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Title: Nobody's Child

Subtitle: The Pandora Files, Book 1

Author: Austin Boyd

Narrator: Pam Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-11

Publisher: Zondervan

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When unusual circumstances place Sophia's baby in Laura Ann's care, Laura Ann is now the virgin mother of her own biological son. The media call him "Nobody's Child". But somebody wants him badly enough to steal the baby.

Weaving together bioethics and faith, Nobody's Child dramatizes a future that is already upon us, with consequences we can no longer avoid.

Members Reviews:

Boring and slow moving

The narrator delivers little passion and commitment to different character voices. The story is very slow and boring with little to entertain the audience. I literally fell asleep listeing to it. Save your money.

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Title: The Bell

Author: Iris Murdoch

Narrator: Miriam Margolyes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-11

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean... Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.

Members Reviews:

Absolute pleasure

What an odd and delightful mind Iris Murdoch had. Her intelligent writing, beautifully descriptive prose and colourful imagination make her stories unique, and read by Miriam Margoyles this was pure joy. I agree with the previous reviewer, if Miriam had narrated all of Murdoch's books, I would download them all. I pitied poor Dora in the possession of such an appalling husband......but presented at a time when women had fewer choices she tries her best to rebel.

This is a pleasure!

Margolyse should read every Murdoch novel - her voice catches the comedy and the cleverness: note perfect.

My first Iris Murdoch, am now a huge fan

What did you like best about this story?

The amazing descriptive language. It's all it's quite beautiful.

What does Miriam Margoyles bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

Miriam Margolyes makes this story for me. The range of different voices and characterations she brings to the narration is amazing. I just love her.

Any additional comments?

This book reflects the attitudes of the time, however, the opening chapters which describe married life for a young woman, are so well written and structured it struck such a chord.

Engrossing intelligent book

Really captivated by this book which is both serious and hilarious about the human condition. Miriam Margoles takes on the voices of men and women with ease and made it very easy to conjure up each person. Loved the character of Dora, an anti-heroine who so easily loses the plot she can go to a station to reclaim a lost suitcase and leave it in the pub on the way home. Very funny and tense as the members of an alternative community stumble into each other with unanticipated results. Very sad and fiercely drawn portrait of the homosexual leader tortured by his religious beliefs of sin.A book both humorous and compassionate and wise. Unputdownable.

Vanity betrayal and live

The Bell is about many things, including the vanity of religiosity, betrayal, and love.

The story has engaging characters and story well narrated by Miriam M

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Title: Willow Creek

Subtitle: Cheyenne Series, Book 3

Author: Carolyn Lampman

Narrator: Laurie Klein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-11

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Nicki Chandler was too busy fighting natural disasters on her homestead and trying to avert a range war to worry about romance. She was more likely to chase a man off at gunpoint than invite him in to tea. Then a handsome stranger with a mysterious past came looking for a job. In desperate need of a strong back to help with the work, Nicki reluctantly allowed him to stay, completely unprepared for the assault he would make on her heart. Falling in love was the last thing Levi Cantrell expected when he took a job on the tiny homestead. Nicki Chandler ignited longings within him that he couldnt deny but would she still want him when she found out who he really was?

Members Reviews:

loved the series

I did like this series of books. I have to say the female lead in this third book was the most irritating. I had a hard time liking her, wanted to shake her and tell her to quit throwing stupid tantrums and grow up! Did not ruin the story for me, I liked the rest of the characters and how everything wrapped up in this. Just wish she hadn't been so juvenile. Still a good listen, like this author and narrator.

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Title: Southern Living

Author: Ad Hudler

Narrator: Cynthia Darlow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Author Ad Hudlers books have been featured by the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild. In Southern Living, Margaret Pinaldi moves to Selby, Georgia, following the death of her mother. She gets a job at the local paper to pay the bills, but she really wants to be a catererand bring a little garlic and arugula into the lives of the biscuit-and-grits people around her. Soon she lands the gig of all gigs: catering the Dogwood Festival. But it's an event Selby might never recover from.

Members Reviews:

I hoped , oh how I hoped

The best part about this book is Ma. I thought the pace was slow although It began briskly, it slowed to a crawl . I got the chop-shop part when the heroine's car was stolen. I had a hard time staying with this book. The rivalry over lunch where were the meals I couldn't forget. I felt more for the cook and all he did was grunt.

