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The Words We Lost
- By: Nicole Deese
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
As a senior acquisitions editor for Fog Harbor Books in San Francisco, Ingrid Erikson has rejected many a manuscript for lack of defined conflict and dramatic irony—two elements her current life possesses in spades. In the months following the death of her childhood best friend and international bestselling author Cece Campbell, Ingrid has not only lost her ability to escape into fiction due to a rare trauma response, but she's also desperate to find the closure she is convinced will come with Cece's missing final manuscript.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not my favorite
- By Tina on 07-13-24
- The Words We Lost
- By: Nicole Deese
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
Will leave you breathless...
Reviewed: 07-15-23
I can't............
I just finished this book and I have been sitting here trying to work out how to write this post because I had no words. I needed to sit with it a while. To process the story and how it made me feel all the feels as though it were happening to me and not the main character.
Nicole, I don't know how you do it. You truly have a gift for working out the most beautifully intriguing and intrinsically complex plot lines packed so full of raw and real emotion. Your stories leave me wordless and touched in the deepest soul places. Your characters are so real and relatable I feel like I've known them all for years by the end of every book.
I cannot recommend any other author enough. If you've never read any of her books, please do yourself a favor and do it now. But make no mistake, she pulls no punches and her characters deal with hard and sometimes rough, raw, and truly human struggles. Make sure you read the description carefully if you are readily triggered by certain traumas. The story will likely punch you right in the feels before it gets addressed and knit back together.
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Longbourn
- By: Jo Baker
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,607
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,470
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,469
In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary book (even w/o Pride & Prejudice)
- By MP on 10-13-13
- Longbourn
- By: Jo Baker
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding
HIGHLY recommend! Wow
Reviewed: 02-09-23
You know that feeling when an author has fully drawn you into their world and you find yourself fully invested in seeing each of the characters through their lives right to the end? Well, this book has all of that and more. The masterful use of language, the depth of plot, the twists and turns, the unexpected surprises.... I seriously couldn't get enough of this story. Jo Baker is an exquisite writer and this story is brimming with wonder and intrigue, passion and heartbreak, love and satisfaction and all with a dose of the overlying Bennett saga we are all so familiar with. Even though you are well aware of the progression through the story of Pride and Prejudice as you read along through this book, never once does it overtake this particular story which is its own right from the start.
I cannot recommend this one enough and will share it with every single person I know. It's THAT good! Well done, Ms Baker, and well done Emma Fielding as well, whose voice is melodic and perfection for telling this tale.
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The Only Woman in the Room
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,063
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.
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5 out of 5 stars
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incredible true story about heddy Lamar
- By S. Loew on 01-26-19
- The Only Woman in the Room
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Remarkable Story
Reviewed: 05-20-21
I didn't really know anything about Hedy Lamarr before listening to this book. What an incredible woman she was with such an incredible life. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about her and I'm glad to have bought this book on a whim.
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