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Publisher's Summary
On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with figurines representing friends and neighbors. Their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas... and, unbeknownst to her siblings, moves around the inanimate clay residents.
There is a strangeness in the air as disappearances, deaths, spectral sightings, and the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car mark this unforgettable shadow year. But strangest of all is the inescapable fact that all these troubling occurrences directly correspond to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in their basement.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-22-22
Brilliant
Love this book
clever, fun, heart warming and very entertaining
Really interested to read more of Jeffrey Fords books
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- sarahmoose2000
- 04-13-12
Slow, creepy chill!
My favourite listen of the year so far. A Peeping Tom is terrorising a small town, then a small boy goes missing.
Two brothers build a model of the town in their basement and notice that a figurine depicting the Peeping Tom mysteriously moves to the appropriate house each time a sighting is reported. Who is moving the figurine? Who is the Peeping Tom? What happened to the missing boy and why does an ominous white car seem to tail the kids whenever they are out?
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- Anonymous User
- 01-06-23
FABULOUS
really good worth a listen. Loved it, both story and performance I would definitely recommend this one!
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,288
One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and 13-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heavy in My Heart
- By Mel on 01-02-13
By: Louise Erdrich
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Seventh Heaven
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,204
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,197
Nora Silk doesn't really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She's divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants. And the way she raises her kids is a scandal. But as time passes, the neighbors start having second thoughts about Nora. The women's apprehension evolves into admiration. The men's lust evolves into awe. The children are drawn to her in ways they can't explain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Odd story
- By Alaska on 04-15-21
By: Alice Hoffman
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Brighton
- A Novel
- By: Michael Harvey
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
Kevin Pearce - baseball star, honor student, the pride of Brighton - was 15 when he left town in the back of his uncle's cab. He and his buddy, Bobby Scales, had just committed heinous violence for what they thought were the best of reasons. Kevin didn't want a pass, but he was getting it anyway. Bobby would stay and face the music; Kevin's future would remain as bright as ever. At least that was the way things were supposed to work, except in Brighton things never work the way they're supposed to.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mystery gets no better.
- By William H. Harrington on 10-27-18
By: Michael Harvey
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Sycamore
- A Novel
- By: Bryn Chancellor
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Steven Jay Cohen, Sara Morsey, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some 18 years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it ever since.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving story, beautifully written
- By RueRue on 06-20-17
By: Bryn Chancellor
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A Wolf at the Table
- A Memoir of My Father
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 166
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Story4 out of 5 stars 167
A Wolf at the Table is the story of Augusten's relationship with his father, John Robison, Sr., a man only briefly touched upon in Running With Scissors. Told with shocking honesty and penetrating insight, A Wolf at the Table is more than the companion volume to Running with Scissors - it's a story of stunning psychological cruelty and the redemptive power of hope.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book should come with a Warning
- By Barbara on 11-23-08
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My Best Friend's Exorcism
- A Novel
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,938
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,179
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,160
The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since the fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In My Top 5 Audiobooks
- By m on 11-18-16
By: Grady Hendrix
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Brewster
- By: Mark Slouka
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it’s not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good. Freedom, however, has its price. As forces beyond their control begin to bear down on them, Jon sets off on the race of his life - a race to redeem his past and save them all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK 60's coming-of-age story
- By Mark on 12-11-14
By: Mark Slouka
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The Lovely Bones
- By: Alice Sebold
- Narrated by: Alice Sebold
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,034
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,309
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,322
When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and her own adjustment to the strange new place where she finds herself. With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their grief. This story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful and touching narrative about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Kim on 12-10-09
By: Alice Sebold
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The Green Glass Sea
- By: Ellen Klages
- Narrated by: Julie Dretzin
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
This first novel from Nebula Award-winning short story writer Ellen Klages was picked as a Junior Library Guild selection and named a Book Sense Number-One Children's Pick. It follows a young girl named Dewey, whose father is part of a super-secret project in 1943 Los Alamos. Dewey, a gifted scientist herself, slowly realizes the implications of "the gadget" her father is working on. She and Suze, another Los Alamos child, find comfort in each other's friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful!
- By Rita on 12-08-08
By: Ellen Klages
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Big Machine
- A Novel
- By: Victor LaValle
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlist in a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Victor LaValle is good. Real good.
- By Bill on 02-14-18
By: Victor LaValle
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The Singing Bone
- By: Beth Hahn
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 72
Alice and her three closest friends meet the enigmatic Jack Wyck. Enticed by his philosophy and the promise of a constant party, Alice and her friends join Mr. Wyck's small group of devoted followers. Their idyll takes an increasingly sinister turn. Mr. Wyck's grand scheme goes wrong, culminating in a night of horrific murders.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed feelings - you may love it - or not!
- By C. Vincent on 04-19-16
By: Beth Hahn
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NOS4A2
- A Novel
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,004
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,670
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,644
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping performance by Kate Mulgrew....
- By Leslie on 05-06-13
By: Joe Hill
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The Collection, Volume 1
- By: Bentley Little
- Narrated by: Mitch Urban
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
The Collection, Volume One contains 14 terrifying stories from Bentley Little.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some of these stories are really quite good.
- By Matthew S. Hill on 07-22-17
By: Bentley Little
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Scream and Scream Again!
- Spooky Stories from Mystery Writers of America
- By: Megan Abbott, Chris Grabenstein, Heather Graham, and others
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo, Almarie Guerra, P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
R. L. Stine - the godfather of Goosebumps - and some of the most popular authors today bring an unrivaled mastery of all things fearsome, frightening, and fantabulous to this terrifying anthology of all-new scary short stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen, Loved Every Story!
- By Heaven Mecham on 10-27-19
By: Megan Abbott, and others
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Mr. Splitfoot
- By: Samantha Hunt
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 243
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 216
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 216
Ruth and Nat are orphans packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later Ruth's niece, Cora, finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and full of intention. She is on a mysterious mission, leading Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York on foot. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Huffing Ectoplasm
- By Mel on 03-03-17
By: Samantha Hunt