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- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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After serving seventy years in prison for the murder of her sister, Eula, Della Lee has finally returned home to the Texas town of Puerto Pesar. She's free from confinement - and ready to tell her secrets before it's too late.
She finds a willing audience in journalist Mick Anders, who is reeling after his suspension from a Boston newspaper and in town, reluctantly, to investigate a mysterious portrait of Eula that reportedly sheds tears. He crosses paths with Dr. Paloma Vega, who's visiting Puerto Pesar with her own mission: to take care of her ailing grandmother and to rescue her rebellious younger sister before something terrible happens. Paloma and Mick have their reasons to be in the hot, parched border town whose name translates as "Port of Regret." But they don't anticipate how their lives will be changed forever.
Moving and engrossing, this dual story alternates between Della's dark ordeals of the 1940s and Paloma and Mick's present-day search for answers about roots, family, love, and what is truly important in life.
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EXCELLENT!!!!!
- By Boomer on 02-28-15
By: Jason F. Wright
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Winter Collection
- Six Historical Short Stories (A Timeless Romance Anthology, Book 1)
- By: Sarah M. Eden, Heidi Ashworth, Annette Lyon, and others
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Six award-winning authors have contributed brand new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Winter Collection. A collection unlike any other, listeners will love this compilation of six sweet historical romance novellas, set in varying eras, yet all with one thing in common: Romance.
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Winter
- By Manila J. Dobbs on 08-12-23
By: Sarah M. Eden, and others
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Like Dandelion Dust
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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In this moving story, Jack and Molly Campbell are enjoying a wonderful life with Joey, their four-year-old adopted son. But their world is soon shattered when they learn Joey’s biological father is out of prison and wants to begin a new life with his son. And when a judge orders them to surrender Joey, the Campbells desperately consider taking their son and disappearing—just like dandelion dust.
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A Heartfelt Tear Jerker
- By Mandy on 02-10-13
By: Karen Kingsbury
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How to Survive a Summer
- A Novel
- By: Nick White
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past - and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding his "failed rehabilitation", Will strikes out on an impromptu road trip back home to Mississippi, eventually returning to the abandoned campgrounds to solve the mysteries of that pivotal summer.
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A story full of heart and healing
- By ZippyBippy on 05-06-18
By: Nick White
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Nappily Ever After
- A Novel
- By: Trisha R. Thomas
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Venus Johnston has a great job and a long-term, live-in boyfriend who happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. She also has a weekly beauty-parlor date to keep her long, nappy hair slick and straight. But the tedious hours and harsh chemicals in the salon have long grated on Venus. One frustrating day, she trades in the long hair for a dramatically short, natural cut and sends her commitment-balking boyfriend packing. It's a bold declaration of independence and one that has effects she never could have imagined.
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Great
- By Laura K. on 08-21-09
By: Trisha R. Thomas
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Lies and Other Acts of Love
- By: Kristy Woodson Harvey
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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After 60 years of marriage and five daughters, Lynn "Lovey" White knows that all of us, from time to time, need to use our little white lies. Her granddaughter Annabelle, on the other hand, is as truthful as they come. She always does the right thing - that is until she dumps her hedge fund manager fiance and marries a musician she has known for three days. After all, her grandparents fell in love at first sight....
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One big giant cheese ball
- By Book.Lover 1350 on 06-16-19
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The Undoing of Saint Silvanus
- By: Beth Moore
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close. She hadn't seen him - or her grandmother, the ice queen - in almost 20 years. But when Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, called and said her expenses would be paid if she'd fly in for the burial, a free trip to New Orleans was too intriguing to resist.
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Classic Beth, highly recommend!!
- By Susan on 12-22-16
By: Beth Moore
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Ties That Bind
- A Novel
- By: Cindy Woodsmall
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Twenty-year-old Ariana Brenneman loves her family and the Old Ways. She has two aspirations: open a café in historic Summer Grove to help support her family's ever-expanding brood and keep any other Amish from being lured into the Englisch life by Quill Schlabach. Five years ago Quill and her dear friend, Frieda, ran off together, and Ariana still carries the wounds of that betrayal. When she unexpectedly encounters him, she soon realizes he has plans to help someone else she loves leave the Amish.
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excellent! I can't wait for the next installment
- By Kindle Customer on 01-05-16
By: Cindy Woodsmall
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Home Before Dark
- By: Susan Wiggs
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby Sirois
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past 16 years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering crisis, she's decided to fix the broken pieces of her heart and seek out Lila, even if it means she has to upset the world of Lila's adoptive mother...her very own sister, Luz.
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May Be Susan Wiggs Worst
- By C. Scarborough on 06-24-12
By: Susan Wiggs
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A Thousand Tomorrows
- Cody Gunner, Book 1
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrated by: Joey Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Kingsbury, a CBA best-selling author, delivers her signature mix of melodrama and genuine emotional punch in this novel about two young rodeo stars and their experiences with Down syndrome and cystic fibrosis.