Handbook for Yankees

Ad Hudler must be related to Fanny Flag. Very entertaining and true. If you anticipate going to live in the south, read this first.

southern girl

bought this book for the title alone..i swear......and couldnt help laughing out loud at some parts....and enjoying every second of reading it. def a worth buying book

Mildly entertaining - but only if you've lived in Macon, GA

I read somewhere that this is Ad Hudler's love letter to Macon, Ga - where he lived for a few years and the setting of this book. Well, if this is his love letter, I sure wouldn't want to get any hate mail from him. I lived there too and he gets the racism and materialism of the upper class pretty well. He also gets the xenophobia down pretty well, except he seems to think Yankees are only from New Jersey (I thought they were from Vermont because here in Boston we think New Jersey is the deep south!). I kept reading because I could recognize the places and some of the people. If I hadn't been able to do that, I doubt I would have read it all the way through.

Had potential but Christ bashing was over the top

I was excited when I found this book as I had lived in the South as a Yankee transplant. I LOVE to read tales of small towns, quirky characters and southern communities. The book got off to a charming start but by the end of Chapter 5 I was finished (I DO hate not finishing a book!). The writer's obvious chip on his shoulder/liberal slant was a turnoff and the Christ bashing went too far (I tried to see where it would/could/might be funny but it just fell flat and wasn't remotely funny). I think Hudler could have written this story line more artfully and subtly without being so in-your-face. At first I thought I was just being sensitive but see that others share my views..... Also, the author's elitist voice came through in his writing. It was distracting and muddled an otherwise promising story. His snide tale about the man from Marion, Indiana tells me Mr. Hudler thinks little of midwesterners, too.

If you enjoy small town tales, check out Garden of Eden by Eve Adams (pseudonym). Now THAT is the charming tale I hoped Southern Living would be.

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Title: Thrush Green

Author: Miss Read

Narrator: Clare Higgins

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-11

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Then there is Mrs Curdle, the long-standing matriarch of the fair. For her, this year's visit to Thrush Green awakens mixed feelings, and a difficulty she doesn't want to face.

Members Reviews:

Wrong reader

June Barrie reads this unabridged version of the book and is an excellent reader, a thoroughly enjoyable listen. I don't know how the mistake came about but this book is well worth a listen.

nice read from a great author

never lets me down, whimsical and interesting .

Miss Read strikes again

What a brilliant first introduction to a lovely new village with a great number of interesting characters all with stories to tell

Order Please!!!

Love these books but I do wish some order was given!! I am going backwards and forwards with each title as they aren't ordered in any fashion

A Great Escape

A shame only the abridged book was available, but I still enjoyed the wonderful escape that Miss Read always gives her readers. Having read the book before I did not find the way it had been abridged too noticeable. I gave it 4 stars only because I would have preferred the full story. I was a lovely book well narrated.

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Title: Jesus Boy

Author: Preston Allen

Narrator: Kevin/ Dion/ Adam R./ / / Free/ Graham/ Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Literature, Preston L. Allens Jesus Boy was listed by O, the Oprah Magazine as one of Ten More Titles to Read Now. Sixteen-year-old Elwyn Parker is dedicated to God. But when the one he loves marries another man, Elwin gets involved with a much older woman. Soon, his lust will test his devotionand may alienate him from his congregation.

Critic Reviews:

a shout-hallelujah tale of transgression and grace, a gospel of lusty and everlasting love. (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Satire at Its Very, Very Best

Praise the Lord for this novel, and pass Preston L. Allen his richly deserved Pulitzer! Hallelujah! And a great Amen! I have been saved for the weariness of unfunniness in a novel! This has been a side-splitting experience thanks to the brilliance of young church pianist/organist Elwyn and the flock at the Church of Our Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters--and to think it is right over the causeway from me here in Miami Beach, for the novel is set in Miami.

Where to begin to tell potential readers just how wonderful this novel is. Let me start this way. I teach writing, part time, at a local college. And when I was telling one of my students about the novel--she works at a large book store--she said, "Oh, yes, I was trying to figure out where to put it in the religion section!" I responded, "Haven't you heard that you can't judge a book by its cover?" Yes, yes, the cover! It almost looks as though you'd find it in the drawer of the nightstand in whatever cheap motel you have chosen to stay in with Gideon imprinted upon. Perfect for this brilliant piece of satire.

Elwyn, who has taught himself to play the piano, is out to save everyone including classmates such as John Feinstein and a collection of others who quite clearly do not like him. And the best place to do it, of course, would be in trigonometry class. That is just one of a zillion fun pieces in this novel. Elwyn has his sights set on going to Bible College. But he has to deal with his own sets of lusts. Yes, for Peachie who... Well, I won't tell, but it seems Peachie has sinned a little and with Barry who is already in Bible College. And then there's the lust he feels for the new widow in church, Sister Morrisohn, the one who is a few times older than Elwyn. She, on the other hand, was forty years younger than Brother Morrisohn who supplied the money to build and sustain the church. His funeral is a hoot!

