Leisa Hayworth
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Sooley
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,880
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,768
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,708
In the summer of his 17th year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! Just wow!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-28-21
- Sooley
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
Pulls you in and you are left wanting more!
Reviewed: 07-27-21
I can't remember feeling so much when a book ended.. I was just so sad that I reached the end, I wanted it to go on and on. I began this book yesterday and did nothing but read until it was finished. Ate with it and slept little, good thing I’m retired. I have enjoyed a few basketball games in my youth and wasn't sure about this book. It is so much more than basketball. There are stories of love by family and friends that will touch your heart and leave you wanting to know more about the lives of the characters. Sooley has left me with so much to think about.
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The Water Keeper
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Jonathan K. Riggs
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,970
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,702
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,693
Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds of a church with no parishioners, and he’s dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes. When he pulls a beautiful woman named Summer out of Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway, Murph’s mission to lay his mentor to rest at the end of the world takes a dangerous turn.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wrong Narrator
- By SusieSunshine0945 on 05-17-20
- The Water Keeper
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Jonathan K. Riggs
Another GREAT Charles Martin Story
Reviewed: 06-17-20
Charles Martin is a gifted writer of stories and characters. This book has a storyline that is a bit predictable but the characters and storyline are well written. The small nuances of each character and their individual stories has a way of pulling you in and making you care about what happens next. The only problem I had with this book is not how the book was narrated but believing a narrator who sounds 20 is a 49 year old man with the experience of the main character. The only problem I have with Charles Martin is closure, we don't seem to find it, he just finds a spot and ends. Throughly enjoyed the experience of falling into this book.
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Somebody I Used to Know
- By: David Bell
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,498
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3,189
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,186
When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery store, his heart stops. She is the spitting image of his college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a campus house fire 20 years earlier. But when Nick tries to speak to her, she acts skittish and rushes off. The next morning the police arrive at Nick's house and show him a photo of the woman from the store. She's been found dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely Worth a Credit
- By Snoodely on 07-15-15
- Somebody I Used to Know
- By: David Bell
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
Totally Unsuspenville!
Reviewed: 06-16-19
Everything was given away before you got to a section that should have brought the suspense to the novel. Narrator was the best part of the book!
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Tell No One
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,507
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,074
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,073
It has been eight years since Dr. David Beck’s wife, Elizabeth, was murdered by a serial killer. When Beck receives a message containing a phrase only Elizabeth should know, he is tormented to tears. Either someone is playing a sick joke, or the wife he’s never stopped loving is still alive. He’s been warned to tell no one, and as the desperation of his search for the truth intensifies, he heads straight toward a deadly secret.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Listen to sample first...
- By Dawn on 09-15-14
- Tell No One
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
OK, but not a favorite.
Reviewed: 04-20-19
Story jumps all around and has a weird ending. Narrator sounds like Hal Holbrook and I could never stop seeing David Beck look like Hal Holbrook.
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The Cases That Haunt Us
- From Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away
- By: John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,323
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,657
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,628
Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and 25-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizing questions and more in this mesmerizing work of detection. With uniquely gripping analysis, the authors reexamine and reinterpret the accepted facts, evidence, and victimology of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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John Douglas is AMAZING
- By Amazon Customer on 12-17-16
- The Cases That Haunt Us
- From Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away
- By: John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Great Facts
Reviewed: 01-27-19
This book just looks at the facts and calls them as they are. I have at least 15 words!
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Sycamore Row
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29,184
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26,204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26,113
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his Black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly?
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Grisham we all loved from the 90's!
- By CBlox on 10-23-13
- Sycamore Row
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
Grisham & Beck
Reviewed: 08-23-18
No one cant beat a great John Grisham story with Michael Beck reading it.
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The Chamber
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Alexander Adams
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,694
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,679
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm, 26-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances - except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. One secret could save Sam Cayhall's life...or cost Adam his.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of Grisham's best
- By Ed on 09-23-08
- The Chamber
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Alexander Adams
One of Grisham's Best
Reviewed: 08-20-18
I love this book. I have listened many times and even though I know what's coming I end up the book in tears. As a republican southerner, I was brought up being taught that the death penalty was greatly needed in our country. This book made me think about the death penalty for myself. I still agree that some people should receive the death penalty but the laws need to change. This is an amazing story that really makes you feel it. not just read it. Michael Beck is a wonderful reader and I've never listened to one of his books that I didn't enjoy.
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Maggie
- The Sequel to The Dead Don't Dance
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 535
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 534
Life began again for Dylan Styles when his beloved wife Maggie awoke from a coma. A coma brought on by the intense two-day labor that resulted in heartbreaking loss. In this poignant love story that is redolent with Southern atmosphere, Dylan and Maggie must come to terms with their past before they can embrace their future.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Returning
- By Julie on 07-03-17
- Maggie
- The Sequel to The Dead Don't Dance
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
Back to Back
Reviewed: 06-28-18
My problem may be that I listened to Maggie and Dead Don't Dance back to back and there was a different narrator. I just kind of felt this book was written to fill a contract that was coming up quickly. The storyline is all over the place. I had to back up several times because it changed so much. Was it Maggie's story - in a way. A crime mystery - badly. In the end I just felt the characters I enjoyed so much became different people and the story I had loved was only a prequel because there were characters with the same names. I'm not giving up on Charles Martin, I just was disappointed in an author as great as he is and this book. Don't take my opinion to heart if you are a huge Charles Martin fan, there are some interesting parts and it ends great.
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Miracle Cure
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,506
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,306
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,301
They’re one of the country’s most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York’s hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds - threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time. In a clinic on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This is an old book
- By Mary on 09-29-11
- Miracle Cure
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
A bit dated!
Reviewed: 02-13-18
As I feel when I am in just about any Coben book, it was hard to go to bed and turn off the book. Scott Brick (my favorite reader always makes it better). As I said above the story is a bit dated but as usual the characters were very interesting and well worked out. I just new I had until I was as usual bombed with the real adversary of the story. Again we see the love of basketball behind Harlan Coben, We have characters to love, to question, and naturally those we hate until . . .
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- By: Donnie Eichar
- Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,733
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4,266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,263
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mystery & Intrigue In The Ural Mountains
- By Sara on 06-30-15
- Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- By: Donnie Eichar
- Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
A Great Explanation to a long time QUESTION.
Reviewed: 02-05-18
Donnie Eichar's dedicated research is shown in this story told in present time and at the time of the incident. It interested me as I had read small stories on the Dyatlov Pass and most try to make out it was Aliens or the Yeti killed them I knew these were intelligent college students but not much more about THEM. This happened the year I was born and it sort of haunted me, I wanted to know what happened that night. The answer from Mr. Eichar was very intriguing. Unlike many listeners I liked listening to Donnie Eichar it was like listening to some who truly cared about the people he was reading about. He has researched his book so well that reading it flowed in a way I could see the people, feel his relief when he had HIS conclusion and I think it made great sence. After finishing the book I hit the computer to see the pictures he talks about in the book. It is very compelling and as a relistener I plan to research the incident and listen to this book again.
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