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Lake County
- A Novel
- By: Lori Roy
- Narrated by: Marli Watson, Aaron Shedlock
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Desperate to break free of small-town Florida, Addie Anne Buckley dreams of following in the path of her glamorous aunt Jean—known to the world as Marilyn Monroe. When Aunt Jean plans a trip to Hollywood for Addie’s eighteenth birthday, Addie sees her chance to escape. One thing stands in her way: her boyfriend. Truitt Holt is Addie’s first and only love and will be joining her in California. But days before Addie’s due to leave, Truitt does an about-face and gives her a painful ultimatum: stay and marry him, or they’re through. Addie chooses her dream.
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Meh
- By Melissa on 07-08-24
- Lake County
- A Novel
- By: Lori Roy
- Narrated by: Marli Watson, Aaron Shedlock
Meh
Reviewed: 07-08-24
Slowwwwww. Felt it was a misrepresentation and Marilyn was added to bait the reader in. Skip it.
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Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist encourages her to take a 90-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting. Rachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her.
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Funny and uncomfortable
- By Kayla on 04-01-21
- Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
Synopsis information completely misleading…
Reviewed: 07-04-23
Skipped many chapters. I could barley get through this book…. Subject matter not for everyone.
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The Last Thing He Told Me
- A Novel
- By: Laura Dave
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was.
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The worst book I have ever heard
- By Amazon Customer on 05-14-21
- The Last Thing He Told Me
- A Novel
- By: Laura Dave
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Meh
Reviewed: 05-26-23
It was just ok. I finished it so I could watch the miniseries. Wouldn’t recommend, not worth the credit in my opinion.
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