Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
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Melanie Crawley
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Olivia Ford
About this listen
A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food
Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard’s health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren—which Jenny never had—Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes.
Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence. But that independence, and the stress of the competition, starts to unearth memories buried decades ago. Chocolate teacakes remind her of a furtive errand involving a wedding ring; sugared doughnuts call up a stranger’s kind act; a simple cottage loaf brings back the moment her life changed forever.
With her baking star rising, Jenny struggles to keep a lid on that first secret—a long-concealed deceit that threatens to shatter the very foundations of her marriage. It’s the only time in six decades that she’s kept something from Bernard. By putting herself in the limelight, has Jenny created a recipe for disaster?
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“Ford’s writing is sentimental without being saccharine, and the scenes from Jenny’s youth are, much like Jenny’s pastry, deliciously layered. . . For anyone who’s ever wished they could read, instead of watch, reality TV.” —Kirkus
“This novel is perfectly baked, utterly delicious, and completely moreish. Mrs. Quinn is destined to become the nation’s favourite.” —Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
“Soul-enriching….From its enticing setting to its perfect ending, Mrs. Quinn’s Rise To Fame is absolutely marvelous. Like a great dessert, you’ll wish you could come back for more.” —J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest
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Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO in the publishing industry. But first she needs to take the next step up that ladder with a promotion that her boorish and sexist boss wants to thwart. Seeking a base of support, Bernadette joins a feminist women's book club at the New York Public Library, and soon, she's inspiring her fellow members to challenge the male gatekeepers and decades of ingrained sexism in their workplaces and pursue their personal and professional dreams.
By: Eliza Knight
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The Brutal Strike: Codename: Ophis
- Apex Tactical, Book 1
- By: Candice Wright
- Narrated by: John William Maddux, Camille Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
It should have been an in-and-out job. Find the girl and bring her home. But we're not the only ones who came for her. And when our rescue mission goes horribly wrong, we find ourselves stranded and alone in the unforgiving jungle. With death stalking our heels, every day becomes a battle for survival. A battle not all of us will win.
By: Candice Wright
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Roaring Twenties Magic Books 1-3
- By: Allie Therin
- Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
- Length: 26 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
This bundle includes Proper Scoundrels, Once a Rogue, and Viscounts & Villainy.
By: Allie Therin
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A Hero Born
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Jin Yong
- Narrated by: Carolyn Oldershaw, Daniel York Loh
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 366
After his father, a Song patriot, was murdered, Guo Jing and his mother fled to the plains and joined Ghengis Khan and his people. Loyal, humble, and driven, he learned all he could from the warlord and his army in hopes of one day joining them in their cause. But what Guo Jing doesn’t know is that he’s destined to battle an opponent that will challenge him in every way imaginable and with a connection to his past that no one envisioned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good
- By Heather Kamine on 05-15-20
By: Jin Yong
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Venom Island
- An Exiled Sector Standalone
- By: Lexi C. Foss
- Narrated by: Julian Durant, Amelia Hugh
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Welcome to the Exiled Sector, home to the most lethal Alphas on the planet. These beings don't play nice with others. They've been banished. And a plane full of Omegas just crashed-landed on their isles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Venom Island
- By Iliana on 04-15-25
By: Lexi C. Foss
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Twisted Heathens
- A Dark Reverse Harem Romance (Blackwood Institute, Book 1)
- By: J Rose
- Narrated by: Bridget Bordeaux, Grant Armstrong
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Murderer. Unhinged. Remorseless. Insane. I’ve been called it all while rotting away in a maximum security psych ward, imprisoned for my crimes. When I’m given a chance to escape this hell, it’s an offer I can’t refuse. I’m transferred to Blackwood Institute, purgatory for the dangerous and disturbed. The deal is simple. Complete the three-year experimental program and you’re free to leave. I have no such intentions. People like me; we’re born to die. There’s no life for me out there. I’ll do whatever it takes to end my pitiful existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Twisted & dark
- By MichelleO on 07-04-25
By: J Rose
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Everything's Coming Up Rosie
- A Novel
- By: Courtney Walsh
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Rosie Waterman has one dream: to become a working actor. But lately, that hasn't been working out. When she loses her apartment and her job on the same day, she does what she always does--puts herself out there, ready to find the next big thing. But a trip home makes her realize that while she's been struggling to make this dream come true, all her friends have become real adults with careers and weddings and babies on the way. Rosie's been at this for years, and she has nothing to show for it. But how does she simply let go of her dream?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great performance, frustrating story
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-25
By: Courtney Walsh
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The Subway Girls
- A Novel
- By: Susie Orman Schnall
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 89
In 1949, dutiful and ambitious Charlotte's dream of a career in advertising is shattered when her father demands she help out with the family business. Meanwhile, Charlotte is swept into the glamorous world of the Miss Subways beauty contest, which promises irresistible opportunities with its Park Avenue luster and local fame status. Nearly 70 years later, outspoken advertising executive Olivia is pitching the NYC subways account in a last ditch effort to save her job at an advertising agency. Then the charismatic boss she’s secretly in love with pits her against her misogynistic nemesis....
