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Annabel Mullion
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Plum Sykes
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“Wives Like Us made me laugh so hard I actually knocked over my lamp. Can a book be so wickedly smart, so effortless, so chic and hilarious that you would stumble through the night to find a new lightbulb just so you can keep reading way past your bedtime? In a word, yes."" —Kevin Kwan
Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs and one (bereaved) butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny Wives Like Us, the new novel from the best-selling author of Bergdorf Blondes and Party Girls Die In Pearls, Plum Sykes.
If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you’ve never visited ‘The Bottoms.’
Welcome to the rose-strewn county of Oxfordshire, and the tony Cotswold villages of Little Bottom, Middle Bottom, Great Bottom, and Monkton Bottom, recently annexed by a glittering new breed of female: the Country Princess.
Following a ghastly row about a missing suite of diamonds, Tata Hawkins has flounced out of Monkton Bottom Manor with her daughter, Minty, and Executive Butler Ian Palmer in tow, decamping to The Old Coach House to teach her husband Bryan a lesson.
But things don’t go to plan: Bryan disappears to Venice with a bikini designer; Selby Fairfax, the glamorous American divorcée who has inherited the beautiful estate next door, is refusing Tata’s overtures at friendship; Tata’s best friends, Sophie Thompson and Fernanda Ovington-Williams, are distracted by their own heartache, and the posh Pennybacker-Hoare sisters are plotting to prevent Tata regaining her crown as Queen of the Bottoms. Worst of all, Ian has nowhere to store his collection of vintage Gucci loafers.
Will Tata ever return to the comforts of the Manor? Will Selby find her Prince Charming? Will the Pennybacker-Hoares prevail? With the help of a pig farmer-ess moonlighting as a Personal Assistant, a male model moonlighting as a stable hand and a London barrister moonlighting as a gentleman farmer, can Ian restore harmony to The Bottoms?
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Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on the battlefield for refusing to fight. A jealous colleague has learned of his secret and has managed to have Rutledge assigned to a difficult case which could spell disaster for Rutledge whatever the outcome. A retired officer has been murdered, and Rutledge goes to investigate.
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Difficult to follow the narrator
- By Carol on 01-02-13
By: Charles Todd
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The Knockoff
- A Novel
- By: Lucy Sykes, Jo Piazza
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired "the gray hairs", put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings.
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Buy it Now!
- By Sydney Culver on 05-24-15
By: Lucy Sykes, and others
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The Favor
- A Novel
- By: Nora Murphy
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore, Leon Nixon, Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don’t—ever—find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don’t—ever—discuss their problems and find common ground. They don’t—ever—acknowledge to each other that although their lives have all the trappings of success, wealth and happiness, they are, in fact, trapped.
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Very entertaining domestic thriller
- By cindy on 06-25-22
By: Nora Murphy
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She Came to Slay
- The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
- By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, with Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad. As a leading abolitionist, her bravery and selflessness has inspired generations in the continuing struggle for civil rights. Now, National Book Award nominee Erica Armstrong Dunbar presents a fresh take on this American icon blending traditional biography and engaging sidebars that illuminate the life of Tubman as never before.
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Magnificent!
- By Maurice Wilson on 01-25-20
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Dead to Her
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Pinborough
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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"Once a cheat, always a cheat," they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago. But her world of country clubs, yachts, and sumptuous houses in Savannah, Georgia, isn’t easy to maintain, no matter how hard she tries. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested.
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Revenge in Savannah
- By Bree. Z on 02-12-20
By: Sarah Pinborough
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The English Major
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Newly divorced and robbed of his farm by his real-estate shark of an ex-wife, 60-something Cliff is off on a road trip across America, on a mission to rename all the states and state birds and redeem them from the banal names men have given them.Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high-school teaching days 20-some years before, to a snake farm in Arizona owned by an old classmate, and into the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer.
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A picaresque novel for baby boomers
- By SW Clemens on 12-02-08
By: Jim Harrison
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Sex and Vanity
- A Novel
- By: Kevin Kwan
- Narrated by: Lydia Look
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The iconic author of the best-selling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the WASPY fiancé of her family's dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.
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Gorgeous
- By Jess on 07-05-20
By: Kevin Kwan
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The Beautiful People
- By: Michelle Gable
- Narrated by: Eleanor Caudill
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1961, and for Margo Hightower, everything is about to change. True, her engagement is off, her family has fallen in scandal, and she's completely broke. But she’s just been hired as assistant to photographer Slim Aarons—famous for his vibrant pictures of high society, royalty, and Hollywood stars—and she knows this opportunity is her ticket to something better.
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This was pure escapism in the glitzy world of Palm Beach Society in the 1960’s
- By adenia robbins on 11-20-24
By: Michelle Gable
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A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl
- A Novel
- By: Nanda Reddy
- Narrated by: Khaya Fraites
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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On an ordinary day in an upscale Atlanta suburb, Maya is making breakfast for her two sons, when her husband drops a red-and-blue striped envelope on the counter and asks a devastating question: Who is Sunny? Maya is sent reeling back to her childhood in Guyana—a time when Sunny was her only name. Unbeknownst to her husband, Maya is not who she claims to be. The letter, from her long-lost sister Roshi, now threatens to expose her true identity and shatter the seemingly perfect existence Maya worked so hard to build.
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Amazing book!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-02-25
By: Nanda Reddy
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The Stranger in the Mirror
- A Novel
- By: Liv Constantine
- Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman, Maggi-Meg Reed, Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Addison’s about to get married, but she’s not looking forward to the big day. It’s not her fiancé; he’s a wonderful man. It’s because Addison doesn't know who she really is. A few years ago, a kind driver found her bleeding next to a New Jersey highway and rescued her. While her physical wounds healed, Addison’s memory never returned. She doesn’t know her real name. Or how she ended up injured on the side of a road. Or why she can’t shake the notion that she may have done something very, very bad.
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Don't waste your credit!
- By Anon on 07-13-21
By: Liv Constantine
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Death on Ocean Boulevard
- Inside the Coronado Mansion Case
- By: Caitlin Rother
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceutical tycoon and multimillionaire Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah's girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah's brother, Adam, claimed to have found Rebecca hanging by a rope from the second-floor balcony. On a bedroom door in black paint were the cryptic words: She Saved Him Can You Save Her.
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Where do I begin?
- By Susie Q on 05-08-21
By: Caitlin Rother
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The Wildes
- A Novel in Five Acts
- By: Louis Bayard
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every reason to be happy: two beautiful sons, a stellar reputation as an advocate for progressive causes, and a delightfully charming and affectionate husband and father, who is perhaps the most famous man in England. But as an assortment of houseguests arrive, including an aristocratic young wannabe poet named Lord Alfred Douglas, Constance gradually—and then all at once—comes to see that her husband's heart is elsewhere.
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Lost in the beautiful writing
- By Sharon Love on 01-22-25
By: Louis Bayard
Fun!
Fun farce. Wonderful escapism.
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A fun romp!
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Charming
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Not everything appears as it is
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Amusing farce
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Such a fun read!
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Perfect summer read
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Fun and Frothy
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such a funny light enjoyable read
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Humor
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