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- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child.
Their painful and courageous journey toward adoption forces Maya to confront the lost daughter of her past.
Brilliantly braiding together the stories of Chinese birth mothers who give up their daughters, Ann Hood writes a moving and beautifully told novel of the red thread of fate that binds these characters’ lives. Heartrending and wise, The Red Thread is a stirring portrait of unforgettable love and yearning for a baby.
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Set on the Minnesota prairies in 1987, during a drought season that is fostering the demise of the family farms, the story features two intertwining narrators: a father searching for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastor's wife who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of her own. A penetrating look at small-town America, reminiscent of Russell Banks' Sweet Hereafter or Affliction, driven by a powerful murder mystery, Little Wolves is a literary triumph.
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What a strange book...
- By karen on 04-11-13
By: Thomas Maltman
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What We Keep
- By: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrated by: Stephanie Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Ginny Young is on a plane en route to see her mother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for 35 years. She thinks back to the summer of 1958, when she and her sister, Sharla, were young girls. Moving back and forth in time between the girl she once was and the woman she's become, Ginny at last confronts painful choices that occur in almost any woman's life and learns surprising truths about the people she thought she knew best.
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Bebop
- By BARBARA A BROWN on 11-20-18
By: Elizabeth Berg
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The Survival of Margaret Thomas
- By: Del Howison
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Margaret "Peggy" Thomas and her husband, James, lead a simple and peaceful life; she tends to the farm while he works as sheriff in the nearby town of Bleak Knob. Their evenings are spent doing the thing they love most - being together. One afternoon, after picking up fabric at the general store, Margaret watches helplessly as James is gunned down on the sidewalk in front of her. Days of mourning turn into weeks and then years, filled with little more than grief and alcohol.
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Amazing, worth the listen
- By Cody on 12-05-20
By: Del Howison
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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt
- By: Andrea Bobotis
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer - the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talks about - and she knows in her old bones that it's time to make an inventory of her household and its valuables. But she finds that cataloging the family belongings - as well as their misfortunes - won't contain her family's secrets, not when her wayward sister suddenly returns, determined to expose skeletons that the Kratts had hoped to take to their grave.
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Loved It!!
- By Matthew on 11-26-19
By: Andrea Bobotis
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Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
- Notes on Life, Love, and Food
- By: Ann Hood
- Narrated by: Nina Alvamar
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Hood details recipes and more in Kitchen Yarns, along with tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love, and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.
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Heartfelt stories, tantalizing recipes
- By Janet on 01-17-19
By: Ann Hood
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In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills
- By: Jennifer Haupt
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills combines the force of literature with the allure of women's fiction in a family saga that spans from Atlanta during the Civil Rights Movement to post-genocide Rwanda. At the heart of this novel that crosses racial and cultural boundaries is the search for family on a personal and global level.
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MLK's Dream to the Killing Fields of Rwanda
- By Debbie on 09-19-18
By: Jennifer Haupt
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The Diary
- By: Eileen Goudge
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother's in the attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth's life was not their father. But is all as it seems? That's the mystery the two daughters must unravel as they stay up late reading the words penned by Elizabeth so long ago.
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Good Listen
- By Sara on 06-28-09
By: Eileen Goudge
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City of Flickering Light
- By: Juliette Fay
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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It's July 1921, "flickers" are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry. But despite the glamour and seduction of Tinseltown, success doesn't come easy, and nothing can prepare Irene, Millie, and Henry for the poverty, temptation, and heartbreak that lie ahead.
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Good listen!
- By Amazon Customer on 11-28-21
By: Juliette Fay
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- Christine De Jesus-Siapo
- 04-04-22
cute and simple
beautiful story but the then she said, then he said was a bit much in the beginning. you get used to it. a bit hard to follow with al the characters.
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- -marlo-
- 01-19-22
Beautiful and interesting
Found myself identifying w/a few of the parents in this book even though we had two healthy babies w/no problems. Fascinating story of adoption and families.
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- howdy1983
- 06-02-23
Well read
Enjoyable listen but emotional journey. Be prepared to contemplate the joys and woes of what it means to be a parent, mother, daughter, and family.
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- Suzanne Gmur
- 01-30-21
dysfunctional people adopting
none of the couples should have been given babies. bunch of dysfunctional people
narrator was best part and may be only redeeming part
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- CaroleAnn
- 10-18-22
…a flame in the darkness
The Red Thread is an amazing real time account of heart-wrenching Laws, Choices, Circumstances, Decisions, Injustices, Sorrows bundled-up into an infinity of possibilities that give way to: MUCH LUCK, GOOD FORTUNE, BRIGHT FUTURES & the reality of GREAT JOY
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- Megan
- 09-20-10
Well written, well read...
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. Masterfully told and well paced. I enjoyed meeting all the characters. The author's own story is touching to say the least...
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- maida smith
- 02-05-13
Love this Legend
Would you consider the audio edition of The Red Thread to be better than the print version?
The people seem more real on audio for me
What does Hillary Huber bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She is fantastic
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Oh yes I cried and I laughed and I could not put the book down until all the babies were safely connected.
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- share77
- 08-10-21
Poignant
This book touched my heart. Though I have never had the experiences of the families described in this novel, the author so poignantly illustrated their inner lives, I felt the empathy as though they were real people I could have known. I became immersed in the world of these people who had experienced such heartache, as well as those whose path took them to a where their hopes could be realized.
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- Joan
- 02-13-22
Good one
Easy story to listen to. Good narration. I enjoyed the overall plot and characters.
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- kim
- 09-03-22
Beautiful storytelling
As an adopted person, this story resonated with me on a very personal level.
My adopted mother is turning 75 and loves to read hardcopy books so I am going to purchase a copy for her as a gift. She adopted me when I was three months old. I really think the story was told in such a unique way that shows both perspectives very clearly. You really get a sense of what it means to give up a child for adoption and also a window into what the adoptive parents go through emotionally on the road to adopt a child of their own.
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