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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story - but not for the faint of heart!
- By R. Freeman on 08-20-14
By: Judy Melinek MD, and others
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Healing Hearts
- A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
- By: Kathy Magliato
- Narrated by: Renée Raudman
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group - those surgeons who perform heart transplants. Healing Hearts is the story of the making of a surgeon who also calls herself a wife and mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Healing Hearts
- By Jean on 01-14-12
By: Kathy Magliato
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First Cut
- By: Judy Melinek, T.J. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 170
For San Francisco’s newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead, she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie’s superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving drug dealers and Bitcoin brokers.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Why???
- By Blu on 02-20-20
By: Judy Melinek, and others
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Back in Black
- By: Rhys Ford
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 162
There are eight million stories in the City of Angels but only one man can stumble upon the body of a former client while being chased by a pair of Dobermans and a deranged psycho dressed as a sheep. That man is Cole McGinnis. Since his last life-threatening case years ago, McGinnis has married the love of his life, Jae-Min Kim, consulted for the LAPD, and investigated cases as a private detective for hire. Yet nothing could have prepared him for the shocking discovery of a dead, grandmotherly woman at his feet and the cascade of murders that follows.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rhys shifted the bar up higher and then cleared it
- By Kindle Customer on 02-18-20
By: Rhys Ford
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The Rescuer
- One Firefighter’s Story of Courage, Darkness, and the Relentless Love That Saved Him
- By: Jason Sautel, D.R. Jacobsen - contributor
- Narrated by: Mark Smeby
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
He helped save people every day - but he had no idea how to save himself. Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood - until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face-to-face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Real..... and good!
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-21
By: Jason Sautel, and others
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Tough Guy
- A Superhero LitRPG Adventure (My Chemical Hero, Book 1)
- By: Andrew Karevik
- Narrated by: Roman Howell
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
As if things couldn't get any worse, Arthur is trying to survive yet another dreadful shift at the Hammy Burger when a supervillain barges in and takes him as a hostage. It's clear, from the get-go, that this villain is a poor schmuck who just happened on a dose of ChemX. And so, in an attempt to save the poor bastard from the consequences of his foolish actions, Arthur tries to convince him to surrender. But when the caped cavalry arrives, something happens and Arthur is exposed to a leak of the mysterious chemical substance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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an actual hero.
- By kevin on 12-14-22
By: Andrew Karevik
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White Hot Light
- Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine
- By: Frank Huyler
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes, The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic. Now, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenches—this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razor’s edge between life and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even Better than The Blood of Strangers
- By Elizabeth Darcy on 10-14-20
By: Frank Huyler
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Grunt
- The Curious Science of Humans at War
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Abby Elvidge
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,287
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,057
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,053
Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries - panic, exhaustion, heat, noise - and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Usually Love Mary Roach, But--
- By Gillian on 12-07-16
By: Mary Roach
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Last Night in the OR
- A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey
- By: Bud Shaw
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 115
The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, MD, who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Expect alot of bad language!
- By Lynn L. on 08-10-16
By: Bud Shaw
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Fly
- By: Michael Veitch
- Narrated by: Michael Veitch
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Simultaneous release of the thrilling new volume of true stories from airmen of the Second World War, from the author of Flak (also available in audio by Bolinda). Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person who flew, or flew in them, has at least one extraordinary story to tell. With most of these veterans in their 80's, he knew that it was a matter of urgency to find them now, before their personal stories disappear forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book from RAF and RAAF point of view
- By Brooke P. Anderson on 06-06-12
By: Michael Veitch
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That Thing at the Zoo
- A Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter Prequel Novella
- By: James R. Tuck
- Narrated by: Jim Beaver
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4 out of 5 stars 76
Shredding monsters is his stock and trade. He sniffs them out, tracks them down, and corners them. End of story. But when the tables are turned, expect the unexpected . . . Knowing his enemy is a rule that Deacon Chalk swears by. But he's never seen anything like whatever is leaving the Atlanta Zoo's most dangerous predators bloodless, skinned, and hanging high in the treetops. And he’s only got until sunrise to keep it from turning the entire city into a slaughterhouse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not my typical read but I really liked it!
