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Narrated by:
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Susan Bennett
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By:
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Ann H. Gabhart
About this listen
The doors she thought were closed forever are starting to open up … just a crack
Though the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean’s hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher—until Gordon Covington shows up.
No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in Eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him. Just like that.
With much trepidation, Mira steps out in faith into a life she never imagined, in a place filled with its own special challenges, to serve a people who just might end up becoming the family she always yearned for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If this is ms. Becks debut novel then she should have a very successful career
- By paula wright on 07-07-21
By: Kristin Beck
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The School of Mirrors
- A Novel
- By: Eva Stachniak
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the King’s favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained as potential courtesans for the King. When the time is right, each girl is smuggled into the palace of Versailles, with its legendary Hall of Mirrors.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating but pedophilia nonetheless.
- By Barbara W. on 05-10-22
By: Eva Stachniak
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The Big Finish
- By: Brooke Fossey
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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For Duffy Sinclair, life boils down to one simple thing: maintaining his residence at the idyllic Centennial Assisted Living. Without it, he’s destined for the roach-infested nursing home down the road. So, he keeps his shenanigans to the bare minimum with the help of his straight-laced best friend and roommate, Carl Upton. But when Carl’s granddaughter Josie climbs through their bedroom window with booze on her breath and a black eye, Duffy’s faced with trouble that’s sticking around and hard to hide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD!
- By Berit☀️✨ on 04-17-20
By: Brooke Fossey
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All the Flowers in Paris
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Jio
- Narrated by: Kim Bubbs, Saskia Maarleveld, Mark Deakins, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,565
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,428
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When Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past, she’s confused to learn that for years she’s lived a sad, reclusive life in a sprawling apartment on the rue Cler. Slowly regaining vague memories of a man and a young child, she vows to piece her life back together - though she can’t help but feel she may be in danger. A budding friendship with the chef of a charming nearby restaurant takes her mind off her foggy past, as does a startling mystery from decades prior.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hallmark Movie Story
- By Imamomof4 on 11-24-19
By: Sarah Jio
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The Bookshop Ladies
- By: Faith Hogan
- Narrated by: Flora Montgomery
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman called Robyn Tessier in Ballycove, a small town on the west coast of Ireland, but she is determined to find out. She arrives in Ballycove to find that Robyn runs a rather chaotic and unprofitable bookshop. She is shy, suffering from unrequited love for dashing Kian, and badly in need of advice on how to make the bookshop successful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What matters most
- By Adrienne Bartlett on 08-06-24
By: Faith Hogan
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The Lady Glass
- By: Anneka R. Walker
- Narrated by: Aubrey Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Theresia Dvorak has nothing left of her parents—nothing save her dowry, a priceless crystal vase stolen and sold by her own stepmother. Theresia will do anything to secure what is rightfully hers—even assume a false identity and steal her future back. When she gains entrance to a house party and has a memorable run-in with the handsome navel captain Rolland Reese, her mission is compromised.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clean, with well developed relationships.
- By Julie on 02-25-25
By: Anneka R. Walker
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The Favorite Daughter
- By: Patti Callahan Henry
- Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 333
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 287
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On her wedding day 10 years ago, Lena Donohue experienced a betrayal so painful that she fled the small town of Watersend, South Carolina, and reinvented herself in New York City. Though now a freelance travel writer, the one place she rarely goes is home - until she learns of her dad's failing health. Returning to Watersend means seeing the sister she has avoided for a decade and the brother who runs their family's Irish pub - and who has borne the burden of his sisters' rift.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Read...DO NOT listen
- By Vicki M on 09-07-19
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The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
- By: Rachel Linden
- Narrated by: Katie Koster
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Lolly Blanchard's life only seems to give her lemons. Ten years ago, after her mother’s tragic death, she broke up with her first love and abandoned her dream of opening a restaurant in order to keep her family’s struggling Seattle diner afloat and care for her younger sister and grieving father. Now, a decade later, she dutifully whips up the diner’s famous lemon meringue pies each morning while still pining for all she's lost. As Lolly’s thirty-third birthday approaches, her quirky great-aunt gives her a mysterious gift.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible British Accent!
