
The Half of It
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Jane Oppenheimer
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By:
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Juliette Fay
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"Witty, tender, beautifully written, I loved being immersed in this powerful story of loss and forgiveness."—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author
One perfect night. Forty years of buried hurt. One chance to make it right. Can the past ever be fixed? With humor, heart, and grace, USA Today bestselling author Juliette Fay delivers a poignant, propulsive novel about settling the past, rekindling lost friendships, and discovering love when you least expect it.
“I’m wondering if we can be friends again.”
When 58-year-old Helen Spencer reviews her life, what she sees are the mistakes. Over the years, things seemed to go sideways incrementally, one little wrong decision at a time. She can even pinpoint where it all started to go awry: a wonderous, romantic night in the woods her senior year of high school with a boy named Cal Crosby. A night she would soon work hard to forget.
Forty years, one marriage, three children, and one grandbaby later, suddenly there he is—Cal Crosby!—right in front of her with grandchildren of his own in tow. The chance to finally get some answers and sort out what happened is within reach. But Helen would much prefer to keep that night and all the fury, hurt, and sorrow that followed tightly locked away where she doesn’t have to face it.
Cal Crosby, however, is ready to talk. He has no idea of the can of worms he’s about to open. In fact, he doesn’t know the half of it.
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When the owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, takes Helen Winthrope, a young actress, under his wing, she thinks it's because of his guilt over her father's accidental death - and so does Albert Kramer, Ruppert's handsome personal secretary. Helen and Albert develop a deepening bond the closer they become to Ruppert, an eccentric millionaire who demands their loyalty in return for his lavish generosity.
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Complex, Moving…
- By Cindy A. Ossias on 09-21-22
By: Kim Van Alkemade
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Three Perfect Liars
- By: Heidi Perks
- Narrated by: Sara Poyzer, Rupert Farley, Olivia Darnley
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Laura has returned to work at Morris and Wood after her maternity leave, only to discover that the woman she brought in to cover for her isn’t going anywhere. Despite her close relationship with the agency’s powerful CEO, she feels sidelined - and outmaneuvered - as she struggles to balance the demands of work and motherhood.
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Boring
- By JenniferLOVESThrillers on 08-22-20
By: Heidi Perks
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One Big Happy Family
- By: Susan Mallery
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Julie Parker’s kids are her greatest gift. Still, she’s not exactly heartbroken when they ask to skip a big Christmas. Her son, Nick, is taking a belated honeymoon with his bride, Blair, while her daughter, Dana, will purge every reminder of the guy who dumped her. Again. Julie feels practically giddy for one-on-one holiday time with Heath, the (much) younger man she’s secretly dating. But her plans go from cozy to chaotic when Nick and Dana plead for Christmas at the family cabin in memory of their late father, Julie’s ex.
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Lots of drama!
- By Vicki M on 11-17-24
By: Susan Mallery
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Double Exposure
- A Novel
- By: Elissa R. Sloan
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Maiko Fox and Adrian Hightower were young, beautiful, in love…and famous. The latest model to grace the Valentina Posh runway show and the hottest new superhero actor were Hollywood’s breakout couple. They were in every magazine, all over the most popular celebrity-blogs, and on countless E! News stories. They starred in a blockbuster film together, reaping box-office gold. Fans were at a fever pitch. No one could get enough of Madrian, the couple that printed money for the studios, for the paparazzi, for themselves. But then, their relationship crumbled.
By: Elissa R. Sloan
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The Other Side of Disappearing
- By: Kate Clayborn
- Narrated by: Wyeth Watts, Marnye Young
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her younger half-sister, Tegan—and keeping a shocking secret. Ever since their reckless mother ran off with a boyfriend, Jess has been aware that he's the same accomplished con man who was the subject of a wildly popular podcast, The Last Con of Lynton Baltimore.
