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Title: Then Her Wig Fell Off

Subtitle: Sometimes You Just Need to Laugh

Author: Will Bevis

Narrator: Lynn Benson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-12

Publisher: Will Bevis

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"Then Her Wig Fell Off" is a story that I heard and wrote about, in a hair salon - the same one that is pictured on the cover of the book.

Inside you will meet the person I call "The Magician" who takes anyone who walks through the door, and not only makes their hair look better, but makes them FEEL better as well.

Even if they are old...or have cancer.

This story has received over 100 positive comments....

By far the most popular thing I, the author has ever written.

We're all human, both the beautiful and the not so; those in their prime and those dying.

This is a story that lifts the human spirit.

From the author of the Top One Hundred Free for Kindle eStory, "The Killing of Train-Man Brown".

Members Reviews:

An absolute treasure!

I have now read several of Bevis' stories, and they come in "all shapes and sizes" (so to speak). Some of them have been okay; some I have not liked at all; and some (like this one) have been absolute gems! This is one of those storIes everyone should read: it will give you a smile and a good feeling to carry you through the day.

This is the story of the woman (excuse me - the magician) who cuts Will's hair. Apparently she is one in a million! I can tell you I have never been to a barber shop (with the men in the family) or a hair salon that had anyone working there who could compare to this woman. If there had been, I would have been like Will and remained a customer for my entire life!

Put your feet up, grab a glass of tea, and enjoy the next few minutes while you read about the woman's sister and learn about the time her wig fell off (among many other funny tales). See if you don't have a smile by the time you get to the end.

Haphazard

The main plot is about a guy who is depressed about whatever going to get his hair cut to lift his spirits. It just did not work for me. I did chuckle a little while reading, but it was so haphazard in it's delivery of what was going on. The dialogue went from one thing to the next without any real connection. Some of the stories seem to have some humor to them, but overall, I found this lacking in creating a full plot, connecting one part to the next. It seemed more like a connection of free thoughts. The author did capture the dialogue well, though, when using the phrases of southern folk, and for that, I gave it 2 stars.

Delightful Short Story

Then Her Wig Fell Off is a very short story, but one you'll enjoy reading! It's a snapshot of an otherwise ordinary incident... the author's visit to a beauty salon. Yet the author describes the events of that moment with such warmth and color you feel like you're there with him. You find yourself thinking that you know people just like the people there, and you enjoy experiencing this brief slice of their lives. I encourage you to give this story a try! You'll be glad you did!

Another Outstanding Short Story

Will Bevis has a way of bringing into his world, past or present, and enjoying every moment of it. This little adventure in a beauty salon both takes you back to a beauty shop in your past and delivers you resoundingly into the one he describes. I laughed and then I treasured the little wonderful things in life - just like Will does. Enjoy!

Quick chuckle...

4 stars for a quick read...this is not a novel but a short story about a man getting older. Has some hilarious little blurbs throughout.

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Título: Panico [Panic]

Autor: E. M. Forster

Narrador: Frank Rivera

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 1 hr and 3 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-05-12

Editor: Coral Communications Group, LLC

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

Forster's first short story by the well-known British writer, whose fiction has often been adapted to film. Rodolfo Walsh, author of our "Shadow of a Bird" is the Spanish translator.

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Title: The Library Book

Author: James Brown

Narrator: Rebecca Gray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In The Library Book, 23 famous writers celebrate libraries and tell us why they are so important, using memoir, history, polemic and some short stories too.

This recording contains: Foreword (Rebecca Gray), This Place Will Lend You Books For Free (James Brown), Character Building (Anita Anand), The Defence of the Book (Julian Barnes), The Punk and Langside Library (Hardeep Singh Kohli), The Rules (Lucy Mangan), Baffled at a Bookcase (Alan Bennett), The Future of the Library (Seth Godin), Going to the Dogs (Val McDermid), I Love Libraries (Lionel Shriver), Have You Heard of Oscar Wilde? (Stephen Fry), The Secret Life of Libraries (Bella Bathurst), The Booksteps (short story) (China Mieville), Alma Mater (Caitlin Moran), The Library of Babylon (Tom Holland), A Corner of St James's (Susan Hill), It Takes a Library (Michael Brooks), The Magic Threshold (Bali Rai), Libraries Rock! (Ann Cleeves), The Five-Minute Rule (Julie Myerson), If You Tolerate This (Nicky Wire), Library Life (short story) (Zadie Smith), The Lending Library (short story) (Kate Mosse), Fight For Libraries As You Do Freedom (Karin Slaughter) and Afterword (Miranda McKearney).

