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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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We are witnessing the baby steps of artificial intelligence (AI) research. But what happens when machines become more intelligent than humans?

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:31
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Halsey Street, in Brooklyn, where Penelope lives, is a place any listener might like to visit, despite Penelope's mixed feelings about the place—an...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:38
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Detective Harry Bosch says there are two kinds of truth in the world: that which we all can agree on, which is immutable, and that which comes from...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:33
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Privateer Conner Douglas decides to marry his best friend, Lady Thea, to claim his legacy. To his shock and anger, she is eloping with a local squire

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:22
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In this riveting mystery, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope presents a talk at the local prison, and gets waylaid by crooked, ex-cop John Brace

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:32
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Before hitting the play button on this audio, it would be easy to feel skeptical about the idea that animals have rich emotional lives. But the com...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:47
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Reimagining of the Evil Queen legend—author Julie C. Dao recounts the story of a peasant girl's quest to become empress

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:24
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Zombies? Really? Plum fans know that the series has not thrived on plot, but on the funny, quirky characters, and their brilliant dialogue

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:17
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This account of Herbert Hoover’s life is a roller coaster of emotion that is expertly captivated in the tone and pace of the chronicler

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:25
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What would incite an Army Ranger with a spotless record and boundless potential to rob a bank and throw his career away

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
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A plot as intricate as a sonata winds together the German occupation of Prague in 1939, an authentic eighteenth-century musical score hidden from t...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:33
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For five days in early December 1952, a heavy, yellow, noxious fog descended upon the city of London

  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:37
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Would you enjoy listening for five hours to a Wisconsin volunteer fireman discoursing on a sixteenth-century French essayist? You bet

  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:31
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A trained sociologist as well as a poet, Eve L. Ewing ranges across the experience of being black, being female, and being human

  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 03:02
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This is an engrossing 2017 YA National Book Award winner. Grace, a teenager, puts her child up for adoption and the heartbreak motivates her to fin...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 03:15
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In this third John Pickett mystery, Pickett is called to Scotland to investigate the mysterious return of the Kirkbrides’ prodigal daughter

  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 03:32
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This biographical audiobook tells of Otis Redding's life and rise to fame

  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 03:08
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This is an audiobook that makes an extraordinary piece of literature better. Harold K. Bush’s debut novel focuses on the revelations that the myste...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 03:48
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This is an audiobook from a more innocent time when the allegations of child abuse against Catholic priests were just emerging

  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 03:22
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This is a coming-of-age chick-lit about an odd, hilarious friendship that millennials will find relatable. Emma aspires to be a writer but is stuck...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:17