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Narrated by:
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Erin Napier
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Ben Napier
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From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because everything we need in life to be happy is within our grasp.
Long before their hugely popular TV show, an expanding family, or demolition day on their dream home, Erin began keeping a daily Online journal to help her stay focused on the positive and count her blessings in life. She never expected that her depictions of small-town life in the tiny swath of Mississippi where she Ben call home would catch the eye of a television producer and set them off on the journey of a lifetime.
Make Something Good Today offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of a couple that America has come to know and love for their easy humor, adoring relationship, and ability to utterly transform a place into something beautiful and personal. This is the poignant story of how Erin and Ben took a small, tight-knit town into their own hands (literally) and used ingenuity, community, and authenticity to rebuild a once-thriving American Main Street. And how, by combining Ben’s carpentry skills with Erin’s design eye, Home Town is making it clear to us all that small-town living can feel as big as you make it.
Complete with family photographs, Erin’s hand-painted sketches, and never-before-heard personal stories, this inspirational memoir reminds us all not to give up hope that great love stories are possible, big things can bloom in small towns, and there is always magic in the ordinary if you know where to look for it.
Download the accompanying reference guide.©2018 Ben Napier, Erin Napier (P)2018 Simon & Schuster AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation - few of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great representation of the time
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By: Alysia Abbott
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The Waiting
- The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up
- By: Cathy LaGrow, Cindy Coloma - contributor
- Narrated by: Pamela Klein
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 243
In the summer of 1928, sixteen-year-old Minka was looking forward to a sewing class picnic. This would be a rare chance to put aside farm chores, don a pretty dress, and enjoy an outing with other girls. It would be a day to remember. And it was - but not in the way Minka had dreamed. Cornered by a stranger in the woods, the young girl was assaulted. Minka still believed that the stork brought babies; she would not discover for months that she was pregnant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating and fantastic
- By John alexander on 10-03-19
By: Cathy LaGrow, and others
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Bettyville
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Story4 out of 5 stars 332
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
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By: George Hodgman
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Nora and Theresa Flynn are 21 and 17 when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan - a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narration ruined it
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Apocalypse Child
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For the first 13 years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God. The group's nomadic existence was based on the belief that, as God's chosen people, they would be saved in the impending apocalypse that would envelop the rest of the world in 1993. Flor would be 13 years old. The group's charismatic leader, Father David, kept the family on the move, from Los Angeles to Bangkok to Chicago, where they would eventually disband, leaving Flor to make sense of the foreign world of mainstream society around her.
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A truly unique background and story
- By Asaph on 04-13-18
By: Flor Edwards
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Ordinary Light
- A Memoir
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Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Simply spoken - poetic
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By: Tracy K. Smith
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Wildflower
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Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross-country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today.
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Hold the shrieking !
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By: Drew Barrymore
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A Fine Romance
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Until I Say Good-Bye
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Susan Spencer-Wendel's Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy is a moving and inspirational memoir by a woman who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After Spencer-Wendel, a celebrated journalist at the Palm Beach Post, learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, she embarks on several adventures, traveling to several countries and sharing special experiences with loved ones.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Until I Say Good-Bye is a paradox for me.
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Grief Cottage
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from best-selling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. After his mother's death, 11-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there 30 years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Character story or ghost story ?
