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Title: Sweet Dreams

Author: Sunny Leone

Narrator: Vikas Adam, Simone Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-16

Publisher: Audiobooks.com Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In this thrilling erotic story collection from India's most Googled person, listeners finally get inside the mind of actress and entrepreneur Sunny Leone with 12 short stories that range from sweet to seductive to scandalous.

Members Reviews:

Sensual, Sexy Fun

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

Yes, narration was good and the stories were interesting.

What about Simone Lewis and Vikas Adam s performance did you like?

Good narration for this subject matter.

Any additional comments?

This review copy audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost."

A little tamer than I expected

The stories were good, but I was expecting (hoping) for a little more spice.

12 short stories in all.

The different culture was a bit of a surprise, not a bad surprise, however didn't expect it.

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

A perfect collection! Sweet, sexy and even sad.

Would you listen to Sweet Dreams again? Why?

Yes, oh my goodness, what a unique collection of short stories! This is the first erotica that I've come across where the stories are mostly based around couples where one or both are from India. The stories incorporate many beautiful aspects of Indian culture.

What did you like best about this story?

The variety in the stories, they each had a different feel to them, some were super sexy, others were sweet and some where sad, the combination is fantastic.

What does Simone Lewis and Vikas Adam bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

They worked really well together and both were able to pull of good Indian and American accents as well as good character voices for both genders. I was really impressed and I'd love to listen to more book narrated by them either together or separately.

Any additional comments?

There are 12 short stories in the book, mostly around 20 minutes in length.

During some stories I laughed, some got me in the mood, and the last made me cry. Sunny did a fantastic job of evoking a whole range of emotions with her stories.

Note: This book was provided free by the author/narrator/publisher in exchange for an unbiased review.

Didn't know what to expect

I have not listened to many "Erotica" books before. I think both narrators Simone Lewis and Vikas Adam did a fantastic job with the Indian accents. I had not read Sunny Leone previously. I was intrigued by the concept of this book. I fully enjoyed these stories. I was voluntarily provided with this review copy audiobook at no charge by the author, narrator, and/or publisher.

Great stories

Awesome stories i hope there is more to come keep up the great work i look for more soon

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Title: A Tree or a Person or a Wall

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Matt Bell

Narrator: Karen Chilton, Andrea Gallo, Andrew Garman, T. Ryder Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-16

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A Tree or a Person or a Wall gives us Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and acute takes on the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world.

A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an elaborate, consuming game for his hospitalized son. Indexes, maps, a checkered shirt buried beneath a blanket of snow: They are scattered through these pages as clues to mysteries that may never be solved, lingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world.

A Tree or a Person or a Wall brings together Bell's previously published shorter fiction - the story collection How They Were Found and the acclaimed novella Cataclysm Baby - along with seven dark and disturbing new stories, to create a collection of singular power.

Members Reviews:

Modern Morality Fables

Matt Bellâs A Tree or a Person or a Wall might be categorized as Existentialist Horror. If human beings are the architects of our own fate, then Bellâs stories suggest weâve pretty much made a hash of it.

As a warning to fans of Stephen King or Edgar Allen Poe or even Shirley Jackson, you wonât find anything that straightforward within these pages. These are literary allegories chock full of evocative and disturbing imagery with plots that are often vague or surrealistic. Most seem to deal with the repercussions of human folly, like bigotry (âThe Migrationâ), over-reliance on technology and conformity (âFor You We Are Holdingâ) or the pursuit of eternal youth (âThe Inheritanceâ). The title piece, âA Tree or a Person or a Wall,â is about a young boy who spends his life imprisoned in a cell with an albino ape until such time as he will become the jailer and imprison another small boy, perhaps illustrating the vicious cycle of complacency that perpetuates evil.

