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Single mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out.
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Burning to death!
I stumbled on Helen Fitzgerald’s novel while looking for something to listen to and I’m now sitting in my chair shocked and appalled. I live in California, in wildfire country, but have never been seriously threatened. We are constantly bombarded with messages about how important it is to be prepared, but we hear so many (about fires, tsunamis, earthquakes)that they can become background noise. But a well told story can inform one in ways that no official preparedness policy and can. This is a very well told story and I shall be looking for Helen Mike Fitzgerald’s other books in the future.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 118
When Glasgow journalist Shona McGilvery moves with her partner Mikey and their baby to an idyllic cottage in rural Scotland, they believe that all that lies ahead of them is happiness. But with Mikey working offshore, the frightening isolation of the Aberdeenshire countryside begins to drive her insane.... That is, until she is rescued by a new friendship with the enchanting Valentina. She has the perfect home, the perfect man, and a charismatic new best friend - or does she? As her fairytale life begins to unravel, the deep dark wood becomes the least of her fears....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written and entertaining.
- By Getshotzi on 09-03-18
By: S. E. Lynes
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Just for Today
- By: Nell Hudson
- Narrated by: Nell Hudson
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
It all starts on New Year's Eve. A night that has to be a success, whatever the cost. For Joni and her friends, it'll be a party that promises all the high stakes and glamour of any other, but by sunrise, they'll be dealing with something darker than the usual post-party comedown. Not that they let this stand in their way. For this is their year to revel in all that the playground of London has to offer: sneaking into places they shouldn't, breaking every rule, falling in love with the wrong people. All the while avoiding one undeniable truth: it's not if the party ends, it's how.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phemomal debut!
- By Kristina W. on 11-20-22
By: Nell Hudson
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Life Without Children
- Stories
- By: Roddy Doyle
- Narrated by: Roddy Doyle
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic, Human, Sometimes Heartbreaking
- By JRadiantHeart on 03-23-22
By: Roddy Doyle
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The Darkest Secret
- A Novel
- By: Alex Marwood
- Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,157
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,159
Real estate mogul Sean Jackson is throwing himself a splashy 50th birthday party, but trouble starts almost immediately: His ex-wife has sent his teenage daughters to the party without telling him; his current wife has fired the nanny; and he's finding it difficult to sneak away to his mistress. Then something truly terrible happens: one of his three-year-old twins goes missing. No trace of her is ever found. The attendees of the party, nicknamed the Jackson Associates by the press, become infamous overnight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- By Christina on 09-14-16
By: Alex Marwood
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A Spot of Bother
- A Novel
- By: Mark Haddon
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 479
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Story4 out of 5 stars 209
At 61, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting remarried, to the deeply inappropriate Ray. Her family is not pleased and Katie can't decide if she loves Ray or loves the wonderful way he has with her son, Jacob. Her mother, Jean, is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bother with this one
- By Book Club Gal on 09-29-06
By: Mark Haddon
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The Bone Clocks
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball, Leon Williams, Colin Mace, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,995
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,578
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,586
Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Short Listed, This Time
- By Mel on 09-23-14
By: David Mitchell
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The Reunion
- By: Samantha Hayes
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,374
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,245
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,238
Then - In charge of her little sister at the beach, Claire allowed Eleanor to walk to the shop alone to buy an ice cream. Placing a coin into her hand, Claire told her to be quick, knowing how much she wanted the freedom. Eleanor never came back. Now - The time has finally come to sell the family farm and Claire is organizing a reunion of her dearest friends, the same friends who were present the day her sister went missing. When another girl disappears, long-buried secrets begin to surface.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Waaaaaaaaaay too long.
- By Debra on 02-28-18
By: Samantha Hayes
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The Pub Across the Pond
- By: Mary Carter
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
Carlene Rivers is many things. Dutiful, reliable, kind. Lucky? Not so much. At 30, she’s living a stifling existence in Cleveland, Ohio. Then one day, Carlene buys a raffle ticket. The prize: a pub on the west coast of Ireland. Carlene is stunned when she wins. Everyone else is stunned when she actually goes. As soon as she arrives in Ballybeog, Carlene is smitten, not just by the town’s beguiling mix of ancient and modern but by the welcome she receives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ugh! I couldn't get through it. Bad writing!
