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Aelwyd: Home
- Caelestis Series Short Story
- Narrated by: Alexandra Haag
- Length: 59 mins
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Ammonite
- By: Nicola Griffith
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 100
Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP. The planet's deadly virus had killed most of the original colonists - and changed the rest irrevocably. Centuries after the colony had lost touch with the rest of humanity, the Company returned to exploit GP, and its forces found themselves fighting for their lives. Afraid of spreading the virus, the Company had left its remaining employees in place, afraid and isolated from the natives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Women Are People
- By DC on 11-17-20
By: Nicola Griffith
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The Event
- By: Nathan Hystad
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,066
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,063
Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guides Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Did not inspire me to get the next book.
- By MD on 12-13-18
By: Nathan Hystad
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A Door into Time
- An Alex Hawk Time Travel Adventure, Book 1
- By: Shawn Inmon
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,279
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,058
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,054
The wall just didn’t look right. Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right. He would try harder. With six hours before his little girl’s fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short. Plenty of time to tear out a panel and look behind it. He found a brick wall. His house wasn’t made of brick. Behind that was another just like the first. He still had time. When the second wall came down, Alex stood and stared at the shining doorway.
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2 out of 5 stars
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maybe 8 year old boys would like this
- By Jojo11 on 09-15-20
By: Shawn Inmon
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Expendable
- League of Peoples, Book 1
- By: James Alan Gardner
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4 out of 5 stars 135
Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different - and terrible - ways to die.
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3 out of 5 stars
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FU@@ING EXPLORERS
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 03-06-15
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The Girl with No Name
- By: Marina Chapman
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 363
In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went on to spend several years alone in the jungle, her only family a troop of capuchin monkeys. Using instinct to guide her, she copied everything they did and soon learned to fend for herself. At around 10 years old, a completely feral Marina was returned to civilisation by hunters, who sold her as a slave to a brothel. Beaten daily and groomed to be a prostitute, she escaped - to live the perilous existence of a Colombian city street kid.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Second time
- By Debbie on 05-21-15
By: Marina Chapman
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The Song Poet
- A Memoir of My Father
- By: Kao Kalia Yang
- Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story5 out of 5 stars 65
Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until one day a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, full of sadness, power, and heart.
- By Melissa L. Magana on 04-27-17
By: Kao Kalia Yang
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Welcome to Night Vale
- A Novel
- By: Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
- Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,823
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,340
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,332
Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is so good, but
- By Christopher on 04-30-16
By: Joseph Fink, and others
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Life of Pi
- By: Yann Martel
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,172
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,788
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,781
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is 16, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450 pound Bengal tiger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story and superb voice acting.
- By James Barmore on 12-11-18
By: Yann Martel
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The Cellar
- By: Natasha Preston
- Narrated by: Richard Dadd, Nicholas Camm, Dawn Murphy
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,315
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,158
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,164
>"Lily?" My stomach dropped as a tall, dark-haired man stepped into view. Had he been hiding between the trees? "No. Sorry." Gulping, I took a step back. "I'm not Lily." He shook his head, a satisfied grin on his face. "No. You are Lily." "I'm Summer. You have the wrong person." For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, a 1at POV!
- By Marci on 12-18-16
By: Natasha Preston
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Unlimited Memory
- How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive
- By: Kevin Horsley
- Narrated by: Dan Culhane
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,667
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,226
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,207
Do you ever feel like you're too busy, too stressed, or just too distracted to concentrate and get work done? In Unlimited Memory you'll learn how the world's best memory masters get themselves to concentrate at will, anytime they want. When you can easily focus and concentrate on the task at hand and store and recall useful information, you can easily double your productivity and eliminate wasted time, stress, and mistakes at work. In this book you'll find all the tools, strategies, and techniques you need to improve your memory.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I don't get it
- By asher on 01-02-17
By: Kevin Horsley