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- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
When Katie Garrett gets the news that she’s received an inheritance from the grandmother she hardly knew, it couldn’t have come at a better time. She flees Boston and travels to rural Texas. There, she’s greeted by her distant cousin Scarlett. Friendly and flamboyant, Scarlett couldn’t be more different from sensible Katie. And as they begin the task of sorting through their grandmother’s possessions, they discover letters and photographs that uncover the hidden truths about their shared history, and the long-forgotten tragedy of the New London school explosion of 1937 that binds them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hank’s voice is the same as the other male characters
- By Laura S on 03-24-24
By: Sofia Grant
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Table for Five
- By: Susan Wiggs
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire have nothing in common. She guards her independent lifestyle with a ferocity that hides a fear of love and the pain it can bring. He’s always been a rolling stone, making his own way. But with the sudden deaths of a couple close to them both, the two become joined in grief and a knowledge that they must step up and care for the three orphaned children. With little more than hope and dedication, these five embark on a cross-country road trip filled with the ups and downs, the joys and frustrations that make up a family.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ok if you’re in the mood for women’s fiction
- By Jane on 02-18-13
By: Susan Wiggs
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Her Sister's Shoes
- By: Ashley Farley
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 221
Samantha Sweeney has always been the glue that holds her family together, their go-to girl for love and support. When an ATV accident leaves her teenage son in a wheelchair, she loses her carefully constructed self-control. In the after-gloom of her dreaded 50th birthday and the discovery of her husband's infidelity, Jackie realizes she must reconnect with her former self to find the happiness she needs to move forward.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming family issues.
- By Schmanet on 07-25-16
By: Ashley Farley
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The Red Umbrella
- By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States - on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life?
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3 out of 5 stars
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The performance
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Nearly Normal
- Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This one is just not for me
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Orange Mint and Honey
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
After grad school, Shay Dixon feels like she's had enough for awhile. Inspired by her spiritual adviser - a soul-soothing blues player named Nina Simon - Shay calls her estranged mother Nona for the first time in years, and shocks herself by asking if it would be okay to come home for a while.
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One For The Money
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By: Carleen Brice
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Inheriting Edith
- A Novel
- By: Zoe Fishman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4 out of 5 stars 200
For years Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies, leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance - a house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: the deceased's 82-year old mother, Edith.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is distracting.
- By Onelove on 05-13-20
By: Zoe Fishman
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Amina's Voice
- By: Hena Khan
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Amina has never been comfortable in the spotlight. She is happy just hanging out with her best friend, Soojin. Except now that she's in middle school everything feels different. Soojin is suddenly hanging out with Emily, one of the "cool" girls in the class, and even talking about changing her name to something more "American." Does Amina need to start changing too? Or hiding who she is to fit in? While Amina grapples with these questions, she is devastated when her local mosque is vandalized.
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5 out of 5 stars
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adorable middle grade story, need 1000x more
- By AudioBookHoe on 07-15-17
By: Hena Khan
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Magnolia Wednesdays
- By: Wendy Wax
- Narrated by: Käthe Mazur
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 161
At 41, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé, Vivi learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she says "yes" to a dreadful job covering suburban living back home in Georgia, a column she must write incognito. Down South, it's her sister's ballroom dance studio that becomes her undercover spot where she learns about the local life - and where unexpected friendships develop.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Painful. And not in a good way.
- By Kate on 01-24-13
By: Wendy Wax
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In the Country We Love
- My Family Divided
- By: Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford
- Narrated by: Diane Guerrero
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,278
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,996
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,985
Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the US, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Moves very slowly
- By Laura S. on 07-23-16
By: Diane Guerrero, and others
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Bettyville
- By: George Hodgman
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 368
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4 out of 5 stars 329
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- By Sara on 10-08-15
By: George Hodgman
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It Happens Every Spring
- By: Catherine Palmer, Gary Chapman
- Narrated by: Jill Mueller
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
The first in a new series, Four Seasons, takes us to Deepwater Cove, a small community on the shore of the Lake of the Ozarks, where we're introduced to four couples in different stages of life. It Happens Every Spring centers on Brenda, a lonely wife, and Steve, a go-getter real estate agent, in the mid-winter of their relationship. When a stranger appears at their door one night, change blows through their house and their marriage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book!
- By Rad on 10-07-22
By: Catherine Palmer, and others
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She's Come Undone
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrated by: Linda Stephens
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,018
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,751
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,767
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really disappointing narrator!
