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Matthew Norman
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Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street.
We're All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend's wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny apartment with an angry cat named Jeter that isn't technically his. But before long he needs to go back to Omaha to say good-bye to his dying grandfather.
Back home, Andy is confronted with his past, which includes his ex, his ex's new boyfriend, his right-wing talk-radio-host mother, his parents' crumbling marriage, and his still-angry best friend.
As if these old problems weren't enough, Andy encounters an entirely new complication: Daisy. She has fifteen tattoos, no job, and her own difficult past. But she claims she is the only person who can help Andy be happy again, if only she weren't hiding a huge secret that will mess things up even more. Andy Carter needs a second chance at life, and Daisy - and the person Daisy pushes Andy to become - may be his last chance to set things right.
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What's it like to be undocumented? High school senior M.T. knows all too well. With graduation and an uncertain future looming, she must figure out how to grow up in the only country she's ever called home... a country in which she's "illegal". M.T. was born in Argentina and brought to America as a baby without any official papers. And as questions of college, work, and the future arise, M.T. will have to decide what exactly she wants for herself, knowing someone she loves will unavoidably pay the price for it.
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Heavy topics handled well but just fell short 4 me
- By AudioBookHoe on 07-30-17
By: Maria E. Andreu
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
- By: A. S. King
- Narrated by: Lynde Houck
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone - the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to? Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: Smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.
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Moving, disturbing, and humorous
- By Julie on 08-26-11
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The Wangs vs. the World
- By: Jade Chang
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
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Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands - and his pride. Outrageously funny and full of charm, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America - and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
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Spectacular
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Just Fly Away
- By: Andrew McCarthy
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A debut novel about one girl's discovery of family secrets, first love, the limits of forgiveness, and finding one's way in the world, written with wisdom and sympathy by the best-selling memoirist, actor, and director. When 15-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a child from a brief affair, an eight-year-old boy named Thomas who lives in her own suburban New Jersey town, she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her family and her life.
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- By Rick on 04-06-17
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- By: Juliann Garey
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- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
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Whiskey & Ribbons
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Set in contemporary Louisville, Leesa Cross-Smith's mesmerizing first novel surrounding the death of a police officer is a requiem for marriage, friendship, and family, from an author Roxane Gay has called "a consummate storyteller". Evi - a classically-trained ballerina - was nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the line of duty on a steamy morning in July. Now, it is winter, and Eamon's adopted brother Dalton has moved in to help her raise six-month-old Noah.
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Beautifully Tragic and Heart Healing
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Loving Day
- By: Mat Johnson
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
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On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention, he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter, and she thinks she's white.
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Teen lit with heavy erotic imagery
- By Itinerant T on 08-26-15
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An Abundance of Katherines
- By: John Green
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When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has $10,000 in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun - but no Katherines.
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struggled to finish listening
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By: John Green
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I Can Be a Better You
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When Fig Coxbury buys a house on West Barrett Street, it's not because she likes the neighborhood, or even because she likes the house. It's because everything she desires is next door: the husband, the child, and the life that belongs to someone else.
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Brilliant- really good!
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The Last Place You Look
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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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Alcoholic PI
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Marlena
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- By: Julie Buntin
- Narrated by: Emma Galvin
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify.
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A Brilliant, Agonizing Portrait of a Young Woman
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Purple Hearts
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- By: Tess Wakefield
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- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Cassie Salazar and Luke Morrow couldn't be more different. Sharp-witted Cassie works nights at a bar in Austin, Texas, to make ends meet while pursuing her dream of becoming a singer/songwriter. Luke is an army trainee, about to ship out for duty, who finds comfort in the unswerving discipline of service. But a chance encounter at Cassie's bar changes the course of both their lives.
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RATING PURPLE HEARTS BOOK VS PURPLE HEARTS MOVIE
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Trust Your Eyes
- By: Linwood Barclay
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Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He examines every address, as well as the people who are frozen in time on his computer screen. Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon - but has not - in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered.
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One of 2013's best!
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By: Linwood Barclay
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- hairbear2012
- 06-01-16
Cool characters
Cool storytelling about a 30s something living life and just being normal. Relating everything to movies and 90s television shows. The jokes come fast
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- Tim Nacey
- 06-19-16
Funny, Sad, Really engrossing.