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family mystery tied into a romance
- By Amanda on 06-05-24
By: Kate Clayborn
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Under Your Spell
- A Novel
- By: Laura Wood
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Dumped by her cheating ex, fired from her dream job, and about to lose her flat: Clementine Monroe is not having a good day. So when her sisters get her drunk and suggest reviving a childhood ritual called the Breakup Spell, she doesn’t see the harm in it. But now Clemmie has accidentally ruined a funeral, had her first one-night stand, and she’s stuck with a new job she definitely doesn’t want—spending six weeks alone with the gorgeous and very-off-limits rock star, Theo Eliott.
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Savior Cliché
- By Gwynn on 07-22-24
By: Laura Wood
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The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder
- By: Sarah J. Harris
- Narrated by: Huw Parmenter
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia - a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds - who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately responsible. Thirteen-year-old Jasper Wishart lives in a world of dazzling color that no one else can see, least of all his dad. Words, numbers, days of the week, people’s voices - everything has its own unique shade. But recently Jasper has been haunted by a color he doesn’t like or understand: the color of murder.
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Slow paced but captivating
- By Sheryl on 08-16-19
By: Sarah J. Harris
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Charleston
- A Novel
- By: Margaret Bradham Thornton
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her 10 years to return. Now almost a decade later, she is an art historian in London with a charming Etonian boyfriend who adores her. But the past catches up with her when she runs into Henry, her childhood love, at a wedding in the English countryside.
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The Laughter
- A Novel
- By: Sonora Jha
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor. Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver’s long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips toward obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from France to stay with her. Oliver becomes a mentor to Adil, using his friendship with the boy to draw closer to his aunt.
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One of the best campus novels I’ve ever read
- By basicindiebro on 02-24-24
By: Sonora Jha
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Every Moment Since
- A Novel
- By: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, George Newbern, Kirby Heyborne, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone in Wynotte, North Carolina, knows the name Davy Malcor. Knows the video clip of him juggling four balls, "All at the very same time!" Knows the Marty McFly jacket his mother made for his birthday that he wore proudly, and often. But no one knows what happened to him the night he went missing more than twenty years ago. When the jacket is unexpectedly uncovered, the cold case reopens, and Davy's family is thrust into yet another media storm. But at the heart of the story are four people forever changed by one single night.
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A Life of Regret
- By Linda Parvin Hutchinson on 10-05-24
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Where the Truth Lies
- A Novel
- By: Anna Bailey
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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When 17-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at a party in the woods, sets out to discover the truth about what happened. The police initially believe Abi ran away, but Emma doesn’t believe that her friend would leave without her, and when officers find disturbing evidence in the nearby woods, the festering secrets and longstanding resentment of both Abigail’s family and the people of Whistling Ridge, Colorado begin to surface with devastating consequences.
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All of it
- By shayla on 04-10-24
By: Anna Bailey
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Revival Season
- By: Monica West
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Every summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam’s father - one of the South’s most famous preachers - holds massive healing services for people desperate to be cured of ailments and disease. But, this summer, the revival season doesn’t go as planned, and after one service in which Reverend Horton’s healing powers are tested like never before, Miriam witnesses a shocking act of violence that shakes her belief in her father - and her faith.
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Empathy-Evoking and Heartfelt
- By PR on 11-08-21
By: Monica West
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Stranded
- By: Sarah Goodwin
- Narrated by: Esme Sears
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A group of strangers arrive on a beautiful but remote island, ready for the challenge of a lifetime: to live there for one year, without contact with the outside world. But 12 months later, on the day when the boat is due to return for them, no one arrives. Eight people stepped foot on the island. How many will make it off alive?
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It was alright.
- By MJ Family on 10-21-21
By: Sarah Goodwin
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The Map of Salt and Stars
- By: Zeyn Joukhadar
- Narrated by: Lara Sawalha
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the summer of 2011, and Nour has just lost her father to cancer. Her mother, a cartographer who creates unusual, hand-painted maps, decides to move Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. But the country Nour's mother once knew is changing, and it isn't long before protests and shelling threaten their quiet Homs neighborhood. More than 800 years earlier, Rawiya, 16 and a widow's daughter, knows she must do something to help her impoverished mother. Restless and longing to see the world, she leaves home to seek her fortune.
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An Amazing Audible Experience
- By Zu-Zu on 08-12-18
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
Relatable and heartwarming story. Recommend!
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