
This Used to Be Us
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Narrated by:
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Rob Shapiro
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Eileen Stevens
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By:
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Renée Carlino
About this listen
There are two sides to every love story—and every breakup. Get ready for an emotional roller coaster of family, marriage, and divorce that will have you both laughing and crying, from the bestselling author of Before We Were Strangers.
“Hilarious, unnervingly relatable, romantic, and heartbreaking in the best way.”—Julia Stiles
“This book is a gut-punch to the feels.”—Karina Halle, New York Times bestselling author
After twenty-two years together, Danielle and Alex are getting a divorce. Once fiercely in love, they can barely stand the sound of each other’s voice. Instead of shuttling the kids between two broken homes, Alex and Dani decide to share a nesting apartment while swapping days with their two teenage boys at the family home.
In the apartment, Dani and Alex, on their own, begin to reflect on the last two decades—why they fell in love and why the marriage fell, spectacularly, apart. With the newfound space and time, they are given a chance to rediscover their autonomous selves again. They both get back in the dating pool. Dani finds major success at work as a showrunner on her own TV project, while Alex faces the challenges of a new relationship.
Still, they find that they just can’t stay away from each other, and somehow, the distance allows them to remember (for the first time in years) what each used to love about the other. When a family crisis draws them back into each other’s orbit, Dani and Alex are once again put to the test, which leads to a dramatic conclusion that will have listeners weeping.
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Meh.
- By ILuvNutellaYum on 05-24-18
By: Renee Carlino
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Nowhere but Here
- By: Renee Carlino
- Narrated by: Amy Landon, Zach Villa
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Kate Corbin had a handsome boyfriend and a budding career as a reporter at a popular Chicago newspaper. But after the death of the woman who raised her, she fell into a rut and never got out. Now she's stuck writing fluff pieces about lipstick and wine and feeling trapped in a relationship that's going nowhere. Kate's boss gives her an intriguing assignment: spend a week interviewing R. J. Lawson, a modern-day Howard Hughes who recently reemerged as the owner of a well-respected Napa winery.
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Lovely
- By Rhonie on 10-24-14
By: Renee Carlino
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The Last Post
- By: Renée Carlino
- Narrated by: Avery Caris, Stephen Dexter
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Laya Marston’s husband, Cameron, a daredevil enthusiast, was the complete opposite of her, ready and willing to dive off a cliff-face or parachute across a canyon - and Laya loved him for it. But she was different: pragmatic, regimented, devoted to her career and to supporting Cameron from the sidelines of his death-defying feats. Opposites attract, right? But when Cameron dies tragically, Laya becomes lost in denial, living in the delusion that Cameron will come back to her.
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I really wanted to like this
- By Amazon Customer on 12-21-21
By: Renée Carlino
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Heartbreak for Two
- By: C.W. Farnsworth
- Narrated by: Lidia Dornet, Alex Knox
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Some couples have chemistry, others have a connection. We have both. We took turns walking away. Somehow, we’ve still ended up here. On stage, together, in front of tens of thousands of people. Him holding a guitar, me a microphone. Singing the song I wrote that launched my career and dubbed me the princess of pop music. The song about him. Maybe we were inevitable from the start. To love. To dream. To end. Our song had one ending. Our story might have another.
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Heartbreakingly beautiful
- By Patricia on 04-14-23
By: C.W. Farnsworth
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The Prediction
- By: Faith Gardner
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A new marriage. A perfect home. A machine that says it’s all a lie. Welcome to Silicon Valley, where the weather is perfect, the income is high … and Rowena Snyder is miserable. A transplant from New York, Rowena moved into her husband Jacob’s idyllic childhood home with their new baby. But suburbia isn’t Rowena’s cup of Starbucks. And she’s got serious anxiety and depression to boot. Jacob, worried about their marriage, scores a new product currently in beta testing from his tech job: Maxine, a “digital friend” that bonds with an individual by continually gathering their personal data.
