• Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons

  • By: Ashli St. Armant
  • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
  • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (10,734 ratings)

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Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons

By: Ashli St. Armant
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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Publisher's summary

Viva Durant, New Orleans’ youngest detective, is on a quest to solve a jazzy mystery involving hidden treasure, while exploring the city’s unique culture, history, and music. This family-friendly audio original features original jazz music from the creator, Ashli St. Armant, and an enthusiastic performance from Audible Hall of Fame narrator, Bahni Turpin.

Plucky 14-year-old Viva Durant heads to New Orleans every summer to spend time with her loving but stern grandmother, known as Gram. After Gram reads Viva an article in the local paper about a missing treasure related to the world-famous song, "Miss Mary Mack," Viva traverses the Crescent City on an epic adventure to solve the mystery. Along the way she meets some of the city’s most colorful characters as her journey takes her to the French Quarter, a jazz club, a creepy cemetery, and even the circus. Can Viva rise to the occasion and solve this musical mystery? Listeners will find Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons a joy to listen to!  

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Publisher's summary

Viva Durant, New Orleans’ youngest detective, is on a quest to solve a jazzy mystery involving hidden treasure, while exploring the city’s unique culture, history, and music. This family-friendly audio original features original jazz music from the creator, Ashli St. Armant, and an enthusiastic performance from Audible Hall of Fame narrator, Bahni Turpin.

Plucky 14-year-old Viva Durant heads to New Orleans every summer to spend time with her loving but stern grandmother, known as Gram. After Gram reads Viva an article in the local paper about a missing treasure related to the world-famous song, "Miss Mary Mack," Viva traverses the Crescent City on an epic adventure to solve the mystery. Along the way she meets some of the city’s most colorful characters as her journey takes her to the French Quarter, a jazz club, a creepy cemetery, and even the circus. Can Viva rise to the occasion and solve this musical mystery? Listeners will find Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons a joy to listen to!  

©2019 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.
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About the Creator

Ashli St. Armant is a vocalist, actor, writer, and arts educator based in Southern California. She is the founder of Leaping Lizards Music, a music and theater education program for students, TK-12. She is a professionally trained vocalist and actor who attended the Orange County High School of the Arts and holds a degree in Child Development from Saddleback College. Alongside teaching, writing, and raising her two sons, Ashli tours with her band, Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards, a jazz band for young audiences. Together they have produced four albums featured by NPR and L.A. Times, and have performed at numerous venues, including Lincoln Center and Sprout Network (NBC).Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons is Ashli’s debut audio original, and sets the path for her new venture into children’s literature.

About the Performer

Bahni Turpin is a Los Angeles-based actress with many television and film credits in addition to being an award winning narrator. She is honored to have been awarded an Audie for Best Female Narrator, 2015, Audible Narrator of the Year, 2016, and American Library Association’s Voice of Choice for 2017. In 2018, Bahni won best female narration again, and was also inducted into the Audible Hall of Fame. She is a two-time Odyssey Award winner, and was also named as one of Audiophile's Golden Voices for 2019.

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Uses God's name in vain right away!

I thought this was family friendly but it uses God's name in vain right away.

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Hmmm.. maybe this is a young teen book..Oh WAIT!

It is for sure a teen book. And a young adult book. And an adult book. And middle-agers... and especially for this 74 year old child.

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Great for the whole family...

It’s a great, funny, wonderful adventure. The story reminded me of the Nancy Drew mysteries
I was very entertained by the fantastic sounds and Jazz music accompanying the book. It made me feel like I was really in New Orleans!

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Great Book

This was an awesome book! I easily finished it in a day. The description of New Orleans was so vivid, it made me want to visit. My friends & I are planning our next Girls Trip (HA) to New Orleans. Also, the storyline was awesome, twists, turns, and a very nice and unpredictable plot! Excellent writing!! The only thing that could’ve complimented this book would’ve been to have someone from New Orleans or someone who could speak with that same accent, narrate the book. This was a great read regardless!! I look forward to listening to some more from Ashli Armant.

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A fun adventure with a twist

This is a very clever story that kept me interested right to the very end.

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Cute Read

tho I am a Grandmother I enjoyed this young adult book as I drive across country. light listening passed the time away in a most delightful manner.

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great listen

I love light hearted "who done it?" this was a great listen .. I'm 58 but felt 10 ...lol... it took me back to when my teachers made reading our loud fun and exciting!!

well done❤😍

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Summer mystery-solving adventure!

This is a really fun YA mystery adventure. I'm waaaayyyy past my teenage years but I enjoyed it immensely. The narration, music and production was excellent. The story was intriguing and as I'll probably never get to visit New Orleans myself, I really appreciated the glimpses of that precious, fabled city. Viva is one sharp young lady, resourceful and brave. And, of course, persistent!

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Great for all ages from tweens to adult

Great story and mu sic I listened non stop! Engaging, funny, intriguing and heartwarming also surprisingly realistic. If you love mysteries you will love this.

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iPhone lighthearted New Orleans detective story

t this was an entertaining Novela bringing in the flavor of New Orleans, it’s food music and culture. The narration did a great job with just a few slight miss pronunciations of local streets. Of course, maybe it’s just because of the neighborhood I come from.

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  • Ewelina Zawierucha
  • 08-28-21

Amazing!

Wonderful, but when Viva thinks inside her head, the whisper is very quiet. But it is still amazing!

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  • 07-15-21

One of the best books I have ever heard!

I absolutely loved the book! It was full of adventure and mystery.The narrator was great and I loved the voice and the expression.I wished that there was a second book with a while new mystery.

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  • 02-18-23

amazing perfect I LOVE it

the narrator Bahni Turpin is awesome but I love that it had music in its
I die for jazz it was extremely excitingx I definitely found it hard it finally finish
the joy comes thick and fast but this story 100 percent has its faults
Eve rose Louise Richardson Wordsworth

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  • J.Y. LU
  • 02-09-23

Fantastic!

Mystery, music and excitement!
Great story though the music can be a little annoying sometimes, overall amazing, must listen to!

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  • Anonymous User
  • 10-18-22

Alright 😕

It was pretty good it was better than i thought but it was a bit dragged out

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  • Hannah Pickering
  • 07-13-22

Love it, very gripping & escaping.

I find I can easily escape with the Voice and mind set of Viva, find her down to earth, honest and funny, plus kind hearted. Love her relationship with her Grandma. And that she can solve mysteries, that don't have to be murders. Easy to listen to.

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  • 06-30-22

I am inspired to be a sloop!!!

I really love this book and the second book it's awesome I love how she sings to remember stuff 😍

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  • 08-11-21

What a great story

Started off a little slow but build into a solid little mystery. excellent voice acting and narration and really good music and sound design. my daughter really liked this one and so did I.

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  • shane doyle
  • 01-23-22

Viva Durant-charming, Louisiana story

Loved both the story and the narrator, now want to visit New Orleans !

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