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- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,700
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,280
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,278
From the vivid opening vista, high in craggy mountains, to the final haunting glimpse of a moonlit canyon, Nevada Barr's first mystery, Track of the Cat, instantly caught the attention of readers and reviewers. Its popularity gained it both an Agatha and an Anthony Award.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Guadalupe Mountain Mystery
- By Sara on 10-15-15
By: Nevada Barr
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A Dark and Stormy Night
- Stories of Virtue Falls (Virtue Falls)
- By: Christina Dodd
- Narrated by: Kristyl Dawn Tift
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
From this “master of the genre,” Christina Dodd, comes three suspenseful short stories of this “remarkable, mesmerizing series” (Library Journal starred review) set in the quaint—and deadly—coastal town of Virtue Falls.
By: Christina Dodd
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Praying for Sleep
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4 out of 5 stars 76
When paranoid schizophrenic killer Michael Hrubek escapes from an institution, there’s no doubt of where he’s headed: to find the woman who put him away and to finally get his revenge. Lis Atcheson knows he’s out there - the man who killed two of her students. He’s haunted every sleepless night ever since she testified against him. Now, the nightmares are coming true. He’s watching...and waiting...and he’s going to take Lis to hell with him. With a massive storm coming - in more ways than one - Lis can barely prepare for the dark cloud that approaches.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better than most Jeffery Deaver
- By Arwyn B. on 04-12-20
By: Jeffery Deaver
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SilverFin
- Young Bond, Book 1
- By: Charlie Higson
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 153
What does it take to become the greatest secret agent the world has ever known? In this thrilling prequel to the James Bond series, readers meet a 13-year-old schoolboy whose inquisitive mind and determination set him on a path that will one day take him all over the world, in pursuit of the most dangerous criminals known to man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasant Surprise
- By Troy on 09-17-15
By: Charlie Higson
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Raven Stole the Moon
- A Novel
- By: Garth Stein
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 173
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4 out of 5 stars 133
Jenna Rosen returns to the place in Alaska where her young son, Bobby, disappeared without a trace two years before. Jenna is determined to lay to rest the aching mystery of his death. But ancient legends may have had a hand in Bobby’s fate, forcing Jenna to sift through her own Native American ancestry to uncover the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this book
- By Em mom of 3 on 08-27-18
By: Garth Stein
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Guarding the Princess
- Harlequin Romantic Suspense
- By: Loreth Anne White
- Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
It was supposed to be a 72-hour mission, in and out, until Brandt Stryker got stranded in the arid African plains with predators before him, a killer at his heels, and an exotic princess by his side. Dalilah Al Arif stirs his blood, makes him crave things he'd lost long ago - but she is off-limits, promised to a sheik. Dalilah's wedding contract stipulates she must wed before her 30th birthday - just months away. It's a duty she accepts. But in the arms of her handsome protector, she's torn between her sense of duty and honor, and her freedom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't stomach finishing the book
- By Misty Raen Fauls on 11-10-23
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Next of Kin
- By: Sharon Sala
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 220
Beth Venable has seen too much. Witness to a major mob hit, she's placed in protective custody until the trial. But after her third safe house is riddled with bullets, she goes offgrid to save herself. What the FBI can't do, her kinfolk will. The beautiful but forbidding Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky welcome Beth back, with dirt roads and rustic shacks a world apart from L.A. But her homecoming—even her blissful reunion with strong, silent Ryal Walker—is made bittersweet by the fight she's brought to the clan's doorstep.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!!! From start to finish....loved it!!!
- By M. Davis on 02-20-12
By: Sharon Sala
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Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
- By: Victor Gischler
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 157
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Story4 out of 5 stars 158
Edgar Award nominee Victor Gischler “specializes in morbid humor, dark sarcasm, and comic noir, complete with violence and mayhem” ( Library Journal). Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse picks up 10 years after the end of the world. Former insurance salesman Mortimer Tate leaves his secluded cabin and discovers a desolate landscape complete with cowboys, bandits, and cannibals, where the only traces of civilization are found at Joey Armageddon’s Sassy-a-Go-Go club.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Post-apocalypse with a touch of old west thrown in
- By Michelle on 04-17-12
By: Victor Gischler
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
- By: Hannah Tinti
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 483
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Story4 out of 5 stars 441
After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Odd choice for narrator
- By lindsey b. on 01-23-19
By: Hannah Tinti
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The Fireman
- A Novel
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,233
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,613
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,592
No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it's Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies - before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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GOD'S WAITING ROOM; AKA FLORIDA
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 04-25-17
By: Joe Hill
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The Marshal's Witness
- By: Lena Diaz
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Breaking protocol and going on the run with a protected witness wasn't in U.S. Marshal Ryan Jackson's plans. And even though Jessica Delaney's testimony nearly put away a crime boss, Ryan can't afford to trust her. Still, the duty-dedicated marshal will do whatever it takes to protect Jessica and uncover the mole leaking her new identity. But staying seconds ahead of the ruthless killers on their trail is easier than keeping himself safe from Jessica's unexpected vulnerability and irresistible determination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By HoneyBadger on 04-06-15
By: Lena Diaz
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The Beast of Barcroft
- By: Bill Schweigart
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Story4 out of 5 stars 226
Ben McKelvie believes he's moving up in the world when he and his fiancée buy a house in the cushy Washington, DC, suburb of Barcroft. Instead he's moving down - way down - thanks to Madeleine Roux, the crazy neighbor whose vermin-infested property is a permanent eyesore and looming hazard to public health. First Ben's fiancée leaves him; then his dog dies, apparently killed by a predator drawn into Barcroft by Madeleine's noxious menagerie. But the worst is yet to come for Ben.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just Bearable
- By Nancy Chilton-Kendrick on 06-18-17
By: Bill Schweigart
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Perfect Touch
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Lowell
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 169
An art dealer and owner of her own design studio, Perfect Touch, Sarah "Sam" Maddox travels the world to find the ideal artwork for her clients. Her sophisticated, comfortable life in San Francisco is light years away from the poverty of her family's dairy farm, and Sam will do whatever it takes to keep her business strong. A dedicated urban career woman focused on her work, she doesn't have time or energy for a family or distracting romantic entanglements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lowell is back!
- By kestergayle on 11-09-15
By: Elizabeth Lowell
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The Orenda
- A Novel
- By: Joseph Boyden
- Narrated by: Ali Ahn, Graham Rowat, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 407
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 370
Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his native guides abandon him to flee their Iroquois pursuers. A Huron warrior and elder named Bird soon takes him prisoner, along with a young Iroquois girl, Snow Falls, whose family he has just killed, and holds them captive in his massive village. Champlain's Iron People have only recently begun trading with the Huron, who mistrust them as well as this Crow who has now trespassed onto their land; and her people, of course, have become the Huron's greatest enemy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thoughtful and interesting, if not always gripping
- By David on 06-15-14
By: Joseph Boyden
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- Jennifer Paddock
- 09-15-22
A Favorite Author
I've loved this book for years! The nrration wasn't the best, but it was okay.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-20-18
Along for the ride
This writing took me right there and along for the ride. I enjoyed every chapter.
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- RuthieJune
- 09-05-22
Great Author
I love this author's book The Mirror. This book is okay and worth the read but I won't be rereading it. Leah Harper is the "Heroine" but I think she fell flat. Towards the end I found it harder and harder to sympathize with her. the storyline slowed down and her whining increases. I started finding it hard to like her. Lynda Evans did an excellent job narrating. It was an okay listen but if you want Author Marlys Millhiser at her best, I highly recommend The Mirror.
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