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Miss Benson's Beetle
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Joyce
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist - the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind.
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A well-written panorama of human tragedy
- By Film Fan on 07-03-21
- Miss Benson's Beetle
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Joyce
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Quite a surprise
Reviewed: 10-18-23
I found this through Audible recommendation and was quite pleased. Nice to have a non formula story. I especially enjoyed Juliet Stephenson as her accent made the story more believable as a British scientists story.
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If She Only Knew
- The Cahills, Book 1
- By: Lisa Jackson
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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If She Only Knew, introduces the Cahills, a wealthy San Francisco family - rich in money, twisted secrets, and hidden agendas. Now at the center of their tangled world is Marla Cahill - a woman with no memory of who she is, what she’s done, or why she could be the next to die... It begins on a dark stretch of highway. Two vehicles swerve and crash - leaving one woman dead and another in a coma. When the surviving woman awakens, her memory is gone and her face has been reconstructed. Her family tells her that her name is Marla Cahill - but they’re all strangers to her.
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Older book
- By Toni on 10-11-20
- If She Only Knew
- The Cahills, Book 1
- By: Lisa Jackson
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
Somewhat boring
Reviewed: 07-07-23
Started out good, plot OK, not believable about the cons than recovery so quickly. Kept the story moving but the love interest was too much.
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The Twyford Code
- A Novel
- By: Janice Hallett
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Forty years ago, Steven “Smithy” Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. When he showed it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, she believed that it was part of a secret code that ran through all of Twyford’s novels. And when she later disappeared on a class field trip, Smithy becomes convinced that she had been right.
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Different
- By [email protected] on 02-07-23
- The Twyford Code
- A Novel
- By: Janice Hallett
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
Just not my kind of mystery
Reviewed: 05-26-23
The voice 1,2,3,etc was just too confusing and uninteresting. Did not finish. Not worth my time
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The Judge's List
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.
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THE NARRATION IS FINE!
- By JTH on 10-20-21
- The Judge's List
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham
Good until it wasn’t
Reviewed: 07-10-22
Story went on too long with no reason. Padded with repeating facts. Not his best.
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FIND US
- By: Benjamin Stevenson
- Narrated by: Harriet Gordon-Anderson
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Every object has a ghost. There is a small yellow backpack - half unzipped, mouth yawning to the pavement, contents strewn around it (a banana, an exercise book, a pair of scissors) - abandoned on a suburban footpath. Ten feet away, the rubber stamp of tyres, resisting clamped brakes, mount the curb and cut across the path. The tracks come to an end at a crippled stop sign. The street, a tree-lined suburban road dappled in late-afternoon sunlight, is calm. But anyone walking past can feel the ghosts: the prickle on the back of their necks that tells them something happened here.
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Not your normal book
- By Skinny on 06-04-21
- FIND US
- By: Benjamin Stevenson
- Narrated by: Harriet Gordon-Anderson
Suspenseful
Reviewed: 07-25-21
Enjoyed the story and narration. Many twists and a unique look at teen, children’s and parent interactions. Just the right amount of mystery and characters. Timed well.
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Jericho
- By: Ann McMan
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
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Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an 18-month position in Jericho - a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Her plans to hide out and heal her wounds fall by the wayside as she gets drawn into the daily lives of the quirky locals. She becomes fast friends with Maddie Stevenson, the enigmatic physician who has returned to the backcountry community to take over her late father's medical practice.
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As Good As Advertised
- By Lifeisshort on 02-23-15
- Jericho
- By: Ann McMan
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
Brilliant blue eyes, startling green eyes?
Reviewed: 07-14-21
How many times does one stare and contemplate and consider and realize the eyes of the other person. On and on and on. Just couldn’t continue . Cute story but there must have been another way to write the attraction.
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The Rifleman
- By: Oliver North
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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A gripping, fact-based story of how Daniel Morgan and his courageous riflemen played a crucial role in George Washington's victory in the American Revolution.... They wore hunting shirts, deer-skin leggins and moccasins. Each had a tomahawk and a scalping knife in their belts and carried "long rifles" in their hands. Every rifleman was a Patriot volunteer, a tracker, and a hunter. And they could kill a redcoat from 250 yards.
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Impressive
- By Jean on 12-29-19
- The Rifleman
- By: Oliver North
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Todd Ross
Just not my cup of tea
Reviewed: 04-08-21
This book started out fine with descriptions of the rifleman responsibilities. Just was too much ch detail to hold my interest.
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The Sound of Gravel
- A Memoir
- By: Ruth Wariner
- Narrated by: Ruth Wariner
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Ruth Wariner was the 39th of her father's 42 children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can ascend to heaven only by entering into polygamous marriages and giving birth to as many children as possible.
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Unputdownable
- By Lesley A. on 01-16-16
- The Sound of Gravel
- A Memoir
- By: Ruth Wariner
- Narrated by: Ruth Wariner
Very interesting
Reviewed: 09-01-17
Unimaginable life story. A child who was bright up under the spell of her father's beliefs. A Mother who married a polygamist man to follow her first husbands wishes. The step father who was abusive and used the Morman teachings for his own gain. A story with a debth of sadness. Well worth the time to listen especially the fact that it was read by the author who was the child.
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths.
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This is an absolute "YES" as your next read/listen
- By William on 02-07-15
- Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
A true story with fascinating political information
Reviewed: 08-19-15
A great story of fund operators and how big money is made. The underlying story of the corruption present in the current Russian government under Putin is eye opening, but when Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Obama and the U.S. congress become part of the story, it becomes an even more fascinating read with disappointment in our leaders
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