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Title: The White Angel

Author: E. B. Cross

Narrator: Corey Snow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ed Breslin, writing as E. B. Cross.

The men she recruited to run her Amazon empire of drugs and death called her the White Angel. The ultra-secret US agency known as the Committee called her the most dangerous woman in the world. The blonde had skin of peaches and cream, cornflower-blue eyes, and legs that went all the way to heaven. She looked like an angel, but no man or woman ever killed more ruthlessly - or enjoyed it more. Killing her was Sam Bornes next assignment. To succeed hed have to use every fighting skill hed learned as a commando in Vietnamand as a ninja assassin. But even his superb training might not be enough to save his life when he is face-to-face with a woman so beautiful that he wants her love just as much as he wants her dead.

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Title: The Trapeze Artist

Author: Will Davis

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A man will endlessly torture his muscles until they shriek and complain. But he will not give in. He will take a hammer to his ceiling until the neighbors begin to watch from the window and the journalists knock at the door. He will continue to train and hack away at the house until it is finished and the trapeze is in place.

Although his parents thought he was nice and kindhearted and teachers saw him as a good boy, secretly he hated his drab, ordered world and longed for more. Then, when he was 14, Edward arrived at his school. Edward exuded the coolness of a latter-day Oscar Wilde. Edward listened to Patti Smith, watched Fassbinder films, knew the writings of Gore Vidal, and, one evening, would kiss him in the moonlight. Forty years old and fleeing from a life he can no longer handle, he stumbles upon the circus. Not knowing why, only that he must, he gets in his car and follows after it, refusing to listen to the doubts that plague him, determined to build a new home and family.

The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present, and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision - a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family, and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, of the sweat, passions, and tempers of circus life, and, above all, of the joyous longing to break free, and to swing higher and higher....

Members Reviews:

Entertaining read

I found this book quite entertaining, I enjoyed the main characters and the way they played of each other. It was difficult to follow at times with the book jumping between different times in the main characters life. But I enjoyed the book on the whole.

Terrible

Don't waste you time, this book has nothing to recommend it. Average writing, not a very compelling story and no insights at all.

Portrait of a man making his way in a confusing world

A shy, fourteen year old boy makes a friend at school, realizes he is gay, and - for the first time - feels truly live. But that is not to last, and he grows into a man, still living with his invalid mother, until - at age 40 - he finds the courage to run away with the circus, as the lover of an eccentric Romanian trapeze artist, When that adventure ends, he is still fascinated by the life he learned on the road, and makes drastic renovations to his mother's house to carry it on.

The story is told in numerous installments, alternating the three time periods mentioned above. The protagonist - whom the author never actually names - makes a very slow, dramatic and torturous journey from his dysfunctional, sheltered childhood to his own version of maturity, which involves following his dream, regardless of what common sense (and others) tells you otherwise. It's not an easy book to read, and somewhat depressing and tedious at times, but essentially a well-written look into a unique individual's mind and heart. I give it four stars out of five.

- Bob Lind, Echo Magazine

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Title: Half of Paradise

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Mark Zeisler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-13

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life. J. P. Winfield, a hick with a gift for 12-string guitar, finds his break into showbiz leads to the flipside of the American dream. And Avery Broussard, descendant of an aristocratic French family, runs whiskey after what remains of his land is repossessed....

Members Reviews:

Vintage Burke

On the face of it the story seem rather bare until you realize that you have listened non stop with very few book marks. For those not familiar with him, James Lee Burke is a stunning writer and his audiobooks, regardless of the narrator, are amongst the best that audible has to offer. If you like crime and low life novels all of his books are recommended

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Title: How to be a Good Wife

Author: Emma Chapman

Narrator: Fenella Woolgar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-13

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my medication. Empty nest syndrome, he tells his friends at the pub, his mother. He's always said I have a vivid imagination.

Marta and Hector have been married for a long time so long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife. But when Hector comes home with a secret, their ordered domestic life begins to unravel, and Marta begins to see things, or perhaps to remember them. In the shadows there is a blonde girl that only Marta can see. And she wants something .

