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Broken Angels
- By: Gemma Liviero
- Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell, Emily Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother's desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibility of their situation. Risking her own life, Elsi joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime. Blonde, blue-eyed Matilda is wrenched from her family in Romania and taken to Germany, where her captors attempt to mold her into the perfect Aryan child. Spirited and brave, she must inspire hope in the other stolen children to make her dreams of escape a reality.
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Best Book I've Read in a Long Time
- By Aubrey on 09-07-16
- Broken Angels
- By: Gemma Liviero
- Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell, Emily Foster
call me jaded, but...
Reviewed: 07-14-17
I have read many books about WW II and how people suffered under the Nazis. This book is nothing new. I know--there are millions of stories and my comments are not meant to belittle any of the atrocities...but the writer doesn't bring any new perspective of even very much feeling to the story. And the narrator who read the young girl's part was really terrible...her syntax was off such that she emphasized the wrong word in a sentence...it was very annoying and distracting. I would not recommend this book.
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- Jack Reacher, Book 19
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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Someone has tried to kill the French president. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? John Kott—a U.S. Army marksman gone bad—is one of them. After fifteen years in prison, he’s out . . . and there’s a G8 summit coming up, packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.
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Lee and Dick seem tired
- By Jeffrey and Teresa Rose on 09-06-14
not the best Reacher book
Reviewed: 05-25-17
this book was very "talky" -- lots of conversations that kind of went on and on...honestly, not that much happens in this book. Yes, there is a decent story line (with nice twisty ending) but it felt like it kind dragged on. Not up to the usual standards in my opinion...and Dick Hill--your British accents were pretty bad :) and pronunciation of French place names could have been better...I guess most people wouldn't notice that, but I did.
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The Last Days of Night
- A Novel
- By: Graham Moore
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 13 hrs
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New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history - and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the lightbulb and holds the right to power the country?
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Favorite book of 2016
- By Taryn on 12-19-16
- The Last Days of Night
- A Novel
- By: Graham Moore
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Pretty interesting subject matter
Reviewed: 04-22-17
At the end of the book the author tells you that not all of it was true, but it was an engaging book with some interesting historical references. I liked it
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Small Great Things
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than 20 years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene?
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Must Read
- By Sabrina on 11-01-16
- Small Great Things
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos
pretty good read
Reviewed: 04-22-17
Some of the parts are somewhat cliche, and although it examines stereotypes the character are not really very realistic. The ending is WAY too pat.
I liked it enough to finish it but didn't love it
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The Confession
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.
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Not Your Mother's Grisham
- By Pamela Harvey on 10-30-10
- The Confession
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
couldn't finish it...
Reviewed: 04-22-17
Normally Grisham grabs you from the first chapter, but the set up for this is really slow and formulaic. I quite after the first few chapters...yawn
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets and astronauts into space. Among these problem solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation.
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- By Cynthia on 09-18-16
- Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
I really wanted to love this book
Reviewed: 04-22-17
Knowing that it had been made into a hit movie I was anxious to read the book. Unfortunately, it was very dry to listen to. The subject matter and characters are phenomenal but the way they are introduced is boring. So I watched the movie and LOVED IT !!!
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
I almost stopped listening, so glad I didn't
Reviewed: 12-25-16
At first tall of the tiny details from the first couple of chapters annoyed me, but once the story develops you understand why the stage is being set in this manner. The reader is absolutely perfect for this story. I was completely drawn in...the historical context is interesting as well as the story itself. The ending was a surprise--I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
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If You Find Me
- By: Emily Murdoch
- Narrated by: Tai Sammons
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Fourteen-year-old Carey and six-year-old Jenessa have been living in the woods with their mother for as long as they can remember; the sheltering trees and a broken-down camper are all they know. But what they’ve never been told is that Carey vanished from the real world ten years ago, when their mother took her, causing an uproar in the media - and in her father’s life.
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Heartfelt and Harrowing
- By The Reading Date on 02-05-14
- If You Find Me
- By: Emily Murdoch
- Narrated by: Tai Sammons
emotional story
Reviewed: 12-25-16
I thought this was a 'young adult' story, but it really isn't. Its about a young girl and some of the themes are coming of age...but the subject matter is definitely NOT for teens. AT first the reader's accent put me off (its not very authentic sounding) but you get used to it. Harrowing story but you will get choked up.
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A Man Called Ove
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell". But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness.
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I Laughed and I Cried
- By Bill on 08-22-15
- A Man Called Ove
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
this book will sneak up on you...
Reviewed: 09-21-16
before you know it you are in love with the story and the characters. It starts out a little slow and you aren't sure you are going to like it but the story unfolds and starts to tug at your heart strings...I found myself laughing out loud in my car while listening and really choked up at the end. Loved the cat!!!
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The Chase
- By: Clive Cussler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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A no-nonsense detective is on the trail of the sharpest and deadliest criminal mind he has ever encountered: a serial robber who murders any and all witnesses in cold-blood.
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Not Cussler's best
- By Wayne on 12-07-15
- The Chase
- By: Clive Cussler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
so predictable and corny dialogue
Reviewed: 05-13-16
I used to listen to the Dirk Pitt novels by Clive Cussler, which were fun. But this book is embarrassing. I don't even know why I finished it. The only interesting part was some of the history from 1906 and discussion of some of the "technology" of the age...otherwise, its a waste of time.
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