Preston L. Allen knows his Bible. And he knows how to toss quotations in, page after page of zingers. We live in a country filled with hypocritical evangelicals. And this is a novel that takes it just one more step over the edge. Be prepared to laugh aloud a lot, at least on average once for every page.

GREAT READ!

This book CHANGED MY WORLD! I am not religious, and I loved it! It's not "about" religion so no worries!

Stayed up all night reading

I really loved this book. Mr. Allen does a wonderful job developing his characters personalities so that you feel like you know them. I couldn't wait ti find out what happened next, so I stayed up into the wee hours reading. Get this book! You will be happy you did.

One of the ten everyone should read this year

I just learned that Oprah's Magazine listed Preston Allen's book, "Jesus Boy" one of the ten books to read this year.

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Title: The Wishing Trees

Author: John Shors

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Author John Shors has won numerous awards, and his works have been translated into 25 languages. In The Wishing Trees, Ian and his 10-year-old daughter Mattie are struggling with the passing of Katewife and motherafter her long battle with cancer. When Ian finally opens a letter Kate handed him before her death, he is surprised at the request inside: that he and Mattie travel across Asia while opening a series of letters from Kate, one at a time. As they complete each stage of the trip, they tie paper wishes to trees, which helps them come to terms with their loss.

Critic Reviews:

a moving, emotional story (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

some parts of the book are excellent.

parts of this novel were excellent, as in the descriptions of travel sites. I know it is a novel but I found the requests of the deceased mother to hold too many expectations. Plus, the implication to the child was that somehow the mother was "still here." As a theologian I find her requests to the child to build false hopes. I wonder if the author was trying to work through some grief process of her own. Our book club reviewed this book and gave it mixed reviews. THe one who chose the book just lost her father in death so it appealed to her.

Sweet book about loss, love and life

This is a sweet book which portrays the relationship between a Dad and daughter after the loss of their wife and mother. You travel with them on a journey through many countries but also on a journey of life, as they find their way to a new life together. The idea that you are just a small part of the universe, where so much suffering exists right along so much joy really positions our existance and helps identify that it's a much bigger world out there than we sometimes focus on. I enjoyed this book, but could have done without the father's Aussie accent, which distracts.

Every book by John Shors is wonderful. I thought this was his best

Every book by John Shors is wonderful. I thought this was his best.The end was predictable , but it was still a wonderful book.

Slow Read

This was my least liked book by Shors. I adored his others but was quite disappointed with this one. It dragged on and so often he used the same words to describe how much the Dad and his daughter missed the wife and Mom who had died.

it was not enough to carry me through the plain old sad, and

I did not finish this book, which is unusual for me. Although I found the description of the various places visited by the characters interesting, it was not enough to carry me through the plain old sad, and, frankly, sappy story line.

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Title: When Sparrows Fall

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Meg Moseley

Narrator: Matilda Novak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-11

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Freedom. Safety. Love. Miranda vows to reclaim them - for herself, and for her children.

A widow and mother of six, Miranda Hanford leads a quiet, private life. When the pastor of her close-knit church announces his plans to move the entire congregation to another state, Miranda jumps at the opportunity to dissolve ties with Mason Chandler and his controlling method of ruling his flock. But then Mason threatens to unearth secrets from her past, and Miranda feels trapped, terrified she'll be unable to protect her children.

College professor Jack Hanford is more than surprised when he gets a call from his estranged sister-in-law's oldest son, Timothy, informing him that Miranda has taken a serious fall and he has been named legal guardian of her children while she recovers. Quickly charmed by Miranda's children, Jack brings some much-needed life into the sheltered household. But his constant challenging of the family's conservative lifestyle makes the recovering mother uneasy and defensive - despite Jack's unnerving appeal.

As Jack tries to make sense of the mysterious Miranda and the secrets she holds so tightly, Mason's pressure on her increases. With her emotions stirring and freedom calling, can Miranda find a way to unshackle her family without losing everything?

Members Reviews:

clean, christian, fairly well written, held interest

Story is about a widowed mother of 6, Miranda, living under a controlling pastor, Mason, who runs a cult-like church. She is in fear for herself and her children. There is a slight mystery as to all that she is afraid of giving the story a tiny bit of suspense. She endures a terrible accident leaving her disabled and unable to care for her young children. She appoints her brother-in-law, Jack, a college professor as guardian. He was previously rejected by her husband and they have been out of touch for many years.

