Category: Audio Book

January 12, 2017

A Spy Among Friends *** (of 4) By Ben MacIntyre

Kim Philby joined the British spy services and the Russian KGB as a young man fresh from university. The Second World War had not yet...

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December 18, 2016

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard *** (of 4)

The United States was on rocky footing in the immediate decades following the civil war with the North wanting revenge and the south not yet...

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December 1, 2016

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George **** (of 4)

It seems to me that even mediocre authors can write tragedies. As long as a protagonist is reasonably sympathetic and something awful occurs, the reader...

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October 31, 2016

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald **** (of 4)

Three parallel stories expertly told. In the first, the author trains a goshawk to fly from her glove to hunt pheasants and rabbits on the British...

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October 20, 2016

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan *** (of 4)

This recounting of America’s dust bowl is a vivid, filthy painting of an American environmental disaster brought about by greed, hubris, and ignorance. After demolishing...

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August 18, 2016

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny *** (of 4)

Maybe the tenth in the series of mysteries for Chief Detective of the Quebec Surete, Armand Gamache. Having recently retired to Three Pines, now former...

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October 21, 2015

Gold by Matthew Hart ** (of 4)

Matthew Hart purports to answer all your questions about gold. Why does it have value? How is it mined? What is the historical significance of gold?...

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August 27, 2015

The Son by Philipp Meyer **** (of 4)

This history of Texas is told through the lives of four generations of the McCullough family. Eli, the patriarch, is captured by Comanches as an...

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June 14, 2015

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown **** (of 4)

On the face of it an uplifting story of a group of eight hayseeds from Washington state who come together to become the world’s best rowing...

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May 20, 2015

All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer *** (of 4)

Henry and Celia were working for the CIA in Vienna when a hijacked plane landed and failure of international spy agencies to respond appropriately led to the...

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