Members Reviews:

Where We Read

This collection of twenty-three essays and short stories celebrates the influence and importance of libraries. It was written as part of an initiative to secure greater funding for public libraries in the United Kingdom. Some persons, places, and events referenced by the authors will be unfamiliar to an American reader. But the book transcends its original purpose and can be entertaining and informative to readers and borrowers outside of the UK.

Some of my favorite chapters are:

Alan Bennett's "Baffled at a Bookcase" contains some well-chosen excerpts, such as this one from "Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Wolf": "Hopkins was never without a book. It wasn't that he was particularly fond of reading; he just liked to have somewhere to look. A book makes you safe. Shows you're not out to pick anybody up. Try it on. With a book you're harmless. Though Hopkins was harmless without a book."

Seth Godin's "The Future of the Library" praises librarians as much more than custodians of books. "The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user."

China Mieville's "The Booksteps" accompanies a girl who comes to school prepared for a visit to the library. Over-prepared, it seems at first.

Tom Holland's "The Library of Babylon" begins with a discussion of Jorge Luis Borges' "Library of Babel." The author then describes the historical library of Babylon and leads readers on a tour of other famous historical libraries. He lends depth to our sometimes simplistic view of libraries as unassuming buildings full of cluttered bookshelves.

Not all of the offerings are as entertaining. There are too many breathless reimaginings of formative childhood experiences in and near libraries. None of them are actually bad, but there are just too many, highlighting their common images, emotions, and lessons learned. This makes them seem cliché-ridden--more than they should.

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Título: Cuentos insolitos [Unusal Tastes]

Autor: Jorge Ignacio Covarrubias

Narrador: Frank Rivera

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 1 hr and 53 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-01-12

Editor: Coral Communications Group, LLC

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

Praised for its imagination, this collection delights with unexpected endings. These two fabulous new stories mix fantasy and social realism.

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Title: Outcasts of Rebel Creek

Author: Frank Bonham

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-12

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Enjoy these classic short stories from one of the greatest Western writers of all time.

Bill Devlin of Butcherknife Ridge is a tough but fair, rugged yet flawed protagonist - a man fighting to earn respect for himself while trying to clear the name of his grandfather.

Border Man is a colourful, suspenseful about the fight for survival of both men and cattle in the parched Mexican badlands.

Fast and furious action is the keynote in Outcasts of Rebel Creek set in the high-desert country of eastern California, which culminates in a pitched gun battle.

Bandits, hostile Indians, Southern sympathizers, and other hardships beset freighter Jess Clyman on his journey to Mexico City, and make for a tense, colourful narrative in Dusty Wheels - Bloody Trail.

Members Reviews:

A Sampling of a Western Master's Work!

If you like your Wild West action in smaller doses, pick up a copy of this collection of Frank Bonham stories that originally appeared in various magazines in the late '40s. Bonham was one of the best Western authors ever and OUTCASTS OF REBEL CREEK aptly demonstrates why.

Bonham was an incredibly prolific author, writing hundreds of short stories and dozens of novels for adults and teens on a variety of subjects. It is his westerns however that linger in the mind. Bonham populated his stories with believable characters, clever plots and historically accurate settings. Typically his heroes were tough but fair-minded, straight-talking men slow to anger but deadly once action was required.

Four Bonham stories are featured in this book. In 'Butcherknife Ridge,' a young Texan fights to clear the name of his grandfather, wrongly accused of mass murder. Crooked politicians, Mexican bandits and family secrets are all mixed into the brew, which ends in a blazing gun battle. The 'Border Man' story, set in the Arizona-Mexico border country, pits a resourceful small rancher against a ruthless cattle buyer in cahoots with a corrupt sheriff. Bonham also throws in a prolonged drought, a vicious cattle thief and a young woman determined to drive a herd to California. And he makes it all work!

