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Belly Up
- FunJungle
- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve-year-old Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt Fitzroy believes that Henry, the hippopotamus at the brand-new FunJungle, has been murdered. The zoo’s top brass claim the hippo went belly up the natural way, but Teddy and his feisty friend Summer McCraken have other ideas. Could the culprit be FunJungle’s animal-hating head of operations? Or is it FunJungle’s owner - Summer’s dad - a man who is much more concerned about money than animal welfare? The deeper Teddy and Summer dig, the more danger they’re in - because when it comes to hippo homicide, the truth can’t be caged!
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Not appropriate for kids
- By Hughston on 07-30-21
- Belly Up
- FunJungle
- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
great story for youth
Reviewed: 12-07-24
I liked trying to guess who the perpetrator was. i didn't care for a few off color words.
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The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump
- A Psychological Reckoning
- By: Dan P. McAdams
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump provides a coherent and nuanced psychological portrait of Donald Trump, drawing upon biographical events in the subject's life and contemporary scientific research and theory in personality, developmental, and social psychology.
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Interesting & insiteful
- By Conrad on 08-01-20
- The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump
- A Psychological Reckoning
- By: Dan P. McAdams
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
The ideas in this book will last.
Reviewed: 12-03-24
This book has helped me understand Mr. Trump and made him more predictable for me.
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The Trump Tapes
- Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Donald J. Trump, Bob Woodward
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Trump Tapes explodes with the exclusive, inside story of Trump’s performance as president—in his own words as he is questioned, even interrogated by Woodward, on the president’s key responsibilities from managing foreign relations to crisis management of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the job Trump seeks again. How did he do the first time? This is the authentic answer, laying bare his repeated failures, obsessions, and grievances.
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The Trump Tapes
- By Melvin on 10-27-22
- The Trump Tapes
- Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Donald J. Trump, Bob Woodward
Woodward tried to warn us.
Reviewed: 11-20-24
Hearing Woodward struggle to interview him makes it clear what a bloviated, egomaniacal, moron Trump is. It clearly illustrates, from his own mouth, how empty his mind is and that he tries to make up for it with side show bluster.
Woodward tried to warn us that Trump shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the White House again.
Citizens worldwide will pay the price for the fact that voters didn't listen.
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War
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate.
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Draws Connections
- By Kyle on 10-18-24
- War
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
An inside view of Biden's term as POTUS.
Reviewed: 11-06-24
Biden's interest in hearing opinions from all sides, then making decisions based on what he deemed best for the country.
The behind the scenes efforts of Biden and his defense team to stop and/or avoid conflict in the world. Diplomacy never looked so good.
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Authoritarian Nightmare
- Trump and His Followers
- By: John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he acts against their interests? John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joins with Bob Altemeyer, a psychology professor with a unique area of expertise: authoritarianism. Together, using psychological diagnostic tools, as well as exclusive research and analysis from the Monmouth University Polling Institute, the authors provide us with an eye-opening understanding of the Trump phenomenon.
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Well worth your time
- By kay on 09-06-20
- Authoritarian Nightmare
- Trump and His Followers
- By: John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Reasonable theory that explains the disparity between the professed beliefs and the actions of Trump supporters.
Reviewed: 10-14-24
I like that it was very well researched. This book clearly presents an understanding of many supporters of Donald Trump.
Answers the question, "Why are evangelical Christians supporting someone who has lived a life committing every sin in the Bible?
Without being sensational, it has left me frightened to consider the future of our country.
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Something New
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, we have a glorious ensemble of Woodhousian characters knocking elbows to foreheads in the elegant and grand Blandings Castle. Meet Freddy Threepwood, the vagrant son of doddering old Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle. Freddy has recently become engaged to Aline Peters, the American heiress of an irascible father. The snag is that Freddy seems to have at one point become enamored of a struggling actress, Joan Valentine, and written some impetuous and imprudent letters to her.
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Same book as Something Fresh
- By customer on 03-07-15
- Something New
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Classic P.G.Wodehouse
Reviewed: 10-14-24
I adore the dry, clever and hilarious British sense of humor. Wodehouse has perfected this in his writing.
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Mad Love
- By: Wendy Walker
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Alexis Bledel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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They were madly in love. The perfect couple. That was the story everyone in South River believed...until Gin Talcott and Adam Archer are found shot in their bed. Adam is dead at the scene. Gin is fighting for her life. Detectives Greta Jessup and Finn Pate are assigned to the case. Greta has a long history with Gin’s first husband, Eddie, and is determined to protect his 18-year-old twins. Piper discovered the bodies. Daniel is missing—and so is Adam’s gun.
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Surprised
- By marcie on 05-25-24
- Mad Love
- By: Wendy Walker
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Alexis Bledel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Finn Wittrock, Damon Daunno, Elizabeth Evans
couldn't put it down
Reviewed: 10-06-24
This book pulled me in and had me guessing until the very end. A good escape
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
- Women in the West, Book 1
- By: Margot Mifflin
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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In 1851, Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.
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Mispronunciations
- By R. Brown on 06-07-18
- The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
- Women in the West, Book 1
- By: Margot Mifflin
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Olive had an interesting story. it was good to know the likely truths, unembellished for cultural reasons.
Reviewed: 10-04-24
I liked learning about the significant differences between various tribes. I'm glad she had a positive experience with the Mojave tribe.
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is persuade his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading “north,” where new jobs and safety await. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy reassures passengers on the station platform every day.
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Timeliness and timelessness
- By JStan on 02-25-24
- The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
Once again, Mitch Albom has hit it out of the park.
Reviewed: 09-13-24
Great story line, interesting characters, lots of quotable, insightful lines. A page turner that drew me in from the beginning.
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Maybe This Time
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Zoë Chao, Noah Reid, Josh Hurley, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Romance can be a little complicated when you get sucked into a wormhole. Just ask high school English teacher June Flint. One little solar flare happens and suddenly you find yourself 85 years in the future. Eighty-five years from your dream job. Your ailing mother whose only companion in this world is you. Your favorite stuffed-crust pizza from DeLucia’s on Sunday nights. But when June’s cell phone inexplicably picks up a signal, she’s able to call back to the present—more specifically, four weeks before she accidentally time traveled.
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Like a hug with mega dose of confidence
- By Amanda on 05-03-24
Very light, with nuggets of wisdom.
Reviewed: 09-03-24
A fun romance. I enjoyed rooting for the good guys. They came through with flying colors.
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