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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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Kindhearted, funny Ben Carter is an aspiring screenwriter who is currently employed as a dog walker for Windy City Waggers

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
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In this mystery, set in the English countryside in 1909, two forward thinking, spirited, capable women have become known for their sleuthing skills

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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Mia, who was adopted from Korea, discovers forbidden photos while visiting North Korea with her father and brother

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:37
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Anyone who has ever seen Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on television (which is most of the free world) will be fascinated by this impressive review o...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:15
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This is the story about author Sally Mott Freeman’s father and uncles’ experiences in WWII and how they impacted her family

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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Narrator JD Jackson takes great care to articulate the story of Muhammed Ali and his refusal to serve in the military during the Vietnam War

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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This is a superb audiobook about a terrible period in the life of the American dancer Isadora Duncan

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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To many people, the women’s suffrage movement in America begins and ends with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But the effort was far d...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
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Consummate British actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry delivers an audio experience to savor in this performance of the entire canon of Arthur C...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
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Kenny Gabriel, a skip tracer by trade, receives a request from his old boss to find his daughter

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
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David Granger, a Vietnam combat veteran who is coping with demons from his years of active duty, is now facing life after a brain cancer diagnosis

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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When Elizabeth Peters (Egyptologist Barbara Mertz) died in 2013, she left a partially finished manuscript

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:13
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While living with a distant cousin, Adri discovers the writings of two ancestors, and her prickly detachment turns to curiosity, then caring

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:52
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This is the story of Ian Bledsoe, a man who is down on his luck and looking for opportunities

  • Added: Sep 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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The setting is the London of Sherlock Holmes. A woman comes to ex-journalist turned private investigator Arrowood because she can’t afford Holmes. ...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
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In a feat of storytelling, author Daniel Wolff has combined his own personal history growing up in Northern Michigan with the life stories of Bob D...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:07
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A comic illustrator struggling to develop her character’s origin story learns her own family's origins when she’s summoned to the small Southern to...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:22
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This audiobook is about Evelyn, a reclusive washed-up starlet in mid-twentieth-century Hollywood. Desperation, anger, and love have all been part o...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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Tina is a 16-year-old Congolese refugee turned Kenyan street gang member and thief. She has an unswerving determination to care for her half-sister...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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A lot of what we think we know about learning is wrong, according to 10 years of research carried out by a team of 11 cognitive psychologists

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:36