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Praise Maxine
- By Nefertiti on 03-18-25
By: Faith Gardner
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Los favoritos [The Favorites]
- By: Layne Fargo, Noemí Jiménez Furquet - translator
- Narrated by: Susana Ballesteros, Carolina Ayala, Víctor Mares, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Katarina Shaw siempre ha sabido que estaba destinada a llegar a lo más alto. Cuando conoce a Heath Rocha, un chico solitario, su conexión instantánea los convierte en un dúo formidable sobre el hielo... Hasta que un impactante incidente en los Juegos Olímpicos los separa definitivamente.
By: Layne Fargo, and others
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Matt Bomer
- Length: 28 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
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i’m unwell
- By Baili on 02-14-25
By: Hanya Yanagihara
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Fun for the Whole Family
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer E. Smith
- Narrated by: Lauren Graham
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The four Endicott siblings—Gemma, Connor, Roddy, and Jude—were once inseparable, a bond created by the absence of their dazzling, mercurial mother, who would return for a few weeks each summer to whisk them off on sprawling road trips around the country. Decades later, the unthinkable has happened: the Endicotts haven’t spoken in years . . . until an out-of-the-blue text arrives from Jude, now a famous actress, summoning them to a small town in North Dakota.
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A heartwarming read!
- By Cori Corcoran on 05-05-25
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The Days I Loved You Most
- By: Amy Neff
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Robert Fass, Ferdelle Capistrano, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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In the summer of 1941, on the New England shores where they were raised, Evelyn and Joseph fell in love. Now, more than sixty years later, with a lifetime between them, they have gathered their three grown children to share the staggering news: she has received a heartbreaking diagnosis, and he can't live without her. So in one year's time they will end their love story on their own terms.
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Beautiful story and beautiful descriptive writing! This was amazing.
- By Tamalyn W. Powell on 04-20-25
By: Amy Neff
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The Summer Pact
- A Novel
- By: Emily Giffin
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Karissa Vacker, Alex McKenna
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds: Lainey, a California party girl with a flair for drama; Tyson, a brilliant scholar and aspiring lawyer from Washington, D.C.; Summer, an ambitious, recruited athlete from the Midwest; and Hannah, a mild-mannered southerner who is content to quietly round out the circle of big personalities. Soon after arriving on campus, they strike up a conversation in their shared dorm, and the seeds of friendship are planted.
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Hard to listen.
- By KL Reynolds on 08-04-24
By: Emily Giffin
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It's a Love Story
- By: Annabel Monaghan
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV punch line who has left her awkwardness in the rearview mirror thanks to a fake-it-till-you-make-it mantra that has her on the cusp of success, until she tells a lie that sets her on a crash course with her past, spending a week on Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.
By: Annabel Monaghan
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Talking at Night
- A Novel
- By: Claire Daverley
- Narrated by: Emma Appleton
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother's wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer - destined to be one another's great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and their future together is shattered. But as the years roll on, Will and Rosie can't help but find their way back to each other. Time and again, they come close to rekindling what might have been.
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I. LOVED. THIS. Emma Appleton is spectacular
- By Audrey Fine on 05-26-25
By: Claire Daverley
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Night Road
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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For 18 years, Jude Farraday has put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows - her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close-knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college and out of harm’s way. It has always been easy - until senior year of high school. Suddenly she is at a loss.
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Oh for heaven's sake
- By Angela on 10-24-11
By: Kristin Hannah
“We Made It”
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Good Story, Middling Prose
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A very angry story in the beginning 😡😤🤬 BUT as it continues it turns into a peaceful read AND change is hard but ok….. but how it ends 🤯😢🥰 “love your people everyday”
Love and what it means to love
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And the narration was incredible.
Beautiful
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Downer
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Renee Carlino is a hit or miss author for me. I hated this book. What was the point of this story? They don't even like each other for the majority of the book, and then what was that ending? Rushed, out of the blue, and so unnecessary. I disliked it so much, I returned it for my credit back, and I NEVER do that. Skip this book. If you want a good book by this author, read Before We Were Strangers. I don't know what happened between when that book released and when this one did, but I have no interest in ever reading another book by her.
Skip this one
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That Dani was always so angry.
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