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An enthralling and inventive thriller, only on Audible
Thirteen-year-old Emily Poe has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: A chance to attend the exclusive Audyn School in Manhattan. But to win the scholarship, she has to pass a test like nothing she’s ever experienced before: A nearly bare room, a set of strange clues, a locked door. And a mysterious organization - the Leopold Foundation - that’s watching her every move.
But the real test has just begun. Despite the strange circumstances - in a new house, at a new school - Emily instantly bonds with fellow scholarship winner Alice Wray.
And then Alice goes missing.
Chronicling every surprising twist and turn of her search through her own private video diary, Emily sets out to find the truth behind Alice’s disappearance. Soon she’s drawn deep into the inner circle of the Audyn School’s elite, the Nobility, who each have secrets of their own. As clues and lies mount, Emily must sort truth from fiction to solve the Mystery of Alice before it’s too late.
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About the Author
Lee Bacon is the author of several books for young people, including the Joshua Dread and Legendtopia series. His upcoming novel The Last Human is being developed as a major motion picture from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and Sony Pictures. His books have been translated into 20 languages. After growing up in Texas, he lived in Munich and Brooklyn before moving to his current home in Maplewood, New Jersey. He shares a house with his wife, daughter, and two cats.
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Lauded as a prolific narrator by the Audiobook Publishers Association, Emily Bauer has a passion for truthful, honest storytelling and creating memorable characters across all genres. The recipient of multiple Golden Earphones, Listen-Up Awards, and Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews, Emily is also well-known for her animation work on shows such as Pokémon, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Wallykazam!, and has done hundreds of commercials and jingles. Emily has narrated more than 200 audiobooks including the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire, the Razorland series by Anne Aguirre, and Life As We Knew It, from the Last Survivors series by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
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Cassandra Lee Morris is an accomplished voice actor who has narrated more than 250 audiobooks and brought dozens of characters to life for animation and video games, including League of Legends, Fortnite, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures, DC Superhero Girls, and Hanazuki. Her audiobooks have received accolades such as an Odyssey Award, two Audie Awards, and Earphones Awards, and “Best of the Year” honors by Audiofile Magazine. She lives in Los Angeles.
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A native New Yorker, Bryan has over 25 years of experience in the voice-over world including audiobooks, commercials, and animation. Bryan enjoys bringing multiple characters to life with their own voices, no matter what the age, gender, or accent. He has narrated many young adult and children's books with many memorable characters, including James Patterson's Middle School series, Patterson and Chris Grabenstein's Treasure Hunters series, and Grabenstein's Welcome to Wonderland series. Bryan has narrated several books that have won the AudioFile Earphones Award, including This Book Is Not Good for You, This Isn't What It Looks Like, and Testimony. Bryan is also a writer and producer working on his first feature film, I Am Maurice.
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Love it
- By Rids on 09-02-24
By: Lee Bacon
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Replaced
- By: Lee Bacon
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 786
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 705
Holly Ash is good actor. Just one downside: Most of the people she’s acting with have no idea they’re a part of her fiction. One that has been carefully constructed by the secretive company that Holly works for, known as D.O.P.L. Every assignment is a new role, a new name, a completely new self. Her newest role is “Margot” and her newest target: a boy her age named Will Aldrich.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Amazon Customer on 02-11-22
By: Lee Bacon
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Influencer
- By: Adam Cesare
- Narrated by: Isabela Merced, Christopher Briney, Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,657
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,601
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,600
Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him in the middle of senior year. Showing up on his first day at the local public school in that nice of a car? He knows he’ll never blend in, and he doesn’t care to try. The car, the new-kid mystique, he can use all that.... Crystal Giordano carpools to the same school in her friend Trevor’s beat-up van. In the van along with Crystal and Trevor are Paul, Harmony, and Gayle. Crystal’s technically part of their misfit group, but most of the time, she feels like she’s the only one who doesn’t fit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is BINGE WORTHY!
