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- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child.
Their painful and courageous journey toward adoption forces Maya to confront the lost daughter of her past.
Brilliantly braiding together the stories of Chinese birth mothers who give up their daughters, Ann Hood writes a moving and beautifully told novel of the red thread of fate that binds these characters’ lives. Heartrending and wise, The Red Thread is a stirring portrait of unforgettable love and yearning for a baby.
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Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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Vine of desire
- By Mz Shantay on 03-27-21
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Inheriting Edith
- A Novel
- By: Zoe Fishman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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For years Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies, leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance - a house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: the deceased's 82-year old mother, Edith.
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Narrator is distracting.
- By Onelove on 05-13-20
By: Zoe Fishman
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Secret Daughter
- By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Debut novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling tale about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India.
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A Must Read
- By Stephanie on 06-08-11
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Morning Glory
- By: Sarah Jio
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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In a Seattle houseboat community, the artistic spirit that has flourished since the 1950s may have ended one life, yet saved another. On Seattle's Lake Union floats Boat Street. The farthest slip on the dock holds a houseboat sided with weathered cedar shingles and trailing morning glory, the white flowering vine whose loveliness is deceiving. In the 1950s, Penny, newly Mrs. Dexter Wentworth, takes up residence, dreaming of fulfillment as the muse to a successful local artist destined for national renown.
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Robotic Narration
- By John T Rhoadarmer on 12-02-13
By: Sarah Jio
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- By: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- By Terri Kirk on 07-13-12
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Private Relations
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Welcome to the Chapel House, the old oceanfront mansion where a group of close friends share their hopes and dreams and where love is sometimes an unexpected guest. Heartfelt and deeply moving, Private Relations won the 1989 RITA Award for Best Single Title Contemporary Novel from the Romance Writers of America.
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- By Kimberly K. Roberts on 06-12-18
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One True Thing
- By: Anna Quindlen
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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A young woman sits in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her dying mother. She didn't do it, but she thinks she knows who did. In the last months of her life, Ellen Gulden's mother revealed startling secrets that challenged everything Ellen believed about her family. Now, in jail, Ellen believes those secrets will tell her who had the courage to end her mother's suffering.
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Quindlen's writing skills shine in One True Thing.
- By Bonny on 08-26-13
By: Anna Quindlen
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
- By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Narrated by: Shari Peele
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the award-winning and best-selling author of Tumbling, presents Trading Dreams at Midnight - - an Essence Book Club Recommended Read. Back in 1984, 15-year-old Neena's mother left and never came back. And now Neena is following in her footsteps.
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Hard to follow
- By Nevada on 08-13-10
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Orange Mint and Honey
- By: Carleen Brice
- Narrated by: Cherise Booth
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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After grad school, Shay Dixon feels like she's had enough for awhile. Inspired by her spiritual adviser - a soul-soothing blues player named Nina Simon - Shay calls her estranged mother Nona for the first time in years, and shocks herself by asking if it would be okay to come home for a while.
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One For The Money
- By DiaRose on 09-25-17
By: Carleen Brice
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- Christine De Jesus-Siapo
- 04-04-22
cute and simple
beautiful story but the then she said, then he said was a bit much in the beginning. you get used to it. a bit hard to follow with al the characters.
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- -marlo-
- 01-19-22
Beautiful and interesting
Found myself identifying w/a few of the parents in this book even though we had two healthy babies w/no problems. Fascinating story of adoption and families.
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- howdy1983
- 06-02-23
Well read
Enjoyable listen but emotional journey. Be prepared to contemplate the joys and woes of what it means to be a parent, mother, daughter, and family.
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- Suzanne Gmur
- 01-30-21
dysfunctional people adopting
none of the couples should have been given babies. bunch of dysfunctional people
narrator was best part and may be only redeeming part
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- CaroleAnn
- 10-18-22
…a flame in the darkness
The Red Thread is an amazing real time account of heart-wrenching Laws, Choices, Circumstances, Decisions, Injustices, Sorrows bundled-up into an infinity of possibilities that give way to: MUCH LUCK, GOOD FORTUNE, BRIGHT FUTURES & the reality of GREAT JOY
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- Megan
- 09-20-10
Well written, well read...
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. Masterfully told and well paced. I enjoyed meeting all the characters. The author's own story is touching to say the least...
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- maida smith
- 02-05-13
Love this Legend
Would you consider the audio edition of The Red Thread to be better than the print version?
The people seem more real on audio for me
What does Hillary Huber bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She is fantastic
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Oh yes I cried and I laughed and I could not put the book down until all the babies were safely connected.
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- share77
- 08-10-21
Poignant
This book touched my heart. Though I have never had the experiences of the families described in this novel, the author so poignantly illustrated their inner lives, I felt the empathy as though they were real people I could have known. I became immersed in the world of these people who had experienced such heartache, as well as those whose path took them to a where their hopes could be realized.
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- Joan
- 02-13-22
Good one
Easy story to listen to. Good narration. I enjoyed the overall plot and characters.
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- kim
- 09-03-22
Beautiful storytelling
As an adopted person, this story resonated with me on a very personal level.
My adopted mother is turning 75 and loves to read hardcopy books so I am going to purchase a copy for her as a gift. She adopted me when I was three months old. I really think the story was told in such a unique way that shows both perspectives very clearly. You really get a sense of what it means to give up a child for adoption and also a window into what the adoptive parents go through emotionally on the road to adopt a child of their own.
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