The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Review)

Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Author: John Boyne Narrator: Michael Maloney Publication Year: 2006 Pages: 240 (audio length: 4 hours 56 minutes) Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, (Young Adult?) Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are [...]

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works – And How It’s Transforming the American Economy (Review)

Title: The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works – And How It’s Transforming the American Economy Author: Charles Fishman Narrator: Alan Sklar Publication Year: 2006 Pages: 352 (audio length: 10 hours 27 minutes) Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: Wal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, [...]

Taxi (Review)

Title: Taxi Author: Khaled AlKhamissi Translator: Jonathan Wright Publication Year: 2011 (originally published in Arabic in 2006) Pages: 192 Genre: Narrative Non-Fiction Source: Purchased from the bookstore at the American University in Cairo From the cover: A best-selling modern masterpiece in the author’s home country of Egypt, Taxi consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo [...]

The Thirteenth Tale (Review)

Title: The Thirteenth Tale Author: Diane Setterfield Narrators: Bianca Amato and Jill Tanner Publication Year: 2006 Pages: 432 (audio length: 15 hours 41 minutes) Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Source: Purchased audiobook version from Audible.com From the cover: All children mythologize their birth…So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter’s beloved collection of stories, long [...]

Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner (Review)

Title: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner Author: Dean Karnazes Narrator: James Yaegashi Publication Year: 2006 Pages: 304 (audio length: 6 hours 56 minutes) Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: Karnazes reveals the mind-boggling adventures of his nonstop treks through the hell of Death Valley, the incomprehensible frigidity [...]

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