Sarah Johnson
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How to Solve Your Own Murder
- A Novel
- By: Kristen Perrin
- Narrated by: Alexandra Dowling, Jaye Jacobs
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.
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An interesting twist
- By Russell on 04-02-24
- How to Solve Your Own Murder
- A Novel
- By: Kristen Perrin
- Narrated by: Alexandra Dowling, Jaye Jacobs
Wonderful story
Reviewed: 05-07-24
This was a fun listen. I like that there was are multiple mysteries to solve. The main character was relatable and the reveal at the end was interesting.
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Weyward
- A Novel
- By: Emilia Hart
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, Nell Barlow
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
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Awful, Problematic Story
- By Anonymous User on 04-23-23
- Weyward
- A Novel
- By: Emilia Hart
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, Nell Barlow
One family, three generations
Reviewed: 02-08-24
I really loved this story. All of the women are heroine. Fantastically woven together three generations of women connected by blood and nature. I love the strength, hope, and revenge.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
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Hidden gem, incredible narration!
- By Christine T on 05-17-22
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
Captivating story of love, loss and life
Reviewed: 01-31-23
I really loved this story. The characters felt incredibly familiar and reminded me of home. I really love how the story weaves together the lives of the characters and that they all seem to find something they needed in the end.
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Corinne
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Morrow
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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You want to walk away from the things that were bad for you and never look back. That's what Corinne Callahan wants. Cast out of the fundamentalist church she was raised in and cut off from her family, Corinne builds a new life for herself. A good one. But she never stops missing the life—and the love—she's left behind. It's Enoch Miller who ruins everything for her. It was always Enoch Miller. She'll never get him out from under her skin.
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Too long
- By g lamas on 05-09-23
- Corinne
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Morrow
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Love
Reviewed: 01-24-23
This story I have seen play out many times. I’ve been in both sides of it. I’ve been both the judge and the judged. I’ve turned my back of people under the instruction of the church and I have been shunned. This story perfectly illustrates the dance between these two states of being.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
- By: Jennette McCurdy
- Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction." She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail.
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Unexpectedly poor narration
- By Blurryface on 08-10-22
- I'm Glad My Mom Died
- By: Jennette McCurdy
- Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
Devastatingly Honest
Reviewed: 01-24-23
I really loved this book. It’s so honest and raw and opened my perceptions of children in television. It shouldn’t be fantasized it is dangerous.
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Birthday Girl
- A Thriller
- By: Matthew Iden
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Eight years ago, Elliott Nash’s daughter was murdered. Since then, everything the brilliant former criminal psychologist had is a memory - his child, his career, his wife, and his home. Now he lives on the streets around Washington, DC, with only a bottomless well of guilt and nightmares to make him feel alive. Until Amy Scowcroft solicits his help.
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Great Author, Great Book...
- By shelley on 03-21-18
- Birthday Girl
- A Thriller
- By: Matthew Iden
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Loved this story
Reviewed: 01-24-23
This was a really fresh mystery, different from a lot of things I’ve read in the past. I really liked that some characters got their happy ending and some didn’t. It felt more real.
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Our Missing Hearts
- A Novel
- By: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Lucy Liu, Celeste Ng
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him.
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Listen to the sample
- By Sunny White on 10-11-22
- Our Missing Hearts
- A Novel
- By: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Lucy Liu, Celeste Ng
So close to reality
Reviewed: 01-24-23
This story is so close to what could be and is our reality. It was cleverly written. I still have a lot of unanswered questions.
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All Good People Here
- A Novel
- By: Ashley Flowers
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker, Ashley Flowers
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city journalist. But she’s always been haunted by the feeling that it could’ve been her. And the worst part is, January’s killer has never been brought to justice.
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this is literally the JonBenet Ramsey‘s story
- By Callie on 08-19-22
- All Good People Here
- A Novel
- By: Ashley Flowers
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker, Ashley Flowers
Frustrating but captivating
Reviewed: 01-24-23
I’m still mad about how this ended. I need more closure. Overall it was entertaining. The things I thought would be true weren’t exactly what I imagined and it makes sense how it all played out even if it wasn’t the ending I wanted.
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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A strong story
- By Anita Kristensen on 06-08-19
- City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
Easy listen
Reviewed: 01-24-23
This story was entertaining enough to keep me listening. It’s a very different kind of love story that didn’t go how I wanted it to or how I thought it would but I enjoyed it.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated.
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Glucose Gluttony
- By W Perry Hall on 03-17-18
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
Fun story
Reviewed: 01-24-23
There is a surprise in this story that I didn’t see coming. This was an entertaining listen. It made me wonder how much of the lives we see in Hollywood are scripted to portray a chosen narrative.
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