
Things Don't Break on Their Own
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Christina Cole
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Emily Lucienne
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Nathalie Buscombe
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“So, so, so good. An elegant, twisting story of loss and longing, of the ache of the unknown and the drowning weight of past trauma.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark
EDGAR AWARD FINALIST • A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST AND BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE SEASON
A heart-wrenching mystery about sisters, lovers, and a dinner party gone wrong.
Twenty-five years ago, a young girl left home to walk to school. Her younger sister soon followed. But one of them arrived, and one of them didn’t.
Her sister’s disappearance has defined Willa’s life. Everyone thinks her sister is dead, but Willa knows she isn’t. Because there are some things that only sisters know about each other—and some bonds only sisters can break.
Willa sees fragments of her sister everywhere—the way that woman on the train turns her head, the gait of that woman in Paris. If there’s the slightest resemblance, Willa drops everything, and everyone, and tries to see if it is her.
When Willa is invited to a dinner party thrown by her first love, she has no reason to expect it will be anything other than an ordinary evening. Both of them have moved on, ancient history. But nothing about Willa’s life has been ordinary since the day her sister disappeared, and that’s not about to change tonight.
Sarah Easter Collins has written an extraordinary novel about memory, lost love, and long-buried secrets that sometimes see the light of day.
©2024 Sarah Easter Collins (P)2024 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA’s worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life in Dublin with their young children. Though Tessa is haunted by the abrupt and violent end to her old life, she does her best to immerse herself in the joys of Finn’s childhood and the rhythms of her new job at The Irish Observer. It’s a small island, though, and just as quickly as they disappeared, figures from the sisters’ past surface to drag them back into the conflict.
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I'm on the Fence
- By Kentucky Bohemian on 06-15-25
By: Flynn Berry
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The Trap
- A Novel
- By: Ava Glass
- Narrated by: Sophie Colquhoun
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Emma Makepeace is headed to Edinburgh for the global G7 Summit when her team is tipped off about a high-profile assassination the Russians are planning—but they have no idea who the target is. Surrounded by the world’s most powerful political leaders in a gridlocked city, Emma must set a trap and use herself as bait. With time running short, Emma faces the most perilous mission of her career. How far will she go to catch the killer?
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Emma is awesome
- By Dale Merrill on 03-11-25
By: Ava Glass
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The Arrangement
- By: Robyn Harding
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Natalie, a young art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a suggestion: why not go online and find a sugar daddy - a wealthy, older man who will pay her for dates, and even give her a monthly allowance? Lots of girls do it, Nat learns. All that’s required is to look pretty and hang on his every word. Sexual favors are optional. Though more than 30 years her senior, Gabe, a handsome corporate finance attorney, seems like the perfect candidate, and within a month, they are m
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Ridiculous..
- By Melissa Addis on 08-11-19
By: Robyn Harding
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One of the Girls
- By: Lucy Clarke
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson, Sofia Zervadachi
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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It was supposed to be the perfect weekend away. Six very different women travel to a sun-soaked Greek island for a bachelorette trip, to celebrate Lexi’s upcoming wedding. From the glorious ocean views to the quaint tavernas and whitewashed streets, the vacation seems too good to be true. But dangerous undercurrents run beneath the sunset swims and midnight cocktails—because each of the women is hiding a secret. Someone is determined to make sure that Lexi’s marriage never happens—and that one of them doesn’t leave the island alive.
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Found a new writer! 🎉
- By Mary Grady on 08-24-22
By: Lucy Clarke
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The Burning Girls
- A Novel
- By: C. J. Tudor
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Richard Armitage
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, local Protestant martyrs were betrayed - then burned. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And a few weeks ago, the vicar of the local parish hanged himself in the nave of the church. Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping for a fresh start. Instead, Jack finds a town rife with conspiracies and secrets, and is greeted with a strange welcome package.
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Implausible and gory thriller by CJ Tudor
- By Betsy Fowler on 02-28-21
By: C. J. Tudor
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Our House
- By: Louise Candlish
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Elliot Hill
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she's sure there's been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird's nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. In a domino effect of crimes and misdemeanors, the nest comes tumbling down.
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It certainly did hold my attention until the very last second!
- By chris rinyu on 08-26-18
By: Louise Candlish
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The Broken Girls
- By: Simone St. James
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants - the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming - until one of them mysteriously disappears.... Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death.
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Drama, Suspense, Intrigue and a Ghost
- By Anna Landry on 04-13-18
By: Simone St. James
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Feral
- By: James DeMonaco, B. K. Evenson
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Brittany Pressley, Erin Spencer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Allie Hilts was still in high school when a fire at a top-secret research facility released an air-borne pathogen that quickly spread to every male on the planet, killing most. Allie witnessed every man she ever knew be consumed by fearsome symptoms: scorching fevers and internal bleeding, madness and uncontrollable violence. The world crumbled around her. No man was spared, and the few survivors were irrevocably changed. They became disturbingly strong, aggressive, and ferocious. Feral.
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ultimately it’s just not very good
- By Midwestbonsai on 10-11-17
By: James DeMonaco, and others
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For Your Own Good
- By: Samantha Downing
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn’t be more proud - though no one has seen her in a while. Teddy really can’t be bothered with a few mysterious deaths on campus that’re looking more and more like murder or with the student digging a little too deep into Teddy’s personal life. His main focus is pushing these kids to their full academic potential.
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Very good
- By Julia on 07-24-21
By: Samantha Downing
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Sign Here
- By: Claudia Lux
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Brittany Pressley
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jägermeister, but Pey has a plan—and all he needs is one last member of the Harrison family to sell their soul.
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The Woman Narrator Is Incredibly Annoying
- By Mary Grace on 09-17-24
By: Claudia Lux
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Where They Last Saw Her
- A Novel
- By: Marcie R. Rendon
- Narrated by: Erin Tripp, Marcie R. Rendon
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in Minnesota her whole life. She knows what happens to women who look like her. Just a girl when Jimmy Sky jumped off the railway bridge and she ran for help, Quill realizes now that she’s never stopped running. As she trains for the Boston Marathon early one morning in the woods, she hears a scream. When she returns to search the area, all she finds are tire tracks and a single beaded earring.
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An important story with lackluster characters
- By Jonathan S. Rosenberg on 10-21-24
By: Marcie R. Rendon
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The Wilds
- A Novel (Detective Elin Warner Series, Book 3)
- By: Sarah Pearse
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Since the dark events that scarred her childhood, Kier Templer escaped her hometown and her twin to live her life on the road. The siblings have never lost contact until, on a trip to a Portuguese national park, Kier vanishes without a trace. Detective Elin Warner arrives in the same park ready to immerse herself in its vast wilderness–only to hear about Kier’s disappearance, and discover a disturbing map she left behind. The few strangers at an isolated campsite close ranks against Elin’s questions, and the park’s wild beauty starts to turn sinister.
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Just couldn’t get into it
- By JNo on 12-23-24
By: Sarah Pearse
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Breathless
- By: Amy McCulloch
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She’s come to Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She’s given up everything for this story—her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she’s made with her climbing failures in the past—but it’s a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track.
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Not a thriller
- By Michelle on 06-18-22
By: Amy McCulloch
Complicated story.
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One of the best books I’ve listened to in my long life
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Beautifully written combination of wonderful storytelling and crime thriller.
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Great read!!!
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Intriguing story that’s not a cheap thriller
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WoW!!
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Mystery at its best
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Seemed Promising
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An interesting story
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A maze of viewpoints
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