The Bookshop of Second Chances
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Ell Potter
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Jackie Fraser
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A woman desperate to turn a new page heads to the Scottish coast and finds herself locked in a battle of wills with an infuriatingly aloof bookseller in this utterly heartwarming debut, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over.
“Humor and charm abound.... [This] love story hits the spot.” (Publishers Weekly)
Thea Mottram is having a bad month. She’s been let go from her office job with no notice - and to make matters even worse, her husband of nearly twenty years has decided to leave her for one of her friends. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn’t know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great uncle in Scotland has passed away, leaving her his home and a hefty antique book collection, she decides to leave Sussex for a few weeks. Escaping to a small coastal town where no one knows her seems to be exactly what she needs.
Almost instantly, Thea becomes enamored with the quaint cottage, comforted by its cozy rooms and lovely but neglected garden. The locals in nearby Baldochrie are just as warm, quirky, and inviting. The only person she can’t seem to win over is bookshop owner Edward Maltravers, to whom she hopes to sell her uncle’s book collection. His gruff attitude - fueled by an infamous, long-standing feud with his brother, a local lord - tests Thea’s patience. But bickering with Edward proves oddly refreshing and exciting, leading Thea to develop feelings she hasn’t experienced in a long time. As she follows a thrilling yet terrifying impulse to stay in Scotland indefinitely, Thea realizes that her new life may quickly become just as complicated as the one she was running from.
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A recent transplant from sunny California, life in the London suburbs is not what Taylor Watson expected. Far from the West End shops and city lights she imagined, she finds herself pregnant and lonely, with a husband frequently away on business and only social media to keep her company. It’s only after Taylor joins a book club and a walking group, that she finally starts to make some real-life friends. Before long, Taylor’s hanging out with Anna, Sarah, Simon, and Caroline, but, as her pregnancy progresses and her friendships blossom, a sense of unease develops.
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4 out of 5 stars
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slightly suspenceful
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By: Annabel Kantaria
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Things We Never Said
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 57
When Catherine learns that she is dying, she remembers the words her husband once jokingly uttered and decides to leave him the ultimate posthumous gift: a time capsule containing photographs of their life together along with tape recordings in which she recounts every secret she ever kept, every unspoken thought whether loving or treacherous - the things they never said.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring couple, Boring Book
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By: Nick Alexander
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The Other Son
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Alice has been lying to herself for years, holding fast to the belief that the needs of her family far outweigh her own. But her outwardly successful marriage hides dark secrets, and for much of her life the children were the only reason she stuck around. These days, though her successful banker son lives nearby, his young wife seems to do everything she can to keep Alice at bay. As for Alice's other son, he has always been something of a stranger and has been traveling for so long that Alice isn't even sure what continent he is on anymore.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderfully Done!
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By: Nick Alexander
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Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 118
Sophie Chesterton is London's "It Girl". She knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, and wears all the right clothes...and her rich parents pay for everything. But deep down she suspects that her best "friends" - and her posh lifestyle - are nothing but shallow fakes. Then one evening Sophie's life takes a shocking, drastic turn, and her father decides it's high time for the party girl to make her own way in the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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On par for a Colgan story
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By: Jenny Colgan
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Maybe This Time
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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When Mimi Huish visits her dad at his new home in the Cotswolds, she immediately falls in love with the eccentric and charming inhabitants of his new community. And when she meets the seriously gorgeous, charismatic Cal Mathieson, Mimi begins to daydream about trading in her city life for country living. But even though Mimi and Cal feel like they might be soul mates, fate (and bad timing) keeps pulling them apart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable
- By lapiragua on 01-05-20
By: Jill Mansell
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Don't You Forget About Me
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- By: Mhairi McFarlane
- Narrated by: Madeline Gould
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If there’s anything worse than being fired from the lousiest restaurant in town, it’s coming home early to find your boyfriend in bed with someone else. Reeling from the humiliation of a double dumping in one day, Georgina takes the next job that comes her way - bartender in a newly opened pub. There’s only one problem: It’s run by the guy she fell in love with years ago. And - make that two problems - he doesn’t remember her. At all. But she has fabulous friends and her signature hot pink fur coat...what more could a girl really need?
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Helpful for Sexual Assault Victims
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By: Mhairi McFarlane
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The Flatshare
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- Narrated by: Carrie Hope Fletcher, Kwaku Fortune
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,612
Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He'll only ever be there when she's at the office. In fact, they'll never even have to meet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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so much language!!
- By H H on 10-12-19
By: Beth O'Leary
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The Secret Bridesmaid
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As a professional bridesmaid, Sophie is hired by London brides to be their right-hand woman, posing as a friend but working behind the scenes to help plan the perfect wedding and ensure their big day goes off without a hitch. When she’s hired by Lady Victoria Swann - a former model and “It Girl" of 1970’s London; now the Marchioness of Meade - for the society wedding of the year, it should be a chance for Sophie to prove just how talented she is.