You have to marvel at Bonham's skill as a writer. His stories flow with an economy of story-telling. The setting and dialogue all ring true. And he juggles disparate characters in clever plots that hold your interest till the obligatory guns a-blazing climax.

Whether, like me, you read Bonham as a teen and are rediscovering him or are making his acquitance, you will enjoy this book.

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Título: Parpadeos [Flashes]

Autor: Eloy Tizón

Narrador: Antonio Abénojar

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 04-13-12

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

En una milésima de segundo puede uno alcanzar la riqueza o arruinarse, ganar o perder, enamorarse o dejar de amar... o puede contar un cuento. El parpadeo es la posibilidad microscópica de un cambio. Este libro reúne trece historias cotidianas y a la vez excepcionales, observadas fotograma a fotograma, procedentes del mundo de la imaginación, de los sueños, de la literatura, de viajes a través del espacio y el tiempo al futuro o al pasado, donde lo usual se transfigura en imprevisto y, por ejemplo, los pájaros lloran, los peces vuelan, los gatos calzan botas, los robots sufren como personas, los fantasmas se pasean por la calle, en el descansillo de la escalera aparece con toda naturalidad un león suelto, y un simple trayecto en ascensor puede convertirse en umbral de una experiencia peligrosa. Después de Velocidad de los jardines escogido por la revista Quimera, en una encuesta entre críticos, como uno de los mejores libros de cuentos de la literatura española del siglo XX, he aquí trece miniaturas sobre las que el autor derrama su mirada lírica, intensa, compasiva y secretamente maliciosa: parpadeante.

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Title: While Bugles Blow!

Author: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrator: Jim Meskimen, R. F. Daley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-12

Publisher: Galaxy Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

He's a handsome American Lieutenant in the French Foreign Legion. She's a beautiful woman who's as fiery as the North African sun - and as mysterious as the far side of the moon. And she's all his - bought and paid for in the village square. Put them together - Cary Grant and Hedy Lamarr - and you're sure to get fireworks.

The only reason the Lieutenant bought her was to free her from the slave trade. But now that he's got her, hes got trouble. Two violent native tribes are determined to get their hands on the woman - even if it means unleashing an all-out war.

The warriors lay siege to the outpost - 3000 of them versus 60 Legionnaires within. Can the Lieutenant hold the fort against the onslaught? And how long can he fend off the powerful feelings he has for the woman in his care? And, finally, does he have any idea of the secret in her past that could change everything?

On the subject of North Africa, Hubbard said that writers too often "forget a great deal of the languorous quality which made the Arabian Nights so pleasing. Jewels, beautiful women, towering cities filled with mysterious shadows, sultans equally handy with robes of honor and the beheading sword." Hubbard brings this unique insight to his stories of North Africa and the Legionnaires, investing them with an authenticity of time, place and character that will keep you asking for more.

Members Reviews:

A Mysterious Military Tale With a Twist

Though this story does have a damsel in distress, she is unlike any other 'damsel' in the other Golden Age Stories I have reviewed thus far.

While the Bugles Blow! takes place deep within the Berber territory, where you find an American Lieutenant and a small detachment of the French Legion at an outpost. Though things are not peaceful between the Jeppas and the Berbers, the soldiers and the locals seem to get along well. In the middle of trying to keep the peace between the Jeppas and the Berbers , and all out war breaks out when a beautiful red-headed Jeppa woman is captured. Typically when women are captured, they are auctioned off into slavery between the Jeppas and the Berbers, but this one woman was wanted by both sides, which causes a war.

The American Lieutenant decides he must rescue this beautiful woman, so he nabs her and brings her back to the outpost for protection. This angers the already frenzy Berbers into going after her and the lieutenant. Unfortunately, there is over 3,000 Berbers and only 60 men at the outpost. This is when the story takes a big twist as you find the American Lieutenant protecting a woman that may not be as innocent as she seems.