The longest story âCataclysm Baby,â is a literal A-to-Z of freakish children born into an ever more desecrated world; each baby represents some aspect of the moral degradation of mankind and the ways in which weâve exploited [and will ultimately destroy] our world. This seems to be a popular theme with Bell as there are a number of straight-out dystopian and/or apocalyptic tales. In âThe Receiving Towerâ a small platoon of elderly men, seemingly the last on Earth, have spent countless years in some sort of military installation awaiting word from the outside world that their commission has finally been served and they will be allowed to leave. In âThe Collectors,â we get a glimpse into the final days of the real-life Collyer brothers, New York socialites turned hoarders who died as a result of being trapped amongst the debris and filth theyâd accumulated in their Fifth Avenue mansion. Sort of a microcosm of mankindâs relationship to the planet and, taken in the context of the rest of the collection, certainly some sort of cautionary tale.

Bell has a great command of mood and his language is very haunting. The stories have a way of sticking with you and making you think.

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Title: For All the Obvious Reasons

Subtitle: And Other Stories

Author: Lynn Stegner

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

For All the Obvious Reasons is Lynn Stegner's superb collection of nine remarkably distinct tales of passion, clear-eyed wisdom, and honesty honed to a cutting edge. These are stories the listener can't shake: A woman living a marital shadow life realizes that her long compensating heart has begun to ominously decompensate. An affluent New Yorker becomes a hoarder to escape a future he cannot bear to take up. A baby dies in a miasma of sibling resentments, and from that the secrets of culpability unravel. A construction worker and a bereaved young neighbor together find a way to be in a broken world. And in the beautifully moving narrative that closes the volume, a story about the depth of goodness and duty and of the profound love they both define and prevent.

From the wild rivers of British Columbia to the cement jungle of Manhattan, Stegner pulls us from our own worlds into her own. With luminous particulars and in richly orchestrated language, these stories sound the vibrant, sometimes anguished music that composes human lives.

Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for listeners interested in fiction - novels; novellas; political and medical thrillers; comedy; satire; historical fiction; romance; erotic and love stories; mystery; classic literature; folklore and mythology; literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, and Cather; and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times best seller or a national best seller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Members Reviews:

And Some Not So Obvious

When I read the first story of this collection, I was not sure that I was going to like it - but with each page I read, I appreciated the author's perceptions more and more. There is a calmness to her writing that belies the emotion and depth of each narrative. The characters are well-drawn and none of the stories are ordinary. It is a collection that I think needs to be read more than once, with a space of time in-between - one that will give new insights with each reading. The only criticism I have is that there just aren't as many stories as I would like to explore. A beautiful work.

Genius

Each story is a jewel. The writing is careful, masterful... The word beautiful doesn't do it justice. This book deserves the widest possible audience.

Four Stars

Ms Stegner is a gifted writer, weaving vivid images with delicately observed sensibilities.

Powerful, engaging stories

These wonderfully written, highly engaging stories are rich with insight into a range of very different characters, revealed by finding the character at a turning point in his/her life. In my personal favorite, a seemingly patient woman's suffused rage surfaces to prevent her son from adopting his father's worst character traits. In another, we follow a young woman's mood shifts over a 24-hour period as they signal a shift in her life direction. Stegner never explains too much, and she captures brilliantly the sometimes tender, sometimes violent, creepy thoughts that exist just below the surface of polite discourse.

The stories have a powerful sense of place, with vivid physical details that propel the reader right into the scene with the characters.

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Title: Hairy Tales

Subtitle: A Collection of Stories for Naughty Boys and Girls

Author: Clifford James Hayes

Narrator: Sheree Wichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Hayes Design and Advertising

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Humor fans of all ages will love these hairy tales! Nine stories full of rhymes, morals, and wit - or just plain silliness and absurdity! Great fun for children and adults alike, these crazy tales come from the bonkers mind of author Clifford James Hayes and are brilliantly narrated by Sheree Wichard.

Join the Ugly Mermaid on her amazing undersea quest to discover why she's so hideous, and find out why Veronica the Velociraptor has such very bad teeth! Discover Aubrey's Smelly Adventure in the Land of Bernards, and learn that it can be cool to be different in Shipwreck'd Sarah and the Silly-Looking Pirates!

