Laura M.
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Before We Were Innocent
- By: Ella Berman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 11 hrs
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Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline’s death. But that didn’t stop the media from ripping apart their teenage lives like vultures. While the girls were never convicted, Joni, ever the opportunist, capitalized on her newfound infamy to become a motivational speaker. Bess, on the other hand, resolved to make her life as small and controlled as possible so she wouldn’t risk losing everything all over again. And it almost worked.
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What happened to the ending?
- By Amazon Customer on 02-07-24
- Before We Were Innocent
- By: Ella Berman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Easy story
Reviewed: 01-15-25
Overall this book was decent. It wasn’t particularly thrilling, it didn’t really build up the characters and it didn’t have an interesting end. It was fine entertainment for my walks to the gym.
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The Silent Patient
- By: Alex Michaelides
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety.
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Librarian vs. Reader: Silent Patient
- By Alicia Herrington on 02-06-19
- The Silent Patient
- By: Alex Michaelides
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey
Overall a good easy listen
Reviewed: 10-31-24
This story is easy to follow and keeps you interested the entire time. It’s not unnecessarily complex and gets straight to the story. I personally don’t like the overuse of adjectives or droning on for too long so this was perfect!
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Chasing a Flawed Sun
- By: Daniel McGhee
- Narrated by: Frank Gerard
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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This is a true story. A transparent story of the life of a young man in America, who, like many of our lost youth, found his way into the drug culture. This story is an autopsy into the mind, heart, and soul of an addict. It begins at childhood and takes us through the thoughts, turmoil, and inner conflicts of a person lost in the undercurrent of addiction, and ends in a climax of self-discovery and realization. It is a gripping tale of a suburban youth and his journey through the streets of Baltimore, institutions, prisons, addiction, and worst of all, his own mind.
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don't bother
- By Lindsay on 04-24-21
- Chasing a Flawed Sun
- By: Daniel McGhee
- Narrated by: Frank Gerard
Just ok
Reviewed: 09-17-24
It was interesting to hear how heroin saved his life. The end got a little too preachy and drawn out. There were some points in the book where it almost came across like he was bragging about how horrible he was as opposed to feeling remorseful. I didn’t mind reading it, but wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to others.
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Lie to Me
- By: Molly McAdams
- Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Tim Paige
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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If my childhood taught me anything, it was to survive. Now I have a deep-rooted mistrust of people and a wall of steel and ice surrounding my heart. So, when Reed Ryan steps into my life, I know I need to keep him far away. He’s everything I grew up hating. Fighting. Fleeing. Devastatingly handsome, he looks like a drunken regret and has heartbreak written over every inch of his body - literally. He’s the quintessential bad boy...and he’s a cop. But the man is my undoing.
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All the feels!
- By Michell Casper on 06-23-21
- Lie to Me
- By: Molly McAdams
- Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Tim Paige
A fine easy read
Reviewed: 05-01-24
I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this book to anyone…but it was fine to listen to while doing other things. There is nothing intriguing or surprising about the story and the writing is elementary. Pretty bland when it came to plot and the mediocre steamy parts didn’t make up for the lack of story.
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Flock
- The Ravenhood, Book 1
- By: Kate Stewart
- Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Triple Falls wasn’t at all what it seemed, nor were the men that swept me under their wing. But in order to keep them, I had to be in on their secrets. Secrets that cost us everything to keep. That’s the novelty of fiction versus reality. You can’t re-live your own love story, because by the time you’ve realized you’re living it, it’s over. At least that was the case for me and the men I trusted my foolish heart to. Looking back, I’m convinced I willed my story into existence, due to my illness, and all were punished.
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Y’ALL!
- By Justin McNulty on 05-14-21
- Flock
- The Ravenhood, Book 1
- By: Kate Stewart
- Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden
Wow Steamy
Reviewed: 03-11-24
Super steamy thriller! Starting the next book immediately! Looking forward to finding out how this entanglement unfolds.
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Hidden Valley Road
- Inside the Mind of an American Family
- By: Robert Kolker
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their 12 children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins—aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the 10 Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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A story you've never heard before
- By Kelley Cox on 04-19-20
- Hidden Valley Road
- Inside the Mind of an American Family
- By: Robert Kolker
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Sad and intriguing
Reviewed: 02-06-23
This book does a great job at an inside look into a family and the complex challenges they all faced regarding mental illness.
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Tell Her Story
- A Novella
- By: Margot Hunt
- Narrated by: Dakota Fanning, LJ Ganser, Vikas Adam, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Paige Barrett was living her dream as a journalist in New York City, racking up bylines as a staff writer at The Razor, a cutting-edge online magazine. But when she’s suddenly fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, she finds herself back home in the quaint seaside town of Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister’s guesthouse. Restless and itching for something meaningful to occupy her time, she decides to launch a true-crime podcast about the death of Jessica Cady, a beloved teacher who died mysteriously 20 years earlier.
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How to blow up your life in 1 easy step
- By Kindle Customer on 05-09-22
- Tell Her Story
- A Novella
- By: Margot Hunt
- Narrated by: Dakota Fanning, LJ Ganser, Vikas Adam, Emily Bauer, Ann Osmond, Fred Berman, Jonathan Davis, Laura Darrell
Pretty predictable
Reviewed: 02-06-23
It was a fine story, short and easy. It was obvious from the very beginning what would happen.
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Verity
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.
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intriguing but skip if triggered by child abuse
- By Amazon Customer on 05-16-19
- Verity
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon
WILD!
Reviewed: 10-20-22
This book is absolutely incredible! I couldn’t put it down! I was hanging on to every word. It was the perfect combo of sexy and suspense with a mind-blowing ending…I still don’t even know what to think.
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The Path Made Clear
- Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
- By: Oprah Winfrey
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance. The audiobook’s ten chapters are organized to help you recognize the important milestones along the road to self-discovery, laying out what you really need in order to achieve personal contentment, and what life’s detours are there to teach us.
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My life can never be the same!
- By Neidra Davis on 03-29-19
- The Path Made Clear
- Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
- By: Oprah Winfrey
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey, full cast
Incredible!
Reviewed: 08-15-22
This book doesn’t particularly say anything you haven’t heard before, but it is a beautiful reminder about the power of thought and manifesting. I imagine I will listen to this several more times throughout my lifetime.
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The Sun Does Shine
- By: Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with an incompetent defense attorney and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in despairing silence.
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DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
- By MUDDBONE on 04-29-18
Heartbreaking
Reviewed: 07-17-22
This book was really difficult to digest because of the injustice that Anthony had to endure. What makes is worse is knowing he was/is not alone, but one of many. Even though his outlook on life is remarkable, it’s a lot to process. I would buy this book a 100 more times to support him.
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