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Title: The Athena Project

Author: Brad Thor

Narrator: Elizabeth Marvel

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 62 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolina's Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nation's most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project.

The Athena Project novels will follow an elite team of female warriors from their recruitment as top-level athletes, through their training, to their deployment on some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the fiction world has ever seen.

Brad Thor's listeners will be electrified as he employs his vast knowledge of covert operations and military intrigue to bring to life his most heart-pounding, globe-trotting thrillers yet.

Members Reviews:

A bit cheesy

What would have made The Athena Project better?

I found the book interesting being that female operatives were the focus of the story. I was quite annoyed by the silly banter between the main characters of the book. It was too over the top. The author appears to have NO IDEA how women interact with one another let alone the type featured in this story.

Girls gone wild

I enjoyed the book. It's a different spin when women are involved. The science behind the whole thing is frightening. Lots of actions.

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Title: Under a Blood Red Sky

Author: Kate Furnivall

Narrator: Rachel Atkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-10

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Sunday Times top 10 best-selling author

Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally best-selling author of The Betrayal.

Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free; and the stories told by her friend Anna, beguiling tales of a charmed upbringing in Petrograd - and of Annas fervent love for a passionate revolutionary, Vasily.

So, when Anna falls gravely ill, Sofia makes a promise to escape the camp and find Vasily: to chase the memory that has for so long spun hope in both their hearts. But Sofia knows that times have changed. Russia, gripped by the iron fist of Communism, is no longer the country of her friends childhood. Her perilous search takes her from industrial factories to remote villages, where she discovers a web of secrecy and lies, but also bonds of courage and loyalty - and an overwhelming love that threatens her promise to Anna.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful Story full of Haunting Images

What did you like most about Under a Blood Red Sky?

I loved the time period the story was set in, post-Revolution and at the height of Stalin's paranoia-fuelled labour camps. The splitting of the story into the experiences of two separate women joined together by fate, circumstances and stories of the Russia they had lost was very satisfying.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Under a Blood Red Sky?

The discovery that the man Sophia had been searching for was not quite who she thought he was was well-handled, a plot twist that was well disguised.

Which character as performed by Rachel Atkins was your favourite?

Sophia

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

Yes but unfortunately real life kept getting in the way!

Any additional comments?

Kate Furnivall is a fantastic writer of Russian historical fiction, with detailed plots and well-rounded characters.Each one is a traesure trove of history.

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Title: The Good Psychologist

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Noam Shpancer

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Noam Shpancer's stunning debut novel opens as a psychologist reluctantly takes on a new client - an exotic dancer whose severe anxiety is keeping her from the stage. The psychologist, a solitary professional who also teaches a lively night class, helps the client confront her fears. But as treatment unfolds, her struggles and secrets begin to radiate onto his life, upsetting the precarious balance in his unresolved relationship with Nina, a married former colleague with whom he has a child - a child he has never met. As the shell of his detachment begins to crack, he suddenly finds himself too deeply involved, the boundary lines between professional and personal, between help and harm, blurring dangerously. With its wonderfully distinctive narrative voice, rich with humor and humanity, The Good Psychologist leads the listener on a journey into the heart of the therapy process and beyond, examining some of the fundamental questions of the soul: to move or be still; to defy or obey; to let go or hold on.

Critic Reviews:

"Intelligent and...deeply psychologized fiction.... Shpancer strikes a beautiful balance between the analytical and the personal, the tormented subjectivity of the patient and the arduous objectivity of the psychologist." (

Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

A Novel is an Understatement...

Is there a specific topic that the book deals with?

Self-Help through a novel

For what readership is it written?

Anyone interested in the day in the life of a psychologistâs professional life (Self-Help without your knowledge) with a mixture of personal entanglement

Did you have any preconceived notions of the topic?

I thought this would be your typical how to be a good psychologist but turned into so much more. A Self-Help guide, and Psych 101 manual, love affair tale, and growing old with/without grace. What magnificent way to combine such varying notion into one novel. And it almost seem inconsiderate to call it a novel when it is so much more. And the term novel is so deceivingâ

Did I like this book?

Favorite of the past couple of years. It kept my attention, it perked my interest in human behavior, the analogies are enlightening, and more so a little self-help ant hurt nobody. I can see how people say that the main client is a tad bit cliché, but look past that and identify the detail and similarities to just life in general. So amazing twist into human behavior and what people are willing to do in the name of lust in which we have diluted ourselves into thinking its love.

Will you like this book?

Interestingâ If you are into psychology, therapy, self-help, with a twist absolutely. To enjoy it as a novel alone may be asking a lot, because the detail to theories, processes, and practices.