Are you brave enough to meet the hideous, toad-fearing Grandma Grunt? And what dreadful fate awaits Horrid Horatia, the fearsome lady-slug? Baron Tuskogee pays a terrible price for his greed in "The Walrus Story," stinky old Podge the pig revolts in more ways than one, and the dreaded Lurgatron threatens to take over the world! All this (and a great deal more!) can be found in Hairy Tales!

List of stories include:

Members Reviews:

Tales of hilarity and and the bodily function humor fit for a ten year old

Laughed during the whole thing...the last sort my boys and I played over and over five times in a row laughing so hard we had tears coming down our faces. The narrator was PERFECT for the role. Well written and well read. I received this audiobook from the author narrator or publisher for free via audiobookblast in exchange for an unbiased review

Hairy Tailes

What made the experience of listening to Hairy Tales the most enjoyable?

The read is very good with the different characters voices

What about Sheree Wichards performance did you like?

I love the way she handled the characters personalities with her voice.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No I played it and listened and then play it some more.

Any additional comments?

Very Enjoyable.

Hairy Tales

What did you love best about Hairy Tales?

The reader captured the voice of the characters

What other book might you compare Hairy Tales to and why?

Harry Potter. The characters were interesting

Have you listened to any of Sheree Wichards other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, but I enjoyed her reading Hairy Tales, it allowed me to close my eyes and imagine characters that I could compare with the vision my Grandchildren had. It was great fun.

Not Your Typical Tales

What made the experience of listening to Hairy Tales the most enjoyable?

These short stories are descriptive and quirky; not your typical tales. The narration is really good, and the character voices help bring the tales to life.

Well read, silly and light

These short stories are very creative, written in a way that expresses how children think when they are being silly together.

The narrator adds depth to the stories and helps the listener easily imagine each character. The flow that she creates makes it easy for any listener, young or old, to follow each adventure.

I would recommend this for children, during trips or rainy spells, to keep the boredom away.

Although I am not considered young, I still enjoyed listening as the narrator performed each story.

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Title: Christmas Love & Romance

Author: Sharon Kleve

Narrator: Don Colasurd Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Books to Go Now

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Eight heartwarming Christmas stories that will bring joy and happiness to the holidays!

Members Reviews:

Sweet Christmas Time Romances

In Love With Paris

CRASHING INTO LOVE

I loved this sweet romance of two people who find each other by literally bumping into one another in an airport gift shop. What a coincidence that they are both on the same plane to Paris and both in first class seating. Sometimes romance happens by a chance meeting and love can blossom. The plot kept me captivated and the dialog is charming. I enjoyed this budding romance with all the sights and smells of Paris. One lives in the US and one in France, can these two people living so far apart make a long distance relationship work?

Christmas Kiss:

ALWAYS TRUST YOUR HEART

This is the second book in the Forever Christmas series. Each book will read as a standalone, but are better enjoyed if you read each of them. Welcome to Glenville, WA.

Adelaide Duval has no self confidence after being a victim of verbal abuse from first her mother and then her ex-boyfriend. She agrees along with her three girlfriends to sell their homes and jointly purchase the Schwartz Christmas Tree Farm along with the five houses on the property. Each girl will have a home that will also be set up as a business and the one major building too. Adelaide loves animals and has chickens and wants to add more animals to her mix. Roman Bennett left his job with the forestry service after a fall from a tree that broke his leg in two places. He has come to work at the newly named Forever Christmas tree farm to help with the property, trails and trees. He meets Adelaide when he finds her crying. They become fast friends and start having breakfast and dinner together often and slowly develop a relationship. She even helps him find a puppy now that he isn't in the city. Can Adelaide put the hurt feelings and insecurities behind her and learn to love again. This is a sweet story of two broken souls finding a new beginning.

