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Tell Me a Story
- My Life with Pat Conroy
- By: Cassandra King Conroy
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 210
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Story5 out of 5 stars 208
Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced "Sunday wife" of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, partly because Pat hated the commute from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last 18 years, until the beloved literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016. In this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you.
- By TWP on 08-17-20
- Tell Me a Story
- My Life with Pat Conroy
- By: Cassandra King Conroy
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Lovely
Reviewed: 03-27-20
What a gift to hear those personal stories! Thank you for sharing those moments with us, his readers. He will be missed but lives forever in the pages of his beautiful works.
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The Christmas Pearl
- By: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrated by: Celia Weston
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 447
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 374
Theodora is the matriarch of a family that has grown into a bunch of truculent knuckleheads. While she's finally gotten them all together in South Carolina to celebrate, this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant, homey holidays of her childhood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Never too old to learn or to love
- By Debbie on 12-20-13
- The Christmas Pearl
- By: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrated by: Celia Weston
A Holiday Requirement
Reviewed: 12-11-18
I read this book every year. This year I listened to it. The narrator was superb. Her accent was authentic and reminded me of many ladies in my past who passed long ago. I laughed, cried and wished for more! I’ll listen again every year!
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Necessary Lies
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Alison Elliott
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,547
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,088
Best-selling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town 50 years ago, and the darkest - and most hopeful - places in the human heart. After losing her parents, 15-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister, and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her grandmother’s aging, her sister’s mental illness, and her own epilepsy, she realizes they might need more than she can give. When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County’s newest social worker, she doesn’t realize just how much her help is needed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes the truth is hard to hear. Listen anyway
- By Nana on 01-26-15
- Necessary Lies
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Alison Elliott
Wonderful Story that takes you back in time
Reviewed: 08-06-18
I absolutely loved this book. My husband and I listened as we drove to the beach and back this year. It's rare that we find a book we both enjoy. It sparked many conversations, not only about the topic dealt with in the book but about the time period and how society has changed. I look forward to reading/listening to more from Diane Chamberlain!
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