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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith
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Davis McGowan could not have anticipated how his career would isolate him in his private life. After ordination, he finds himself an alien in a world of human need. This fictional account of a young pastor's rise and fall is based on the secret reality faced by the ordinary people who have sensed a "call" to one of the helping professions. Never quite accepted as a local, he navigates the path of conscience through the pitfalls of personal loneliness.
McGowan's Call is a collection of short stories and a novella that chronicles Davis' path from the river town of Hatteras, Ohio to the suburbs of Dayton.
This work of fiction provides a rare insight to pastoral ministry outside the scandals that regularly make headlines. It is an honest exposé of the real crisis that afflicts those who live in the public eye.
Rob Smith is the author of two novels including Night Voices. Ann Joslin of Sandusky Bay Journal describes Night Voices as "an exciting novel of adventure."
In McGowan's Call, this talented writer explores the inner landscape of those who find themselves inserted in the personal crises of others.
Rob Smith's short stories have appeared nationally in Writer's Journal and other literary magazines. In 2006, he received the Robert Frost Poetry Award for his poem "Catbird". He currently resides on Ohio's north coast and sails the waters of Lake Erie on a sloop that he and his wife are restoring.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, many faceted plot line
- By SAinCA on 07-26-11
By: Robert Whitlow
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The Good Friday Murder
- A Christine Bennett Mystery, Book 1
- By: Lee Harris
- Narrated by: Dee Macaluso
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Christine Bennett has left the cloistered world of nuns for the profane world of New York State, where murder and madness are often linked. At a town meeting, Christine volunteers to investigate a 40-year-old murder case long since closed. Now she'll move heaven and earth to exonerate a pair of retarded savant twins, now senior citizens, of their mother's murder on Good Friday in 1950.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Polite procedural cozy
- By connie on 12-29-12
By: Lee Harris
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Privileged Information
- Alan Gregory, Book 1
- By: Stephen White
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 180
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Story4 out of 5 stars 180
Alan Gregory is a clinical psychologist with a thriving practice in Boulder, Colorado. His life begins to unravel when one of his female patients is found in an apparent suicide and the local paper begins printing accusations from an unnamed source of sexual impropriety between the woman and Dr. Gregory. He launches a psychological and personal quest for the truth that rapidly intensifies when more of his patients die untimely deaths, and Gregory suspects not only that the deaths are related but that another one of his patients may be somehow involved. Lacking facts but roused by suspicion and troubled by seemingly random acts of terror around him, Gregory starts to fear for the safety of the people he loves. The question of the inviolability of confidential disclosures made to Gregory by his patients - privileged information - becomes crucial as the psychologist pursues an unsettling romance with Lauren Crowder, a lovely deputy district attorney investigating one of the deaths. Bound to silence, Gregory follows the psychological tracks of someone he fears may be a cunning and disturbed killer, while turning to his enigmatic but supportive partner, Diane Estevez, for counsel, and to his tart-tongued female urologist neighbor for support. The sinister, surprising drama unfolds against Boulder's Rocky Mountain backdrop, in the arresting natural beauty of Aspen, and in the midst of a baroque Halloween costume party in downtown Boulder. Finally, in a lonely mountain lodge enshrouded in menace, the story comes to its breathtaking climax.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Four and a half stars, actually....
- By karen on 10-11-13
By: Stephen White
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Manhattans and Murder
- The Murder, She Wrote Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain
- Narrated by: Beth Porter
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 596
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 549
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Story4 out of 5 stars 545
Promoting her latest books brings best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher to New York for Christmas. Her schedule includes book signings, chat-show appearances, department store shopping...and murder. But it all begins with a sidewalk Santa staring at Jessica with fear and recognition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A release of an older Donald Bain book in the series, thank goodness
- By Dorise on 02-01-19
By: Jessica Fletcher, and others
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Left Behind
- A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
- By: Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,802
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,986
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,971
What would happen if millions of people around the world suddenly disappeared one day? In this fascinating apocalyptic thriller, best-selling Christian inspirational authors LaHaye and Jenkins pool their considerable talents to answer that question. Narrator Richard Ferrone's unusually deep and hypnotic voice will keep you right in the middle of this not-unimaginable end of the world nightmare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great series!
