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Shakira Shute
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Sarah Arthur
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Sarah Arthur
About this listen
CHRISTY AWARD FINALIST • ECPA CHRISTIAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A mysterious manor house hides the keys to shocking family secrets—and rapidly fading portals to other worlds—in the richly woven opener to bestselling author Sarah Arthur’s young adult fantasy series.
“A fresh, delightful new tale for our wonder-hungry era.”—National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins
When fourteen-year-old American Eva Joyce unexpectedly finds herself spending the summer at the mysterious manor house of the English grandmother she’s never met, she soon discovers that her family, the manor staff, and even the house itself are hiding secrets.
With odd things happening in the gardens at night, Eva embarks on a search for answers. Astonishingly, she learns that the Hall’s staff believe portals to other worlds exist—though hidden and steadily disappearing—and that Eva’s grandmother was once a queen in one of those worlds. But her grandmother’s heart is closed to the beauty and pain of the past. Now it’s up to Eva to discover what really happened—and to decide if it’s possible that her favorite childhood fairy tales are true. As she starts unraveling the dangerous secrets around the grandmother who is more than she appears, Eva begins to wonder if she, too, is more than she understood herself to be.
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been forced into a life of crime. One fateful afternoon, Peter steals a mysterious box that contains three magical pairs of eyes. When he tries the first pair, he is instantly transported to a hidden island where he is presented with a special quest: to travel beyond the known world and rescue a lost kingdom from its treacherous ruler....
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Enjoyable listen but not for the youngest kids
- By Marie on 12-10-15
By: Jonathan Auxier
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Astrid the Unstoppable
- By: Maria Parr, Guy Puzey - translator
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Speed and self-confidence, that’s Astrid’s motto. Nicknamed “the little thunderbolt,” she loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her sled, singing loudly as she goes, and visiting Gunnvald, her grumpy, septuagenarian best friend and godfather, who makes hot chocolate from real chocolate bars. She just wishes there were other children to share her hair-raising adventures with. But Astrid’s world is about to be turned upside down by two startling arrivals to the village of Glimmerdal: first a new family, then a mysterious, towering woman who everyone seems to know.
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Language warning
- By Kendra F. on 02-17-22
By: Maria Parr, and others
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Princess of the Midnight Ball
- Twelve Dancing Princess, Book 1
- By: Jessica Day George
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Galen is a young soldier returning from war; Rose is one of 12 princesses condemned to dance each night for the King Under Stone. Together Galen and Rose will search for a way to break the curse that forces the princesses to dance at the midnight balls. All they need is one invisibility cloak, a black wool chain knit with enchanted silver needles, and that most critical ingredient of all - true love - to conquer their foes in the dark halls below. But malevolent forces are working against them above ground as well.
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Good set up for the next books
- By Bruce on 05-22-21
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Aggressively Happy
- A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life
- By: Joy Clarkson
- Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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This old world can be exhausting, despairing, and cynical. But you don't have to be. Instead, you can unlock the power to a happy life - an act of defiance that will make you more resilient in times of turmoil, pain, and chaos. Cultivating happiness takes grit, determination, and a good sense of humor. It's not always easy, but it's well worth it. Beloved writer Joy Marie Clarkson leads the way, crafting an audacious case for happiness no matter what you're going through. Go, therefore, and choose an aggressively happy life.
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Good one.
- By Doug Gates on 02-20-22
By: Joy Clarkson
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Beyond Mulberry Glen
- By: Millie Florence
- Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Lydia Green doesn’t want anything to change. She lives happily in Mulberry Glen with her mismatched family of a fairy guardian, a philosopher, and twin troublemakers known as the Zs. But now, rumors swirl about The Darkness, a powerful force that dwells in the forest Tenebrae. Lydia knows The Darkness is nothing to be trifled with, but when a foolish choice by the Zs puts her family in danger, she must leave home and face the strange magical world of The Valleylands.
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Great story!! But chapter 4 and 8 were out of order
- By Jill on 02-12-25
By: Millie Florence
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The Night Gardener
- By: Jonathan Auxier
- Narrated by: Beverley A Crick
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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The Night Gardener follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. But the house and its family are not quite what they seem. Soon the children are confronted by a mysterious spectre and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives. With Auxier’s exquisite command of language, The Night Gardener is a mesmerizing read and a classic in the making.
