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The River Is Waiting
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrated by: Jeremy Sisto
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model.
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Dissapointed
- By Amazon Customer on 06-21-25
- The River Is Waiting
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrated by: Jeremy Sisto
So sad and so real
Reviewed: 06-28-25
I loved this book. Some of it was brutal and also very poignant. I had a good cry at the end. The characters were very real and I found the hurt and misunderstanding between them true to life. An excellent listen.
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The Lost Bookshop
- By: Evie Woods
- Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace, Olivia Mace, Nick Biadon
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder…where nothing is as it seems.
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Incredible history book story
- By Elisabeth on 10-25-23
- The Lost Bookshop
- By: Evie Woods
- Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace, Olivia Mace, Nick Biadon
Expected more
Reviewed: 06-26-25
After all the rave reviews, I was expecting a lot more. I found the story very contrived, almost as if it was forcing to include other well-known books and authors.
Many mispronunciations grated. Surely everyone knows how to say "The Seine"?
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Before You Say Goodbye
- By: Sarah Gate
- Narrated by: Freya Parker
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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When lonely author Autumn meets shy musician Bowie in New York, they fall head over heels and into their forever. But not everyone gets their happily ever after. Bowie has just six months left to live. And just like that, Autumn’s entire life has been rewritten. Embraced by his loving, unconventional family, Autumn returns with Bowie to England to live out the rest of his life by his side. But over the course of that summer, the decisions Autumn makes will help her move on, even after love and loss. Decisions, it emerges, that were orchestrated by Bowie before they said goodbye.
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Couldn't Finish
- By dana boling on 05-28-25
- Before You Say Goodbye
- By: Sarah Gate
- Narrated by: Freya Parker
Tedious
Reviewed: 05-10-25
This started well but then became utterly unbelievable. Why would she return to visit her awful mother after years of separation? The accents of the 'posh' people grated. They are all rather potty-mouthed and the constant swearing became tedious.
The death of Bowie became mawkish. I did not find the book sad but was willing for it to end.
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The Things We Leave Unfinished
- By: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrated by: Tim Paige, Carly Robins
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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A heart-wrenching new novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming.
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Touch my soul
- By Diane's Kindle on 02-27-21
- The Things We Leave Unfinished
- By: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrated by: Tim Paige, Carly Robins
Twists and turns
Reviewed: 02-02-25
Therewas a lot of repetition and this novel would have benefitted from a serious edit. it was way longer than it needed to be.
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The Scapegoat
- The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
- By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Narrated by: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
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With a novelist’s touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, sex and appallingly rudimentary medicine. These were dangerous and complicated times, an era where witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality, and Buckingham stood at its centre until his spectacular fall from grace.
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Detailed and comprehensive
- By Mrs on 01-14-25
- The Scapegoat
- The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
- By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Narrated by: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Detailed and comprehensive
Reviewed: 01-14-25
Fascinating story. However, I found frequent mispronunciations by the reader/author.
i appreciate the enormous amount of research that went into this novel. I also rnjoyed the descriptions and details of paintings and tapestries. All in all a wonderful piece of literature.
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Precipice
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents – and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history.
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Engaging
- By Amazon Customer on 07-09-25
- Precipice
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
Almost unbelievable story
Reviewed: 11-09-24
I enjoyed this book to the very last page. It is scarcely believable that a prime minister could be so indiscreet with classified information. The phrase that springs to mind is that "there is no fool like an old fool". I also found it incredible that a woman like Venetia Stanley endured his manipulation, demands and intrusion into her life. I can only assume that she was bored and liked the intrigue and the attraction for the illicit. The narration was fantastic.
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The Black Madonna
- Roundheads & Cavaliers, Book 1
- By: Stella Riley
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 22 hrs and 10 mins
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As England slides into Civil War, master-goldsmith and money-lender, Luciano Falcieri del Santi embarks on his own hidden agenda. A chance meeting one dark night results in an unlikely friendship with Member of Parliament, Richard Maxwell. Richard’s daughter, Kate - a spirited girl who vows to hold their home against both Cavalier and Roundhead - soon finds herself fighting an involuntary attraction to the clever, magnetic, and diabolically beautiful Italian.
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One of the BEST books I have ever read!
- By Bibliolatry on 06-28-19
- The Black Madonna
- Roundheads & Cavaliers, Book 1
- By: Stella Riley
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
Overly long
Reviewed: 09-24-24
The novel got off to a cracking start. However I found it became more and more belaboured. It was entertaining but I will not be listening to any more of the series.
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The House of Doors
- By: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrated by: David Oakes, Louise-Mai Newberry
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay. Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more Lesley's friendship with Willie grows, the more clearly she see him as he is—a man who has no choice but to mask his true self.
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Interesting story marred by narrator
- By Mrs on 08-29-24
- The House of Doors
- By: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrated by: David Oakes, Louise-Mai Newberry
Interesting story marred by narrator
Reviewed: 08-29-24
The female voice was all over the place. one moment an affected, stilted English voice, and implausible male voice. Also mispronounced words. I found this voice irritating and it detracted from the story.
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My Favourite Mistake
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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Anna Walsh had a dream life - according to everybody else. She lived in New York, had a long-term boyfriend, and had The Best Job In The World working as a highly successful beauty PR. So why did she decide to take a flamethrower to the lot? Because now she's back Dublin, living with her parents. She's undeniably forty-eight, with no partner, no job, and no direction. Anna's lost her purpose. She needs a new challenge to help her fall back in love with life again. When an opportunity arises to solve a PR crisis in the tiny town of Maumtully, Anna leaps at the chance.
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Wonderful as always!
- By Cathy Henderson on 01-14-25
- My Favourite Mistake
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
Belaboured
Reviewed: 08-20-24
Very drawn out and repetitive. The book needed a good edit. The long list of names at who where there, and who dropped in and who attended began to irritate. Listen to the Epilogue and you will get it!
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The Last Year of the War
- By: Susan Meissner
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa 14-year-old in 1943 - aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal US resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles.
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Historical Fiction at its Best!
- By KAT M K on 04-06-19
- The Last Year of the War
- By: Susan Meissner
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Tedious
Reviewed: 08-11-24
I found this an unconvincing story. the narration was awful wirh mispronunciations and incorrect stress on the Japanese names. It grated on me. All in all a rehash of well-known history that didn't quite gel with the fiction.
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