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Anna and the King of Siam
- The Book That Inspired the Musical and Film 'The King and I'
- De: Margaret Landon
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikely candidate to change the course of Siamese (Thai) history. A young widow and mother, her services were engaged in the 1860's by King Mongkut of Siam to help him communicate with foreign governments and be the tutor to his children and favored concubines.
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A Classic
- De Ellenaeddy en 03-30-13
- Anna and the King of Siam
- The Book That Inspired the Musical and Film 'The King and I'
- De: Margaret Landon
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
She had such an amazing influence
Revisado: 06-29-25
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I read this book when I was a teenager or a freshman in college, but I realized it must have been a different version of the book with the same name and topic. This was very different than I recall from an original reading. Either way, both my memories from the first one and this current one are that it's a really good book. The view into Siam as it was at the start and the changes that came about after Anna Leonowens was there and taught is truly astonishing and fabulous. She had such a good affect on the king and the overall community, a long lasting, overall positive and revolutionary effect.
It's definitely a worthwhile read, and I'm going to go back and see what other version I might have read before; maybe I'm confusing my memory with that of the musical “The King and I”- although they are quite different...
Siam is now Taiwan, I believe...
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Rise of the Zombie Bugs
- The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-Control
- De: Mindy Weisberger
- Narrado por: Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Perfect for fans of horror and science alike, Rise of the Zombie Bugs offers a chilling yet enlightening look at the hidden world of parasites. It's a must-listen for anyone curious about the true terrors lurking in nature's undergrowth and the unnerving beauty of evolution's darker side.
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No creature is exempt
- De Marsha L. Woerner en 06-19-25
- Rise of the Zombie Bugs
- The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-Control
- De: Mindy Weisberger
- Narrado por: Wendy Tremont King
No creature is exempt
Revisado: 06-19-25
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It's an extremely interesting book pointing out the horrifying possibilities presented by Fungus, bacteria, and viruses in relation to animals of all genres and species! It does get a little boring in the middle when it seems to be presenting the same symptoms and outcomes for individual species, but it comes around in the end to relate it to common diseases, and how it all relates.
And I liked that it presented the book _The Girl with all the Gifts_ (which my daughter's mother in law had just recommended to me in a totally unrelated context) which gives a picture of a kind of external zombification as it might pertain to actual people. Started reading that...
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Auntie Mame
- An Irreverent Escapade
- De: Patrick Dennis
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell. Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world's most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt.
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Still one of my favorites!
- De India W en 07-13-16
- Auntie Mame
- An Irreverent Escapade
- De: Patrick Dennis
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
what a kooky lady!
Revisado: 06-15-25
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What a terribly fun story (or set of stories). I actually first read this book well before grad school. I had forgotten to just have fun it was. It could be a memoir, but it really is more collection of stories- and they're all presented in such a - rip-roaring, rib - tickling way that it really makes the day! And the characters! They just keep coming at you, and you have to keep adjusting your realms of believability and what an individual person can accomplish and how!
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Taken
- Lost Town, Book 1
- De: Nathan Hystad
- Narrado por: Bradford Hastings
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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Caesar, an undercover operative, enters Carmichael with the briefest of orders from his boss and a countdown on his phone. What will happen when the clock strikes zero? Deputy Amelia Miller is dispatched from a nearby city, and a series of events keeps her around much longer than she'd expected. In the middle of the night, something shifts, and the whole town disappears off the face of the Earth. Who caused the shift, and what lies beyond the veil of their settlement?
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Hard for me to rate, hear me out...
- De Richard Sarno en 03-28-25
- Taken
- Lost Town, Book 1
- De: Nathan Hystad
- Narrado por: Bradford Hastings
Mind bending premise
Revisado: 05-20-25
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I have read sci-fi books before, but this was totally different than what I have experienced so far. The premise was terribly intriguing, but it was also unpredictable. Overall alliances were changing and surprising, it's the first in a series of three, and it wasn't until the end that it was even imaginable what the others could cover, but the end left many opportunities for actually finishing the overall story.
The characters were well presented, and changes in individual personalities were relevant to the situations and understandable. But there was a LOT of death, but it was totally consistent with the story and helped illustrate the direness of the situation and serves as an impetus to continue the series.
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The Boys from Brazil
- De: Ira Levin
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project. Barry Koehler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the scheme and informs famed Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann, but before he can relay the evidence, Koehler is killed. Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them?
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Nazi Hunter Hounds Angel of Death
- De W Perry Hall en 09-29-15
- The Boys from Brazil
- De: Ira Levin
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
Evil that lurks in the heart of Man...
Revisado: 03-19-25
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I first read this in 1976, shortly after it came out. I was in Israel for the year, and my room might on the kibbutz recommended it, but she warned me that I had to avoid spoilers. She was definitely right.
Now, 50 years later, I've reread it, and I still think it's worthwhile. It was indicated as a “ horror story”, as well as science fiction and historical fiction, but I don't think it's a horror story- although it has horrific ideas! But I won't tell you very much about it come on because it's definitely true that spoilers should be avoided! But its thought provoking and makes the consider how far is too far to go.
For me, it was a great revisiting, and for others, it's a worthwhile book.
