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In the year 1912, 19-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains – and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But her faith will be severely challenged by trial and tragedy, by the needs and unique strengths of two remarkable young men, and by a heart torn between true love and unwavering devotion. And don't miss another heart-soaring best seller from Catherine Marshall: Julie.
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The Helper
- By: Catherine Marshall
- Narrated by: Renee Ertl
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In The Helper, Catherine Marshall gives you a revealing introduction to the Holy Spirit. She shares forty inspirational messages which contain pertinent Scripture, a prayer, and insight into this mysterious Person of the Godhead. Marshall pulls from her intense study of the Holy Spirit and her life experiences to give you answers to questions such as: Who is the Helper?
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Absolute must listen/read for every Christian!
- By Kurtpm on 05-12-16
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Mrs. Mike
- By: Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of Canada to life and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.
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How could I have missed this all these years?
- By Dale C. Farran on 01-30-10
By: Benedict Freedman, and others
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When Calls the Heart
- Canadian West, Book 1
- By: Janette Oke
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care.
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No regrets
- By Anonymous User on 02-16-18
By: Janette Oke
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Julie
- By: Catherine Marshall
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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Julie Wallace is just eighteen in 1934 when her father risks their life savings on a struggling newspaper and moves the family to a flood-prone Pennsylvania town. It is here a young woman's convictions take firm root, as Julie finds herself taking sides when battle lines are drawn between desperate steelworkers and the mill owners who control their lives.
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Excellent story, excellent narration!
- By Sarah's Mom on 04-18-21
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The Bridge to Cutter Gap
- Christy Series, Book 1
- By: Catherine Marshall
- Narrated by: Jaimee Draper
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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Christy Huddleston's dream is to teach poor mountain children. Join Christy as she crosses from the familiar world of parties and pretty things to the different world of Cutter Gap, located in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. There she meets the doctor who needs her help to save a life and the handsome minister who helps her face the challenges of teaching and loving the mountain people.
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Nice story, but I'm a bit confused.
- By Crochetaway on 10-24-12
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A Man Called Peter
- The Story of Peter Marshall
- By: Catherine Marshall
- Narrated by: Renee Ertl
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Filled with humor, wisdom and loving detail, the powerful story of Peter Marshall's life has touched the hearts and minds of millions of people. It's a story about love--the love between a dynamic man and his God, and the tender love between a man and the woman he married. It is also the gripping adventure of a poor Scottish immigrant who became chaplain of the United States Senate and one of the most revered men in America.
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Great content, sad performance.
- By JamesOtis on 10-09-11
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The Helper
- By: Catherine Marshall
- Narrated by: Renee Ertl
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In The Helper, Catherine Marshall gives you a revealing introduction to the Holy Spirit. She shares forty inspirational messages which contain pertinent Scripture, a prayer, and insight into this mysterious Person of the Godhead. Marshall pulls from her intense study of the Holy Spirit and her life experiences to give you answers to questions such as: Who is the Helper?
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Absolute must listen/read for every Christian!
- By Kurtpm on 05-12-16
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Mrs. Mike
- By: Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of Canada to life and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.
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How could I have missed this all these years?
- By Dale C. Farran on 01-30-10
By: Benedict Freedman, and others
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When Calls the Heart
- Canadian West, Book 1
- By: Janette Oke
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care.
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No regrets
- By Anonymous User on 02-16-18
By: Janette Oke
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Pollyanna
- By: Eleanor Porter, Neil Reed
- Narrated by: Jill Winternitz
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The 'glad game' she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, the lonely and the plain miserable - until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesn't know how to feel glad about it.
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Marvelous!
- By Rachel T. on 06-17-23
By: Eleanor Porter, and others
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Tisha
- The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
- By: Robert Specht, Anne Purdy
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920s to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there.
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Life is Better than Fiction
- By Betababe on 01-12-18
By: Robert Specht, and others
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The Endless Steppe
- Growing Up in Siberia
- By: Esther Hautzig
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Poland, 1940. The Russian army invades the beautiful city streets of Vilna. Soldiers storm 10-year-old Esther Rudomin's house and arrest her entire family. The Rudomins, the soldiers say, are "capitalists - enemies of the people". Forced from their home and friends, the Rudomins are herded onto crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia.
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Not just a children's book! A+TRUE story&narrative
- By B on 02-10-12
By: Esther Hautzig
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Gap Creek
- The Story of a Marriage
- By: Robert Morgan
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man", they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just 17 she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better. But Julie and Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the 19th century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined.
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One of the best books...love it!!!
- By mountaingal on 01-30-23
By: Robert Morgan
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Appalachian Daughter
- By: Mary Jane Salyers
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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On the last day of eighth grade, Maggie begins to dream of finding a way to escape the drudgery and confinement of life in the hollow and establish her independence. Her plan begins to fall in place when she enters high school and discovers she has a natural talent for excelling in shorthand, typing, and other business classes. Meanwhile she spares no effort in helping her family continue to survive despite their poverty, a less than fertile few acres, and a family history of instability.
