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Title: House of Malice

Author: Scott G. Mariani

Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-16

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Novelist Mandy Freeman thinks her dreams have come true when she becomes owner of Summer Cottage, former home of her idol, author Ellen Grace. With her new life starting and love on the horizon, Mandy's future looks bright.

But Mandy begins to learn all is not as it seems. A series of disturbing, sinister events force her to delve into the past of its former owner. Mandy finds herself caught in a nightmare that threatens to destroy her....

Critic Reviews:

Praise for the author: "If you've got a pulse, you'll love Scott Mariani." (Simon Toyne)

"Scott Mariani is an awesome writer." (Chris Kuzneski)

Members Reviews:

Basic not scary

Some short stories I read can be quite gripping and make you want to finish them this was the opposite wouldnt read again

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Title: The Proposition 5: The Ferro Family

Subtitle: Volume 5

Author: H.M. Ward

Narrator: Kitty Bang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-15

Publisher: H.M. Ward Press

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Blackmail. Sex. Ferro.

Time is my enemy, and I won't waste another second. I have a choice to make: a life with Neil or what's left of life with Bryan. I make my decision but could lose everything when the one Ferro I never want to see interferes. I feel like my life is spiraling out of control, but this could lead to what I've been searching for all along - hope.

Members Reviews:

A true tear jerker

What a heart felt story ..I am in tears and will cry for Byran and Holly every time I think of The Ferro stories . I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to escape into a great love story with great romance and great intimacy from another life style than the one they probably live in. If they do live in this life style it will give them a place to relate. It is full of love, sex, tragedy, and forgiveness.

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Title: A Christmas Miracle: The Gift of Love

Subtitle: Christmas Miracle Series, Book 2

Author: Sandy Loyd

Narrator: Carol Dines

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-15

Publisher: Carol Dines

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

An uplifting Christmas romance to warm the heart during this cold holiday season....

Angie Reynolds' heart aches for a husband and family of her own. Unfortunately, she's looked for love in all the wrong places with nothing to show for it but disappointment. None of the guys she's dated is worthy of her, including her ex-husband. This Christmas season looks to be another one spent alone. Yet until Angie realizes her own worth, she will never be able to accept the gift of love from someone like Brad Miller.

For all who are searching for their someone special. May the gift of love reach your hearts this holiday season.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful Any Time of Year

Sandy Lloyd is a wonderfully, talented writer. This book focuses on Angie Reynolds and her longing for a family and husband of her own. She feels her biological clock ticking and after her last relationship, she is not going to mess around.

her dream in the cards for her? Or will she have to settle, being everyone's favorite auntie, babysitter, etc. as the closest 'children' she will have?

Brad Miller rents the house next door in order to get away from the chaos and fake environment of Silicon Valley. Will these to become more than neighbors? I think you know the answer

Lloyd adds some undertones of faith without ignoring the human emotions, successes and failures of her characters.

I always enjoy listening to Carol Dines. Instead of getting into character, she has a knack for letting the story flow through her. She is a natural storyteller.

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Short Christmas story

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I received a free copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I didn't care much for the narrator of this. The story itself was good but the narrator sounded a little like having Siri read it. It was very electronic and robotic sounding. Which made me want to laugh during stuff that was more serious and I shouldn't have laughed at.

Despite my laughter and inability to take serious most of the serious parts. I did enjoy this. I probably would have enjoyed this just as much had I been reading this in print or e-book form(which, I do own this in ebook form for the record).

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This novel was OK, but it seems the female protagonist is able to fall in love very fast and often. I like a story to build slowly but without dragging. This didn't drag on so I guess that is one plus for it. There wasn't a lot of conflict or drama to move the story along. It felt like something was missing, and then the ending. I will try listening again, and if it feels different I will edit this review.

The True Meaning of Love, Faith, and Understanding

"A Christmas Miracle Book 2" was so good I couldn't even pause it. It was a perfect romance even after Christmas. Heartwarming and endearing, I loved this story. Angie and Brad found each other even though both had had previous failed relationships.

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Título: Cuentos Cortos para Tardes de Lluvia, Vol. III

Autor: C. Uribe

Narrador: Alfonso Sales

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 41 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-02-15

Editor: C. Uribe

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 5 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

Historias cortas para tardes de lluvia es, como su nombre indica, una coleccion de historias cortas recopiladas de la tradicion y folklore popular. Cuentos con moraleja y enseñanzas para todas las edades, desde niños, hasta los adultos.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Barbara the Slut and Other People

Author: Lauren Holmes

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 42 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Fearless, candid, and incredibly funny, Lauren Holmes is a newcomer who writes like a master. She tackles eros and intimacy with a deceptively light touch, a keen awareness of how their nervous systems tangle and sometimes short-circuit, and a genius for revealing our most vulnerable, spirited selves.

