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Title: Shame

Author: Melanie Finn

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-15

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Most of us have a plan. Somewhere to go if something awful happens. Pilgrim Jones doesn't. She looks up at a departures board and takes the first flight. She alights on the edge of Africa. Over confessions and strong gin, she's lured into a world of mercenaries and philanthropists, delusional heroes and witchdoctors in polyester suits. But what about the beating absence, the thing she's done?

Shame is a novel about a world out of time, about magic and chance, Europe and Africa, learning to live and living to learn. It will transport you from diplomatic dinners to a land where fireflies light the sky, and a desolate, magical coastline where anything - anything - might happen.

Shame will change you.

Members Reviews:

SAME BOOK as "The Gloaming!"

I give this book one star because it is the SAME BOOK as "The Gloaming," which I loved. I was disappointed that no description was included on this page, aside from the reviews, which I should have read. I think it is duplicitous on the publisher's part to sell the same book under two different names and covers. Never run across this problem before...

Felt like being in Africa

Unique, Felt like being in Africa. Couldn't put it down

Haunting

Shame is set in Arnau, Switzerland, and Magulu, Tanzania, in contemporary times. Pilgrim Jones, an American woman, feels betrayed. Her husband, Tom Lankester, divorced her to marry Elise. Then Pilgrim has an âincidentâ â a tragic incident that brings guilt, hatred from others, and shame. The only thing to do is to escape the place where it happened. She travels to Tanzania.

From the capital of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, she meets Mama Gloria, and travels by bus to a remote village. But Pilgrim decides to stay. It is Magulu, only 20 miles from the Kenyan border. Here she stays at the Goodnight Bar and Inn, owned by Gladness. Pilgrim befriends Dorothea, the townâs doctor, who loves the townâs policeman, PC Kessy. But the past catches up with Pilgrim. Detective Chief Inspector Paul Strebel from Arnau is looking for her. When he arrives in Dar es Salaam, he tells people that Pilgrim is in danger. Is she? In danger from whom? The other man looking for her? Or does Tanzania heal all wounds?

Written in the first person, by Pilgrim Jones, for the majority of the novel, it shifts towards the end. Back and forth in time and place is disorientating, but that is the intent of the author. What happens is disturbing. This is not just an account of what happens to Pilgrim, but what happens to others â others that also experience loss and despair, and revenge.

Beautiful writing, suspenseful

The first half of the book is narrated by Pilgrim, an American lady whose husband works for the International Red Cross. They are living in Switzerland when her marriage comes unexpectedly to an end. Whilst still reeling from this, she is involved in a local tragedy. To escape the nasty repercussions of this, she escapes to the Africa hoping to lose herself in the remoteness. She feels she is never safeâfrom humans nor from spirits.

She befriends a doctor who feels frustrated that she has no medicines, a policeman who works alone in a lawless society, an alcoholic with his own need for redemption, and a grieving lesbian who has come to save AIDS orphans.

Her concise, descriptive writing paints a vivid picture of people, their activities and the surroundings.

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Title: The Colossus Rises

Subtitle: Seven Wonders, Book 1

Author: Peter Lerangis

Narrator: Johnathan McClain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-15

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Percy Jackson meets Eragon in the new epic saga from best-seller Peter Lerangis.

The day after 12-year-old Jack McKinley is told he has six months to live, he awakens on a mysterious island, where a secret organization promises to save his life - but with one condition.

With his three friends, Jack must lead a mission to retrieve seven lost magical orbs, which, only when combined together, can save their lives. The challenge: the orbs have been missing for a thousand years, lost among the ruins and relics of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. With no one else to turn to and no escape in sight, the four friends have no choice but to undertake the quest. First stop: the Colossus of Rhodes, where they realise there's way more at stake than just their lives.

Critic Reviews:

"A high-octane mix of modern adventure and ancient secrets.... I can't wait to see what's next." (Rick Riordan)

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Title: I Do Not Sleep

Author: Judy Finnigan

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. There is nothing more powerful than a mother's love.

Five years ago Molly Gabriel lost her twenty-year-old son, Joey, to a terrible sailing accident. His empty boat was washed ashore on the rocks, but his body was never found.

Now Molly has returned to the sands of Cornwall, haunted by his disappearance, unable to accept he is gone. Joey was an experienced sailor and died on a calm sea--things just don't add up, and Molly cannot let it go. Desperate for answers, she turns to Joey's best friend, Ben, to go back to what really happened that day...

