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Narrated by:
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Hillary Huber
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By:
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Margaret Atwood
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A #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
A bittersweet short story about mothers, daughters, and the witches’ brew of love—and control—that binds them, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments.
Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. But as the daughter of this bewitching homemaker comes of age and her mother’s claims become more and more outlandish, she begins to question everything she once took for granted.
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Critic reviews
“Narrator Hillary Huber is enchanting in the role of a daughter who is spilling her mother's dark secrets.… Huber's vulnerable confessional tone for the daughter contrasts nicely with the ringing cultured voice of her mother. Huber deftly handles the sardonic humor and emotional depth of Atwood's writing.… Both Huber and Atwood are at the top of their form with a bewitching fable that will take up residence in the listener's mind.”—AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner
“There’s a perfect balance of silliness and poignancy in My Evil Mother, which is really a story about the fantasies we never give up about our mothers…What loving mother wouldn’t cast a spell of protection around her children if she could?”—Ron Charles, Washington Post
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At an off-campus party, university professor Rose Taylor is drugged, undressed, and photographed on a burner phone. In seconds her humiliation is uploaded, and millions of JPEGs are zipping like immortal wasps through the Internet. But why would someone target her? She has no vengeful exes or rival academics, no stalkers, or unhinged students. Jon Avery, the sharpest, most experienced investigator in the sheriff’s office, is determined to find out who’s behind this horrific invasion of privacy.
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A detective who didn’t give up
- By Karenique on 01-21-19
By: Jeffery Deaver
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The Bookstore Sisters
- The Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.
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The Bookstore Sisters
- By GSmith on 11-21-22
By: Alice Hoffman
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Pregnant by Daddy’s Best Friend
- Plus-Size Girl and Boss Romance
- By: Zara Blaze
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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My dad’s billionaire friend claimed my virgin plus-size body…and now I’m pregnant. I just landed my dream job at an elite company. But I didn’t know I’d be the PA of my daddy’s best friend. He’s completely off-limits, but when a blizzard traps us in a cabin with only one bed…he offers to teach me everything I need to know in bed for one night. I used to be the awkward nerd with the braces. He’s the hands-on boss with a player-reputation that precedes him. I try to be professional around him, but his wandering eyes light my body on fire. And when we’re forced together ...
By: Zara Blaze
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The Edible Woman
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach....
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Representation of a Thousand Lives
- By Talia R. on 04-17-22
By: Margaret Atwood
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Bodily Harm
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Angela Nevard
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.
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Decisions In Uncertain Situations
- By John on 03-13-25
By: Margaret Atwood
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Dancing Girls
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers, and dancing girls. All are ordinary people. Or are they? In this splendid collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps the human motivation we scarcely know we have in a startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, these stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters that evoke laughter, compassion, terror, and recognition.
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This is a great listen
- By Russell on 03-31-23
By: Margaret Atwood
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Two Women Walk into a Bar
- By: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed
- Length: 51 mins
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Twenty-one years after Cheryl Strayed set off on the Pacific Crest Trail to heal from the death of her beloved mother, Cheryl’s mother-in-law, Joan, is given weeks to live. As she and her husband help see Joan through her final days, Cheryl reckons with their complicated relationship, determined to connect with a woman who both showed her love and (sometimes hilariously) held her at a distance. Cheryl reflects on their two decades together as she comes to a deeper understanding of the secrets and sorrows in Joan’s complicated past.
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Cheryl tells a great story!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-01-24
By: Cheryl Strayed
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Life Before Man
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Deborah Burgess, Libby Lennie, Geoff Bowes
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices - after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men.
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Not my favorite
- By wife of chippy on 11-25-19
By: Margaret Atwood
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Old Babes in the Wood
- Stories
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Linda Lavin, Dan Stevens, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect.
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Awful
- By Kathleen Young on 10-08-23
By: Margaret Atwood
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The Greatest Thing in the World
- By: Henry Drummond
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Norris
- Length: 45 mins
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A Scottish evangelist in the late 19th century, Drummond is best remembered for this 1880 meditation, The Greatest Thing in the World, his thoughts on Paul's great hymn to love, 1 Corinthians 13. It is an empowering message, as timeless as it is life-affirming.
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We ARE Love
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-25
By: Henry Drummond
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Evidence of the Affair
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.
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AN INCREDIBLE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE!
- By Kindle Customer on 01-16-19
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Book of Lives
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Raised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents – entomologist father, dietician mother – Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic, sometimes isolated (on her eighth birthday: 'It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.’), but also thrilling and beautiful. From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape.
By: Margaret Atwood
The end goes off the rails a bit in order to make a point, and is overloaded with unnecessary F bombs.
The opposite of mean is doormat
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Grea!!
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Love the narration
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good short story
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Ok for most
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Fabulous dark humor, fun narration
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Loved it!
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cute
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Great listen for walking.
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loved it!
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