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Narrado por:
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Hillary Huber
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Marin Ireland
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Kirby Heyborne
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Karissa Vacker
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Amanda Eyre Ward
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“A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.” (Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace)
The bonds between three picture-perfect - but viciously protective - mothers and their close-knit sons are tested during one unforgettable summer in a gripping novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Jetsetters.
Austin’s Zilker Park neighborhood is a wonderland of greenbelt trails, live music, and moms who drink a few too many margaritas. Whitney, Annette, and Liza have grown thick as thieves as they have raised their children together for 15 years, believing that they can shelter them their children from an increasingly dangerous world. Their friendship is unbreakable - as safe as the neighborhood where they've raised their sweet little boys.
Or so they think.
One night, the three women have been enjoying happy hour when their boys, lifeguards for the summer, come back on bicycles from a late-night dip in their favorite swimming hole. The boys share a secret - news that will shatter the perfect world their mothers have so painstakingly created.
Combining three mothers’ points of view in a powerful narrative tale with commentary from entertaining neighborhood listservs, secret text messages, and police reports, The Lifeguards is both a story about the secrets we tell to protect the ones we love and a riveting novel of suspense filled with half-truths and betrayals, fierce love and complicated friendships, and the loss of innocence on one hot summer night.
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- De Tara en 11-14-14
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Chanel Bonfire
- De: Wendy Lawless
- Narrado por: Wendy Lawless
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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By the time Wendy Lawless turned 17, she'd known for quite some time that she didn't have a normal mother. But that didn't stop her from wanting one.... Georgann Rea didn't bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She went through men like Kleenex, and didn't like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine and the cold heart to match.
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Not an Engaging Listen
- De Sobriquet en 03-13-13
De: Wendy Lawless
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The Admissions
- A Novel
- De: Meg Mitchell Moore
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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The Hawthorne family has it all. Great jobs, a beautiful house in one of the most affluent areas of Northern California, and three charming kids whose sunny futures are all but assured. And then comes their eldest daughter's senior year of high school....
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Anything for success
- De JillHen en 09-13-15
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
- De: Janelle Brown
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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A smart, comic pause-resister about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things. When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for - until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune.
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The Perfect Life Ain't So Perfect
- De Theresa en 12-28-08
De: Janelle Brown
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Summer at Willow Lake
- The Lakeshore Chronicles, Book 1
- De: Susan Wiggs
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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Real estate expert Olivia Bellamy reluctantly trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family's old resort camp in the Catskills, where her primary task will be renovating the bungalow colony for her grandparents, who want one last summer together filled with fun, friends and family. A posh resort in its heyday, the camp is now in disarray and Olivia is forced to hire contractor Connor Davis - a still-smoldering flame from her own summers at camp.
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Finding Love at Summer Camp
- De Pamela Dale Foster en 02-13-15
De: Susan Wiggs
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Summer of Two Wishes
- De: Julia London
- Narrado por: Natalie Ross
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Macy Lockhart’s life shattered in a moment with the news that her husband, Finn – serving in the military overseas – has been killed in the line of duty. Their ardent marriage is over, leaving Macy alone, empty, directionless. But while she tries to sustain herself with memories of Finn, who made her and their small Texas ranch the center of his life, it is wealthy Wyatt Clark who slowly brings joy back into her life - until the day that Finn, miraculously spared from death, returns home to claim his bride….
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Excellent!
- De Lady M en 05-01-13
De: Julia London
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Inheriting Edith
- A Novel
- De: Zoe Fishman
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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For years Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies, leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance - a house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: the deceased's 82-year old mother, Edith.
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Narrator is distracting.
- De Onelove en 05-13-20
De: Zoe Fishman
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Live to Tell
- De: Wendy Corsi Staub
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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In a lovely suburban town just north of New York City, the gossip mill runs more efficiently than the commuter-train line. And in every impeccably decorated house, they're talking about Lauren Walsh. They say that nothing could be worse than being abandoned by your husband for another woman. They're wrong.
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Disappointing
- De Jeanne en 07-02-11
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Kissing Games of the World
- De: Sandi Kahn Shelton
- Narrado por: Myra Platt
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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What if the one person you can't bear to be with is also the one person you can't bear to be without? Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited artist and single mother who has at last found peace and freedom sharing a farmhouse with an elderly man and his young grandson. But when the old man dies suddenly her idyllic country life comes to a halt as the old man's estranged son, Nate, returns to claim the house and his child.
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Great Writer, Great Narrator ! Loved it!
- De Ms. Critic en 05-30-09
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The Leaving
- De: Tara Altebrando
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to, until today. Today five of those kids returned. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists will leave listeners breathless.
