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Spitting Gold
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- Narrated by: Katherine Press
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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A deliciously haunting, “lush, and twist-filled tale” (CrimeReads) that blends gothic mystery with a captivating sapphic romance as two estranged sisters—celebrated (and fraudulent) spirit mediums—come back together for one last con in 19th-century Paris.
Paris, 1866: When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into one last con.
Their marks are the de Jacquinots: dysfunctional aristocrats who believe they are haunted by their great aunt, brutally murdered during the French Revolution.
The scheme underway, the sisters deploy every trick to terrify the family out of their gold. But when inexplicable horrors start to happen to them, too, the duo question whether they really are at the mercy of a vengeful spirit. And what other deep, dark secrets may come to light?
Perfect for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner, Spitting Gold is “an auspicious first outing from a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthy patrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position her grandmother is pressuring her to inherit. When a series of dancers are targeted—the attacker stealing their faces—Jingwen fears she could be next. And as the faces of the dancers start appearing on wealthy foreign socialites, she realizes Shanghai's mirage of carefree luxury comes at a terrible price.
By: Rosalie M. Lin
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April May June July
- By: Alison B. Hart
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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April, May, June, and July Barber don’t have much in common anymore. An upcoming family wedding will place the four siblings in the same room for the first time in years. But shortly before, when April spots their father, who went missing while serving overseas a decade ago, their reunion becomes entirely more complicated. While the siblings’ search for the truth about their father forces them back into each other’s lives, it also intensifies their private dramas.
By: Alison B. Hart
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When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
- By: Margaret Verble
- Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two’s closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two’s shows, strange things start to happen at the park. Vestiges of the ancient past begin to surface, apparitions appear, and then the hippo falls ill.
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Hard to stay focused
- By Trisha K. Fenby on 01-21-24
By: Margaret Verble
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The Secret Keeper of Main Street
- A Novel
- By: Trisha R. Thomas
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a good living fitting designer gowns and creating custom wedding dresses for the town’s elite. But beyond her needle and thread lies a deeper talent, one passed down from her mother: the gift of insight. With just a fleeting touch or brush against the skin, Bailey has sudden flashes of intuition.
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Wheeww…
- By Britainy M. on 08-25-24
By: Trisha R. Thomas
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The Nightingale's Castle
- A Novel of Erzsébet Báthory, the Blood Countess
- By: Sonia Velton
- Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1573, Countess Erzsébet Báthory gives birth to an illegitimate child. Secretly taken to a peasant family living in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, the infant girl is raised as their own. Years later, a young woman called Boróka—ignorant of her true history—is sent to join the Countess’s household. Terrified of the Countess’s murderous reputation and the brutally cruel women who run the castle, Boróka struggles to find her place. Then plague breaches the castle’s walls, and a tentative bond unexpectedly forms between the girl and the Countess.
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Mixed Thoughts - Fantastic Audio Performance
- By Darcia Helle on 08-31-24
By: Sonia Velton
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The Book of Thorns
- By: Hester Fox
- Narrated by: Ell Potter, Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and out of options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon’s Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her mysterious ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers…and suspicion.
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Another great one from Ms. Fox
- By audrey melton on 04-11-24
By: Hester Fox
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Daughter of Calamity
- By: Rosalie M. Lin
- Narrated by: Si Chen
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthy patrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position her grandmother is pressuring her to inherit. When a series of dancers are targeted—the attacker stealing their faces—Jingwen fears she could be next. And as the faces of the dancers start appearing on wealthy foreign socialites, she realizes Shanghai's mirage of carefree luxury comes at a terrible price.
By: Rosalie M. Lin
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April May June July
- By: Alison B. Hart
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
April, May, June, and July Barber don’t have much in common anymore. An upcoming family wedding will place the four siblings in the same room for the first time in years. But shortly before, when April spots their father, who went missing while serving overseas a decade ago, their reunion becomes entirely more complicated. While the siblings’ search for the truth about their father forces them back into each other’s lives, it also intensifies their private dramas.