Intensely emotional and relentlessly suspenseful, I Do Not Sleep is the latest best seller from broadcaster, journalist, and book club champion Judy Finnigan.

Members Reviews:

I did sleep!

I was looking forward to Judy Finnigan's next book after loving Eloise. Sadly I was very disappointed, the story was ridiculous and if she described another scene in her airy fairy way I will scream! The reader kept sending me to sleep, she had such a boring voice, but then it would be difficult to read such a silly story any other way. No interesting characters and Molly was so annoying.

What a disappointment!

I was really looking forward to listening to this book. I had high expectations but was very disappointed. The narrator has a very whiny, irritating voice, the plot was weak and the descriptions of the locations, repetitive and over stated. The story was so slow and drawn out that I got half way through the book and had to give up on it.

Very disappointing

What would have made I Do Not Sleep better?

Better story better performance

What was most disappointing about Judy Finnigans story?

I found it irritating

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Her voice grated

You didnt love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

It was set in Cornwall

A Really enjoyable listen

What made the experience of listening to I Do Not Sleep the most enjoyable?

I thought it was a gripping story that twisted and turned at every chapter. As I listened to this book whilst commuting to and from work, it made the usual traffic jams a pleasure to be in.

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

Yes, however this was not possible.

Any additional comments?

I thought the book itself was well written. As a Mancunian who has been holidaying in Cornwall every year since childhood I really identified with parts of this book. I know the area it was set in very well and it made me want to drive straight to Polperro.

Easy reading

First Judy finnegan book Ive read - found it quite enjoyable and very easy listening

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Titre: Chroniques de San Francisco

Sous-titre: Intégrale Saison 1

Auteur: Armistead Maupin

Narrateur: Pierre Tissot

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 9 hrs and 32 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 02-11-15

Éditeur: La Machinamot

Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Les Chroniques de San Francisco nous plongent avec légèreté dans l'univers de liberté absolue des années 70 dans la ville même de tous les possibles ! Avec bonheur et mordant, Armistead Maupin nous fait tomber amoureux. Tour à tour d'une grande dame qui porte la décadence au rang d'art, d'une fille créative et sauvage, d'un jeune homme qui porte son cœur au bout de ses lèvres, d'une jeune femme prête à tout pour gravir son Mont d'espérance à elle... et de bien d'autres personnages. Vils et formidables tout à la fois, ils incarnent la modernité, l'ambiguïté, et la beauté de pouvoir être qui bon leur semble !

Construit comme une série TV, les Chroniques de San Francisco, c'est un manifeste pour la liberté et la tolérance.

Ce conte moderne trouve une nouvelle mise en scène à travers la voix de Pierre Tissot, qui fait vivre autant de personnages émancipés, totalement dingues et follement vivants !

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©1978 / 1994 "Tales Of The City", Literary Bent LLC / Translated into French by les Editions Passage du Marais (P)2015 La Machinamot

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Title: When the Man She Loves Beats Her

Subtitle: When Her Marriage Went Haywire

Author: Elizabeth Meadows

Narrator: Trevor Clinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-15

Publisher: Vincent Stead

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"Nathan, please, I haven't done anything!" She called out, tears coming to her eyes, remembering how bad the last beating felt. He pulled off his belt, and she knew immediately this was going to be the implement of choice.

"Three....two...." She immediately stripped and laid across the bed.

"Did someone come and see you today? Don't you dare lie to me, because you're already at thirty, and every lie will go up twenty."

"Yes sir. She asked..." A sharp pain went across her upper thighs and she screamed out and immediately put her hands over her thighs crying.

"I see we've forgotten all of the rules." She immediately laid back flat, but continued to cry, silently begging that he just make it quick. She knew thirty of those were going to be hard to get through.

"Now... tell me everything that was said." Laying in that vulnerable position, and knowing she was about to get punished, Susan said every single word.

When she was finished, he laid the belt across her bare bottom.

"That's a good girl. I just wanted to know what was said, because that woman pulled me out of work to ask me if I ever put my hands on you. She said that you said no, but I wanted to make sure. You lay here and think about what will happen to you and I am going to eat and figure out if you deserve those thirty. I'll be back when I'm finished. You move, and it's fifty." Nathan went and ate the dinner she had prepared. When he came back, he grabbed the belt. Susan held her breath, until she felt the first swat.

"Ten, just to remember what your place is, and what will happen if you ever leave or tell anyone. I will find you, tie you up, and one hundred swats, is where I'll start."

Members Reviews:

Great book! A wonderful BDSM eroritca!

