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Darling Girls
- A Novel
- By: Sally Hepworth
- Narrated by: Jessica Clarke
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,365
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,297
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,298
For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life. But their childhood wasn’t the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and thought they were free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great characters
- By Kindle Customer on 04-29-24
- Darling Girls
- A Novel
- By: Sally Hepworth
- Narrated by: Jessica Clarke
Love Hepworth, but this isn’t amazing
Reviewed: 06-02-24
This story just didn’t grab me the way her books usually do. This is going to sound weird, but it seemed more like a Lisa Jewell novel than Sally Hepworth. I really enjoy Jewell, but this didn’t scratch the Hepworth itch.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,828
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,878
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,869
Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have heard before.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book sucked the life out of me
- By RMan on 08-08-22
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
Really great, but….
Reviewed: 08-28-23
This was a great listen. Compelling and smartly written. Mostly realistic. I just think it lacked any joy.
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,566
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,162
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,159
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female patient.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Beautiful Novel from Lisa See!
- By TuxedoedCorgi95 on 06-06-23
- Lady Tan's Circle of Women
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien
Interesting more than compelling
Reviewed: 08-09-23
Lisa See is excellent at showing me slices of history and the lives of Chinese women and people in those times. This book did that and I enjoyed that aspect. Yet I felt little connection to any character or what happened them. Because of this I felt the ending just kind of dwindled….the epilogue packed a punch that probably would be a good book rather than just a few sentences at the end of the book that didn’t seem to know how to end itself.
I don’t mean to leave a negative review! It is absolutely worth a read!
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Chasing Ghislaine
- The Untold Story of the Woman in Epstein's Shadow
- By: Vicky Ward
- Narrated by: Vicky Ward
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,868
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,724
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,713
In an explosive Audible Original investigative series, executive produced by James Patterson, veteran journalist and New York Times best-selling author Vicky Ward chronicles her 19-year quest to uncover what - or who - is behind Jeffrey Epstein’s wealth, influence, and criminality.
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2 out of 5 stars
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nothing new
- By marlene grippin on 07-16-21
- Chasing Ghislaine
- The Untold Story of the Woman in Epstein's Shadow
- By: Vicky Ward
- Narrated by: Vicky Ward
Excusing Ghislane
Reviewed: 07-31-21
I think Vicky Ward, the reporter about the corruption of the Kushners, found an angle to excuse a certain high-ranking man who traveled on Epstein’s plane and had Ghislane at his daughter’s exclusive wedding. It was nothing to do with Epstein at all! Ghislane, you see, had become a philanthropist by that point and it’s all a misunderstanding. In fact, Ward’s reporting is very light on Maxwell, much stronger in the idea that Israel was behind Epstein’s rise, and strongest in defense of herself and her failure to dig in when she first heard about Epstein and Maxwell’s terrible deeds. It’s weirdest when she keeps insisting this is a story about male power, without ever really exploring Maxwell’s agency in what she is alleged to have done. A good listen for sure, but if someone is chasing Ghislane, it isn’t Vicky Ward.
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The Girls in the Stilt House
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Mustian
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,222
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7,487
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,386
Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle, so she forms a plan to go north.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Long winded
- By Marnie on 04-15-21
- The Girls in the Stilt House
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Mustian
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
This is hard to listen to
Reviewed: 07-15-21
I do not understand the narrator's choices in this book. I don't understand what her accent and cadence were supposed to be. It made the book very hard to listen to, and thus hard to enjoy. When I could get past it and focus on the story, it seemed to be an interesting and perhaps even compelling story. But this is one book I should have read in book form.
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Rebecca
- By: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,215
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,142
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,116
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.... The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easily the best audiobook I have ever heard!
- By Kid at Heart on 11-10-18
- Rebecca
- By: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
Anna Massey is amazing
Reviewed: 04-01-21
Talk about the perfect narrator for the story! She is amazing. He is what I love: she does not do the thing that rarely works when voicing the opposite sex. She gives the character their own, well, characteristics without resorting to trying to turn her voice into something it is not. The story itself is a classic worth hearing. I loved this audible experience
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The Leavers
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Ko
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 853
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 757
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Story4 out of 5 stars 760
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, 11-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an "all-American boy".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overly dramatic narration.
- By susan sompayrac on 06-27-17
- The Leavers
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Ko
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
A tough story- narration tough to listen to
Reviewed: 03-17-21
I can’t say I enjoyed this book, but then I’m not sure one is meant to enjoy it. I found it relentless in its unhappiness but it was still a worthy listen. I did not enjoy the narrator. She sounded on the brink of frustrated tears the whole time. Maybe an appropriate one for much of the book, but nonetheless hard to listen to for several hours. Overall a tough book that provided some interesting food for thought but not enough to make it a great
listening/reading experience.
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Stars of Alabama
- A Novel by Sean of the South
- By: Sean Dietrich
- Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,811
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,581
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,577
When 15-year-old Marigold becomes pregnant amid the Great Depression, she is rejected by her family and forced to fend for herself. And when she loses her baby in the forest, her whole world turns upside down. She’s even more distraught upon discovering she has an inexplicable power that makes her both beautiful and terrifying - and something of a local legend. Meanwhile, migrant workers Vern and Paul discover a violet-eyed baby and take it upon themselves to care for her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! How have I not heard of this?!?
- By Wren on 01-05-20
- Stars of Alabama
- A Novel by Sean of the South
- By: Sean Dietrich
- Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
Like comfort food
Reviewed: 12-03-20
I'm not from the south and I didn't live through the depression, but there is just something so homey about this book/listen. As gray winter approaches and we are stuck in a "pause" here in my state, this listen gave me the same feeling as a warm fire on a cold night. Just peaceful pleasure. I enjoyed the characters, the storyline, and the narration. Just what I needed right now.
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Wild Game
- My Mother, Her Secret, and Me
- By: Adrienne Brodeur
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Adrienne Brodeur
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,272
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,771
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,756
On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was 14, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come: Ben Souther just kissed me. Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention, and from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband’s closest friend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Rich People Behaving Badly
- By Joan on 10-28-19
- Wild Game
- My Mother, Her Secret, and Me
- By: Adrienne Brodeur
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Adrienne Brodeur
Maybe the problem is it was oversold
Reviewed: 10-28-19
An interesting enough memoir. Felt like something written for a workshop or a literary magazine. The writing was great, but the story itself had very little meat. I'm sure writing it helped the author work through her issues, but it wasn't really "unforgettable" or "wild" for the reader.
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The Witch Elm
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Paul Nugent
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,588
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,853
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 7,837
Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By Beth on 10-11-18
- The Witch Elm
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Paul Nugent
Seemed like the same scene happened over and over
Reviewed: 10-23-19
This was my book group's selection....otherwise I might have given up on it. It just kind of goes on and on, with a lot of smoking hash and having the same conversation among the same characters over and over again.
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