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Narrated by:
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Stina Nielsen
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By:
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Erin Bartels
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"We Hope for Better Things has it all: fabulous storytelling, an emotional impact that lingers long after you turn the last page, and a setting that immerses you. I haven't read such a powerful, moving story since I read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school. This book will change how you look at the world we live in. Highly recommended!" (Colleen Coble, USA Today best-selling author of the Rock Harbor series and The View from Rainshadow Bay)
"A timely exploration of race in America, We Hope for Better Things is an exercise of empathy that will shape many a soul. Erin Bartels navigates this sensitive topic with compassion as she shifts her readers back and forth between past and present, nudging us to examine the secrets we keep, the grudges we hold, and the prejudices we may help create even without intention." (Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of Perennials)
When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request - that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos - seems like it isn't worth her time. But when she loses her job after a botched investigation, she suddenly finds herself with nothing but time.
At her great-aunt's 150-year-old farmhouse, Elizabeth uncovers a series of mysterious items, locked doors, and hidden graves. As she searches for answers to the riddles around her, the remarkable stories of two women who lived in this very house emerge as testaments to love, resilience, and courage in the face of war, racism, and misunderstanding. And as Elizabeth soon discovers, the past is never as past as we might like to think.
Debut novelist Erin Bartels takes listeners on an emotional journey through time - from the volatile streets of 1960s Detroit to the Underground Railroad during the Civil War - to uncover the past, confront the seeds of hatred, and discover where love goes to hide.
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The Valley of the Dry Bones
- An End Times Novel
- By: Jerry B. Jenkins
- Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 264
After a 17-year drought, multiple earthquakes, and uncontrollable wildfires, the state is desolate. The United States President declares the state uninhabitable and irreparable, directing California's 39 million citizens to relocate. With less than 1% of the population remaining in California at their own risk, the holdouts encounter a clash of cultures, ethnicities, religions, and politics that pits friend against friend with the future of California at stake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most Enjoyable!
- By BrenisNGod on 03-09-19
By: Jerry B. Jenkins
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Angels Watching Over Me
- The Shenandoah Sisters, Book 1
- By: Michael Phillips
- Narrated by: Susan Spain
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 161
Michael Phillips is one of today's most popular Christian authors. He has written more than four dozen novels, with over five million copies in print. Angels Watching Over Me is the first book in a stirring saga that follows two women, one black, one white, in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Start- ending left u hanging!
- By America on 10-04-16
By: Michael Phillips
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Submerged
- Alaskan Courage, Book 1
- By: Dani Pettrey
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,013
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,005
When her aunt dies in a mysterious plane crash, Professor Bailey Craig returns to Yancey, Alaska. She soon learns that her expertise is desperately needed in the investigation of a string of local murders—so she works with her ex, Cole McKenna, to ferret out the truth. As they become reacquainted, old feelings rekindle—but do Bailey and Cole have a future together?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Christian book
- By Zulu on 02-22-18
By: Dani Pettrey
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The Words Between Us
- By: Erin Bartels
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 264
Robin Windsor has spent most of her life under an assumed name, running from her family's ignominious past. She thought she'd finally found sanctuary in her rather unremarkable used bookstore just up the street from the marina in River City, Michigan. But the store is struggling and the past is hot on her heels. When she receives an eerily familiar book in the mail on the morning of her father's scheduled execution, Robin is thrown back to the long-lost summer she met Peter Flynt, the perfect boy who ruined everything.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love the author
- By Elwood Sulzer on 10-31-19
By: Erin Bartels
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The Proposal
- The English Garden Series, Book 1
- By: Lori Wick
- Narrated by: Virginia Leishman
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 405
Acclaimed, best-selling author Lori Wick’s The Proposal is a moving tale of Christ’s love at work in early 19th-century London. William Jennings is not married and likes it that way. But when a relative passes away, he is suddenly guardian of three young children. This unexpected development provides him a male heir without the bother of a wife, yet the children quickly become more than he can handle. Finding help from a truly remarkable woman, he learns to see the world in a completely different light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story!
- By Tammy on 01-24-12
By: Lori Wick
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Eve's Daughters
- By: Lynn Austin
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,788
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,644
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,638
Is there a secret terrible enough that it should never be revealed, not even if it was tearing a family apart? For more than five decades, Emma Bauer has kept one - carefully guarding it with all her strength, and for more than five decades, that choice has haunted her life and also the lives of her daughters and granddaughter. Is it too late for wrongs to be righted? Does Emma even have the strength to let the healing power of truth work in her family?