What made the experience of listening to When the Man She Loves Beats Her the most enjoyable?

I found this enjoyable to because Elizabeth is so great at telling erotica stories. The narrator also helps deliver this audiobook home.

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

Yes, this book has to be experienced in one sitting.

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Title: I Totally Funniest

Subtitle: A Middle School Story: (I Funny 3)

Author: James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein

Narrator: Frankie Seratch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-15

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Jamie Grimm is back and better than ever in the third episode of James Patterson's best-selling I Funny series. Finding himself one step closer to his dream of being the best kid comic in the world, Jamie faces his biggest challenge yet.

After scoring big on national TV in the semifinals contest, everyone back home is jumping on the Jamie Grimm bandwagon, and all the attention might be going to his head. Not only are his friendships starting to suffer, but the pressure of coming up with his best material ever for the ultimate standup act to snag the final win in Hollywood is pushing Jamie to the brink.

Suddenly, life isn't looking very funny anymore. Can Jamie take the grand prize without pushing away his fans, friends and family?

Members Reviews:

Awful narrator irritating tone and boring

There is nothing funny about this audiobook the voice is irritating and it was a waste of money

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Title: Singleton

Author: Jack Cady

Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Singleton is a truck driver. Traveling the highways of the '50s, he lives a life of truck stops, lonely waitresses, and endless cups of coffee. His is the story of a man, his truck, and the open road.

Members Reviews:

Lonely Traveller

I understood that the pace of this book was meant to portray the desperate slowness of life on the road, but I didn't understand the end at all. It was one of those, "What?" moments.

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Title: Campari For Breakfast

Author: Sara Crowe

Narrator: Sara Crowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-15

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Life is full of terrible things. Ghosts of dead relatives, heartbreak.... burnt toast.

In 1987, Sue Bowl's world changes for ever. Her mother dies, leaving her feeling like shes lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with an awful golddigger called Ivana. But Sues mother always told her to make the most of what shes got - and what shes got is a love of writing and some interesting relatives. So Sue moves to her Aunt Corals crumbling ancestral home, Green Place, along with a growing bunch of oddballs and eccentrics. Not to mention the odd badger or two....

There she fully intends to write a book, fall in love, and learn to live decadently. Campari for Breakfast is a heart-warming, eccentric novel that joins the ranks of great British coming-of-age novels such as Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle and Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.

Members Reviews:

Not quite what I'd expected

I hadn't realized this was such a YA book. Sue, the 17 year old protagonist, came off as closer to 14 to me, very immature.

As a bit if plot re-hashing, which I normally avoid, her mother's just committed suicide, and she hates her dad's fiancée, so she's off to her Aunt Coral at her mother's family estate, or at least manse. At that point, some of the story is told in flashback form over Coral's lifetime from her journals; I liked that as an alternative to Sue mooning over a boy she can't have in the present. Coral's the best part of the story, although she's rather immature herself, at her best when leading the weekly writing seminars. Naturally, there's a villain as well, who becomes the girlfriend of the object of Sue's obsession. Never fear, by the end she's contrite, Sue learns that the truth about her parents wasn't what she'd assumed, her life is on track, and Coral is left with a rehabilitated manse, formerly a money pit, to run as a sort of guest house. Sorry for the spoilers, but most readers would see all that coming in a book where everything's tied up very neatly.

One of the few audiobooks where the author's own narration is probably better than a professional would have done.

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Title: Winds of Freedom

Subtitle: Kate Neilson Novels, Book 2

Author: Rebecca Carey Lyles

Narrator: Jessica Lyles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-15

Publisher: TwentyFourSound

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Winter storms blast across the Whispering Pines Guest Ranch, and a cold wind blows through Kate Neilson's soul. Despite her pain Kate's well-being takes a backseat to the needs of loved ones: her best friend, who's been ensnared by evil; her failing great-aunt, whose dementia care keeps Kate guessing; and Laura and Mike Duncan, whose ranch and livelihood are threatened by a land-grabbing neighbor.

Members Reviews:

Excellent writing! The second Kate Neilson novel involves human ...

Excellent writing! The second Kate Neilson novel involves human slave trafficking, so it includes violence and some sexual content, as well as topics like prostitution, abortion, abuse and rape. And two of the women characters are former inmates trying to live honest lives after prison. The book is tastefully written without explicit details but it's not intended for children. The story is told with much compassion and portrays a message of hope, no matter how far a person has fallen. The plot and characters are believable and interesting.The action is compelling and page-turning. The author tackles some difficult topics in this fictional drama and brings attention to the sordid crime of human trafficking while also extending hope to victims.

