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My Friends
- A Novel
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier.
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How can he keep doing this? Another masterpiece!
- By Blue on 05-08-25
- My Friends
- A Novel
- By: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Backman’s satire
Reviewed: 07-06-25
The satire was a little harsh in the beginning, but once I knew what to expect, the story was actually very meaningful and touching
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Conditional Citizens
- On Belonging in America
- By: Laila Lalami
- Narrated by: Laila Lalami
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to US citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and protections.
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Blew my mind!
- By Leila Jaafari on 10-20-20
- Conditional Citizens
- On Belonging in America
- By: Laila Lalami
- Narrated by: Laila Lalami
A negative and bitter and ungrateful naturalized American citizen
Reviewed: 03-22-25
there is no country on this planet that does not have immigration laws and or problems. But she makes it sound like USA is the worst country on earth.
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Dead Med
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso, Scott Merriman
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.
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Loved the Different Points of View
- By Elizabeth M. Costa on 08-26-24
- Dead Med
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso, Scott Merriman
silly and girly
Reviewed: 01-01-25
no depth to this story… Just a dumb blonde in medical school. Narrators do a good job. Constant eye roll.
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A Great Country
- A Novel
- By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple.
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Get ready!
- By C Schoeneck on 03-27-24
- A Great Country
- A Novel
- By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
reader is excellent
Reviewed: 12-03-24
pretty negative and preaching, but I kept listening because the reader was so excellent and interesting
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Pearl of China
- By: Anchee Min
- Narrated by: Angela Lin
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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An internationally best-selling author, Anchee Min draws upon her Chinese heritage to pen lush historical epics. Here she transports listeners to the Far East for a fictionalized account of acclaimed author Pearl Buck’s youth. Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable, even as civil war, failed relationships, and world conflicts threaten all they hold dear.
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Utterly Fascinating
- By Lesley on 08-15-10
- Pearl of China
- By: Anchee Min
- Narrated by: Angela Lin
amazing history
Reviewed: 08-24-24
I loved the story, the history, the characters. The performance of the reader is extraordinary- and she has a very beautiful singing voice!
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is persuade his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading “north,” where new jobs and safety await. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy reassures passengers on the station platform every day.
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Timeliness and timelessness
- By JStan on 02-25-24
- The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
Graphic Violence
Reviewed: 02-05-24
I have loved ALL books by Mitch Albom. THIS one is so violent that it made my sister burst in to tears.
Unexpected graphic violence not to be expected - no warning.
I am traumatized by this book.
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The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris
- By: Daisy Wood
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow, Tom Lawrence
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Juliette and her husband have finally made it to France on the romantic getaway of her dreams—but as the days pass, all she discovers is quite how far they’ve grown apart. She’s craving a new adventure, so when she happens across a tiny, abandoned shop with a for-sale sign in the window, it feels fated. And she’s about to learn that the forgotten bookshop hides a lot more than meets the eye.
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WWII Historical Fiction
- By Mona-Alisa on 04-04-23
- The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris
- By: Daisy Wood
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow, Tom Lawrence
I loved half of the story
Reviewed: 10-07-23
The World War II part was wonderful the 2022 parts were terrible and romantically. Ridiculous. Too bad. Because I loved the historical part.
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Pineapple Lies
- Pineapple Port Mysteries 1
- By: Amy Vansant
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Growing up in one of Florida's age-55-plus communities, Charlotte never expected life to be wild. Golf cart racing with her surrogate mothers Mariska and Darla was about as nutty as life got... until she found the hot pawnbroker's mom buried in her backyard.
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Laugh your way to the murder solution!
- By MolllyT on 08-09-15
- Pineapple Lies
- Pineapple Port Mysteries 1
- By: Amy Vansant
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
Light hearted and silly
Reviewed: 09-21-23
Just a fun and silly story. Nothing bad about it, but I really wasn’t interested.
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue
- A Novel
- By: Fiona Davis
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life - her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open.
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Exhilarating
- By Joanna Butler on 08-20-20
- The Lions of Fifth Avenue
- A Novel
- By: Fiona Davis
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Lisa Flanagan
Pretty Good
Reviewed: 06-08-23
How to say on the whole that I enjoyed it call, but some of the conclusions were a bit far-fetched.
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At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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The irresistible wit and charm of Alexander McCall Smith's New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series has won over countless fans. The same subtle humor and enchanting characterizations are full on display in At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the third entertaining novella starring Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld.
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Ridiculously Fun
- By E. Pearson on 09-30-09
- At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
not the best of Alexander McCall Smith
Reviewed: 04-13-23
I am a big fan of all of his books, except this one. I guess I will just look forward to the next one.
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