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The Book of Lost Friends
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Sullivan Jones, Robin Miles, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,104
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,600
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,537
From the best-selling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want more!!!
- By Mrstlg on 04-11-20
- The Book of Lost Friends
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Sullivan Jones, Robin Miles, Bahni Turpin, Lisa Wingate, Lisa Flanagan, Dominic Hoffman
EXCELLENT IN EVERY WAY
Reviewed: 04-22-20
Loved this book, the characters , the story , and the naration was excellent
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A Painted House: A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: David Lansbury
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,022
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,201
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,196
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Departure and Yet Another Solid Story
- By Christopher on 04-06-03
- A Painted House: A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: David Lansbury
Such a great book!
Reviewed: 11-27-19
This for me is one I'f those books that your sorry it's over and you know no matter how you try you'll not give another that you enjoy as much for a while. If you like books along the lines of "The Grapes of Wrath" this is a book for you! Absolutely wonderful story of a farming family of the 50's and their struggles of trying to get their crop of cotton in to the gin. They had to hire out of state people to help get their crop in before the rains came and all the troubles dealing with people working together and living together. A seven year old boy growing up on the farm and working right beside his family in the cotton field and all the other work it took to survive.
It is about good Christian faith and love of a family. It's a great book, sorry for it too end.
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The Outsider
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63,970
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57,904
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57,673
An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Will Patton great - story so so
- By Randall on 06-19-18
- The Outsider
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Story ok
Reviewed: 07-15-18
First reason I gave only 3 stars
I can't stand a author that makes polital digs within the story insulting the people that don't believe as he does.
Also, I hated the voice of Holly done by Will Patton, shockingly annoying and was such an annoyance that it effected my opinion of the book.
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The Grapes of Wrath
- By: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 21 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,147
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12,624
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,585
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic The Grapes of Wrath remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of Tom Joad and his family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires, and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wish I could give it 10 stars!
- By P. Minor on 07-18-14
- The Grapes of Wrath
- By: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
One of the best books I've ever heard!
Reviewed: 05-23-18
This book tells of the courage of our ancestors. Such great characters and told with so much feeling. Just an all around great story. So glad I went back to hear from a magnificent author from the past.
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Red Sparrow
- A Novel
- By: Jason Matthews
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,566
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,521
Drafted against her will to become a "Sparrow" - a trained seductress in the service, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America's valuable mole in Moscow.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sexy Saucy Spies
- By Mel on 06-13-13
- Red Sparrow
- A Novel
- By: Jason Matthews
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
Exciting
Reviewed: 03-05-18
Loved the characters and the story line.
Keeps your interest and informative also about the inter workings of Russia and our own CIA great book
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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 55,138
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49,655
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49,494
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
Awesome
Reviewed: 02-28-18
This book kept me glued to it. Excitement, love, adventure and disappointment but truely a great book
This book is focused around a disturbing subject... Abuse, and you get very upset with the victim but it also has so much more to it. Alaska! Its like your there.
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It's Always the Husband
- A Novel
- By: Michele Campbell
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,870
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,678
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,674
They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, despite their many differences. Kate was beautiful, wild, wealthy, and damaged. Aubrey came from the wrong side of the tracks, and wanted more than anything to distance herself from her past. Jenny was brilliant, ambitious, and determined to win big at all costs. As an unlikely alliance formed, Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny swore they would always be friends. Twenty years later, the three women - all married, and deemed successful by any measure - are together again. But one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes It's The Writer
- By Wendi on 07-12-17
- It's Always the Husband
- A Novel
- By: Michele Campbell
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Teenager plot
Reviewed: 02-21-18
Struggled through about half way just couldn't finish.
Three college girls, that are supposed to be loyal to each other, and their so called problems and romances with each other's boyfriends and their betrayals to each other. Very juvenile plot. Not my kind of book.
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Becoming Clementine
- By: Jennifer Niven
- Narrated by: Käthe Mazur
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
England, 1944. An American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother, who is missing in action. Their plane is shot down, and only she and five agents survive. Now they are on the run for their lives. As they head to Paris, the beautiful aviatrix Velva Jean Hart becomes Clementine Roux, a daring woman on a mission with her team to capture an operative known only as Swan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing, amazing book!
- By Jodie on 04-09-15
- Becoming Clementine
- By: Jennifer Niven
- Narrated by: Käthe Mazur
Great book
Reviewed: 10-25-17
This has been a great series, after the first book I was really disappointed about the narrator being different in each one. The first narrator was so wonderful and made the second book a little disappointing but after I got over it I realized that the velva Jean that was a spy was grown up and needed to be different. Velva Jean, and all the characters in these books are wonderful. you won't be sorry if you enjoy family, excitement and history. Great series, I hate it when each one ends it's so hard to find a book or series that is this good cad can't was wait to start the next adventure of Velva Jean, maybe she'll finally be a singer and find her true love
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Velva Jean Learns to Drive
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Niven
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 906
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 756
Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South. Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world." Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If Jenna Lamia reads it, I'll listen to it!
- By Susan on 12-17-09
- Velva Jean Learns to Drive
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Niven
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
Hated it to end
Reviewed: 10-11-17
This book kept me glued to it. and I was very sad for it to end.
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Ruthie Ann Miles, Kimiko Glenn, Alex Allwine, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,256
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,035
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,977
The thrilling new novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple.
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5 out of 5 stars
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***EXCELLENT*** Six stars if I could !!
- By ROBIN on 04-10-17
Very good story
Reviewed: 07-10-17
the only problem I have is the ending, anticlimactic for me. But the book was one of the best I've heard in a while.
Narrators were excellent except for the older voice of Hallie was a little annoying to me but that was probably just me.
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