- By Bbecca_marie on 11-03-23
By: Adam Cesare
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Interview with the Robot
- By: Lee Bacon
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer, Josh Hurley, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,016
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,963
Eve looks like an ordinary 12-year-old girl, but there’s nothing ordinary about her. She has no last name. No parents or guardian. She’s on the run from a dangerous and secretive organization that will stop at nothing to track her down. And most astonishing of all: she’s a robot, a product of Eden Laboratories. When Eve discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she’s ever known.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Short Listen
- By Ronnie on 01-07-20
By: Lee Bacon
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The Groves
- A Novel
- By: J.V. Lyon
- Narrated by: Shannon Purser, Jerrie Johnson, Chelsea Rendon, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 236
Returning to rural Vermont for her senior year after time abroad, New Yorker Daphne Howard just wants to make it to graduation. She’s still processing the sting of her social circle moving off-campus under the thrall of Serena Vigil, a talented poet from Texas who happens to be Daphne’s nemesis. But when a gruesome story overheard at a local bar leads Daphne to consider an unusual artifact discovered on campus in a new light, friends, lovers, and others unite to confront the collision of present and past, political, and personal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a good listen
- By Amazon Customer on 05-23-22
By: J.V. Lyon
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Sovereign
- By: Jeff Hirsch
- Narrated by: Jesse Einstein
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17,577
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 16,067
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16,061
Micah Cole has been in deep space for three years while his parents chase their obsession with finding intelligence to the far corners of the universe, but Micah dreams of the friends he left behind and counts the days until they return home. When a devastating meteor shower nearly destroys their ship, Micah is separated from his family and stranded on Sovereign, a vast planet of raging rivers, towering forests, and deadly creatures. If Micah ever wants to see his family or his home again, he’ll have to learn to how to survive on a hostile alien world, all alone.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exploring strange new worlds
- By Kingsley on 02-01-19
By: Jeff Hirsch
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Imaginary
- By: Lee Bacon
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Zach should’ve outgrown his imaginary friend by now. He knows this. He’s 11, long past the days when kids are supposed to go on epic make-believe adventures with their invisible friends. But after the death of his father five years ago, all Zach wanted was an escape from the real world. So his imaginary friend, Shovel, hasn’t faded away like the other kids’ have. Their imaginary friendship grew stronger. But now Zach’s in middle school, and things are getting awkward. His best friend ditched him for a cooler crowd.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it
- By Rids on 09-02-24
By: Lee Bacon
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Replaced
- By: Lee Bacon
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 786
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 705
Holly Ash is good actor. Just one downside: Most of the people she’s acting with have no idea they’re a part of her fiction. One that has been carefully constructed by the secretive company that Holly works for, known as D.O.P.L. Every assignment is a new role, a new name, a completely new self. Her newest role is “Margot” and her newest target: a boy her age named Will Aldrich.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Amazon Customer on 02-11-22
By: Lee Bacon
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Influencer
- By: Adam Cesare
- Narrated by: Isabela Merced, Christopher Briney, Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,657
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,601
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,600
Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him in the middle of senior year. Showing up on his first day at the local public school in that nice of a car? He knows he’ll never blend in, and he doesn’t care to try. The car, the new-kid mystique, he can use all that.... Crystal Giordano carpools to the same school in her friend Trevor’s beat-up van. In the van along with Crystal and Trevor are Paul, Harmony, and Gayle. Crystal’s technically part of their misfit group, but most of the time, she feels like she’s the only one who doesn’t fit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is BINGE WORTHY!
- By Bbecca_marie on 11-03-23
By: Adam Cesare
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Interview with the Robot
- By: Lee Bacon
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer, Josh Hurley, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,016
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,963
Eve looks like an ordinary 12-year-old girl, but there’s nothing ordinary about her. She has no last name. No parents or guardian. She’s on the run from a dangerous and secretive organization that will stop at nothing to track her down. And most astonishing of all: she’s a robot, a product of Eden Laboratories. When Eve discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she’s ever known.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Short Listen
- By Ronnie on 01-07-20
By: Lee Bacon
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Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers
- By: Chris Grabenstein
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Bryan Kennedy, Edoardo Ballerini, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,605
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,801
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,796
What do you get when you add up one middle school bully, two bank robbers, 57 puppy-mill dogs, 4,000 missing dollars, and five daring troublemakers led by the incomparable Riley Mack? One crazy caper! In this merry, mischievous romp, master storyteller Chris Grabenstein, the award-winning author of Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library, teams with a full-cast of audio talent to introduce Riley Mack, a one-of-a-kind 12-year-old hometown hero.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Was Entertained
- By Frances Hampton on 04-06-19
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Panic: Ghosts and Legends
- A Novella
- By: Lauren Oliver
- Narrated by: Camron Jones, Ray Nicholson, Olivia Welch
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,370
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,246
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,240
Panic is a legendary game played by graduating seniors in the middle-of-nowhere town of Carp, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher: After a series of challenges ranging from sleeping in a haunted house to running across a highway blindfolded, one winner takes home a cash prize in the tens of thousands at the end of the summer. Participating players are sworn to secrecy, which means little is known of Panic’s history. Until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great story!