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By: Gail Godwin
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Very Valentine
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 92
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The adventures of an extraordinary and unforgettable woman as she attempts to rescue her family’s struggling shoe business and find love at the same time, Very Valentine sweeps the listener from the streets of Manhattan to the picturesque hills of Italy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Meh... that's all I can say
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By: Adriana Trigiani
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The Song and the Silence
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- By: Yvette Johnson
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"Have to keep that smile", said Booker Wright in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time Wright was a waiter in a Whites-only restaurant and a local business owner who would become an unwitting icon of the civil rights movement. For he did the unthinkable: Before a national audience, he described what life was truly like for the Black people of Greenwood, Mississippi.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceeded every expectation
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By: Yvette Johnson
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The Color of Rain
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When unexpected grief brings two families together, how do they start their journey to healing? Join Michael and Gina Spehn--bestselling authors and founders of the New Day Foundation--as they tell their story of resilience, remembrance, and reliance on their shared faith.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
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Chicken Soup for the Soul - Find Your Happiness
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- By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4 out of 5 stars 42
What makes you happy? Others share how they found their passion, purpose, and joy in life in these 101 personal and exciting stories that are sure to inspire and encourage listeners to find their own happiness. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness will encourage listeners to pursue their dreams, find their passion and seek joy in their life with its 101 personal and inspiring stories. This book continues Chicken Soup for the Soul’s focus on inspiration and hope, reminding us that we all can find our own happiness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I got even more depressed
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The Book of Separation
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Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family. But over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and at age 40 she could no longer breathe in what had become a suffocating existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So many parallels
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Beer Money
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 213
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 192
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Story4 out of 5 stars 191
Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great privilege: shopping trips to London and New York, lunches served by black-tied waiters at the Regency Hotel, and a house filled with precious antiques, which she was forbidden to touch. Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company had become the largest private beer fortune in America and a brand emblematic of the American dream itself; while Stroh was coming of age, the Stroh family fortune was estimated to be worth $700 million.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Beer boring
- By Richard E. Putt Jr. on 05-22-16
By: Frances Stroh
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Let's All Be Brave
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Annie F. Downs admits she's not exactly the bravest girl in the world. She still cries sometimes when she leaves her parents' home in Georgia, she's never jumped out of a plane, and she rides roller coasters only to impress boys. But Annie knows that courage resides inside each and every one of us, and she's on a mission to triumph over her own fears while encouraging listeners to do the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly inspired
- By Gregory Wade Odell on 06-21-23
By: Annie F. Downs
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Designed to Last
- Our Journey of Building an Intentional Home, Growing in Faith, and Finding Joy in the In-Between
- By: Ashley Petrone, Dino Petrone
- Narrated by: Ashley Petrone, Dino Petrone
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Over half a million listeners have joined the journey of Instagram sensations Ashley and Dino Petrone. Through their popular online community Arrows and Bow, Ashley and Dino share their adventures, mishaps, and joys of building a life together using an unexpected element: design.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Real-Est Couple Award
- By Emily Pinsky on 11-20-24
By: Ashley Petrone, and others
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Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again
- The Way of Living Generously
- By: David Green, Bill High
- Narrated by: Milton Bagby
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Join self-made billionaire David Green, founder of America's craft store giant Hobby Lobby, as he shares the key to building a powerful legacy: Generosity. In Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again, Green unpacks time-tested principles that will help you reap the benefits of generosity for multiple generations to come. In 1970, David Green began making picture frames in his garage. With hard work, he and his wife, Barbara, turned that humble beginning into the world's largest privately owned arts-and-crafts retailer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quick listen on the topic of generosity
- By Jericho on 06-28-17
By: David Green, and others
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Before I Saw You
- By: Emily Houghton
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe, Daniel Ings
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Alice Gunnersley and Alfie Mack sleep just a few feet apart from one another. They talk for hours every day. And they’ve never seen each other face-to-face. After being in terrible accidents, the two now share the same ward as long-term residents of St. Francis’ Hospital. Although they don’t get off to the best start, the close quarters (and Alfie’s persistence to befriend everyone he meets) brings them closer together. Pretty soon no one can make Alice laugh as hard as Alfie does, and Alfie feels like he’s finally found a true confidante in Alice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!
- By SB on 05-06-21
By: Emily Houghton
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Home Waters
- A Chronicle of Family and a River
- By: John N. Maclean
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spirit of his father's beloved classic, A River Runs through It, comes John N. Maclean’s true chronicle of his family and their bond with Montana's Blackfoot River - a profound and beautiful story about the power of place to bind generations, past and present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Real Paul Maclean and Much More
- By Jeff Antalik on 06-07-21
By: John N. Maclean
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Who Killed the Fonz?