Members Reviews:

Sadly a good idea but a dreary story

Two hours into this story I decided I didn't really care if Marta was mad or Hector was bad. There is clearly something odd going on but the setting is so dull and the characters are so unengaging that I didn't feel any sense of tension or desire to unravel the mystery.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

I wanted to listen to this book because of the reader, Fenella Woolgar who I think is utterly brilliant and because of the positive reviews. However, I soon found myself researching again, to see if anyone had found this book boring beyond belief. Half way through I was still un-engaged. I eventually just about managed to listen to the entire story with my my "Stoic hat" firmly planted on my head and as the closing credits were read I thought "Well that's a whole chunk of time I will never get back again!"

Is she crazy, or is he bad!

Would you listen to How to be a Good Wife again? Why?

I really enjoyed this book. It was very well paced and really engaging. The author has engineered this book perfectly, so that the reader is never quite sure if the main character is mad or is her husband bad.

What did you like best about this story?

The sense of suspense and intrigue that the author creates and the pace of the story. It unwinds slowly, but never becomes dull.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

The scenes in which the main protagonist slowly emerges from the fugue of her own confusion.As readers we take this journey with her and want to be on her side, but there is always the seed of doubt about her sanity.

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

Definitely, but I savoured it over a few sittings.

Any additional comments?

Download this book and enjoy the journey!

A Real Struggle To Finish.

This is the first audio book I cannot recommend and will be returning for a refund.

Where do I start?

The storyline is weak but I kept on listening in hope it would get better. It didn't. It's so predictable that I found myself saying out loud exactly what Fenella was saying countless times. The ending took no imagination what so ever.

As for Fenella Woolgar's narration. I've come to the conclusion that she found this just as unexciting and uneventful as I did because there really was no life in her voice at all. It didn't rise or fall because there was no reason for it to I suppose. The few characters she had to portray were acceptably done. Just. They had no substance to them and she didn't try to bring them to life.

What other listeners saw in this book I truly do not know.

In conclusion I will not be buying anything by Emma Chapman nor listening to Fenella Woolgar again.

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Title: Elza's Kitchen

Author: Marc Fitten

Narrator: Moe Egans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

For years, Elza has gotten by. A divorcee out of culinary school, she started her own little restaurant in the mid-size Hungarian city of Delibab, and she's grown a decent business, cooking quality versions of Hungarian classics and serving them with a smile. But lately her smile has gotten tired. Her loveless affair with her sous-chef has become an irritation. She's getting sick of the same old dishes and the same old customers. And in these nascent years of capitalism, it will take some competition - both personal and professional - to make her see that her restaurant, and her happiness, are worth fighting for.

Marc Fitten fell in love with Hungary after years spent living there, and his second novel is a celebration of its culture and cuisine, as well as a portrait of a woman and her country in transition.

Members Reviews:

It's all maturing.

Fitten's second novel shows his maturation as a writer. While his first was very allegorical, playful and humorous, his second is more grounded and complex, almost as if his writing is mirroring the development of Hungary, the setting of his books. Fitten still visits the farcical with several characters, including the Critic and the gypsies. But his development of Elza shows that he knows a character's chore. Elza, a middle-aged woman going through an existential crisis, is very real. Her anxieties about life, love, and her career are complex and subtle enough that I might be friends with this woman. And though I became frustrated with her several times, especially in her handling of a gypsy family, that tension is what made this book so readable in only a few days time. I couldn't put it down.

Beautifully written book

I loved the story, the characters and the setting of this book. I am looking for more written by this author.

Excellent writing

Novel story and interesting cultural contrasts of the people invloved. The author gave strong personalities to the characters, which added another level to the book.

Some good ideas

This book was a bit all over the place. I kept turning pages, wanting so much to like it and connect with the characters, but it really never happened. Loving to cook, I pick up many books related to food. They are usually warm hearted and full of rich characters. This story left me dry and hungry for depth. The restaurant owner and her customers and staff were primed for the reader to fall in love with them, but the storyline never got to that depth.

So much of this is good ... until you get to the random plot detour

I don't think this book can figure out what it's about. Is it a mid-life coming of age? A woman's need to right a wrong? The story of two lovers who need to be away from each other in order to grow? Elza is a chef in Hungary, but she's restless. At forty-eight, she feels like her life should go somewhere, but it isn't. Her restaurant is successful, but not recognized by Michelin. Her romance with her nearly two decades younger sous chef is equally stagnant. He wants to get married, but she doesn't.

