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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- By: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well.
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Narration way too slow
- By Diane on 04-27-19
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
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Mind of an Outlaw
- Selected Essays
- By: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 22 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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As America's foremost public intellectual, Norman Mailer was a ubiquitous presence in our national life - on the airwaves and in print - for more than sixty years. With his supple mind and pugnacious persona, he engaged society more than any other writer of his generation. The trademark Mailer swagger is much in evidence in these pages as he holds forth on culture, ideology, politics, sex, gender, and celebrity, among other topics.
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Mind of an Outlaw
- Selected Essays
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 22 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-27-15
- Language: English
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
- By: Gore Vidal, Jay Parini - editor
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Gore Vidal - novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist - is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
- American Imperialism, Book 1
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed then too controversial to publish), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of “evil-doers?”
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Gore Vidal Shits on Everything
- By Jeremy Hager on 01-17-20
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
- American Imperialism, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Series: American Imperialism Series, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-31-19
- Language: English
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The Displaced
- Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen - editor
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience.
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The Displaced
- Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Sullivan's Island
- A Lowcountry Tale
- By: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Born and raised in idyllic Sullivan's Island, Susan Hayes navigated through her turbulent childhood with humor, spunk, and characteristic Southern sass. But years later, she is a conflicted woman with an unfaithful husband, a sometimes resentful teenage daughter, and a heart that aches with painful, poignant memories. And as Susan faces her uncertain future, she realizes that she must go back to her past. To the beachfront house where her sister welcomes her with open arms.
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Wish there were more
- By Amy on 05-19-16
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Sullivan's Island
- A Lowcountry Tale
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-22-08
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
- The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
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“Buy the ticket, take the ride,” was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life. Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the roller-coaster of a career at the magazine that was his literary home.
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If bad words offend you, don't read.
- By Robert on 07-19-12
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
- The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-25-11
- Language: English
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The Givenness of Things
- Essays
- By: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope.
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Mostly thoughts on religious things
- By Adam Shields on 01-26-16
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The Givenness of Things
- Essays
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-27-15
- Language: English
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Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)
- The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
- By: Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. The book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice.
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Excellent book but...
- By Timothy on 05-05-21
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Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)
- The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-28-20
- Language: English
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Sister Mother Husband Dog
- Etc.
- By: Delia Ephron
- Narrated by: Meg Ryan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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In Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, writing, movies, and family. From keen observations on modern living, the joy of girlfriends, and best-friendship, to a consideration of the magical madness and miracle of dogs, to haunting recollections of life with her famed screenwriter mother and growing up the child of alcoholics, Ephron's eloquent style and voice illuminate every moment of this superb and singular work.
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AHHHHHHH - Just wonderful!!!
- By tooonce72 on 11-10-13
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Sister Mother Husband Dog
- Etc.
- Narrated by: Meg Ryan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-17-13
- Language: English
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Shadowhunters and Downworlders
- A Mortal Instruments Reader
- By: Cassandra Clare - editor
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Number-one New York Times best-selling author Cassandra Clare created the Mortal Instruments in 2004 with City of Bones (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Since then, the series has grown to five books, with a sixth due in 2014, and been joined by two spinoff trilogies and an upcoming film starring Jamie Campbell Power and Lily Collins. Featuring stories by Holly Black, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, and Robin Wasserman.
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Should have read the description first
- By Karina_R on 08-30-16
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Shadowhunters and Downworlders
- A Mortal Instruments Reader
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby
- Series: The Mortal Instruments
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-29-13
- Language: English
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov, and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992).
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An entertaining anthology & a superb narration
- By S&DH on 11-13-21
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-31-19
- Language: English
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Graceland, At Last
- Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
- By: Margaret Renkl
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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For the past four years, Margaret Renkl’s columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this sparkling new collection.
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I really enjoy Renkl’s writings.
- By Anonymous in NC on 01-22-24
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Graceland, At Last
- Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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Incendiary Circumstances
- A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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“An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our times.
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Fascinating essays
- By J. Dusheck on 10-26-23
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Incendiary Circumstances
- A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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Tomboyland
- Essays
- By: Melissa Faliveno, Joey Soloway - introduction
- Narrated by: Melissa Faliveno
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It's a place of rolling prairies and towering pines, where guns in bars and trucks on blocks are as much a part of the landscape as rivers and lakes and farms. Where girls are girls and boys are boys, where women are mothers and wives, where one is taught to work hard and live between the lines.
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Embrace the Quirk
- By Lorraine S. on 07-26-22
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Tomboyland
- Essays
- Narrated by: Melissa Faliveno
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 08-01-20
- Language: English
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Why Didn't We Riot?