In "Desert Hearts", a woman takes a job selling sex toys in San Francisco rather than embark on the law career she pursued only for the sake of her father. In "Pearl and the Swiss Guy Fall in Love", a woman realizes she much prefers the company of her pit bull - and herself - to the neurotic foreign fling who won't decamp from her apartment. In "How Am I Supposed to Talk to You?" a daughter hauls a suitcase of lingerie to Mexico for her flighty, estranged mother to resell there, wondering whether her personal mission - to come out - is worth the same effort. And in "Barbara the Slut", a young woman with an autistic brother, a Princeton acceptance letter, and a love of sex navigates her high school's toxic, slut-shaming culture with open eyes.

With heart, sass, and pitch-perfect characters, Barbara the Slut is a head-turning debut from a writer with a limitless career before her.

Critic Reviews:

"A first-rate first collection from a young writer you'll want to hear more from." (

Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

Awful

This was a book club choice and in my opinion the worst ever selected. Narrator did a good job but the stories were pointless, poorly written and left me with the urge to shout, "what was she thinking?!"

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Title: Ozark Tales of Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, and Monsters

Author: W. C. Jameson

Narrator: David Otey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-15

Publisher: Progreso Publishing Group, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Who has not been thrilled and not a little frightened by tales of ghosts, spirits, hauntings, and monsters? Some of the most fascinating accounts come from the dark hollows of the Ozark Mountains. For generations, these scary, mystifying legends have been told around campfires and family gatherings and handed down through the generations. Now, for the first time, the best of these tales have been gathered together and presented in this volume.

Members Reviews:

LOVE his stories!

I had the privilege of having W. C. Jameson as my geography professor at UCA. I loved it when he would tell us about his travels. He's an awesome storyteller. I wish he would've been the narrator on this book!

hampered by the narrator

the stories are great. painting a side of the USA which I have never seen again. unfortunately while the actual prose of the writing should have been enough to bring these tales to life, the narration seemed somewhat lifeless. a little monotonous, like a teacher reading a text out. can't fault the enunciation though.

Ozark monsters

Great story telling...enjoyed this book. I have always believed if the native Indians get the heck out of a certain area, you should too.

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Título: Cuentos Cortos para Tardes de Lluvia, Vol. II [Short Stories for Rainy Afternoons, Volume 2]

Autor: C. Uribe

Narrador: Alfonso Sales

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 43 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-12-15

Editor: C. Uribe

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 6 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

Historias cortas para tardes de lluvia es, como su nombre indica, una coleccion de historias cortas recopiladas de la tradicion y folklore popular. Cuentos con moraleja y enseñanzas para todas las edades, desde niños, hasta los adultos.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Muy agradables de escuchar

Me encantó la primera entrega y en este segundo volumen se supera. La autora demuestra mucho talento al escribir estas breves historias, todas con unos finales sorprendentes. Gustará a toda la familia, como ha sido mi caso.

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Title: The State We're In

Subtitle: Maine Stories

Author: Ann Beattie

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-15

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"We build worlds for ourselves wherever we go," writes Ann Beattie. The State We're In, her magnificent new collection of linked stories, is about how we live in the places we have chosen - or been chosen by. It's about the stories we tell our families, our friends, and ourselves, the truths we may or may not see, how our affinities unite or repel us, and where we look for love.

Many of these stories are set in Maine, but The State We're In is about more than geographical location and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident; others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of other characters interrupt Jocelyn's, sometimes challenging, sometimes embellishing her view.

Riveting, witty, sly, idiosyncratic, and bold, these stories describe a state of mind, a manner of being - now. A Beattie story, says Margaret Atwood, is, "like a fresh bulletin from the front: we snatch it up, eager to know what's happening out there on the edge of that shifting and dubious no-man's-land known as interpersonal relations." The State We're In is a fearless exploration of contemporary life by a brilliant writer whose fiction startles as it illuminates.

Members Reviews:

Disappointing.

I used to love Anne Beattie's realism back in the day. This collection of short stories is a disappointment. It's self conscious, draggy and somewhat dull. It lacks the incisive character studies and touches of realism that made her previous work so readable.

Intelligent ironical social observations of contemporary upper middle class social actors in Maine and New England

These are short stories that explore troubled family relationships in varying degrees of aggravation. As with Beattie the descriptions are crisp and detailed and the nuances of social interaction are highlighted with modernist touches of couple and families with conflicts reflective of contemporary social conflicts and ironical treatments of miscues and uneven exchanges in social awareness and discomforts. Psychological and stressed with interactions often slightly confused and ill-timed with neurotic disagreements and conflicts, The State of Maine seems little different than the rest of middle and upper middle social class misinterpretations amongst men and women more often in agitated conflict in a minor key. Beattie is a keen observer of social behavior in a world of consumer consumption of elite goods and weariness for doing so. There is no sustained joy but rather a pained sensitivity to the failure of young and old, male and female to find genuine comfort in this social class where so much means so little in terms of authentic pleasure in ordinary social discourse. This is a very perceptive scan of contemporary ennui in the maladjusted discomforts of the upper middle class of people, young and old where there's an vibe of disagreement and displeasure in ordinary social exchanges. It's my impression this is an accurate diagnosis in story telling with an ironical intelligent finesse.