The plot in While the Bugles Blow! was completely unpredictable and jaw-dropping as the end of the story unfolds. This story is definitely L. Ron Hubbard at his finest, which is why I completely recommend While the Bugles Blow! to anyone looking for a story filled with war, mystery, and a huge twist that no one sees coming.

While Bugles Blow by L Ron Hubbard (Audiobook Review)

It's time for more action and adventure from one of the most prolific writers of our time, L Ron Hubbard. In their continuing effort to produce some 200 of Hubbard's golden age stories, Galaxy Audio is releasing While Bugles Blow.

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Title: Red Death Over China

Author: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrator: R. F. Daley, Jim Meskimen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-12

Publisher: Galaxy Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

It is one of the greatest conflicts - and a pivotal turning point - in historythe Chinese civil war. On one side stands Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists. On the other, Mao Zedong and the Communists. And their forces are about to meet in a decisive battlethe outcome of which is in the hands of one American pilot, John Hampton, a man who, like Bogart in Casablanca, couldnt care less

Hes a mercenary, flying for the highest bidder, his only loyalty to himself and to cold hard cash. He has nothing to believe in, and nothing to lose. But just as this is a critical moment in history, so, too, is it about to become a defining moment in Hamptons life.

What is the extraordinary experience that has the power to penetrate Hamptons armor of cynicism and touch his heart? What is it that makes him see that there are things, other than money, that are worth fighting - and maybe even dying - for? The surprising answers spur him to undertake the ultimate mission in Red Death Over China.

Hubbard experienced China in the 1930s in a way few Westerners did. Traveling from the ports of the China Sea to Beijing to the Great Wall and onto the hills of Southern Manchuria, he came to know the land and its people - soldiers, spies, outlaws and monks - as well as any American could. It is that background that shines through in stories like Red Death Over China.

Also includes the flying adventures The Crate Killer, in which a test pilot uses up his nine lives parachuting nine times from crumbling planes, only to discover that his tenth flight presents the biggest challenge of all; and Wings Over Ethiopia, the story of a pilot captured and accused of being a spy by both sides in a war - and his only means of escape is through the lens of a camera.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

like all l ron hubbard adventure shows, listen on my walks

Red Death Over China by L Ron Hubbard (Audiobook Review)

Here come three more stories from L Ron Hubbard in Galaxy Audio's Golden Age Stories series. The Crate Killer and Wings Over Ethiopia are chock-full of Hubbard trademark action and adventure, but it was the title story, Red Death Over China that caught me by surprise.

I was intrigued by the character of John Hampton. Here's a guy who seems to have no purpose, no ambition, almost no will to live. Hampton is a man with a big empty center and nothing to fill it with. He's an ace pilot but flying doesn't really do much for him. He's been a mercenary for hire for years but he gets no thrill from battle and even the money he earns doesn't fill that empty place.

On a chance encounter, Hampton happens to rescue a man who is carrying some dispatches that are vital to the cause they both fight for. Hampton can't figure out why anyone would risk their life for such a thing but it gets him thinking. Later on the tables are turned and two other men sacrifice their lives so that Hampton can escape with more dispatches. These are life-altering events for John Hampton and mark a major turning point for him. He is beginning to understand that some things really are worth fighting, and maybe even dying, for.

I've listened to quite a few of these L Ron Hubbard pieces from Galaxy Audio now but this one really struck me. Most of Hubbard's works are thrill rides full of action and adventure, but Red Death Over China seemed to go a little deeper.

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Title: False Cargo

Author: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrator: R. F. Daley, Jim Meskimen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-12

Publisher: Galaxy Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Insurance investigator Brent Calloway may be too hard-boiled to crack a smile, but hell go to any length to crack a case. As tough, terse and tireless as insurance man Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity, Calloways about to go to extremes to see to it that one ship makes it safely from Hawaii to the mainland.

Going undercover and posing as ruthless killer Spike OBrien, Calloway quickly discovers that on this ship nothing is what it seems, and no one can be trusted. With so much insurance money at stake, and the whole crew apparently in on the scam, this could end up being a voyage to the bottom of the sea. . . .