Will I read more by these authors?

Absolutely without a doubt!

Did a very good job for what I expected

I had a hard time deciding between 3 and 4 stars. I settled on 4 stars based on how well the book delivered on what I was wanting to get out of it. I went into The Good Psychologist looking for some insightful psychology and therapy concepts presented in a manner that makes them more enjoyable and accessible. I felt that The Good Psychologist does this very well.

From the perspective of a simply reading this for the story, I would rate this a 3. I did feel as though the story was somewhat unresolved at the end but also felt that it was appropriate for this book.

It was alright....

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Title: Waiting for the End of the World

Author: Andrew Taylor

Narrator: Simon Shepherd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Its a difficult time for William Dougal. Hes given up smoking and, to make matters worse, a touch of blackmail persuades him into doing a job for his old adversary, James Hanbury. Nothing complicated - all he has to do is keep an eye on Dr Vertag, the leader of a lunatic fringe survival group. But he has hardly started when the barman who tried to warn him off is murdered.

Suddenly Zelda appears from Dougals murky past. Zelda is big, black and very beautiful. And just as suddenly she is kidnapped from his flat. Dougals natural desire to rescue her plunges him into a maelstrom of criminal activities. The shadow of James Hanbury hangs over everything. Like truth itself, Hanbury is rarely pure and never simple.

Members Reviews:

Twisty story of spies, survivalists, and rich Brits.

William Dougal is hired to follow a shady character, Dr. Vertag, who has formed a group waiting for the apocalypse. But what is Vertag's real motivation and who is Dougal working for? Is this a crime mystery, a spy mystery, a parody, or all three? A sympathetic protagonist, fun supporting characters, and a twisty ending.

Campernoyles is an archaic word for mushrooms.

Dougal was waiting for Hanbury. Dougal had fallen for Hanbury's studied ambiguity. Malcolm was Dougal's insurance policy. They were in a library in a shapeless northern suburb of London. Hanbury was in a taxi at the exit. Mute hostility flickered between Hanbury and Malcolm.

Hanbury had money to turn over to him conditioned upon the performance of a service by Dougal of conducting a surveillance. He was to keep an eye on Alexander Vertag the leader of a sect. When Dougal went to pay his rent now that he could afford to do so, he discovered that his rent had already been paid for him by Hanbury. Unexpectedly Vertag turns out to be charming and with no trouble Dougal is made his private secretary.

A killing takes place, and Zelda, a friend of Dougal, emerges. Zelda had returned to school and obtained a masters degree in library science. Zelda is kidnapped and transported to a castle. Dougal, who had been inclined to drop out of Hanbury's scheme, had to stay involved for Zelda's sake. Dougal and Zelda end up being strung out in a creepy room. They do not know why they are being bound and held. They manage to untie each other and plot an escape. William Dougal and Zelda are rescued by Malcolm.

It turns out that James Hanbury and Zelda are in league with each other. Hanbury and Zelda are CIA operatives. This is a tale of spooks told in a spooky manner complete with a spooky atmosphere. In this instance a more linear format would have decreased the fuzziness in the story-telling without sacrificing the tension generated.

Not as good, but fun to read

His first novel was really a interesting twist on the murder mystery genre so I tried another book. Not as good, but fun to read.

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Title: Heart of the Matter

Author: Emily Giffin

Narrator: Cynthia Nixon

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-10

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother's warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness.

From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie - a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance - and even to some degree, friendships - believing that it is always safer not to expect too much.

Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.

In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.

Critic Reviews:

"Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

"Giffins talent lies in making her characters believable and relatable, and readers will be enthralled by this layered, absorbing novel." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Not for thinking readers

Escapist vapid pap. Nothing to hold ones interest. Not for readers who want more depth.

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Title: All That Follows

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Jim Crace

Narrator: Maxwell Caulfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The prodigiously talented Jim Crace returns with a powerful new novel that juxtaposes the complexities of love and violence with the same brilliance that garnered major critical acclaim for The Pesthouse. Set in Texas and the suburbs of England, All That Follows is a novel in which tender, unheroic moments triumph over the more strident and aggressive facets of our age.

British jazzman Leonard Lessing has spent a memorable yet unsuccessful few days in Austin, Texas, trying to seduce a woman he fancied. During his stay, he became caught up in her messy life, which included a new lover, a charismatic but carelessly violent man named Maxie.

Eighteen years later, Maxie enters Leonard's life again, but this time in England, where he is armed and holding hostages. Leonard must decide whether to sit silently by as the standoff unfolds or find the courage to go to the crime scene where he could potentially save lives, as only someone who knows Maxie can. The lives of two mothers and two daughters, all strikingly independent and spirited, hang in the balance.