Where's the Maine?

Very disappointed by what feels like a rushed and disjointed collection. I usually enjoy Beattie.

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Title: The Wilds

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Julia Elliott

Narrator: Susan Bennett, Lori Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assistance of strap-on robot legs. At a deluxe medical spa on a nameless Caribbean island, a middle-aged woman hopes to revitalize her fading youth with grotesque rejuvenating therapies that combine cutting-edge medical technologies with holistic approaches and the pseudoreligious dogma of Zen-infused self-help. And in a rinky-dink mill town, an adolescent girl is unexpectedly inspired by the ravings and miraculous levitation of her fundamentalist friend's weird grandmother.

These are only a few of the scenarios listeners encounter in Julia Elliott's debut collection, The Wilds. In these genre-bending stories, teetering between the ridiculous and the sublime, Elliott's language-driven fiction uses outlandish tropes to capture poignant moments in her humble characters' lives. Without abandoning the tenets of classic storytelling, Elliott revels in lush lyricism, dark humor, and experimental play.

Members Reviews:

Stories that stick with you...

Be it a woman coming to terms with her dementia and also her new mechanical legs, a group of young professionals literally looking to "shed" the years away, or a robot trying to understand connection, these stories will keep you thinking long after the final story wraps up. At times a scathing commentary on our current society, many left me feeling uncomfortable with how much they resonated. However, I think that is the point. AUDIBLE 20 REVIEW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY

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Title: The Saint Around the World

Subtitle: The Saint, Book 31

Author: Leslie Charteris

Narrator: John Telfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In these six stories, Simon Templar's uncanny ability to find an adventure wherever he goes leads him into some very strange affairs.

In Bermuda, he has to solve the case of a missing husband; in England, he has to stop a husband whose wives tend not to last long. He also deals with a murder in a nudist colony, hunts for oil, matches wits with a woman as ruthless as himself and goes fishing for a drug-smuggling ring.

Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for publication. He wrote novels about the Saint throughout his life, becoming one of the 20th century's most prolific and popular authors.

Members Reviews:

An entertaining, if not perfect, Saint

This Saint book (one of Charterisâ later ones) consists of six short stories. I would rate three of them as excellent, one as quite good, and two as only just OK. For me, the best one is the last one, âThe Element of Doubtâ.

Several of these stories were turned into early episodes of the TV version of the Saint. These too were quite entertaining, but not as good as the book versions. And the TV Saint does not have the same hard, ruthless edge as the book Saint does.

To look at the positive side first, this book has plenty of examples of Charterisâ amusing writing, such as this paragraph from one of the stories, where an attractive married woman âcomes onâ to the Saint:

âShe came so close, deliberately, that the first time they both inhaled simultaneously would have caused a most stimulating collision.â

It also amuses me that Charteris occasionally throws in some really obscure word which in a lifetime of reading Iâve never come across before, and which I have to look up.

In some of the Saint books, I find that Charteris goes over the top in impressing upon us just what a dashing, tall, handsome, blue-eyed, debonair, witty, adventure-loving buccaneer the Saint is. But in this volume he doesnât do that â which is another plus.

On the negative side, in one story Charteris has the Saint spouting some awful reactionary and racist nonsense, when he condemns foreign aid and sings the praises of the British Empire for âtaming savagesâ etc!

In general, there is much less racism in the Saint books than in most of the crime fiction of that period. (Charteris himself was of mixed Chinese-British parentage.) But this rant by the Saint is certainly off-putting.

This is a pity, especially when at other times Charteris can express, through the mouths of his characters, some pretty progressive, and even left-radical, views. (Iâve said more on this in my review here on Amazon of âThe Saint Intervenesâ.)

Overall, I am a fan of the Saint books, but rather a selective one. Iâve thoroughly enjoyed some of them (as I did when I first read some as a teenager in the 1960s), but Iâve been disappointed with others. This one is certainly worth reading.

Finally, I know that many Saint fans prefer the novella-length or full-length Saint stories, but for a bit of light entertainment that you can dip into, I personally prefer the short stories which feature in this book and in others such as âThe Saint Intervenesâ, âThe Brighter Buccaneerâ, âThe Happy Highwaymanâ, âSaint Errantâ and âThe Saint in Europeâ.