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Cousine Lisbeth
- By: Honoré de Balzac, Cécile Wajsbrot, Nathalie Mälzer, and others
- Narrated by: Astrid Meyerfeldt, Felix von Manteuffel, Gerd Wameling, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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Balzacs Meisterwerk als kinoreifes Hörspiel. Paris im Jahre 1838. Madame Adeline Hulot, schöne Lothringerin im besten Alter, könnte die Mittel für die Verheiratung ihrer Tochter Hortense beschaffen, wenn sie dem unverhohlenen Werben des Hauptmanns der Ehrengarde und Parfümfabrikanten Crevel nachgäbe. Das Vermögen der Familie brachte Adelines Ehemann durch. Still folgt dem Geschehen die Cousine Lisbeth, die ihre Tage im Palais der Familie verbringt. Nahe am Louvre in einer dunklen Straße liegt Lisbeths Wohnung. Dort birgt sie ein Geheimnis.In der Hörspielbearbeitung von Cécile Wajsbrot.
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Cousine Lisbeth
- Narrated by: Astrid Meyerfeldt, Felix von Manteuffel, Gerd Wameling, Friedhelm Ptok, Marguerite Gateau, Imogen Kogge, Gustav Peter Wöhler
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-24-18
- Language: German
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Erotische Meisterwerke
- Das Beste aus den Tolldreisten Geschichten
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Aus den Tolldreisten Geschichten Balzacs hier die besten: "Die schöne Imperia", "Die Jungfrau von Thilouze", "Der lustige Pfarrer von Azay-le-Rideau", "Die schöne Wäscherin von Pontillon", "Die Fasten König Franz' des Ersten", "Wie eine schöne und tugendsame Frau zur Hure gemacht werden sollte", "Die Hochzeit des Mönchs", "Eine teure Liebesnacht", "Wie das schöne Mädchen von Pontillon seinen Richter überführte", "Missliche Unterhaltung dreier Pilger". Ungekürzt gelesen. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit Trackliste.
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Erotische Meisterwerke
- Das Beste aus den Tolldreisten Geschichten
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-16-20
- Language: German
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Eine dunkle Begebenheit
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Walter Hilsbecher
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Eine Verschwörung gegen Napoleon im Jahr 1806 ist der Ausgangspunkt dieses Romans, den Balzac 1842 veröffentlichte. Die Königstreuen wollten die Macht an sich reißen und den Kaiser stürzen. Doch die Hintergründe dieser Verschwörung blieben viele Jahre im Dunklen. Erst Jahrzehnte später lüftet sich bei einer Abendgesellschaft das Geheimnis... Walter Hilsbecher liest Balzacs Roman, der auf historischen Ereignissen beruht und mit seiner sich auf Indizien und Zeugenaussagen stützenden schrittweisen Aufklärung als unmittelbarer Vorläufer des modernen Kriminalromans gilt.
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Eine dunkle Begebenheit
- Narrated by: Walter Hilsbecher
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-13-20
- Language: German
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The Church - A Short Story Collection
- By: Henry James, D H Lawrence, Vladimir Korolenko, and others
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple. The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its calling. Of course, short story authors have a determined belief in their undoubted talents to make us look at this subject from different angles. In this volume they take us on literary journeys that are revealing and challenging yet always entertaining.
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The Church - A Short Story Collection
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-30-24
- Language: English
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Konungens älskarinna och andra lustiga historier
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Anders Mossling
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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Novellsamling som innehåller novellerna Konungens älskarinna, Konnetabelns maka, Flickan från Thilhouze, Vapenbrodern, Kyrkoherden i Azay-Le-Rideau, Läxan, Frans I:s fasta, De kloka nunnorna i Poissy och Huruledes slotter i Azay blev byggt I originalöversättning av Ernst Lundquist. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) var en mycket produktiv författare som lade grunden för realismen. Han hör till en av de mest namnkunniga franska författarna och blev känd för sin känsla för detaljer och för sina karaktärsskildringar.