- By ButtonsMom2003 on 08-31-21
By: James R. Tuck
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The Chick and the Dead
- Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
- By: Carla Valentine
- Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Using the most common postmortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the listener through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead. The book is full of vivid insight into what happens to our bodies in the end. Each chapter considers an aspect of an autopsy alongside an aspect of Carla's own life and work and touches on some of the more controversial aspects of our feelings toward death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dull
- By Leah on 08-19-17
By: Carla Valentine
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Junkie Love
- By: Joe Clifford
- Narrated by: Timothy McKean
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 99
From the cow fields of Connecticut to the streets of San Francisco, Joe Clifford's Junkie Love traverses the lost highways of America, down the rocky roads of mental illness to the dead ends of addiction. Based on Clifford's own harrowing experience with drugs as a rock 'n' roll wannabe in the 1990s, the audiobook draws on the best of Kerouac and the Beats, injecting a heavy dose of pulp fiction as it threads a rollicking narrative through a doomed love triangle, lit up by the many strange characters he meets along the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW! an inside look into an junkies mind
- By TinkerMel on 05-16-17
By: Joe Clifford
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Sandman Slim
- Sandman Slim, Book 1
- By: Richard Kadrey
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,971
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,329
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,338
When he was 19, James Stark was considered to be one of the greatest natural magicians, a reputation that got him demon-snatched and sent downtown - to Hell - where he survived as a gladiator, a sideshow freak entertaining Satan's fallen angels. That was 11 years ago. Now, the hitman who goes only by Stark has escaped and is back in L.A. Armed with a fortune-telling coin, a black bone knife, and an infernal key, Stark is determined to destroy the magic circle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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jack bauer + spawn = sandman slim
- By Mike Naka on 11-03-12
By: Richard Kadrey
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Fractured Souls
- By: E. A. Copen
- Narrated by: Matt Cowlrick, Erin DeWard
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Rogue wizard Josiah Quinn never met a rule he wouldn’t break. Even though he knows he’ll face plenty of backlash from both good and evil, he braves the fires of Hell to spring Satan’s captive daughter. But before they return to their lives, he’s got to track down the missing pieces of her soul.... As he attempts to unite the fragmented spirit of the succubus by his side, Josiah has one little problem: a power-hungry wizard aiming to rule the underworld.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It grew on me - and I'm not done with this series
- By JEN on 06-30-20
By: E. A. Copen
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Superhero Syndrome
- Solstice Survivors, Book 1
- By: Caryn Larrinaga
- Narrated by: Ruby Hankey
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Tess McBray was dying. The solstice syndrome had no cure, and she resigned herself to an early grave. But just when she gave up on survival, all her symptoms mysteriously disappeared. All but one symptom, anyway. Something is wrong with Tess’ hands. They absorb any material they touch, and her skin turns to wood, steel, or concrete. It doesn’t take this comic book obsessed 21-year-old long to figure out what’s going on: somehow, she’s developed super powers. And she’s not the only one; across the country, people are coming forward and sharing their gifts with the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Origin" story with great characters and narration
- By Kara on 08-17-19
By: Caryn Larrinaga
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We Are All Completely Fine
- By: Daryl Gregory
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4 out of 5 stars 181
Harrison is the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now he’s in his mid-30s and spends most of his time not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by the messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering arsonist. And for some reason, Martin never takes off his sunglasses.
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4 out of 5 stars
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original and unique
- By Midwestbonsai on 03-22-15
By: Daryl Gregory
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Jay Rose
- 03-18-22
Penmanship Faculties
Interesting story, well told. I liked the gradual progression used to draw the listener into the story. Disturbing enough to make its point, but not enough to give me extensive emotional scarring. (I’m not a horror person, so it doesn’t take that much)
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