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Title: Secrets from the Past

Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrator: Alexandra Boyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A glittering new novel of deeply-buried secrets, passionate love, obsession, and redemption from the master storyteller.

Thirty-year old Serena Stone is a talented war photographer who has followed in her famous fathers footsteps. But when he dies unexpectedly, she steps away from the war zone to reassess her life. Drawn to writing her fathers own story, Serena approaches Harry Redford, his best friend and front line colleague. Harry has a request of his own. He wants her to go take care of Zachary North, her former lover, who has come out of Afghanistan suffering from mental and physical exhaustion. Serena and Zac inevitably rekindle their passion - and together tackle her fathers huge legacy of iconic photographs.

But one collection about Venice has never been seen before. It is among these images that Serena stumbles across photos that turn her world upside down. In search of the truth about her father, her family and her own life, Serena begins a desperate quest to uncover a story from decades earlier.

Moving from her familys home in the hills above Nice to the canals and romance of Venice and the riot-filled streets of Libya, Secrets from the Past is a moving and emotional story of secrets, survival, and love in its many guises.

Critic Reviews:

"Queen of the genre" (Sunday Times)

"Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the worlds best at spinning yarns" (Guardian)

"As romantic and thrilling as the rest" (Independent on Sunday)

Members Reviews:

Could not read this one

Just could not get past first chapter of this book usually love all her books

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Title: Mister Teacher

Author: Jack Sheffield

Narrator: Jack Sheffield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1978, and Jack Sheffield begins his second year as headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. There are three letters on his desk - one makes him smile, one makes him sad, and one is destined to change his life forever. This is from nine-year-old Sebastian, suffering from leukaemia in the local hospital, who writes a heartbreaking letter addressed to "Mister Teacher". Jack tries to help, and so begins a journey through the seasons of Yorkshire life, in which the school is the natural centre of the community.

There's a colourful cast of characters who accompany Jack through the ups and downs of the school year including Vera, the school secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher and whose greatest ambition is to become president of the Women's Institute; Ruby, the 20-stone caretaker who sings like Julie Andrews; and Dorothy, the coffee shop assistant who is desperate to be Wonder Woman. Most of all, there is the lovely Beth Henderson, a teacher from a nearby school, who with her Sister Laura presents Jack with an unexpected dilemma....

Members Reviews:

Very Funny book

Fantastic books bring back great childhood memories of the 70's. Have just purchased the 3rd book in the series.

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Title: Dear Teacher

Author: Jack Sheffield

Narrator: Jack Sheffield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school.

Jack and his staff struggle to keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulence of the school terms, as once again the official School Log fails to record what is really going on beneath the seemingly quiet routine. Ruby the caretaker discovers her Prince Charming; Vera the school secretary gets to meet her hero, Nicholas Parsons; and Jack, to his astonishment, finds himself having to stand in as a curiously skinny Father Christmas. Jack also finds himself, at last, having to choose between the vivacious sisters Beth and Laura Henderson...

Members Reviews:

LOVED IT.

JUSTN LOVED DEAR TEACHER IT WAS SO VERY HILARIOUS. LOVED IT I LOVE ALL THE TEACHER BOOKS. FROM JACK SHEFFIELD.

Dear Teacher

Dear Teacher is the fourth book in the series. It covers the fourth year of Jack Sheffield's job as head teacher in a small village school in Yorkshire, England.

Not only the children in the school, but also the village characters that Mr. Sheffield shares his life with, are hilarious. He writes with such wonderful preciseness and colour, that the whole scene is alive, and playing out in your living room.

You will enjoy all four of these books, and look forward to more.

Just a pleasure to read!

Like the other books by Mr. Sheffield, this one is true-to-life, and a refreshing read. Don't hesitate to read this one and its series-mates.

It is an easy read. I have enjoyed it

It is an easy read. I have enjoyed it. It won't go down in the halls of literature in my opinion but as a recently retired teacher it shows that the problems and challenges of education are the same wherever you go.

good

The book is written just the way it was, good stuff

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Title: Teacher, Teacher!

