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The Great Alone
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53,594
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 48,186
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48,024
Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: He will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Long, Hard Slog Through Endless Despair and Heartache
- By Morro Schreiber on 04-11-18
- The Great Alone
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
I almost quit listening...
Reviewed: 05-30-18
I almost quit listening halfway through but glad I didn't . The second half of the book was better for me, but the end was a hit predictable.
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Behind Her Eyes
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Pinborough
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Josie Dunn, Bea Holland, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,007
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,287
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18,272
Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar, and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she's thrilled she finally connected with someone. When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man from the bar. The very married man from the bar...who says the kiss was a terrible mistake but who still can't keep his eyes off Louise. And then Louise bumps into Adele, who’s new to town and in need of a friend. But she also just happens to be married to David.
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3 out of 5 stars
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HATED the ending
- By Katherine Olson on 02-20-17
- Behind Her Eyes
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Pinborough
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Josie Dunn, Bea Holland, Huw Parmenter
I don't get it?
Reviewed: 06-14-17
Any additional comments?
OK, I just don't get it...the dreams...the second door...Was it the drugs? I was hoping it would all come together for me at the end but it just confused me more.
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Happiness for Beginners
- By: Katherine Center
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,043
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,840
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,836
A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even more annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Garbage
- By D Car on 07-08-16
- Happiness for Beginners
- By: Katherine Center
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Started slow.
Reviewed: 09-23-16
I actually started this book and quit once, before I started it up again, just because I had nothing else to listen to. It got better for me as it went along. I didn't hate it.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
- A Novel
- By: Maria Semple
- Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,456
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Story4 out of 5 stars 15,436
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misleading cover contains excellent novel
- By JillHen on 01-28-16
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette
- A Novel
- By: Maria Semple
- Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
Weird, but good.
Reviewed: 08-03-16
Weird, but good. I enjoyed it and will pursue books by this author in the future. I thought the narration was good, which is something I am usually critical of.
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The History of Love
- By: Nicole Krauss
- Narrated by: George Guidall, Barbara Caruso, Julia Gibson, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,716
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,891
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,907
Nicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories. Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our finest and freshest literary voices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like Garcia-Marquez on Anti-Pschyotics
- By Jane on 10-14-08
- The History of Love
- By: Nicole Krauss
- Narrated by: George Guidall, Barbara Caruso, Julia Gibson, Andy Paris
I don't understand all the glowing reviews!
Reviewed: 08-11-15
What disappointed you about The History of Love?
It's slooow. It's boring. I can't connect with any of the characters.
I couldn't finish it. I made myself listen to over half of it, feeling like I have to finish it, waiting for a turning point where it would come together for me and I would start feeling better about it. Finally, I said enough is enough and decided to move on.
What could Nicole Krauss have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
She wrote it fine, I just couldn't get into it. It happens sometimes.
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Fly Away Home
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Weiner
- Narrated by: Judith Light
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 943
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 502
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Story4 out of 5 stars 505
From the number-one New York Times best-selling author, a novel about three very different women who become friends while seeking refuge in an old beach house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By Jayne Greeley on 07-25-10
- Fly Away Home
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Weiner
- Narrated by: Judith Light
It's what you expect from Jennifer Weiner
Reviewed: 06-03-15
If you’ve listened to books by Jennifer Weiner before, how does this one compare?
I generally like Jennifer Weiner because I know what I am going to get. It's a light, easy listen, and normal chick-lit. Nothing out of the ordinary, no surprises here.
Any additional comments?
There is a politician married to the typical politician's wife. The politician cheats with a younger girl. There are two daughters, one an ER doctor with a boring husband, who is having an affair himself, and then a daughter who is a recovering drug addict and the black sheep of the family. Oh, and there is grandma with a lot of opinions. The mom and two daughters end up getting together and bond over their problems and then they have thanksgiving dinner and everybody lives happily ever after.
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The Matchmaker
- A Novel
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,256
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,248
In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her. Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Entertaining
- By CLT on 09-01-15
- The Matchmaker
- A Novel
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Predictable
Reviewed: 05-05-15
No surprises here. Every storyline is very predictable. It is ok to listen to if you need some background noise or need something that you don't need to concentrate real hard on.
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The Interestings
- A Novel
- By: Meg Wolitzer
- Narrated by: Jen Tullock
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,688
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,354
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,366
The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age 15 is not always enough to propel someone through life at age 30; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs a better title, but a good read (listen)
- By Tango on 04-12-13
- The Interestings
- A Novel
- By: Meg Wolitzer
- Narrated by: Jen Tullock
Hmmm...
Reviewed: 02-27-15
A book this long needs a big ending and I don't feel that we got that. It was anti-climatic. The story was good but nothing spectacular. The narration was good.
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Hidden
- By: Catherine McKenzie
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Angela Dawe, Amy McFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 397
While walking home from work one evening, Jeff Manning is struck by a car and killed. Two women fall to pieces at the news: His wife, Claire, and his co-worker Tish. Reeling from her loss, Claire must comfort her grieving son as well as contend with funeral arrangements, well-meaning family members, and the arrival of Jeff's estranged brother, who was her ex-boyfriend. Tish volunteers to attend the funeral on her company's behalf, but only she knows the true risk of inserting herself into the wreckage of Jeff's life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Voice of Claire
- By Anonymous User on 05-15-14
- Hidden
- By: Catherine McKenzie
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Angela Dawe, Amy McFadden
Unmemorable
Reviewed: 12-09-14
Any additional comments?
I saw this in my audiobook library and thought it was one I didn't listen to yet. Then I read the summary and was like, "Oh, yeah, that one." And it hasn't even been two months since I listened to it.
So, I guess that means its pretty unmemorable.
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First Love
- By: James Patterson, Emily Raymond
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4 out of 5 stars 150
Axi Moore is a "good girl": She studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that what she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can tell is her best friend, Robinson - who she also happens to be madly in love with. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree to out-of-control....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Close To Home - Thumbs Up
- By GH on 01-28-14
- First Love
- By: James Patterson, Emily Raymond
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
An OK Y.A. story
Reviewed: 12-09-14
Would you be willing to try another one of Lauren Fortgang’s performances?
Maybe...if she doesn't try to be a teenage boy again. It wasn't convincing and distracting at first.
Was First Love worth the listening time?
Sure, it passed my time appropriately while I was traveling.
Any additional comments?
This is very much a Young Adult / Teenage novel. Not sure what I was expecting?? It was OK, nothing special, a nice little story.
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