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Title: The Plantation

Author: Di Morrissey

Narrator: Kate Hood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-10

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared from the family, 60 years before? What caused such a severe rift?

Julie is invited to stay with her cousins who run the plantation founded by her great grandfather in Malaya a hundred years ago, and she decides to visit in the hope of finding clues to this family mystery. What Julie finds sends her spiralling through generations of loves, deaths, tragedy and the challenges of the present until she discovers her grandmothers shocking secret.

Members Reviews:

Surprising find

I have never read a Di Morrisey book before and wasn't sue how I would find her as an author.

The main character hooked me in quickly and I became annoyed when the story shifted backwards to the 1930's to be about her grandmother. The chapters are long and I kept wondering how long I was going to have to wait.

The second time the story jumped backwards in time the story was more interesting and I started to enjoy the shift.

I was surprised that I found myself wondering what was going to happen next through the use of good storytelling.

Di Morressey doesn't utilize any shock techniques or outrageous situations, just a good genuine tale that keeps you interested.

I have since purchased 2 further Di Morressey audiobooks based on the strength of this book and Di Morressey has become my favorite adult author.

A journey

Loved it. It took you into the minds and what it was like as a pow in world war 2

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Title: The Uninvited

Author: Tim Wynne-Jones

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Mimi Shapiro needs to get away. From New York City, from NYU. And from the professor who let things go too far. So when her artist father, Marc, offers his cottage in a remote part of Canada, she gladly hops in her Mini Cooper and drives up north. Way up north.

The little house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she's shocked to nd someone already living there - Jay, a young musician, who is equally startled to meet Mimi and immediately accuses her of being the one who's been leaving strange and threatening tokens for him: a dead bird, a snake skin, a cricket soundtrack imbedded in his latest composition. But Mimi has just arrived, so who is responsible? And more alarmingly, what does the intruder want?

Members Reviews:

Not what I expected...but good nonetheless.

I bought this book on a whim. I was completely unfamiliar with the author. I wanted something different and unknown to me. I was familiar with the narrator and I did a search under her name since she is one of my favorites. I was drawn to this book because of the cover and the title. It sounded interesting so I downloaded it.

The prologue is a little confusing. In fact, I had to go back after I finished the book and listened to it again, and while it made more sense, it still seemed a little pointless.

Once you get past the prologue though, this book really takes on a nice personality. The characters are wonderful. The narration is excellent, and there is a nice little unexpected twist in the middle and another at the end.

This is not a paranormal book (though the title made me think that at first) nor is it romance. There is plenty of plot though. I recommend the read.

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Title: Martha's Journey

Author: Maureen Lee

Narrator: Maggie Ollerenshaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Liverpool, 1915. Martha Rossi lives in a tenement with her husband and their five children. Despite working all the hours she can, the family doesn't have much money. So when Marthas 14-year-old son, Joe, proudly enlists to fight for his country just to earn his mother an extra shilling, Martha is horrified. Despite her pleas and protests, Joe is dispatched to France within weeks. Unbeknown to them all, Joes act of selfless heroism will have huge implications for Martha and all the family.

As the dreaded telegrams begin to arrive from the front in France, mothers hearts are broken across the country. Spurred on by grief of her own, Martha Rossi begins a quest that will take her right to the doors of No.10 Downing Street....

Members Reviews:

Another excellent book by Maureen Lee

As a fan of Maureen Lee I would recommend this book to other fans, I really enjoyed it and I found the narrator easy to listen too.

very dodgy acent

the story was poor and the narrator was awful the scouse accent was really insulting and took a lot away from the book which made it a struggle to keep listening to the end.

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Title: Jump!

Author: Jilly Cooper

Narrator: Samantha Bond

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-10

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Ettas selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the Cotswold village of Willowwood and to act as an unpaid Nanny to their children.

Her neighbour, powerful tycoon and ex-footballer Valent Edwards, has bought the big house next door. One night Etta finds a horribly mutilated filly in the snow in Valents woods and persuades the outraged Valent to take her in. Miraculously she pulls through and, by now called Mrs Wilkinson, captivates everyone in the village. DNA Tests reveal her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse.

After a nail-biting court case, Mrs Wilkinson is awarded to Etta, thus ensuring the lasting and vengeful enmity of her evil former trainer and owner. Etta forms a village syndicate to put the filly into training. The syndicate is a riotous mix of village characters, which set off to the races in a minibus clanking with bottles. From wild parties at Newbury and Ludlow, to an overnight of musical beds at Stratford, to the thrills and spills of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, one fling leads to another and another. Mrs Wilkinson become a star nicknamed the Peoples Pony, she is beloved by the crowds as she progresses from point-to-points to the major meetings and brings fame and fortune to the syndicate. After her terrible injuries she will only run for a female jockey, giving the delectable Amber Lloyd-Foxe, Ruperts god-daughter, her big breakthrough in the mans world of jump racing.

