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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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Engaging from the first chapter, author Ausma Zehanat Khan's novel provides a startling introduction to the Syrian refugee crisis, with characters,...

  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
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As the Bliss, Texas, High School homecoming dance is underway, recent graduate Hector Espina, Jr., enters the school and shoots the drama teacher a...

  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:32
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This is the second dramatized collection of NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY stories, adapted by their author Alexander McCall Smith

  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:11
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Psychologist Lauren Slater presents a fascinating history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology juxtaposed with anecdotes of her own struggles with ...

  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:18
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Peri is headed to an elegant dinner party when a thief steals her purse. She fends off the attacker, and in the scuffle, a long forgotten photograp...

  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:42
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A very old man dies in his bed, but not a natural death. Who would bother to murder a nonagenarian?

  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:08
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While interactions on social media can be instant, reactionary, and global, author Sakyong Mipham calls on his audience to slow down

  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:06
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The final novel in Montefiore's Moscow Trilogy takes the listener into the psyche of Benya Golden, a Jewish Communist sentenced to a gulag in 1942 ...

  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:14
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Victoria Alexander has written two lighthearted Regency romances. Both contain interesting plot twists and humor, as well as a dose of the typical ...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
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There are images from history that tell a story so dramatic that they're etched in our mind's eye no matter if we lived during that time or not. Th...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:39
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This a delightful story, set in 1930s England and beyond. Lady Georgiana "Georgie" Rannoch, is 35th in line to the throne. She is impoverished but ...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:04
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Sarah Perry's memoir is a thoughtful retrospective and a gripping true-crime. In tender and terrible detail, Perry recounts the events before and a...

  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:25
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This is the story of Germany's pioneering women test pilots, Melitta von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch

  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:11
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Buckmaster, is living alone on a moor in the west of England. It's hard to tell if we're in the past or future; he is untethered, frightened by fer...

  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:08
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It's the start of summer vacation, 1953; the McCarthy Hearings are in full swing. Richard’s neighbors are new immigrants and he finds a soul mate i...

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
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A memoir of adventure stories delivers an adventure of its own as one hears about the author's dramatic life and wonders what could befall him next

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:07
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The second volume in Gardam’s Old Filth series, it begins in Hong Kong after WWII, as Betty MacIntosh prepares to marry barrister Edward Feathers

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
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Artist Jeff Koons, Warren Buffett, fitness coach Jillian Michaels and 27 other leaders in their fields share their experiences and wisdom in this m...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 03:50
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When Gage meets Skyler, a psychology graduate student, they move quickly from sex to serious. This story moves quickly through the stages of their ...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:56
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James Gaffney (not his real name) is a “child killer for hire” who does the opposite; saves the kids and has them adopted

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 03:09