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Stalking Around the Christmas Tree
- A Christmas Tree Farm Mystery, Book 4
- By: Jacqueline Frost
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 293
For innkeeper Holly White, Christmas time in Mistletoe, Maine, is the ultimate holiday gift. Business at the Reindeer Games Inn is booming, her wedding to Sheriff Evan Gray is nearly here, and the annual parade is about to begin. The town is lucky to have another gift this year with the state’s ballet company staying for several performances of The Nutcracker. But disaster strikes when Tiffany, the lead ballerina, shows up dead on a float during the parade, the Rat King’s mask nearby. Holly will have to spruce up her sleuthing skills if she wants to catch the killer before Christmas.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as the rest of the series
- By Anonymous on 11-15-23
- Stalking Around the Christmas Tree
- A Christmas Tree Farm Mystery, Book 4
- By: Jacqueline Frost
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Always fun reads
Reviewed: 12-21-23
It’s a great cozy and love that they are Christmas themed. I’d like to live in mistletoe!
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Witches Just Want to Have Fun
- A Moonstone Bay Cozy Mystery, Books 1-3
- By: Amanda M. Lee
- Narrated by: Angel Clark
- Length: 31 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 239
Hadley Hunter is about to find out the island's biggest secrets...if she can stay alive long enough to dig deep and absorb a bevy of different answers. Come along for the ride with Hadley, hunky sheriff Galen, mysterious Booker, and congenial Lilac - along with a multitude of other colorful characters - as they engage in one adventure after another.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Waste of money
- By SP on 03-23-20
- Witches Just Want to Have Fun
- A Moonstone Bay Cozy Mystery, Books 1-3
- By: Amanda M. Lee
- Narrated by: Angel Clark
Great story, but...
Reviewed: 05-16-20
I'm not a fan of the narrator but I love the stories. I'm hoping the other books have a different narrator otherwise, I'll stick to reading them instead of listening.
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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,004
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,023
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,994
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must-read for every woman
- By Julie W. Capell on 05-06-16
- The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Kind of drags...
Reviewed: 03-11-19
So in my quest to read great American literature I thought I'd give this a listen. The story is just alright; I find it slow and wandering - which I suppose is the point but not very entertaining. This is the second book I have listened to narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal and I'm not a fan. Something about her tone and cadence makes even the most exciting narrative seem slow and cumbersome.
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Memory Man
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31,008
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27,948
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27,836
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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
Great story, but...
Reviewed: 02-14-19
The narration was very distracting at times. Also, I didn't care for the intermittent background music that came through during parts of the story. It was distracting. The story is great and I enjoy David Baldacci and Decker really grew on me by the end of the story. I found him to be a bit off-putting at the beginning of the story, despite his personal tragedy. I'm picking up the next book to listen to. If I have the same problem with this narration, I will follow the rest of the books in print and save my credits for something else.
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The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Julia McKenzie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliet Stevenson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,425
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,143
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,143
A collection of BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of Jane Austen's six major novels. Jane Austen is one of the finest writers in the English language, and this volume includes all six of her classic novels. Mansfield Park: on a quest to find a position in society, Fanny Price goes to live with her rich aunt and uncle. Northanger Abbey: young, naïve Catherine Morland receives an invitation to stay at the isolated Gothic mansion Northanger Abbey.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Faulty download
- By Sian on 04-06-16
- The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Julia McKenzie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliet Stevenson, Eve Best, Jenny Agutter, Toby Jones, full cast, David Tennant
My own fault...
Reviewed: 11-03-18
I didn't read closely that these are dramatic readings...meaning they are like plays as opposed to the complete novels. Ok for what it is. I experience similar technical issues to others. Overall I am disappointed because I wanted the complete novels, not the dramatic versions.
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,915
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,736
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,665
Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Need to Disclose and Highlight Name of Translator
- By Charles B on 08-27-18
- Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Boring and annoying...
Reviewed: 07-24-18
I disliked this story and all of the characters. I found them to be annoying and was rooting for their early demise. Anna is whiny, ungrateful, and behaves like a spoiled child. I found her the most obnoxious of all of them. Kitty and Levin were the only tolerable characters in the story. I kept hoping the story would get better but it never did, sadly was a huge let down and waste of time. Maggie was a great narrator but didn't have much to work with.
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Miss Frost Ices the Imp: A Nocturne Falls Mystery
- Jayne Frost, Book 2
- By: Kristen Painter
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,764
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,751
Welcome to Nocturne Falls - the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year. Jayne Frost is a lot of things. Winter elf, Jack Frost's daughter, Santa Claus' niece, heir to the Winter Throne, and now...private investigator. Sort of. When she buys a sealed box at an estate sale and cat-related circumstances cause that box to be opened, life in Nocturne Falls starts to go haywire. Jayne has no choice but to figure out what she unleashed and how to recapture it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't Get Enough Nocturne Falls!
- By Cheri on 10-22-16
- Miss Frost Ices the Imp: A Nocturne Falls Mystery
- Jayne Frost, Book 2
- By: Kristen Painter
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
Loved it
Reviewed: 11-28-17
Such a fun twist and cute story. I hope Jane decides on one of her beaus and doesn't drag it out indefinitely like the Stephanie Plum books. That would ruin it for me
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