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Simon Van Booy
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Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to live.
Following the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the English village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss.
Helen retreats into her home on Westminster Crescent, becoming a creature of routine and habit. Then, one cold autumn night, a chance encounter with an abandoned pet mouse on the street outside her house sets Helen on a surprising journey of friendship.
Sipsworth is a reminder that there can be second chances. No matter what we have planned for ourselves, sometimes the world has plans of its own. Simon Van Booy's lyrical storytelling is a delight even as it will fill your heart.
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The Presence of Absence
- De: Simon Van Booy
- Narrado por: Philip Battley
- Duración: 2 h y 24 m
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As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful in every way!
- De Catherine en 08-26-24
De: Simon Van Booy
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Gertie Milk and the Keeper of Lost Things
- De: Simon Van Booy
- Narrado por: Miriam Margolyes
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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When 12-year-old Gertie Milk washes up on the island of Skuldark, she finds that all of her memories are gone. Home to helpful Slug Lamps, delicious moonberries, and a ferocious Guard Worm, the island is full of oddities, including a cozy cottage containing artifacts from every corner of history. It is there that Gertie discovers she has been chosen as the next Keeper of Lost Things, tasked with the mission of returning objects to history's most important figures right when they need them most.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Plodding
- De Amazon Customer en 09-10-20
De: Simon Van Booy
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Night Came with Many Stars
- De: Simon Van Booy
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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In Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible!
- De Laissie en 09-24-21
De: Simon Van Booy
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The Sadness of Beautiful Things
- Stories
- De: Simon Van Booy
- Narrado por: Simon Van Booy, Alana Kerr Collins, James Fouhey, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
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Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes listeners into the innermost lives of everyday people. From a family saved from ruin by a mysterious benefactor to a downtrodden boxer who shows unexpected kindness to a mugger, these tales reveal not only the precarious balance maintained between grief and happiness in our lives but also how the echoes of personal tragedy can shape us for the better.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming tales
- De David Kaplan en 10-13-18
De: Simon Van Booy
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Father's Day
- A Novel
- De: Simon Van Booy
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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At the age of six, a little girl named Harvey learns that her parents have died in a car accident. As she struggles to understand, a kindly social worker named Wanda introduces her to her only living relative: her uncle Jason, a disabled felon with a violent past and a criminal record. Despite his limitations - and his resistance - Wanda follows a hunch and cajoles Jason into becoming her legal guardian, convinced that each may be the other's last chance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming
- De RueRue en 07-16-21
De: Simon Van Booy
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The Woman on the Ledge
- A Novel
- De: Ruth Mancini
- Narrado por: Annabel Scholey
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arrested for her murder. You tell the police that you had only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to jump down from the roof, but you had talked her down. You've got nothing to do with this tragedy. You're clearly being framed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story and even better narration!
- De Tim en 02-07-24
De: Ruth Mancini
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Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships
- De: Sarah Grunder Ruiz
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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Sometimes a yacht, a bold bucket list, and a kiss with a handsome stranger are all a person needs to dive into the deep end of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SGR has become one of my favorite authors
- De Jeff W en 01-12-23
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The Rumor Game
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Mullen
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor Clinic, a newspaper column that disproves the many harmful rumors floating around town, some of them spread by Axis spies and others just gossip mixed with fear and ignorance. Tired of chasing silly rumors about Rosie Riveters' safety on the job, she wants to write about something bigger. Special Agent Devon Mulvey, one of the few Catholics at the FBI, spends his weekdays preventing industrial sabotage and his Sundays spying on clerics with suspect loyalties—and he spends his evenings wooing the many lonely women whose husbands are off at war.
De: Thomas Mullen
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The Girls
- De: John Bowen
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specializing in the work of local artisans and farmers, they lead an enviable, enviably settled life. So it’s no catastrophe when Sue, the younger of the two, feels the need to take a month to travel on her own, leaving Jan alone to run their stall at the Inland Waterways Rally Craft Fair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A reverse mystery
- De beatriz Rodriguez en 01-09-25
De: John Bowen
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How to Read a Book
- A Novel
- De: Monica Wood
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book wrecked me!
- De BlaneClark en 05-27-24
De: Monica Wood
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Olivetti
- De: Allie Millington
- Narrado por: Christopher Gebauer, Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindles—the family he’s lived with for years. The Brindles are busy humans, apart from twelve-year-old Ernest, who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English Dictionaries. Once a collector of words, now Olivetti only collects dust. He gets a rare glimpse of action from Ernest’s mom, Beatrice—his used-to-be frequent visitor—only for her to drop him off at Heartland Pawn Shop and leave him behind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely brilliant!
