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Narrated by:
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Pamela Klein
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By:
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Gary W. Moore
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Forty-year-old Sandy Richards is a successful music teacher, wife, and mother living a comfortable middle-class life in a small Midwestern town. But behind her warm smile and easy laugh is a heavy burden she cannot release.
During her childhood, Sandy (or "Shadow" as just about everyone knew her) was inseparable from her larger-than-life father, a World War II hero she adored. Sandy followed him everywhere, hung on his every word, and loved him with all her heart as only a young child can. It was more difficult to love him at some times than at others, especially when he was there and then he was gone - right in front of her eyes without ever leaving the house.
For reasons she would not fully understand until many years later, something went horribly wrong and their relationship fractured, seemingly forever, when her father died of lung cancer on one long, hot summer evening. His passing left Shadow alone to "sort through his warehouse of junk," an old storage facility jammed with emotions so overwhelming they balanced her on the edge of suicide. Then, when and where she needed him most, a stranger entered her life. And everything changed once more.
The Final Service offers a riveting story about human nature, emotional abandonment, and how unfulfilled dreams left a middle-aged woman on the brink of personal destruction until one event forever altered the core of her belief system and her life. It is a story of faith, family, and forgiveness, and the realization that forces larger and more powerful than ourselves are at work in our lives in ways we are unable to fully understand.
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- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 136
It starts with a simple wish, and Emma Davies hardly notices when it comes true. She’s too preoccupied with a life she isn’t happy in - the spark in her marriage has fizzled, her career is headed nowhere and her boss is a misogynist. Her teenage daughter has grown distant, and her heart breaks daily for her teenage son with cerebral palsy. But soon Emma discovers her wishes are coming true, and she realizes that she has been given the power to change her life. Either that, or she’s going insane.
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4 out of 5 stars
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MADE ME THINK ABOUT MY LIFE . . . .
- By TONYA on 06-29-19
By: Janis Thomas
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October Baby
- By: Eric Wilson, Theresa Preston
- Narrated by: Rachel Hendrix
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Not long after Hannah, a college student, experiences increasing anxiety and a sudden collapse, all signs point to the surprising circumstances of her birth. Hannah soon learns from her parents that she was adopted and is the survivor of a failed abortion attempt. Bewildered, angry, and confused, she turns to her oldest friend, Jason, for support. Encouraged by his adventurous spirit, Hannah joins his friends on a road trip, embarking on a journey to discover her hidden past and find hope for the unknown future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Longing For GREAT Christian Fiction
- By MJ on 11-08-12
By: Eric Wilson, and others
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Three Brides, No Groom
- By: Debbie Macomber
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 249
Back in their college days, Gretchen Wise had been engaged to a top law student. Carol Furness, head cheerleader, had said yes to the school’s football hero. And Maddie Cobain was the girl who’d fallen for a professor. Now the three of them gather around a popular fountain on the college grounds. This fountain was where lovers met, where promises were made...and broken. So it’s fitting that Gretchen, Carol and Maddie sit here to share their stories of betrayal and, yes, revenge.
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2 out of 5 stars
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ZZZZZZzzzzz
- By Natalie on 07-01-12
By: Debbie Macomber
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The Wednesday Letters
- By: Jason F. Wright
- Narrated by: Art Allen
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Jack and Laurel have been married for 39 years. They've lived a good life and appear to have had the perfect marriage. With his wife cradled in his arms, and before Jack takes his last breath, he scribbles his last “Wednesday Letter.” When their adult children arrive to arrange the funeral, they discover boxes and boxes full of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week on Wednesday. As they begin to open and read the letters, the children begin to uncover the shocking truth about the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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EXCELLENT!!!!!
- By Boomer on 02-28-15
By: Jason F. Wright
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Grown Folks Business
- By: Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
For 17 years, Sheridan and Quentin seemed to have the perfect marriage. Now he is leaving her for another man. Her life shattered, Sheridan wonders how she can help their two children live through this crisis, while keeping her own emotional turmoil under control.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grown Folks Business
- By KARLA F on 05-29-08
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Winter Collection
- Six Historical Short Stories (A Timeless Romance Anthology, Book 1)
- By: Sarah M. Eden, Heidi Ashworth, Annette Lyon, and others
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4 out of 5 stars 112
Six award-winning authors have contributed brand new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Winter Collection. A collection unlike any other, listeners will love this compilation of six sweet historical romance novellas, set in varying eras, yet all with one thing in common: Romance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Winter
- By Manila J. Dobbs on 08-12-23
By: Sarah M. Eden, and others
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Chasing Spring
- By: R.S. Grey
- Narrated by: Alia Tavakolian, Ricco Fajardo, Jeannie Tirado
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 228
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4 out of 5 stars 208
I thought I'd left Blackwater, Texas, behind for good. I didn't belong in the small town, but my dad wouldn't listen. He dragged me back home in his beat-up truck and dropped a bomb along the way: Chase Matthews was moving in with us. He was the golden boy of my high school, my former best friend, and the last person I wanted sleeping across the hall. His presence was too great a reminder of the ghosts I was trying to forget.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This book bummed me out.