And when the real Spike OBrien shows up, its Calloway wholl need a good insurance policy. Because life is cheap when the stakes are so highon a ship of lies bearing a False Cargo.

A veteran sailor who had voyaged long and far, L. Ron Hubbard knew well the life at sea. He once wrote in his journal: There is something magnificently terrible about a savage sea in the unwholesome green of half-dawn. . . . The ship is an unreal, fragile thing, full of strange groans, and engine and sails are dwarfed in their puny power when matched to all the countless horsepower in wave and wind and current. The whole world is an awesome threat. Alone, wet, hungry, hand cramped upon a tiller, a sailor knows more truth in those hours than all mankind in his millions of years.

Also includes the sea adventure Grounded, in which a Royal Air Force lieutenant loses a friend and tarnishes his reputation, and sets out in search of redemption . . . no matter the price.

Members Reviews:

Cool story abord ship

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Hell yes, great adventure story, and performances.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Yes, it was great, you never knew weather they were going to live or die.

Have you listened to any of R. F. Daley and Jim Meskimen s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Fantastic, love those guys, they make these stories come alive!

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It was exhilarating!

Any additional comments?

Love a lot of these books but ones like these are my favorites.

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Title: The Battling Pilot

Subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age

Author: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrator: R. F. Daley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-12

Publisher: Galaxy Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Pilot Pete England used to think there was nothing more exciting in the world than flying off into the wild blue yonder. But lately the blue yonder hasnt been wild at all . . . its been downright dull. Petes like a jaded Clark Gable whos hungry for adventureand hes about to get his fill.

Pete has fallen into a rut, flying the same routeNew York to D.C.with the same passengers, day after day after day. He might as well be driving a bus . . . until her highness climbs aboard. Apparently a princess, shes the Carole Lombard to Petes Clark Gable, and for one flight, shes bought up every ticket on the plane.

Once Pete gets her into the air, the action heats up fast. He learns that the lady is at the center of some international intrigue that could turn the tide of war . . . and now a mysterious plane is on their tail, bent on shooting them out of the sky. But thats the least of Petes concerns. Theres more to this princess than meets the eye, and falling in love with her could turn out to be the greatest flight risk of all.

As a barnstorming pilot in the early days of aviation, Hubbard was dubbed Flash Hubbard by the aviation magazines of the day. Expanding his knowledge even more, he visited Boeing in Seattle where the president and chief engineer gave him an inside look at their test pilot program. His unique and pioneering insight of flight streaks across the page in novels like The Battling Pilot.

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

easy reading.

Hubbard Is A Master Story Teller

âHubbard Is A Master Story Teller.â

Pete England flies for the ACA fleet on the Washington to New York run, and complains itâs the same thing every day, and he knows every farm house and bush along the way. And then, one day that all changes. First, heâs assigned a new copilot, Tom Duffy, and then his regular passengers are left standing while a beautiful young princess and her companion, the elderly Louise are escorted on the plane. They will be his only passengers on this run. Things start going from bad to worse when another plane forces them down, and Princess Maritza and Louise are taken prisoner, along with Pete and Duffy.

This was another great action story by the author, this time even with an air fight over US soil. A storyteller of many genres, the author is a master of action and great characters. The story was originally published in March 1937 issue of FIVE-NOVELS magazine. Highly recommended for aviation fans, and lovers of great story telling adventure.

An Exciting Air-Adventure

Filled with terror, excitement, kidnapping, and a case of mistaken identity, this book keeps you on the edge of your seat, and guessing what will happen next, the whole way through.

You can't help but feel bad for Pete England as he is tired of how routine his life has become, which has turned him into a tired, and moody person. Taking his anger out on everyone that crosses his path, Pete's life as he knows it is soon turned upside down. He quickly finds himself in the middle of a terrifying situation, all the while falling for a princess. Risking his life, as well as the life of his copilot, Pete becomes quite a brave man trying to save the princess and take down the man that is out to get her.

The Battling Pilot was filled with suspense and excitement, and kept us guessing what was going to happen right up to the end.