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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- By: Ryan North
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Bestselling author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North has the answers. In this introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, he details a number of outlandish villainous schemes that harness the potential of today’s most advanced technologies. Picking up where How to Invent Everything left off, his explanations are as fun and elucidating as they are completely absurd.
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A hilarious exploration of selfish altruism
- By jjordanpalmer on 09-07-22
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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-15-22
- Language: English
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Never Panic Early
- An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
- By: Fred Haise
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon. An oxygen tank exploded, a crewmate uttered the now iconic words, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and the world anxiously watched as one of history’s most incredible rescue missions unfolded. Haise brings listeners into the heart of his experience on the challenging mission—considered NASA’s finest hour—and reflects on his life and career as an Apollo astronaut.
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Phoned it in
- By BondoA6 on 09-20-22
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Never Panic Early
- An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 04-05-22
- Language: English
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Machine Learning: The New AI
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Ethem Alpaydi
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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In this audiobook, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general listener, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms, and presenting example applications. Alpaydin offers an account of how digital technology advanced from number-crunching mainframes to mobile devices, putting today's machine learning boom in context.
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Narrator not suited to the material
- By pandrenyc on 12-01-16
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Machine Learning: The New AI
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-26-16
- Language: English
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Shuttle, Houston
- My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
- By: Paul Dye
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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A compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles, and 11th-hour saves that have given us human spaceflight. Relaying stories of missions (and their grueling training) in vivid detail, Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable and errors led to the loss of national resources - and more importantly one's crew.
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6 stars - just brilliant
- By Greg on 02-17-21
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Shuttle, Houston
- My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-14-20
- Language: English
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- By: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.
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Very good
- By Brad on 07-04-19
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-18-19
- Language: English
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How Data Happened
- A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
- By: Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.
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worthwhile, if somewhat and occasionally obtuse
- By Michael on 02-25-24
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How Data Happened
- A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-21-23
- Language: English
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- By: Amy Shira Teitel
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America’s nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military.
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Great research, Distracting pronunciation
- By Kindle Customer on 07-30-23
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA
- Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-23-22
- Language: English
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Simply Electrifying
- The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- By: Craig R. Roach
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often dangerous story of electricity's historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.
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decent, but ended up disappointing.
- By Alexander Douglass on 12-28-18
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Simply Electrifying
- The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 08-15-17
- Language: English
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Archaeology from Space
- How the Future Shapes Our Past
- By: Sarah Parcak
- Narrated by: Sarah Parcak
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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In Archaeology from Space, Sarah Parcak shows the evolution, major discoveries, and future potential of the young field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis, she shares her field's biggest discoveries, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world's ancient treasures.
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So excited
- By Michael G Bell on 05-15-21
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Archaeology from Space
- How the Future Shapes Our Past
- Narrated by: Sarah Parcak
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-09-19
- Language: English
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The One Device
- The Secret History of the iPhone
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story you won't hear from Cupertino - based on his exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors, and developers who guided every stage of the iPhone's creation. This deep dive takes you from inside One Infinite Loop to 19th century France to WWII America, from the driest place on earth to a Kenyan pit of toxic e-waste, and even deep inside Shenzhen's notorious "suicide factories".
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TECH PORN AT ITS BEST
- By Amazon Customer on 07-11-17
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The One Device
- The Secret History of the iPhone
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-20-17
- Language: English
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Electric Universe
- How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
- By: David Bodanis
- Narrated by: Del Roy
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders—complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals.
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Electric Electricity
- By M. Sweeney on 02-27-05
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Electric Universe
- How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
- Narrated by: Del Roy
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-16-05
- Language: English
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Go, Flight!
- The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- By: Rick Houston, J. Milt Heflin
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building 30—at what is now Johnson Space Center—would become known by many as "the Cathedral." These members of the space program were the brightest of their generations, making split-second decisions that determined the success or failure of a mission.
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Good book, with some interesting insights
- By Joe on 12-29-17
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Go, Flight!
- The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-03-17
- Language: English
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The Dream Machine
- By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
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Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be.
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Biographies, not technical
- By D. Garber on 01-16-20
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The Dream Machine
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-03-18
- Language: English
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Minuteman
- A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
- By: David Stumpf
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation. Although its nuclear warhead may have lacked power relative to that of the Titan II, the Minuteman more than made up for this in terms of numbers and readiness to launch - making it the ultimate ICBM.
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Enough with the acronyms!
- By Julie K. on 08-08-21
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Minuteman
- A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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The Fire Line
- The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
- By: Fernanda Santos
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history, the 20 men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots sprang into action. An elite crew trained to combat the most challenging wildfires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag family crisscrossing the American West and wherever else the fires took them. The Hotshots were loyal to one another and dedicated to the tough job they had.