- A Black Man in Trumpland
- By: Issac J. Bailey
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in Trump’s America. South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics which have taken on a fresh urgency with the protest movement sparked by George Floyd’s killing. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a century in his professional and private life, which included an 18-year stint as a member of a mostly white Evangelical Christian church.
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Thought provoking and timely
- By Timothy E. Craven on 05-17-21
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Why Didn't We Riot?
- A Black Man in Trumpland
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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Hollywood vs. The Author
- By: Stephen Jay Schwartz - editor, Michael Connelly, T. Jefferson Parker, and others
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Simon Mattacks, Stephen Jay Schwartz, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Hollywood vs. The Author is a collection of non-fiction anecdotes by authors who’ve had the pleasure of experiencing the development room firsthand - some who have successfully managed to straddle the two worlds, seeing their works morph into the kinds of feature films and TV shows that make them proud, and others who stepped blindsided into that room after selling their first or second novels. All the stories in this collection illustrate the great divide between the world of literature and the big or small screen.
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Very helpful!
- By David E. Allen on 07-30-19
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Hollywood vs. The Author
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Simon Mattacks, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Alan Jacobson, Tess Gerritsen, Lee Goldberg, Naomi Hirahara, Joshua Corin, Andrew Kaplan, Lawrence Block, Diana Gould, Rob Roberge, Alexandra Sokoloff, James Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-18-18
- Language: English
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Malaya
- Essays on Freedom
- By: Cinelle Barnes
- Narrated by: Cinelle Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn’t get a driver’s license or file taxes, Cinelle worked as a cleaning lady and a nanny and took other odd jobs - and learned to look over her shoulder, hoping she wouldn’t get caught.
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Captivating and powerful
- By Megan on 12-18-19
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Malaya
- Essays on Freedom
- Narrated by: Cinelle Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-29-19
- Language: English
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The Good Story
- Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
- By: Arabella Kurtz, J. M. Coetzee
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Sandra Burr
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with training in literary studies. Coetzee and Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a fascination with narrative. Working alone, the writer is in control of the story he or she tells.
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Probably most interesting to psychotherapists who aspire to write fiction.
- By Darrell Rohling on 08-31-16
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The Good Story
- Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Sandra Burr
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-26-15
- Language: English
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The Joker
- A Memoir
- By: Andrew Hudgins
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself — what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger. Because Hudgins’s father, a West Point graduate, served in the US Air Force, his family moved frequently; he learned to relate to other kids by telling jokes and watching how his classmates responded. And jokes opened him up to the serious, taboo subjects that his family didn’t talk about openly — religion, race, sex, and death. Hudgins tells and analyzes the jokes that explore the contradictions in the Baptist religion he was brought up in, the jokes that told him what his parents would not tell him about sex, and the racist jokes that his uncle loved, his father hated, and his mother, caught in the middle, was ambivalent about. This audiobook is both a memoir and a meditation on jokes and how they educated, delighted, and occasionally horrified him as he grew.
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The Joker
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-11-13
- Language: English
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Red Sky Mourning
- A Thriller
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking distance of the West Coast.
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Carr’s writing is fast, tense and UNPUTDOWNABLE!!!
- By shelley on 06-19-24
By: Jack Carr
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The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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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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Eruption
- By: Michael Crichton, James Patterson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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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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The Housemaid Is Watching
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman, Ina Marie Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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From New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Freida McFadden comes the next installment of the unbelievably twisty, tension-packed and globally bestselling Housemaid series. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone listen: and once you start, it will have you up all night until the final explosive twist.
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Twenty years later
- By Mama on 06-12-24
By: Freida McFadden
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Red Sky Mourning
- A Thriller
- By: Jack Carr
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking distance of the West Coast.
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Carr’s writing is fast, tense and UNPUTDOWNABLE!!!
- By shelley on 06-19-24
By: Jack Carr
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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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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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The Housemaid Is Watching
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman, Ina Marie Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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From New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Freida McFadden comes the next installment of the unbelievably twisty, tension-packed and globally bestselling Housemaid series. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone listen: and once you start, it will have you up all night until the final explosive twist.
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Twenty years later
- By Mama on 06-12-24
By: Freida McFadden
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
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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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You Like It Darker
- Stories
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Stephen King
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 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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What happened to the chapter titles
- By MztCB on 05-25-24
By: Stephen King
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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
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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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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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Mad Love
- By: Wendy Walker
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Alexis Bledel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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They were madly in love. The perfect couple. That was the story everyone in South River believed...until Gin Talcott and Adam Archer are found shot in their bed. Adam is dead at the scene. Gin is fighting for her life. Detectives Greta Jessup and Finn Pate are assigned to the case. Greta has a long history with Gin’s first husband, Eddie, and is determined to protect his 18-year-old twins. Piper discovered the bodies. Daniel is missing—and so is Adam’s gun.
