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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
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Multiple Stories Obfuscate Narrative
- By Stephnsea on 08-12-23
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Wonderful!!
Reviewed: 02-08-25
This has become one of my best reads. Every character is perfectly drawn and the narration is superb.
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The Bad Weather Friend
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.
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Funny, Fearful, Fanciful Adventure
- By R.C. Wilcox on 02-09-24
- The Bad Weather Friend
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
A really fun read
Reviewed: 06-25-24
I rarely leave reviews but this book was so much fun. Fast paced, strong characters, and an interesting premise. The narration was a standout. Do yourself a favor and read this book.
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Calico
- By: Lee Goldberg
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Eric Conger
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert . . . The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge . . . and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for a second chance.
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Really enjoyed this!
- By CeeS on 02-13-24
- Calico
- By: Lee Goldberg
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Eric Conger
It was really enjoyable
Reviewed: 03-29-24
I thought this would be just another police procedural when I started reading. But it was so much more. The story was a fun read and the narration excellent.
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The Shadow of the Wind
- By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
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Barcelona, 1945: Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his 11th birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again.
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Have the book handy
- By Rebecca on 07-17-05
- The Shadow of the Wind
- By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Narrator
Reviewed: 02-10-24
I found the book very confusing at times. There are so many characters and jumping between decades that a couple of times I thought about not finishing it. But I’m glad I did. I think it would be better read as an actual book.
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Old Filth
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an 80-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life.
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Literature at its finest!
- By M. Dyson on 07-29-23
- Old Filth
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
Surprisingly excellent read
Reviewed: 01-28-23
The story was rather difficult to make sense of in the beginning. However, it hooked me and I found it especially historically interesting, especially since I had lived in the Far East in the last century.
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Razorblade Tears
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 12 hrs
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Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.
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AMAZING!!!!
- By shelley on 07-11-21
- Razorblade Tears
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Would have given it 5 stars but….
Reviewed: 10-29-22
The narrator made both the black and white main characters sound identical. This made it very confusing at times. The black character’s accent was good, the white one’s not so much.
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Orphan Monster Spy
- By: Matt Killeen
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, 15-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons. He's part of the secret resistance against the Third Reich, and he needs Sarah to hide in plain sight at a school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them.
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Psychologically disturbing story worth listening to
- By Irene on 08-07-18
- Orphan Monster Spy
- By: Matt Killeen
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Confusing.....at first
Reviewed: 12-31-20
The first several chapters were very confusing and I almost returned the book. Glad I didn’t as it got better and the confusing early chapters were eventually explained
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The Elephant Whisperer
- My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
- By: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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>When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them. In order to save their lives, Anthony took them in. In the years that followed he became a part of their family. And as he battled to create a bond with the elephants, he came to realize that they had a great deal to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom.
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Beautiful story, beautifully written
- By Tango on 01-12-13
- The Elephant Whisperer
- My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
- By: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Wonderful and Uplifting
Reviewed: 12-14-20
Everything about this book is outstanding. The writing and narration took me back to Africa, and I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in Africa, it’s wildlife, the Zulu people or conservation.
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The Paris Architect
- By: Charles Belfoure
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe in. Ultimately he can't resist the challenge and begins designing expertly concealed hiding spaces - behind a painting, within a column, or inside a drainpipe - detecting possibilities invisible to the average eye. But when one of his clever hiding spaces fails and the immense suffering of Jews becomes incredibly personal, he can no longer deny reality.
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Riveting
- By C. B. Schindel on 08-23-15
- The Paris Architect
- By: Charles Belfoure
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Mark Bramhall Rocks!
Reviewed: 03-22-20
Mark Bramhall’s narration elevates a wonderful story to a new level. Makes me want to listen to other books he has done.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.
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Don't listen to the negative reviews.
- By Kyle on 12-03-19
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Irritating narration
Reviewed: 03-19-19
The story was all right, even educational, but the narrator’s wispy voice (the same for almost all the characters) quickly became annoying.
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