Catherine M Malcolm
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Scum of the Earth
- By: Alexander C. Kane
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 154
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Ezra Barker is a traitor. When the Merg invaded Earth, he didn’t fight or even hide. He cooperated, helping them as they seized control of the planet and began their pillaging of its resources. While others toil away in mines and quarries, Ezra works an office job, helping his boss, The Senator, rule over the swath of territory given to her by the Merg. Sergeant Hayes is a brutal enforcer of the Merg’s rules. As an officer in the Health and Safety Department, he follows Merg orders, arresting, interrogating, and executing at their command.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very different from other Kane novels.
- By Jul on 01-23-24
- Scum of the Earth
- By: Alexander C. Kane
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
Perfect for fans of 1984
Reviewed: 05-09-24
This book was a real mind trip that put politics, human nature, and existential threats into one complete package. The twists you would have expected are not the ones that happened, but overall the whole book was poignant and darkly fun.
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 499
It"s true that Anna Trent is a supervisor in a chocolate factory...but that doesn"t necessarily mean she knows how to make chocolate. And when a fateful accident gives her the opportunity to work at Paris"s elite chocolatier Le Chapeau Chocolat, Anna expects to be outed as a fraud. After all, there is a world of difference between chalky, mass-produced English chocolate and the gourmet confections Anna"s new boss creates. But with a bit of luck and a lot of patience, Anna might learn that the sweetest things in life are always worth working for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 STARS - SWEETEST STORY
- By Marie on 02-25-18
- The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Honestly a Bit Traumatizing
Reviewed: 04-18-24
What I wanted was a fun little Paris chocolate story with an interesting cast of characters. I wanted something light and fairly meaningless. What I got was actual flashbacks to my time in the hospital after a serious medical event and some kind of post-coma PTSD. I was not prepared for it to talk about sensations and thoughts that only can be understood by people who have been through severe physical trauma. So, if you"ve never been through major trauma that caused you to be in a medically induced coma, this book is light and fun. If you have, this book is going to give you PTSD. I don"t know if the author went through any of that, or perhaps is close to someone who did, but I couldn"t enjoy so much of this book becauseit was too relatable.
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Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,855
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,849
Inheriting your uncle"s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who"s running the place. Charlie"s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn"t all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
- Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Best Scalzi Ever
Reviewed: 03-22-24
I do not like Scalzi, so when the reviews here said that it was nothing like anything he had ever written, I took heart. I"m glad I gave it a chance because it was amazing.
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Tarzan of the Apes [Blackstone Edition]
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: James Slattery
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,000
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 812
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 814
Deep in the heart of the Congo a small baby is adopted by Kala, a fierce anthropoid ape of the tribe of Kerchak. Here, protected by his savage foster mother, Tarzan (for so she named him) learned the secrets of jungle life - how to talk with all animals, how to move like a shadow, how to swing freely through the teeming forest, how to fight barehanded the great carnivores. Here he acquired the strength and agility of his guardian apes, and the same keen sense of smell and sound that all wild creatures need to protect themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Dee on 01-02-07
- Tarzan of the Apes [Blackstone Edition]
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: James Slattery
Disney Did The Right Thing
Reviewed: 01-09-23
I could not possibly recommend this book to anyone. It is some white power fantasy sociopathic nonsense. What on EARTH was that?
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Hilda and the Time Worm
- Hilda, Book 4
- By: Stephen Davies, Luke Pearson
- Narrated by: Carlyss Peer, Bella Ramsey, Arthur Smith Galiano, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
At the start of her fourth audiobook, our blue-haired heroine is selling soup with her Sparrow Scout friends at the Winter Festival fayre. Soon, however, she"s tackling mischievous Yule Lads, battling mechanical bell-ringers, taking on a hungry ogre and trying to reunite a couple across the decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Teleporting to the past
- By GaPeach on 08-08-24
- Hilda and the Time Worm
- Hilda, Book 4
- By: Stephen Davies, Luke Pearson
- Narrated by: Carlyss Peer, Bella Ramsey, Arthur Smith Galiano, Ameerah Falzon-Ojo, Sanchia McCormack, Rasmus Hardiker, Wes Venn
Beautiful story!
