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Melanie Sumrow
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January LaVoy
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Melanie Sumrow
About this listen
AN ODYSSEY AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK EXCELLENCE HONOREE
AN AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD WINNER
A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murder—and the one person who might be able to help her clear her name.
A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on—no one, except her state-appointed caseworker, a woman named Cadence Ware. In Ruby’s experience, that’s not anyone she can trust.
Cadence is familiar with the cold reality of Ruby’s situation, even before Ruby was arrested. Angry and alone, homeless and hungry, breaking the law just to survive, she is the kind of girl no one wants to listen to, especially not the prosecutor who wants to put her away for life.
But no one knows the story—the real story—of what happened the day Ruby met the man who would end up dead. As the layers of truth are peeled away and time is running out, Ruby and Cadence will both have desperate choices to make—choices that could mean the difference between Ruby spending her life in prison or her name being cleared.
Told through a collection of letters, meeting notes, news articles, court transcripts, and more, Girls Like Her is a riveting and unflinching tale of the truths so often lost in the American justice system, and one girl’s fight to be heard.
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For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vacation house on a private Florida island sounds like the makings of a dream spring break. But Nell brings secrets with her—secrets that fuse with the island's tragic history, trapping them all with a curse that surrounds the island in a toxic, vengeful mist and the surrounding waters with an unseen, devouring beast. Getting out alive means risking her friendships, her sanity, and even her own life.
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Author has a way of writing!!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-26-25
By: Jill Baguchinsky
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No Darker Place
- A Thriller (Shades of Death, Book 1)
- By: Debra Webb
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Detective Bobbie Gentry has one objective: to stop the serial killer who robbed her of her husband, her child, and her life. Nick Shade understands Bobbie's pain - and her desire for vengeance. He's on a mission of his own, and the murderer known as the Storyteller is next on his list. Nick knows that the best way to find his target is to stick close to Bobbie. But as she becomes more and more reckless in her attempts to lure the Storyteller out of hiding, he has to make a choice.
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Gratuitous torture of women & children
- By tuckershops on 08-10-21
By: Debra Webb
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Where I Left Her
- By: Amber Garza
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren’s house. She’d never met the parents, and usually she’d go in, but Amelia clearly wasn’t going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the roses in front. But when she goes back the next day, an elderly couple answers the door - Amelia and Lauren aren’t there, and this couple swears they never were, that she’s at the wrong house.
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Kept me guessing!!
- By Sheppardspie on 09-13-21
By: Amber Garza
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The Last Invitation
- A Novel
- By: Darby Kane
- Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus, Abby Craden, Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last few years, prominent people—a retired diplomat, beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire—have died in a series of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. There’s no apparent connection, no signs of foul play. Behind it all is a powerful group of women, the Sophie Foundation, who meet over wine and cheese to review files of men who behave very, very badly, and then mete out justice.
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Amazing!
- By Dee Norenberg on 07-31-23
By: Darby Kane
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I Shot the Devil
- By: Ruth McIver
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd, Lorelei King
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Erin Sloane was sixteen when high school senior Andre Villiers was murdered by his friends. They were her friends, too, led by the intense, charismatic Ricky Hell. Five people went into West Cypress Woods the night Andre was murdered. Only three came out. Ativan, alcohol, and distance had dimmed Erin’s memories of that time. But nearly twenty years later, an aging father will bring her home. Now a journalist, she is asked to write a story about the Southport Three and the thrill-kill murder that electrified the country.
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No Real Direction to the Story
- By Montana Girl on 05-18-25
By: Ruth McIver
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The Bone Houses
- By: Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don't always stay dead.
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Good for those who don't like YA
- By Anonymous User on 12-31-19
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Break to You
- By: Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden
- Narrated by: Elisa Meléndez, JaQwan J. Kelly
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass juvenile detention center. Thankfully, she’s allowed to keep her journal, where she writes down her most private thoughts when her feelings get too big. Until the day she opens her journal and discovers that her thoughts are no longer so private. Someone has read her writings—and has written back. A boy who lives on the other side of the gender-divided detention center. A boy who sparks a fire in her to write back.