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Plot Twist
- De Josh F. en 01-07-21
De: Tara Altebrando
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I'll Be There
- De: Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir - despite her average voice - is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight they are connected. Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run. He and his little brother, Riddle, have spent their entire lives constantly uprooted by their unstable father. As Sam and Riddle are welcomed into the Bells' lives, they witness the warmth and protection of a family for the first time.
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Needs to be a film!
- De TreasureHunter en 06-25-16
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The Fragile World
- A Novel
- De: Paula Treick DeBoard
- Narrado por: Jessica Almasy, Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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The Kaufmans have always considered themselves a normal, happy family. Curtis is a physics teacher at a local high school. His wife, Kathleen, restores furniture for upscale boutiques. Daniel is away at college on a prestigious music scholarship, and 12-year-old Olivia is a happy-go-lucky kid whose biggest concern is passing her next math test. And then comes the middle-of-the-night phone call that changes everything.
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Inaccurate
- De CCB en 03-10-15
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The Wangs vs. the World
- De: Jade Chang
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands - and his pride. Outrageously funny and full of charm, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America - and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
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Spectacular
- De Barbara en 10-11-16
De: Jade Chang
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And Then She Was Gone
- De: Rosalind Noonan
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Eleven-year-old Lauren O'Neil vanished one sunny afternoon as she walked home from school. Six years later, her parents Rachel and Dan still tirelessly scour their Oregon hometown and beyond, always believing Lauren will be found. Then one day, the call comes. Lauren has been rescued from a secluded farm mere miles away, and her abductor has confessed. Yet her return is nothing like Rachel imagined. Though the revelations about what Lauren endured are shocking, most heartbreaking of all is to see the bright-eyed, assertive daughter she knew transformed into a wary, polite stranger.
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- De Lisa en 10-02-14
De: Rosalind Noonan
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Lauren and her family—lucky bastards—have been granted the use of a spectacular brownstone, teeming with history and dizzyingly unattractive '70s wallpaper. Adding to the home’s bohemian, grungy splendor is the bar occupying the basement, a (mostly) beloved dive called The Sweet Spot. Within days of moving in, Lauren discovers that she has already made an enemy in the neighborhood by inadvertently sparking the divorce of a couple she has never actually met.
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After 12 years of marriage and two kids, Merit has begun to feel like a stranger in her own life. She loves her husband and sons, but she desperately needs something more than sippy cups and monthly sex. So, she returns to her career at Jager + Brandt, where a brilliant and beautiful Danish architect named Jane decides to overlook the “break” in Merit’s résumé and give her a shot.
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They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.
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Very sweet summer read, but a little to sexually descriptive.
- De Allyson en 06-14-22
De: Carley Fortune
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Nothing to See Here
- De: Kevin Wilson
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Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then, Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family, and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: The twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way.
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Elevated art form.
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When 70-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she was a single mother who meant everything to them. When she wins the cruise, the family packs all their baggage - literal and figurative....
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Calm down
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After 12 years of marriage and two kids, Merit has begun to feel like a stranger in her own life. She loves her husband and sons, but she desperately needs something more than sippy cups and monthly sex. So, she returns to her career at Jager + Brandt, where a brilliant and beautiful Danish architect named Jane decides to overlook the “break” in Merit’s résumé and give her a shot.
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They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.
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- C Gager
- 06-18-22
One of the best books in five years!
I LOVED this story! It builds slowly toward an immensely intricate and surprising ending. Truly well-written an read by multiple narrators! I want more Amanda Eyre Ward!
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- Sarah Pace
- 09-24-23
Extremely superficial.
I went for it because I will listen to anything that Marin Ireland deems worth her time. I have to say, this was the first time I was disappointed. I have never left an audible review, but this was just that disappointing. It was difficult to follow at parts and seemed to be exploiting a number of stereotypes without ever making you like any of the characters in particular. It’s hard to focus on a story where there is no real focus. In just a few hours it attempts to cover addiction, doomsday, pretty much all of the potentially difficult aspects of parenting from the female perspective, all the stereotypes of “bad” male parent figures (absent, overbearing, aggressive, aloof/grieving), classism, racism, ageism… it goes on, but the only thing that it did was inspire me to want to visit Austin. I hate to be so critical, but the narration was so good that I just kept waiting for the story to evolve and capture my interest.
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- runnergirl27
- 04-21-22
I enjoyed this!
I enjoyed the story but one of the narrators sounds like a robot. Her voice was annoying to listen to. The others were good.
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- Renee L
- 05-23-23
WTF… what happened ???
Would’ve loved an actual ending instead of whatever that junk was… it’s like the author ran out of time and threw the last 3 sub chapters together… would’ve liked to have known what happened to some of the characters
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- Barbara S
- 06-11-22
What would you do?
