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Not Her Daughter
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Samantha Desz
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's summary
Emotionally powerful and wire-taut, Not Her Daughter by Rea Frey raises the question of what it means to be a mother - and how far someone will go to keep a child safe.
Emma Townsend. Five years old. Gray eyes. Brown hair. Missing since June.
Emma is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma retreats into her own world of quiet and solitude.
Sarah Walker. Successful entrepreneur. Broken-hearted. Kidnapper.
Sarah has never seen a girl so precious as the gray-eyed child in a crowded airport terminal. When a second-chance encounter with Emma presents itself, Sarah takes her - far away from home. But if it’s to rescue a little girl from her damaging mother, is kidnapping wrong?
Amy Townsend. Unhappy wife. Unfit mother. Unsure whether she wants her daughter back.
Amy’s life is a string of disappointments, but her biggest issue is her inability to connect with her daughter. And now she’s gone without a trace. As Sarah and Emma avoid the nationwide hunt, they form an unshakeable bond. But what about Emma’s real mother, back at home?
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Felicia Lyons, a stressed-out stay-at-home mom, struggles to sprint ahead of the demands of motherhood while her husband spends long days at the office. Felicia taps, utters mantras, and breathes her way through most situations, but on some days, like when the children won't stop screaming her name or arguing over toy trucks and pretzel sticks, she wonders what it would be like to get in her car and drive away.
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No ending to any of the situations that opened.
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In this lively tale by RITA and Christy Award finalist Susan May Warren, 28-year-old PJ Sugar wants to shed her reputation for being nothing but trouble. But her efforts to be the favorite daughter, best friend, perfect aunt, fetching beauty, and hometown hero - all at once - trigger both laughter and tears.
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There has to be more!!
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Our Little Secret
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Angela is being held in a police interrogation room. Her ex's wife has gone missing, and Detective Novak is sure Angela knows something, despite her claim that she's not involved. At Novak's prodding, Angela tells a story going back 10 years, explaining how she met and fell in love with her high school friend HP. But as her past unfolds, she reveals a disconcerting love triangle and a dark, tangled web of betrayals. Is Angela a scorned ex-lover with criminal intent? Or a pawn in someone else's revenge scheme?
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Amazing
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
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A smart, comic pause-resister about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things. When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for - until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune.
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The Perfect Life Ain't So Perfect
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The Drowning Girls
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Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated community like The Palms. Ever since she and her family moved in, she's felt like an outsider amongst the Stepford-like wives and their obnoxiously spoiled children. Still, she's determined to make it work - if not for herself, then for her husband, Phil, who landed them this lavish home in the first place, and for her daughter, Danielle, who's about to enter high school.
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Did the author run out of paper?
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The Darkest Corners
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Excellent!
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Cassie Salazar and Luke Morrow couldn't be more different. Sharp-witted Cassie works nights at a bar in Austin, Texas, to make ends meet while pursuing her dream of becoming a singer/songwriter. Luke is an army trainee, about to ship out for duty, who finds comfort in the unswerving discipline of service. But a chance encounter at Cassie's bar changes the course of both their lives.
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RATING PURPLE HEARTS BOOK VS PURPLE HEARTS MOVIE
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Nursing the faded scars of a long-held trauma, Emily Page and her husband, awaiting the arrival of their first child, move from New York City to the uber-wealthy Clairmont, Texas. There, Emily is swept into a world of opulent privilege and shifting loyalties. But the secrets she keeps follow her south, and with them comes the danger that her new friends can't protect her from, and her new enemies will not hesitate to use to destroy her once and for all.
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Lie Still
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The Archangel: An Azrael Story
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The Archangel of Death is the master of taking human life. But keeping mortals alive? Not exactly Azrael's forte. For thousands of years, Azrael’s greatest enemy has been silent. Leaving him in relative peace for the first time since the great angel war. Now that silence has been broken, and the Morning Star has returned with a dangerous ultimatum: Azrael can join, or watch everything he loves be destroyed. Two lives hang in the balance - Azrael’s beloved human wife, Nadine, and their unborn, part-angel son...Warren.
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Phenomenal!
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Lucy Valentine is as smart as can be, as single as you can get, and so not qualified to run a matchmaking service. But when her parents temporarily step down from the family business, Valentine, Inc., it's Lucy's turn to step up and help out - in the name of love. Plus, her rent is due. Here's the problem: Lucy doesn't have the knack for matchmaking. According to family legend, every Valentine has been blessed by Cupid with the ability to read "auras" and pair up perfect couples.
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Cute light listen
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
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In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
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All That's Left of Me
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It starts with a simple wish, and Emma Davies hardly notices when it comes true. She’s too preoccupied with a life she isn’t happy in - the spark in her marriage has fizzled, her career is headed nowhere and her boss is a misogynist. Her teenage daughter has grown distant, and her heart breaks daily for her teenage son with cerebral palsy. But soon Emma discovers her wishes are coming true, and she realizes that she has been given the power to change her life. Either that, or she’s going insane.
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MADE ME THINK ABOUT MY LIFE . . . .
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-17-18
Wouldn’t recommend
Completely unrealistic. It had to potential to be a more compelling story about motherhood, but the character development was limited and the ending just ridiculous. It was enjoyable, if you could suspend reality, up until the ending.
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- Laurie Czaplicki
- 05-09-20
Ending Unrealistic
great narration
Children services should have been notified by school
the ending surprising and unrealistic
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- Sonya Christian
- 04-26-22
Just meh.
So much of the plot was not believable in my opinion. The storyline drug on and on and it never really resolved for me. I really didn’t like or sympathize with any of the characters with the exception of Emma, but I didn’t even feel that her character was convincing. Disappointed.
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- Judie Breneman
- 09-24-18
Great read that ends in a suprise.....
Just when you THINK you know what will happen? Well you don't! I loved it. The ending was kinda rushed though.
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- Roxanne Souza
- 10-08-19
Addicting listen
Enjoyed the moral struggles, and the flawed characters. The combination made the story interesting and asking, "so what happens next?"
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- Kathryn
- 11-02-18
Will she or won't she....
The book kept me guessing the whole way about what was going to happen to Emma. This is a great listen. Interesting story, good narrator, compelling characters. Loved it!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-15-19
loved this book very much. it took me all over
it was a really really great book. it kept me on the edge of my seat
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- "cstyles118"
- 10-22-21
really?
Are you kidding? See a kid with an over stretched mom a few times and its ok to steal her child? Then, you can keep her? no way! Abusing a child is never ok, but this wasn't as if she were living in a basement being tortured, she got slapped. It isn't as if this mom was so far gone that she couldn't have been helped. Absentee dad who doesn't help and obviously favors his son is no better than she is. If you suspect a child is being mistreated, you call the authorities or offer to help! This is an irresponsible novel and the author missed a huge opportunity to show how a good friend can help a struggling parent to remember why she had a child in the first place.
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- Janet
- 02-07-24
An excellent character study of what it means to be a parent.
The characters are well fleshed out and Rea paints a word picture that I can easily see in my mind. I feel as if I know these people and the struggles they face.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-21-21
Awesomeness Great Story
Loved it best book I read this year. A must read!!! It would make a great book club book.
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