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Peyton Place
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- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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In 1956, when this novel was first published, communities all over New England snapped up copies to see if they were the town portrayed in the book. Peyton Place is the story of a repressive New England town known for its high standards of public morality, and the steamy sexual activities that take place behind its bedroom doors. While the town's rigid mores lead to hypocrisy and repression, the earthy characters have an unbelievably high level of sexual functioning, especially the playboy Rodney Harrington and the profoundly round-heeled Betty Anderson. In this environment, Allison McKenzie, a dreamy girl coming to womanhood, must make her way without a father, living with her frigid mother, Constance McKenzie.
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Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. Another Country is a work that is as powerful today as it was 40 years ago - and expertly narrated by Dion Graham.
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Powerful and sad
- By Kenneth on 04-10-09
By: James Baldwin
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Mr. Fox
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- Narrated by: Carol Boyd
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently....
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
- By James A. Dittes on 08-13-16
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
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Cyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.
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Outstanding. A Must listen.
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Vegas Rich
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- By: Fern Michaels
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With a heart full of dreams, Sallie Coleman leaves Texas and heads west determined to get as far from the squalor of her dirt poor beginnings. With its shifting sands, smoky saloons, and bingo palaces, Las Vegas seems like a paradise. A paradise where an extraordinary twist of fate makes Sallie the most powerful businesswoman in Nevada.
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Get this booK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-26-10
By: Fern Michaels
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Texas Rich
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Young Billie Ames naively fell for the exciting pilot Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months, she was pregnant, married, and traveling across the country to Austin...to the 250,000-acre spread known as Sunbridge and into the tantalizing world of the Texas rich. In a vast land dominated by the industrious Colemans, Billie fights to maintain control of her life and her marriage.
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Awful Southern Accent
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The Last House on the Street
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Architect Kayla Carter and her husband designed a beautiful house for themselves in Round Hill’s new development, Shadow Ridge Estates. It was supposed to be a home where they could raise their three-year-old daughter and grow old together. Instead, it’s the place where Kayla’s husband died in an accident - a fact known to a mysterious woman who warns Kayla against moving in. The woods and lake behind the property are reputed to be haunted, and the new home has been targeted by vandals leaving threatening notes.
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✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 01-12-22
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The Cider House Rules
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Wonderful
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The Bad Seed
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There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around?
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loved it
- By CoCo B.M.J on 07-23-19
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A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. A Flash of Green tells the gripping story of small-town corruption and two people brave enough to fight back, featuring many of the themes John D. MacDonald explored better than anyone in his legendary career as a leading crime novelist. The opportunists have taken over Palm City. Silent and deadly, like the snakes that infest the nearby swamps, they lay hidden from view, waiting for the right moment to strike. Political subterfuge has already eased the residents toward selling out.
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Disjointed depressing
- By Carol I. Meeds on 11-18-22
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- Harkphoto
- 09-02-23
Better than expected.
Better than I expected and I waited too long to listen to this. Especially enjoyed the history behind the book at the end.
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- Lisa Wegner
- 06-20-24
Quality Writing
Candid tale of a small town. Real. I like the happy ending, if a person considered it happy.
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- Christi Bradford
- 07-05-24
Astoundingly beautiful!
This is a must read! I could not put it down, beautifully written and composed. The narration was perfectly on point.
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- John
- 05-18-07
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Listened to this book twice so far and probably will again. It is truly the best book I've listened to in 4 years. This was the #1 best seller in the 20 th century and after listening to it you will agree. Just terrific.
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- D. Munro
- 10-21-18
Wow, this book is about more than I thought it was
What a great book! I had no idea. Had it not been trashed by the terrible soap opera that used its title, I’d have read it long ago, and been the better for it. This book isn't about sex at all, though it includes it as part of the narrative, it's about class and gender. It's beautifully written, despite the rape scene that was included on the insistence of the publishers, who thought it would sell more books.Grace Metalious was too real and fresh to realize how a sexually repressed nation would pounce on the sexuality of the characters and fail to realize what else was going on in the book. Women had ownership of their lives and actions. Wow! Still a good and worthwhile read after 50+ years.
The narrator was perfect. He got out of the way and let the words and characters speak. I looked for other books he'd narrated on audible, nada. Damn. He's good.
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- John
- 12-08-05
great modern writing
excellent writing, magnifcent description,good characterization, to a large extent a coming of age saga. great portraiture of the human condition
highly recommended
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- Anonymous User
- 08-25-23
Very good. Remembered from the past👍
I had never read the book only seeing the movie. I wish the cussing was eliminated but is seemed to be the true character speaking. Of course that was not part of the movie.
I can’t imagine the impact years ago when released but sometimes shocking stirs debate and much included here. Hearing the words has much more impact than reading or it is for me. Glad I didn’t read & enjoyed the oral. The presenter was excellent and perfect for the setting of the book.
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- Crusader
- 11-07-11
Best book I've read to date!
Until now, I would say "To Kill A Mockingbird" is my favourite book; however, after reading "Peyton Place," I think that is now my fave of all time. I watched the movie a bunch of times before ever reading the book, and obviously they couldn't deal with everything in the book for the movie in the "old days" because the book has way more scandalous details.
This book really tells a fascinating story and is a real page-turner. The Audible audio version has a very nice one-hour "bonus" at the end where the narrator talks about the history of the book, how it came to be, stuff about the author, how it was banned in many stores, libraries, and how it was even ILLEGAL to import the book to Canada in the 1950s!
This book is never dull; the characters are a scream; and it is guaranteed to entertain!
Going to watch the movie again, along with the sequel ("Return to Peyton Place") and also plan on renting the TV series (which I've never seen).
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- Roxanne
- 01-03-09
Peyton Place
I vaguely remember hearing the grown-ups talk about this when I was a child. The weekly series was a real hit - and now I know why. This was a captivating story - it made you angry, happy and sad.
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- KM
- 05-03-16
THEN AND NOW OH HOW WE'VE CHANGED
I am a 50 something woman and thus have heard about this book and how racy it was for it's time. This was a book that libraries would not keep on their shelves. Some countries would not allow it to be imported. It was kept in locked drawers and away from the youth of the time. Reading this in the 16th year of the 21st century would make one wonder what all the fuss was about. We have become so desensitized to sex and scandal that had this book been written today it would likely be laughed at.
However, the story is truly interesting as is the town. It brings back memories of growing up in a small community where everyone knows everyone else's business. It actually made me feel so nostalgic I took a drive through my old town. Much changed of course, but still nice to reminisce.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to step back in time when the world was much more innocent in what was considered taboo.
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