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Secrets We Left Behind
- A Novel
- By: Susan Elliot Wright
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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It was a summer of love and a summer of secrets. She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But things were not always so good, and the truth is that she has done things she can never admit.
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Slow and poor narration
- By Lorna on 09-29-21
- Secrets We Left Behind
- A Novel
- By: Susan Elliot Wright
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
I liked the mystique
Reviewed: 10-17-24
Good Story, good listen. The performance was lovely. I will look for this performer in other books.
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101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
- By: Brianna Wiest
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life. Some of these pieces have never been seen; others have been read by millions of people around the world. Regardless, each will leave you thinking: This idea changed my life.
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Finding ways on being a better version of yourself
- By Laura K. Alvarado Fonseca on 08-19-20
- 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
- By: Brianna Wiest
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
Not essays, just lists. boo.
Reviewed: 03-04-24
Although the lists may have value, unless you want to here numbered lists of items, skip this.
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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eye opening
- By Michael Stansberry on 05-23-18
- The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
beautiful prose, complex weaving of characters
Reviewed: 09-13-20
This book is beautifully written and complex. it does have dark tones, but is well worth the time it takes to follow the character plots woven like roots around and through the book.
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The Indigo Girl
- A Novel
- By: Natasha Boyd
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting to become restless. Her mother wants nothing more than for their South Carolina endeavor to fail so they can go back to England. Soon her family is in danger of losing everything.
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You must read The Indigo Girl
- By maureen m. mukhlis on 11-12-17
- The Indigo Girl
- A Novel
- By: Natasha Boyd
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Depth of color and history
Reviewed: 12-26-19
one of the best books I have read. it was a joy to learn about this pioneer woman.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.
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Don't listen to the negative reviews.
- By Kyle on 12-03-19
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
took me to a world other than my own.
Reviewed: 06-20-19
what a story
I especially like all of the nature references. will read again soon.
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Lily and the Octopus
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Michael Urie
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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When you listen to Lily and the Octopus, you will be taken on an unforgettable ride. The magic of this novel is in the listening, and we don't want to spoil it by giving away too many details. We can tell you that this is a story about that special someone: the one you trust, the one you can't live without. For Ted Flask, that someone special is his aging companion, Lily, who happens to be a dog.
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OMG WHY!!???!??? last hour redeemed the first 7
- By Amazon Fan on 03-21-18
- Lily and the Octopus
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Michael Urie
Tenderly creative, provacative
Reviewed: 06-13-16
amazing performance by narrator. a loving, lovely story of love and loss. I'll be recommending for a support group I facilitate. looking at cancer through this author's eyes may help others to accept the journey.
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