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The Secret Bridesmaid
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In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? At the center of this puzzle is Adrian Wolfe, a successful architect and grief-stricken widower, who, a year after his third wife's death, begins to investigate the cause. As Adrian looks back on their brief but seemingly happy marriage, disturbing secrets begin to surface. The divorces from his two previous wives had been amicable, or so it seemed; his children, all five of them, were resilient as ever, or so he thought.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a mystery
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By: Lisa Jewell
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The Nothing Girl
- The Frogmorton Farm Series, Book 1
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- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,519
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,233
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,230
Getting a life isn't always easy. And hanging on to it is even harder.... Jodi Taylor brings all her comic writing skills to this heartwarming tale of self-discovery. Known as The Nothing Girl because of her severe stutter and chronically low self-confidence, Jenny Dove is only just prevented from ending it all by the sudden appearance of Thomas, a mystical golden horse only she can see. Under his guidance Jenny unexpectedly acquires a husband - the charming and chaotic Russell Checkland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So much better than I expected
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By: Jodi Taylor
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Who's That Girl?
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- Narrated by: Cassie Bradley
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 238
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 237
An achingly funny story from the author of the best-selling You Had Me at Hello. When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues' wedding, all the blame falls on her - turns out that personal popularity in the office is not that different from your school days. Shamed online and ostracised by everyone she knows, Edie's forced to take an extended sabbatical - ghostwriting an autobiography for hot new acting talent, Elliot Owen. Easy, right? Wrong.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very frustrating heroine, disappointing ending
- By Jennie L. Stumm on 09-23-20
By: Mhairi McFarlane
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Clovenhoof
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 429
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 426
Charged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia. Forced to live as a human under the name of Jeremy Clovenhoof, the dark lord not only has to contend with the fact that no one recognizes him or gives him the credit he deserves but also has to put up with the bookish war-gamer next door and the voracious man-eater upstairs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Series Is Phenomenal
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By: Heide Goody, and others
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Lost for Words
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 223
Loveday Cardew prefers books to people, and her job in a York bookshop is her refuge. If you look carefully, you might see the first lines of the novels she loves the most tattooed on her skin, but there are secrets Loveday will never share. Into the bookshop come a poet, a lover, a friend and three mysterious deliveries, each of which stirs unsettling memories she wants to forget. Turning the pages of her past will be the hardest thing Loveday has ever done. Can she trust those around her?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
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The Mum Who’d Had Enough
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Nate Turner has a nice life. He has a steady job as a driving examiner and lives with his wife, Sinead, and son, Flynn, in a lovely house in a good part of town. Yes, it’s a very nice life. Until one morning Nate comes downstairs to find Sinead gone and a note lying on the kitchen table, listing all the many things that Nate does wrong - or doesn’t do at all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wrong title, but great story!!
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By: Fiona Gibson, and others
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A Year at Castle Court
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- Narrated by: Karen Cass
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28
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Sadie is a single mum, nursing a broken heart. Her best friend from childhood, Cat, is burned out from working long hours as a chef in Paris. In need of a change, they decide to invest in their dream - running their own handmade biscuit shop in gorgeous Castle Court, a three-storey food court tucked away behind Chester's bustling streets. They soon discover that Castle Court has its own community - a little haven of delight against the stresses of the outside world. But not everyone welcomes the new business.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Year at Castle Court
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By: Holly Hepburn
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The Scent of You
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35
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A tale of perfumes, exploring life, love, loss and forgiveness - Maggie Alderson's new best seller. Are you still married if you haven't seen your husband for months? Polly's life is great. Her children are away at uni, her glamorous mother - still modelling at 85 - is happily settled in a retirement village, and her perfume blog is taking off. Then her husband announces he needs some space and promptly vanishes. As Polly grapples with her bewildering situation, she clings to a few new friends to keep her going.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Okay for a light read
- By Robin on 10-26-17
By: Maggie Alderson
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The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane
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- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
Take a trip to the Yorkshire village of Burley Bridge, where a very special little cookbook shop is about to open its doors.... In the beginning...Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn't an issue that 'Cooking with Aspic' can't fix. Her only wish is that she had a book entitled Rustling Up Dinner When Your Husband Has Left You. Forty years later.... On Rosemary Lane, Della Cartwright plans to open a very special little bookshop.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane
- By Nanette P. Riegert on 05-24-17
By: Ellen Berry
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Wisecracking, inquisitive, and bombastic, Selam Asmelash is the youngest child in her large, boisterous family. Even before she is born, she has a wry, bewitching omniscience that animates life in her Small Town in southwestern Ethiopia in the 1980s. Selam and her father listen to the radio in secret as the socialist military junta that recently overthrew the government seizes properties and wages civil war in the North. The Asmelashes, once an enterprising, land-owning family, are ostracized under the new regime.
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Intriguingly Unusual
- By Mule Maven on 10-07-23
By: Mihret Sibhat
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The Orphan's Song
- By: Lauren Kate
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Venice, 1736. When fate brings Violetta and Mino together on the roof of the Hospital of the Incurables, they form a connection that will change their lives forever. Both are orphans at the Incurables, dreaming of escape. But when the resident Maestro notices Violetta's voice, she is selected for the Incurables' world famous coro, and must sign an oath never to sing beyond its church doors. After a declaration of love ends in heartbreak, Mino flees the Incurables in search of his family. Venice is full of secrets, and Mino is certain one will lead to his long-lost mother.