- By Lauren Helms on 07-06-16
By: R.S. Grey
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Letters Never Sent
- By: Sandra Moran
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 165
Three women, united by love and kinship, struggle to conform to the social norms of the times in which they live. In 1931 Katherine Henderson leaves behind her small town in Kansas and the marriage proposal of a local boy to live on her own and work at the Sears & Roebuck glove counter in Chicago. There she meets Annie - a bold, outspoken feminist who challenges Katherine's idea of who she thinks she is and what she thinks she wants in life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By jeepsteeler on 05-02-15
By: Sandra Moran
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The Life List
- A Novel
- By: Lori Nelson Spielman
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 255
Brett Bohlinger has forgotten all about the list of life goals she’d written as a naïve teenager. In fact, at 34, Brett seems to have it all—a plum job at her family’s multimillion-dollar company and a spacious loft with her irresistibly handsome boyfriend. But when her beloved mother, Elizabeth, passes away, Brett’s world is turned upside down. Rather than simply naming her daughter the new CEO of Bohlinger Cosmetics, Elizabeth’s will comes with one big stipulation: Brett must fulfill the list of childhood dreams she made so long ago.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Truly Terrible.
- By Cricket on 04-27-14
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Redemption
- Redemption Series, Book 1
- By: Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 842
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 736
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 732
Kari Baxter Jacobs is furious, hurt, and confused. Her husband, Tim, a respected professor of journalism, is having an affair with a student. Stunned, Kari returns home to the Baxter family to sort things out. But when an old flame comes back into her life, she is more confused than ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very, very good book!
- By Wendy Anderson on 04-16-15
By: Karen Kingsbury, and others
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The Road Home
- By: Ford Michael Thomas Ford
- Narrated by: Blake Somerset
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 78
When a car accident leaves photographer Burke Crenshaw in need of temporary full-time care, he finds himself back in the one place no forty-year-old chooses to be--his childhood bedroom. There, in the Vermont home where he grew up, Burke begins the long process of recuperation, and watches as his widowed father finds happiness in a new relationship that's a constant reminder of everything Burke wants and lacks. Exploring local history, Burke discovers an intriguing series of letters from a Civil War soldier to his fianc.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No need to check your scepticism at the door!
- By Orlando on 08-23-13
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The Runaway Pastor's Wife
- By: Diane Moody
- Narrated by: Jennifer Hille
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
What could possibly drive a pastor's wife to run away from home? After years of frustration from life in a church fishbowl, Annie McGregor walks away from it all and boards a plane for Colorado. She has no way of knowing her college sweetheart is headed to the same cabin in the Rockies, terrified and gravely wounded. Their unexpected reunion couldn't have come at a worse time. Or could it? Bewildered that God would allow Michael Dean to walk back into her life, Annie pleads with Him to keep her heart true.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ok, but slow & a little Boring 🤨
- By Vanessa Y on 08-23-20
By: Diane Moody
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The Undoing of Saint Silvanus
- By: Beth Moore
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,525
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,375
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,375
Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close. She hadn't seen him - or her grandmother, the ice queen - in almost 20 years. But when Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, called and said her expenses would be paid if she'd fly in for the burial, a free trip to New Orleans was too intriguing to resist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Beth, highly recommend!!
- By Susan on 12-22-16
By: Beth Moore
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The Air He Breathes
- By: Brittainy C. Cherry
- Narrated by: Brian Pallino, Erin Mallon
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,894
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,889
I was warned about Tristan Cole. "Stay away from him," people said. "He's cruel." "He's cold." "He's damaged." It's easy to judge a man because of his past. To look at Tristan and see a monster. But I couldn't do that. I had to accept the wreckage that lived inside of him, because it also lived inside of me.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking and heavy
- By krystle on 04-14-16
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The Other Side of the Bridge
- By: Cameron Wright
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4 out of 5 stars 118
Katie Connelly has lived in San Francisco all her life. Her late father made his career as an ironworker on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the many stories of him trying to save jumpers still haunt her. When she's asked to write a history about the bridge, her research uncovers a secret journal hidden in her father's desk, pages of familiar advice penned by the hand of a stranger. The scribbled words tell of a promise ring and a distant love, clues that Katie hopes may answer her own unresolved sorrow.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable enough story, terrible female narrator
- By Rebecca on 04-02-20
By: Cameron Wright
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- Jim
- 01-23-17
Twice now this author has tugged at my soul...
Where does The Final Service rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
At the absolute top of my book ranking...
What other book might you compare The Final Service to and why?
"Playing with the Enemy" also reached my heart and stirred so many emotions...
Which character – as performed by Pamela Klein – was your favorite?
Sandy Richards the main character...
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Almost all of my emotions were in play...the book left me deeply in thought about my own relatives who I now recognise impacted me more than I can even know. The people of the depression-WW2 era survived and I am not often reminded of the attributes they shared of which I am so thankful.
Any additional comments?
Mr Moore is a very perceptive author who uses his gift to help all of understand the people in our lives who we may have misunderstood. He brings us to recognise that our parents/grandparents were so much like us but why we may not have understood why we are so much indebted to them...Thank you again Mr. Moore for opening my eyes even more... about those members of my own family who were of the greatest generation!
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