
The Girls Who Grew Big
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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AhDream Smith
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Erin Spencer
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Khaya Fraites
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By:
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Leila Mottley
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From the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle.
Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother’s home in the small town of Padua Beach, Florida. When she arrives, Adela meets Emory, who brings her newborn to high school, determined to graduate despite the odds; Simone, mother of four-year-old twins, who weighs her options when she finds herself pregnant again; and the rest of the Girls, a group of outcast young moms who raise their growing brood in the back of Simone’s red truck.
The town thinks the Girls have lost their way, but really they are finding it: looking for love, making and breaking friendships, and navigating the miracle of motherhood and the paradox of girlhood.
Full of heart and life and hope, set against the shifting sands of these friends’ secrets and betrayals, The Girls Who Grew Big confirms Leila Mottley’s promise and offers an explosive new perspective on what it means to be a young woman.
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Critic reviews
“Mottley is a dazzling writer and this novel opens up the world of young mothers in all its makeshift, sticky, struggling glory. The Girls Who Grew Big is sensuous, gripping, and utterly believable.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room
“Raw, wild, and achingly beautiful, The Girls Who Grew Big is one of the most spiritually accurate and electric portrayals of motherhood I’ve ever read. Leila Mottley is the real deal.”—Rufi Thorpe, author of Margo’s Got Money Troubles
"The Girls Who Grew Big is a novel about teen pregnancy that brilliantly upends every reductive trope and platitude on the subject. With impeccable and breathtaking prose, Mottley takes us into the treacherous terrain where girlhood and womanhood collide, and where families and friendships fracture, and the lines between them blur. Simone, Adela, Emory and The Girls live out loud and are flawed, tender, and absolutely unforgettable. Mottley continues to show us the power and beauty of her pen!”—Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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By: Bridget Crocker
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Flashlight
- A Novel
- By: Susan Choi
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He’s carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. In chapters that shift from one member to the next, turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Susan Choi's Flashlight chases the shockwaves of one family’s catastrophe. Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past.
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Excellent story & narration
- By Rachel on 06-28-25
By: Susan Choi
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The Compound
- A Novel
- By: Aisling Rawle
- Narrated by: Lucy Boynton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door. Cameras are catching all her angles, good and bad, but Lily has no desire to leave: why would she, when the world outside is falling apart?
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I preordered
- By SHANNON on 07-03-25
By: Aisling Rawle
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A Beautiful Family
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Trevelyan
- Narrated by: Ruby Hansen
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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At ten years old, she catches more than her parents and older sister suspect. Over their summer break, her mother plans to finish her novel, her father wants to grill and watch cricket, and her fifteen-year-old sister hopes to catch the eye of a local lifeguard. With everyone around her distracted, she teams up with a new friend to solve a mystery that haunts this vacation community: they'll close the case of what happened to Charlotte, a child who was presumed drowned two years earlier.
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Family drama, mystery, adventure
- By Ctd on 07-09-25
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El Dorado Drive
- By: Megan Abbott
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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All I want is to be innocent again. But that's not how it works. Especially not after the Wheel. The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in the moneyed suburbs of Detroit. But as the auto industry declined, so did their fortunes. Harper, the youngest, is barely making ends meet when her beloved, charismatic sister Pam—currently in the middle of a contentious battle with her ex-husband—and her eldest sister, Debra, approach her about joining an exciting new club.
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Repetitive buildup
- By ME Newport on 06-29-25
By: Megan Abbott
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These Heathens
- A Novel
- By: Mia McKenzie
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Where do you get an abortion in 1960 Georgia, especially if your small town’s midwife goes to the same church as your parents? For seventeen-year-old Doris Steele, the answer is Atlanta, where her favorite teacher, Mrs. Lucas, calls upon her brash, wealthy childhood best friend, Sylvia, for help. While waiting to hear from the doctor who has agreed to do the procedure, Doris spends the weekend scandalized by, but drawn to, the people who move in and out of Sylvia’s orbit.
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love this author!
- By Shenelle Williams on 06-26-25
By: Mia McKenzie
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A Family Matter
- A Novel
- By: Claire Lynch
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of connection that’s impossible to resist, and suddenly life is more complicated, and more joyful, than Dawn ever expected. But she has responsibilities and commitments. She has a daughter. 2022. Heron has just received news from his doctor that turns everything upside down. He’s an older man, stuck in the habits of a quiet existence. Telling Maggie, his only child—the person around whom his life has revolved—seems impossible.
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A Family Matter
- By Kindle Customer on 07-10-25
By: Claire Lynch
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What Kind of Paradise
- A Novel
- By: Janelle Brown
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Helen Laser
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.
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What a great story!
- By Jeannine on 06-22-25
By: Janelle Brown
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Park Avenue
- A Novel
- By: Renée Ahdieh
- Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Jia Song has always been destined for greatness. As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, she promised herself that she would have every Fifth Avenue luxury when she grew up, and it is all finally within reach. She has just made junior partner at her prestigious Manhattan law firm, she can count on her two best friends to have her back, and she is about to score the ultraluxe gold-on-gold Birkin bag of her dreams. So when her boss asks her to sit in on the hush-hush family implosion of a high-level client, she accepts without hesitation.
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Loved this book
- By kc on 07-10-25
By: Renée Ahdieh
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People Like Us
- A Novel
- By: Jason Mott
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure: characters drink booze out of an award trophy; menaces lurk in the shadows; tiny French cars putter around the countryside; handguns seem to hover in the air; and dreams endure against all odds.
By: Jason Mott
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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
- By: Kristin Harmel
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby, Kristin Harmel
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother, Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance. But one night in 1942, it all went wrong.
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Excellent story but didn’t enjoy narration.
- By E. Norman on 07-08-25
By: Kristin Harmel
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Seeking Shelter
- A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
- By: Jeff Hobbs
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Jeff Hobbs
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2018, poverty and domestic violence cast Evelyn and her children into the urban wilderness of Los Angeles, where she avoids the family crisis network that offers no clear pathway for her children to remain together and in a decent school. For the next five years, Evelyn works full time as a waitress yet remains unable to afford legitimate housing or qualify for government aid. All the while she strives to provide stability, education, loving memories, and college aspirations for her children even as they sleep in motels and in her car.
By: Jeff Hobbs
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Don't Let Him In
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Joanne Froggatt, Tamaryn Payne, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something daughter Ash and wife Nina devastated. Shortly after Paddy’s funeral, the two women receive a surprise in the mail: a note and package from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of Paddy’s, and a nondescript lighter that once belonged to him decades ago. This unexpected gift draws Nick and Nina closer together—much to Ash’s dismay.
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Monotonous
- By Noname on 06-28-25
By: Lisa Jewell
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I binged this entire book in one day. The first few chapters were so impactful. I couldn't put it down. Heartbreaking, raw, and pure. This story is about young motherhood and a group of teenage girls who band together to raise their babies out of the back of a red truck. Sisterhood, complex relationships, difficult decisions, sad truths, hard learned lessons, all woven together in a relatable and moving novel.
Heartbreaking, Raw, Pure
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beautiful writing!
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Masterpiece
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Loved it 💕
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Poetry in the prose
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