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  • Knit the Season: A Friday Night Knitting Club Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 17 mins)
    • By Kate Jacobs
    • Narrated By Carrington MacDuffie
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (65)
    Performance
    (31)
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    (30)

    Knit the Season is a loving, moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker's trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland, accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Together, they share a trove of happy memories about past Christmases.

    Jennifer says: "Warm and Entertaining"
    "Loved the Story"
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    It was a great continuation to the story "The Friday Night Knitting Club." It was nice to see how the characters had evolved after the first story. A cross section of the life of every character.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Rapture of Canaan

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 17 mins)
    • By Sheri Reynolds
    • Narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (10)
    Performance
    (6)
    Story
    (7)

    Novelist Sheri Reynolds weaves lyrical prose and folksy dialogue into her spellbinding tales. The Rapture of Canaan, a New York Times best-seller, is the moving story of a teenaged girl clashing with her harshly controlled world. Growing up in a closed religious community deep in the rural South, 15-year-old Ninah Huff painstakingly and obediently follows her church’s many rules—she knows that public humiliation follows the smallest transgression

    A User says: "Gripping Story"
    "Gripping Story"
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    I was interested with the cult-like culture of the story. Usually the leader of the group is charismatic, but in this story he is feared. I found it amazing how fear drove most of the characters and the actions they took to please the leader of the "church." It was ironic, though how the leader gave the children a "taste" of life on the outside. The ending left me wanting more. Great story.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • A Virtuous Woman

    • UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 49 mins)
    • By Kaye Gibbons
    • Narrated By Ruth Ann Phimister, Tom Stechschulte
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    (6)
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    (4)
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    When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.

    A User says: "Unconditional Love"
    "Unconditional Love"
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    A heartwarming story about a plain couple but their love endures. I loved the narration and found myself laughing out loud during the story. What intrigued me was trying to figure out what time period the story took place. A very "non romantic" love story.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Book of Ruth

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 22 mins)
    • By Jane Hamilton
    • Narrated By Angela Jayne Rogers
    Overall
    (62)
    Performance
    (24)
    Story
    (26)

    Growing up in a world of physical and emotional poverty, Ruth believes her shrewish mother's assessment of her - that she is dimwitted and worthless. When she marries an emotionally unstable ne'er-do-well, her troubles only multiply. Her job at the dry cleaners can't afford her little family the luxury of moving out of her mother's house. As the incessant bickering between her troubled husband and her abusive mother reaches a violent climax, Ruth must find a way to survive.

    Christine says: "It Enters Your Soul"
    "A Story of Survival"
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    Although the protagonist is verbally beaten down by her mother and those around her, she never plays the victim. She and the other characters were wonderfully developed and the narration was great. I enjoyed listening to the story and was left wanting more at then end. It was touching how she began to become more confident, but like all of us still had her doubts.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Penny: A Novel

    • ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 8 mins)
    • By Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford
    • Narrated By Ellen Archer
    Overall
    (25)
    Performance
    (4)
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    (4)

    Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer she's 14, when she makes the decision to pick up a penny embedded in asphalt and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting someone who changes her life forever: Miss Shaw.

    Grant says: "Inspiring"
    "Hard to Put Down"
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    The narration was wonderful and the story gripped your from the first line. A great read that teaches the wonderful gift given to us from God.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Knit Two

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 46 mins)
    • By Kate Jacobs
    • Narrated By Carrington MacDuffie
    Overall
    (155)
    Performance
    (38)
    Story
    (39)

    Knit Two returns to the Manhattan knitting store Walker & Daughter five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter Dakota is now an 18 year old freshman at NYU, running the knitting store part-time with the help of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by their love for Dakota and the sense of family the club provides, each knitter is struggling with new challenges.

    Traci Frederick says: "Disappointing"
    "A Great Continuation of a Great Story"
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    A great continuation of the first novel. It was interesting to see how the characters progressed after the first novel. A great story

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Snow Angel

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
    • By Glenn Beck
    • Narrated By January LaVoy, Ron McLarty
    Overall
    (153)
    Performance
    (134)
    Story
    (132)

    Rachel Price’s one happy memory from her childhood is of playing outside with her father, Mitch, on a cold and snowy day. In that moment he took her hands in his and called her his angel. She felt safe, loved, and protected. Rachel’s mother dies in a car crash a few years later - a sudden and unresolved ending to a complicated relationship. Mitch’s reaction to certain realities surrounding the death pushes Rachel away and confirms her fear that Mitch never truly loved her at all. Years later, Rachel’s daughter, Lily, is the only light in her dark life.

    Carolyn says: "Story of a life of abuse."
    "Great Book.....Period"
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    This story is compelling and holds your interest. I couldn't put it down. The narration was wonderful. Despite what you feel about Glenn Beck or his politics, he is an absolutely great author and storyteller. You must read this book.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Good Earth

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
    • By Pearl S. Buck
    • Narrated By Anthony Heald
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1405)
    Performance
    (614)
    Story
    (623)

    This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.

    Marv says: "a masterpiece!"
    "A Must Read for All Ages"
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    This timeless classic covers poverty, adversity, and endurance. It also conveys unconditional love and loyalty. Still a story for our modern time about what's really important in life.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Night

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 20 mins)
    • By Elie Wiesel
    • Narrated By George Guidall
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1745)
    Performance
    (572)
    Story
    (577)

    Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night. This definitive edition features a new translation from the original French by Wiesel's wife and frequent translator, Marion Wiesel.

    Ella says: "This book consumed me"
    "This Should Be on Everyone's Reading List"
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    A heart-wrenching story that will break your heart, but it needs to be told over and over again. Over sixty years later, we are hearing the stories of the atrocity of the Holocaust. They have been told before, but now we are hearing about the indifference and disbelief that the citizens had about Hitler's "Final Solution." This should be read by every student so that these stories never be forgotten and more importantly that this never is allowed to happen again.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Paris Wife: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
    • By Paula McLain
    • Narrated By Carrington MacDuffie
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1429)
    Performance
    (923)
    Story
    (910)

    Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet 28eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group—the fabled “Lost Generation”—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

    Csilla says: "Delighted in Del Mar"
    "A Good Read"
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    It was interesting reading about the early years of Hemingway and his first wife. The author gave a great description of the characters and the era. How true it was, I don't know, but it did hold my interest. It made me want to explore Hemingway's works.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 52 mins)
    • By Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Narrated By Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (4275)
    Performance
    (941)
    Story
    (942)

    Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone. This is the absorbing chronicle of that year.

    Kerry says: "Witty and Wonderful"
    "Don't Listen to the Hype"
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    If you are wanting a book about "The Meaning of Life," this is not the book. I gave it the stars because it was an interesting read with regard to the character's travels and the people she met.

    I could not, however, relate to a "privileged wife" being unhappy with her life and walking away from her life. Also, as someone being treated for depression and anxiety, I was distressed that the author suggests that those suffering from this condition can go off medication. Having "been there, done that" you can't and I resent the idea that anyone can. Nobody would suggest to a diabetic that they could discontinue their treatment.

    Additionally, the sound quality was awful. The author was the narrator, and found her soft voice hard to hear and was constantly having to play back certain sections.

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful

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