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Blanche
- The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation
- By: Nancy Schoenberger
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Ever since Jessica Tandy glided onto the stage in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1947, Blanche DuBois has fascinated generations of audiences worldwide and secured a place in the history of literature, theater, and film. One of Williams’s greatest creations, Blanche has bedazzled, amused, and broken the hearts of generations of audiences. Before the Covid pandemic, the stage classic was performed somewhere in the world every hour. It has been adapted into a ballet and an opera, and it was satirized in an episode of The Simpsons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Neither the author nor the reader is very familiar with New Orleans.
- By Vi-vie Fonseca on 12-05-23
- Blanche
- The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation
- By: Nancy Schoenberger
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Neither the author nor the reader is very familiar with New Orleans.
Reviewed: 12-05-23
There were too many and easily verifiable errors. Anyone familiar with New Orleans or Tennessee Williams would be too appalled to enjoy the storyline.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 295,919
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 261,620
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Story5 out of 5 stars 260,706
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don't listen to the negative reviews.
- By Kyle on 12-03-19
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Could have used some more editing
Reviewed: 07-08-20
Unique story, far more real than many would like to believe. There were some extraneous parts that made it drag.
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Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven
- By: Bella Forrest
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,773
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,751
Harley Merlin can sense people's emotions, among other things. It's how she snagged her first job pinpointing cheaters at a casino. But she has no clue where she got these freakish powers because she spent her childhood jumping from home to home in the foster system, and her father left her with nothing more than a cryptic note. Then she crosses paths with a terrifyingly real monster. Which is when a mysterious and annoyingly arrogant young warlock named Wade Crowley steps in, introducing her to a hidden world of beasts, magicals, and covens riddled with secrets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Definitely not "Harry Potter for adults"
- By Kevin Potter on 07-29-19
- Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven
- By: Bella Forrest
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
A Bit Derivative
Reviewed: 07-07-20
It was mindless fun, but very much lifted from other books of the same genre.
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If You Tell
- A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26,036
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22,641
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,560
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horribly Depressing, Detailed Description of Abuse
- By Andrea on 12-20-19
- If You Tell
- A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
Some parts strain willing suspension of disbelief
Reviewed: 05-09-20
Sloppy editing, mispronunciations, bouncing around in time without clear indicators. Some parts were so much like my experience that, as often, I wonder if there is a secret handbook for child abuse--other than mother read books like this and made me read them to show me how hard but necessary it was for to do what she did. Through reading these books, unlike my mother who saw the abusers as the heroes and their actions as necessary to "fix" their victims, I saw how sick, perverted, but predictable these ubermensche types were. In the reviews of this book, people asked why people would even find it necessary to tell this story. It is for the victims of other mobsters, to show us the patterns we try to ignore, to show us that these people do not have all control over life and death. If you can't respect that, don't read this sort of story, or maybe examine your own behaviour.
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Marina
- By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 640
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 557
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 559
When 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona, no one knows his whereabouts for seven days and seven nights. His story begins when he meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of the city. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly 10 o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Gothic Mystery for the Modern Era
- By Kim on 05-22-19
- Marina
- By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Ruiz-Zafon's Favourite Child's
Reviewed: 07-25-18
As usual, I was so sad when this story was over. I love the world as it exists in Ruiz-Zafon's mind, knowing that I am safe here in my world. His books are SO realistically scary, in beautiful prose that reads almost like poetry!
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