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Konungens älskarinna och andra lustiga historier
- Narrated by: Anders Mossling
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-31-17
- Language: Swedish
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The Ball at Sceaux
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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http://www.adfreebooks.com - 1000+ audiobooks, all ad free!The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great life work — the expansive fiction series titled “The Human Comedy.” The central character is Émilie de Fontaine, youngest daughter of a noble but impoverished family in post-revolutionary France. Her hapless father hopes to find her a good marriage, but Émilie, spoiled and willful, has repeatedly turned away suitors. She has a list of requirements for any prospective husband, one of which is that he must, of course, be “the son of a peer of France.” (The ...
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Eugenia Grandet [Eugénie Grandet]
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- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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La storia di Eugénie è ambientata a Saumur, piccolo paesino della campagna francese. Il padre di Eugénie, che in città è conosciuto come papà Grandet, è un vecchio vignaiuolo arricchitosi grazie all'eredità paterna fatta fruttare tramite giusti investimenti finanziari, ha un fiuto infallibile per gli affari e ad una proverbiale avarizia, che suscita in lui un notevole attaccamento all'oro che “sembrava aver comunicato il suo colore al suo viso”. Nonostante la sua ricchezza, quindi, il padrone di casa fa di tutto per nasconderla, non parlarne e, soprattutto, non spenderla.
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Eugenia Grandet [Eugénie Grandet]
- RLI CLASSICI [RLI Classics]
- Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-10-22
- Language: Italian
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Gelbe Edition
- By: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Franz Kafka, Anton Tschechow, and others
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Sven Görtz, Tim Eriksson
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Immensee" (T. Storm), "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" (G. Keller), "Der Schuss von der Kanzel" (C. F. Meyer), "Das Urteil" (F. Kafka), "Auf der Post" (A. Tschechow), "Der Bund der Rothaarigen" (A. C. Doyle), "Die Nacht vor der Verhandlung" (A. Tschechow), "Eine teure Liebesnacht" (H. de Balzac), "Ritter Gluck" (E. T. A. Hoffmann), "Brief einer Unbekannten" (S. Zweig).
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Gelbe Edition
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Sven Görtz, Tim Eriksson
- Series: Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-19-22
- Language: German
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Die Messe der Gottlosen
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 48 mins
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Der famose französische Chirurg „Desplein“ ist Meister seines Fachs und nimmt sich als Mentor des fleißigen jungen Doktors „Bianchon“ an, der an seinem medizinischen Lehrer zwar in regelmäßigen Abständen gegensätzliche Verhaltensweisen wahrnimmt, aber diese emotionale Ambivalenz darauf zurückführt, dass diese allen genialen Männern zu eigen ist. Als er seinen Mentor aber eines Tages dabei ertappt wie dieser einen Gottesdienst besucht, obwohl er in der Öffentlichkeit flammende Reden gegen die Religion führt ist das Maß voll.
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Die Messe der Gottlosen
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 03-06-23
- Language: German
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Kurzgeschichten - Zehn Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Rote Edition
- By: Johann Peter Hebel, Franz Kafka, Giovanni Boccaccio, and others
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Sven Görtz, Tim Eriksson
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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Die Kurzgeschichte ist das Genre der Vielfalt. Sie kann alles sein: heiter, abenteuerlich, nachdenklich, frivol, erotisch, schauerlich, satirisch und vieles andere mehr. Sie ist immer spannend und auf den Punkt genau erzählt. Lassen Sie sich von unserer Auswahl weltberühmter Kurzgeschichten in unbekannte und bunte Welten entführen.
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Kurzgeschichten - Zehn Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Rote Edition
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Sven Görtz, Tim Eriksson
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-24-23
- Language: German
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Beige Edition
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Tschechow, Leo Tolstoi, and others
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Tim Eriksson, Sven Görtz
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
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Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Der Spiegel des Cyprianus" (Storm), "Novelle" (Goethe), "Michael Kohlhaas" (Kleist), "Traumnovelle" (Schnitzler), "William Wilson" (Poe), "Ein Glücklicher" (Tschechow), "Wie eine schöne und tugendsame Frau zur Hure gemacht werden sollte" (Balzac), "Lösche den Funken, ehe er zur Flamme wird" (Tolstoi), "24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau" (Zweig), "Die Büste des Kaisers" (Roth).