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Beautiful love story
- By DeDe P on 06-10-25
By: Neal Shusterman, and others
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An Ambush of Widows
- By: Jeff Abbott
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Henry North is a down-on-his-luck cybersecurity expert from New Orleans. Adam Zhang is the cofounder of one of Austin’s most successful venture capitalist firms. These two men didn’t know each other. They had never met. Yet they died together, violently, in a place neither had any business being. When Henry doesn’t return from a business trip, his wife, Kirsten, panics - and then gets an anonymous phone call: “Your husband is dead in Austin.”
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Good listen
- By Sheryl on 10-24-21
By: Jeff Abbott
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No One Will Miss Her
- A Novel
- By: Kat Rosenfield
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Sophie Amoss, Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead - with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found.
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Resourceful protagonist...
- By shelley on 10-15-21
By: Kat Rosenfield
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Errands & Espionage
- By: Sam Tschida
- Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Recently divorced Gabby Greene spends most of her days listening to self-help books while wrangling her loving yet erratic kids. During a decade of marriage, Gabby shoved aside her own career and ambitions to make room for mountains of laundry, running errands, and investigating the case of the missing socks. Her number one suspect: their Bichon Frise, Mr. Bubbles.
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Hilarious and relatable!!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-21-24
By: Sam Tschida
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The Girls Who Disappeared
- A Novel
- By: Claire Douglas
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Clare Corbett
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In a rural Wilshire town lies the Devil’s Corridor—a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night.
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I found it engaging
- By Rainydayreader on 04-08-23
By: Claire Douglas
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The Blackwoods
- By: Brandy Colbert
- Narrated by: Alaska Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our time—and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything.
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Loved all of this book
- By melinda on 04-23-24
By: Brandy Colbert
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Between Two Strangers
- A Novel of Suspense
- By: Kate White
- Narrated by: Sarah Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Struggling artist Skyler Moore is flabbergasted when she receives a suspicious phone call from a lawyer she’s never met regarding a “private matter.” As soon as she arrives at the law firm’s office, she learns she’s the recipient of a large inheritance, a life-changing sum that will allow her to realize her long-held dream of becoming a mother. But who was her benefactor, Christopher Whaley? The late man’s name means nothing to Skyler, and she has no idea why he would leave her such an enormous bequest.
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Interesting story!
- By Robin on 05-19-23
By: Kate White
Remarkable.
GIRLS LIKE HER grabbed me from the first sentence and hasn’t yet let go.
Ruby is charged with killing a man with a reputation for helping needy children. The prosecution attests although she killed three victim at age fourteen, the murder was perpetrated in the commission of a crime and should be charged as an adult.
Cadence, her forensic social worker believes Ruby acted in self-defense and that the victim had a darker side. As Cadence fights to save her client, sometimes harder than Ruby herself, Cadence sees parallels to her own life.
I loved how Melanie Sumrow used court transcripts and letters as part of the storytelling, which added depth to GIRLS LIKE HER. Sumrow also used both Ruby’s and Cadence’s third person points of view, unusual for a YA novel yet very effective.
What kept GIRLS LIKE HER from being a whole five stars for me was that with a read through by a social worker or psychologist, Sumrow could have tied up some of the inaccuracies about Cadence’s testing and evaluation. I have a master of social work and doctorate of psychology, so these technical issues might not bother everyone. One example is a forensic evaluation complete with psychological testing would have been done, which with a doctorate Cadence would have been trained to do. The exercise with the cards where Ruby told stories about the characters is an actual test called the CAT-Children's Apperception Test, one of a battery of tests in an evaluation. The reason this matters is as an expert witness, Cadence should have referred to the test rather than her own similar exercise.
Still, I enjoyed GIRLS LIKE HER so much I decided to relisten while writing this review.
Outstanding
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