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5 out of 5 stars
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great read
- By Sharon on 01-16-19
By: Lynn Austin
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Sweet Tea and Southern Grace
- Southern Grace Series, Book 1
- By: Glenda C. Manus
- Narrated by: Cody Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 288
Rocking on front porches, drinking sweet iced tea out of heirloom glasses while indulging in a little innocent gossip is a way of life in the small southern town of Park Place, South Carolina. Reverend Rock Clark is the middle-aged preacher of the Presbyterian Church in town and has made peace with the fact that he is "unlucky in love" and will always be a bachelor. He's become quite comfortably settled in his life, but suddenly a serious car accident involving a mysterious young woman and her daughter throws him into the role of detective.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The setting of the story
- By Vera Kurtz on 01-20-25
By: Glenda C. Manus
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The Accidental Guardian
- By: Mary Connealy
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 674
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 672
Trace Riley has been self-appointed guardian of the trail ever since his own wagon was attacked. When he finds the ruins of a wagon train, he offers shelter to survivor Deborah Harkness and the children she saved. Trace and Deborah grow close working to bring justice to the trail, but what will happen when the attackers return to silence the only witness?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ended abruptly
- By Snickidoodle on 06-02-18
By: Mary Connealy
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Waiting for Summer's Return
- By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 665
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 522
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 521
Suddenly all alone in 1894 Kansas, Summer Steadman can't find the employment she needs to settle near the fresh graves of her husband and four children. Bitter against the Lord and refusing to eat, she collapses in despair. Remembering his own painful loss, godly widower Peter Ollenbuger offers her food and shelter for tutoring his 10-year-old son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AWSOME!!
- By Alice Smith on 09-11-10
By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
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The Only Best Place
- Christian Women's fiction
- By: Carolyne Aarsen
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Forced to move back to her husband’s country hometown, she’ll need family, forgiveness, and faith to save their marriage. As a loving mother and wife, Leslie VandeKeere has overcome most of her own troubled childhood. But when her husband Dan loses his business and starts receiving flirtatious texts from a co-worker, their dream home fund and their marriage fall on hard times. To keep the family afloat, Leslie reluctantly agrees to move back to Dan’s childhood farmhouse in Holmes Crossing… With her lack of a religious upbringing, Leslie fears seeing her husband slip back into his ...
By: Carolyne Aarsen
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On the Mountain of the Lord
- By: Ray Bentley, Bodie Thoene
- Narrated by: Ray Bentley
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 351
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 349
Jack Garrison lost his wife and their only child in a car accident, and thereafter lost his faith. In this dramatic novel, the 33-year-old skeptic experiences the mysterious wonder of being caught up in visions, dreams, and real-life experiences. Listeners journey with Jack throughout the Holy Land and also globally, from his home in London to the furthest corners of the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Book - Disappointing Audio
- By Amazon Customer on 12-31-18
By: Ray Bentley, and others
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River to Redemption
- By: Ann H. Gabhart
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story5 out of 5 stars 105
Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. A man who, 12 years later, is being sold by his owners despite his heroic actions. Now 19, Adria has never forgotten what Louis did for her. She's determined to find a way to buy Louis's freedom. But in 1840s Kentucky, she'll face an uphill battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!
- By DKM on 08-06-18
By: Ann H. Gabhart
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Hidden Places
- By: Lynn Austin
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,597
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,388
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,387
Fragrant blossoms herald spring, but the orchard is also a place of secrets and heartache. After the death of her husband Frank, Eliza is left with three young children and mounting debts. When a gentle stranger enters her orchard, she experiences a peculiar sensation of familiarity with the man. But will his unknown past jeopardize all that she has fought for?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Austin is Wonderful
- By Karen on 06-24-07
By: Lynn Austin
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Waves of Mercy
- By: Lynn Austin
- Narrated by: Rachel Dulude, Margaret Strom
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,064
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 980
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 974
Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age 17 with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctant at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing for Lynn Austin, Poor Performance
- By Michael on 12-07-16
By: Lynn Austin
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Casting the First Stone
- By: Kimberla Lawson Roby
- Narrated by: Caroline Clay
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,014
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 860
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 868
The Black household is swiftly deteriorating. Frustrated and angry at her prosperous preacher husband's obvious infidelities, Tanya cannot believe the man she once loved has been replaced by this pathological liar obsessed with material wealth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this book
- By Sequonica on 10-21-08
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Land of Silence
- By: Tessa Afshar
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,264
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,157
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,149
Elianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by working for her father's textile trade and caring for her family. When another tragedy places Elianna in sole charge of the business, her talent for design brings enormous success but never the absolution she longs for. As her world unravels, she breaks off her betrothal to the only man she will ever love. Then illness strikes, isolating Elianna from everyone, stripping everything she has left.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Different story than you think!
- By Lakaar on 06-21-16
By: Tessa Afshar
Captivating and thought provoking!
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Great book
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Second, the story was executed with just enough secrets from each timeline to keep you wanting more.
Third, I didn't want it to end!
Excellent, Exciting and Enjoying
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I really enjoyed this book.
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A young reporter's life takes a detour as she is sent to look after her elderly relative in an old house that has been in the family for centuries.
The author seamlessly blends three histories into one compelling story that is full of surprises, turns, and surprisingly poignant moments.
The narration is unobtrusive and smooth, and the author deals with terrifying and tragic events with a light and honest hand.
Definitely recommend!
So beautiful: rich and haunting story
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I never leave a written review
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great story of time and family history
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where is book 2 ..... I need to know what uncovere
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One of the very best historical fiction books!!!
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Wonderful history lesson, drama and love story! Great book .
Fantastic!
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