- By Carole Davies on 05-29-21
By: Lauren Oliver
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Daisy Chains
- By: Lynn Vande Stouwe
- Narrated by: Louisa Krause
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,323
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,194
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,192
There’s a dress in Daisy’s closet. Silver. Low-backed. Tiny spaghetti straps. She’ll wear it to prom on the arm of Harris Zandari, the most gorgeous senior at her school. How did quiet, barely-there Daisy, land Harris Zandari? She watched him. She watched him so closely, and for so long, that she saw things no one else did. She saw through his charm, his bright, smiling face, to the sad, broken person underneath just waiting for the perfect sad, broken girl to complete him. Daisy was that girl.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Like watching the train wreck
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 02-07-21
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The Golden Orchard
- By: Flora Ahn
- Narrated by: Kathleen Choe
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,430
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,707
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,684
Maya loves to cook with her grandmother - her Halmunee - to connect with the rich family history associated with each dish, a history Maya's mom would prefer stayed in the past. While cooking with Halmunee, something remarkable happens - the food creates such a strong memory that Maya and Halmunee are transported back in time through the memory itself. Halmunee explains that the women in her family have the gift of time travel through food and Maya can do it too, if she practices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Joyce Gassman
- By Allison Hernandez on 02-04-20
By: Flora Ahn
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The Spies That Bind
- A Gallagher Girls Prequel
- By: Ally Carter
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,215
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,597
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,567
The first day at a new school is tough for any kid, but it's especially scary when you're going to a school for spies. Cammie Morgan has spent her whole life dreaming of becoming a Gallagher Girl, but she has no idea what she’ll face when she arrives at The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. Secret passages? Check. Lab experiments that might make you lose your eyebrows (and other body parts)? Check. Classmates who are the smartest, strongest, most intimidating girls in the world? Double check.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fun listen
- By Mauma Tea on 01-08-19
By: Ally Carter
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Wishes and Wellingtons
- By: Julie Berry
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,463
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,992
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,964
Maeve Merritt chafes at the rigid rules at her London boarding school for “Upright Young Ladies.” When punishment forces her to sort through the trash, she finds a sardine tin that houses a foul-tempered djinni with no intention of submitting to a schoolgirl as his master. Soon an orphan boy from the charitable home next door, a mysterious tall man in ginger whiskers, a disgruntled school worker, and a take-no-prisoners business tycoon are in hot pursuit of Maeve and her magical discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn’t want it to end
- By Julia on 10-05-18
By: Julie Berry
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The Midnight Club
- By: Margot Harrison
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 4
It’s been twenty-five years since The Midnight Club last convened. A tight-knit group of college friends bonded by late nights at the campus literary magazine, they’re also bonded by something darker: the death of their brilliant friend Jennet junior year. But now, decades later, a mysterious invitation has pulled them back to the pine-shrouded Vermont town where it all began. As the estranged friends gather for a weeklong campus reunion, they soon learn that their host has an ulterior motive: she wants them to uncover the truth about the night Jennet died.
