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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 479
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Glad This Was Free
- By Shad Huddleston on 04-01-20
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The Prettiest Star
- By: Carter Sickels
- Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan, Charlie Thurston
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
At 18, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place, and family, he was once so desperate to escape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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important to remember
- By Mary M Dugan on 10-02-20
By: Carter Sickels
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The Memory of Running
- By: Ron McLarty
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,506
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,647
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,639
In late 2003, in his column in Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King called The Memory of Running "the best novel you won't read this year." This glowing endorsement of the audiobook resulted in Ron McLarty receiving a $2 million two-book deal from Viking Penguin. Also, Warner Brothers has shelled out big bucks for the movie rights to The Memory of Running, for which McLarty will write the script.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny and Fascinating, A Wonderful Book
- By Ripp on 02-18-04
By: Ron McLarty
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Confess to Me
- By: Sharon Doering
- Narrated by: Caroline Price, Joe Hempel
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 47
Haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her family, Heather finds herself back in Hunther, Wisconsin, after 20 years running from it. She returns to finally put the past to rest but uncovers another tragedy and finds herself in the beguiling grip of a young woman who knows more of her family secrets than Heather does. To survive this homecoming, Heather must piece together a toxic history that she long tried to forget.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No 😑
- By Tawny on 06-16-21
By: Sharon Doering
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The Ninth Metal
- The Comet Cycle, Book 1
- By: Benjamin Percy
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 122
The town of Northfall, Minnesota, will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This “omnimetal” has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source…and a weapon. John Frontier returns for his sister’s wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone Will Enjoy This Except My Mother
- By Liv Rosin on 06-04-21
By: Benjamin Percy
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Honey Moon
- By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Narrated by: Nicole Poole
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Honey Jane Moon is a scrappy little know-it-all - brave, smart, but ill-prepared to become the most famous child star in America, even though she’s not quite as young as everyone believes. It won’t take her long to drive the men in her life crazy. There’s Eric Dillion, a smoldering bad boy and one of Hollywood’s most gifted actors. And Dash Coogan, the last of the cowboy heroes, a man trapped on a screen too small to contain a legend. When Honey falls in love, she’ll do it the only way she knows how - with all her heart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Andrea Hanawalt on 05-01-21
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A Light in the Forest
- A Novel
- By: Melissa Payne
- Narrated by: Kay Eluvian
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 181
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 181
Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago. It’s one full of nobodies, her mother warned. That makes it the ideal refuge for Vega to lie low, feel safe, and maybe learn more about a past her mother never spoke of.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This could have been a great book
- By TKJ on 01-10-23
By: Melissa Payne
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Mecca
- By: Susan Straight
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Patricia R. Floyd, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
Johnny Frias has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Spanish settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days working for the California Highway Patrol pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man who was in the midst of assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who proceeded to run away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An eye opening read
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-22
By: Susan Straight
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After the People Lights Have Gone Off
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 86
The 15 stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off, by Stephen Graham Jones, explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural and the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out-of-print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No no no...
- By T. E. on 04-26-19
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Hello Girls
- By: Brittany Cavallaro, Emily Henry
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4 out of 5 stars 133
Thelma and Louise gets remade in this powerful, darkly funny teen novel from acclaimed authors Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry. Two teenage girls who have had enough of the controlling men in their lives take their rage on the road to make a new life for themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- By Phoenix on 08-06-19
By: Brittany Cavallaro, and others
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Tomboy Survival Guide
- By: Ivan Coyote
- Narrated by: Ivan Coyote
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 139
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 129
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Story5 out of 5 stars 129
Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of 10 previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada's Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don't fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From a self-proclaimed Tomboy
- By Alex on 08-05-17
By: Ivan Coyote
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Gordo
- Stories
- By: Jaime Cortez
- Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Performance
- By VeeF on 10-26-22
By: Jaime Cortez
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Townie
- A Memoir
- By: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 349
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 265
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Story4 out of 5 stars 269
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed—or killing someone else—or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More like a 3.25 star rating
- By Suzn F on 03-15-11
By: Andre Dubus III
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Rabbit, Run
- By: John Updike
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 878
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 642
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Story4 out of 5 stars 643
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his - or any other - generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is 26 years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty - even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness, and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Thinking Man's Novel
- By L. Berlyne-Kovler on 01-12-09
By: John Updike
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Where the Truth Lies
- A Novel
- By: Anna Bailey
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
When 17-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at a party in the woods, sets out to discover the truth about what happened. The police initially believe Abi ran away, but Emma doesn’t believe that her friend would leave without her, and when officers find disturbing evidence in the nearby woods, the festering secrets and longstanding resentment of both Abigail’s family and the people of Whistling Ridge, Colorado begin to surface with devastating consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love!
- By nicole gironda on 03-16-23
By: Anna Bailey
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We Begin at the End
- By: Chris Whitaker
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,090
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,881
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,867
Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horrible narrator in this audible book
- By M. patton on 03-03-21
By: Chris Whitaker
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An Unfinished Life
- By: Mark Spragg
- Narrated by: Tony Amendola, Judith Marx
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
Jean Gilkyson is floundering in a trailer house in Iowa with yet another brutal boyfriend when she realizes this kind of life has got to stop, especially for the sake of her daughter, Griff. But the only place they can run to is Ishawooa, Wyoming, where Jean's loved ones are dead and her father-in-law, the only person who could take them in, wishes that she was, too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unfortunately I have lived this book.
- By Timothy on 05-06-09
By: Mark Spragg