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The Sanatorium
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Sarah Pearse
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,408
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,771
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 4,759
Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Waste of a Credit
- By Katie Brown on 02-08-21
- The Sanatorium
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Sarah Pearse
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
Foolish people doing idiotic things
Reviewed: 12-02-24
I felt like I was watching one of those teen horror flicks where someone decides to go take a shower by themselves while everyone else is screaming and running. Idiotic choice after idiotic choice. Odd assumptions. My eyeballs hurt from rolling them so often. The best thing about the book was the final 20 minutes. Was it worth the previous 11 hours. No. Not sure why I finished. Pure stubbornness, I guess. I'd give this one a pass.
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Ascendant
- A Dragon Rider Fantasy (Songs of Chaos, Book 1)
- By: Michael R. Miller
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,738
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,223
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,219
Holt Cook was never meant to be a dragon rider. He has always served the Order Hall of the Crag dutifully, keeping their kitchen pots clean. Until he discovers a dark secret: dragons do not tolerate weakness among their kin, killing the young they deem flawed. Moved by pity, Holt defies the Order, rescues a doomed egg and vows to protect the blind dragon within.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Fantasy Coming of Age Story
- By ZC on 11-20-20
- Ascendant
- A Dragon Rider Fantasy (Songs of Chaos, Book 1)
- By: Michael R. Miller
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Epic new tale of dragons
Reviewed: 11-23-24
So much to enjoy. Looking forward to the next installment of this new fantasy series.
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Black Candle Women
- A Novel
- By: Diane Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 357
Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before it’s even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Easy Listen
- By Precious T. on 06-14-23
- Black Candle Women
- A Novel
- By: Diane Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
If only the sex talk we’re less graphic
Reviewed: 11-11-24
I feel like I would have really loved this story that I couldn’t get past the graphic sex talk. It just didn’t seem necessary. Oh well.
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Text Appeal
- By: Kylie Scott
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,706
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,649
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,649
Romance author Riley Cooper always dreamed of living by the water. But within a day of landing in the charming seaside town of Port Stewart to work on her latest book, she's getting calls and texts for some dude on her new number. Weird ones. Sad ones. Sexy ones. Ones that make her want to meet him. For curiosity's sake...if nothing else.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cute Story
- By ✨️MARS✨️ on 07-24-24
- Text Appeal
- By: Kylie Scott
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Funny dialogue- graphic sex
Reviewed: 11-03-24
I really enjoyed the characters and the witty dialogue - but the graphic sex was unnecessary in my opinion. Ruined it for me.
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Skin & Bones
- A Novel
- By: Renée Watson
- Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she’s happy in love and in friendship—until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hats off to a job well done!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-24
- Skin & Bones
- A Novel
- By: Renée Watson
- Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
Gives as good as she gets. Not for white women?
Reviewed: 10-20-24
As a white #not too fat woman, I felt generalized, demeaned and minimalized by the author - exactly as her characters felt. I suppose that was on purpose? If you can get past this (as I eventually did), the writing is beautiful and there are many wonderful, powerful messages for all women. Yes, even the white ones and (dare I say it) the slender ones. I wish I could recommend it to all my friends, but I don't think I can.
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Miranda
- By: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story5 out of 5 stars 51
Strong-minded, irrepressible Miranda Griscom is content working as a live-in housekeeper for the young Spafford family. Here she is loved and appreciated in contrast to her lonely childhood as an unwanted granddaughter. When a wealthy neighbor proposes marriage so that she can care for his motherless children, she is delighted to show him the door, proud that she is “a free and independent woman who can earn her own living”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome
- By Teresa Rhoades on 02-03-19
- Miranda
- By: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
Charming
Reviewed: 10-08-24
Like a cross between Anne of Green Gables, Christy and Tom Sawyer. A nice change from all the murder mysteries I usually read. Utterly charming and lovely. Wonderful narration, too.
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You Are the Medicine
- 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance
- By: Asha Frost
- Narrated by: Asha Frost
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
The Medicine you have been searching for lives within you. Follow the path of the 13 Ojibwe Moons with Animal Spirits and Ancestors as your guides as you unlock your connection to your own unique, inherent healing power. Through storytelling, ceremonies, and Shamanic journeys, learn to apply ancient wisdom to your life in ways that are respectful and conscious of the stolen lands, lives, and traditions of Indigenous peoples.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don't even know how to tell you how much I love
- By Sarah Hernandez on 07-07-22
- You Are the Medicine
- 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance
- By: Asha Frost
- Narrated by: Asha Frost
As a non-indigenous person, I felt unwelcome
Reviewed: 09-24-24
I feel a strong connection with the earth and nature and was excited to sit down and immerse myself in this book, but I couldn't get past the introduction. The author made me, as a non-indigenous person, feel extremely unwelcome and unworthy of receiving her knowledge. She clearly needed to get her feelings out, but even knowing that I am not one of the people she was referring to, her message seemed counter to the gifts she seeks to share in her book, I tried to set this initial feeling aside and receive the information she provides. but kept feeling pierced with negativity. It made me sad. Regretfully, I cannot continue reading and because I was out of credits and spent actual dollars, I can't even return the book. It's a shame.
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,862
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,625
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,610
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- By Michael Stansberry on 05-23-18
- The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Beautifully written, but…
Reviewed: 09-22-24
Lyrically written with a wonderful vision, but confusing in places, especially at the end (!). A bit preachy. But definitely worth the credit.
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The Death of Dirk Cooper
- Dirk Cooper, Book 2
- By: Matthew Howry
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 164
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Story5 out of 5 stars 163
Dirk never wanted to end up on Zaroff's island. He'd cheated and lied, stole and tricked, begged and crawled, all to save his own life, one payment at a time. But now the debt's come due, and Dirk missed his payments. He must muster every ounce of guile and strength at his disposal, must embrace the supernatural powers he'd struggled with for so long, must call upon allies both old and new to face the most terrifying foe a man can face . . . the consequences of his own actions. He doesn't know if he'll survive, but he won't go down without a fight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I ❤️ Dirk Cooper!
- By Lisa Smegal on 07-12-23
- The Death of Dirk Cooper
- Dirk Cooper, Book 2
- By: Matthew Howry
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
It’s all about the narrator!
Reviewed: 08-26-24
love this series so far. Couldn’t stop listening to this book . But it must be said - the narrator MAKES the story. So good.
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Sand
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 325
The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s wonderful!
- By Dana on 01-05-23
- Sand
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Interesting world , but…
Reviewed: 08-12-24
I was enjoying this book when suddenly… it ended. Did the author just get tired of the tale?
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