Author: Jack Sheffield

Narrator: Jack Sheffield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year and his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young and inexperienced headmaster. The many colourful characters include Ruby, the 20-stone caretaker with an acute spelling problem; a secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher; a villager who grows giant carrots; a barmaid/parent who requests sex lessons, and a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful in the extreme. And then there's also beautiful, bright Beth Henderson, who is irresistibly attractive to the young headmaster....

Warm, funny and nostalgic, Teacher, Teacher

Members Reviews:

A very gentle book

It was a pleasant but rather bland book, not much story but nice gentle 'background listening' while I was busy with other things. The narration was a bit irritating, too deliberate and expressionless but the book does have a quiet charm and I don't regret buying it, I may even listen to it again at some point in the future.

School fun

Loved it, made me laugh throughout just could not stop listening I will be buying the next book in the series.

Light hearted and easy listen

It took a while to get used to the narrator and at some points he lacked a bit of expression. However, still turned out to be an enjoyable listen. The story is pleasant but uneventful.

brilliant

very good listing and very funny carry on nicely from the other books x x

Dull dull dull

This could have been a good book but for the mindblowingly boring narration. Really odd because as it was narrated by the author you would think he of all people would know where to put intonation but there was none- - he might as well have been reading the phone directory. Returned this one and won't be buying any more audiobooks in the series - might give the written ones a try just to see if they come across better in that format

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Title: 6 Sick Hipsters

Author: Rayo Casablanca

Narrator: Aaron Abano

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In this hilarious, frenetic, adrenalin-charged debut, Rayo Casablanca does for modern day Williamsburg, Brooklyn, what Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero did for '80s L.A. - but with a knowing grin and a far cooler soundtrack...

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the center of the hipster universe, and the members of the Whole Sick Crew are its shining stars. The gang includes Wolfgang, a heavy metal musician and high school guidance counselor who supplies coke to his charges; Rad, a doctor obsessed with obscure new wave songs who has a bad habit of cutting himself when he's stressed; Beth Ann, the neighborhood's queen knitter who's slowly going blind and Harrison, a museum curator moonlighting as a writer of highly prized porn. Collectively, they're the arbiters of taste for every vinyl-loving, Gap-spurning, thrift store regular in town. But lately someone has been laying waste to Brooklyn's uber-hipsters, dispatching them in gruesome fashion. The cops are dragging their heels, but the Whole Sick Crew knows that a serial killer dubbed Doctor Jeep is responsible. They have a plan to stop him and it's about to go spectacularly awry. Before the week is over, they'll be up to their skinny-jeaned waists in mayhem, manipulation, contract killers, raw sewage, and murderous monkeys. Something is rotten in the state of Billyburg, and the last hipsters standing will discover just how rotten it really is...

Members Reviews:

I don't often say "must read" but "MUST READ"

This is an awesome story that predicted the direction Hipster culture was going to go. Seriously not enough love for this one!

For my fiance

I bought this book for my fiance as she is into the whole hipster culture, I'm not sure what it's about, but it's one of her favorites!

Attacked where it matters: a hipster's taste in music

(this review originally appeared at Dogmatika [dot] com)

Someone is killing the Williamsburg, Brooklyn hipster elite, leaving clues only the most sub-culturally attuned can find and decipher. The police don't seem interested in these seemingly random killings, so it is up to the Whole Sick Crew to find the killer before they become one of his next victims. Set amid the mainstream-eschewing world of hipsters, 6 Sick Hipsters is a conspiracy novel more rounded than most, delivering beautiful pacing and a well-defined ensemble cast told in an often self-depreciating style that perfectly compliments the uber-cool mentality of its characters.

This, Rayo Casablanca's first novel, is filled with obscure and pop references alike along with intelligent slacker character forms reminiscent of Douglas Coupland's Generation X, though Casablanca's characters are grounded by plot rather than the social criticism. Though Casablanca does dip into witty satire and deep social commentary, he displays more prominently the gun power and buckets of blood consistent with the conspiracy thriller genre. The novel is more apt to develop a beautifully grotesque description of a head being shot:

"Cooper's head had been there, all bright teeth and receding hair, and then a nanosecond later--just a jump cut--it was a million bits of corpus colossum and eyeball juice. It was like is smile got so wide and bright that it evaporated the face around it. Poof!" [pg.