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Keep Sharp : Build a Better Brain at Any Age
by Sanjay Gupta; narrated by Sanja Gupta
What it is: The Emmy Award-winning CNN chief medical correspondent and best-selling author of Chasing Life draws on cutting-edge scientific research to outline strategies for protecting brain function and maintaining cognitive health at any age.
Narration: Dr. Gupta is a skilled journalist and medical doctor. His narration of his own work flows smoothly.
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Chain of Iron
by Cassandra Clare; narrated by Finty Williams
What it's about: A high-suspense, romantic sequel to Chain of Gold finds Cordelia struggling with the realities of her engagement before teaming up with the Merry Thieves to stop a knife-wielding killer who is targeting Shadowhunters throughout London.
Narration: Finty Williams ably captures Cordelia's voice in this sequel.
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| What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster; narrated by Bahni TurpinWhat it is: a multi-generational family drama set in the Piedmont area of North Carolina between 1992 and 2018.
Narration: Award-winning narrator Bahni Turpin deftly balances the multiple timelines of this nonlinear saga with well-paced narration and distinctly voiced characters. |
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A Crooked Tree
by Una Mannion; narrated by Sophie Amoss
What it's about: It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with trees. One night, while driving home, her mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby's little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.
Narration: Sophie Amoss sensitively narrates this family based thriller.
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The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah; narrated by Julia Whelan
What it's about:A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California.
Narration: Award winning narrator, Julia Whelan does a superb job of inhabiting this story.
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The Wife Upstairs : A Novel
by Rachel Hawkins; narrated by Emily Shaffer, Kirby Heyborne; Lauren Fortgang
What it is: Supplementing her modest income by stealing small valuables from her gated-community clients, a broke dog-walker endeavors to win the heart of a wealthy bachelor before learning his late wife's own rags-to-riches story.
Narration: The narration is excellent with these three voice actors.
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Blood Grove
by Walter Mosley; narrated by Michael Boatman
What it's about: After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
Narration: In this newest Easy Rawlins mystery, Michael Boatman once more embodies the titular character's voice.
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The Last American Hero : The Remarkable Life of John Glenn
by Alice L. George; narrated by John Pruden
What it is: On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into space. He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he went on to become a four-term US senator - and returned to space at the age of 77.
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