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Never Far Away
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state's protected witness program. But for this second chance at life, Leah would have to leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine. Alone and isolated along the banks of the Allagash River, she is determined to focus on the present, on her reclaimed future, but the demons of her past, are relentlessly chipping away at Leah's protected hideaway.
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Unfinished business
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 03-10-21
- Never Far Away
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Entertaining
Reviewed: 05-31-25
I love the narrator. He kept the story moving g along without me getting annoyed by the way the story was read.
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An Honest Man
- A Novel
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht–including two Senate rivals–Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious woman greets him with a hatchet and a promise: “Make a sound and I’ll kill you.”
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Electrifying and entertaining
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 07-26-23
- An Honest Man
- A Novel
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Wonderfully read.
Reviewed: 05-20-25
The narrator kept us glued to the story. Even my grandson was following along during we were in the car.
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The Forbidden
- The Ancestors Saga, Book 1
- By: Lori Holmes
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Rebaa’s adopted tribe lies slaughtered behind her. Rebaa’s lover, Juran, lays down his life for hers, and now she must use all of her cunning and extraordinary powers to survive the inhospitable wilderness alone, ensuring that Juran’s sacrifice was not in vain.
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Not Compelled to Finish
- By carol thunderdance on 01-15-22
- The Forbidden
- The Ancestors Saga, Book 1
- By: Lori Holmes
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
Slow
Reviewed: 07-24-24
The first book tends to drag on. How many times can one person find herself in danger. I continued to listen hoping it would get better. The second story line regarding her son was better
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The Forgotten Cottage
- By: Courtney Ellis
- Narrated by: Lorna Bennett, Helen Laser
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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England, 2014: Audrey Collins knows only two things about her beloved grandmother's past: She was born into nobility and she immigrated to America at seventeen years old. So when Audrey inherits her gran's home in North Yorkshire, she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords and ladies. Instead, she finds an abandoned stone cottage perfectly preserved as Gran left it when she fled in 1941—ration book and all—and begins to uncover what secrets her family has been keeping.
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Great book.
- By Kathy H. on 05-15-23
- The Forgotten Cottage
- By: Courtney Ellis
- Narrated by: Lorna Bennett, Helen Laser
A love story through and through. I enjoyed the time period in which it took place
Reviewed: 04-29-24
It tended to drag on in some places which made me impatient and frustrated with the story.
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Lie to Me
- By: Molly McAdams
- Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Tim Paige
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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If my childhood taught me anything, it was to survive. Now I have a deep-rooted mistrust of people and a wall of steel and ice surrounding my heart. So, when Reed Ryan steps into my life, I know I need to keep him far away. He’s everything I grew up hating. Fighting. Fleeing. Devastatingly handsome, he looks like a drunken regret and has heartbreak written over every inch of his body - literally. He’s the quintessential bad boy...and he’s a cop. But the man is my undoing.
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All the feels!
- By Michell Casper on 06-23-21
- Lie to Me
- By: Molly McAdams
- Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Tim Paige
The devotion and a grandmothers love
Reviewed: 02-13-24
The story drugged on and needed more context. I found myself board with the ongoing story
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The Other Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died suddenly. Grief stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three month before. He's an earl, respected and influential, and he is standing with another daughter - his legitimate daughter.
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Excellent!
- By Maine Knitter on 07-22-15
- The Other Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
The cleverness
Reviewed: 02-04-24
I enjoyed the wit of the characters. It was a bit predictable but a nice book to listen to. I was looking forward to a reunion. I do believe the wife knew about her
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Miss Pearly's Girls
- By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Raising four very different daughters on her own in rural Arkansas wasn't easy for Miss Pearly Bell. And she's always regretted that the sisters went their separate ways for good - and never wanted to see each other again. But when Pearly is stricken with a terminal illness, she summons them all home - determined to somehow help them get right with each other and forgive.... But that means dealing with past secrets and lies first.
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Felt like family
- By Gregory Cody on 04-16-22
- Miss Pearly's Girls
- By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
Family importance
Reviewed: 01-25-24
The story move VERY slowly and the narrator just about put me to sleep. Wasted money.
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The Forgotten Room
- By: Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett, Susan Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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It's 1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?
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The same story 3 times over...
- By Amazon Customer on 03-30-16
- The Forgotten Room
- By: Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett, Susan Bennett
Enchanted
Reviewed: 11-10-23
I love how it took me through the timelines of all the characters lives. It kept me entertained.
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Thunderhead
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
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Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written 16 years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich - the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country, but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors.
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Brain Candy
- By Leesa Morrow on 08-31-10
- Thunderhead
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Perfectly performed
Reviewed: 10-26-23
The story was worth every minute spent listening to the book. The narrator kept it interesting. I’d definitely recommend it.
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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
Well narrated.
Reviewed: 09-20-23
I love the story line and how beautifully it was narrated. Even though it was without a doubt that she would would marry (don’t want to say who-folks need to read the book) the story flowed and kept me interested.
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