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Beige Edition
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Tim Eriksson, Sven Görtz
- Series: Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-27-23
- Language: German
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Grüne Edition
- By: Leo Tolstoi, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Roth, and others
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Sven Görtz, Tim Eriksson
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Zehn meisterhafte Novellen weltbekannter Autoren in einer Hörbuch-Box! Inhalt: "Schachnovelle" (S. Zweig), "Das Erdbeben in Chile" (H. v. Kleist), "Pique Dame" (A. Puschkin), "Leutnant Gustl" (A. Schnitzler), "Der entwendete Brief" (E. A. Poe), "Ein Hungerkünstler" (F. Kafka), "Der Tod des Beamten" (A. Tschechow), "Der lustige Pfarrer von Azay-le-Rideau" (H. de Balzac), "Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?" (L. Tolstoi), "Der Leviathan" (J. Roth).
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Grüne Edition
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Sven Görtz, Tim Eriksson
- Series: Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 08-12-22
- Language: German
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Vadideki Zambak
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Mehmet Atay
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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“Sonradan şark şiirinin ruhumda ışıması gibi birdenbire parlayan bir kadın kokusu aldım. Yanımda oturan kadına baktım ve gözlerimi bu eğlenceden de çok kamaştırdı; birdenbire tüm şenliğim o oldu. Daha önceki yaşamımı iyi anladıysanız, o anda kalbimden fışkıran duyguları da tahmin edebilirsiniz. Okşayabilmek için deliye döndüğüm bu ak ve yuvarlak omuzlara takıldı gözlerim; sanki ilk kez çıplak kalmış gibi hafifçe pembeleşmişlerdi. Pek edepli, adeta bir ruhu olan ve ışıkta ipekli bir kumaş gibi parlayan saten bir teni vardı bu omuzların. Dinlemek için çok iyi bir seçim.
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Vadideki Zambak
- Narrated by: Mehmet Atay
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-21-23
- Language: Turkish
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Stille Wasser - Legendäre Liebesgeschichten
- By: Giacomo Casanova, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Honoré de Balzac, and others
- Narrated by: Ingolf Kliss, Viola Grefenstein, Suzanne Alt, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Tragische, skandalöse, oder auch berührende Liebesgeschichten faszinieren uns. Entdecken Sie hier einige der schönsten Lovestorys aus unserem literarischen Fundus. Mehr als 8 Stunden prickelnde Urlaubs-Hörlektüre.
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Stille Wasser - Legendäre Liebesgeschichten
- Narrated by: Ingolf Kliss, Viola Grefenstein, Suzanne Alt, Michael Dufwing
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 07-20-23
- Language: German
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Vater Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Schrader
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Die Pension der Madame Vauquer vereint Menschen aus verschiedenen Schichten an ihrem Mittagstisch. Vor dem Hintergrund der Restauration entsteht ein gesellschaftliches Bild von Paris im beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum aber steht die Liebe eines Vaters zu seinen Töchtern, die keine Grenzen kennt. Dem nur scheinbaren Glück dieser Töchter, deren gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg er finanziert, opfert er alles, schließlich sogar sein Leben. Dabei steht Goriot für einen anachronistischen Idealismus, über den die neue Zeit erbarmungslos hinwegrollt.
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Vater Goriot
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Schrader
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-19-23
- Language: German
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Verlorene Illusionen
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Schrader
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
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In diesem Dreiteiler, der wiederum Teil der monumentalen "comédie humaine" ist, beschreibt Honoré de Balzac die Irrungen und Wirrungen eines Dichters aus der Provinz in Paris. Das Frankreich der bourbonischen Restauration und seine oft bizarre Spaltung zwischen Paris und der Provinz wird in helles Licht getaucht. Der Dichter Lucien Chardon mit all seinen Begabungen erfährt einen Charaktertest, in dem klar wird, dass Ehrgeiz ohne eine entsprechende Bereitschaft zu demütiger Arbeit kein Erfolg beschieden sein kann.
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Verlorene Illusionen
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Schrader
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-08-23
- Language: German
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War
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate.
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Please God Make Trump Go Away
- By DavidF on 10-17-24
By: Bob Woodward
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From Here to the Great Unknown
- A Memoir
- By: Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough
- Narrated by: Riley Keough, Julia Roberts
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved. Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them.
