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Narrated by:
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Lincoln Hoppe
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By:
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S. J. Kincaid
About this listen
More than anything, Tom Raines wants to be important, though his shadowy life is anything but that. For years, Tom's drifted from casino to casino with his unlucky gambler of a dad, gaming for their survival. Keeping a roof over their heads depends on a careful combination of skill, luck, con artistry, and staying invisible.
Then one day, Tom stops being invisible. Someone's been watching his virtual-reality prowess, and he's offered the incredible - a place at the Pentagonal Spire, an elite military academy. There, Tom's instincts for combat will be put to the test and if he passes, he'll become a member of the Intrasolar Forces, helping to lead his country to victory in World War III. Finally, he'll be someone important: a superhuman war machine with the tech skills that every virtual-reality warrior dreams of. Life at the Spire holds everything that Tom's always wanted - friends, the possibility of a girlfriend, and a life where his every action matters - but what will it cost him?
Gripping and provocative, S. J. Kincaid's futuristic thrill ride of a debut crackles with memorable characters, tremendous wit, and a vision of the future that asks startling, timely questions about the melding of humanity and technology.
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Unremembered
- By: Jessica Brody
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 203
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story4 out of 5 stars 186
When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why the 16-year-old girl discovered floating among the wreckage - alive - is making headlines across the globe. Even more strange is that her body is miraculously unharmed and she has no memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life before the crash. She has no memories period. No one knows how she survived. No one knows why she wasn't on the passenger manifest.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Invested In the Tale
- By UnreliableHeart on 09-17-15
By: Jessica Brody
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Don't Turn Around
- By: Michelle Gagnon
- Narrated by: Merritt Hicks
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4 out of 5 stars 59
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. Now living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her computer-hacking skills to stay safely anonymous and alone. But when she wakes up on a table in an empty warehouse with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side. Enter Peter Gregory. A rich kid and the leader of a hacker alliance, Peter needs people with Noa's talents on his team. Especially after a shady corporation called AMRF threatens his life in no uncertain terms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't hold up for adult listeners
- By M. Reen on 01-03-13
By: Michelle Gagnon
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Bluescreen
- A Mirador Novel
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4 out of 5 stars 148
From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times best-selling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni - a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online 24 hours a day, this connection is like oxygen - and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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not bad, but difficult narrator
- By Dennis Bingham on 05-02-16
By: Dan Wells
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Contractor
- The Contractors, Book 1
- By: Andrew Ball
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,881
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,763
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,757
The Earth is under siege - and no one knows about it because the invaders erase those whom they consume. A handful of men and women stand on the border between the mundane and the magical. They have a special spark of soul - not quite enough to be naturally gifted in spellcraft but greater than the average person, a tiny flame that can ignite incredible potential. They possess the ability to fight back against the Vorid: the ability to become a Contractor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where. Is. The. Sequel!!!!
- By Brina on 07-21-16
By: Andrew Ball
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The Dwellers Saga Omnibus
- Books 1-3
- By: David Estes
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Will Damron
- Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 723
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Story4 out of 5 stars 677
In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground into the depths of the Earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms. After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, 17-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Delicious and Unique Journey
- By UnreliableHeart on 09-01-15
By: David Estes
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Uninvited
- By: Sophie Jordan
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Story4 out of 5 stars 146
You can't change your DNA…even when it says you're a murderer. When Davy tests positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome, aka "the kill gene," she loses everything. Once the perfect high school senior, she is uninvited from her prep school and abandoned by her friends and boyfriend. Even her parents are now afraid of her - although she's never hurt a fly. Davy doesn't feel any different, but genes don't lie. One day she will kill someone. Without any say in the matter, Davy is thrown into a special class for HTS carriers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mix of Vanilla Sky/ Hunger Games/ Hollocaust.
- By Crystal on 05-08-14
By: Sophie Jordan
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Starflight
- By: Melissa Landers
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 242
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Story4 out of 5 stars 218
Solara Brooks needs a fresh start, someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. The outer realm may be lawless, but it's not like the law has ever been on her side. Still, off-world travel doesn't come cheap; Solara is left with no choice but to indenture herself in exchange for passage to the outer realm.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better than expected
- By Jessica Jones on 04-17-16
By: Melissa Landers
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Dire: Fate
- The Dire Saga, Book 0.5
- By: Andrew Seiple
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 283
All Doctor Dire wants to do is save the world. But those pesky heroes keep getting in the way, and it's all she can do to give them a good fight without killing them. Supervillainy is such an underappreciated job these days....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good taste
- By AV on 02-23-21
By: Andrew Seiple
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Stitching Snow
- By: R. C. Lewis
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back - but that's assuming she wants to return at all. Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dry mouth
- By Angela on 09-09-19
By: R. C. Lewis
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The Key
- By: Pauline Baird Jones
- Narrated by: Janean Jorgensen
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4 out of 5 stars 52
When Sara Donovan joins Project Enterprise she finds out that what doesn't kill her makes her stronger. An Air Force pilot - the best of the best to be assigned to this mission - Sara isn't afraid to travel far beyond the Milky Way on an assignment that takes her into a galaxy torn apart by a long and bitter warfare between the Dusan and the Gadi.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, if a bit too romantic
- By Douglas E. Noll on 11-06-09
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Superheroes
- By: Peter S. Beagle, Daryl Gregory, James Patrick Kelly, and others
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Joe Barrett, Christina Delaine, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Story4 out of 5 stars 148
Modern gods and goddesses, remote, revered - and like the pantheon of heroes and heroines of ancient myth - possessing great power tempered with flaws. Now, find within this anthology great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretentious tired old concepts
- By BookofJoy on 12-29-14
By: Peter S. Beagle, and others
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Croak
- By: Gina Damico
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,808
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,660
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,660
Fed up with her wild behavior, 16-year-old Lex’s parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort’s true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He’s a Grim Reaper. And he’s going to teach Lex the family business. She quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Juvenile
- By Mark Faine on 09-23-13
By: Gina Damico
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These Broken Stars
- By: Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
- Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway, Johnathan McClain, Sarge Anton
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 864
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 793
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Story4 out of 5 stars 792
It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable Story
- By Joki on 12-25-13
By: Amie Kaufman, and others
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School for Psychics, Book 1
- By: K.C. Archer
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,503
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,380
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,378
Teddy Cannon isn’t your typical 20-something woman. She’s resourceful. She’s bright. She’s scrappy. She can also read people with uncanny precision. What she doesn’t realize: She’s actually psychic. When a series of bad decisions leads Teddy to a run-in with the police, a mysterious stranger intervenes. He invites her to apply to the School for Psychics, a facility hidden off the coast of San Francisco where students are trained like Delta Force operatives: It’s competitive, cutthroat, and highly secretive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From fun to addictive
- By Mia on 04-17-18
By: K.C. Archer
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Ashfall Prophecy
- By: Pittacus Lore
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Syd Chambers grew up on Earth with his human mother and barely remembers his alien father from Denza, who left on a mission when Syd was very young. After leaving Earth, Syd learned the truth of his father’s disappearance on the planet Ashfall—his father had died protecting a devastating secret about the history between humans and Denzans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the pace
- By troy douglas on 07-12-24
By: Pittacus Lore
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Prism
- By: Nina Walker
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Emily Bauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Forced to move into the palace, Jessa begins training as a Color Alchemist under the direction of the kingdom's most eligible bachelor, Prince Lucas. As an alchemist, Jessa must capture and harness the color of living things. Every color has a unique purpose except red. Red is the untapped magic no one can access - until Jessa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved
- By TravisMorgan on 12-11-18
By: Nina Walker