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Shadow Falls
- Detective Madison Harper, Book 1
- By: Wendy Dranfield
- Narrated by: Gigi Burgdorf
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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When Detective Madison Harper arrives at a remote summer camp in Shadow Falls, Northern California, her heart breaks for Jenny, the sweet little girl last seen splashing in the lake with her friends before she vanished. Peering into the silent cabins filled with rows of neatly made beds, Madison knows this idyllic place is hiding a terrible secret.
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Language is an issue
- By GMA7 on 01-26-21
- Shadow Falls
- Detective Madison Harper, Book 1
- By: Wendy Dranfield
- Narrated by: Gigi Burgdorf
Good
Reviewed: 11-02-24
I liked it, very entertaining, worth reading. Good plot and well written. Will read more from this author
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Damage Control
- A Jonathan Grave Thriller, Book 4
- By: John Gilstrap
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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The hostages are young: a bus full of teenagers on a church mission. The ransom demands are explicit: deliver three million dollars - with zero involvement from law enforcement - or all captives will be executed. But rescue specialist Jonathan Grave doesn't believe in ultimatums. For him and his elite team at Security Solutions, it's all about protecting the innocent. Now Grave must face the chilling possibility that someone within the U.S. government has a deadly secret to protect - one that could jeopardize national security like never before...
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Jonathan Gave is awesome. Great series, great book
- By Jared on 01-14-13
- Damage Control
- A Jonathan Grave Thriller, Book 4
- By: John Gilstrap
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
Double standard
Reviewed: 09-29-24
It’s bizarre how the 13 year old girl in the previous book in this series was portrayed as a conniving, evil liar for prosecuting an alleged sexual predator but in this book a seventeen year old boy who was assaulted by a woman is shown as innocent. Honestly I don’t get it. The overwhelming majority of sexual assault is committed by men because sexual dimorphism is a reality.
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Playing with Fire
- The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
- By: Lawrence O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Lawrence O'Donnell
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
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The 1968 US presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America's shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different and how we got to where we are now.
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Brilliant synthesis of history past and present
- By Dwight on 11-12-17
- Playing with Fire
- The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
- By: Lawrence O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Lawrence O'Donnell
I learned so much
Reviewed: 08-31-24
Thank you for writing this book. It was very well written. I am looking forward to your next book!
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Hostage Zero
- A Jonathan Grave Thriller, Book 2
- By: John Gilstrap
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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With his elite team of agents at Security Solutions, hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave goes where the government can't. Now he's been called in to locate two teenage boys who have been kidnapped from a residential high school in Virginia. But tracking them down is just the beginning.
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Hooray for the good guys
- By GrandmaNurse on 10-24-23
- Hostage Zero
- A Jonathan Grave Thriller, Book 2
- By: John Gilstrap
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
Bleeding hearts for violent felons
Reviewed: 07-22-24
spare me the sob story about registered sx offenders and their “second chances.” No one believes the children but everyone bends over backwards for felons.
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Memory Man
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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Amos Decker's life changed forever - twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good and left him with an improbable side effect - he can never forget anything.
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Not the usual production quality
- By Maris on 05-01-15
- Memory Man
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
Improbable but trendy plot
Reviewed: 07-11-24
It’s fashionable to push for the expansion of xy persons’ rights, but I found it difficult to suspend my disbelief while the author ignored basic facts about the human condition. FtM trans can only have an insertable organ if they use a hand pump to inflate it. So the scenario in the freezer really wouldn’t have been possible unless the character brought the pump along with all the guns etc. That means that the character already had a male organ growing up… which makes it hard to sympathize with the “woe is me” locker room situation.
As a teen the trans child was supposed to have been bullied by the girls for having “balls” but no one in a any girls’ or women’s locker rooms ever runs around ala Lia Thomas with their swimsuit areas exposed. Each stall is separate and teen girls are notoriously embarrassed of their bodies. Teen boys on the other hand are delighted to ridicule every trauma induced queef and suspected hormonal tension that a girl or woman has. It’s really hard to imagine an MtF person in a gym setting being the victim, when in real life folks like Anne Andres aren’t getting made fun of, they’re the ones peacocking in a typical xy fashion calling women’s bench press “pathetic.” If the lead villain had at least one male gonad they would not menstruate and therefore would not go through the customary and torturous menstrual shaming that all teen girls have to endure. That alone would be a massive leg up in their self image and self esteem. A girl with a male gonad would totally dominate and humiliate any xx opponent.