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Surprised
- By marcie on 05-25-24
By: Wendy Walker
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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 Duke and I
- By: Julia Quinn
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry - though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets Simon's heart beating a bit faster. And as for Daphne, surely the clever debutante will attract some very worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable.
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Too much sex for this reader
- By BZ on 04-23-17
By: Julia Quinn
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Fourth Wing
- Empyrean, Book 1
- By: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
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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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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
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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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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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On Call
- A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
- By: Anthony Fauci M.D.
- Narrated by: Anthony Fauci M.D.
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
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Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major role. His crucial role in researching HIV and bringing AIDS into sympathetic public view and his leadership in navigating the Ebola, SARS, West Nile, and anthrax crises, make him truly an American hero.
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Wonderful, insightful story.
- By shelly in atlanta on 06-21-24
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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
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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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Empower parents, Not governments
- By Vance V. Ginn on 04-14-24
By: Jonathan Haidt
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Swan Song
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Elin Hilderbrand
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons—how did they make their money, exactly?—Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes of everyone they meet. When their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island is up in arms.
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The best
- By Pink Amy on 06-13-24
By: Elin Hilderbrand
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The Worst of You
- By: Sarah Richards
- Narrated by: Sarah Desjardins
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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In The Worst of You, just-wed architects Timo and Nia flee a murder scene, setting in motion a chain reaction of lies and betrayals that threaten to unravel everything they have built together. Twisted and propulsive, this thriller is told from the alternating perspectives of the couple and those close to them on Williwaw Island, each with their own motive to use the outcome of the murder case to their advantage. When a huge storm sweeps up the coast, trapping everyone on tiny Williwaw Island, it’s a race against time—and the elements — to stop the murderer from striking again.
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A boring drawn out simplistic plot
- By RJD on 05-31-24
By: Sarah Richards
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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
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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
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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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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Bluebeard
- By: Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
- Narrated by: Joseph Fiennes, Karen David, Holt McCallany, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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In 1919, Kathryn Wombacher finds a lonely-hearts ad placed by one Walter Andrew: "Would be pleased to correspond with a refined young lady or widow. Object, matrimony.” Kathryn and Walter fall in love and marry within weeks. What Kathryn doesn’t know...is that her new husband is really James “Bluebeard” Watson, a notorious West Coast serial killer who catfished and married 22 women, murdering 10.
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- By HappyMom on 05-24-24
By: Jim Clemente, and others
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Listen for the Lie
- A Novel
- By: Amy Tintera
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
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The Truth doesn’t matter
- By Anonymous User on 03-08-24
By: Amy Tintera
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Winter Lost
- A Mercy Thompson Novel, Book 14
- By: Patricia Briggs
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In the supernatural realms, there are creatures who belong to winter. I am not one of them. But like the coyote I can become at will, I am adaptable. My name is Mercy Thompson Hauptman, and my mate, Adam, is the werewolf who leads the Columbia Basin Pack, the pack charged with keeping the people who live and work in the Tri-Cities of Washington State safe. It’s a hard job, and it doesn’t leave much room for side quests. Which is why when I needed to travel to Montana to help my brother, I intended to go by myself.
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As always
- By Alex on 06-19-24
By: Patricia Briggs
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The Accidental Dating Experiment
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Jacob Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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Eight years ago I fell into a secret summer fling with my best friend’s little sister before our lives went in different directions. Now, I’m the grumpy to Juliet’s sunshine on a popular dating podcast we host, and when a wealthy fan gives us a charming coastal cottage as the biggest thank you ever, we head to the town where I grew up to give it a makeover. And find the house has only one bed. Located under a mirrored ceiling.
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The kind of Romance everyone needs in their collection!
- By M. Santos on 04-11-24
By: Lauren Blakely
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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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George Orwell’s 1984
- An Audible Original adaptation
- By: George Orwell, Joe White - adaptation
- Narrated by: Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.
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A Revelation!
- By wotsallthisthen on 04-07-24
By: George Orwell, and others
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Leather & Lark
- The Ruinous Love, Book 2
- By: Brynne Weaver
- Narrated by: Samantha Brentmoor, Eric Nolan
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss’s biggest client, Lachlan knows he’ll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she’ll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first. And they can’t stand each other.
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omgosh!! 😍😍
- By Mary on 06-06-24
By: Brynne Weaver