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touching
- By matt on 05-04-16
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The Fire Line
- The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-03-16
- Language: English
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The Story Behind
- The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
- By: Emily Prokop
- Narrated by: Emily Prokop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Many of us learn about the major inventions that shape our world. But we too often overlook the objects we use every day. In The Story Behind, Emily Prokop, creator of the Webby Award nominated podcast, explores the who, how, and huh? of everything from Band-Aids to bubble gum; hypnosis to Hula Hoops; and lullabies to lead pipes. Along the way, she demonstrates how the major events of history - from wars, plagues and revolutions to historic achievements and discoveries - have influenced some of the world’s most pervasive inventions.
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One third of the book is repeated after initial description of subject under “TLDR” ..?
- By Dogs Land on 03-25-24
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The Story Behind
- The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
- Narrated by: Emily Prokop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-24-20
- Language: English
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
- Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
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On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.
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Couldn’t finish...
- By J.Brock on 07-19-19
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
- Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-07-18
- Language: English
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Apollo 8
- The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
- By: Jeffrey Kluger
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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In August 1968 NASA made a bold decision: In just 16 weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken.
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Great history of NASA and Apollo 8: a must listen
- By J on 11-17-17
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Apollo 8
- The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-16-17
- Language: English
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Eccentric Orbits
- The Iridium Story
- By: John Bloom
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company, developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light-years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars", Iridium's constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit meant that no matter where you were on Earth, at least one satellite was always overhead, and you could call Tibet from Fiji without a delay and without your call ever touching a wire.
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Ugh! The skipping/repeating is INCREDIBLY irritating and distracting!
- By A. S. on 07-17-16
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Eccentric Orbits
- The Iridium Story
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-07-16
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff
- How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
- By: John Strausbaugh
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories—starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and continuing in the years following--that seemed to achieve the impossible. It was proof, it seemed, that the USSR had manpower and collective will that went beyond America's material advantages. They had asserted themselves as a world power. But in The Wrong Stuff, John Strausbaugh tells a different story.
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well researched, but so very poorly written and narrated
- By R. on 07-06-24
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The Wrong Stuff
- How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-04-24
- Language: English
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He Who Fights with Monsters 11: A LitRPG Adventure
- He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 11
- By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
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Jason and his companions managed to forestall the inexorable undead, but their battle is far from done. Both they and their enemies are scattered across a strange realm, one that someone must conquer if anyone is to get out alive. Territory by territory, factions fight to reunite their people and conquer the realm. Jason must contend with alliances he doesn’t want, friends he cannot find, and enemies ranging from angelic despots to the power of an undead god. He must face a realm that has been warped by his own mind and find a way to save a friend whose sacrifice got them this far.
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stop moralizing at us so much
- By Brendan on 07-24-24
By: Shirtaloon, and others
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- By Cynthia on 11-20-16
By: J. D. Vance
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It Ends with Us
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Olivia Song
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true.
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Not what I expected.
- By Love2Read on 01-23-20
By: Colleen Hoover
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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When 19-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin - one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.
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Bad ending and Immaturity
- By The Story Adict on 09-13-17
By: Sarah J. Maas
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He Who Fights with Monsters 11: A LitRPG Adventure
- He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 11
- By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Jason and his companions managed to forestall the inexorable undead, but their battle is far from done. Both they and their enemies are scattered across a strange realm, one that someone must conquer if anyone is to get out alive. Territory by territory, factions fight to reunite their people and conquer the realm. Jason must contend with alliances he doesn’t want, friends he cannot find, and enemies ranging from angelic despots to the power of an undead god. He must face a realm that has been warped by his own mind and find a way to save a friend whose sacrifice got them this far.
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stop moralizing at us so much
- By Brendan on 07-24-24
By: Shirtaloon, and others
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- By Cynthia on 11-20-16
By: J. D. Vance
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It Ends with Us
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Olivia Song
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true.
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Not what I expected.
- By Love2Read on 01-23-20
By: Colleen Hoover
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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When 19-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin - one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.
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Bad ending and Immaturity
- By The Story Adict on 09-13-17
By: Sarah J. Maas
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The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
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WOW. Just Wow
- By Joanne DeVuono on 02-08-24
By: Kristin Hannah
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Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- By: James Clear
- Narrated by: James Clear
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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Author went overboard hawking his site
- By CHughes on 06-25-19
By: James Clear
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The Briar Club
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own.
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Seriously? Recipes?
- By Deb B. on 07-11-24
By: Kate Quinn
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1
- By: J.K. Rowling
- Narrated by: Jim Dale
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
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A great reading of the wrong book
- By P on 11-24-15
By: J.K. Rowling
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The Coldest Case: The Past Has a Long Memory
- By: James Patterson, Aaron Tracy, Ryan Silbert
- Narrated by: Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, Beau Bridges, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Someone is committing random murders across Chicago—and making sure detectives Billy Harney (Aaron Paul) and Patti Harney (Krysten Ritter) are first on the crime scene. What connects the victims, and why is the killer leaving clues behind with each body? Billy and Patti are scrambling to stop the next killing when their father, Chief of Detectives Dan Harney (Beau Bridges), is kidnapped. But in their race to track him down, they uncover pieces of his past that simply can’t be true. Could their own flesh and blood be covering up a dark secret?
