
Ordinary Human Failings
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Megan Nolan
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When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from “huge literary talent” (Karl Ove Knausgaard) and internationally bestselling author Megan Nolan.
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"—ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Greens.
At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life—and love—got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there's nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.
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In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance, he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her.
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Wonderful and tortured
- By Dr Sophie Henshaw on 05-01-21
By: Megan Nolan
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The Night Always Comes
- A Novel
- By: Willy Vlautin
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Barely 30, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she’s been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland’s housing prices have nearly quadrupled in 15 years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it’s their last best chance to own their own home - and obtain the security they’ve never had. While she has enough for the down payment, she needs her mother to cover the rest of the asking price.
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Wow, a knockout!
- By Alma on 04-24-21
By: Willy Vlautin
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Daughter
- By: Claudia Dey
- Narrated by: Ellie Moon, Kristen Thomson, Jonathon Young, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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To be loved by your father is to be loved by God. So says Mona Dean—playwright, actress, and daughter of a man famous for one great novel, a man whose needs and insecurities exert an inescapable pull and exact an immeasurable toll on the women of his family: Mona, her sister, her half sister, their mothers. His infidelity destroyed Mona’s childhood, setting her in opposition to a stepmother who, though equally damaged, disdains her for being broken.
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Frill-less
- By Amazon Customer on 10-24-24
By: Claudia Dey
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All Together Now
- A Novel
- By: Matthew Norman
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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At just 35, reclusive billionaire Robbie Malcolm is a renowned financial prognosticator, a celebrated philanthropist, and a mathematical genius. Also, he’s dying, which is a fact he’s carefully concealing from the world. As he takes stock, Robbie realizes that his wealth means nothing if he can’t help the people who matter most. So he invites his oldest friends - Blair, Cat, and Wade - to their beloved Fenwick Island on the coast of Delaware to share his secret and to reveal plans for each of them that he believes will change their lives forever.
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Loved the beginning, middle but especially the end.
- By Simon on 07-07-21
By: Matthew Norman
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Gold Diggers
- A Novel
- By: Sanjena Sathian
- Narrated by: Rama Vallury
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal.
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Somewhat underwhelming
- By Andrew on 01-22-22
By: Sanjena Sathian
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The Upstairs House
- A Novel
- By: Julia Fine
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Ravaged and sore from giving birth to her first child, Megan is mostly raising her newborn alone while her husband travels for work. Physically exhausted and mentally drained, she’s also wracked with guilt over her unfinished dissertation - a thesis on mid-century children’s literature. Enter a new upstairs neighbor: the ghost of quixotic children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown - author of the beloved classic Goodnight Moon -whose existence no one else will acknowledge.
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Footnotes were super distracting
- By Anonymous User on 04-03-21
By: Julia Fine
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Olive
- By: Emma Gannon
- Narrated by: Sian Clifford
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Olive is many things. Independent. Driven. Loyal. And a little bit adrift. She’s okay with still figuring it all out, navigating her world without a compass. But life comes with expectations and big choices to be made. So when her best friends’ lives branch away towards marriage and motherhood, leaving the path they’ve always followed together, she starts to question her choices—because life according to Olive looks a little bit different.
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Smart, Relatable, & Engaging
- By S on 01-16-25
By: Emma Gannon
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A Bell for Adano
- By: John Hersey
- Narrated by: David Green
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. Although stituated during one of the most devastating experiences in human history, John Hersey's story speaks with unflinching patriotism and humanity.
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A sentimental story of war and a case study in leadership
- By any_mouse on 03-06-25
By: John Hersey
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Hangman
- A Novel
- By: Maya Binyam
- Narrated by: Ronnie Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn’t recognize the country or anyone in it. Thankfully, someone recognizes him, a man who calls him brother—setting him on a quest to find his real brother, who is dying. In Hangman, Maya Binyam tells the story of that search, and of the phantoms, guides, tricksters, bureaucrats, debtors, taxi drivers, relatives, riddles, and strangers that will lead to the truth.
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A great read
- By Seva B on 09-16-23
By: Maya Binyam
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Changing Planes
- By: Ursula Le Guin
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she discovers a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a nasty lunch, whimpering children, their punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes—literally. Sita discovers entire planes of existence and visits societies not found on Earth—bizarre societies that share similarities with Earth's cultures and sometimes open doors into the alien.
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Lovely
- By Laura Sharp on 12-07-23
By: Ursula Le Guin
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The Black Jersey
- A Novel
- By: Jorge Zepeda Patterson, Achy Obejas
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Marc Moreau, a professional cyclist with a military past, is part of a top Tour de France team led by his best friend, an American star favored to win this year’s Tour. But the competition takes a dark turn when racers begin to drop out in a series of violent accidents. Marc begins to have the sickening realization that his own team has been most favored by the murderer’s actions, and in the final stages of the race Mark himself emerges as the only cyclist left who could possibly beat his best friend and win the Tour. Whom can Marc trust? Whom should he protect?
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Great thriller/sports epic even for cycling novices
- By ALISTAIR on 03-25-22
By: Jorge Zepeda Patterson, and others
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Tricks Treats & Zombies
- Halloween Tales of the Living Dead
- By: Jeffrey Clare, Chris Philbrook, Eric A. Shelman, and others
- Narrated by: Eric A. Shelman
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Hordes of gnashing, chipped-tooth mouths and grabby hands...anticipating Halloween treats. This time they aren't wearing masks. This time...you are the treat. And they. Are. Hungry.
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Scary?
- By Kate 33 on 04-27-17
By: Jeffrey Clare, and others
Tragic, heartbreaking, beautiful, painful
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Short but intense
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Whooh! I feel like I need to go for a walk.
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Huge kudos to the audio narration as well - it's top notch.
Grim and luminous all at once.
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Extraordinary performance ! Love Irish literature
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Amazing forensics of family trauma
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Touching and tragic
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Thought-provoking drama!
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There’s some genuinely great *acting*, not just reading, in the narration. It’s rare to find that.
Excellent writing, superb performance
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real but disturbing
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