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A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Thérèse Plummer
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By:
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Kristin Koval
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For listeners of Ann Patchett and Celeste Ng, Penitence is a poignant exploration of love and forgiveness. It’s a suspenseful, addictive audiobook filled with literary insight that compels listeners to consider whether the worst thing we’ve ever done is all that defines us.
"A deeply engrossing listen that will have you reflecting on guilt and forgiveness.”—Booklist
“Plummer is a joy to listen to. She brings insight and emotional depth to the characters as they grapple with mistakes from their pasts. Plummer imbues her performance with the perfect amount of energy and tension.”—AudioFile
When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered. Desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn’t just legal counsel—she’s also the mother of Angie’s first love, Julian, a now-successful New York City criminal defense attorney. As Julian and Angie confront their shared past and long-buried guilt from a tragic accident years ago, they must navigate their own culpability and the unresolved feelings between them.
Spanning decades, from the ski slopes of rural Colorado to the streets of pre-9/11 New York City and back again, Kristin Koval’s debut novel Penitence is an examination of the complexities of familial loyalty, the journey of redemption, and the profound experience of true forgiveness.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.
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FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He also has a blind spot on the human side of investigations, a blindness that sometimes even includes people in his own life, like his beloved seven-year-old daughter Camila. Gardner and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI’s hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve. When DNA links a murder victim to a serial killer long presumed dead, the team springs into action.
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This one is a WINNER!!!!
- By shelley on 01-31-25
By: John McMahon
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Letter 26
- By: Jacob Moon
- Narrated by: Mark Garkusha
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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When Abby Carlson’s job as a dietitian comes to mind now, it’s accompanied by a looming threat: the Minneapolis serial killer who's been targeting women based on the first letter of their jobs, and who's ripe to pick a “D” victim. He follows his gruesome routine—preserving and posing the corpses per their professions, then posting his exploits on social media. But the threat is abstract in a city as big as Minneapolis...until Abby finds herself drugged in the back of a van, the latest potential viral hit.
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Ink, Blood and the Long Fall Down
- By Jordan on 03-24-25
By: Jacob Moon
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The Bones Beneath My Skin
- By: TJ Klune
- Narrated by: Kirt Graves
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his only brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington, DC. With nothing left to lose, he returns to his family's summer cabin outside the small mountain town of Roseland, Oregon, to try and find some sense of direction. The cabin should be empty. It's not. Inside is a man named Alex. And with him is an extraordinary ten-year-old girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader. Artemis, who isn't exactly as she appears.
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Worth it!
- By Kindle Customer (MM) on 03-27-23
By: TJ Klune
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The Dark Hours
- By: Amy Jordan
- Narrated by: Flora Montgomery
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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1994: When Gardas Julia Harte and Adrian Clancy are called out to a sleepy housing estate in Cork to investigate a noise complaint, they are entirely unprepared for what they find. What happens next will haunt Julia for the rest of her career, leaving her plagued with nightmares and terrified of the dark. There is a serial killer at work in Cork, one as clever as he is deadly. Julia may not be a detective yet, but after the harrowing events of that night, she is determined to be the one to catch him…
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the ending was a bit much
- By Maryanne T. on 04-30-25
By: Amy Jordan
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Famous Last Words
- A Novel
- By: Gillian McAllister
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But, when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note. Then it starts. Breaking news: there's a hostage situation developing in London. The police arrive, and tell her Luke is involved. But he isn't a hostage. Her husband—doting father, eternal optimist—is the gunman.
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Not my favorite
- By Brian D Loeffler on 03-13-25
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Old Soul
- By: Susan Barker
- Narrated by: George Blagden, Jill Winternitz, Olivia Vinall
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they've both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the same beguiling woman no one has seen since. Following traces this mysterious person left behind, Jake travels from country to country gathering chilling testimonies from others who encountered her across the decades—a trail of shattered souls that eventually leads him to Theo, a dying sculptor in rural New Mexico, who knows the woman better than anyone—and might just hold the key to who, or what, she is.