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Heartwarming story
- By G'amazing on 12-22-19
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A Chance to Die
- The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
- By: Elisabeth Elliot
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as "Amma," or "mother," as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. Amy's life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires and dreams, faults and fears, who gave her life unconditionally to serve her Master.
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Amazing!
- By Rosalie Alderman on 01-26-25
By: Elisabeth Elliot
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Jane of Lantern Hill
- By: L.M. Montgomery
- Narrated by: Lauren Saunders
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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For as long as she can remember, Jane Stuart and her mother have lived with her controlling grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead, so she was shocked to receive an invitation to stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island. But from their very first meeting, Jane fell in love with her charming father and his whimsical cottage. During her stay with him, she even found herself daring to dream that there could be such a house back in Toronto.
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Adore the book. The recording needs to be EDITED!
- By Island Girl on 06-17-20
By: L.M. Montgomery
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At Home in Mitford
- A Novel
- By: Jan Karon
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
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It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's 60 years old.
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Loved it
- By Sara on 01-29-14
By: Jan Karon
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
- By: Jean Lee Latham, Jim Weiss
- Narrated by: Jim Weiss
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Winner of the American Library Association's 1956 Newberry Award! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch tells the inspiring, true adventures of Nat Bowditch, a boy during the American Revolution. Nat's passion for learning and his unstoppable spirit lead him from poverty and servitude to triumph and adventure at sea. Ultimately, Nat achieves everlasting fame for revolutionizing navigation, thus streamlining voyages and saving countless lives.
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amazing view of Nats lifr
- By jennifer hilger on 09-06-24
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Call the Midwife
- A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
- By: Jennifer Worth
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
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The best book I've listened to this year
- By Richard on 06-12-13
By: Jennifer Worth
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Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle; The Story of Doctor Dolittle; Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
- By: Hugh Lofting
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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Rediscover the children’s literature classic with three novels from the beloved series: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office!
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A wonderful bedtime story!
- By Holly Masri on 05-02-20
By: Hugh Lofting
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The Dentist
- DS Cross, Book 1
- By: Tim Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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DS George Cross can be rude, difficult and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force. So when his police colleagues dismiss the death of a man as a squabble among Bristol's homeless community, Detective Sergeant George Cross is not convinced.
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Unique Detective Story
- By Lia on 06-11-22
By: Tim Sullivan
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- E.F.B.
- 08-03-18
An impactful story, but not for the sensitive
This is going to be a complicated review. In my opinion, Christy is a good book, just maybe not for all audiences. I'm giving it a solid 3.5 stars for "didn't-love-didn't-hate-but-liked-it-more-than-3 stars-but-not-quite-4-stars". There were things I liked and things I didn't like and things that simply were. Things that were uplifting and things that were depressing.
I liked Christy herself for the most part. She was lively, and an entertaining narrator. It was good to watch her grow and mature, and her faith journey was especially touching. The thing I disliked was her romantic journey. She was the most immature in that area, and had that immature attitude of, "If I'm not in love with him, then why do I have tingles when he kisses me?" Just guessing, but that might be hormones, maybe? Love should be so much more than physical attraction and tingles, dear. I also didn't like her main love interest hardly at all, which brings me to my next point.
David, her love interest, didn't seem like a bad guy at first, but the more she got to know him the more I disliked him. The man was in the ministry, not because he genuinely felt a calling, but because *other people* thought the ministry would suit him, and he was just there to do a job he was assigned to do, with no real love for the people. On top of that, he would preach fiery sermons using Scripture to back himself up, but then we find out that he doesn't even believe everything in the Bible, and is so unsure of his own faith that when Christy asks what he believes and why, he gets defensive/condescending saying she's "diving into deep theological waters" and he "doesn't want to confuse her". Um...who was the one who was just saying how unsure he was about the existence of heaven, Jesus' miracles being true miracles, etc. and keeps referring to debates back at the theological seminary rather than his own solid beliefs? You, not her.
Then there was the other love interest: Dr. McNeill. To be honest, I was neutral about him throughout most of the book. I never thought he seemed as arrogant as Christy thought he was at first, though he had a strong personality. And while I didn't agree with what he believed, at least he knew WHY he believed it, unlike David.
A character I was not neutral about was Miss Alice, who may have been my favorite side character in the whole story. She was a woman of integrity and strong, unwavering faith, who made for an excellent mentor and friend for Christy and others, and her personal story held interesting surprises.
There were other likable side characters as well, Fairlight and Ruby May coming to mind first. I also liked several of the school children and enjoyed loved the difference Christy made in her student's lives by actively showing them love even when it was difficult.