Inspiring story of hope

Winds of Freedom is the second in the author's Kate Neilson Novels series. While the first story dealt with healing and restoration after a criminal past, this is a story of hope as characters live as victims of another's disturbing crime: human trafficking. (Though some characters clearly are sex slaves, no sex scenes are detailed; any supporting passages are written in a tasteful way.)

Author Rebecca Carey Lyles lets us look into the soul of a fictional trafficking victim in a way that brings empathy toward the enslaved and changes in the reader. It is gritty and raw - yet it carries the truth that God will never leave or forsake us, even (especially?) in our darkest times. Winds of Freedom inspires courage and compassion, and that in itself makes the book a worthy read.

Winds of Wyoming

I loved this book. I always say that it's a good book when I want to pray for the characters. They were very real and because I'm interested in preventing "trafficking", I was drawn to this story and it's information. The more info we can get out there, the better.

I enjoyed the first installment of the Kate Nielson Books (The ...

I enjoyed the first installment of the Kate Nielson Books (The Winds of Wyoming) and equally enjoyed the second book. Lyles does an excellent job of showing how quickly and completely someone can be made a slave with no hope of escape. She made a very serious issue more real to me. I enjoyed the relationship between Kate and Amy, as well as the men that were willing to help Kate find Amy when there was no concrete evidence that she was truly missing.

My only disappointment was how quickly the story was wrapped up with what felt like unrealistic circumstances. I wanted a more solid solution to what had happened to all of the main characters. I know another book is coming, so I hope to find the concrete ending to their story there. Despite this one issue (which is purely based on my personal taste) I would recommend this book to anyone looking for hope and a real wake-up call to the realities of human slavery that is happening right here in our country.

Overall, an entertaining and page-turning read.

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Title: Girls In White Dresses

Author: Jennifer Close

Narrator: Emily Janice Card

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-15

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ever feel like everyone but you has their life under control?

Isabella, Mary ,and Lauren feel like everyone they know has a plan, a good job, and a nice boyfriend.

Isabella, on the other hand, thinks she might hate her own boyfriend; Mary is working so hard she's hoping to get hit by a car just so she can have some time off work; and Lauren is dating a man who can't spell her first name.

All three of them have been friends since college, and now--more than ever--they need each other as they struggle through those thrilling, bewildering, what-on-earth-am-I-doing years when everyone else is getting married and they're just getting drunk.

Members Reviews:

Great read!!

I really enjoyed this book. I was hesitant, because I saw a lot of bad reviews, but the plot really appealed to me so I bought it anyway. It is hard to decide whether or not you like a book based off of reviews, because everyone relates to a different style of writing and different character development. If it helps you any, I am 20 years old, and I felt that I could really relate to the girls in this book. The story line was not overly complicated, but it was a quick read and very enjoyable. Each chapter is told in short anecdotes, and focuses on a different character. The characters are all connected in different ways, but I thought it was easy to follow.

Don't understand negativity - this book was great!

Usually my ratings are relatively in line with other ratings. In this case, however, I strongly disagree. I thought this book was amazing. It is a bit stream of consciousness, and it does not follow a strictly linear plot. However, it perfectly captures the weirdness and the somewhat fragmentary nature of those first few years after college graduation. In a lot of ways, those years are disjointed and non-linear, and Close perfectly captures that time of life. Give it a try with an open mind, knowing that it is a bit structurally different than a lot of other popular fiction. I think a decent comparison is that it is to literature what Love Actually is to movies. A bunch of vignettes that are all loosely connected but do not follow one strict plot.

Good humor, but flat characters

This book is a series of sketches linked together by various characters. I like this technique. I enjoyed many of the sketches, but some of them seemed to fall flat. I must note that the women in this book are lacking in self-esteem, and seem awfully weak in an age where we supposedly admire "strong" women. I also wonder where they went to college, since all they seem to do is drink together. The author seems to think that is cute.

Short stories

This book is a series of vignettes linking three main friends through stories of adjacent friends and a few featuring each other. Each story is triggered by a major life event in the group - break ups, engagements, bridal showers, weddings and babies - and covers their early to late 20's. The book explores what it means to be an adult and what happens when you don't follow the traditional "get married and have babies" track but everyone around you is.

The stories are relatable, especially for someone struggling to learn what being an adult really means in today's world. It's a quick read, the stories jump around and it doesn't develop the characters like a traditional novel.