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1 out of 5 stars
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DNF - Couldn't get into the story or the characters
- By R. Cunningham on 11-23-24
By: Margot Harrison
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Ace of Shades
- By: Amanda Foody
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,624
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,473
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,473
Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school - and her reputation - behind to follow her mother's trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Very Creative Read
- By Kaleigh on 04-22-18
By: Amanda Foody
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Stuck
- By: Chris Grabenstein
- Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin, Elizabeth Hess, Oliver Wyman, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,035
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,425
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,410
On his 11th birthday, Jackson is nervous about moving up to middle school where he knows he'll be bullied by older kids, so he makes his wish, "I don't want to grow up!" When his 12th birthday rolls around, he discovers his wish came true: he's still 11, and he's starting fifth grade (again). At first, this is the perfect life. Jackson is the smartest kid in his class, the best on his baseball team, and the star of the school band. But after a few years of being eleven, he realizes his life is passing him by.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Accent problem
- By Padma P.Jagannathan on 08-09-20
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Black Crow, White Snow
- By: Michael Livingston
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 12,789
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 11,465
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 11,483
In a world where women hold all the power and men have barely been an afterthought, an intrepid shipmistress must put aside everything she knows if she is to save her people. Bela is at the helm of the Sandcrow, a ship sent from calm seas to the far frozen north in search of a legendary power that could turn the tide of war. Locked into ice, the Sandcrow is lost. Now, for the shipmistress and her crew, a desperate voyage becomes a chilling struggle for survival against nature, fear, and prejudice.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good writing, mediocre narration, wastes the theme
- By Amazon Customer on 05-03-19
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House of Teeth
- By: Dan Jolley
- Narrated by: Josh Hurley
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,474
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,683
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,675
There’s more to the swamplands than meets the teeth. In this supernatural tale of magic and mysticism, Henry Lemarchand grew up in Philadelphia knowing very little of his family—his father disappeared when he was young, leaving behind only a strange pouch of animal teeth. When he is sent to the Louisiana bayou to spend the summer with his eccentric uncle and cousin in their decaying ancestral mansion, Henry learns about his family’s supernatural legacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A comment
- By Mark E Higgins on 12-10-19
By: Dan Jolley
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A Man Walks into a Coffee Shop
- By: Shaun David Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
A young man caught in a time loop has to figure out how to convince his crush—a barista at his favorite coffee ship—to go out with him so he can escape the loop. After a series of mortifying and hilarious attempts, he finally realizes the only approach he hasn’t tried is to simply be himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hello this was so cute!
- By Love Within Books on 10-24-23
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- Nancy Gann
- 05-05-19
Great story
The story hooked me from the very start and I liked the ending. I will look for more books by Lee Bacon.
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- DebiM
- 05-27-19
Good Twist but Slow
Good story line, nice twists & turns. Plot was a little slow to begin with.
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- Guilherme Fred
- 05-15-19
Great Acting!
It was by far the best acting I've heard so far on Audible.
The story fall short, but still let me hanging.
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- sharon
- 05-08-19
Truly original
I had so much fun with this book. The story was so well written and the performances were top notch. Loved the humor towards the end bringing audible into the story. Thank you, so much, for this. It was a special gift.
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- BJM
- 05-05-19
Somewhat irritating main character
Emily is supposed to be super smart but she’s surprisingly slow to pick up on things. I kept reminding myself she was only supposed to be 13. And perhaps she just preferred to take her time explaining how she reached a conclusion, thereby falsely inflating the amount of time it seems it took her to reach it.
I also found the Emily Dictionary particularly annoying - especially since some of the new words have definitions that actually already have a word with that same meaning. Then again, I doubt I’m the target audience for this book and perhaps a preteen reader would be less annoyed.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 05-16-19
Very good!
Kept me intrigued throughout the story. Narration was outstanding. Sound made the scenes more realistic and believable.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Central MN customer
- 05-27-19
Crooked teen story
I compare the story to that of any teenager scary films. OK listen for a long car trip.
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- Mountain Guide
- 05-21-19
A masterpiece of intrigue.
Lee Bacon has written a really intricate finely woven plot line with some well developed characters. The story is actually credible given the characters. The twists and spins In the storyline show the world of a middle school girl who is put in an improbable compromising situation. The concept of the video diary tells the story. A wonderful free offering from Audible. And the narration and vocal inflections of various characters added to the enjoyment. Bravo, well done!
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- Jessica Sanchez
- 10-02-19
great book.
loved it. mysteries are my favorite. yep yep yep i dont know why i have to put a minimum of 15 words. i enjoyed the book i dont want to give it away
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- LesaRock
- 05-14-19
Listen to this!!
This is such a fabulous story, and every performer is AMAZING!! I loved it!! I didn’t have the slightest notion the direction it was going to take until the very end!
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