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A Wanted Man
- Jack Reacher 17
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn't quit. And at last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. But within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway.
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Good narration helps but it's not quite there.
- By Simon on 06-10-15
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A Wanted Man
- Jack Reacher 17
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Series: Jack Reacher (abridged), Book 17
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 30-08-12
- Language: English
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L'enfant perdue
- L'amie prodigieuse 4
- By: Elena Ferrante
- Narrated by: Marina Moncade
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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À la fin de "Celle qui fuit et celle qui reste", Lila montait son entreprise d'informatique avec Enzo, et Elena réalisait enfin son rêve : aimer Nino et être aimée de lui, quitte à abandonner son mari et à mettre en danger sa carrière d'écrivain. Car elle s'affirme comme une auteure importante et l'écriture l'occupe de plus en plus, au détriment de l'éducation de ses deux filles, Dede et Elsa. L'histoire d'Elena et de Nino est passionnelle, et bientôt Elena vit au gré de ses escapades pour retrouver son amant.
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Superbe
- By tina sapanidis on 02-12-19
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L'enfant perdue
- L'amie prodigieuse 4
- Narrated by: Marina Moncade
- Series: L'amie prodigieuse, Book 4
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-01-18
- Language: French
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The Silver Linings Playbook
- By: Matthew Quick
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Now a major film starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro.Pat Peoples knows that life doesn’t always go according to plan, but he’s determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents and trying to live according to his new philosophy: get fit, be nice and always look for the silver lining. Most importantly, Pat is determined to be reconciled with his wife Nikki. Pat’s parents just want to protect him
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Great novel even after seeing the film
- By Thomas on 27-07-13
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The Silver Linings Playbook
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 04-03-13
- Language: English
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Swamp Bones: A Temperance Brennan Short Story
- By: Kathy Reichs
- Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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A new, exclusive straight-to-digital Temperance Brennan short story from Kathy Reichs, world leading forensic anthropologist and number-one best-selling author of Deja Dead, Bones Are Forever and Bones of the Lost. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan has just arrived in Florida's Everglades for a much-needed break when she is unwittingly thrown into the middle of a deadly case with its roots in the darkest depths of the swamp.
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2 hrs not worth the credit
- By Amazon Customer on 05-02-23
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Swamp Bones: A Temperance Brennan Short Story
- Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz
- Series: A Temperance Brennan Novel, Book 16.5
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 24-03-16
- Language: English
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The Boy That Never Was
- By: Karen Perry
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan, Gerry O'Brien, Christopher Ragland, and others
- Length: 10 hrs
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Five years ago, three-year-old Dillon disappeared. For his father Harry - who left him alone for ten crucial minutes - it was an unforgivable lapse. Yet Dillon's mother Robyn has never blamed her husband: Her own secret guilt is burden enough. Now they're trying to move on, returning home to Dublin to make a fresh start. But their lives are turned upside down the day Harry sees an eight-year-old boy in the crowd. A boy Harry is convinced is Dillon. But the boy vanishes before he can do anything about it.
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Beautifully narrated.
- By The Book Girl on 07-08-14
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The Boy That Never Was
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan, Gerry O'Brien, Christopher Ragland, Niamh Daly
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 27-03-14
- Language: English
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The Tractate Middoth
- By: M R James
- Narrated by: David Collings
- Length: 40 mins
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This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story The Tractate Middoth. Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.
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The Tractate Middoth
- Narrated by: David Collings
- Series: The Complete Ghost Stories of M R James
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 16-12-14
- Language: English
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The Consequence of Love
- By: Sandra Howard
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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Nattie is now happily married to Hugo, and they have two beautiful children, but her heart has never truly been hers to give.... The love of her life was lost to her years ago, but now Ahmed is back, and although he knows Nattie is married, he just can't stop himself from making contact. Desperate to find out what happened but torn between Ahmed and her family, Nattie ends up meeting him in secret. But will her lies cause more trouble than the truth?
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The Consequence of Love
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 01-11-17
- Language: English
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The Nanda Devi Mystery
- How India and America Lost a Nuclear Device
- By: Asiaville
- Narrated by: Sashi Kumar
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The Nanda Devi Mystery: How India and America Lost a Nuclear Device is the thoroughly riveting and sometimes bizarre story of how India and America tried to install a nuclear-powered surveillance device on top of the Himalayas to snoop on China and then lost it forever.
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Fascinating history not widely known
- By S Wood on 14-10-23
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The Nanda Devi Mystery
- How India and America Lost a Nuclear Device
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Lessons: Part 3
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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The unmissable third and final instalment of Jenny Colgan's return to the Little School by the Sea - perfect for anyone who ever dreamed of going to boarding school!
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Very Disappointed!!
- By Russ on 17-05-19
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Lessons: Part 3
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Series: Lessons, Book 3
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-04-19
- Language: English
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The Blind Assassin
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, 2007.
Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at 18 to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and 82, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While bewailing her unreliable body and deriding those who try to help her, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life and her perilous times, but in particular on the events surrounding her sister's tragic early death.-
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Excellent book
- By Paul on 27-08-07
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The Blind Assassin
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-06-05
- Language: English
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The Man in the Wooden Hat
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Filth ( Failed in London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the war. Reserved, immaculate, and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions.
But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese internment camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the bar - the brash, forceful Veneering.
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A must read .. i was transported to another time & place
- By barbara on 27-10-17
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The Man in the Wooden Hat
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
- Series: Old Filth, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-06-15
- Language: English
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Ravan Rising
- By: Graphic India
- Narrated by: Sanjay Dutt, Ishaan
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Audible presents Ravan Rising, an Audible Original series starring Sanjay Dutt and Ishaan. Ravan Rising brings alive the epic saga and coming of age story of Ravan.
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Amazing!
- By RK on 26-09-24
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Alys, Always
- By: Harriet Lane
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Frances is a 30-something sub-editor, an invisible production drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys's family makes contact in an attempt to find closure, Frances is given a tantalising glimpse of a very different world: one of privilege and possibility.
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Brilliant, Complex Story
- By Jeeds on 04-12-14
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Alys, Always
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-02-12
- Language: English
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The Silence Project
- By: Carole Hailey
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon, Charlotte Worthing
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their garden. From that day on, she never says another word. Inspired by her vow of silence, other women join her and together they build the Community. Eight years later, Rachel and thousands of her followers around the world burn themselves to death.
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Narrator sounded so bored I kept apologizing
- By green on 29-05-24
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The Silence Project
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon, Charlotte Worthing
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-02-23
- Language: English
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Amanda's Wedding
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Amanda's old school friends can't believe it when the social-climbing queen of preen, Satan's very own PR girl, pulls off the ultimate publicity stunt in getting herself engaged to a Scottish laird. Who cares that Fraser McConnald has worn the same pair of Converse trainers for the last three years and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one calor gas heater - she'll be titled!
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I couldn't believe this was Janny Colgan
- By NellMcMH on 27-10-20
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Amanda's Wedding
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 24-09-15
- Language: English
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Adulting: It's a Jungle Out There
- By: Pocket Aces, Neha Pawar, Jayanti Kandwal
- Narrated by: Aisha Ahmed, Yashaswini Dayama, Rohit Varghese
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Audible presents Adulting, a 20 episode series created by Dice Media. From the makers of Little Things and What The Folks (WTF!) comes “Adulting”, a coming of age story about two young women trying to handle the responsibilities of being independent adults in the fast-paced, urban bustle of Mumbai. Take a peek into the daily life and shenanigans of two twenty-something women: Ray & Nikhat (played by Yashaswini Dayama and Aisha Ahmed respectively), as they try to make it through adulthood in their own unique way. Now in audio with all new episodes. Disclaimer: This show is a work of fiction and is partly inspired by true-life incidents. All stories and names have been fictionalized and the contents of the show are not a true or accurate depiction of what transpired. Any resemblance to real persons, businesses, places or events is unintentional and coincidental. This show contains expletives, strong language and mature content for Adult listeners. This show is not intended to offend or defame any individual, entity, caste, community, race, or religion or to denigrate any institution or person, living or dead. Listener's discretion is strongly advised
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Gods in Alabama
- By: Joshilyn Jackson
- Narrated by: Catherine Taber
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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When Arlene Fleet heads up north for college, she makes three promises to God: She will stop fornicating with every boy who crosses her path; never tell another lie; and never, ever go back to the "fourth rack of hell", her hometown of Possett, Alabama. All she wants from Him is one little miracle: make sure the body is never found.
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Secrets in Alabama
- By AZ on 19-05-17
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Gods in Alabama
- Narrated by: Catherine Taber
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-04-05
- Language: English
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The Crowded Street
- By: Winifred Holtby
- Narrated by: Claire Goose
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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All 10 Episodes of the BBC Radio dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's novel about Muriel Hammond's journey to womanhood and independence in 1900s Yorkshire. Muriel lives a frustrated life. Constrained by the limits of Edwardian society, her options are limited. Either marry, or stay at home, confined to the small town in Yorkshire in which she was born. However, a friendship she creates and the eve of the First World War set to change her future, and her ambitions for good. Starring Claire Goose and Brigit Forsyth.
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The Crowded Street
- Narrated by: Claire Goose
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-08-12
- Language: English
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Study for Obedience
- By: Sarah Bernstein
- Narrated by: Sarah Bernstein
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.
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Too much navel gazing
- By K. Sewell on 10-01-24
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Study for Obedience
- Narrated by: Sarah Bernstein
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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