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Re: Good!
- By Cmorgan on 06-15-24
By: James Patterson, and others
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Impact Winter Season 3
- By: Travis Beacham
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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The stakes couldn’t be higher. Darcy, who once seemed to be our only hope for surviving the vampire apocalypse, has gone to the dark side—she’s now the reigning vampire queen. Meanwhile, her sister Hope must lead the charge to save humanity—on a path that’s taking her straight to Darcy. Will an emboldened Hope destroy her own sister to save the world? Would a godlike Darcy ever allow that to happen? They say hope is a dangerous thing, and they just might be right.
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Terrific new season; intriguing, tense, exciting
- By Scott on 07-18-24
By: Travis Beacham
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The Housemaid
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out...and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: The Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of....
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One Big Cliche’
- By Karen Brow on 08-03-22
By: Freida McFadden
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Fourth Wing
- Empyrean, Book 1
- By: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
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Erotica with Dragons
- By Trev on 05-13-23
By: Rebecca Yarros
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All the Colors of the Dark
- By: Chris Whitaker
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
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Best book of 2024
- By Jmo930 on 07-04-24
By: Chris Whitaker
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Eruption
- By: Michael Crichton, James Patterson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Michael Crichton, creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Twister, and Westworld, had a passion project he’d been pursuing for years, ahead of his untimely passing in 2008. Knowing how special it was, his wife, Sherri Crichton, held back his notes and the partial manuscript until she found the right author to complete it: James Patterson, the world’s most popular storyteller.
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I expected a better story
- By Robert Powers on 06-06-24
By: Michael Crichton, and others
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
By: Robert Greene
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The Black Bird Oracle
- A Novel
- By: Deborah Harkness
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line.
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Disappointed.
- By Rebecca A Geisendorf on 07-18-24
By: Deborah Harkness
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First Lie Wins
- A Novel
- By: Ashley Elston
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job isn't like the others. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes—especially after what happened last time.
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What’s The lie?
- By Luke Schafer on 01-13-24
By: Ashley Elston
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The Anxious Generation
- How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- By: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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There is no bigger public health story now than the collapse in youth mental health. The numbers are terrifying and dominate our headlines. There has been much debate over how we got here, and what to do next, and bestselling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is at the white-hot center of that discourse. Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth into the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for Gen Z.
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A Parenting Book for the 2020's
- By Anonymous User on 03-29-24
By: Jonathan Haidt
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
By: Andy Weir
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After You've Gone
- By: Margot Hunt
- Narrated by: Stephanie Einstein, Tyla Collier, Dina Pearlman, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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Tessa and Charlie have been best friends since childhood. Now Tess is a famous travel writer who documents her adventures on social media while Charlie rarely leaves the safety of her home, living in fear after narrowly escaping a vicious attack years earlier. But despite their different lives, their bond of friendship remains unbreakable...even in death.
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Quick Fun Listen
- By Amazon Customer on 07-11-24
By: Margot Hunt
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Funny Story
- By: Emily Henry
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
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Funny Story is a Wonderful Read
- By Cathy Sykora on 04-24-24
By: Emily Henry
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The God of the Woods
- A Novel
- By: Liz Moore
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
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Good story telling
- By Ri on 07-12-24
By: Liz Moore
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Throne of Glass
- Throne of Glass, Book 1
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an 18-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament - fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land. Live or die, Celaena will be free. Win or lose, she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin's heart be melted?
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Young adult, sure
- By Amazon Customer on 05-24-21
By: Sarah J. Maas
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A Game of Thrones
- A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1
- By: George R.R. Martin
- Narrated by: Roy Dotrice
- Length: 33 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse - unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances....
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Terrible editing, though...
- By Kristie on 05-09-13
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Haunting Adeline
- Cat and Mouse Duet, Book 1
- By: H. D. Carlton
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Michelle Sparks
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Manipulator. I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. The Shadow. I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that I have, I can't stay away. I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves. I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine. And once she is, I'll never let her go.
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Seriously, check those TWs. Not for the faint of ❤
- By Kel on 09-05-22
By: H. D. Carlton
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You Like It Darker
- Stories
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Stephen King
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to digest.
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Chilling and beautiful stories
- By MamaBear on 05-24-24
By: Stephen King
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Butcher & Blackbird
- The Ruinous Love Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Brynne Weaver
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Lucy Rivers
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country.
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Listen, I'm a 'sympathetic retcher'
- By J. Scarlyn on 10-25-23
By: Brynne Weaver
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Just for the Summer
- By: Abby Jimenez
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Zachary Webber, Abby Jimenez
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work.
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Good but heavy
- By Maria on 04-04-24
By: Abby Jimenez