All That Follows provides moving and surprising insights into the conflict between our private and public lives and redefines heroism in this new century. It is a masterful work from one of England's brightest literary lights.

Critic Reviews:

"The writing is excellent, and the story moves along with a seductive force. Another fine work from [Crace]." (Library Journal)

"Crace sensitively depicts a middle-aged man coming to terms with the choices he has made, missed opportunities and all." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

From the sidelines

Leonard Lessing - stage name Lennie Less - is a saxophone player who has lost his zest for playing, lost the zest in his marriage, and lost the zest for engagement. So he's taking a break. An extended one that has his wife increasingly impatient with him, and he knows it. He also knows she is right. Then one day, Lennie sees a face on the news (he's a news and media junkie) that is straight out of the past, and he's jarred. Back in the day....

Well, I should say the novel takes place in a future world, but one not unrecognizable, not too far into the future: 2024. An odd, but interesting choice. That world, 14 years on from our own, hasn't changed all that much, except in subtle ways. Personal freedoms seem to have been reduced, but not so that most people recognize that fact. If the loss of personal freedoms is a creeping loss, then this is what it would look like. "Security" and the forces that keep us "safe" seem to have grown, in the same creeping way. We've (they) have accepted it as the price necessary.

So. Back in the day is 2006, and Lennie had spent some time in Austin, Texas with Max and his girlfriend Nadia in that year. Max had befriended Nadia in England and had his own designs on her, but upon arrival in Austin, he found her living with Max. The three of them were political activists: Max of the radical and confrontational kind, Lennie of the more muted variety, with ""Red" Nadia somewhere between the two. When Max had left Austin (not on the best of terms with either of them), he had not seen them since. But now there was Max on the television, right in the middle of a hostage taking. He decides to go to the scene of the crisis (Max had not yet been identified).

On the way there in his car, he listens to an old concert of his.

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Title: Touching Stars

Author: Emilie Richards

Narrator: Isabel Keating

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Gayle Fortman has built a good life for herself and her three sons as an innkeeper in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She has even maintained a cordial relationship with her ex, charismatic broadcast journalist Eric Fortman, covering with the boys for his absences and broken promises. Luckily Travis Allen, her closest neighbor, has been a loving surrogate father to the boys and her own best friend. Then, on the eve of oldest son Jared's graduation, Eric returns, having nearly lost his life in Afghanistan. Worse, he has lost his way and his courage, and needs a place to recover. Gayle realizes this might be the last chance for her sons to establish a real bond with their father, and offers him a summer at the inn and a chance to put things right. Gayle and Eric are all too aware that their onetime love and attraction are still there. But can the pieces of their broken lives be mended, or are they better laid to rest?

Members Reviews:

Not my favorite but still good.

It wasn't my favorite book in the series. The historical story of John Wilkes Booth had me more engaged than the manage et toi between exhusband and professor. But for a chance to get back with my favorite characters from this series I still loved it.

That said I do spend a lot of time listening to audible books and I love this narrators accents, childrens, adults and teen voices it was a good performance.

Good story

This is book 2 in the shen valley series...not a trilogy do ok to read out of order. I really enjoy how the author is able to tell two stories at the same time. The narrator is great with different character voices

Emilie Richards series A Shenandoah Album Novel

This was the fourth book in this series and I have LOVED each and every one!! I am about to begging the next book and I can not wait!!

This series complements the previous and future books and, while familiar favorite show up throughout the series, there is so much of the history of the Shenandoah region of VA...and there has been a sweet love story in each book....BUT, not overly "mushy" .

Read each one and enjoy...I am about to begin the last one !!!

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Title: Canon Alberic's Scrap-book

Subtitle: Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Author: Montague Rhodes James

Narrator: David Collings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-09

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This is the unabridged recording of M R James' excellent story "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book". Read by David Collings it is sure to scare and delight in equal measure!

(P)2009 Andrews UK Ltd under exclusive license from Craftsman Audio

Critic Reviews:

"David Collings reads wonderfully well." (The Observer)

Members Reviews:

David Collings IS M.R. James!

His voice is perfect. One can picture oneself in James' study with a glass of port and the requisite tobacco as he relates one of his classic tales. Of which this is one of my all-time favorites!

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Title: Friend of the Family

Author: Lauren Grodstein

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-09

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 80 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

But Pete never counted on the wild card: Laura, his best friend's daughter - 10 years older than Alec, irresistibly beautiful, with a past so shocking that it's never spoken of. When Laura sets her sights on Alec, Pete sees his plans for his son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely. Believing he has only the best of intentions, he sets out to derail this romance and rescue his son. He could never have foreseen how his whole world would shatter in the process.

