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- By SLuzaz on 02-15-21
By: Amy Gentry
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Before You Knew My Name
- A Novel
- By: Jacqueline Bublitz
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city’s latest Jane Doe. She may be dead, but that doesn’t mean her story is over. Meanwhile, Ruby Jones is also trying to reinvent herself. After travelling halfway around the world, she’s lonelier than ever in the Big Apple. Until she stumbles upon a woman’s body by the Hudson River and suddenly finds herself unbreakably tied to the unknown dead woman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By cristina on 11-11-22
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The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax
- By: Christopher Shevlin
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4 out of 5 stars 84
When Jonathon Fairfax accidentally helps a murderer bump off Sarah Morecambe, the secretary of a senior politician, he sets off a chain of events that astonishes him. Jonathon is wrong-footed by even the most everyday things, so he's particularly startled to find himself caught up in a conspiracy that goes right to the heart of government. Teaming up with a suave private investigator, a glamorous granny and the probable love of his life, Jonathon must confront his greatest fears - including talking to girls and balaclava-clad killers - and answer some very difficult questions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story with LOL moments
- By Bethany on 12-11-20
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My Body
- By: Emily Ratajkowski
- Narrated by: Emily Ratajkowski
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,301
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,105
Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age 21, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book.
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1 out of 5 stars
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so vain..
- By Emily Valdez on 01-10-22
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Reprieve
- A Novel
- By: James Han Mattson
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 100
On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, “reprieve,” they’ll win a substantial cash prize - a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house’s long history. But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Can't recommend.
- By Josh Mitchell on 01-19-22
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The Night Raven
- Crow Investigations, Book 1
- By: Sarah Painter
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Story4 out of 5 stars 143
Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London. When a professional snafu forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ask yourself
- By Ijw on 10-21-19
By: Sarah Painter
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Eat the Document
- By: Dana Spiotta
- Narrated by: Rachael Warren
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker - passionate, idealistic, and in love - design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her 15-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the music of his mother's generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great ensemble piece!
- By Buyer009 on 08-08-17
By: Dana Spiotta
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Fault Lines
- A Novel
- By: Emily Itami
- Narrated by: Lydia Wilson
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Story4 out of 5 stars 115
Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It’s everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Confused by the choice of narrator
- By Bri T. on 02-13-22
By: Emily Itami
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Staying Dead
- A Retrievers Novel
- By: Laura Anne Gilman
- Narrated by: Emma Woodbine
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 224
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4 out of 5 stars 137
As a Retriever, Wren Valere specializes in finding things gone missing - and then bringing them back, no questions asked. Normally her job is stimulating, challenging and only a little bit dangerous. But every once in a while....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Urban Fantasy!
- By Anne on 03-11-09
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Sweet Sorrow
- The Long-Awaited New Novel from the Best-Selling Author of One Day
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love - and how just one summer can forever change a life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delight in every way!
- By Jennifer on 04-24-22
By: David Nicholls
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- Art Historian, Jr.
- 08-14-22
Intriguing story but the voice acting can be distracting
I haven’t read the book, just the audiobook. Based on my experience, the storyline was interesting enough to stick through to the end. The accents that the voice actor put on when speaking as a Spanish, Swiss, or British character were distracting to say the least.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Andrew
- 02-10-20
Slow Moving. Not Hopeful. Not Bad.
There are some very interesting concepts in this novel, but they all end up underdeveloped or strangely ancillary. The effect is a fine enough personal story with sci-fi/futurist elements described through a layer of haze. I liked it, but I wanted more.
Most of the characters are developed well enough, and their relationships move the plot, but some of that could have been sacrificed for a more thorough understanding of the near-future Berlin that they inhabit. If you want an exciting sci-fi novel, this isn't for you. If you're feeling more contemplative then go for it. But don't expect to feel good at the end.
One of the characters says to the protagonist "Everything in the world is terrible. We're not going to blow your minds by saying it." I think that describes the tone pretty well.
Narration was great.
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