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A Must Listen for the Grieving
- By Chris on 09-25-23
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Trace of Doubt
- By: Samantha Weinberg
- Narrated by: Samantha Weinberg
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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In the summer of 1985, a brilliant young British DNA scientist Helena Greenwood is found murdered in her front garden in a quiet suburb in California. The police believe they know the killer’s identity but there’s no evidence against him, and the only thing linking him to the crime is the fact he’d been charged with sexually assaulting Helena just a few months previously.
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Frustrating
- By Amazon Customer on 01-28-24
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The Demon Next Door
- By: Bryan Burrough
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.
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Odd narration choice
- By Amanda Fredericks on 03-08-19
By: Bryan Burrough
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Murder Machine
- A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia
- By: Gene Mustain, Jerry Capeci
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.
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stop browsing and just get it.
- By Patrick on 04-20-21
By: Gene Mustain, and others
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Elvis and Me
- By: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
- Narrated by: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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The inspiration for the major motion picture Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola, this New York Times best seller reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.
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What a story!
- By Pen Name on 08-28-22
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The Debutante
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Thirty years ago, award-winning journalist Jon Ronson stumbled on the mystery of Carol Howe—a charismatic, wealthy former debutante turned white supremacist spokeswoman turned undercover informant. In 1995, Carol was spying on Oklahoma’s neo-Nazis for the government just when Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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Interesting but not compelling
- By Gail Jester on 04-15-23
By: Jon Ronson
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- Elisa R. Goodman
- 06-21-22
"The Importance of Being CONSTANCE..."
I don't know why I was curious to pick up this tale - I love the genre of memoir and didn't know anything about Constance Holland Wilde. Loving the wit of Oscar Wilde, I thought it might be interesting to meet the woman who might have influenced the brilliant Oscar Wilde quote: "Be Yourself...Everyone Else is Already Taken." Constance Wilde was a pioneer in her own right - smart, innovative, literate, formidable, creative, sensible, and politically progressive – who was also an independent thinker and lovingly loyal. The scandals she had to live through and endure were no doubt brutal. Oscar Wilde's very brazen attempt to live freely and explore his homosexual nature at a time when it was dangerous to do so meant it was also challenging for his wife – who often had to find legal workarounds for their lives, family, and friends who had sympathy for them both and tried to help make the best of a no-win situation.
Much of Constance's motivation was spent trying to find an outlet for her own creative identity which included her involvement as a social and political influencer, fashion pioneer, creative writer and poet – at the same time trying to properly raise the couple's two young sons Cyril and Vyvyan because of Oscar's unpredictable absences. Their marriage was no doubt difficult - but there seemed to be a genuine friendship and compatibility of fondness and trust between them until Oscar's behavior left her feeling exasperated and betrayed.
It's always amazing to me that biographers and memoirists are able to reconstruct a period in history that was so long ago - and uncover ample evidence of events, states of mind, and other sumptuous details from days gone by. Sarah Nichol's narration is elegant and swift - not pretending to put on character voices or embellish the story with her own point of view. Putting pen to paper was such the trusted way - and hoping that only the intended recipient received the juicy words inside - no matter how long the distance the letter traveled is really a marvel of miracles. I recently listened to "The Magician" by Colm Toibin on Audible which was a biography of the writer Thomas Mann (who also enjoyed a secret homosexual life while staying married and fathering six children). That so much of Mann's secret life survived because of correspondence saved really helps the writer paint a truer portrait that would have been totally lost to history without it. Quite fascinating.
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