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A World of Curiosities
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end?
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She’s jumped the shark
- By Icie in Vermont on 12-03-22
- A World of Curiosities
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
Had a relisten… on to … The GreyWolf!
Reviewed: 11-17-24
The scariest Three Pines. You get to love all the characters so much it is hard to listen to sometimes. Especially with the world, as it is.
Peace and community.
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Medgar and Myrlie
- Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
- By: Joy-Ann Reid
- Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar’s secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against public accommodations and school segregation, lynching, violence, and sheer despair within their state’s “black belt.”
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A must read!
- By Kenny Cook on 02-11-24
- Medgar and Myrlie
- Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
- By: Joy-Ann Reid
- Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
Wow, what a wonderful book.
Reviewed: 09-10-24
Thank you Joy Reid for writing this book. It was so enlightening to be able to know some of what it took to be brave enough to bring about change in the Deep South. I’ve been so inspired by this beautiful book. It is a love story. It is a gift to us all. Why would anyone choose to hide this history. Thinking of all the effort by some to ban books we desperately need to continue our understanding. I do not get it.
And one last thought…as I head out to a watch party for the debate that I hope will bring a black/asian woman into the presidency, like she says, “We’re not going back!”
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Echo
- Breakthrough
- By: Michael C. Grumley
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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It began with a breakthrough. In interspecies communication. Leading both John Clay and Alison Shaw through a series of startling discoveries and life-altering revelations. Divulging who we really are as a species. Why we are here...and who is here with us. And the greatest lesson of all, that our brains are not as rare and unique as humans had assumed. But rather just one of three brains between three extraordinary species.
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Ooooh the last line.
- By Amazon Customer on 06-23-21
- Echo
- Breakthrough
- By: Michael C. Grumley
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
You lost me
Reviewed: 04-29-24
I thought this book was predictable and anti-climatic. The antagonist was particularly stupid. I cartoon of a villain. Sorry, I’m very disappointed.
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Mosaic
- Breakthrough, Book 5
- By: Michael C. Grumley
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
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Political and social infighting threaten to destroy the world. Rancor and hatred only grow stronger, engulfing entire nations. And each day moral and economic strife brings embroiled countries ever closer to war. But hope is not dead. Everywhere, pockets of honor and compassion continue to persevere. Where human lives are cherished and valor endures. And one small, extraordinary group fights to save us all. A team in possession of the mother of all secrets. The one secret - the one discovery - that could bring the world back from the brink.
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? Is the next 1? This series is like a DRUG-I WANT IT NOW!!!
- By Kimberly Ann Goetz on 02-25-20
- Mosaic
- Breakthrough, Book 5
- By: Michael C. Grumley
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Science meets my imagination
Reviewed: 04-17-24
I am so glad I happened on these incredible books. Highly recommend you dive in to meet Dirk and Sally and all the many characters who will perhaps help you experience the world a little differently. I plan on checking out the author’s website to read the fact and fiction section. I won’t give any details here… but just say, these books are so engaging as they take on some of the biggest mysteries earth has from history and science, and bring them into a plot of fascinating discovery.
Enjoy the ride!
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
- Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
Vote Elizabeth for President!
Reviewed: 10-02-23
Love this story. Triggered a lot with me being a woman of a certain age. We need to be reminded just how unfair things were for women in the ‘50’s and 60’s. Elizabeth Zott is a great heroine for our times. These reminders about where we were are needed because we ain’t going back! Especially when there is still so much to do! Equity in the workplace with pay and promotion is an needed now more than ever, seeing as there is a renewed war on women’s rights shamefully condoned by our courts.
Eyes open everyone!
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The Alice Network
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive.
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We are standing on the shoulders of giants...
- By Marie on 02-25-18
- The Alice Network
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
My 3rd Kate Quinn book
Reviewed: 03-10-23
I really enjoy Quinn’s books and plan on listening to them all. Excellent performance by the reader too on The Alice Network. Very engaging!
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Glass Houses
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized.
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Not my favorite Penny
- By Annie Smart on 09-25-17
- Glass Houses
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
The 13th Book.
Reviewed: 05-10-22
I have been on a journey with Louis Penny for quite some time now. I became aware of the series after seeing she and Hillary Clinton doing the late night circuit, and after listening to two in the series out of order, decided this was a writer I loved. That sent me to starting again with book 1…Still Life, so I could hear the entire series. And what a happy decision it is! Having just finished Glass Houses the 13th book, I find that it has left me quite emotional. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. I won’t say more so I don’t spoil it for anyone. But if you listened to this book out of order…go back, start again with book 1. You, like myself, will be happy you did.
Thank you Louise Penny, you have made my solitary life rich with the love and caring you bring to Three Pines.
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