- By Maria on 10-04-11
By: Mary Carter
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Holding the Man
- By: Timothy Conigrave
- Narrated by: Stephen Phillips
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 224
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 204
The mid-'70s: at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and ultimately death. With honesty and insight, Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive for HIV. This is a book as refreshing and uplifting as it is moving - a funny and sad and celebratory account of growing up gay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Beautiful Love Story!
- By Lee Kelly on 09-08-16
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The Trivia Night
- By: Ali Lowe
- Narrated by: Kate Winter, Taryn Ryan, Vivien Carter
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4 out of 5 stars 81
From the outside the parents of the kindergarten class at Darley Heights primary school seem to have it all. Living in the wealthy Sydney suburbs, it's a community where everyone knows each other - and secrets don't stay secret for long. The big date in the calendar is the school's annual fundraising trivia night, but when the evening gets raucously out of hand, talk turns to partner-swapping. Initially scandalised, it's not long before a group of parents make a reckless one-night-only pact. But in the harsh light of day, those involved must face the fallout of their behaviour.
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5 out of 5 stars
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so fun!
- By lisa on 03-04-22
By: Ali Lowe
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Foreskin's Lament
- A Memoir
- By: Shalom Auslander
- Narrated by: Shalom Auslander
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 452
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 271
Foreskin's Lament reveals Auslander's youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. Auslander remembers his youthful attempt to win the "blessing bee" (the Orthodox version of a spelling bee), his exile to an Orthodox-style reform school in Israel after he's caught shoplifting Union Bay jeans from the mall, and his 14-mile hike to watch the New York Rangers play in Madison Square Garden without violating the Sabbath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best memoir I have listened to in my life!
- By Crusader on 03-06-09
By: Shalom Auslander
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Don't Close Your Eyes
- A Novel
- By: Holly Seddon
- Narrated by: Mandy Williams, Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4 out of 5 stars 123
In a bustling suburban neighborhood in Kent, England, sits an unassuming house. There is no sign of life behind the unwashed windows, but Robin Marshall is inside. Driven by fears and obsessions, racked by anxiety, Robin is frantically pushing her body through punishing workouts, eating little, haunted by what happened to her family when she was a girl. Robin's only connection to the outside world is through her rear windows and the lives she spies upon in the apartment house across the way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just okay
- By Amazon Customer on 07-15-17
By: Holly Seddon
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- By: Juliann Garey
- Narrated by: Dan Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 495
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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Story4 out of 5 stars 452
In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- By Vira on 04-02-13
By: Juliann Garey
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Nantucket Nights
- A Novel
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 738
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 662
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Story4 out of 5 stars 663
For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories, and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn't return. After the surviving friends emerge from their grief, they realize that the repercussions of their loss go far beyond their little circle, and they begin to uncover layers of secrets - and their connections to each other - that were never revealed on the beach.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Desperate
- By C. Reed on 08-08-18
By: Elin Hilderbrand
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The Book of Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Cecelia Ahern
- Narrated by: Ali Coffey
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Born into the lap of luxury and comfortable in the here and now, spoiled, tempestuous Tamara Goodwin has never had to look to the future, until the abrupt death of her father leaves her and her mother a mountain of debt and forces them to move in with Tamara's peculiar aunt and uncle in a tiny countryside village. Tamara is lonely and bored, with a traveling library as her only diversion....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another fabulous book by Cecelia Ahern
- By Elizabeth on 09-14-12
By: Cecelia Ahern
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Mr. Loverman
- A Novel
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 342
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 341
Barrington Jedidiah Walker is 74 and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather - and also secretly gay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t miss this one.
- By Ruth Johnson on 05-04-21
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Chanel Bonfire
- By: Wendy Lawless
- Narrated by: Wendy Lawless
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
By the time Wendy Lawless turned 17, she'd known for quite some time that she didn't have a normal mother. But that didn't stop her from wanting one.... Georgann Rea didn't bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She went through men like Kleenex, and didn't like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine and the cold heart to match.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not an Engaging Listen
- By Sobriquet on 03-13-13
By: Wendy Lawless