Jamelah Tangara Castagnola
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66,746
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60,285
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60,031
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please be warned
- By N. Thompson on 06-20-17
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
I keep going back for more.
Reviewed: 03-23-25
I want more, so I reread /listen to it again, and again. MCcarron is superb.
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,158
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15,871
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,857
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
- Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Meryl
Reviewed: 09-10-23
Meryl is a salve to the soul. She cajoles the ever weary yet unrelenting taut ropes that pull and churn that most inner core. Thank you
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Part of Your World
- By: Abby Jimenez
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Zachary Webber
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14,704
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13,910
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13,881
After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. And yet their chemistry is undeniable.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wore thin
- By Ann L on 05-02-22
- Part of Your World
- By: Abby Jimenez
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Zachary Webber
Thank You Abby.
Reviewed: 08-08-22
Dear Abby,
Thank you for giving us much needed space and freedom to acknowledge the myriad ways abuse exists- from insidious to overt.
Thank you also for giving us all the warm feels wrapped up in unapologetic love, the kind that stands up against the world.
I have only ever immediately re"read" one book, this is my second. And I think the first to be read immediately for the 3rd time. There are so many simply stated complex truths expertly woven from beginning to end.
These words have become the artillery in my war to reclaim myself.
Forever in gratitude.
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The Downstairs Girl
- By: Stacey Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 993
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 987
By day, 17-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie". When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender.
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1 out of 5 stars
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inaccurate historic details
- By kmh on 12-31-19
- The Downstairs Girl
- By: Stacey Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Did not want it to end.
Reviewed: 04-05-22
From beginning to end, it is a journey I would like to take over and over again. Thank you Ms. Lee
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Firekeeper's Daughter
- By: Angeline Boulley
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,051
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,311
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,289
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Che Meegwetch
- By Nix on 03-18-21
- Firekeeper's Daughter
- By: Angeline Boulley
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Transformative
Reviewed: 09-21-21
My heart sings for the Firekeeper's Daughter. Thank for writing this and giving us this truth.
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The Book of Lost Friends
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Sullivan Jones, Robin Miles, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,110
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,605
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,542
From the best-selling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want more!!!
- By Mrstlg on 04-11-20
- The Book of Lost Friends
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Sullivan Jones, Robin Miles, Bahni Turpin, Lisa Wingate, Lisa Flanagan, Dominic Hoffman
Enrapturing
Reviewed: 04-25-21
This journey has wrapped me up in a warm holding embrace and hasn't let go. I didn't want it to end. I would keep going wherever it would take me. For the first time, I will read a book again at once I first finished it.
Thank you dearly, Lisa Wingate, for allowing yourself to be taken and for bringing us with you. And for the cherub who whispered into your ear of the Lost Friends, my heartfelt gratitude.
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