Nina Jacobson
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Light Bringer
- Red Rising, Book 6
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 30 hrs and 8 mins
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The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow. Because after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.
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The blight of ensemble voice cast are gone!
- By azwildcat on 07-28-23
- Light Bringer
- Red Rising, Book 6
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Can not say enough
Reviewed: 12-29-24
This is hands down one of the most consuming series I’ve read. The characters are as rich as the world building is epic. I’m bereft to have finished them all.
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Red Rising
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.
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HUMANS ARE ALWAY NEGOTIATING,
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-30-15
- Red Rising
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Barn burner
Reviewed: 10-04-24
Phenomenal story telling, gifted narration and memorable characters. Tore through this book in record time. Moving on to the next !
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The Wide Wide Sea
- Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides’ bravura account of Cook’s last journey both wrestles with Cook’s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration.
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Detailed story of third voyage
- By Sammi on 04-18-24
- The Wide Wide Sea
- Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
Pageturner
Reviewed: 09-07-24
Great narrator and propulsive storytelling. Rich in character and nuance. A thoughtful and compelling history.
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Burma Sahib
- A Novel
- By: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Charlie Anson
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
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At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing all of this while grappling with his own self-worth, his sense that he was not cut out for this, is soon overwhelming for the young Blair.
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Glorious writing
- By Nina Jacobson on 02-21-24
- Burma Sahib
- A Novel
- By: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Charlie Anson
Glorious writing
Reviewed: 02-21-24
An incredible and evocative character journey charting how Blair the imperialist became Orwell the subversive.
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The Detective Up Late
- The Sean Duffy Series, Book 7
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn’t be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention.
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Must Have More!
- By Moodini on 08-09-23
- The Detective Up Late
- The Sean Duffy Series, Book 7
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Perfect match of narrator to material
Reviewed: 02-17-24
Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy as read by Gerard Doyle is audible heaven. Great finish to a beloved series.
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains.
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The best book I've had
- By Thomas Allen on 09-17-08
- Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Unputdownable
Reviewed: 10-17-23
Propulsive page turner. Brilliantly written and performed. A great book to read after tearing through Candace Millard’s books.
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The River of Doubt
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
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This audiobook deserves 6 stars
- By D. Littman on 11-15-05
- The River of Doubt
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
Unputdownable
Reviewed: 07-31-23
I love a book that is as gripping as it enriching. I will never think of Teddy Roosevelt the same.
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The Trinity Six
- By: Charles Cumming
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead at a London hospital. An obituary describes him only as a 'resourceful career diplomat'. But Crane was much more than that—and the circumstances surrounding his death are far from what they seem. Fifteen years later, academic Sam Gaddis needs money. When a journalist friend asks for his help researching a possible sixth member of the notorious Trinity spy ring, Gaddis knows that she's onto a story that could turn his fortunes around. But within hours the journalist is dead, apparently from a heart attack.
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Fun exciting intrigues perfectly narrated.
- By Ramon on 03-17-11
- The Trinity Six
- By: Charles Cumming
- Narrated by: John Lee
Pageturner
Reviewed: 11-27-22
Although it’s a slower build than some of Cummings other books, it had me walking the dogs as frequently as possible, offering to drive whenever possible and ignoring family members. Very satisfying and complete.
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
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Full Account of the Sackler Conspiracy
- By Edward Bisch on 04-13-21
- Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Unputdownable
Reviewed: 04-20-21
You won't find a better reporter or storyteller than Patrick Radden Keefe. I was spellbound from the first page.
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Mitosis
- A Reckoners Story
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson comes Mitosis, a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart: the Reckoners series, exclusively available in the digital format. Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back.
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I totally listened to this out of order
- By Midwestbonsai on 02-25-15
- Mitosis
- A Reckoners Story
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Make it longer! ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
Reviewed: 04-08-19
It makes noooo sense!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!?!
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Omg I like susig
Do you like susig I
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