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Ariel Blake
About this listen
“A book that will stay with the reader long after the last page. Absolutely brilliant.” —Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author
“This drama-packed page turner will warm your heart!” —Eliza Knight, USA Today bestselling author of The Mayfair Bookshop
When life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through.
After years of hard work, four best friends—Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni and Leslie—are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of their dreams. A place where their community can find solace with an intriguing new read, a comforting beverage and book-loving friends.
But before they can cut the ribbon, their worlds are upended.
Toni receives devastating news just months before her wedding, while Celeste’s struggling marriage threatens to collapse completely. Leslie learns a shocking secret about her family, and a lotto ticket changes Yasmeen’s life—but not for the better.
As the bookstore’s grand opening fast approaches, the four women must lean on each other now more than ever to navigate their grief and uncertainty. And together, they’ll learn that sometimes, even life’s most unexpected plot twists can lead to beautiful new beginnings.
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When summoned to Georgetown, South Carolina, sisters Mariah Clark and Sabrina Holland both assume their ailing grandfather's health has gotten worse. Neither expects their grandmother's undeniable request—save the family restaurant. Mariah is at a crossroad in her life. After being dumped by her husband and forced to walk away from their diner that she helped rescue from bankruptcy, bitter feelings consume her. Even though the restaurant has been in the family for eighty-six years, giving her all to another struggling business isn't something she wants to do.
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Great story & narration!
- By MyraRose on 09-07-24
By: Rhonda McKnight
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Something Good
- By: Vanessa Miller
- Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexis Marshall never meant to cause the accident that left Jon-Jon Robinson paralyzed—but though guilt plagues her, her husband hopes to put the past behind them. After all, he’s in the middle of selling a tech business—and if Alexis admits to texting while driving, the deal could collapse and cost them millions. Meanwhile, Alexis’s life is not as shiny and perfect as it may seem from the outside. She has secrets of her own. As she becomes consumed with thoughts of the young man she hit, can she reconcile her mistake with her husband’s expectations?
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An actual, realistic Christian Novel!
- By cerebral1 on 07-17-22
By: Vanessa Miller
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What We Found in Hallelujah
- By: Vanessa Miller
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Good things never happen in November—at least not for the Reynolds women. It was the month they lost their patriarch. And the month when fourteen-year-old Trinity went missing during a tropical storm. So Hope Reynolds isn’t surprised when it becomes the month she walks in on her boyfriend kissing another woman. Or when she receives a panicked call from her mother about a mistake that could cost the family their treasured beach house.
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The Message/Blessing Applies to All of Us! Thanks
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-23
By: Vanessa Miller
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The Light on Halsey Street
- A Novel
- By: Vanessa Miller
- Narrated by: Je Nie Fleming
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 1985, Lisa Whitaker is a church kid headed to college on a scholarship while her best friend, Dana, is floundering in the wake of her mother’s latest eviction. Though Lisa tries to help, their paths diverge. Fifteen years later, Lisa has a beautiful family and is stepping into her dream job as the director for a social services organization. Everything is going right—until her future is snatched away by identity theft. Her life begins to unravel, and Lisa wants nothing more than to see the woman responsible pay for her crimes.
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wonderful life lesson
- By Jo Goldsmith on 09-20-23
By: Vanessa Miller
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Mary Not Broken
- By: Deborah L. King
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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In 1930s Mississippi, Mary Johnson hates the oppressive heat, working on her family farm, and having to attend her minister father's church several times a week. But she loves Mason Carter, her musician boyfriend. Both fantasize about living the high life up north in the big city. When William Bevers, a wealthy old preacher, comes to court her, he promises a life of luxury along with money and status for her family. Mary wants nothing to do with him, but her parents decide for her. Determined to avoid a forced marriage, Mary elopes with Mason to the bright lights of Chicago.
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Trauma and Suffering
- By Erin Martin on 05-06-24
By: Deborah L. King
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Masquerade
- By: O.O. Sangoyomi
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Òdòdó's hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland. Already shunned as social pariahs, living conditions for Òdòdó and the other women in her blacksmith guild grow even worse under Yorùbá rule.Then Òdòdó is abducted. She is whisked across the Sahara to the capital city of Ṣàngótẹ̀, where she is shocked to discover that her kidnapper is none other than the vagrant who had visited her guild just days prior. But now that he is swathed in riches rather than rags, Òdòdó realizes he is not a vagrant at all.
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A wonderful, immersive performance!
- By Courtney Kosnik on 04-02-25
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
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Black Candle Women
- A Novel
- By: Diane Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before it’s even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies.
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Easy Listen
- By Precious T. on 06-14-23
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Coming Home
- By: Kennedy Ryan
- Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Jakobi Diem
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Touré Wallace and Niomi Spencer were close friends at Finley College, the prestigious HBCU they attended. The attraction that simmered between them every semester was a question they never got to ask or answer before soaring ambitions launched them to opposite corners of the world. Both chased their dreams of grit and glamor as high-profile journalists. They got it all...except a shot at being more than friends. Years later, Touré is an award-winning investigative journalist and Niomi is America's most popular morning-show host, but they both feel like something’s missing.
