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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful adventure both on paper and in audio
- By David on 06-17-20
By: Trent Dalton
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The Dead Fathers Club
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Andrew Dennis
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 73
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. His dad has appeared to him as a member of the Dead Fathers Club, a club for "ghost dads" whose murders are unavenged. His father's road accident, it turns out, was no accident at all. Uncle Alan is responsible for his dad's death, and if Philip doesn't succeed in killing his uncle just before his dad's birthday, just 10 weeks away, his dad's spirit will never rest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hamlet Only New
- By Annette on 05-07-08
By: Matt Haig
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Everything Under
- A Novel
- By: Daisy Johnson
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliantly understated classic
- By Jeff Lacy on 10-29-19
By: Daisy Johnson
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Geek Girl: Audio Collection Books 1-3
- Geek Girl, Model Misfit, Picture Perfect
- By: Holly Smale
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a “jiffy” lasts a hundredth of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't get through it
- By k on 06-25-24
By: Holly Smale
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The Turtle of Oman
- By: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
Aref does not want to move to Michigan. He's sure the kids there won't like him. Also, he has everything he needs right where he is! But Sidi has another point of view. Sidi says Aref will go and come back. Just like a falcon or the turtles of Oman, he'll travel far and make his way home to Muscat. So Aref sets out to say good-bye to everything he loves. Good-bye to Mish-Mish, Diram, Sulima, dunes, Sidi…. But how can he stand it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A long goodbye
- By K Gray on 02-03-24
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
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The Shepherd's Hut
- By: Tim Winton
- Narrated by: Kate Mulvany
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
Jaxie Clackton is a brutalized rural youth who flees from the scene of his father's violent death and strikes out for the vast wilds of Western Australia. All he carries with him is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the harsh saltlands alone is a savage business. And once he discovers he's not alone out there, all Jaxie's plans go awry. He meets a fellow exile, the ruined priest Fintan MacGillis, a man he's never certain he can trust, but on whom his life will soon depend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning!
- By Antoniya Boyd on 07-09-18
By: Tim Winton
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Zoe & Zak and the Ghost Leopard (Volume 1)
- By: Lars Guignard
- Narrated by: Bailey S. Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
Zoe Guire just talked to an elephant. Well, technically speaking, the elephant spoke to her, but either way it was weird and, as a rule, Zoe doesn't do weird. Except the thing is, when Zoe goes along on her mom's business trip to India, things get very weird, very quickly. Soon after she arrives, Zoe finds herself tagging alongside a kid named Zak, lost in a crazy city, with no money and no way home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a Fun, Educational, Fantasy Adventure
- By Ginny on 09-12-13
By: Lars Guignard
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Just Tricking!
- By: Andy Griffiths
- Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Ever tried to get out of going to school by pretending that you're dead? Ever managed to convince a friend that they're invisible? Ever been stuck in a gorilla suit and nearly put in a zoo? Andy has. Andy's the greatest practical joker in the world ... well, almost. He would be, if only his practical jokes didn't have the annoying habit of backfiring on him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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it was really good and I didn't even buy it! 😍😍
- By D on 04-12-24
By: Andy Griffiths
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The Girl in the Well Is Me
- By: Karen Rivers
- Narrated by: Michele O. Medlin
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
Longing to be one of the popular girls in her new town, Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into their club. Now Kammie's trapped in the dark, counting the hours, waiting to be rescued. (The girls have gone for help, haven't they?) As hours pass, Kammie's real-life predicament mixes with memories of the best and worst moments of her life so far, including the awful reasons her family moved to this new town in the first place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The girl that's writing this is me 😊
- By Tomeka on 06-10-16
By: Karen Rivers
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Mannheim Rex
- By: Robert Pobi
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Recently widowered and grieving, Gavin flees New York City for the quiet of the country. His new home on Lake Caldasac has surprisingly few visitors, and the author soon learns why: a suspiciously high number of people have gone missing in the small town. The deaths have all been ruled accidents, but Finn Horn, a handicapped boy obsessed with fishing, knows the truth. There’s a monster in the lake. And it wants to feed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and fun
- By Bob on 01-14-13
By: Robert Pobi
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The Dragon in the Sock Drawer
- Dragon Keepers, Book 1
- By: Kate Klimo
- Narrated by: Walter M. Mayes
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Ten-year-old cousins Jesse and Daisy have always wanted something magical to happen to them. So it's a dream come true when Jesse's newly found thunder egg hatches and a helpless, tiny (but very loud) baby dragon pops out. Jesse names the bright green dragon Emmy, short for Emerald. Soon the two kids are at Emmy's beck and call, trying to figure out what to feed her. An Internet search leads them to the library and then back to the Internet, where they find a strange Web site called foundadragon.org.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soooo good!
- By M. Matz on 08-14-23
By: Kate Klimo
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The New Moon's Arms
- By: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Gin Hammond
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 352
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 353
Calamity is confronting two big transitions: the death of her beloved father and the beginning of menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her gift for finding lost things. Suddenly, she is getting hot flashes that seem to forge objects out of thin air, most notably a four-year old boy. As Calamity takes the child into her care, she discovers that all is not as it seems. Then, Calamity must reawaken to the mysteries surrounding her own childhood and the early disappearance of her mother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a joy
- By newmoon on 07-05-19
By: Nalo Hopkinson
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A Dark So Deadly
- By: Stuart MacBride
- Narrated by: Steve Worsley
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 496
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 458
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Story4 out of 5 stars 456
Welcome to the Misfit Mob... It's where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of but wants to: the outcasts, the troublemakers, the compromised. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy turns up at the Oldcastle tip, it's his job to find out which museum it's been stolen from. But then Callum uncovers links between his ancient corpse and three missing young men, and life starts to get a lot more interesting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deranged and Murder-ey
- By 6catz on 04-24-17
By: Stuart MacBride
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
- By: Hannah Tinti
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 485
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Story4 out of 5 stars 443
After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Odd choice for narrator
- By lindsey b. on 01-23-19
By: Hannah Tinti
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Passenger
- By: Andrew Smith
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Best friends Jack and Conner can’t stay away from Marbury. It’s partly because of their obsession with this alternate world and the unresolved war that still wages there. But it’s also because forces in Marbury - including the darkest of the dark, who were not revealed in The Marbury Lens - are beckoning the boys back in order to save their friends… and themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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plot twist at the end of the book 🤤🤤
- By melanie on 11-10-17
By: Andrew Smith
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Long Lankin
- By: Lindsey Barraclough
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 53
When Cora and her little sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great-aunt in the isolated village of Bryers Guerdon, they receive a less than warm welcome and are desperate to go back to London. But Auntie Ida’s life was devastated the last time two young girls were at Guerdon Hall, and now her nieces’ arrival has reawakened an evil that has lain in wait for years. A haunting voice in an empty room; a strange, scarred man lurking in the graveyard; mysterious words scrawled on the walls of the abandoned church ... all point to a horrifying truth that has held Bryers Guerdon in its grip for centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING!!!
- By Sharron on 09-06-14