Wonderful anthology

Christmas Anthology - Love and Romance by Sharon Kleve is a collection of previously released short novellas. I really think all had been published earlier in other anthologies but never in one that is completely consisting of works by Sharon Kleve, Several I had not read so it was a delight to find them all in one collection.

Josey's Christmas Cookie is a sweet story of learning to overcome grief and really live again. One of the best parts for me was the twelve months later in the last chapter. This gives the whole story a completed feeling.

In Love with Paris by Sharon Kleve could also be titled Finding Love in Paris. There is no high suspense or intense drama in this story; simply sweet love. Paget accidently runs into fellow passenger Christopher at the Seattle airport. Both are going to Paris. Christopher is a resident there while Paget is going on a holiday. Through Pagetâs eyes and Christopherâs suggestions you are given armchair tour of the Louvre along with some Paris restaurants. When you finish reading this short novella you feel as if you have been there yourself.

Christmas Kiss is a story of love healing past hurts. I enjoyed the Christmas tree farm setting as well as seeing Roman and Adelaide discover true love. Loved the name Adelaide too.

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Title: Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Assassins, Hit Men, and Hired Guns

Author: Robert J. Randisi - editor

Narrator: Richard Gilliland, Margy Moore, John Rubinstein, Judith Smiley

Format: Original Recording

Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

From some of the hottest names in crime fiction today come original stories written expressly for this collection.

These four taut tales, loaded with tension and charged with uncertainty, bring each victim - the unsuspecting, the hunted, the fearful - into the deadly sights of a hired killer's gun.

From New York Times best-selling and award-winning authors come these stories: "Chapter and Verse" by Jeffery Deaver, read by John Rubinstein; "Dr. Sullivan's Library" by Christine Matthews, read by Judith Smiley; "The Right Tool for the Job" by Marcus Pelegrimas, read by Richard Gilliland; and "For Sale by Owner" by Jenny Siler, read by Margy Moore.

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Title: Delicate Men: Stories

Author: R Dean Johnson

Narrator: Scott K. Leslie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: Alternative Book Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Delicate Men is a subtle collection of stories focused on what it is to be a man and all the narratives and trials and tribulations that this entails. Walking the line between the sensitive and the harsh in these men's lives and hearts, R. Dean Johnson has managed to create a collection for the ages.

Members Reviews:

This is a book that should be required reading

Commonly, society expects women to be the nurturers bearing the heavy burden of emotional support where as men are the hunters/providers who are exempt from showing much in the way of emotion. They are strong and expected to just know their way to adult hood. Delicate Men uses Zach, Jim, Collin, Garret and others who are in the process of growing into manhood and who are still very fresh and inexperienced.

R. Dean Johnson demonstrates through a series of stories the mine fields of emotion, sensitivity and hardening of ones heart that men must maneuver. The relationships between male and female, male and male, mentee and mentor are explored and reveal growth, vulnerabilities and doubts. Males having to meet and accept the roles thrust upon them by society; it is a long rocky road full of pitfalls and rituals that in the end make them stronger, smarter make them men.

Garret is caught between being popular and standing up for his friend Jamie. Jim struggles with his new-found love while backpacking across Europe and fulfilling her meth dependency. Both struggle with relationships, how others will view them and ultimately becoming a man the steps that follow in their lives. Each story reveals more and more about men and their doubts, vulnerability.

Johnsons short stories are poignant and telling. Well written and haunting. The feelings, doubts and experiences shared feel true and are written with confidence leaving no room for confusion. The characters and their experiences are clear and communicate what needs to be known in a clear manner. The stories are subtle but highly effective.

Scott Leslie, the narrator, did an excellent job of reading the stories. Talented, he portrayed the uncertainty and subsequent growth of each character through his voice pattern, pitch and emotion. Leslies voice adds to the story giving it more depth and range. Soft spoken, concise and yet boyishly charming.

This audiobook was not what I expected at all. It is so much more! This is a book that should be required reading. Raising a son and a grandson, I had no clue the difficulties young men faced with reaching adult hood. I have fallen into the myths society has supported for eons. Young men walk a fine line between being sensitive and being a man who is smart and strong and that people will respect.