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Black Love for the win!
- By Eboni Williams on 02-09-23
By: Kennedy Ryan
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This Cursed House
- By: Del Sandeen
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, she accepts, thinking it is her chance to start over. But Jemma discovers that the Duchon family isn’t what it seems. Light enough to pass as white, the Black family members look down on brown-skinned Jemma.
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The 1960s setting makes it even more interesting
- By NMwritergal on 11-01-24
By: Del Sandeen
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The Secret Keeper of Main Street
- A Novel
- By: Trisha R. Thomas
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a good living fitting designer gowns and creating custom wedding dresses for the town’s elite. But beyond her needle and thread lies a deeper talent, one passed down from her mother: the gift of insight. With just a fleeting touch or brush against the skin, Bailey has sudden flashes of intuition.
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Wheeww…
- By Britainy M. on 08-25-24
By: Trisha R. Thomas
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The Good Ones Are Taken
- By: Taj McCoy
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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After a bad breakup, Maggie wants to find her Prince Charming, but all she’s finding are frogs. When her best friends, Savvy and Joan, apply pressure and demand she find a date worthy of attending their respective weddings, she agrees to take her own advice and try online dating. Since she's the maid of honor for both weddings, her bridal party duties are massive, but both brides insist that Maggie prioritize finding a date. After an onslaught of maybes, noes and hell noes, she’s close to giving up, when she meets a handsome doctor at the gym who just might be the one.
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Immature characters
- By Rose on 06-25-24
By: Taj McCoy
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The Neighbor Favor
- By: Kristina Forest
- Narrated by: Keylor Leigh, Malik Rashad
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Shy, bookish, and admittedly awkward, Lily Greene has always felt inadequate compared to the rest of her accomplished family, who strive for Black excellence. She dreams of becoming a children’s books editor, but she’s been frustratingly stuck in the nonfiction division for years without a promotion in sight. Lily finds escapism in her correspondences with her favorite fantasy author, and what begins as two lonely people connecting over email turns into a tentative friendship and possibly something else Lily won’t let herself entertain—until he ghosts her without a word.
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Excellent Story! Hope for improvements in the narration
- By brownskinblue on 04-08-23
By: Kristina Forest
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This Motherless Land
- A Novel
- By: Nikki May
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia, Florence Howard
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she’s sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother’s stories. To her dismay, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated, the food tasteless, the weather grey. Worse still, her mother’s family are cold and distant. With one exception: her cousin Liv.
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Beautiful saga
- By Nick Nuspl on 03-27-25
By: Nikki May
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- Juanita Metoyer
- 03-20-25
Great read!
Wonderful characters with a clever story line! I would recommend this book to all book lovers with a penchant for great sister friend stories!
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-15-25
cute read for friends
I enjoy it 😌 made me think of my close friends and how we always come back.
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- Lisa
- 04-16-25
Girlfriends?!
Girlfriends.,they can be a blessing and a curse. No one knows you as well as your girls do.
This story had me loving some and disliking others. It revolves around 4 friends attempting to open a book store so they can share their love of books with others. Each one is at a different time in their lives and facing their own turmoil. When all of their issues comes to a head, will they face them together or will this destroy their friendship forever.
I enjoyed the story, but the main theme here was how fear can paralyze you. Leslie, Toni, Yasmeen, and Celeste were each afraid of facing “something” and instead of pulling people in, they constantly kept everyone at arms length, being mean and spiteful at times, testing the friendship and failing miserably. As the story unfolds, it made you really think, how close are your friends really? Can you truly give and receive truth? Only time will tell.
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- Deborah Brown
- 04-18-25
I loved these sisters!
Well-drawn characters and snappy, heartfelt dialogue, all wrapped in a relatable story of heartbreak and triumph! Who could ask for anything more from a book! This one will always be among my favorites!
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- Mia CB
- 02-25-25
A Mix of Everything
This story has some of everything!! Relationship do's and don'ts, Friendship's highs and lows, marriage and divorce, past mistakes when present hidden agendas, highs and lows of finances and more!! It's easy to favor one of the four friends, all readers will relate to at least one of the friends but by the end of the story, you'll find yourself cheering for all the friends. There is so much to unpack in this story of friendship and entrepreneurship.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-08-25
books and friends
Love the characters and their friendship. i definitely saw my group of friends within the book and the love for books was infectious.
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- Erin Martin
- 11-27-24
So far, I’m STUNNED
You’d have to really stretch your mind to believe that an entire group of grown women would be this dense. I was so frustrated by each of these characters that I couldn’t enjoy this book.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-15-24
How ridiculously immature these women were
I only finished this book because we were reading it for book club. The level of dishonesty the four main characters had with themselves and nearly everyone else was annoying, The fact that it was also an “all’s well that ends well” conclusion was also annoying.
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