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Raw emotions
- By Kindle Customer on 10-08-24
By: Lisa Marie Presley, and others
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The Boyfriend
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Victoria Connolly, Robb Moreira
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet. Then the brutal murder of a young woman—the latest in a string of deaths across the coast—confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
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The story whole thing is agonizing to listen to.
- By G Andrew Smith on 10-01-24
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
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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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War
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate.
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Please God Make Trump Go Away
- By DavidF on 10-17-24
By: Bob Woodward
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From Here to the Great Unknown
- A Memoir
- By: Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough
- Narrated by: Riley Keough, Julia Roberts
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved. Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them.
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Raw emotions
- By Kindle Customer on 10-08-24
By: Lisa Marie Presley, and others
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The Boyfriend
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Victoria Connolly, Robb Moreira
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet. Then the brutal murder of a young woman—the latest in a string of deaths across the coast—confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
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The story whole thing is agonizing to listen to.
- By G Andrew Smith on 10-01-24
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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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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Here One Moment
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee, Geraldine Hakewill
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life, even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she’d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers.
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Too much of the death lady!
- By karen on 09-28-24
By: Liane Moriarty
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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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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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start here, if you are looking to achieve in life
- By NL on 10-22-18
By: James Clear
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The Waiting
- Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch, Book 6
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen.
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Connolly is the best
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 10-15-24
By: Michael Connelly
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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 nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her 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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Revenge of the Tipping Point
- Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is Miami… Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of gripping stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering
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Repetitive and boring
- By Gayle Allen on 10-08-24
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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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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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- A Hunger Games Novel
- By: Suzanne Collins
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the 10th annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to out charm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low.
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Bad part
- By Edgars Dumins on 05-19-20
By: Suzanne Collins
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Book 2
- By: J.K. Rowling
- Narrated by: Jim Dale
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.
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Jim Dale is wonderful!
- By ladigolfer on 12-31-15
By: J.K. Rowling
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The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio Collection
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, and others
- Length: 33 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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For over 60 years, readers of all ages have been enchanted by the magical realms, the epic battles between good and evil, and the unforgettable creatures of Narnia. This box set includes all seven titles in The Chronicles of Narnia - The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; and The Last Battle.
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Comes without book subdivisions - chapter key below
- By Daniel on 01-07-20
By: C. S. Lewis
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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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The Silmarillion
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Martin Shaw
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The complete unabridged audiobook of J.R.R Tolkien's The Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part.
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Finally!
- By Brian on 11-22-18
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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House of Earth and Blood
- Crescent City, Book 1
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night - until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose - to assassinate his boss' enemies, no questions asked.
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What a disappointment
- By Hollie Morales on 03-09-20
By: Sarah J. Maas
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From Blood and Ash
- Blood and Ash, Book 1
- By: Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers.
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Hum - just hum
- By Amazon Customer on 09-22-20
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Book 3
- By: J.K. Rowling
- Narrated by: Jim Dale
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss...
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Jim Dale at his best
- By rottndachs on 01-12-16
By: J.K. Rowling
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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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Great story
- By AJ Frithiof on 02-08-24
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Message
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the English Language,” but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind.
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Coates is our Baldwin, our DuBois, our Douglass
- By Lauren on 10-01-24
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Book 4
- By: J.K. Rowling
- Narrated by: Jim Dale
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive!
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“Harreeeeeeeeee”
- By D.S.G. on 01-06-18
By: J.K. Rowling
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
By: Ann Patchett
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A Court of Mist and Fury
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 23 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she’s now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre’s hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different people: one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin.
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Shippers will either Love it or Hate it
- By Natalie C on 05-05-16
By: Sarah J. Maas
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None of This Is True
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
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Victim shaming a teen girl?
- By Lisa & Travis on 08-11-23
By: Lisa Jewell
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The Final Empire
- Mistborn Book 1
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison.
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Prepare for sleepless nights
- By tercia on 10-21-18
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5
- By: J.K. Rowling
- Narrated by: Jim Dale
- Length: 26 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time...
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Jim Dale is the BEST!
- By Leigh on 07-03-19
By: J.K. Rowling