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The Grandmother
- By: Jane E. James
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell, Max Dinnen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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Not too outlandish
- By Jackie H on 12-14-24
- The Grandmother
- By: Jane E. James
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell, Max Dinnen
Funny Thriller!
Reviewed: 01-23-25
Loved it! It was well written, thought out and a real cliff hanger. Laugh out loud funny too!
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
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Please be warned
- By N. Thompson on 06-20-17
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Wonderful!
Reviewed: 08-15-24
Loved it! The writing was wonderful take of finding oneself and getting out of our own way…how trauma and indifference can hold us back and how opening our hearts and minds for a life line can make the world of difference. It felted good to watch it all unfold. Good Read!
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Wild with Happy
- By: Colman Domingo
- Narrated by: Colman Domingo, Alex Newell, Sharon Washington, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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Gil (Domingo) is a struggling NYC actor who heads home to Philadelphia after the passing of his mother, Adelaide (Winfrey). The plan is to tidy-up her affairs as quickly and efficiently as possible, until a few unpredictably hilarious detours ensue. With his Aunt Glo (Washington) insisting on a proper burial, but an urn of ashes already in his hand, Gil gets thrown into a car by his best friend (Newell).
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All hollas and hallelujahs
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 06-14-24
- Wild with Happy
- By: Colman Domingo
- Narrated by: Colman Domingo, Alex Newell, Sharon Washington, Tyler James Williams, Oprah Winfrey
Loved! Loved! Loved!
Reviewed: 07-19-24
It was sooooooooo GOOD! I was looking for more! Wonderful listen & lesson…Good from start to finish! Funny, endearing, well written and directed!
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The Castaways
- A Novel
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Katie Hale
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, they mysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well as three couples who have long been their closest friends. Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts and emotions, and the MacAvoys' six grieving friends find themselves unprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret.
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Fun listening
- By Steph on 08-12-09
- The Castaways
- A Novel
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Katie Hale
Too Slow
Reviewed: 07-15-24
The book went in and out of the lives friends, frienemies, cheating spouses and grief…with a touch of mystery. Just took too long to get where it was going.
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
- Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Loved it!
Reviewed: 04-26-24
Wonderful book! A great Summer listen..M. Streep’s voice is captivating…takes you way with the writer, Enjoy!
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Empty Vows
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss, Tracey Conyer Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart and endless generosity. But she feels it's past time she rewarded herself—especially when upstanding Hubert Wiggins tragically loses his wife and son. Making herself indispensable, yet discouraged by Hubert’s lack of romantic interest, Jessie cooks up a deception she knows will make pious Hubert do right by her....
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POOR NARRATION
- By Raven B. on 06-18-22
- Empty Vows
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss, Tracey Conyer Lee
Really Good Sequel!
Reviewed: 03-21-24
Story line was good, from start to finish…very entertaining and funny. Good characters. Matched the time period.
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Worthy
- By: Jada Pinkett Smith
- Narrated by: Jada Pinkett Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, Worthy chronicles her life.
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Budda
- By Tamiko on 10-18-23
- Worthy
- By: Jada Pinkett Smith
- Narrated by: Jada Pinkett Smith
Wonderful!❤️
Reviewed: 01-13-24
I love the journey of self -reflection, love, destruction, healing, surrender, and accountability! Sharing of one’s life good & bad is never but it was told with such honesty and courage.❤️❤️
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The Husband's Secret
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive....
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Soap Opera Digest
- By FanB14 on 02-06-14
- The Husband's Secret
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Loved it!
Reviewed: 12-30-23
Wonderful story telling! The author takes you on a ride with really good characters and surprising interactions.
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Always the Last to Know
- By: Kristan Higgins
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington, Amy Rubinate, Xe Sands, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost 50 years, are testy and bored with each other...who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters - Barb's favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. It was fine. It was enough. Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold....
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Life is messy
- By Deed on 06-13-20
- Always the Last to Know
- By: Kristan Higgins
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington, Amy Rubinate, Xe Sands, Graham Winton
Good Read!
Reviewed: 10-13-23
Was about to stop listening and decided to keep going…glad I did, it was full of family dynamics that we all go through…bringing forgiveness and family. Loved it!
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Mrs. Wiggins
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Shari Peele
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama - and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm, elegance, and religious devotion makes her the perfect partner in lies....
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Really enjoyed
- By avidreader on 04-07-21
- Mrs. Wiggins
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Shari Peele
Loved it!
Reviewed: 10-13-23
A really good read…loved the highs and lows. It was sad and funny all at the same time.
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