I read most of the other reviews and thought some of the negative ones were amusing. Yes, this is a story including many references to homeschooling, but no, it's not a critique of homeschooling, that did not seem to be the purpose of the story. Yes, there may be some moral interferences drawn from the story, but primarily, to me, it seemed a story of a woman who has endured much and is trying to keep herself and her family sane and together and protect her 6 beautiful children. It is her journey out of the restrictive control of the men in her life. It is also, very much, the journey of Jack, a well-drawn and fairly complex character. It is also, to a lesser extent, the story of the children themselves. The characters were reasonably well written, Miranda' s especially to my mind. Her strength of character as she battles is remarkable. There is a romance but it seems slightly downplayed and VERY clean.

This is a clean story but there are elements that might, by some be considered for a more mature audience. I did think one reviewers comment about Jack's drinking and supposed "swearing" highly amusing. Jack isn't a prude but he is a normal man and, for the most part, his character has a great deal of love and integrity. While I personally would not bring booze into an abstaining household, it is not a sin for him to consume it himself. Their comments about his medication issue I would agree with, but it IS obvious he was trying to help, not hurt.

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Title: Sweet Jiminy

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Kristin Gore

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-11

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy abruptly quits law school and flees Chicago for her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi. In search of respite, Jiminy instead stumbles upon more trouble and turmoil than she ever knew existed. Jiminy is shocked to discover there was once another Jiminy - the daughter of her grandmother's longtime housekeeper, Lyn - who was murdered along with Lyn's husband four decades earlier in a civil-rights-era hate crime. With the help of Lyn's nephew Bo, Jiminy sets out to solve the long-ago murder, to the dismay of those who would prefer to let sleeping dogs lie.

In Sweet Jiminy, Kristin Gore has created a lively and compelling story with authentic and genuine Southern characters that will enthrall and entertain listeners.

Critic Reviews:

"Worth reading for its original story line and pithy dialogue." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

A heartbreaking poignant exhilarating trip of a read

" the help" led me to find other stories about the tumultuous and tender stories of the relationships between the colored and white people of the sixties. I found a jewel, that crushed my heart, then gave me new hope for humanity. I highly happily and completely recommend this book.

Good story but seemed rushed

The storyline I really enjoyed but I felt like so much of it was skipped over or summarized. I think I would have enjoyed it more if it were told in more detail.

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Title: Inspector and Silence

Author: Hakan Nesser

Narrator: Allan Corduner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-11

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the heart of summer, the country swelters in a fog of heat. In the beautiful forested lake-town of Sorbinowo, Sergeant Merwin Kluuges tranquil existence is shattered when he receives a phone call from an anonymous woman. She tells him that a girl has gone missing from the summer camp of the mysterious The Pure Life, a religious sect buried deep in the woods. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is recruited to help solve the mystery.But Van Veeterens investigations at The Pure Life go nowhere fast. The strange priest-like figure who leads the sect, Oscar Yellineck, refuses even to admit anyone is missing. Things soon take a sinister turn, however, when a young girls body is discovered in the woods, raped and strangled; and Yellineck himself disappears. Yet even in the face of these new horrors, the remaining members of the sect refuse to co-operate with Van Veeteren, remaining largely silent.

As the body count rises, a media frenzy descends upon the town and the pressure to find the monster behind the murders weighs heavily on the investigative team. Finally Van Veeteren realises that to solve this disturbing case, faced with silence and with few clues to follow, he has only his intuition to rely on

Members Reviews:

Gripping stuff, well written

I thought this was a great book, well written, with a nice eye for characterisation and detail. If you like Jo Nesbo and the other Scandanavian writers, you'll like this one. Not as ponderous and s-l-o-w as Stieg Larsson.

Good reader, too.

Slow storyline

The storyline of this book was rather slow to develop. And I didn't like the English regional accents attributed to the Swedish characters.

Unexciting, uneventful and dull

This was the most disappointing audiobook I have ever chosen from audible. I am a big fan of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson etc and was hoping that this would be an exciting listen. Nesbo and Larsson are in another league to this. The slowest, least exciting, least eventful book. At times it felt like a children's novel. I felt as though the majority of the book dealt with the inspectors dining habits, with only vague detail given to the murder plot which was incredible simple, painfully slow to get going, and extremely thin on the ground. There was not one moment of tension or excitement, and i found myself incredibly irritated by both the narrator and the charactors. After 4 hours i was waiting for it to end.