The Amputee’s Guide to Jules Verne (2024)

• The Women

• A Novel
• By: Kristin Hannah
• Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
• Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
• Unabridged

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• WOW. Just Wow

• By Joanne DeVuono on 02-08-24

• Atomic Habits

• An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• By: James Clear
• Narrated by: James Clear
• Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
• Unabridged

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.

• 2 out of 5 stars

• Author went overboard hawking his site

• By CHughes on 06-25-19

• Eruption

• By: Michael Crichton, James Patterson
• Narrated by: Scott Brick
• Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
• Unabridged

Michael Crichton, creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Twister, and Westworld, had a passion project he’d been pursuing for years, ahead of his untimely passing in 2008. Knowing how special it was, his wife, Sherri Crichton, held back his notes and the partial manuscript until she found the right author to complete it: James Patterson, the world’s most popular storyteller.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• I expected a better story

• By Robert Powers on 06-06-24

• After You've Gone

• By: Margot Hunt
• Narrated by: Stephanie Einstein, Tyla Collier, Dina Pearlman, and others
• Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
• Original Recording

Tessa and Charlie have been best friends since childhood. Now Tess is a famous travel writer who documents her adventures on social media while Charlie rarely leaves the safety of her home, living in fear after narrowly escaping a vicious attack years earlier. But despite their different lives, their bond of friendship remains unbreakable...even in death.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Quick Fun Listen

• By Amazon Customer on 07-11-24

• First Lie Wins

• A Novel
• By: Ashley Elston
• Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
• Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
• Unabridged

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job isn't like the others. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes—especially after what happened last time.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• What’s The lie?

• By Luke Schafer on 01-13-24

• Funny Story

• By: Emily Henry
• Narrated by: Julia Whelan
• Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
• Unabridged

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Funny Story is a Wonderful Read

• By Cathy Sykora on 04-24-24

• The Women

• A Novel
• By: Kristin Hannah
• Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
• Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
• Unabridged

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• WOW. Just Wow

• By Joanne DeVuono on 02-08-24

• Atomic Habits

• An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• By: James Clear
• Narrated by: James Clear
• Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
• Unabridged

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.

• 2 out of 5 stars

• Author went overboard hawking his site

• By CHughes on 06-25-19

• Eruption

• By: Michael Crichton, James Patterson
• Narrated by: Scott Brick
• Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
• Unabridged

Michael Crichton, creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Twister, and Westworld, had a passion project he’d been pursuing for years, ahead of his untimely passing in 2008. Knowing how special it was, his wife, Sherri Crichton, held back his notes and the partial manuscript until she found the right author to complete it: James Patterson, the world’s most popular storyteller.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• I expected a better story

• By Robert Powers on 06-06-24

• After You've Gone

• By: Margot Hunt
• Narrated by: Stephanie Einstein, Tyla Collier, Dina Pearlman, and others
• Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
• Original Recording

Tessa and Charlie have been best friends since childhood. Now Tess is a famous travel writer who documents her adventures on social media while Charlie rarely leaves the safety of her home, living in fear after narrowly escaping a vicious attack years earlier. But despite their different lives, their bond of friendship remains unbreakable...even in death.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Quick Fun Listen

• By Amazon Customer on 07-11-24

• First Lie Wins

• A Novel
• By: Ashley Elston
• Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
• Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
• Unabridged

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job isn't like the others. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes—especially after what happened last time.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• What’s The lie?

• By Luke Schafer on 01-13-24

• Funny Story

• By: Emily Henry
• Narrated by: Julia Whelan
• Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
• Unabridged

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Funny Story is a Wonderful Read

• By Cathy Sykora on 04-24-24

• 48 Laws of Power

• By: Robert Greene
• Narrated by: Richard Poe
• Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
• Unabridged

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.

• By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16

• All the Colors of the Dark

• By: Chris Whitaker
• Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
• Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
• Unabridged

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Amazing story-lots of F words

• By Rebecca K smith on 07-04-24

• You Like It Darker

• Stories
• By: Stephen King
• Narrated by: Will Patton, Stephen King
• Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
• Unabridged

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to digest.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• What happened to the chapter titles

• By MztCB on 05-25-24

• Bluebeard

• By: Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
• Narrated by: Joseph Fiennes, Karen David, Holt McCallany, and others
• Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
• Original Recording

In 1919, Kathryn Wombacher finds a lonely-hearts ad placed by one Walter Andrew: "Would be pleased to correspond with a refined young lady or widow. Object, matrimony.” Kathryn and Walter fall in love and marry within weeks. What Kathryn doesn’t know...is that her new husband is really James “Bluebeard” Watson, a notorious West Coast serial killer who catfished and married 22 women, murdering 10.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Performances

• By HappyMom on 05-24-24

• The Anxious Generation

• How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
• By: Jonathan Haidt
• Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Jonathan Haidt
• Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
• Unabridged

There is no bigger public health story now than the collapse in youth mental health. The numbers are terrifying and dominate our headlines. There has been much debate over how we got here, and what to do next, and bestselling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is at the white-hot center of that discourse. Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth into the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for Gen Z.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• A Parenting Book for the 2020's

• By Anonymous User on 03-29-24

• Nuclear War

• A Scenario
• By: Annie Jacobsen
• Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
• Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
• Unabridged

Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Great book, but read waaayyy to slow.

• By Robert on 04-24-24