Lauren Grodstein delivers a riveting story in the tradition of The Ice Storm, American Beauty, and Little Children, charting a father's fall from grace as he struggles to save his family, his reputation, and himself.

Editorial Reviews:

Pete Dizinoff has lived his life doing what he believes is right; he's a good doctor, loyal friend, loving husband, and caring father. He and his wife, Elaine, have in many ways lived lives parallel to those of their best friends, Joe and Iris Stern. The two couples went to college together and settled in the same New Jersey town, but the Sterns have prospered slightly more than the Dizinoffs. Iris has a successful and lucrative career and Joe, also a doctor, has a taste for more exotic patients and diseases. While the Sterns were starting their family, with four children, Pete and Elaine struggled to have any children at all. The large home they bought in anticipation of multiple children came to symbolize their failed attempts at conception and pregnancy, which makes their only son, Alec, all the more precious to them.

When the Sterns' oldest daughter, Laura, commits a horrific and ineffable act, the Dizinoffs stand by their side, despite Pete's disgust and judgement. Laura, 17 at the time, escapes incarceration, but is sent away for psychiatric help. Now she's 30 years old, and has returned to New Jersey. Pete watches in horror as she and Alec, now 20, begin to date. Alec is not living up to his father's plans for him: he's dropped out of college, living at home, and spending his free time with a woman his father considers to be a criminal and a murderer.

Among narrator Rick Adamson's talents is creating extremely distinct voices for each of the characters, whose long exchanges sound genuinely like conversations between different people. His portrayal of these characters so appropriately reflects Grodstein's depiction of them that it's impossible not to get sucked into the story. He transitions smoothly from Pete's stern voice to Elaine's delicacy, and again from Alec's bratty adolescence to Laura's coolness. His ability to speak in Pete's voice is especially convincing, adding to the complexity the listener feels towards the protagonist, who despite making mistakes never seems unrational. Adamson puts us in Pete's psyche so effectively that even his worse flaws are subverted in his sense of logic and morality, so that he is never rendered unsympathetic. Pete's life is not everything he wanted it to be, but given the sacrifices he's made for his family, why can't Alec be the son his father wants him to be?

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Title: Callisto

Author: Torsten Krol

Narrator: Curt Skinner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-09

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Odell Deefus may be a little dumb, but when he discovers a freshly dug grave at the back of Dean Lowry's house, he understands that it's intended for him. When he finds an old lady's corpse in the freezer, he knows that she has been murdered. And when the bomb in his car explodes, levelling every building in the vicinity, and Odell must suddenly hide the body of a terrorist, even he recognises that things are getting seriously weird.

This blackly funny novel of our times follows what happens when Odell Deefus takes one wrong turn on the journey of his life and crashes into a world of oddballs, misfits, drug-dealers, religious fanatics and crooked cops, hypocrisy, torture, and bloody murder.

In Callisto, Odell Deefus discovers a vast web of corruption and deceit leading to the dark heart of America.

Editorial Reviews:

Listeners, take note: Curt Skinners performance of Torsten Krols Callisto is a true tour de force, and deeply engrossing to boot. Krols acclaimed novel constitutes a masterful foray into the realm of black comedy, as he tells the story Odell Deefus who, although "not the sharpest tool in the shed", is somehow a truly relatable narrator whose bizarre adventures are unbelievable and irresistible in equal parts.

Krols voice is characterized by a bright, youthful twang, and under his skilled direction this madcap book comes to life. More critical than anything, perhaps, to this audiobooks success is Krols fine-tuned sense of comic timing, which hooks listeners from the start and holds them captive right through to the end.

Critic Reviews:

"Authors don't come more enigmatic than Torsten Krol. He lives in Queensland, Australia, and Callisto is his second release. And that's about all that's known of him since he refuses to reveal his identity further, even to his publishers. Not that they likely care, so long as novels like this - a brilliantly succinct, dry and subtly hilarious comment on moder morailty - keep coming." (The List)

Members Reviews:

Oh My!

Callisto has been favorably compared to Catch-22. I have to agree. It is to the war on terror what Catch-22 is to the Mediterranean Theatre of WWII. It is a wacky take on the world we live in. Our hero, who winds up penniless in Callisto, Kansas - the result of a car breakdown - is a dunce. Yet he is an imaginative dunce who becomes less of a dunce as he digs himself into holes - literally - and extricates himself from them. Who knew such happenings could occur in your own backyard? This is a great novel of the new century.