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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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Author Robert Wright is captivated by Buddhism’s focus on meditation, disengagement from attachments, and honesty about pain and disappointment

  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:18
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Wiley Cash’s latest book is historical fiction at its best. It tells the story of the 1929 Loray Textile Mill strike in North Carolina through the ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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A tone of menace characterizes hero Adam Costello when a group of aliens, called “vuvv,” land on Earth

  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:18
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The true story of 14-year-old Ricky begins with the tenderness of his warm family. Soon, there’s a horrific reversal

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
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This is a Scottish romance set in the 1430s. Sir Adham MacFinlagh and Lady Fiona Ormiston cross paths in the lowlands at the court of King James an...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:09
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This is a timely, well-written, police procedural and courtroom thriller about racism and perceptions of racism by civilians and in police departments

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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Alice, a lawyer, and Jake, a marriage counselor, sign on to The Pact, a secret society of couples who are committed to ensuring that their marriage...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
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Cyril Avery’s story begins in the womb of his teen mother as he narrates her exile from her Irish village, his birth, and his adoption

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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Levity is mixed with earnestness as author and narrator Manoush Zomorodi sets forth the “Bored and Brilliant challenge,” which encourages listeners...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:18
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Sofia Khan is a 20-something British-Pakistani woman who is unsuccessful in her search for love

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
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This is a continuation of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series

  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
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New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas is in search for the truth about his twin brother's death and the disappearance of his high school girlfr...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
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These are the first eight episodes of BBC Radio’s 2004-2005 audio-theater adaptations, written by McCall Smith himself

  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:54
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Beautifully written by New Zealand’s Janet Frame, this comedy of manners pokes fun at literary wannabe Harry Gill, who seek to enshrine the life an...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
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This is an ambitious, unsettling collaboration between Stephen King and his son, Owen. Women all over the world are going to sleep and not waking up

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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Liliana has been fired from her accounting firm, falsely accused of crimes

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:16
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An African-American honor student’s life is changed when he is the victim of racial profiling, police brutality, and wrongful arrest

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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This is the breathtaking story of Anna Kerrigan; her father, Eddie; and the gangster Dexter Styles

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:41
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In the 1950s, in benighted Fetherhoughton on the edge of the moors, a Catholic priest has lost his faith, a fact he conceals because the priesthood...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
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This story is told from the authoritative viewpoint of Red, an oak tree who knows the habits of the many animals she shelters

  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:13