"We're All Damaged" is a story about Andy Carter, a guy who was divorced a few years ago, and is still fucked up from it. She's with a new guy and everyone around him is telling him to move on, but he just can't. Meanwhile, his grandfather is dying back in his hometown, so he had to go down there to be with his family and unfortunately, that means being near the woman that broke his heart.
What follows is a series of alternately and sometimes simultaneously funny and sad misadventures as Andy tries desperately to work through his shit, and with the help of a mysterious girl named Daisy, possibly even be happy again.
What makes this book so great, to me, was the way it acts as a story, but also a snapshot of the citizens of Omaha, Nebraska. It checks in on different characters in Andy's life, characters that seem to be one note cliches, but actually turn out to be layered people that, by the end, you feel like you're best friends (or worst enemies) with. Every character had their quirks and their damages, hence the title.
Funny, sad and anchored by a fantastic cast of characters. This book is amazing, and I recommend it to anyone who liked Apatow's Love on Netflix. 5/5
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- liz
- 06-19-17
loved this book. great narration!!! great story.
as always no spoilers in my reviews,🙆
this book was a hidden gem. it wasn't really my go to genre at all. however it was the daily deal and I grabbed it. so grateful I did. I don't believe I will ever forget these characters. they all are truly memorable. worth your time for sure
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- Terrence
- 06-11-17
A story I kept thinking back on after it was over.
Would you listen to We're All Damaged again? Why?
I WILL listen to the story again. I knew that as soon as it ended. It won't be this minute, but it has gone onto my reread pile for another go at a later date. I enjoyed it very much. It was a story that lingered with me after it ended and which I mentally mulled over throughout the day after it was finished.
What was one of the most memorable moments of We're All Damaged?
Perhaps near the end when Daisy reveals that despite the healing of time, some damage may still stay with you.
What about Scott Merriman’s performance did you like?
The narrators performance was transparent. Rather than hearing the narrator I envisioned the characters. Great narration.
Who was the most memorable character of We're All Damaged and why?
Daisy of course. She is the most complex of the characters; there is more to her than you may at first realize. She is in ways the most together character, yet still embodies the theme, and the title, of the book.
Any additional comments?
The publishers summary was misleading. Daisy does have a job. She has several. And nowhere do I recall hearing Daisy "claims she is the only person who can help Andy be happy again". That sounds conceited, and conceit has nothing to do with Daisy wanting to help Andy. I also don't believe it is accurate to say that "she is hiding a huge secret that will mess things up even more". She is not actively 'hiding' anything. She knows who she is, she understands her own motivations, and is just fine with herself. There are some things that aren't necessary for you to blurt out to another person as soon as you meet them, in the name of 'not hiding' things about yourself. Maybe it just isn't somebody's business...
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- AmazonCustomer1234567890
- 07-21-16
so many things I've goes through, one way or anoth
very glad to listen to this book. There are a few things that seem like a right of passage into, maybe what could be called real adulthood of life... at least for those of us in the dating scene, or maybe everyone... A feel good book, if I could articulate properly... something like learning to be laid back and enjoy life at every turn without worrying all the time kind of thing...
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- Yvonne Pullins
- 01-19-18
Very enjoyable read
I laughed out loud at a few areas. I just don't do that. Anyone that has gone through a time when their heart has been destroyed by someone will really like this book.
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- Alaina
- 04-30-20
hilariously good
absolutely loved this story. Its absolutely absurd in so many ways, but I haven't laughed this hard at a book in a very long time.
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- Spinner
- 10-12-17
Don't Miss This Book
This book was available on Kindle Unlimited, with deeply discounted Audible narration. I decided to give it a try because other reviewers made it sound like it could be okay. I realized on page one that I would have gladly spent a lot for this book. The writing is terrific, the narrator is fabulous!
Matthew Norman captures the every day-ness of life's events and peoples' interactions so completely it felt like I was there, going along with Andy as he navigated his way through life feeling damaged. And dealing with his own "damaged" family. I laughed out loud, sometimes in taken-by-surprise bursts as the phrases hit me in that nanosecond after I had heard them and their full impact hit. These people are real. And they're funny and sad and shallow and deep and complicated. I haven't read anything else by Matthew Norman, but I can tell you that I wil!
Don't miss this great book.
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- 4Adam
- 07-09-17
Great book to listen to.
The title of this book is a perfect description of what you're gonna get from it.
Well put together and a great narrated experience.
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- dianejw
- 06-07-17
Good book
It was an easy read which I enjoyed and I found that the performance was done effortlessly.
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