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Audiobook Reviews

Sound Reviews: Your source for finding the best Audiobooks to listen to. We give a short review and sample from the book so you can hear the sound and get an overview of the book.


348 Pieces

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Crow was just hours old when she was discovered by Osh and Miss Maggie, two inhabitants of an isolated Massachusetts island.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 03:15
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Through a series of linked stories, Strout revisits the small-town world she introduced in MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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Narrators Anna Acton and Finlay Robertson alternate chapters in recounting the lives of Tess and Gus as they periodically intersect over 16 years.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
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American-born Fabiola Toussaint's Haitian mother is taken by U.S. immigration officers, the teenager is left on her own to make a new life with her...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
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The story's unnamed narrator, a middle school girl whose life changes when D Foster walks onto her block in Queens, New York

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
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The four narrators will have listeners cracking up throughout this comedic look at America's first black president.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:11
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Deaver's latest entry in the Lincoln Rhyme series takes the familiar characters to Italy in pursuit of a serial killer called The Composer

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
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The quintessential square peg, Eleanor Oliphant is intelligent and efficient in her daily work at an office in Scotland, but at a loss when it come...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:11
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The 27th in the "Prey" series has Lucas Davenport out to prove himself in unfamiliar territory as a US Marshall.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:04
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Lexicographer Kory Stamper has always loved words. Now she works at Merriam-Webster.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:59
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Bold, snarky Amani lives in a land that melds the Old West and the world of the Arabian nights. Soneela Nankani, who narrated the first in this ser...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
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Pablo Neruda is the definitive poet in Spanish of the Twentieth Century, and his love poems hold a place comparable to those of Shakespeare in the ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
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Charged with involvement in a school shooting at an elite private school in Stockholm, Maja is initially unlikable. This absorbing psychological st...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
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Ali Smith's moving, dreamlike novel, is the first in a planned quartet. It weaves the friendship of a young woman and an old man, the tragic life o...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:13
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Louna has the jaded attitude of an 18-year-old who's been raised by a busy, problem-solving mother and wedding planner extraordinaire. Louna believ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:25

  • Added: Jul 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
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Adolfo Kaminsky, the daring and heroic document forger, helped hundreds of Jewish families escape Occupied France with his perfectly created passports

  • Added: Jul 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
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Listeners are introduced to 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson atop a cliffside stairway to Castle View, a park in the town of Castle Rock, Maine. There, ...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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Born with both male and female genitalia and raised male, Anjum is a woman trapped in a man's body. She leaves her family home and lives with other...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:22
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Forty years ago, Lis and Janey were playing outside when Lis ran after a puppy, leaving 4-year-old Janey alone.When she returned, Janey, and her on...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:38