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A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Rebecca Lowman
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By:
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Rainbow Rowell
About this listen
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes Slow Dance – her smartest, funniest, most romantic novel yet.
“If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you’ve been. Slow Dance is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic—Jane Austen’s Persuasion for our times.”
— Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary.
They were just friends. Best friends. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh’s porch steps, dreaming about the future. They promised each other that, no matter what, their friendship would never change.
Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed.
Now Shiloh’s thirty-three, and it’s been fourteen years since she talked to Cary. She’s been married and divorced. She has two kids. And she’s back living in the same house she grew up in. Her life is nothing like she planned.
When she’s invited to an old friend’s wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there—and whether she hopes he will be. Would Cary even want to talk to her? After everything?
The answer is yes. And yes. And yes.
Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. . . Two friends who lost everything. . . Two adults who just feel lost.
It’s the story of Shiloh and Cary, who everyone thought would end up together, trying to find their way back to the start.
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Ginny Murphy is a total guy’s girl. She’s always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free–as long as they don’t fall for her, and she doesn’t fall for them. She and her best guy friends have stuck to that. But then she meets Adrian Silvas, the only one who’s ever made her crave more, and Ginny begins to question her own rules.
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A Beautiful Insight into Eating Disorders
- By Ainslee1777 on 11-28-23
By: Emma Noyes
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If the Fates Allow
- A Short Story
- By: Rainbow Rowell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Social distancing came easily to Reagan. Maybe a little too easily. She’s always liked people better from afar. But Reagan doesn’t want her grandpa to be alone for Christmas this year - he’s already spent too much time on his own in 2020. So she heads back to her hometown with a dish of holiday Jell-O salad, hoping they can have a little normalcy. Hoping it will be safe...
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I needed more!
- By Gwendolyn Kensinger on 11-30-21
By: Rainbow Rowell
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The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club
- A Novel
- By: J. Courtney Sullivan
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Tanis Parenteau, Emily Lawrence, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane. There are still clothes in the closets, marbles rolling across the floors, and dishes in the cupboards, even though no one has set foot there in decades. The house becomes a hideaway for Jane, a place to escape her volatile mother.
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Reese Witherspoon choice
- By L. T. Gerhardt on 07-06-24
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The Prince and the Troll
- Faraway collection
- By: Rainbow Rowell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 46 mins
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It’s fate when a man accidentally drops his phone off the bridge. It’s fortune when it’s retrieved by a friendly shape sloshing in the muck underneath. From that day forward, as they share a coffee every morning, an unlikely friendship blooms. Considering the reality for the man above, where life seems perfect, and that of the sharp-witted creature below, how forever after can a happy ending be?
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Not quite a prince, a troll, and a tragedy
- By Elisabeth Carey on 12-28-20
By: Rainbow Rowell
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How to End a Love Story
- A Novel
- By: Yulin Kuang
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Andrew Eiden
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She’s even scored a coveted spot in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writer’s block, surely the rest of her life will fall into place too. LA is the fresh start she needs. After all, no one knows her there. Except…
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very good story
- By Jessi Johnson on 06-01-24
By: Yulin Kuang
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Landline
- By: Rainbow Rowell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it's been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply-but that almost seems beside the point now. Maybe that was always beside the point. Two days before they're supposed to visit Neal's family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can't go. She's a TV writer, and something's come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles.
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Relationships are hard
- By Valeria on 01-26-15
By: Rainbow Rowell
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Attachments
- A Novel
- By: Rainbow Rowell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office email. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. Jennifer tells Beth everything she can't seem to tell her husband about her anxieties over starting a family. And Beth tells Jennifer everything, period. When Lincoln applied to be an internet security officer, he hardly imagined he'd be sifting through other people's inboxes like some sort of electronic Peeping Tom.
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Hard to follow
- By Tory Robinson on 01-09-21
By: Rainbow Rowell
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Maybe Next Time
- A Novel
- By: Cesca Major
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won’t go near her. Even the dog seems sad.
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Not really that great
- By Jennifer B on 11-09-23
By: Cesca Major
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Redwood Court
- By: DéLana R. A. Dameron
- Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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So begins award-winning poet DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut novel, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Tabor spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their stories and witnessing their struggles. On Redwood Court, the cul-de-sac in the all-Black working-class suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, where her grandparents live, Mika learns important lessons from the people who raise her.
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Home Sweet Home
- By Jessica on 02-10-24
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Twelfth Knight
- By: Alexene Farol Follmuth
- Narrated by: Alexandra Palting, Kevin R. Free
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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Her painstakingly crafted tabletop game campaign was shot down, her best friend is suggesting she try being more “likable,” and her school's star running back Jack Orsino is the most lackadaisical Student Body President she’s ever seen, which makes her job as VP that much harder. Vi’s favorite escape from the world is the MMORPG Twelfth Knight, but online spaces aren’t exactly kind to girls like her—girls who are extremely competent and have the swagger to prove it. So Vi creates a masculine alter ego, choosing to play as a knight named Cesario to create a safe haven for herself.
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Fresh, real
- By Johan Liljestrom on 03-26-25
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Six More Months of June
- By: Daisy Garrison
- Narrated by: Georgia Garrison, Jesse Aaronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Golden boy Caplan and bookish Mina have been unlikely soulmates since third grade. Bound by growing up in single-mother households on the same cul-de-sac in Two Docks, Michigan, their friendship exists miraculously outside their high school’s social order. Mina is class valedictorian, expected by her late father’s parents to attend his Ivy alma mater; Caplan is laughing off prom-king predictions and the fear that he’s peaking too soon. When Cap’s skateboard-toting, detention-dodging best friend confesses his feelings for Mina, she is whisked into a social life she never imagined.
