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The Unveiling
- A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life
- De: Ruth Markel
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Ruth Markel is the mother of the late Dan Markel, a noted law professor who was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2014. In The Unveiling, she describes her experiences since the day of Dan's death from several distinct perspectives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not the time
- De Silvia E Menendez en 02-16-23
- The Unveiling
- A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life
- De: Ruth Markel
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
A glimpse into the unthinkable -but better in written form
Revisado: 12-29-23
As a Canadian, I have followed Dan’s story for years. Ruth and her family have handled this horrific situation with a grace and strength that I don’t think many of us could. That said, the whispery, breathless, overly dramatic reading style really detracted from Ruth’s content. I wish she had read it herself. Much love to the Markel family.
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The Trespasser
- A Novel
- De: Tana French
- Narrado por: Hilda Fay
- Duración: 20 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,674
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,741
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,692
Being on the murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed to a shine, and dead in her catalogue-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A literary mystery
- De Grace O'Malley en 10-08-16
- The Trespasser
- A Novel
- De: Tana French
- Narrado por: Hilda Fay
Best performance by a reader. Loved this book!!
Revisado: 12-31-16
A great story and amazing performance by the reader, Hilda Faye. I hope she does more in this series!
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Still Alice
- De: Lisa Genova
- Narrado por: Lisa Genova
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5,996
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,998
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At 50 years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world - forever.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Please pay for a professional Reader
- De sunstan en 12-07-14
- Still Alice
- De: Lisa Genova
- Narrado por: Lisa Genova
Just OK
Revisado: 02-23-16
I had a hard time listening to the author read this. Perhaps I have been spoiled by really great voice actors, but she sounded very young, too young for the character, and was a bit grating for me. The story was ok.. Kinda wish I had my credit back...
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A Mother's Reckoning
- Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
- De: Sue Klebold
- Narrado por: Andrew Solomon, Sue Klebold
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,622
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,259
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,259
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill 12 students and a teacher and wound 24 others before taking their own lives. For the last 16 years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sad, but, Ultimately, Self-Serving
- De Gillian en 02-19-16
- A Mother's Reckoning
- Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
- De: Sue Klebold
- Narrado por: Andrew Solomon, Sue Klebold
A cautionary tale for parents ...
Revisado: 02-18-16
A brave and honest account of her son's actions and hidden illness. Sue Klebold tells of her nightmarish experience openly, and admits her naivety, when she didn't put the pieces together until long after the Columbine attack. We all must rethink the "just a typical teenager" label we slap on kids and really listen more carefully.
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What She Knew
- A Novel
- De: Gilly Macmillan
- Narrado por: Penelope Rawlins, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 7,026
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,384
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6,364
Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son, Ben, when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry - until Ben vanishes. Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from Rachel's newly married ex-husband to her mother-of-the-year sister.
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2 out of 5 stars
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4 hours and 42 minutes left and I just can't do it
- De Alicia en 12-17-15
- What She Knew
- A Novel
- De: Gilly Macmillan
- Narrado por: Penelope Rawlins, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Slow start but hang in there...Really great!
Revisado: 02-02-16
I don't listen to a lot of fiction, but this one was well worth the credit. A well crafted story and excellent narration. Very well done!
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The Life We Bury
- De: Allen Eskens
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73,790
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67,942
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67,783
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good listen!
- De Lori K. en 12-14-15
- The Life We Bury
- De: Allen Eskens
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
Ugh....painful to slog through
Revisado: 01-23-16
What disappointed you about The Life We Bury?
To me, it seemed a very amateur attempt.
Has The Life We Bury turned you off from other books in this genre?
No
Would you be willing to try another one of Zach Villa’s performances?
No
What character would you cut from The Life We Bury?
None. I just wouldn't have purchased.
Any additional comments?
I really did not enjoy this at all. I hate reading glowing reviews for a less than mediocre book. Makes me think the author has a really big family! :(
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What Was Mine
- A Novel
- De: Helen Klein Ross
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan, Cassandra Campbell, Amanda Carlin, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,239
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,111
Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: She takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It's a secret she manages to keep for over two decades - from her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family, coworkers, and friends. When Lucy's now-grown daughter, Mia, discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and anger and determines not to speak again to the mother who raised her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Switching alliances
- De Simone en 01-23-16
- What Was Mine
- A Novel
- De: Helen Klein Ross
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan, Cassandra Campbell, Amanda Carlin, Rebekkah Ross, Jonathan Todd Ross
Really great story well performed!
Revisado: 01-12-16
Where does What Was Mine rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
A goodie!
What did you like best about this story?
A well crafted story that was performed very well.
Any additional comments?
A really great "read".
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A Walk Across the Sun
- De: Corban Addison
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 227
Corban Addison’s riveting suspense debut pulls back the veil on one of the most profound human rights issues of our day: human trafficking. After their coastal town in India is wiped out by a tsunami, two sisters are abducted and sold into the global underground sex trade. Meanwhile, half a world away, a D.C. attorney makes it his life’s work to end this dehumanizing practice.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Perhaps better read than listened to
- De Dale C. Farran en 01-12-12
- A Walk Across the Sun
- De: Corban Addison
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
Ugh....Save your credit. Naive and juvenile.
Revisado: 09-13-15
Would you try another book from Corban Addison and/or Soneela Nankani?
No
What could Corban Addison have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Researched the topic much more.
What didn’t you like about Soneela Nankani’s performance?
Everything. The perky, high school student rendition was painful and grinding to listen to.
Any additional comments?
One of the worst listening experiences I have had.
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Blood Highways
- The True Story behind the Ford-Firestone Killing Machine
- De: Adam L. Penenberg
- Narrado por: Meral Mathews
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
Blood Highways is the heart-wrenching account of the biggest product liability case in history: the Ford-Firestone fiasco. At the center of the story are two people: Tab Turner, a charismatic trial attorney from Arkansas, who has made a career out of forcing Ford and other automakers to own up to knowingly trade human lives for profits; and Donna Bailey, a single mother and outdoor enthusiast who fought back from the brink of death to confront those ultimately responsible for her accident.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greed and the person who fault back
- De Cyn en 02-22-16
- Blood Highways
- The True Story behind the Ford-Firestone Killing Machine
- De: Adam L. Penenberg
- Narrado por: Meral Mathews
Horrifying example of corporate greed!
Revisado: 09-30-14
What did you like about this audiobook?
I found the book hard to put down. The greed and arrogance of these companies is appalling. An interesting look at the challenges faced in trying to gain government involvement in big business and their reluctance to do so until faced with significant blowback. The human cost of due to the perfect storm of defective products is staggering.
How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter?
I have always been interested in these type of books. Another great one is The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. Another look at corporate greed and arrogance.
What did you find wrong about the narrator's performance?
Nothing. The narration was great and appropriate for this book.
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Working Stiff
- Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
- De: Judy Melinek MD, T. J. Mitchell
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,299
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,960
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,949
Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation-performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's two years of training, taking listeners behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story - but not for the faint of heart!
- De R. Freeman en 08-20-14
- Working Stiff
- Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
- De: Judy Melinek MD, T. J. Mitchell
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
An interesting glimpse
Revisado: 08-21-14
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
I found the narration to be good until she had to do male voices....it was frankly, grating.
Really bad at male voices.
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