By: Alison B. Hart
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When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
- By: Margaret Verble
- Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two’s closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two’s shows, strange things start to happen at the park. Vestiges of the ancient past begin to surface, apparitions appear, and then the hippo falls ill.
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Hard to stay focused
- By Trisha K. Fenby on 01-21-24
By: Margaret Verble
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The Secret Keeper of Main Street
- A Novel
- By: Trisha R. Thomas
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a good living fitting designer gowns and creating custom wedding dresses for the town’s elite. But beyond her needle and thread lies a deeper talent, one passed down from her mother: the gift of insight. With just a fleeting touch or brush against the skin, Bailey has sudden flashes of intuition.
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Wheeww…
- By Britainy M. on 08-25-24
By: Trisha R. Thomas
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The Nightingale's Castle
- A Novel of Erzsébet Báthory, the Blood Countess
- By: Sonia Velton
- Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In 1573, Countess Erzsébet Báthory gives birth to an illegitimate child. Secretly taken to a peasant family living in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, the infant girl is raised as their own. Years later, a young woman called Boróka—ignorant of her true history—is sent to join the Countess’s household. Terrified of the Countess’s murderous reputation and the brutally cruel women who run the castle, Boróka struggles to find her place. Then plague breaches the castle’s walls, and a tentative bond unexpectedly forms between the girl and the Countess.
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Mixed Thoughts - Fantastic Audio Performance
- By Darcia Helle on 08-31-24
By: Sonia Velton
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The Book of Thorns
- By: Hester Fox
- Narrated by: Ell Potter, Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and out of options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon’s Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her mysterious ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers…and suspicion.
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Another great one from Ms. Fox
- By audrey melton on 04-11-24
By: Hester Fox
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The Lady Waiting
- A Novel
- By: Magdalena Zyzak
- Narrated by: Zuzanna Szadkowski
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigré named Viva is driving along the freeway when she’s flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and an erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost Vermeer masterwork, a multi-million-dollar reward, and several shadowy ex-husbands.
By: Magdalena Zyzak
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Half Sick of Shadows
- By: Laura Sebastian
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows the legend. Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will betray him with his most loyal knight, Lancelot. Of the bitter sorceress, Morgana, who will turn against them all. But Elaine alone carries the burden of knowing what is to come - for Elaine of Shalott is cursed to see the future. On the mystical isle of Avalon, Elaine runs free and learns of the ancient prophecies surrounding her and her friends - countless possibilities, almost all of them tragic.
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Time skips are confusing, boring main character
- By Allen I. on 07-09-21
By: Laura Sebastian
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A Sweet Sting of Salt
- A Novel
- By: Rose Sutherland
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When a sharp cry wakes Jean in the middle of the night during a terrible tempest, she’s convinced it must have been a dream. But when the cry comes again, Jean ventures outside and is shocked by what she discovers—a young woman in labor, drenched to the bone in the bitter cold and able to speak barely a word of English.
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Atmospheric in the Best of Ways—not to miss!
- By Syd Young on 04-11-24
By: Rose Sutherland
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The Silence Factory
- A Novel
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Bridget Collins, Ned Porteous
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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1820: Sophia Ashmore-Percy reluctantly accompanies her husband James to a remote Greek island, where he searches for rare biological specimens. Once there, however, she sets on her own voyage of discovery—stumbling across the very creature he is looking for, making an unexpected connection with a local woman, and ultimately reconsidering her marriage, life, and own desires. Decades later, audiologist Henry Latimer is sent to the home of industrialist Sir Edward Ashmore-Percy and tasked with curing the man’s young daughter, Philomel, of her deafness.
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Oddly entertaining
- By joann kenyon on 10-15-24
By: Bridget Collins
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Project Lotus
- By: Kimberlee Ann
- Narrated by: Krista Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A local celebrity in the arts community of Quesinberry, Lolly Scarberry shines as one of the main acts at the Lotus Theatre. Always one to wear her heart on her sleeve, Lolly earns the affections of others quickly, loving openly and treating everyone with considerable care—even the town’s resident outsider MackLynn Brooks. A college transplant, Mack has thought about skipping town every day since graduation, but after years hanging around, it allowed her an accidental meeting with Lolly, and solidified her planting in the town she hates.
