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Title: Orphan Train: Summary and Analysis

Author: Bibliomaniac

Narrator: Alan Smithee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-17

Publisher: S&S Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Orphan Train tells the story of Niamh, a young Irish girl orphaned by a fire in 1920s New York. Like many orphans at that time, she is put on a train heading west.

Niamh struggles to find a home, meeting friends and losing them, as well as losing her innocence and missing out on her childhood. It also tells the story of Molly, a foster-care kid who is all prickly edges and anti-social disorders. She is a modern, Internet-searching woman who has grown old fast in the hands of the system. These two women meet, share their extraordinary stories, and in the process find and define their own sort of family.

This summary will allow you to enjoy the story that's being told, and also the wider meaning it explores.

Inside you'll find:

Disclaimer: This book serves as an accompaniment to the best-seller Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline.

It is meant to broaden the listener's understanding of the book and to offer some insights which can easily be overlooked.

You should order a copy of the actual book before listening to this.

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Title: No One to Trust

Author: Iris Johansen

Narrator: Kate Burton

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-02

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The best selling author of Body of Lies, Iris Johansen raises the stakes and the heart rate with this relentless new thriller that follows the harrowing trail of a ruthless killer on the hunt - and the woman who is determined to hunt him down.

He is the most terrifying of killers: ruthless, cunning, charismatic. What Rico Chavez wants most is Elena Kyler - and he wants her dead. Trained as an assassin, Elena now finds herself on the run from one dangerous man and turning to another for help.

Sean Galen was a man without illusions. He knew it was only desperation that caused Elena to accept his help. And yet he was determined to get this woman who had never been able to trust anyone or anything in her whole life to accept him as her ally. Galen and Elena know that Chavez' power and wealth mean there is no place they can be safe and no one they can trust - not even each other.

Soon a trail of horrifying murders will follow Galen and Elena across the country to a shattering showdown. For Chavez is a master of control and he wants more than just to take Elena's life. He wants her alive long enough to see him destroy every reason she has for living. And by the time he is through, he wants her to beg him to take the only thing she'll have left to give: her life.

Critic Reviews:

"With its taut plot and complex characters, this is vintage, fan-pleasing Johansen." (Booklist)

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Title: The Boy Who Followed Ripley

Subtitle: A Virago Modern Classic

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Narrator: Peter Brooke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception.

Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all.

The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water.

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Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 6: The Return of Note & The Ceremony (Dramatised)

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-10

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Warm, humorous, and uplifting, Alexander McCall Smiths hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswanas only female private detective agency, have become international bestsellers, sold over seven million copies, and been translated into 26 languages. These acclaimed productions, complete with vibrant music, bring the exotic world of the books vividly to life.

The Return of Note finds Mma Ramotswe in a compromising situation when her past catches up with her. But things are looking brighter for her assistant, Mma Makutsi, when she takes up ballroom dancing...

The Ceremony sees Mma Ramotswes agency work under control at last, so she has time to take care of her own problems. Can she release her fiancé Mr J. L. B. Matekoni from his rash undertaking to do a charity parachute jump? And will the return of an old love jeopardise her plan to spring a romantic surprise on her husband-to-be?

Starring Claire Benedict as Mma Ramotswe and Nadine Marshall as Mma Makutsi, these dramatisations are guaranteed to appeal to all fans of the engaging lady detective.

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