But Etta is horrified when Valent cooks up a plot with Rupert to enter Mrs Wilkinson for the Grand National. Can she be the first mare in thirty years, and Amber the first woman ever, to conquer this mighty race? In JUMP! you will meet rich capricious owners, obsessive trainers and gallant stable lads and lasses; you will get to know the tough, brave jockeys; and you will fall in love with the horses, and above all with Mrs Wilkinson herself - hilarious , heroic and so gutsy she will gallop into your heart forever.

Members Reviews:

Avoid the abridged

A great feel good story that loses the detail by being abridged. The story skips detail and the listener is left wondering what they missed. Either buy the book or wait for the unabridged version.

Really enjoyed it - wish it had gone on longer!

I have loved Jilly Cooper's books about horses since Riders started it all. This one did not disappoint! It was so much fun to get involved with all of my old favorite characters again - Rupert, Billy and now their offspring! A fun book that delivered exactly what I expected!

Excellent except....

It's great to see Jilly Cooper return once again to the Horse world, Rupert Campbell Black and all. Excentric characters, colourful backdrops of 'rural' England and animals with personalities greater than their human companions make for fantastic listening. Unfortunatly by the end of the book every, and I mean EVERY character be it human or animal gets on your nerves. Jilly Cooper allows a bit of hero to show in some of the characters but mostly she shows how completely horrible people can be to each other and the animals around them. Lastly the ending was more of a brick wall at 120 mph then the tapering off of her other books.

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Title: Once a Land Girl

Author: Angela Huth

Narrator: Angela Huth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-16-10

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The war is over but life goes on for Land Girls Prue, Stella and Ag. While two of the girls are married, Prue, the incorrigible flirt, is engaged in a quest for a man to provide her with security. A year after the girls leave Hallows Farm, Prue finds just such a man and a marriage that protects her from post-war hardships.

The lives of her two old friends, Stella and Ag, have moved on; neither her visits to them nor her newly wedded state supply the answers she seeks. Yet, in the puzzling world beyond the fields, Prue remains buoyant, optimistic and quite sure that the life she imagines is just round yet another corner.

Members Reviews:

Once a land girl

Great book loved it the story was so good wish it was longer but still a very good book

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Title: Dancing in the Dark

Author: Maureen Lee

Narrator: Clare Higgins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Millie Cameron is furious when she finds herself obliged to sort through the belongings of her aunt Flo, who has died recently. She hardly knew her aunt, and besides, she has her own career to think of.

Young, pretty, full of confidence - or so she likes to pretend - she wants nothing to do with a dull spinster aunt whom her family refuses to talk about. But when she arrives at Flos basement flat, Millies interest is awakened.

Members Reviews:

just love this book

there is just something about this book I have a paper back copy which I've read a few times & the audio book Maureen lee is a great writer & doesn't disappoint in this book well worth a read & love the way you get the story told in 2 eras

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Title: Under the Table Books

Subtitle: A Novel of Stories

Author: Todd Walton

Narrator: Todd Walton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-10

Publisher: Redwood Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Under the Table Books is a funny, sexy, thought-provoking novel of stories. Underscored by his original piano compositions, Todd Walton's dramatic reading of his novel brings to life the inviting and mysterious world of a one-of-a-kind bookstore, haven to a fascinating family of social outcasts, visionaries, and cutting-edge artists. This mythically real bookstore is both community center and grand experiment in pragmatic mysticism.

The cast includes poets, musicians, master chefs, a 10-year-old genius, a former movie star, 88-year-old identical twins, and a homeless savant who may have once been the richest man on earth. Yet for all their eccentricities, each character is an authentic and lovable soul with whom readers and listeners will identify and care deeply about as this first volume of an ongoing saga builds to its myriad dramatic conclusions.

Critic Reviews:

"[T]hese stories add up to one great big story that knocked me out." (Bruce Anderson, Editor, The Anderson Valley Advertiser)

Members Reviews:

Walton's a master!

This book is so entertaining and nice and long! Todd Walton introduces us to so many unforgettable characters that are all so well described, we KNOW them! I'm surprised this isn't a movie or television series by now. Great characters and that's what life's about, no?

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Title: Stripper Lessons

Author: John O'Brien

Narrator: Greg Thornton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

John O'Brien's books have established him as a writer who communicated the voice of the loner with blistering realness and unmistakable force. Stripper Lessons is perhaps O'Brien's most interior and intense novel, a powerful story of one man's obsessive search to belong.

Critic Reviews:

"This posthumously released novel by the late O'Brien, author of Leaving Las Vegas, is an introspective and surprisingly compassionate study of a loner, Carroll. He is middle aged, unmarried, and friendless. His job as a file clerk is a series of humiliations large and small. His life, such as it is, centers on Indiscretions, a strip joint. Although the surroundings are seedy, Carroll goes there nightly with the rather benign expectation that one of the waitresses or strippers will share a real conversation with him. He eventually meets Stevie, a new dancer--and she actually talks to him! He falls for her right then and there. Discarding his protective emotional shell, Carroll shares his fears, ideas, and hopes with her. But he has picked someone with a very limited interest in him, and, as this point begins to come home, Carroll wonders if life wasn't better inside that shell after all. A sensitive and understated novel." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Brilliantly flawed.