- De Stephanie C. en 05-14-24
De: Allie Millington
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Dream
- The Art and Science of Slumber
- De: Scott Carney
- Narrado por: Scott Carney
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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Why do so many of us have trouble falling asleep? Why do our thoughts spin in wild directions after dark? More important: why do we dream? In this groundbreaking new book, investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney sets out to discover how the sleeping world reverberates in the waking one. Unlock the power of the immune system at the same time you dig deeply into the source of creativity. Discover the evolutionary process that forges both memory and emotions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A balanced book on that phenomenon we take for granted
- De Justin Weiss en 01-10-24
De: Scott Carney
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Highway Thirteen
- Stories
- De: Fiona McFarlane
- Narrado por: Emma Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims’ families, but its impact travels even further: into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes. Highway Thirteen, Fiona McFarlane’s newest collection, takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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well written and interesting
- De Kristina D. Tiedeman en 09-03-24
De: Fiona McFarlane
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A Heart Like Home
- A Novel
- De: Christine Nolfi
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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When Nova Doubeck is asked to foster two children, she can’t say no. With her own childhood wounds healed by adoptive parents, Nova understands the rewards of a caring guardian—even an impermanent one. But nine-year-old Henry and his seven-year-old sister, Bella, are more than Nova bargained for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story from beginning to end
- De Tammie en 08-07-24
De: Christine Nolfi
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The Flatshare
- A Novel
- De: Beth O'Leary
- Narrado por: Carrie Hope Fletcher, Kwaku Fortune
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He'll only ever be there when she's at the office. In fact, they'll never even have to meet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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so much language!!
- De H H en 10-12-19
De: Beth O'Leary
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The North Line
- A Novel
- De: Matt Riordan
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Everyone believes Adam to be something he’s not. Sometimes that’s because he’s told them a story. Sometimes he’s told himself one. But when Adam joins an Alaskan fishing crew that’s promising quick money, the dangerous work and harsh lifestyle strip away all fabrications and force a dark-hearted exploration of who he really is. On the unforgiving Bering Sea, Adam finds the adventure and authenticity of a fisherman’s life revelatory. The labor required to seize bounty from the ocean invigorates him, and the often crude comradery accompanies a welcome, hard-earned wisdom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Summer Read!
- De J.R. en 06-13-24
De: Matt Riordan
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Women and Children First
- A Novel
- De: Alina Grabowski
- Narrado por: Abigail Reno, EJ Lavery, Maria McCann, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town’s industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast, secrets are buried deeper.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Relationships of Mother’s & Daughters!
- De Amazon Customer en 06-30-24
De: Alina Grabowski
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Harry's Trees
- De: Jon Cohen
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, Harry, despairing, retreats north to lose himself in the remote woods of the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragic loss of Oriana’s father. Discovering Harry while roaming the forest, Oriana believes that he holds the key to righting her world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent surprise
- De Em's MOM en 04-18-20
De: Jon Cohen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sipsworth
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- Larkspur1
- 07-10-24
Christine Rendel’s beautiful narration of this lovely book is perfect.
This is such a lovely book. The writing is beautiful, elegant, and a great introduction for me to the many fine books of Simon van Booy. It’s a story of loss, loneliness, and the realization that there are second chances to be found in the most unlikely circumstances. Very uplifting. Christine Rendel’s skillful and sensitive narration is perfect. I was enthralled listening.
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- teresa gooch ross
- 06-30-24
Catharsis and hope
If a great book is one that engages all of your emotions, this one will be a classic… Right down to the last sentence
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- Anonymous User
- 10-21-24
Cute story
I liked the story of Mrs. Cartwright and the mouse who becomes her pet Sipsworth and the people she enlists to help her save this mouse.
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- Wild Woman 2
- 02-19-25
I was immediately immersed in the story and found it so meaningful and touching and sweet.
Mrs Cartwright emerged slowly but so interestingly as the story developed. I loved her more all the time!
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- Nancy Adrian
- 06-27-24
Friendships
Being several years Helen’s senior, books are my companions as Sipsworth is hers. And what a lovely friend this book was!!
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- E. Davidson
- 06-20-24
A Lovely Heartwarming Story
I so enjoyed this sweet story about an aging woman whose lonely life is turned around by her encounter with a small furry neighbor. The characters are beautifully drawn. The story is suitable for older kids/young adults, but can also be enjoyed on another level by older adults. It caused this septuagenarian to think about many aspects of getting older and how we do or don’t adapt to change. Read by the wonderfully expressive voice artist, Christine Rendel, it was a delight from start to finish. Highly recommended.
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- L. Burney
- 10-06-24
Awesome!
Wonderful story about age and connection - to both animals and people. Hated for it to end - very uplifting.
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- SalJJon
- 07-12-24
A story I will not forget.
This book I just a wonderful tale full of love and wisdom. I couldn’t stop listening! It is sure to become a classic.
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- Catherine M
- 10-22-24
Save mice from death?
Started a little slow but improved with each chapter. Haven't seen such a cute mouse / human relationship since Cinderella. The mice poop still grosses me out and I would NEVER have eaten any food from her house.
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- JenM
- 10-14-24
Charming story
Just a delightful little story. I enjoyed this very much. Sometimes there is something good to be found on the other side of sadness.
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