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Negative Girl
- De: Libby Cudmore
- Narrado por: Libby Cudmore, Jay Karnes
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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For fans of Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford comes Negative Girl: an evocative, moody, neo-noir thriller that explores obsession and people dying across America's forgotten spaces.
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Nice world. Want more
- De Daron Dickens en 02-08-25
- Negative Girl
- De: Libby Cudmore
- Narrado por: Libby Cudmore, Jay Karnes
Life is never what you expect
Revisado: 03-15-25
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Full of Intrigue and twists- I was rapt from the beginning. The whole situation was interesting and engrossing; the different lives of the characters were as full as they could be in a book whose overall point was not the lives of the characters, but it all fits so well!
It was engrossing to see the different sides of individuals. And the fights they all had to continually fight just to maintain sanity and the feeling of completeness.
A surprisingly enjoyable book.
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One Left Alive: A Heart-Stopping and Gripping Crime Thriller
- Detective Morgan Brookes, Book 1
- De: Helen Phifer
- Narrado por: Alison Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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When the body of a woman is found hanging from a tree in her front garden, rookie Detective Morgan Brookes is first on the scene. But Olivia Potter is past saving. And when her husband and daughters cannot be traced, Morgan knows there is more to this tragedy. And then she finds them. Lying huddled together in the dark basement, each of their faces covered with a small cotton cloth, their bodies cold to the touch. But as Morgan kneels beside the family, she realizes that one of the girls is still breathing.
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Barbie solves her first murder case
- De Amazon Customer en 01-25-21
- One Left Alive: A Heart-Stopping and Gripping Crime Thriller
- Detective Morgan Brookes, Book 1
- De: Helen Phifer
- Narrado por: Alison Campbell
Never trust anyone
Revisado: 02-16-25
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I love the characters and the camaraderie displayed! I'm unclear on the original murderer, but I may have to go back and revisit the end.
The number of moving parts was invigorating, and I love that it me on the edge of my seat; nothing was lead pass.
Invigorating
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The Windsor Knot
- A Novel
- De: SJ Bennett
- Narrado por: Jane Copland
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted when a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms. The scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play was involved. The Queen leaves the investigation to the professionals—until their suspicions point them in the wrong direction. Unhappy at the mishandling of the case and concerned for her staff's morale, the monarch decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Great Book
- De Kristen en 04-20-21
- The Windsor Knot
- A Novel
- De: SJ Bennett
- Narrado por: Jane Copland
The queen always stands out
Revisado: 02-10-25
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What a fun and beguiling start to a new series to enjoy! The Queen is depicted in a wonderful, relatable way and all the other characters are highly enjoyable! I'm glad I found this series.
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The Woman Who Split the Atom
- The Life of Lise Meitner
- De: Marissa Moss
- Narrado por: Sandy Rustin
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made a discovery that rocked the world: the splitting of the atom.
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Bravo.
- De Michael en 09-23-23
- The Woman Who Split the Atom
- The Life of Lise Meitner
- De: Marissa Moss
- Narrado por: Sandy Rustin
Physics is for truth and knowledge, not for war an
Revisado: 02-05-25
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This was a book club book, and although it's nominally a children's book, and took the effort not to talk down to the reader and actually discuss the science in an informative way that I really appreciated! The book club gave it 4 out of 5 atoms (stars) [we use a unit relative to the individual book when rating it: in this case, we use atoms to correspond to the topic and title]
Several of us that on the science in the book intimidating and over our heads, but on the other hand, the rest of us were quite comfortable with it. The writing itself Was simplistic and the overall structure- aimed at a preteen- was almost stilted and definitely choppy for at least one reader, but when she changed to the audio (which is what I always use) it was definitely better; she then went back to the written book for the cartoons (of which I was totally unaware...)
It, of course, pointed out the early discriminations against women in science; then, it got into the discrimination against Jews in Germany in the 1930s. The trials of Lise Meitner's life were on full display. She was denied the Nobel Prize, but she was decreed to be “Queen of the atom bomb”, a title she always detested. Physics was for Knowledge and truth, not for bombs and death!
I really like this book, despite the fact that it's nominally our children's book. And my middle name is after her first one :)
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When Stars Come Out
- De: Scarlett St. Clair
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May, Amanda Ronconi
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Anora Silby can see the dead and turn spirits into gold coins, two things she would prefer to keep secret as she tries to lead a normal life at her new school. After all, she didn't change her identity for nothing. Hiding her weirdness is just one of many challenges. By the end of her first day, she's claimed the soul of a dead girl on campus and lost the coin. Turns out, the coin gives others the ability to steal souls, and when a classmate ends up dead, there's no mistaking the murder weapon.
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Good YA High School Fantasy
- De Ronni Lowery en 07-07-25
- When Stars Come Out
- De: Scarlett St. Clair
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May, Amanda Ronconi
Engrossing and thought for voting
Revisado: 01-24-25
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I hadn't realized that it was marketed as a young adult book, but upon reading it, I'm not surprised by it But it is a rather complete and varied world and story. It caused me to go through a whole range of emotions and alliances. Satisfying ending, so I'm not sure whether I want to read the next in the series or just be satisfied with the current ending. There clearly is room for a continuation, but I'm not sure it's necessary...
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