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Well written and well read!
- By Ashley on 06-11-24
By: Daisy Garrison
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Throwback
- By: Maurene Goo
- Narrated by: Jennifer Sun Bell
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one. Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back.
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The perfect 90’s movie in my head bc of her description
- By Arashelly Amors on 04-19-25
By: Maurene Goo
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Society of Lies
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Ling Brown
- Narrated by: Brie Carter, Chandler Gregoire, Lauren Ling Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion—it’s been a decade since she graduated, and she is looking forward to seeing old faces and reminiscing about her time there. This visit is special because Maya will also be attending the graduation of her little sister, Naomi. But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Maya’s worst nightmare when she receives the news that Naomi is dead. The police are calling it an accident, but Maya suspects that there is more to the story than they are letting on.
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Did anyone not see the ending coming?
- By Zane on 11-25-24
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- BookishMom
- 10-02-24
Well-written but didn't get the full effect
3.5 stars. This second-chance romance is well-written, with a believable plot, dialogue which feels genuine and refreshingly regular, flawed, non-glamorous people at its center. The story alternates between the past and the present, starting off with the reunion of friends for a wedding and gradually filling in the backstories with narratives and scenes which shed light on their characters and relationship. There is definitely a quirky element to the friendship between Cary, Mikey and Shiloh, and I could believe how Cary and Shiloh didn't hold on to their friendship the same way after high school or allow romance to blossom because life got in the way and they made decisions based on their perceptions and insecurities. Romance novel fans will find much to enjoy that is not within the typical romance formula. However, I found myself emotionally detached from the characters and their situation. I wanted to finish reading to see how they would resolve their situation, but I did not feel connected to them. The novel dragged on too much for my taste and I often felt impatient with the characters.
About the audiobook: Rebecca Lowman does a very good job narrating, bringing the characters to life and moving the plot along with good energy.
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- The Book Fairy
- 08-08-24
10/10!!!
Ugggh this was just so wonderful!!! Had me beaming!!! 🥰🥰🥰 Such a feel gewwwd!
This was my first Rainbow Rowell novel. I’ve seen her books around for the last year or so and as usual, the cover to this one really grabbed me so I decided to read! I loved every page of this! You are invested into the dynamic of Shiloh and Cary from the get-go! What I probably love the most is that like most books like this, it is NOT predictable! It was surprising at every turn, and whatever I thought I was going to happen happened another way - often better than what I had in mind! In fact, I thought this book was going to be way different than what I figured. Honestly, most juvenile. One of those cases where the cover is better than the actual book. I was geared up for a possible let down or meh, 3 out 5 stars. BUT… NO 😃
Its humor in the dialogue really carries you through the story too. It keeps you engaged and totally gushing!! You root for these characters and also care about the sub charters too! They aren’t forgettable which is such a refreshment! Each role plays a very important part in these people’s lives. Rowell is a fabulous writer and now I just want to read everything she’s written!
10/10!!!
Ps. The sex scene is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!!
Narrator was fantastic! Enjoyed her narration here than when she narrated "Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles! In "Slow Dance" her voice for the character Lois sounded so much like Sadness from Disney Pixar's "Inside Out" which was really cute and fun to hear! Anyone else pick up on that?
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- Gretchen G
- 08-14-24
Unexpected gem
This was a great story about relationships. It’s not overly exciting but the character development is great. You really feel for what the main characters are going through. It’s not your typical romance but it’s much more realistic.
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- Momma Llama
- 09-19-24
Great book. Great narration
Such a sweet story of deep, unwavering love. This book is beautifully narrated. It doesn’t matter how amazing a book is, if the narrators voice is hard to listen to, but it’s always a no go.
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- Kyra Giesel
- 09-08-24
Real life love story
I love Rainbow Rowell!! Ever since Eleanor and Park, but the ending of this book was just so perfect. The story itself wasn’t like other novels. It’s real people and real life but still with the feels of a great love story. And of course Rebecca Lowman always delivers. I saw this was being narrated by my favorite Rebecca Lowman and didn’t even have to read the description before I clicked purchase. She always delivers a great story with that wonderful voice of hers.
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- Jae
- 11-09-24
Frustrating but good
Shilo and Carey were so frustrating and stubborn. Can someone please explain to me why in all the time that Carey was away at deployment Shilo never once offered to help or go see Carey’s mom? I mean they lived only blocks away! Not to mention when she was recovering from her hip surgery!!! This left me with too many unanswered questions.
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- Lorena Briceño
- 12-09-24
Really cute!
I find it so lovely that people can have second chances when they miss the first one, love is never perfect but it can be so beautiful even tho.
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- Sheila Wrenfrow
- 01-06-25
The most realistic, relatable book ever. 5 stars are not enough!
This book was so honest. From teen angst to adult issues. It was realistic. A journey of growth even for the shall I say damaged or children who did not have the best start… This book kept my throat wobbling…tears in my eyes but in a good way.. It took two days because of work. But I could have done it in one because it was so hard to put down. Not a book you want to miss a word of. Not a word.
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- Raette Green
- 02-14-25
Fun and Nostalgic
This was a fun and nostalgic book. I loved that it was about the military and the early 90's.
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- Momoreviews
- 09-16-24
Excellent banter and characters
I smiled the entire time listening to this book. I loved the performance of the narrator. She had excellent character voices. The story was so cute and I loved the interactions between Cary and Shilo.
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