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Blood Sacrifice
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Final Acts. Detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers presents a look at morality and motive as playwright John Scales grows angrier and more resentful towards the actor who reinvented his script, and must decide how far he will allow his hatred to take him.
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Thank You British Library Crime Classics
- By John on 12-09-24
- Blood Sacrifice
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: John Telfer
Great short story
Reviewed: 10-14-24
Love Dorothy L Sayers this is a great short story with a wonderful narrator. Highly recommend it!
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Daniel Deronda
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 36 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Meeting by chance at a gambling hall in Europe, the separate lives of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth are immediately intertwined. Daniel, an Englishman of uncertain parentage, becomes Gwendolyn's redeemer as she finds herself drawn to his spiritual and altruistic nature after a loveless marriage. But Daniel's path was already set when he rescued a young Jewess from suicide.
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Give it a try!
- By Tucker LaPrade on 01-30-16
- Daniel Deronda
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Beautiful
Reviewed: 06-10-24
At first I thought I didn’t like the story and that it was moving too slowly but it was engaging and I was sad when it finished. Great Narration!!
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The Whalebone Theatre
- A Novel
- By: Joanna Quinn
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household—her sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artist—build a theatre from the beast’s skeletal rib cage. Within the Whalebone Theatre, Cristabel can escape her feckless stepparents and brisk governesses, and her imagination comes to life.
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Unbelievable Debut Novel!
- By NTexHiker on 10-13-22
- The Whalebone Theatre
- A Novel
- By: Joanna Quinn
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Loved it
Reviewed: 04-10-24
Great narration with each character defined. The story flows smoothly
and I was sorry when it was over.
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
- Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Loved it!
Reviewed: 11-27-23
Beautiful story, excellent narration by Meryl Streep. The narration was so good I felt like I was there!
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Innocent Blood
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
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A Classic British Mystery
- By Karen Vincent on 12-23-14
- Innocent Blood
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta
Not my favorite PD James
Reviewed: 10-29-23
Nothing redeeming-the story gets weirder and weirder with every revelation. The narration was typical of this narrator who always delivers.
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This Tender Land
- By: William Kent Krueger
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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1932: Located on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota, Lincoln School is home to hundreds of Native American boys and girls who have been separated from their families. The only two white boys in the school are orphan brothers Odie and Albert, who, under the watchful eyes of the cruel superintendent Mrs. Brickman, are often in trouble for misdeeds both real and imagined. The two boys' best friend is Mose, a mute Native American who is also the strongest kid in school. And they find another ally in Cora Frost, a widowed teacher who is raising her little girl, Emmy, by herself.
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"Didn't need the underlying social message"
- By Curtis on 09-23-19
- This Tender Land
- By: William Kent Krueger
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Narration was overwrought!
Reviewed: 03-15-23
I e listened to Scott Brick before and enjoyed the narration-this reading was another story all together. The narration was so overwrought and every sentence was read like an emergency was happening. The story was okay but Odie’s story is not believable because of his age. Anyhow! I’ll not give up on Krueger but not sure I’ll listen next time.
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Colour Scheme
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knows that any number of people could have killed him. But who actually did?
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Mud pot mystery!
- By Pam on 12-09-04
- Colour Scheme
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Nadia May
Not Roderick Alleyn
Reviewed: 03-05-22
Not a Roderick Alleyn book-He is mentioned twice in the story! So frustrating. The narration was painful!
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Boy's Life
- By: Robert R. McCammon
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
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Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson - a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake - and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him.
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Remember when the Waltons made you feel good?
- By Marie on 04-03-18
- Boy's Life
- By: Robert R. McCammon
- Narrated by: George Newbern
Perfect
Reviewed: 01-24-21
I loved everything about this book! The story was grand and the narration was top notch.
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The Other Einstein
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most 20-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.
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Re writing history
- By PJ Goetz on 11-08-19
- The Other Einstein
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
So much whining!
Reviewed: 04-12-18
I can't believe that someone so bright would whine so much! Not much story here. The book is based on speculation and answered none of my questions. Although I did finish it, I couldn't wait for it to end!
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Romeo and Juliet: A Novel
- By: David Hewson
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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It's a story you think you know: the age-old tale of "star-cross'd lovers"; two families at war; a romance, so pure and absolute, fated for a tragic end. It's a story so thoroughly embedded in our culture, and so frequently retold. Yet, nothing captures the spark, the possibility, and the surprise of Shakespeare's work quite like this....
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Wonderful, Imaginative
- By DPM on 12-13-16
- Romeo and Juliet: A Novel
- By: David Hewson
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
Loved it!
Reviewed: 08-12-17
Perfect re-telling of the original-not Shakespeare's original, but, as the author noted, the original tale from the 13th century, which differs from Shakespeare's slightly. Hewson adds a wonderful twist at the end!
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