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characters
- By Nicole C on 05-19-24
By: Kimberlee Ann
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The Mother Act
- A Novel
- By: Heidi Reimer
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks, Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a mother. No one feels this more deeply than Jude, the daughter Sadie left behind. While Jude spent her childhood touring with her father’s Shakespearian theater company, desperate for validation from the mother she barely knew, Sadie catapulted to fame on the wings of The Mother Act—a scathing one-woman show about motherhood. Two decades later, Jude is a talented actress in her own right, and her fraught relationship with Sadie has come to a scandalous head.
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Emotions
- By Amazon Customer on 10-17-24
By: Heidi Reimer
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Lakesedge
- By: Lyndall Clipstone
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When Violeta Graceling and her younger brother, Arien, arrive at the haunted Lakesedge estate, they expect to find a monster. Leta knows the terrifying rumors about Rowan Sylvanan, who drowned his entire family when he was a boy. But neither the estate nor the monster are what they seem. As Leta falls for Rowan, she discovers he is bound to the Lord Under, the sinister death god lurking in the black waters of the lake.
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Insufferable main character.
- By A.R. Greyson on 05-17-22
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A Wilderness of Stars
- By: Shea Ernshaw
- Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Vega has lived in the valley her whole life—forbidden by her mother to leave the safety of its borders because of the unknown threats waiting for her in the wilds beyond. But when Vega sees an omen in the sky—one she cannot ignore—she is forced to leave the protective boundaries of the valley for the first time. Yet the outside world is much more terrifying than Vega could have ever imagined. People are gravely sick—they lose their eyesight and their hearing, just before they lose their lives.
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Amazing love story with a twist.
- By Anonymous User on 08-18-24
By: Shea Ernshaw
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Jackpot Summer
- By: Elyssa Friedland
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The four Jacobson children were raised to respect the value of a dollar. Their mother reused tea bags and refused to pay retail; their father taught them to budget before he taught them to ride a bike. And yet, now that they’re adults, their financial lives are in disarray. The siblings reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore beach house on the market. Packing up childhood memories isn’t easy, especially when there’s other drama brewing.
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Cute but not worth the price.
- By Jim Neitzel on 07-22-24
By: Elyssa Friedland
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Middletide
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Crouch
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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One peaceful morning, in the small, Puget Sound town of Point Orchards, the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the property of prodigal son and failed writer, Elijah Leith. Sheriff Jim Godbout’s initial investigation points to an obvious suicide, but upon closer inspection, there seem to be clues of foul play when he discovers that the circumstances of the beautiful doctor’s death were ripped straight from the pages of Elijah Leith’s own novel.
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Needed more development
- By Amazon Customer on 06-24-24
By: Sarah Crouch
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The Modern Fairies
- A Novel
- By: Clare Pollard
- Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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At a safe distance from the intrigues of courtly life at Louis XIV’s Versailles, an intellectual crowd of mostly women have been gathering in a Parisian home to share what hostess Marie D’Aulnoy herself has christened contes de fées: fairy tales. Recently ousted from court and still raw from the death of his beloved wife, Charles Perrault finds companionship and creative camaraderie at the salon, where he eagerly joins the storytellers. Their hostess is impressive, fiercely intelligent, but somehow unreadable. She is harboring secrets of her own.
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Wonderful and enchanting
- By jacqueline m. on 09-11-24
By: Clare Pollard
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Road to Ruin
- Magebike Courier, Book 1
- By: Hana Lee
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She’s a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles powered by magic. Every day, she braves the wasteland’s dangers—deadly storms, roving marauders, and territorial beasts—to deliver her wares. Her most valuable cargo? A prince’s love letters addressed to Yi-Nereen, a princess desperate to escape the clutches of her abusive family and soon-to-be husband. Jin, desperately in love with both her and the prince, can’t refuse Yi-Nereen’s plea for help.
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Awesome Start!
- By Аmazon Customer on 10-02-24
By: Hana Lee