- By Anonymous User on 09-15-22
By: Rachel Linden
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The Infinite Plan
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Isabel Allende, Luis Moreno
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in poverty, survived the killing fields of Vietnam, and is now a lawyer in San Francisco. Though he has successfully survived this hard journey, Gregory’s life has suddenly gone off the rails thanks to an illusory and wrongheaded quest that has left him feeling lost and listless. To find what he is missing and what his heart truly wants, he must return to his roots. Only by excavating the past can he see the way to his future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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...it is so current, how is it possible?!
- By Sra. Dominguez on 07-28-22
By: Isabel Allende
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The Spies of Shilling Lane
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Ryan
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 619
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 544
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Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets off hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left - her clever daughter, Betty, who took work there at the first rumbles of war. But when she arrives, Betty’s landlord, the timid Mr. Norris, informs her that Betty hasn’t been home in days - with the chaos of the bombs, there’s no telling what might have befallen her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It!!
- By Jomo on 06-20-19
By: Jennifer Ryan
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Her Last Flight
- A Novel
- By: Beatriz Williams
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam’s fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster, Mallory’s onetime student and flying partner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite so far, & I love them all
- By Kate Wilcox on 07-06-20
By: Beatriz Williams
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Milady
- By: Laura L. Sullivan
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
I’ve gone by many names, though you most likely know me as Milady de Winter: Villainess. Seductress. A secondary player in someone else’s tale. It’s finally time I tell my own story. The truth isn’t tidy or convenient, but it’s certainly more interesting. Before you cast judgment, let me start at the beginning, and you shall learn how an innocent girl from the countryside became the most feared woman in all of Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Made me rethink The Three Musketeers
- By DR on 04-25-24
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The Bordeaux Book Club
- By: Gillian Harvey
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it’s not the ‘good life’ she’d imagined, as three hours of digging barely yield a single straggly carrot. Worse, her teenage daughter is acting up, and her husband seems to find every strange excuse under the hot French sun to disappear. So when her friend entreats her to join the new book club she’s forming, Leah decides it’s something she will do for herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful!
- By Allison Ruggenberg on 06-03-24
By: Gillian Harvey
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Catch Us When We Fall
- A Novel
- By: Juliette Fay
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 229
On her own since the age of 18, Cass Macklin dated brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy, convinced he was the smartest person she’d ever known. They partied their way through their 20s, slowly descending into a bleak world of binge-drinking and broken promises, inebriated for most of a decade. Now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scared...and pregnant. Determined to have a healthy pregnancy and raise Ben’s baby, Cass has to find a way to stop drinking and build a stable life for herself and her child.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love the book, can't stand the narrator
- By Barb on 11-03-21
By: Juliette Fay
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The German Daughter
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Hannah Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 130
Norway, 1940. Liv has lived a quiet life on her family farm, dreaming of a happy life after the war is finally over. But all of her dreams vanish when the Nazi soldiers arrive in her village and a senior officer see something special in her... something that Hitler and the high command in Berlin is desperate to have at any cost. England, 1968. Agnes, although made orphan from the war, has grown up happy in the quiet wealth of the English countryside, raised by her adoring grandfather to be a perfect lady.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Seeds of Emotional Hope
- By Theo on 01-20-25
By: Marius Gabriel
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- G Products
- 08-05-24
Excellent story and novel worth the read
This is the first Audible book I've read by this author. I throughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-17-24
Fantastic story!
I loved how different the story line is that I had expected. Kept me on the edge of my seat. Wonderful job by one of my favorite authors.
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- Liberty Bell
- 03-15-25
Loved it!
This book is well written. The characters are well developed in the ones that matter, but there are so many more stories to be told from this little community. This tale is unique from most period pieces, it's not overly depressing, or sickly sweet in it's telling but you feel the harshness of life and the joy of God's blessings. I will seek this author in the future and I look forward to seeing what she comes up with next. This narrator is also one of my favorites.
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- Kathy
- 10-17-24
Inspiring/Moving
I really enjoyed this novel. The characters were interesting & written well. It's so refreshing & inspiring to read a story rooted in faith & reliance on God. I can't wait to read more stories from this author.
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- 02-27-25
Love and faith of teacher refreshing. Dedicated pastor. Very clean. Great story. Good performance also.
Great story of mountain people in Kentucky. Good descriptions of people and places. Endurance through hardships. Good narrator.
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- Terri Gibson
- 03-23-25
Sooo good!
Beautiful story of faith and strength in very hard times. Love historical fiction and this book is among my favorites.
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- Regina
- 04-09-25
Beautiful story that is based on faith.
The performance was wonderful. I could visualize each one of the characters so well written and performed.
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