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Like a River
- Finding the Faith and Strength to Move Forward After Loss and Heartache
- By: Granger Smith
- Narrated by: Granger Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 535
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 499
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Story5 out of 5 stars 499
On June 4th, 2019, country music singer Granger Smith was enjoying a final evening with his kids before heading to Nashville for the CMT Music Awards and his next tour. While helping his daughter London with her gymnastics, his youngest son fell into their pool. Granger did everything he could to get to him, but he was too late. River drowned, and Granger's world shattered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book
- By Kindle Customer on 08-01-23
- Like a River
- Finding the Faith and Strength to Move Forward After Loss and Heartache
- By: Granger Smith
- Narrated by: Granger Smith
Powerful, personal, and wise
Reviewed: 09-06-23
I’ve never lost a child by drowning, but I have lost loved ones to sickness and death, my father to suicide, four precious babies who died in my womb, my baby brother to AIDS, my adult son to addiction and estrangement, my marriage, my career, my health and independence, and many other traumatic losses. I am searching for purpose and peace. Unlike Granger Smith, I do not believe that God purposefully gives people cancer and other suffering, but I do believe in the grace and power of God to transform hearts and lives through trials and losses. I needed this book, and I am grateful to have found it. Smith’s passion and love shine through the book, and he gives God all the glory for the healing of his life. Amen.
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 105,873
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 96,084
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Story5 out of 5 stars 95,862
The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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HEARTBREAKINGLY POIGNANT AND INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL
- By PatrioticMimi on 02-17-15
- The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
Riveting!
Reviewed: 09-04-23
If only I could give it ten stars, instead of five, I would. This is the best book I’ve read in a long time. The plot is intense and relentless, the characters complex and captivating. I could not stop listening from start to finish. Both the story and the narration are flawless. It is a life-altering experience.
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The Rainbow
- By: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
In The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence challenged the customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structures of his prose the fascination with boundaries and space that characterize the entire novel. A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrence's finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between men and women in an increasingly industrialized world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I don't get it
- By Sher from Provo on 08-19-13
- The Rainbow
- By: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Narcissism at its most obnoxious
Reviewed: 09-02-23
Though the book is more than 100 years old, it perfectly captures, in the final story of Ursula, today’s complete and obsessive self absorption. The first two generations, earlier in the book, were more engaging. Ursula’s story was one long, tedious wallowing in feeling and self-examination. Wildly swinging from ecstasy to agony, with many deviations along the way, then back through it all, driven all the while by worship of SELF. Perfect for today’s “It’s-ALL-about ME, ME, ME.” I’m a true literary nerd, and I like much of Lawrence’s work, but the last ten chapters made me gag. The narrator did an admirable job of slogging through hours upon hours of repetitive emotional masturbation. Yuck.
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Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 87,746
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 78,544
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Story5 out of 5 stars 78,228
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents - but they quickly realize the dark truth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I was rivetted, finished in three days.
- By Lin Cloward on 06-26-17
- Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
Heartbreaking
Reviewed: 05-28-23
Based on real events, this story tears at the heart. Complex, lovable, as well as detestable, characters come to life. The stench and the beauty of the mile-wide Mississippi permeate the atmosphere from beginning to end. Despite some predictability that begins about halfway through the book, the intricate details unwind in surprising turns, with the biggest secrets withheld until the closing chapter. An unforgettable book.
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