Wow! “The Lifeguards” by Amanda Eyre Ward is a story about motherhood and loyalty, and an event that tests the bonds of friendships.
The story is told by three mothers of fifteen-year-old lifeguards, with chapters peppered with the voices of: their teen sons, a recently widowed detective, and the chorus of the “Barton Hills Mamas”, an Austin TX group chat. Barton Hills is an affluent suburb of Austin TX. It’s the summer of 2019 when a college-aged female is found dead near the swimming hole where the boys (lifeguards) work. Through unexpected circumstances, the boys are linked to the death, and these mama-bears lawyer-up. Prior to this summer, the women have enjoyed a tight relationship, to the point that the boys feel that this friendship supersedes everything, including them. Once the boys are under scrutiny, the mothers become fearful for their own boy.
Meanwhile the widowed detective trudges through his new lot of single parenthood. He follows the clues, under pressure to find the reason the girl died.
While I really enjoyed the story, I think Ward tried to cover too many issues: immigration, infertility, alcoholism, trauma, loneliness, estrangement, single-parenting, and queer identity. What I did like was the realistic portrayal of the three mothers. These mothers are recognizable; we’ve all encountered them.
Ward exposes what being a “good” mother means. Given our world with increasingly younger violent offenders, especially regarding gun violence, how do we “protect” our child if they are arrested? Is protecting a child not making that child have meaningful consequences for violent actions? When a mother has a nagging feeling that their child is troubled, is cloaking them being a good mother?
How far would you go if you thought your child could be involved in a crime??
I listened to the audio narrated by Hillary Huber, the amazing Marin Ireland, Kirby Heyborne, and Karissa Vacker. Any project that Ireland works, I know I’ll enjoy!
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- Todd Barney
- 10-30-23
Fun Read or Listen
This is a fun story with a dark bent. The kind of thing you’d binge watch on Netflix in a day. The lead characters are interesting, if not always true to life (as a mom, I found myself annoyed by many of the mothering choices). Even frequent suspense readers will likely be surprised by the way the central plot unfolds, which is a triumph of its own. The pacing makes it a wonderful choice for consuming in bite size pieces, if you can leave it for long. I would definitely pack it in my vacation bag or enjoy listening to it on a long commute.
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- Sunshine Everest
- 04-18-23
Excellent Storyline and Narrated Very Well
I really enjoyed this audiobook! The story was written in such a way as I felt like I was one of the moms!
The narration was excellent. The way the story was read, really brought it to life!
Sunshine!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-13-23
Um what happened?
Had a really difficult time staying focused on this book. Lost interest about half way through.
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- mary Logsdon
- 02-05-23
Loved the Austin setting
As a resident of central Austin, I loved the setting and details of this book. It has a creative, quite complicated plot - and I found it interesting and easy to get into. It will be a fun pick for my book club, a group of Austin moms with teenagers.
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- Tawny
- 04-06-22
So many politics, such little content
On a positive note, there is a good chance that you either are, or know someone who is, very similar to one of the relatable main characters. The overall plot was creative & narration was fantastic, however, I feel like more thought and effort was put into political and social statements than the actual story & tying up of lose ends.
This really could have been SO GOOD. And the racial context COULD HAVE been extremely enlightening. But instead, we get to hear 10 hours of self-righteous, “rich white people” profiling, among other politically charged innuendos and statements. I still have so many questions about the story, but no doubt on where the author stands politically and socially.
I wonder if it’s ever occurred to anyone that we are creating self-fulfilling prophecies. The more we tell minority and socioeconomic groups that they are ostracized and alienated, the more they are going into group settings automatically feeling that way, rejecting and pushing people without giving them a chance.
I was at a retreat in Costa Rica last month and didn’t know anyone there… There was a Hispanic woman from my state that I really wanted to talk to, but she put off a very guarded energy and attitude. When I finally got brave enough to approach her, we immediately connected. At some point during the week, she admitted that she has issues with people with “lighter skin than her” because of childhood experiences at a primarily white school, and a belief that white people automatically think they’re better. What’s sad about this is that today is not the same as it was 30 years ago. I understand that those experiences shape you and the way you see the world, but we are just drilling in the message, continuing the cycle.
It’s the same with someone who has less money or grew up poor. I grew up in a small town full of big names with little money and from a dysfunctional home, and I spent my first 30 years of life believing that everyone around me who had more money thought they were better than me. My mom would tell me that all the time. And of course there are people that did & do, but the more I went out into the world believing this, the more people I pushed away. There has to be a better way to inform and persuade continual progress toward social equality than this polarization and pitting one race against another.
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