Audiobook Reviews

October 28, 2008

• Four to Score
  

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  Author: Janet Evanovich
  Narrator: CJ Critt
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  Release Date: 2005
  Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
  Unabridged
  An Overview:
  Once again Stephanie Plum has her work cut out for her in Four to Score. (…)

October 27, 2008

• Hot Six
  

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  Author: Janet Evanovich
  Narrator: Debi Mazar
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  Release Date: 2000
  Length: 3 hrs
  Abridged
  An Overview:
  Stephanie is in the middle of everything in Hot Six. (…)

October 26, 2008

• High Five
  

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  Author: Janet Evanovich
  Narrator: Lorelei King
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. (…)

October 25, 2008

• One for the Money
  

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  Author: Janet Evanovich
  Narrator: Lorelei King
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. (…)

October 24, 2008

• Shakespeare by another Name
  

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  Author: Mark Anderson
  Narrator:  Simon Prebble
  Category: Biography
  Publisher: HighBridge Audio
  Release Date: 2005
  Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
  Abridged
  An Overview:
  The true origins of the works of Shakespeare have remained a mystery as the actor by that name never left England, so the general consensus amongst experts is that he couldn't possibly have written the amazing works attributed to him. (…)

October 23, 2008

• Two for the Dough
  

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  Author: Janet Evanovich
  Narrator: Lori Petty
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  Release Date: 2000
  Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
  Abridged

  An Overview:
  Two for the Dough is the second installment of the Stephanie Plum numbers series by Janet Evanovich. (…)

October 22, 2008

• Three to Get Deadly
  

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  Author: Janet Evanovich
  Narrator: Lorelei King
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. (…)

October 21, 2008

• Housekeeping
  

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  Author: Marilynne Robinson
  Narrator: Becket Royce
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  Release Date: 2005
  Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
  Unabridged
  An Overview:
  If you’re a fan of Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gilead, you won’t be disappointed by her first novel Housekeeping. (…)

October 20, 2008

• Me Talk Pretty One Day
  

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  Author: David Sedaris
  Narrator: David Sedaris
  Category: Contemporary Culture
  Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
  Release Date: 2006
  Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
  Abridged
  An Overview:
  So, David Sedaris can be hilarious. (…)

October 19, 2008

• On Chesil Beach
  

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  Author: Ian McEwan
  Narrator: Ian McEwan
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Random House Audio
  Release Date: 2007
  Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
  Unabridged
  An Overview:
  On Chesil Beach is an exposition of one couple’s present and past, that centers on their tumultuous wedding night. (…)

October 18, 2008

• Naked in Death
  

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  Author: J. D. (…)

October 17, 2008

• At Home in Mitford
  

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  Author: Jan Karon
  Narrator: Jan Karon
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
  Release Date: 2005
  Length: 3 hrs
  Abridged  

  Overview: 
  At Home in Mitford: The Mitford Years, Book 1
  At Home in Mitford is the first book in a series of four, written by Jan Karon. (…)

October 16, 2008

• Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery
  

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  Author: Agatha Christie
  Narrator: James Saxon
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. (…)

October 15, 2008

• Plum Island
  

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  Author: Nelson Demille
  Narrator: David Dukes
  Category: Mystery
  Publisher: Random House
  Release Date: 1997
  Length: 4 Hours
  Abridged

  An overview:
  Plum Island  (includes a brief interview with author, Nelson Demille)
  The potential hazards of the federal Animal Disease Research Center on Plum Island are frightening—but they are not to blame for the string of murders suddenly plaguing a small town nearby. (…)

October 14, 2008

• Maggie’s American Dream
  

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  Author: James P. (…)

October 13, 2008

• The Clan of the Cave
  

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  Author: Jean M. (…)

October 12, 2008

• Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour
  

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  Author: Joseph E. (…)

October 11, 2008

• The Long Walk
  

  Rating:
  Awards: Nominee, 2008 Audie Award, Solo Narration - Male
  Author: Slavomir Rawicz
  Narrator: John Lee
  Category: Bios & Memoirs: Personal Memoirs
  Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
  Release Date: 2007
  Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
  Unabridged
  An Overview:
  Is it possible to escape from Siberia? (…)

October 10, 2008

• The Vampire Lestat
  

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  Author: Anne Rice
  Narrator: Michael York
  Category: Fiction
  Publisher: Random House
  Release Date: 2000
  Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
  Abridged
  An Overview:
  We first met Lestat in The Vampire Lestat as the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac narrates the tale of his own life and Lestat's evil deed toward him. (…)

October 9, 2008

• How the Irish Saved Civilization
  

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  Author: Thomas Cahill
  Narrator: Donal Donnelly
  Category: History
  Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio
  Release Date: 2001
  Length: 8 hrs
  Unabridged
  An Overview:
  How the Irish Saved Civilization is an untold story of Ireland’s heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval europe. (…)