- By Shannon L Hendon on 08-03-04
By: Tim LaHaye, and others
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Mercy Street
- Mercy Street Foundation, Book 1
- By: Mariah Stewart
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 179
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Story4 out of 5 stars 173
On a balmy spring evening, four high school seniors - three boys and a girl - enter a park in the small Pennsylvania city of Conroy. The next morning, two of the boys are found shot to death, and the girl and the third boy are gone. After three weeks with no leads and no sign of either of the two missing teenagers, the chief of police begins to wonder if they too were victims.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mercy Street
- By Marybeth on 12-12-08
By: Mariah Stewart
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Fundraising the Dead
- A Museum Mystery
- By: Sheila Connolly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 195
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4 out of 5 stars 171
At The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques, fundraiser Eleanor "Nell" Pratt solicits donations - and sometimes solves crimes. When a collection of George Washington's letters is lost on the same day that an archivist is found dead, it seems strange that the Society president isn't pushing for an investigation. Nell goes digging herself, and soon uncovers a long, rich history of crime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Sure About This Series
- By Chalis on 11-21-14
By: Sheila Connolly
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One Bad Apple
- An Orchard Mystery
- By: Sheila Connolly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 253
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 229
Meg Corey has come to the quaint New England town of Granford, Massachusetts, to sell her mother's old colonial home and apple orchard. Instead, she becomes embroiled in development plans that include her land - and her former flame from Boston. When he's found dead in the new septic tank on her property, the police immediately suspect Meg, whose only ally in town is the plumber Seth Chapin. Together, they'll have to peel back the layers of secrecy that surround the deal in order to find the real murderer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very slow mystery-wise, narrator okay
- By Debbie on 03-27-17
By: Sheila Connolly
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Goodnight, Irene
- An Irene Kelly Novel
- By: Jan Burke
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
The morning after Irene says goodnight to her old journalist friend O'Connor, he is killed suddenly upon opening a letter bomb. As the smoke clears, a devastated Irene determines to find the mail-bomber by tracing threads of an unsolved crime from 1955 - the same cold case O'Connor had been obsessed with.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Welcome Irene
- By Anonymous User on 04-29-08
By: Jan Burke
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The Suspect
- By: John Lescroart
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Story4 out of 5 stars 230
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, homicide inspector Devin Juhle targets a suspect close to home: her husband, Stuart Gorman. After all, Stuart recently asked for a divorce...and he stands to gain millions in insurance. His alibi - that he was at his cabin on Echo Lake that weekend - doesn't keep him out of hot water. But maybe a shrewd attorney will.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The last of Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky?
- By Richard Delman on 12-15-12
By: John Lescroart
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On Borrowed Time
- By: David Rosenfelt
- Narrated by: Chris Ensweiler
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 320
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4 out of 5 stars 235
Richard Kilmer is head over heels in love with Jennifer Ryan, who takes him home to meet her parents, where she accepts his marriage proposal. While visiting, they set out on a nostalgic drive up to Kendrick Falls. On their way, a freak storm rolls in, Richard loses control of his car, and it rolls. When the storm clears in a matter of seconds, Jen is gone. Richard can't find her, and neither can the police who respond to the scene.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not enough dogs!
- By Rowan Mangan on 09-18-11
By: David Rosenfelt
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Unplanned
- The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey Across the Life Line
- By: Abby Johnson, Cindy Lambert
- Narrated by: Abby Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 946
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 860
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Story5 out of 5 stars 863
Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, after participating in her first actual abortion procedure, crossed the line to join the Coalition for Life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Increased my Understanding
- By Susan on 03-26-13
By: Abby Johnson, and others
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Cold Truth
- By: Mariah Stewart
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 128
Twenty-six years ago, just before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her family and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her father. Back then, Cassie was a scared kid; now, she's a homicide cop. Back then, the suspect was caught and convicted; he died in prison. But now the killing has started again. And all signs indicate that the Bayside Strangler has come back for more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- By Barbara on 05-19-06
By: Mariah Stewart
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The Dentist
- DS Cross, Book 1
- By: Tim Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 345
DS George Cross can be rude, difficult and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force. So when his police colleagues dismiss the death of a man as a squabble among Bristol's homeless community, Detective Sergeant George Cross is not convinced.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unique Detective Story
- By Lia on 06-11-22
By: Tim Sullivan