Wendy L Garman
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
- A Novel
- By: Bryn Greenwood
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house until one night her stargazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.
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So many 'hard to listen to' moments
- By jksullycats on 12-27-16
- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
- A Novel
- By: Bryn Greenwood
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Subject matter was questionable
Reviewed: 03-27-25
I just couldn’t get behind Callum and wave’s love story. It was just creepy to me. I ended up not finishing the book.
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem
- How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
- By: Rob Sheffield
- Narrated by: Rob Sheffield
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is the first book that goes deep on the musical and cultural impact of Taylor Swift. Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape. The legendary Rolling Stone journalist is the writer who has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early days to the Eras Tour. Sheffield gets right to the heart of Swift and her music, her lyrics, her fan connection, her raw power.
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Disappointed
- By Sarah on 11-12-24
- Heartbreak Is the National Anthem
- How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
- By: Rob Sheffield
- Narrated by: Rob Sheffield
It’s clever and kind
Reviewed: 03-23-25
It jumped around for me. Not super straight forward but if you like Taylor you’ll enjoy it
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Wonder
- By: R. J. Palacio
- Narrated by: Kaya McLean, Lila Sage Bromley, Dariana Alvarez, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. Beginning from Auggie’s point of view and expanding to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others, the perspectives converge to form a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.
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Must-read for kids!
- By Diane GP on 01-10-23
- Wonder
- By: R. J. Palacio
- Narrated by: Kaya McLean, Lila Sage Bromley, Dariana Alvarez, Santino Barnard, Ry Chase, Madeleine Curry
Be brave
Reviewed: 02-27-25
This book should be required reading. The multiple viewpoints of the same events make it even better. It’s not enough to be friendly. You need to be a friend.
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The Let Them Theory
- A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
- By: Mel Robbins
- Narrated by: Mel Robbins
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins—New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's most respected experts on motivation, confidence, and mindset—teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can't control and start focusing on what truly matters: YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.
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“…Grant me the serenity…”
- By Rachel Cornell on 12-25-24
- The Let Them Theory
- A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
- By: Mel Robbins
- Narrated by: Mel Robbins
Life changing
Reviewed: 02-21-25
This book and theory is well done. Mel keeps it moving at a digestible pace. Easy to listen too now to put into practice
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Something She's Not Telling Us
- A Novel
- By: Darcey Bell
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny, Carly Robins, Pete Simonelli, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Charlotte has everything in life that she ever could have hoped for: a doting, artistic husband, a small-but-thriving flower shop, and her sweet, smart five-year-old daughter, Daisy. Her relationship with her mother might be strained, but the distance between them helps. And her younger brother Rocco may have horrible taste in women, but when he introduces his new girlfriend to Charlotte and her family, they are cautiously optimistic that she could be The One. Daisy seems to love Ruth, and she can’t be any worse than the klepto Rocco brought home the last time.
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Should be "Something Almost Happened"
- By Kimberly Wasilewski on 05-03-20
- Something She's Not Telling Us
- A Novel
- By: Darcey Bell
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny, Carly Robins, Pete Simonelli, Nancy Peterson
Inconsistency throughout
Reviewed: 07-12-24
This book is so weird. One minute the main character’s anxiety is so crippling she can’t even entertain the idea of letting her brother and his gf take her 5 year old to the circus and in the next chapter she’s leaving the same kid alone with her estranged bipolar mother. This book should be called whose childhood was the worst. The amount of unecessary completely useless info is mind boggling. The ending anticlimactic
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Yellowface
- A Novel
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.
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I've never hated a character harder
- By ashelyn downs on 07-26-23
- Yellowface
- A Novel
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
If not for the performance I wouldn’t have finished
Reviewed: 09-19-23
June has got be be one of the most dislikable characters in the entire world. I don’t know how anybody reads this book and thinks different. I’d have rather it ended with her at the bottom of the stairs. If not for the performance, I would have stopped listening.
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The Last Flight
- A Novel
- By: Julie Clark
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of 10, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move, making sure she's living up to his impossible standards. But what he doesn't know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish.
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Intriguing premise
- By SGS on 06-28-20
- The Last Flight
- A Novel
- By: Julie Clark
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Lauren Fortgang
Wished it ended differently
Reviewed: 03-02-23
I enjoyed the performances greatly and the twists were subtle but the ending disappointed and Claire’s self importance was a bit much.
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- By: Holly Jackson
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?
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Overwrought, even for YA
- By Amazon Customer on 04-01-20
A bit of a stretch
Reviewed: 01-14-23
The performance is excellent. The story is a stretch for sure. Plus no one likes when the dog is involved.
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Big Little Lies
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.
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Great story. Genius writing
- By David Shear on 08-01-14
- Big Little Lies
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Brilliant
Reviewed: 06-29-15
Oh Calamity! This is one of those book that you must listen to! Brilliant in storyline and excellent in performance. Highly recommend.
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