For the story itself, as I said at the start, it's a good story, but not necessarily suitable for all readers, due to differences in personal taste, and some content issues. It could be very uplifting seeing Christy's accomplishments and the sweet personal connections she made with individuals in the community, and ultimately, the change she brought to the community is the heart and point of the story. At the same time, the story didn't pull punches when it came to thematic elements and there were things that happened that could be considered depressing, and some things that aren't appropriate for readers of all ages. The mountain community lived in desperate poverty and ignorance, and just like back in the day when their ancestors lived in Scotland, there was little in the way of traditional law enforcement, and family feuds and acts of revenge that sometimes resulted in murder were the norm. There were other illegal acts as well, like the making and selling of illegal moonshine, the discovery of which could also lead to murder.
On top of this, there were medical things that some could find icky. (One time in particular, I listened while eating breakfast to the part where one character gets double pneumonia and...ugh...I wish I hadn't.) Some descriptions of illness and one surgery, while not graphic to an extreme, could be more than some people want to read, especially as nearly the entire last third of the book centers around an epidemic of typhoid in the community, and that is one nasty disease that, sadly, caused a number of deaths, thus adding to the depressingness.
And finally, and probably the most problematic were a mention of rape and the discovery that rape is part of the backstory of one prominent side character. When this character made this revelation, this was probably the one place where I thought a description went farther than it should have. The sex act was not described, but the character did mention where the wicked, evil, DESPICABLE excuse for humanity touched her, and I thought she should not have included this detail as it went from the simple knowledge that the evil person touched her inappropriately to being asked to picture *where* he touched her, and that's not something that needs to be pictured, especially as the mere knowledge that it happened was sickening enough to begin with.
Now, having said that^ I will make note that hearing about the positive way the community supported this character when they found out what happened was uplifting. The individual's parents and the Quaker community, one older woman in particular, rallied around her and protected her from gossip, ensuring that she and her child felt loved, not rejected. Her experience also taught them that they'd neglected educating their girl children about natural bodily acts like sex so they are not ignorant lambs among wolves if an evil person was to come into the community again with the intention of taking advantage of them.
All things considered, Christy is a complex book. I can see why those who have loved it over the years loved it, as it is very uplifting in some ways and, minus a little confusing moment, I liked the way it ended. At the same time, it is depressing in places, and with the hatred, revenge, icky medical descriptions, and one instance of a remembered rape, I was unable to completely fall in love with it, hence my rating of 3.5. Still, there is a reason this is a classic, and I think the right audience will enjoy it very much.
Content advisory for those who want to know:
Due to limits on review length, I cannot detail the content issues as I normally would, but I'll say that I would not personally recommend this book for anyone under the age of 16, maybe older depending on the individual, due to sexual content and themes as well as heavier themes that may be too much for young children.
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- Karri
- 05-12-14
One of the best
Would you listen to Christy again? Why?
One of the best stories I have heard in a very long time. Very well written. I did not want it to end.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Christy?
The end was beautiful.
What about Kellie Martin’s performance did you like?
Perfect narration.
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- Leandra S
- 05-12-20
Excellent
I laughed, I cried. This is a beautifully written book. Amazing story. So many nuggets of wisdom.
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- Kathleen Wadworth
- 05-05-21
The Best!!
I read this book when I was a young girl twice because I loved it so much. Now about 50 years later I read it it’s wonderful!
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- Michelle Kazanjian
- 12-12-20
Christy
I loved this story at 57 as much as I did at 20. I was afraid it would be trite when I came back to it as a mature person- but the characters were complex and the nuances of the situation were intact.
The narrator, however was not very good. At times the stiffness of the Narration made some of the most poignant scenes sound forced and the characters contrived and this was irritating.
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- Mrs. B
- 06-29-19
Excellent!
No wonder this is considered a classic! It’s an excellent story. And Kellie Martin does an excellent job of reading it. The language and pronunciation of the Appalachian people is beautifully read by her, something one would miss if reading it for oneself. It’s so good that I plan to listen again—all 19+ hours!
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- Ashley E
- 10-20-17
Amazing and uplifting
Amazing and uplifting audio book Kellie Martin is the true Christy and hap p we get somewhat a conclusion in the book than the show Christy and McNeil fan their scenes in the book made my heart melt
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- Kim
- 06-20-22
Beautiful story and narration
A favorite audio book listed to many times over the years. Bittersweet story of an idealistic girl’s journey of becoming an adult. Wish that Kellie would narrate other titles. Her voice fits perfectly with the main character.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-16-22
Why condensed?
I read this book many times.
It is one of the best books ever written.
Why, oh why did you left out portions of it?!?
It took away from the relationship between Christy & Neil. And some other parts. It is heartbreaking.
Will have to read it for myself to satisfy my soul.
The narrator is great except for the part where David and Neil is in conversation and, with no difference in tone, you don't know who is saying what...
Still, great book!
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- Roseann
- 05-08-24
Truly captivating!
I loved everything and already missing the characters, time and place; wishing the story would continue on. Definitely, a favorite of all time.
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