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2 out of 5 stars
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So disappointing....
- By RueRue on 10-23-18
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Say You'll Be Mine
- A Novel
- By: Naina Kumar
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4 out of 5 stars 38
Meghna Raman’s parents wanted her to be an engineer, but instead she’s followed her passion, becoming a theater teacher and aspiring playwright. But when she discovers that her beloved writing partner, best friend, and secret crush, Seth, is suddenly engaged—and not to her—she realizes he’s about to become the one-that-got-away. Even worse, he’s asked her to be his best man. And worse than that, she’s agreed. Determined to try and move on and relieve a bit of the pressure she feels, Meghna agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration
- By Madhuri on 12-21-24
By: Naina Kumar
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Sia
- By: Eden O'Neill
- Narrated by: Lacy Laurel, Gideon Frost
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
My name is Sia Reynolds. I’m a girl with an unsettling past, and the outlook of my future seems even bleaker. I need a job to get my life back on track so when my best friend (and only friend) Lettie suggests I work for her more than abrasive father I have little choice but to take her up on the offer. I had no idea that meant committing to a life of secrecy bathed in blood…
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5 out of 5 stars
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Up, up, up!
- By Kendall Allen on 06-25-25
By: Eden O'Neill
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How to Age Disgracefully
- A Novel
- By: Clare Pooley
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 766
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 721
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 721
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Aging imperfections
- By Susan Love on 08-07-24
By: Clare Pooley
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Imogen, Obviously
- By: Becky Albertalli
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kinnunen
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
Lili drops a tiny queer bombshell: she's told all her college friends that Imogen and Lili used to date. And none of them know that Imogen is a raging hetero—not even Lili’s best friend, Tessa. Of course, the more time Imogen spends with chaotic, freckle-faced Tessa, the more she starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with. . .
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sweet, lgbtq+ YA story
- By Leena on 07-01-23
By: Becky Albertalli
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Just Beachy
- By: Wendy Wax
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 17
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 17
After losing her long-time acting gig on the hit show Murder 101, Sydney Ryan decides she needs a break from Hollywood politics. She heads to Treasure Island, Florida where her grandmother has been visiting and now refuses to leave. Sydney’s plan to lie low for a bit quickly goes awry though, as she is swept up in her grandmother’s now flourishing social life—Grand not only bought a new house in Casas de Flores, she’s also helping her neighbor Myra open a bookstore in Pass-a-Grille.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a fan
- By Tammy Fischer on 06-29-25
By: Wendy Wax
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Heart Lamp
- Selected Stories
- By: Deepa Bhasthi - translator, Banu Mushtaq
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Vikas Adam
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.
By: Deepa Bhasthi - translator, and others
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The Memory Library
- By: Kate Storey
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond, Imogen Wilde
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-two years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who I want to be
- By Kindle Customer on 08-11-24
By: Kate Storey
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A Treachery of Swans
- By: A. B. Poranek
- Narrated by: Amalia Vitale
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Auréal and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a plan. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one singular task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal the king’s crown, an artefact with enough power to restore magic. But to enter the palace, she must assume the identity of a noblewoman. She chooses Marie d’Odette: famed for her beauty, a rumored candidate for future queen…and Odile’s childhood-friend-turned-sworn-enemy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Drama, love, redemption, healing, and wonderful gayness
- By Nana B on 07-03-25
By: A. B. Poranek
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Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
- A Novel
- By: Clare Pooley
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 921
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 919
Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Constant-Reader and Terribly-Lonely-Teenager. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do. Then one morning, the man she calls Smart-But-Sexist-Manspreader chokes on a grape right in front of her. He’d have died were it not for the timely intervention of Sanjay, a nurse, who gives him the Heimlich maneuver.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful friendship story
- By Barbara S on 10-17-22
By: Clare Pooley
Sweet and touching
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Have you/your family been touched by adoption? This book is for you.
Do you enjoy stories of love that endures for decades? This book is for you.
A charming and touching story. Give it a listen.
Lovely in every way
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Wonderful story!
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Mrs Quinn takes the cake! 🎂
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Highly recommend
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Love
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Stunning
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Cozy & unexpected heartwarming storyline
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Characters
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Such a pleasant listen!
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