve Toltz
- Narrated by: Colin McPhillamy, Craig Baldwin
- Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Stewing in an Australian prison, Jasper Dean reflects on his relationship with his dead father and recounts the many zany adventures they shared together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Funny and Thought-provoking Tale of Human Nature
- By Asha Ember on 01-27-10
By: Steve Toltz
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Marrow
- By: Tarryn Fisher
- Narrated by: Audra Pagano
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 528
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 473
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 472
Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn't spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible. It's not until she develops a friendship with her wheelchair-bound neighbor, Judah Grant, that things begin to change. When a neighborhood girl, seven-year-old Neveah Anthony, goes missing, Judah sets out to help Margo uncover what happened to her. What Margo finds changes her, and with a new perspective on life she's determined to find evil and punish it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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HUH?? I'm so confused LOL
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 09-15-16
By: Tarryn Fisher
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The Road Home
- By: Ford Michael Thomas Ford
- Narrated by: Blake Somerset
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 78
When a car accident leaves photographer Burke Crenshaw in need of temporary full-time care, he finds himself back in the one place no forty-year-old chooses to be--his childhood bedroom. There, in the Vermont home where he grew up, Burke begins the long process of recuperation, and watches as his widowed father finds happiness in a new relationship that's a constant reminder of everything Burke wants and lacks. Exploring local history, Burke discovers an intriguing series of letters from a Civil War soldier to his fianc.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No need to check your scepticism at the door!
- By Orlando on 08-23-13
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Wonders of the Invisible World
- By: Christopher Barzak
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 456
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Story4 out of 5 stars 417
Seventeen-year-old Aidan Lockwood lives in the sleepy farming community of Temperance, Ohio - known for its cattle ranches and not much else. That is, until Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years, moves back to town and opens Aidan's eyes in startling ways: to Aidan's ability to see the spirit world; to the red-bearded specter of Death; to a family curse that has claimed the lives of the Lockwood men one by one...and to the new feelings he has developed for Jarrod.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sugar coating of L.G.B.T. sprinkles, of all things
- By Eli on 01-19-16
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The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)
- By: Jennifer Lynch
- Narrated by: Sheryl Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 950
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 877
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 870
Lifeless and wrapped in plastic. This is how Sheryl Lee was first introduced as "Laura Palmer" in the cult television classic, Twin Peaks. Now, Sheryl returns to voice Laura's darkest secrets in the audiobook event that fans of the show have long awaited.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wrapped in plastic
- By Phillip Frangules on 05-08-17
By: Jennifer Lynch
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Impulse
- By: Ellen Hopkins
- Narrated by: Laura Flanagan, Jeremy Guskin, Steve Coombs
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 340
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 345
The handsome son of wealthy parents, Connor has everything anyone could want...except his family's love and affection. Jailed for years after killing his mother's child-molesting boyfriend, Tony is confused about his sexuality. Manic-depressive Vanessa cuts herself. All three stories intertwine in a brutally honest story about pain and resilience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything to want in a book❤️
- By Jazmine on 07-04-15
By: Ellen Hopkins
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Ashes to Ashes
- By: Tami Hoag
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,725
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,448
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,438
He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. He has already claimed three lives, and he won't stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn't talking. Enter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Damsel In Distress Romance Torture Novel. Ho-Hum
- By Ted on 04-03-15
By: Tami Hoag
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The Memory Thief
- By: Emily Colin
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Nelson Hobbs, Carly Robins
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 41
Before Madeleine Kimble's mountaineer husband, Aidan, climbs Mount McKinley's south face, he makes her a solemn vow: "I will come back to you". But late one night, Maddie gets the devastating news that Aidan has died in an avalanche, leaving her to care for their son - a small boy with a very big secret. The call comes from J. C., Aidan's best friend and fellow climber, whose grief is seasoned with survivor's guilt...and something more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Only Likable Character is the Dog.
- By William Fitzgibbon on 05-23-18
By: Emily Colin
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Looking for Alaska
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,823
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,817
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps”. Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am concussed dot-dot-dot
- By Brendan McKenna on 10-01-19
By: John Green
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Loving Day
- By: Mat Johnson
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 164
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 165
On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention, he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter, and she thinks she's white.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Teen lit with heavy erotic imagery
- By Itinerant T on 08-26-15
By: Mat Johnson
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Lifted by the Great Nothing
- By: Karim Dimechkie
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Cheyenne on 06-13-15
By: Karim Dimechkie
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The Funhouse
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,164
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,034
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,036
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate - and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands.… Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children - Joey loves monster movies, and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Early, not so good, Koontz
- By Michael on 02-15-15
By: Dean Koontz
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Spellcaster
- By: Claudia Gray
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4 out of 5 stars 130
When Nadia's family moves to Captive's Sound, she instantly realizes there's more to the place than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia can sense that a spell has been cast over the tiny Rhode Island town - a sickness infecting everyone and everything in it. The magic at work is darker and more powerful than anything she's come across and has sunk its claws most deeply into Mateo...her rescuer, her friend, and the guy she yearns to get closer to even as he pushes her away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compelling, fun and exciting!
- By M. Herbert on 07-15-13
By: Claudia Gray
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- George Billions
- 02-23-18
Creepy as hell
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It creeped me the hell out.
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This is probably the closest thing I’ve read to a traditional horror novel from Prunty. (Or listened to, since I got the Audible version.) I feel like that doesn’t really do it justice. It’s wildly imaginative — no typical horror tropes here — but lacks the balls-out weirdness you’ll read in a lot of his books. This probably makes it a decent starting point for newbies to his work. The grounding may also be one of the things that makes The Sorrow King so damn creepy and unsettling. Oh, and the teenage awkwardness is so spot-on that I cringed a few times. Awesome book.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Lexxy
- 04-27-21
Enjoying this author overall
Not my favorite novel of Prunty's but entertaining all the same. Decent story and I love his nihilistic sounding narration, which adds to dark themes throughout. I'm from Ohio and his books give me an odd sense of nostalgia while shoving a finger in my childhood wounds. I dig it.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- timj26
- 11-07-19
Loved it
I think this is highly underrated and is Probably my favourite Andersen prunty novel
A heavy dark story with a beautiful ending
Well narrated and very highly recommended
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- Bill
- 03-25-17
“Let strange things explain the strangeness.”
“Let strange things explain the strangeness.”
There is something rotten in the small town of Gethsemane. Lurking in the shadows. Driving the students of the local High School to suicide. Hunting. Feeding off the sorrow of the town and threatening to destroy anyone and anything that stands in its way. It’s getting stronger. The bodies are starting to pile up.
A very well written and smart novel with sharp characterizations and a well thought out story line. It takes a minute to get into Andersens narration, but he really nails it and I can't imagine anyone else doing it. Excellent.
A solid 4.5+ Stars all around and highly recommended.
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