Reviewed: 01-09-23
High quality production value, a refreshing theme song, and a beautiful story to boot. One of the sweetest Hilda stories, for sure!
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False Value
- Rivers of London, Book 8
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,389
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,185
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,176
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner"s brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street"s famous "silicon roundabout", Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ben + Kobna collaboration"s > sum of words in book
- By ANSWER 42 on 02-29-20
- False Value
- Rivers of London, Book 8
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Plot twist!
Reviewed: 01-08-23
I disliked the beginning of this book so much that I didn"t pick it back up for months, but I am glad that I did. At the end of the prior novel, everything felt very done and like it was going to be hard to go on from there, and then this novel started with an early slog. I clearly enjoy Aaronovitch"s writing, so I knew that he could pull it off, and he really did in the end. Plus there clearly must be more after this! You can"t just leave Peter Grant where he is at the end, he has a whole life ahead of him! So, long and short of it, the reader is always amazing, the story really becomes quite fun, and I"m certain there are many more books to come, which I heartily look forward to.
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Dread Nation
- By: Justina Ireland
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,108
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,843
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,832
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Dead Are Never Lonely
- By Cynthia on 05-15-18
- Dread Nation
- By: Justina Ireland
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
The Kind of Zombie Story We Need
Reviewed: 01-07-23
Refreshing, interesting, and complex. Multi dimensional characters interacting in an interesting way in an explosive time in American history-- plus zombies!
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The Princess and the Goblin
- Presented by Blackstone
- By: George MacDonald
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 935
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 787
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 782
The discovery of a secret stairway running to the top of the castle leads Princess Irene to a revelation even more weighty than the fiendish plans of the goblin community that miner boy Curdie has discovered. Will the Princess and Curdie understand the significance of what they have found, or will Harelip and the goblins successfully execute their evil plan?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a good choice of narrator
- By S. Helms on 07-29-16
- The Princess and the Goblin
- Presented by Blackstone
- By: George MacDonald
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Childhood Favorite Still Great
Reviewed: 01-07-23
I grew up with The Princess and The Goblin as a movie I watched regularly and loved. I was afraid that being such an old story it would have a very icky world view, but it was actually fantastic. Totally timeless, and it sounds like it was written a good century later than it was, maybe more. Still lovely, very odd but charming, and it is clear that the author told these stories first to his MANY children before writing them down and sharing them with the world. Bravo!
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The Werewolf"s 15 Minutes
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Dina Pearlman
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,056
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,808
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,797
Gary Bruce is a slacker of epic loserness. Can’t keep a job. His friends are as bad as he is. No girlfriend. No direction. Gary Bruce is also a werewolf. Desperate for any kind of success, Gary decides to out himself on YouTube. The moment this ordinary guy goes full-on fur, fangs, and claws, the world can’t get enough of him. He’s the biggest thing on social media, he’s on every talk show, book and movie deals fall in his lap, and for the first time in his life he gets invited to all the best parties. But celebrity is a special kind of voracious monster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Halloween Fun!
- By LLG on 10-28-21
- The Werewolf"s 15 Minutes
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Dina Pearlman
Strong beginning, odd ending
Reviewed: 01-07-23
Kind of neat short story, didn"t love the ending. It was okay. Good modern details, seems realistic, gets strange.
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Vagina Obscura
- An Anatomical Voyage
- By: Rachel E. Gross
- Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 131
The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed”. Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men. Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally redrawing the map. With modern tools and fresh perspectives, they’re looking at the organs traditionally bound up in reproduction—the uterus, ovaries, vagina—and seeing within them a new biology of change and resilience.
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3 out of 5 stars
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poor narration
- By Jane on 08-23-22
- Vagina Obscura
- An Anatomical Voyage
- By: Rachel E. Gross
- Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore
A must read!
Reviewed: 01-07-23
If you or someone you know has a vagina, this book is a must read. ESPECIALLY if you are in healthcare. I honestly want to buy this book for every medical professional I interact with and give it to them as a gift so that they can be better at what they do. It is frustrating AND depressing at a profound level how little our bodies matter to anyone medically or scientifically. It is the best book from my list in 2022.
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