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Narrated by:
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Imogen Church
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Steve West
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By:
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Nick Spalding
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The hardest part of death is learning how to live.
The last thing Alice expects to see at her husband’s graveside on his birthday is a giant, talking frog. On closer inspection, it’s a grown man dressed as Kermit.
Turns out Alice’s husband is buried next to Ben’s older brother Harry, who—as a parting practical joke in his will—insisted that Ben visit his grave each year, on this specific day, dressed in an as-yet-undisclosed pageant of embarrassing fancy dress.
With little but their grief and this one day in common, Alice and Ben form a very special, very strange friendship, meeting just once a year: same day, same time, same place—different silly costume. As the years pass and grief alters, can their unique bond help them cope with the hardest part of death: life?
©2024 by Nick Spalding. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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- Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Dr. Jonas Cullen has spent his career as a groundbreaking physicist defying the odds. But on the best night of his life—the night his wife, Amanda, tells him they’re finally having a baby—everything is taken away when a tragic car accident claims the lives of Amanda and their unborn child. Gutted by pain, Jonas sets out to find a way to bring back Amanda—or rather, find a parallel universe in which she’s still alive. But that’s easier said than done. As Jonas comes to understand all too well, the universe favors certain outcomes…and Amanda’s death is one of them.
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A Struggle to Finish
- By Mark D on 10-04-24
By: Marc Guggenheim
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Veridian Sterling Fakes It
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Gooch Hummer
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Freshly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, Veridian Sterling is ready to hang her work in any of the countless New York galleries that are sure to give her a show. The problem is only one will, and they’re not interested in her art so much as her personal assistant skills. No glitz, no glam, and definitely none of the money she needs to help her struggling mother finally realize her dream of starting her own business after having sacrificed everything for Veri to go to art school.
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Great start but needs an editor
- By Amazon Customer on 12-09-24
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Bitter Passage
- A Novel
- By: Colin Mills
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In May 1845, Sir John Franklin, commander of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England to seek a navigable route across the top of the Americas. He and his 128 men never returned. Four years later, Royal Navy Lieutenant Frederick Robinson and Assistant Surgeon Edward Adams are determined to find the men missing in the Arctic. While they are united in purpose, they are divided in ambition. The pious and idealistic Adams strives to save his boyhood hero. Robinson hungers for promotion through the Admiralty ranks.
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Great follow up reading to The Terror
- By Jen C on 04-19-25
By: Colin Mills
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Old Boys
- By: Nick Spalding
- Narrated by: Sam Haft
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Will Fairweather is getting old. His back aches, his bowels misbehave if he eats spicy food and he’s completely lost his sense of rhythm. Life has taught him not to take risks, but even that hasn’t stopped his marriage hitting the rocks too. The last thing he needs is a surprise call from Red Fairweather, devil-may-care rock god—and the father Will hasn’t seen for thirty years. If Will’s old before his time, Red’s the boy who won’t grow up.
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A unique and heartfelt story.
- By SteveF on 06-13-25
By: Nick Spalding
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When We Were Widows
- A Novel
- By: Annette Chavez Macias
- Narrated by: Karla Serrato, Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Since her husband’s death six months ago, Yesica Diaz-Taylor seems to be taking her grief in stride. Then an angry outburst at work shatters the illusion. Her mandated support group counseling doesn’t help much. Yesica has always kept her feelings close, so even when an unlikely friendship blossoms with the group’s facilitator, she still has reasons for holding back. She’s just not ready to share.
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Enjoyed the story though I felt the cultural aspects were somewhat overblown!
- By Reading Grandma on 11-08-24
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Love...From Both Sides
- Love…, Book 1
- By: Nick Spalding
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds, Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes, the hardest part of finding love is keeping a straight face...For Jamie Newman, being a single guy isn't proving to be much fun, especially when confronted with a sexually belligerent divorcee and a goddess so far out of his league she might as well be a different species.
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Delightful and funny
- By Wayne on 08-06-15
By: Nick Spalding
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The Curious Secrets of Yesterday
- By: Namrata Patel
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected to carry on the ancestral tradition from her family’s Salem spice shop. Restless and reluctant, Tulsi yearns to follow her own path—destiny has other plans. When Tulsi finds a letter written by her grandmother, addressed and never sent, that speaks of a long-ago betrayal, she decides to unravel the mystery as a distraction. But Tulsi stumbles into much more than she bargained for.
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loved it!
- By Paula Kerth on 11-27-24
By: Namrata Patel
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Going Green
- By: Nick Spalding
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Ellie Cooke. When it comes to all things environmental she’s, well, a bit "green". It’s not that she doesn’t care about things like climate change and plastic pollution, it’s just that life has always got in the way of that sort of thing. But when the PR firm Ellie works for is taken over by keen environmentalist Nolan Reece, it’s clear that if she wants to save her job, she’s going to have to get serious about being green—or face being recycled.
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Another Spaulding Hit!
- By Sharlotte on 12-09-20
By: Nick Spalding
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Life, Loss, and Puffins
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Jess Nahikian
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Freakishly smart. That’s the unwelcome box Ru Evans is put into for life. After all, she taught herself Euclidean geometry at age seven, has an eidetic memory, and is about to enter college at thirteen years old. Boarding at a house near campus 150 miles from home, Ru meets seventeen-year-old Gabriel, an outsider himself who, like Ru, has trouble making friends—until they form a fast sibling-like bond. Finding a relatable someone in the world to talk to is a first for both of them.
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Took a bit, but I got there
- By An Amazon Customer on 09-29-24
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The Sea House
- By: Louise Douglas
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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When Elisabeth Quemener dies she leaves a small parcel with the instructions that it must only be opened by Astrid Oake. The trouble is, no one knows who Astrid Oake is… Elisabeth’s family turn to Touissants detective agency for help but, when Mila Shepherd and Carter Jackson try to track Astrid down, their frustration soon mounts. Their only clue is a photo of two young women holding the hands of a tiny child. The women are smiling but Mila is haunted by the sadness in their eyes. Is this Astrid and Elisabeth and if so, who is the child?
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I enjoyed the narrator.
- By Anna on 04-26-25
By: Louise Douglas
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Fat Chance
- By: Nick Spalding
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds, Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Zoe and Greg Milton, a married couple who have let themselves go a bit. Zoe was a stunner in her college days, but the intervening decades have added five stone, and removed most of her self-esteem. Greg's rugby-playing days are well and truly behind him, thanks to countless pints of beer and chicken curry. When Elise, a radio DJ and Zoe's best friend, tells them about a new competition, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn their lives around.
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Absolutely hilarious
- By jami on 04-29-15
By: Nick Spalding
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My Darling Boy
- By: Helen Cooper
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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In a close-knit English village, Chrissy and Alice were once best friends. So were their sons, Leo and Robbie. Until the night Leo killed Robbie with a single, devastating punch. Now Leo has gone to prison, Chrissy has lost her pub, and Alice has been pouring her anger into a twisted project . . . As Leo’s parole date approaches, the villagers are incensed and fearful about the prospect of his return. But when Chrissy arrives to collect Leo from prison, he isn’t there. The staff tell her he has already been released, but nobody knows where he’s gone.
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Wish it had been better!
- By Cody Poage on 12-09-24
By: Helen Cooper
One of the best books I've experienced in a long time...
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Such a wonderful story
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I loved it
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It was funny and sad and completely kept me invested in this story
Interesting premise
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Meh
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Grave Talk
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absolutely hilarious
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It’s about helping and healing
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Grave talk
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I’m not crying you are
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