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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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This book is an invaluable resource on preparing for the inevitable surprises of life encountered by young and old

  • Added: Jan 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:16
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This audiobook is the seventh in Dianne Duvall’s paranormal series about supercharged fighters who protect unsuspecting humans from vampires

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 03:39
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This is a timely broadside about women’s value in today’s challenging workplaces. It weaves in and out of the author’s personal journey from girl F...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 03:24
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Jenifer Lewis, dubbed “The Mother of Black Hollywood” by her cohorts and star of the TV show “Black-ish, recalls navigating her way through Broadwa...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 03:03
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This audiobook is structured as a set of stories collected by the unnamed narrator, most of them as told to her in the first person. They are remin...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
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his is a soul-baring journey of love, tragedy, and recovery. In her mid-50s, author Joyce Maynard finds the love of her life, and all is right with...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:31
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Jane Austen’s classic novel about sisters Elinor and Marianne has been produced on audio many times and featured many talented narrators

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:05
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This is the third book of The Diviners series. In 1920s Harlem, the Diviners, a disparate group of preternaturally gifted young people, work to dis...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:43
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sobel, a talented portrait painter, runs afoul of Rook, the Autumn Prince, and is drawn into the dangerous faerie lands where nothing is as it seem...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
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Naipaul, whose body of writing earned him Nobel laureate status, first came to international attention with this engaging and accessible novel

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:48
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Ever since the night they spent together, Boston baseball hero Travis Kidd has been yearning to make Saylor Blackwell more than his publicist. When...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:33
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When Gretchen Carlson walked away from her job as a news anchor for Fox News to fight — and win — her sexual harassment case, she discovered that h...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:28
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In this era of hyper-partisanship, it is helpful to review the values that unite us. Veteran newscaster Dan Rather does just that in this audiobook...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:16
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Perhaps you haven’t encountered Dan Jones, the TV documentary guide for “Secrets of Britain’s Great Castles” and author of ‘The Hollow Crown

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:19
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The narrative voice of Henry James is heard once again in John Banville’s brilliant sequel to James’s Portrait of a Lady

  • Added: Jan 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:38
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This is the continuation of the blockbuster Millennium series that features the indomitable computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, the journalist Mikael...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:39
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's book is pure Hillary—forceful, inspiring, yet humble. How does one recover from a defeat that, by all accounts, should hav...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:20
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A prequel to PRACTICAL MAGIC, this audiobook is a charming story. The Owens siblings grow up with odd and inexplicable restrictions from their mother

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:10
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Police brutality against African-Americans is depressingly common, but the 2014 case of Eric Garner was in a class by itself

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
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Written by a psychoanalyst with a gift for teaching, this book avoids pejorative takes on procrastinators

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:58