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Always a Great Read
- By Kindle Customer on 09-03-17
By: Karen Kingsbury
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
- By: Naomi Jackson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- By Eme on 07-16-15
By: Naomi Jackson
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The Other Mother
- By: Rachel Harper
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, William DeMeritt
- Length: 14 hrs
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Jenry Castillo is a musical prodigy, raised by a single mother in Miami, who arrives at Brown University on a scholarship—but also to learn more about his late father, Jasper Patterson, a famous ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. On his search, he meets his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a legendary professor of African American history and a fixture at the Ivy League school, who explodes his world with one question: Why is Jenry so focused on Jasper, when it was Winston’s daughter, Juliet, who was Jenry’s mother’s lover?
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Very good.
- By Roland Harper on 05-22-22
By: Rachel Harper
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- Auntie JoJo 607
- 06-25-19
Good Story
Well structured, the story switched settings at just the right time. I enjoyed the narration.
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- Rosie
- 05-20-17
Excellent
Loved it! Could not stop listening and was Wowed by the plot twist!! I could read this over and over!!
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- Josie
- 09-17-17
what a book!!!
What made the experience of listening to Before the Rain Falls the most enjoyable?
when I first started listening i was not that interesting about listening to it. the book for me was a little bit boring at the beginning but after couple hours of listening I wanted to find out more about what really happened to the sister. im so happy I finished the book, it was amazing ,I even cried through the book. it's worth listening, im sure you will love as much I did.
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- Kindle Customer D. C.
- 09-26-17
Before the Rain Falls
I found this very well written book to be extremely unbelievable and depressing. I won't recommend it to any of my friends or family. Such a sad book.
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- Edub007
- 09-16-17
Tragic and happy at the same time
This book captured my attention from the very beginning. I didn't want to stop reading it. There were times it was warm and hopeful and full of love. Then there were times where it made me want to cry. This is an excellent read and highly recommended.
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- Jeanie D
- 12-29-18
A Sister's Love
Camille Di Maio is an author that we will see a lot of in the future. This work of women’s literature shows unusual character depth, insight of a woman’s heart, and what women will do for her family members. There are surprises throughout, but the ending is beyond what I could have guessed.
Readers will go back and forth from the mid-to-late 1940’s to present day Puerto Pesar, and various years between at Goree State, then Mountain View prisons in Texas. Della Lee has been in prison for 70 years for the murder of her sister Eula Lee, the Songbird of Puerto Pesar. She has just been released and goes back to the home she lived in with her family many decades earlier…actually, until her wedding day, when Eula Lee died and Della was arrested.
Mick Anders is a down-and-out journalist whose desire to get the biggest scoops overcame his desire for telling the truth about people and events in a way that the common man can grasp. He went to Puerto Pesar, a far cry from Boston, to do a piece on a painting of Eula Lee hanging at the local parish that appears to be weeping. His intention is to get the story and get out of the hot desert town, until two things occur. He meets Dr. Paloma Vega. He also hears about Della Lee Trujillo’s recent release from seven decades in prison. Perhaps he can get a story on the elderly lady and get back in the good graces of an editor.
Paloma is a recent graduate with a new position awaiting in New York City. She is in town to help her younger sister Mercedes care for Abuela, recovering from a heart attack. She has many memories of Abuela and how she took in two orphaned grandchildren. Paloma sees how frail Abuela is and begins to understand Mercedes’ animosity towards her, how she felt abandoned when Paloma left her to go to college. Yet she has a job to return to, a life in New York. Meeting Mick and accompanying him to meet Miss Lee.
Della, Paloma, and Mick and the primary characters, and I grew fond of each of them throughout the novel. They are very well defined, and while their friendship might be unconventional, it will change each of them. Della and Paloma are my favorites, and in some ways the story ended far too quickly.
This is a fabulous novel that is at times very dark and painful, and at other times showing what has become important in each of the characters’ lives and if those jewels of goals are really worth the cost. The end brought surprises I would never have anticipated, and the end is more than satisfactory. I really enjoyed this novel, and highly recommend it to those who appreciate women’s literature with strong characters, struggles, and ultimately joy.
The narrator is excellent; she enhances the novel through voice inflections, character changes, and a clear voice that rings through both dark memories and sunlit prose.
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- picky senior
- 10-20-17
Good story
Didn't care for the narrator. she ended each sentence as if it were a question
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- Robyn Soares
- 10-09-17
Before the Rain Falls: A Family Love Novel
Nice variety of characters. Unexpected story line. Ending really surprised me. Loved the details around everything besides the people. A very adequate performance.
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- Judy King
- 06-03-19
Favorite book of the year so far
What an unusual story and what great characters. I couldn't quit listening... I had to know more about my favorite new friends in Puerto Pesar, the Port of Regret, a sleepy, dusty Texas border town.... There's Dr Paloma Vega who has come home to be sure her beloved grandmother is recovering from the heart attack and that her out of control teenaged sister is reined back in. Add the Boston reporter in town to investigate reports that a portrait of long dead Euka Lee is crying real tears. And then the 90 year old Della Lee arrives back in town. Finally paroled after serving a life sentence for killing her younger sister, the beautiful and talented Eula, just hours after Dellas wedding to the former ranch hand. What a story this is. The characters are so rich and so true
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- Babbs
- 09-04-17
Religion once again misused
The book is long and too much in 1st person's head. How stupid can one be "religion " is the answer. How can Delia believe she can fool G
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