The audio production of this book was fine, there was a little bit of white noise in between stories and at least once or twice where sentences were repeated. Otherwise it was well done.

Audiobook was provided for review by the publisher.

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Title: These Heroic, Happy Dead

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Luke Mogelson

Narrator: full cast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

With his harrowing debut, Luke Mogelson provides an unsentimental, unflinching glimpse into the lives of those forever changed by war. Subtle links between these 10 powerful stories magnify the consequences of combat for both soldiers and civilians as the violence experienced abroad echoes through their lives in America. Troubled veterans first introduced as criminals in "To the Lake" and "Visitors" are shown later in "New Guidance" and "Kids", during the deployments that shaped their futures. A seemingly minor soldier in "New Guidance" becomes the protagonist of "A Human Cry", where his alienation from society leads to a shocking confrontation. The fate of a hapless Gulf War veteran who reenlists in "Sea Bass" is revealed in "Peacetime", the story of a New York City medic's struggle with his inurement to calamity. A shady contractor job gone wrong in "A Beautiful Country" is a news item for a reporter in "Total Solar" as he navigates the surreal world of occupied Kabul.

Shifting in time and narrative perspective - from the home front to active combat, between experienced leaders, flawed infantrymen, a mother, a child, an Afghan American translator, and a foreign correspondent - these stories offer a multifaceted examination of the unexpected costs of war.

Here is an evocative, deep work that charts the legacy of an unprecedented conflict and the burdens of those it touched. Written with remarkable empathy and elegance, These Heroic, Happy Dead heralds the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.

Members Reviews:

An unrealistic worst case scenario

This is an ultra depressing book about the worst case scenario of people that come from messed up backgrounds, join the military and return to civilian life even more messed up with the addition of PTS. It's an unrealistic and awful story.

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Title: Jacket Man

Author: Linwood Barclay

Narrator: Kevin Stillwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

From the New York Times and number-one international best-selling author of Far from True, a short story where the grifter is not who it seems.

Sam seems like an ordinary guy. While he is filling up his car with gas at a Stamford, Connecticut, station, a car whips into the station lot, stops alongside, and asks him for directions to LaGuardia airport. Gian claims that he is from Milan, but Sam can spot an imitation in a second. The "Italian's" accent is all wrong, and when he tries to sell him counterfeit luxury coats that he can't take back on the plane to Italy, they bump hips. And Sam feels that Gian has a gun tucked into his belt. Something, like the jackets, that Gian can't take back to Italy.

"Jacket Man" is a story of how to escape with your life - and some counterfeit pleather coats while you are at it.

"Jacket Man" by Linwood Barclay is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books' Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives.

Members Reviews:

Short but GREAT Psychological Thriller!

Short story but classic Linwood Barclay, he is a master at telling stories! Jacket Man is an excellent psychological thriller, loved it! I'm binge reading/listening to as many of LB's books as I can get my hands on!

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Title: Start-Up

Author: Olen Steinhauer

Narrator: Jacob York

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

From the best-selling author of The Tourist comes a tale where a young man struggles to find his identity.

Olen Steinhauer's crafty story - "The Start-Up" - begins as an affectionate recounting by Tom, a down-on-his-luck graduate caring for his sick mother and reconnecting with his awkward friend, Jerry McLaughlin. Jerry lives in a relative's basement in Chicago, and over the intervening months the two young men strategize Jerry's seemingly innocuous plan to become a supervillain in the spirit of Bond greats like Blofeld. Things turn dark, however, when Jerry's plans find success, and he enlists the wayward Tom to help him expand his little start-up to the next level.

At turns witty and diabolical, "The Start-Up" is a fiendish take on both the spy genre and the dangerous friendships of Highsmith, le Carre, and others.

"Start-Up" by Olen Steinhauer is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books' Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the most legendary authors in the Strand Magazine archives.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Must read, don't miss this, or any others with Olen Steinhauer's name on it.