Football players are notorious for committing assault and getting away with it. I wonder why the violins come out only for xy persons.
The performance was distracting because there were two readers, one for the xy characters and one for the xx characters. I’ve never listened to a novel like that and it was just awful. Also after the lead villain was confirmed as a post op male, why did the pronouns fail to change and the voice actor remain xx?
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Straight Man
- A Novel
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Sam Freed
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park.
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Straight Man
- By Holly Abery-Wetstone on 10-17-03
- Straight Man
- A Novel
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Sam Freed
Tedious middle class white male martyrdom
Reviewed: 04-22-24
This book is about as interesting as a telephone book. Every minute detail about the main character’s kidney stone is examined with painful detail. Also as one very familiar with academia, the budsy-wudsy friendships between professors are ridiculously unrealistic. The author obviously feels martyred by efforts at inclusion while evidently being oblivious at how desperately such efforts are needed in academia.
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End Game
- Kyron Invasion, Book 3
- By: Jasper T. Scott
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Chris Randall and his family are on the run with a group of renegade soldiers led by General Gold. Having stolen a Kyron shuttle and escaped from the occupied cities, they are safe - for now. General Gold has a plan to strike back against the Kyra. Meanwhile, one of Earth’s old colony ships has returned, and they have revealed the invaders’ weakness: the Chrona. But are the Chrona a new enemy or a friend? Chris isn’t sure, and he isn’t convinced that striking back is a good idea. Yet, one thing he knows without a doubt: The fate of the human race hinges on the answer.
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The end
- By Tim on 06-07-24
- End Game
- Kyron Invasion, Book 3
- By: Jasper T. Scott
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
No girls allowed in the treehouse- except if you’re hot
Reviewed: 02-02-24
So there I was with my laser gun and exosuit on and I got kicked out comicon because I was clearly over 40 and female… not allowed in this fantasy. He even threw in a wife upgrade at the end making the age gap even bigger. Yeesh. Maybe I should go back to grilling nba players and lay off the adolescent women hating sci-fi until I get as thick skinned as a rhino and can hang with the nerds.
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11-22-63
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 30 hrs and 40 mins
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.
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I Owe Stephen King An Apology
- By Kelly - Write Well Academy on 04-16-12
- 11-22-63
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
Another banger
Reviewed: 03-18-23
Sometimes the words he writes are just what I need to hear. I’ll carry this story with me like a gift. Cried at the end.
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Invisible Prey
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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In a wealthy Minneapolis neighborhood, two elderly women are bludgeoned to death. They are apparent victims of a random robbery, though nothing of value appears to have been stolen. But when Lucas Davenport looks deeper, he fears that the victims weren’t so random, and the items stolen were far from invaluable. As a pattern emerges it leads Lucas to...certainly not where he expected. Which is too bad, because the killers are expecting him. And that’s only the first surprise.
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Another great read
- By Queenb on 06-03-07
- Invisible Prey
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
A rare flop
Reviewed: 03-03-23
I know lots of folks are attached to the busty temptress motif but come on. Young people who get molested by people in power almost never get justice. Saying she had “the worn out face of a 30-year old” was hard to read. Also the lurid murder of the dog was horrific and didn’t add anything to the story. Hated this book.
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Oath of Loyalty
- A Mitch Rapp Novel, Book 21
- By: Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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With President Anthony Cook convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, CIA Director Irene Kennedy is forced to construct a truce between the two men. The terms are simple: Rapp agrees to leave the country and stay in plain sight for as long as Cook controls the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile détente holds until Cook’s power-hungry security adviser convinces him that Rapp has no intention of honoring their agreement. To put him on the defensive, they leak the identity of his partner, Claudia Gould.
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The Evolving Assassin
- By Isaiah Womack on 09-13-22
- Oath of Loyalty
- A Mitch Rapp Novel, Book 21
- By: Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
- Narrated by: George Guidall
Rapp isn’t a shrinking violet
Reviewed: 02-25-23
Mills is getting better about minimizing his obsession with age, but he really messed up in this book. Rapp is portrayed as a total weakling who was deeply distressed by an amorous disabled woman. Pathetic. On the positive side- if males are this frail I’m now in favor of having separate gyms for them.
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