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Fate really has a sense of humor!
- By Kay on 07-22-19
By: Lauren Kate
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The Making of Her
- A Novel
- By: Bernadette Jiwa
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Dublin 1996. Joan Egan lives an enviable life. She and her husband, Martin, and daughter, Carmel, are thriving in Dublin at the dawn of an economic boom. But everything changes when Joan receives a letter from Emma, the daughter who she and Martin gave up for adoption thirty years before, asking for a life-or-death favor.
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No one really knows what makes a person
- By Shelly Alli on 11-14-24
By: Bernadette Jiwa
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Ghosts
- A Novel
- By: Dolly Alderton
- Narrated by: Holliday Grainger
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Nina Dean is not especially bothered that she's single. She owns her own apartment, she's about to publish her second book, she has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. And when she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy on her first date. Max is handsome and built like a lumberjack; he has floppy blond hair and a stable job. But more surprising than anything else, Nina and Max have chemistry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I’m glad I bought this on accident
- By James M. on 06-13-22
By: Dolly Alderton
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The Daughter Ship
- A Novel
- By: Boo Trundle
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Justis Bolding, Michael Crouch, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Katherine, an attentive mother to her teenagers, comfortably married to her strapping provider of a husband, longs to overcome her dark thoughts and intermittent fears of sexual intimacy. This brisk, mesmerizing version of her life is told in alternating short chapters by Truitt, Star, and Smooshed Bug—her inner children, each with their particular strategy for coping with Katherine’s past at the hands of a hopeless mother and a terrifying, seductive father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So accurate
- By AJ250 on 07-18-23
By: Boo Trundle
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The Children's Blizzard
- A Novel
- By: Melanie Benjamin
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 847
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 745
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The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats - leaving them unprepared when disaster struck. At the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard blew in without warning. Schoolteachers as young as 16 were suddenly faced with life-and-death decisions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Homesteaders
- By Phyllis Relyea on 01-22-21
By: Melanie Benjamin
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Dog Friendly
- By: Victoria Schade
- Narrated by: Patti Murin
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Exhausted veterinarian Morgan Pearce is feeling overworked and under-thanked, so when two favorite clients ask her to watch their special needs senior dog in their Nantucket home, she jumps at the chance for a summer break. She hopes her time on the island will be a reset from the stress of her everyday life, but her chill vacation vibe takes a hit when she gets roped into fostering a challenging, anxious dog and helping plan the local rescue group’s glittery annual fundraiser.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Book
- By Michael R. on 11-10-24
By: Victoria Schade
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- Amazon Customer Alana
- 12-19-22
LOVED THIS BOOK!
And loved everything about it! Amazing narrator! And all the emotions are so relatable! Brilliant work! i look forward to more books by this author. she gets it. she gets Life. my two favourite quotes from this book are:
"- Are you lonely?
- No. I think one has to like people more than I do to be lonely." XD
and:
"If you look at happiness it usually disappears. A shy creature. And also, it's just a layer, isn't it? A moment's joy that's come from nature, sunshine and seaside, overlaying everything else."
SIMPLY BRILLIANT!
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- SuzieQ
- 01-30-22
Delightful
I loved this book! The characters, their personalities, the humor, the sadness - it was all there in that bookshop. I really enjoyed the narrator's voice too.
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- Amanda
- 05-06-23
Lovely story
I love how the author describes things. Makes me want to look of villages of Scotland and go rent a holiday home. The characters and the way they grew was perfect. The humor was fun too. And I enjoyed the narrator as well
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- A. Reader
- 07-26-22
Slow start but an awesome book!
I started listening to this book and thought it was slow. I was ready to stop but I LOVED the narrator and continued. I am so happy I did! This ended up being one of my favorite books of all time and I am an avid reader. I got to love the characters. The story was great. I loved the character development. I have recommended this book to many of my friends!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-26-23
Lovely , sweet story
Looking for an easy listen and enjoyable story of second chances, this fits the bill.
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- Yolanda Ann Jones
- 10-05-24
I love that it was not your typical storyline. Something different for a change.
The story was unique and interesting and the narration was wonderful! So happy to have found this writer.
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- cassy fowler
- 10-09-24
Thea is a fabulous lead character
So funny; you fall in love with the characters and want them to be happy
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- Jamamama
- 02-11-23
Mature love story
I really enjoyed this love story. The main characters are mature people working through personal issues who find love.
Their journey is a slow one but is good for those people who hate stories where people jump immediately into bed upon first sight. Speaking of bed, no explicit descriptions of sex in this book if you need that. Good character evolution and development in this story. This is definately a literary romance with hightly intelligent main characters ala Emily Henry. I also enjoyed the performance - always a sucker for accents from the British isles.
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- Genie
- 12-15-22
Charming
This book is delightful and normalizes the feelings that come from break ups and falling in love again for those who are of a certain age. A perfect weekend or vacation read!
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- YogiMB
- 12-14-22
Fun life story
Fun story about how life happens that kept me engaged and entertained while driving several hours.
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