- By: James Boice
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 21
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Richard Cunningham is having a really bad Sunday. He gets a phone call that his best friend from childhood back in Milwaukee, back when everyone called him Richie, is dead. Arthur Fonzarelli. The Fonz. Lost control of his motorcycle while crossing a bridge and plummeted into the water below. Two days of searching and still no body, no trace of his trademark leather jacket. Richard flies back for the memorial service, only to discover Fonzie’s death was no accident - it was murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator sells "Happy Days" mash-up!
- By Robert Jason on 02-27-19
By: James Boice
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Still Life
- The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living
- By: Rebecca Pacheco
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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From renowned yogi meditation teacher and author of Do Your Om Thing Rebecca Pacheco comes Still Life, offering an in-depth exploration of mindfulness and meditation misconceptions to arm the listener with inspirational and practical tools for cultivating a consistent mindfulness practice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ought to be required reading
- By Kacie Steinmetz on 10-14-21
By: Rebecca Pacheco
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- Hope
- 11-26-18
Loved it!
I loved this book so much! It made me both smile and brought tears to my eyes. It has given me a fresh perspective on my own life, how I view and live it. I absolutely recommend this book to anyone that just needs to hear “something good”!
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- Jennifer H.
- 10-15-21
Amazing couple with a beautiful story
I love Erin and Ben and their show. But hearing them tell their story has made me love them more. They are a beautiful, humble, down-to-earth couple. They remind you that there are good people in the world and to remember the beauty in the little things in life.
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- Amber G.
- 03-11-21
Love this!!
This audiobook was so great! Loved hearing their story! So touching! A must read if you like the show!
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- Jackie White
- 10-20-18
Kismet
I rarely review books. Mostly because I am rarely surprised by how much I love a book. Despite the fact that I don’t have a lot in common with the authors, I related to this memoir in a kismet kind of way. I recently bought an old house and the way these two talk about old homes makes me relate on a cellular level. I left this book feeling positive and warm. Anyone who loves small towns, old homes, and loves stories should read this book. It will quickly become one of your favorite stories.
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- king fan
- 05-26-20
Love them & their show even more now
Love their story and their wonderful outlook on life! A definite must listen! Especially since Ben & Erin read it themselves.
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- Danielle
- 04-30-19
Beautiful. The world needs more of this.
A beautiful story made even more warm and loving hearing it in the author's voices.
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- Melinda Reece
- 02-19-20
What A Loving Magnificent Couple
I feel in love with Erin and Ben through their beloved TV show Home Town. This book gives more insight to into both of them, more than watching their show can. Such a joy to listen to them tell it all!
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- Debby Withawye
- 07-10-20
Sweet story, Easy read
Refreshing story of old-fashioned values that are timeless. Love their zest for time-worn Americana, framily, family, friends, neighbors and God.
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- Susan Depalma
- 04-03-19
Sweetest and most authentic “memoir”
I was so disappointed when this audiobook had a short lull....and then it came: “epilogue”. I could have listened for hours and would relish hearing their insights on various subjects. God has given them a very precious gift. As I listened, chapter upon chapter, I was inspired yet my soul was lifted up. Cancer has me down, and our house has been sold, yet I can see the little dreams and changes Erin suggests. My new-found creativity has found a new outlet.
I have truly enjoyed watching HOME TOWN, now my favorite TV program, but this audiobook adds a deeper layer to the lives of Erin and Ben. I’m so glad that they were the narrators and even if I were just reading instead of listening, I would have heard their voices loud and clear Their passion, dreams, yet humility are displayed at every round.
Hope you are working on your next book, Erin and Ben.
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- kenny
- 03-30-21
BEAUTIFUL story of love, faithfulness and purpose
This book was so easy to listen to as each word spoken by Erin and Ben was said with such tenderness and meaning.
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