Wow. I bought this on Kindle to read on my phone during the end of my shift. That was about 6 AM. By 9 AM I was finished. Something about O'Brien's writing just sweeps you away.

This is a perfect portrayal of a man I would consider to be somewhat of an incel (involuntary celibate). It's a darker, more realistic portrayal of the lead character in "The 40 Year Old Virgin". Something about the character's sweet nature keeps this novel from being depressing. It's the most upbeat novel about loneliness and alienation I have ever read.

O'Brien's writing and style are just beautiful. As someone who writes fiction myself I found myself jealous of his talent, he had such a way with words. His writing reminds me very much of J.D Salinger or Bret Easton Ellis.

I did find that the author had a very narrow view of the world, it would have been fine if it was confined to the viewpoint of the main character but every once in a while we slip into the heads of secondary characters, and their views and thoughts only serve to confirm the protagonist's view of the world. The shallow, douchebag businessman also happens to think in a totally shallow way. Most of the side characters are flat, almost ciphers.

The good of this book far outweighs the bad.

Some people might take issue with the lack of physical description and fine details in general, but I find that my imagination filled in the blanks and allowed to make this novels somewhat of a more personal experience. He let me imagine the stripper love interest in my own way which made her more real to me in some ways.

I could ramble on forever about this novel. It's the first John O'Brien book I have read, and I plan to read the rest of his work now. I can't help but feeling sad that he killed himself in real life, he was obviously a lonely, alienated person.

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Title: What Lies Within

Subtitle: Family Honor Series, Book 3

Author: Karen Ball

Narrator: Stevie Ray Dallimore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In What Lies Within by CBA best-selling author Karen Ball, something is missing from the life of the successful owner of Justice Construction Co. But Kyla Justice doesnt realize what it is until she begins building a center for inner-city kids. Shes now undeterred by supply problems or gang opposition. She wont be stopped by her boyfriends suggestion to sell her business and marry him. And she certainly wont be sidetracked by that disagreeable Rafael Murphy.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful!

The last of the series of three. I have listened to them twice. I love how Karen Ball used real life twists and turns winding the stories together. And always with the focus of how are Heavenly Father makes All things work together for His good. God is good all the and All the time God is good.

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Title: Guilty Pleasures

Author: Lawrence Sanders

Narrator: Boyd Gaines

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Only Lawrence Sanders could have created this saga of a family that breaks all the rules - both God's and man's. Moving from the '70s to the '90s, Guilty Pleasures invites listeners into the affluent arena of shocking acts and stunning revelations that is the South Florida world of the Folsby clan.

Emmet Richard Folsby: Founder of a mighty publishing empire, a patriarch to be admired - with one unspeakable exception. Constance Louise Folsby: Emmet's wife and cofounder of the empire, now an invalid dying by degrees - resolutely blind to the moral missteps of those she cares for. Barbara Ann Folsby: The wildcat daughter - a fiercely ambitious businesswoman - inexorably lured to love at its most forbidden. Brett Sherwood Folsby: The dashing playboy son, his sister's most bitter antagonist - and a man with sexual secrets of his own.

Through two decades, the Folsbys embrace their checkered destinies as Barbara and Brett battle for future control of the empire - never guessing that a trusted family friend with a hidden agenda is quietly manipulating them all. Lawrence Sanders's Guilty Pleasures flawlessly blends suspense and scandal to create a unique listening experience that jolts even as it fascinates.

Members Reviews:

Lawrence Sanders ... Guilty Pleasures.

This book was not disappointing at all. I could hardly put it down. Once again Lawrence Sanders totally entertained me .

Guilty pleasures

Guilty pleasures by Lawrence Sanders

The Fullsby family is into publishing and Barbara has just graduated from college. She informs her daddy that she wants to go into the business after her month long visit with her girlfriend to France and other places.

They share a different kind of love for one another. Her mother is bedridden and doesn't have all her brain when they talk to her.

Brett, her brother is a playboy. Although he loves women he also loves men. Nothing is too good for them. All the dates they have from both sexes.

Story also follows a judge who has a woman who does housekeeping for him and other things... her son is being mentored by the judge and he hopes to get him a job as a lawyer, he's black and he can push him into places he'd not even try to accomplish.

They are at the party were Emmett, the publisher president is retiring and giving his shares of the company to the children. Amazing how he splits his funds between the kids. And he's sailing indefinitely.....

Blackmail ensues and you can't believe the details!

I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).

horrid, tawdry, and worthless

This cheap and tawdry little work is nearly too disgusting for words. Five minutes into the abridged audio version, we find the protagonist (a 22 year old woman) having sex with her own father, something she's been doing with enthusiasm since the age of 17. By 20 minutes into the tape, my skin was crawling and I felt like I needed a bath. Everyone in the story seems to be having loveless raunchy sex with everyone else without regard for gender, age, race, or class. As a result, the reader is immersed into a messy stew of incest, infidelity, impotence, hetero- and homo- sexual escapades, and 'daring' interracial couplings, as well as suicide, and financial shenanigans.