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No Safe Secret
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful - at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage. No one in her exclusive neighborhood in Goldenhills, Massachusetts, knows what living with the demanding Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost two decades ago.
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All the stars I can give...
- By Courtney on 05-21-16
- No Safe Secret
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Good character development
Reviewed: 03-24-25
I just tried this author who is new to me as a flyer. What a delightful surprise. The story is complex. It reminds us of how strong we women can be through painful life experiences.
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Dream State
- A Novel
- By: Eric Puchner
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her in-laws’ beautiful lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a medical student with a brilliant future. Charlie asks Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate, though Cece can’t imagine anyone less appropriate for the task; Garrett doesn’t believe in love, much less marriage. But as she spends time with Garrett, and his gruff mask slips, her long-held expectations for her life with Charlie begin to crumble, her feelings for Garrett—haunted by a tragic event from his past—become impossible to bury.
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An Enthralling Listen
- By Regina on 02-20-25
- Dream State
- A Novel
- By: Eric Puchner
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
A Big Undertaking
Reviewed: 02-27-25
The complexity of the story evolves with several characters and their intertwined lives over decades. We hear of their frolics and follies, often from dream states. The approach requires deep concentration to follow as the author scatters so many seeds of emotion that it feels one has read several novels.
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The Rose Code
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything - beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets.
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My Favorite Book!!!
- By Jan M on 03-09-21
- The Rose Code
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Bringing the past alive
Reviewed: 02-07-25
The story has complex human interactions with in depth character development. Its historical setting adds to my awareness of the role of behind the scenes “fighting” in a war.
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The Tenth Circle
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
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Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father Daniel's life - a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family - and herself - seems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever?
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Definitely not one of her best
- By swaz410 on 04-17-18
- The Tenth Circle
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
Good character development
Reviewed: 11-18-24
I thought this was more mature and culturally complex than other books by this author, even though I’ve enjoyed some of those. My only dislike is that I don’t understand the meaning of the title. I do wish that had been explained better in the book.
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Ripple
- By: Michael C. Grumley
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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It began in Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of years ago, when a handful of genetic mutations caused evolution to split from the primates and mankind was born. Now, eons later, evidence of more splits from the apes is being unearthed. And with them, a disturbing realization. Ours was only one of many.
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The unbelievable-believable story continues
- By Charles on 03-11-19
- Ripple
- By: Michael C. Grumley
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Complex story
Reviewed: 09-01-24
This is storytelling at its best. The author has amazing talent and has developed it well.
It is fortunate that Scott Brick, one of the best readers ever, engaged us with pure delight.
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Past Perfect
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life - she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high tech investments - raising their teenagers, Andrew and Caroline, and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion as their new home.
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Fascinating!
- By Richard on 11-30-17
- Past Perfect
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Such a different Steel
Reviewed: 08-04-24
I never read ghost stories but I do read DS. She is such a good storyteller that one can just suspend reality.
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Breaking the Dark
- A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Meet Jessica Jones: retired superhero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK.
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Not the Lisa Jewel I'm used to
- By Yvonne Buchanan on 07-22-24
- Breaking the Dark
- A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
The lesson to young women
Reviewed: 07-21-24
Lisa Jewell makes a strong case for guiding young women believe in themselves as perfect enough
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Do No Harm
- By: Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Someone is stalking the UCLA Medical Center - a depraved madman who is preying upon the staff, particularly those who are young and female. No stranger to the terrible ravages of senseless violence, E.R. Chief Dr. David Spier must keep the emergency room running smoothly and efficiently, even as his terrified co-workers wonder who will be the next victim. But when the monster himself is dragged into the E.R. in handcuffs - hideously burned, suffering, and begging for mercy - the nightmare is far from over. It has only just begun.
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Too Much Story
- By buzzknit on 11-25-18
- Do No Harm
- By: Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Gruesome medical scenes
Reviewed: 07-14-24
The author did the medical aspect well. He writes well. That said, I’m not fond of nearly constant graphic descriptions of cruelty and injuries nor of villainous behavior so I wouldn’t read another of his books.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
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When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
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Bad ending and Immaturity
- By The Story Adict on 09-13-17
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Not for me
Reviewed: 05-03-24
Invoking a world of mythical creatures to create interest is absurd to me. Fantasy that seems so ridiculous
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
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Hidden gem, incredible narration!
- By Christine T on 05-17-22
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
Amusing
Reviewed: 05-02-24
I was surprised and pleased that the author has a sense of humor as she tells the tale that has some sad life stories.
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