Diane Walter
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The Armor of Light
- A Novel (Kingsbridge, Book 5)
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 21 h y 39 m
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The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France.
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Doesn’t grip me like other Follett novels, but I still enjoyed it
- De Phil Gephardt en 09-30-23
- The Armor of Light
- A Novel (Kingsbridge, Book 5)
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: John Lee
Hard to put down
Revisado: 03-31-25
Like all Ken Follet books, this was riveting from page 1. The story takes place in England just before the 22 years war with France, ending with the battle of Waterloo. I gave performance only 4 stars because the narrator’s enunciation was such that I could not make out the last word of numerous sentences, even after playing them several times. His voice just fades out to nothing.
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Quantum Radio
- De: A.G. Riddle
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
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Dr. Tyson Klein is a quantum physicist who has dedicated his entire life to his research. At CERN, he analyses data generated by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. Now, Ty believes he's found a pattern in its output. It looks like an organised data stream, being broadcast over what he calls a quantum radio. Could it be a signal from another universe? A message sent from the future? Or something else entirely?
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Can't wait for book two
- De T. Patterson en 03-12-23
- Quantum Radio
- De: A.G. Riddle
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Meh
Revisado: 03-19-25
A bit sappy and predictable. I kept rolling my eyes while I listened to it.
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Timescape
- De: Gregory Benford
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble, Pete Bradbury
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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In a future wracked by environmental catastrophe and social instability, physicist John Renfrew devises a longshot plan to use tachyons - strange, time-traveling particles - to send a warning to the past. In 1962, Gordon Bernstein, a California researcher, gets Renfrew's message as a strange pattern of interference in an experiment he's conducting.
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An enjoyable book with problems
- De Mike Schultz en 10-26-08
- Timescape
- De: Gregory Benford
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble, Pete Bradbury
"Casual Loops"
Revisado: 01-09-25
I enjoyed the premise of the book and the physics in it. Some of the narrator goofs drove me batty, however. The big one was when the characters were talking about causal loops and the narrator pronounced them as "casual" loops. Who edits these things? And I thought everyone would have heard of Richard Feynman and thus would not pronounce his name as "Fenneman". Ugh. The story was fun, though and kept my interest enough to want to read other Benford novels. Hopefully the narrators will be different.
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Solar Storm
- Moon Base Delta, Book 1
- De: Gerald M. Kilby
- Narrado por: Jeffrey Kafer
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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Rapid colonization of the moon is pushing both national space agencies and powerful corporations to negotiate a New Lunar Accord in an effort to prevent escalating conflicts over valuable resources and territory. But hope that this treaty will bring stability to the nascent lunar civilization is suddenly dashed when a high-energy solar storm causes a cascade of destruction to the vast satellite constellations that orbit Earth. Now it’s only a matter of weeks before the ever-increasing debris cloud makes travel back to the home planet impossible.
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Great story
- De Amaris en 04-14-25
- Solar Storm
- Moon Base Delta, Book 1
- De: Gerald M. Kilby
- Narrado por: Jeffrey Kafer
This series is awesome!
Revisado: 06-18-24
I highly recommend all three books in the Moon Base Delta Series. The author keeps it scientifically realistic and exciting at the same time. I learned a lot about space physics listening to the books. I've now devoured all of his books: this series, the Mars series, and the Belt series. All are good reads, but the Moon Base Delta Series is the best.
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Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- De: Liz Cheney
- Narrado por: Liz Cheney
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on our Capitol.
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Most important book I've ever read.
- De James m Finamore jr en 12-07-23
- Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- De: Liz Cheney
- Narrado por: Liz Cheney
Wow!
Revisado: 05-19-24
I never cared for the Cheney family before, but after reading this I have so much admiration for Liz Cheney’s intelligence, her honor, and her courage. Every American should read this book.
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The Glass Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrado por: Dylan Moore
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors.
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Don't waste your time and money
- De Anonymous User en 03-26-20
- The Glass Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrado por: Dylan Moore
Reader drive me nuts
Revisado: 04-25-23
This wasn’t the best Emily St. John Mandel novel, but it was still captivating. I like her character development and their continual interactions with one another. I disagree with other reviewers that nothing happens. I detested the reader however and found myself grimacing and rolling my eyes throughout the book because of her voicing and her continual mispronunciation of “et cetera” (she said “excetra”). It was like having an adolescent girl read the book to you. Ugh.
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Sea of Tranquility
- A Novel
- De: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrado por: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
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An excellent listen.
- De Mark en 04-11-22
- Sea of Tranquility
- A Novel
- De: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrado por: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, Kirsten Potter
Loved it!
Revisado: 04-18-23
I couldn’t put this book down. The readers were excellent and the story held just enough weirdness but also normality to keep me hooked. I predict a Emily St. John Mandel book binge in my future.
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Shards of Earth
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Sophie Aldred
- Duración: 18 h y 43 m
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Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After Earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, 50 years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space.
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Not sure what the point was [Spoilers]
- De C. Andrew Hessler en 08-27-21
- Shards of Earth
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Sophie Aldred
Not anything like the Children of Time series
Revisado: 02-08-23
I couldn’t make it through this book. The characters are silly. The reader uses British voices so it sounds like a bunch of cartoonish characters stepped out of Piccadilly Circus and into a space opera. To the person complaining about the pronunciation of “hegemony”- the narrator is British and using the British pronunciation. I’ll be thinking twice before I buy any more Adrian Tschaikovsky books.
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- De Billy en 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
Fabulous Tale of Appalachia
Revisado: 01-31-23
This is probably my favorite Barbara Kingsolver book so far. She weaves a compassionate - and yes often depressing —tale of the opioid crisis and its effect on the people of Appalachia, told through the life of a boy born at the dawn of the crisis. The protagonist is a smart, funny, and sympathetic character, which made it easy for me to care about him and difficult for me to put down the book. Sometimes I wanted to slap him up side of the head because of stupid decisions he made. Often I chuckled at his ironic observations of people. The history of the descent of Appalachia into poverty and crisis is told largely through the words of one is his teachers and a well- read friend. I really admire Kingsolver for tackling this story and making it into such a compelling tale. I highly recommend it.
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Madam Speaker
- Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
- De: Susan Page
- Narrado por: Susan Page
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by New York Times best-selling author and USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page. Featuring more than 150 exclusive interviews with those who know her best - and a series of in-depth, news-making interviews with Pelosi herself - Madam Speaker is unprecedented in the scope of its exploration of Nancy Pelosi’s remarkable life and of her indelible impact on American politics.
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Nancy Pelosi, “A True Powerhouse!”
- De Maria en 05-04-21
- Madam Speaker
- Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
- De: Susan Page
- Narrado por: Susan Page
Fascinating book
Revisado: 01-06-23
This was a captivating book on Nancy Pelosi. I’d read another one last year, but this was by far the best. I liked the reader as well. I highly recommend it.
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