Audiobook Review: Jack of Spies by David Downing

Title: Jack of Spies Author: David Downing Read by: Gildart Jackson Category: Spy Fiction Audio published: May 13, 2014 by Blackstone Audiobooks Rating: 2½ out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty s Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing but a shoestring budget and the very tenuous protection of a boss in faraway London. He knows, though, that a geopolitical catastrophe is brewing, and now is both the moment to prove himself and the moment his country needs him most. Unfortunately, this is also the...
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Audiobook Review: Dogs and Goddesses by Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, and Lani Diane Rich

Title: Dogs and Goddesses Author: Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, and Lani Diane Rich Read by: Renée Raudman Category: Fantasy, Contemporary Romance Audio published: January 22, 2009 by Brilliance Audio Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Abby has just arrived in Summerville, Ohio, with her placid Newfoundland, Bowser. She's reluctantly inherited her grandmother's coffee shop, but it's not long before she's brewing up trouble in the form of magical baked goods and steaming up her life with an exasperating college professor. And then there's Daisy, a Web code writer, and her hyperactive Jack Russell, Bailey. Her tightly wound world spins out of control when she discovers the chaos within and meets a mysterious dog trainer whose teaching style is definitely hands-on. Finally there's Shar, professor of ancient history at Summerville College, who wakes up one morning to find her neurotic dachshund, Wolfie, snarling at an implacable god sitting at her kitchen table, the first thing in her life she hasn't been able to footnote. What...
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Audiobook Review: Bread & Butter by Michelle Wildgen

Title: Bread and Butter Author: Michelle Wildgen Read by: Elijah Alexander Category: Fiction Audio published: February 11, 2014 by Dreamscape Media Rating: 2½ out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Britt and Leo have spent ten years running Winesap, the best restaurant in their small Pennsylvania town. They cater to their loyal customers; they don't sleep with the staff; and business is good, even if their temperamental pastry chef is bored with making the same chocolate cake night after night. But when their younger brother, Harry, opens his own restaurant - a hip little joint serving an aggressive lamb neck dish - Britt and Leo find their own restaurant thrown off-kilter. Britt becomes fascinated by a customer who arrives night after night, each time with a different dinner companion. Their pastry chef, Hector, quits, only to reappear at Harry's restaurant. And Leo finds himself falling for his executive chef - tempted to break the cardinal rule of restaurant ownership. Family drama and food, how...
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Audiobook Review: The Story, NIV: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

Title: The Story, NIV: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People Editor: Zondervan Bibles Narrated by: Michael Blain-Rozgay, Allison Moffett Category: Religion Audio published: June 24, 2011 by Zondervan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository "The Greatest Story Ever Told" is more than just a cliche. God has gone to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people. That is what The Story is all about - the story of the Bible, God's great love affair with humanity. Condensed into 31 accessible chapters, The Story sweeps you into the unfolding progression of Bible characters and events from Genesis to Revelation. Using the clear, accurate, and easy-to-understand text of the NIV, it allows the stories, poems, and teachings of the Bible to read like a novel. And like any good story, The Story is filled with intrigue, drama, conflict, romance, and redemption. Features: •The story of the Bible... in its own words •Events, characters, and teachings of the Bible arranged chronologically •Today's...
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Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

Title: Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas #1) Author: Charlaine Harris Read by: Susan Bennett Category: Mystery, Paranormal Audio published: May 6, 2014 by Recorded Books Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth... I am not a die-hard Charlaine Harris fan. I got bored of her Sookie books and read maybe one in her Aurora Teagarden series. I picked up midnight Crossroad because it sounded fun enough...
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Audiobook Review: Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo

Title: Her Last Breath (Kate Burkholder #5) Author: Linda Castillo Read by: Kathleen McInerney Category: Mystery Audio published: June 18, 2013 by Macmillan Audio Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository An extraordinarily beautiful Amish woman, a dangerous femme fatale, is the central figure in a story that reveals a dark side of Painters Mill and its seemingly perfect Amish world. A rainy night, an Amish father returning home with his three children, a speeding car hurtling toward them out of nowhere. What at first seems like a tragic, but routine car accident suddenly takes on a more sinister cast as evidence emerges that nothing about the crash is accidental. But who would want to kill an Amish deacon and two of his children? He leaves behind a grieving widow and a young boy who clings to life in the intensive care wing of a hospital, unable to communicate. He may be the only one who knows what happened that night. Desperate to...
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