- By Jessica Williams on 01-21-12
By: Wally Lamb
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Suddenly
- By: Barbara Delinsky
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
In the idyllic small town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer. But when Mara O'Neill, her best friend and medical partner, inexplicably kills herself, Paige's comfortable world is suddenly shattered. Temporarily caring for Mara's newly adopted baby daughter while she comes to grips with her grief, Paige clings to the hope that, in time, her orderly life will return.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Parent guide! (not romance)
- By christine on 10-10-11
By: Barbara Delinsky
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On January 14, 2018, a 17-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home and dialed 911 with shaking fingers. Struggling to stay calm, she told the operator that she and her 12 siblings - ranging in age from two to 29 - were being abused by their parents. When the dispatcher asked for her address, the girl hesitated. "I've never been out," she stammered.
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Sloppy Journalism
- By R. Squyres on 08-21-19
By: John Glatt
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An Only Child and Her Sister
- A Memoir
- By: Casey Maxwell Clair
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Casey and her little sister, Christine, started off with what looked like a good beginning. But looks can be deceiving. Their mother, Eve Whitney, a stunning Hollywood beauty, didn't much care for children. Their father, Eddie Maxwell, was a successful songwriter and gag man; he was a brilliant, handsome, hugely charismatic man, but he had a secret drug habit that sent him careening between warm and loving parent one day, to hair-trigger monster the next.
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Depressing narration
- By Baytown Anita on 01-08-21
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One Perfect Day
- A Mother and Son's Journey of Adoption and Reunion
- By: Diane Burke
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to deal with them. Steve Orlandi, happily married, father of two and step-father of three, was living the typical middle class American life. But since the age of eight, when he discovered he was adopted, he had led that life dealing with inner questions about his self-identity and genetic history.
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Sweet story
- By Amazon Customer on 05-04-17
By: Diane Burke
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Lost and Found
- The True Story of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Abduction That Shocked the World
- By: John Glatt
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on her morning walk to the school bus. But despite her family's tireless efforts, Jaycee's disappearance remained a mystery. Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido appeared on the University of California, Berkeley, campus alongside two young women whose unusual behavior sparked concern among campus officials and law enforcement. That visit would pave the way for a shocking discovery: That Garrido was Jaycee Lee Dugard's kidnapper.
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Narrator should skip around on her own time!
- By Laura on 08-13-14
By: John Glatt
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- Mommyof3heros
- 12-26-16
eye opening account of the foster care experience
A must read for anyone working with or interested in the foster care system. Very hard on the heart at times, but impossible to put down. A true account from the perspective of the child in the system. I highly recommend especially to case managers, social workers, and foster families.
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- Nancy
- 04-16-19
A must read.
I would highly recommend this book to foster parents, teachers social workers. To help in understanding a children's point of view. It takes a lot more then love to heal and trust after neglect suffered.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-26-21
Amazing
This story of overcoming hardships brought me to tears. This was beautiful written and eye opening to the lives others are forced to live.
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- Mary E.
- 11-18-20
VERY WELL DONE!
Thank you Ms. Ashley for being willing to tell your story. Thank you for putting yourself out there to help make the world a better place for all.
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- Krista
- 01-02-21
Inspiring!
Authors story is horrific but inspiring. Having worked within the child welfare system I can vouch for the horrors that are described. The author explains from the point of view of a child what it’s like to grow up as a foster child with beautiful accuracy. So glad there is a happy ending, she deserves it!
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- nicole tracy
- 04-16-21
Amazing
What a book.
Great job Ashley!!!! I don’t normally read these kinds of stories, but it got me in the feelers. Finally a real understanding of a child’s life who goes through the system and what a disservice the system actually can be.
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- Christy Bugel
- 10-06-20
Inspiring
Wonderful book. I hope it inspires others, makes others think, and gives others hope. Narrated beautifully.
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- Cyndibunnia
- 11-17-21
HEARTWRENCHING
This was an amazing story of an unbelievably brave little girl trying to make sense of a constantly changing world around her that hurts her, confuses her; and abandons her until she finds hope.
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- Andrea
- 08-13-21
This is a must read Bravo Ashley!
This book is a lot to take in but it is very necessary this is Ashley’s reality her story although unique is the story of many in the system thankfully Ashley was fortunate enough to get out and speak out the story was well put together ready to start the sequel now
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- Deanna Broadbent
- 09-04-22
Sad.
This book made my heart break and I am so happy it has a happy ending
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