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As an adult...
- By Isaak on 11-20-18
By: Jonathan Auxier
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The Read-Aloud Family
- By: Sarah Mackenzie
- Narrated by: Sarah Mackenzie
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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The stories we read--and the conversations we have about them--help shape family traditions, create lifelong memories, and become part of our legacy. Reading aloud not only has the power to change a family—it has the power to change the world. But we all know that connecting deeply with our families can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven society. Reading aloud is one of the best ways to be fully present with our children, even after they can read themselves, but it isn't always easy to do.
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Inspiring listen!
- By Bookworm on 04-05-18
By: Sarah Mackenzie
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The Dragon and the Stone (The Dream Keeper Saga Book 1)
- The Dream Keeper Saga
- By: Kathryn Butler
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Even though she's only 12 years old, Lily McKinley already feels the weight of the world's brokenness. She's seen it in her mother's exhaustion, her grandmother's illness, and the cruelty of Adam, the bully at her school. But most tragically, she experienced it two months ago when her father died in a terrible accident. As an artistic daydreamer, Lily has a brilliant imagination to help her cope, but that imagination often gets her into trouble. One day, it transports her to a fantasy world called the Somnium Realm, where her father's secret history embroils her in an epic quest.
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I wanted to enjoy it, but this is a no for me
- By Crystal on 06-07-25
By: Kathryn Butler
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Keeper of the Lost Cities
- By: Shannon Messenger
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can read minds. No one knows her secret - at least, that’s what she thinks.... But the day Sophie meets Fitz, a mysterious (and adorable) boy, she learns she’s not alone. He’s a Telepath too, and it turns out the reason she has never felt at home is that, well...she isn’t. Fitz opens Sophie’s eyes to a shocking truth....
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Amazing!
- By Anonymous User on 11-26-18
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Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart
- What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
- By: Russ Ramsey, W. David O. Taylor
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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In Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart, Russ Ramsey digs into these artists' stories for readers who may be new to art, as well as for lifelong students of art history, to mine the transcendent beauty and hard lessons we can take from their masterpieces and their lives. Each story from some of the history's most celebrated artists applies the beauty of the gospel in a way that speaks to the suffering and hope we all face.
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Insightful
- By Natalia Lafont on 05-07-25
By: Russ Ramsey, and others
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Okay for Now
- By: Gary D. Schmidt
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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As a 14-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt. As Doug struggles to be more than the skinny thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, a fiery young lady who smelled like daisies would smell if they were growing in a big field under a clearing sky after a rain.
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Almost 5 stars, but not quite
- By Jim Romrell on 11-02-19
By: Gary D. Schmidt
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A Place to Hang the Moon
- By: Kate Albus
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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It is 1940 and William, 12, Edmund, 11, and Anna, nine, aren't terribly upset by the death of the not-so-grandmotherly grandmother who has taken care of them since their parents died. But the children do need a guardian, and in the dark days of World War II London, those are in short supply, especially if they hope to stay together. Could the mass wartime evacuation of children from London to the countryside be the answer?
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Excellent Historical Novel
- By Elsie on 06-30-21
By: Kate Albus
I loved the positive message!
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very good fairy tale
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Fresh, classic, uplifting
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loved it!
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Highly recommend!
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A review of once a queen by Sarah Arthur
this book reminds me a lot of other classic fairy tales like The Lion, the witch wardrobe series or the never-ending story or many other classic tales where there is a portal to another world where kids get to step through, but not necessarily adults unless they have the right heart. I very much enjoyed this take on the whole thing and I hope that this book becomes a series and that we get to see what happens to the rest of the characters.. thank you Sarah Arthur for writing this delightful tale. I look forward to reading more of your work in future if I should have such a privilege.
could be a classic of a classic
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Narnia lives!
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Excellent.
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The story is irritating, as well, because it takes far too much from Narnia without acknowledging the source. Instead the author makes up a different world that these events link to. If you were referred to this as a continuation of Narnia after The Last Battle, as I was, you'll be sorely disappointed.
I suppose that I may try to listen again, and perhaps enjoy it for its own merits, but it can't be as a later version of Narnia. The author does seem to write well.
I found this irritating.
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