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The Demonologist
- The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren - The True Accounts of the Paranormal Investigators Featured in the film 'The Conjuring'
- By: Gerald Brittle
- Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,731
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,253
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,240
If you think ghosts are only responsible for hauntings, think again. The Demonologist reveals the grave religious process behind supernatural events and how it can happen to you. Used as a text in seminaries and classrooms, this is one book you can't put down. For over five decades, Ed and Loraine Warren have been considered America's foremost experts on demonology and exorcism. With over 3,000 investigations to their credit, they reveal what actually breaks the peace in haunted houses. Don't miss the Warrens in the new blockbuster movie The Conjuring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WARNING!: THIS IS BASED ON REAL CASES,TERRIFYING!
- By eric on 08-05-13
- The Demonologist
- The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren - The True Accounts of the Paranormal Investigators Featured in the film 'The Conjuring'
- By: Gerald Brittle
- Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
If you are into end of the spectrum ideas
Reviewed: 05-06-14
This is a very interesting story of the Warren's, but, I am not into extremist suggestions or beliefs, be they heaven or hell. So, the events and occurrences described are a bit fantastical to me..
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Bring Up the Bodies
- A Novel
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,301
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,856
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,864
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mantel Pulls the History out of the History
- By Darwin8u on 11-22-12
- Bring Up the Bodies
- A Novel
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Royal Historian Buffs
Reviewed: 04-22-14
Narrator brings you into cold, dark settings of castle chambers, into open fields and dark forests and into loud, festive banquet halls.. But at times it became monotonous. Great read for people interested in Henry VII during Anne Bolen's court.
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Into Thin Air
- A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,600
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,607
The definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of Into the Wild. Read by the author. Also, hear a Fresh Air interview with Krakauer conducted shortly after his ordeal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio version RUINED with new narrator!
- By Shannon Ellis on 02-06-16
- Into Thin Air
- A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Excellent story of endurance and obsessive risk
Reviewed: 04-15-14
Unbelievable story of masochistic risk high altitude climbers and climbing novices endure to summit Mt. Everest. I appreciate the authors honesty and personal reflection in his account of the perilous events he lived through while several of his climbing contemporaries died on the mountain or as a result of this particular climbing expedition.
I will read it again..
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Shadow Divers
- The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,880
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,077
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,074
In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught themselves German, hunted for clues in Germany, and constructed theories corrective of the history books, all in an effort to identify this sunken U-boat and its crew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GRIPPING!
- By Douglas on 07-03-04
- Shadow Divers
- The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Exciting, life death adventure.
Reviewed: 12-22-13
Reminds me of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance. Incredible true story of deep sea divers, their devotion to a death defying profession and their commitment to solving an international mystery involving secret uboat missions. Excellent narration and nice bonus at end of audio with interview of Chatterton and Kohler.
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The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41,682
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37,575
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37,530
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boy, am I in the minority on this one.
- By Bon Ami on 11-04-13
- The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: David Pittu
Long-winded fiction novel
Reviewed: 12-22-13
Narrator is very good and story line very good, but listening to this reminds me why I am not into fictional novels. Editors could have proofed manuscript better. Young Theo speaks almost to eloquently and small details bothered me, such as, after a terrorist bombing in a high profile New York City museum and his mother is missing, Theo turns on TV and all he remembers is the commercials?
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Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- By: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 921
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 836
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Story4 out of 5 stars 832
Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears ( The Queen, High Fidelity) and starring Judi Dench ( Skyfall, Notes on a Scandal) and Steve Coogan ( The Trip, Hamlet 2): the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman". Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Moving Story
- By Cariola on 02-09-14
- Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- By: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrated by: John Curless
Heart wrenching, emotional, touching, loving
Reviewed: 12-22-13
Very well performed audio, great narrator. Beautiful true story about one man's life journey to root his self identity with his birth mother and birth place. Not a happy ending but life and love affirming. One more reason to distrust the Catholic Church.
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To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- By: Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton - foreword, Jonathan Weigel - editor
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer's vision in a single, accessible volume.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Resist the Impoverishment of Aspiration
- By Susie on 05-14-13
- To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- By: Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton - foreword, Jonathan Weigel - editor
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
Exceptional documentary
Reviewed: 10-05-13
I teach an undergraduate course, BA223, Principles of Leadership, and introduced this book, Paul Farmer and the Partner's in Health team / task force to my students. This type of civic engagement, grass roots, community based leadership is humanity driven and surpasses all egocentric government systems and politically strangulated agencies, in their activism and critical thinking. Humanity would implode if NGOs like Partner's in Health did not exist.
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
- By: Garth Stein
- Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22,511
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,726
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,700
The New York Times best-selling novel from Garth Stein - a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope - a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life...as only a dog could tell it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 3000
- By Roger on 02-23-10
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- By: Garth Stein
- Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
Emotionally real and down to earth
Reviewed: 10-05-13
Absolutely well done, I'm still thinking about it, for all dog lovers. Laugh, cry, get angry, sentimental, life affirming. Enzo and Matt define best friends and their life together is a journey of peaks and valleys. The end is superb. I was having a crappy week at work and listening to this story put me in a better place..
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A Reason to Believe
- By: Diana Copland
- Narrated by: Jack LeFleur
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,158
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,161
Detective Matthew Bennett doesn't believe in ghosts. So when the spirit of a murdered child leads him to her body, he's shaken to the core - and taken off the case. Unable to explain his vision, or to let go of the investigation, Matthew turns to renowned medium Kiernan Fitzpatrick. Though he has doubts about Kiernan's claims to communicate with the dead, Matt is nevertheless drawn to the handsome psychic, who awakens feelings he thought were long-buried.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Addictive listening
- By A.R. on 01-03-13
- A Reason to Believe
- By: Diana Copland
- Narrated by: Jack LeFleur
I am hooked.
Reviewed: 10-05-13
Very well written and narrated. A reason to believe is a perfect title and couldn't wait for daily commute to hear more. Story line reminded me of actual event that occurred about the murder of a little beauty pageant queen. And it would be great it Kieran and Matt returned to solve more murders or cold cases.
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Son of a Gun
- A Memoir
- By: Justin St. Germain
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 37
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 36
Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. “A real-life old West murder mystery,” the local TV announcers intone, while barroom gossips snicker cruelly. But for her twenty-year-old son, Justin St. Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not the most compelling memoir unless
- By david on 09-09-13
- Son of a Gun
- A Memoir
- By: Justin St. Germain
- Narrated by: George Newbern
Not the most compelling memoir unless
Reviewed: 09-09-13
If you've experienced a similar, traumatic death by gun violence, then this memoir might be cathartic but the writing was not as compelling as I hoped. I enjoy getting into a characters psyche, but this book did not do this for me..
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