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Stunning
- By Tim Reads Things on 02-06-25
By: Susan Barker
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We Are Watching
- A Novel
- By: Alison Gaylin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Meg Russo was behind the wheel when it happened. She and her husband Justin were driving their daughter Lily to Ithaca College, the family celebrating the eighteen-year-old music prodigy’s future. Then a car swerved up beside them, the young men inside it behaving bizarrely—and Meg lost control of her own vehicle. The family road trip turned into a tragedy. Justin didn’t survive the accident.
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Conspiracy theory on steroids
- By Pink Amy on 01-29-25
By: Alison Gaylin
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A Killing Cold
- A Novel
- By: Kate Alice Marshall
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When Theodora Scott met Connor—wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton family—she fell in love in an instant. Six months later, he’s brought her to Idlewood, his family’s isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives. Stay away from Connor Dalton.Theo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she can’t ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood.
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Not as much Twists as other reviews say
- By Jordan Aguilera on 02-13-25
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Dead Money
- A Novel
- By: Jakob Kerr
- Narrated by: Rachel Music
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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A Silicon Valley fixer investigates a billionaire founder's death while pursuing her own agenda in this twisty, sharply observed debut mystery from a tech world insider.
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Good but not ideal for audiobook
- By Hailey P Waitt on 02-28-25
By: Jakob Kerr
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The Mailman
- By: Andrew Welsh-Huggins
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Mercury Carter is a deliveryman and he takes his job very seriously. When a parcel is under his care, he will stop at nothing to deliver it directly to its intended recipient. Not even, as in the current case, when he finds a crew of violent men at the indicated address that threaten his life and take the woman who lives there hostage. That's because Carter has special skills from his former life as a federal agent with the postal inspection service, skills that make him particularly useful for delivering items in circumstances as dangerous as these.
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the story
- By robert on 03-04-25
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Too Soon
- A Novel
- By: Betty Shamieh
- Narrated by: Betty Shamieh, Jacqueline Antaramian, Lameece Issaq
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic—that might garner international attention—in the West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz, since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster.
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Amazing
- By ghanem ghannam on 03-04-25
By: Betty Shamieh
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The Strange Case of Jane O.
- A Novel
- By: Karen Thompson Walker
- Narrated by: Jay Myers, Alex Sarrigeorgiou
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A year after her child is born, Jane suffers a series of strange episodes: amnesia, premonitions, hallucinations, and an inexplicable sense of dread. Three days after her first visit to a psychiatrist, Jane suddenly goes missing. A day later she is found unconscious in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, in the midst of what seems to be an episode of dissociative fugue; when she comes to, she has no memory of what has happened to her.
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The performances were soul-reaching
- By Laurie E. Barshay on 03-29-25
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This Is a Love Story
- A Novel
- By: Jessica Soffer
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew.
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A waste of time — not worth the credit
- By E. Zimmerman on 03-12-25
By: Jessica Soffer
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The Family Inside
- By: Katie Garner
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence, Ashley Klanac
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Since her husband’s unsolved murder three years ago, Iris Blodgett’s life has unraveled. Awash in grief and buried in debt, she can’t pay her mortgage—and now that she’s lost her job, she has no idea how she’ll provide for her unruly teenage daughter, Ellory. Facing eviction, Iris turns to her new beau, prominent architect Hugh Smoll, for a shoulder to cry on. But the seemingly perfect Hugh offers her something more: an invitation to move in to his mother’s centuries-old mansion while he renovates the property.
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Compelling Story Diffused By Overacting Performers
- By Wilkes Writer on 04-28-25
By: Katie Garner
While it was pretty easy to piece things together fairly early on, the premise was interesting. Overall, it's a decent listen but the story started to drag on.
Unexpected
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I need another!
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Don’t compare to Patchett or Ng
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Amazing Debut Novel
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Predictable storyline
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Impressive. Heartbreaking. Satisfying.
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the rawness of the story
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Lovely, Human Story
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Couldn’t stop listening!
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I was immediately immersed in the story
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