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Publisher's Summary
With precise and evocative prose, Cold Spell tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both. From the moment Ruth Sanders rips a glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she believes her fate is intertwined with the ice. Her unsettling fascination bewilders her daughter, 16-year-old Sylvie, still shaken by her father’s leaving. When Ruth uproots Sylvie and her sister from their small Midwestern town to follow her growing obsession - and a man - to Alaska, they soon find themselves entangled with an unfamiliar wilderness, a divided community, and one another. As passions cross and braid, the bond between mother and daughter threatens to erode from the pressures of icy compulsion and exposed secrets.
Inspired by her own experience arriving by bush plane to live on the Alaska tundra, Deb Vanasse vividly captures the reality of life in Alaska and the emotional impact of loving a remote and unforgiving land.
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Not a beautiful Alaska experience book :(
The narrator was easy to listen to but the book was such a waste of my book credit and time. Disappointed!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching story
- By Tess Villa on 05-31-19
By: Meredith May
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
- By: Hannah Tinti
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 475
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Story4 out of 5 stars 434
After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Odd choice for narrator
- By lindsey b. on 01-23-19
By: Hannah Tinti
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Things We Set on Fire
- By: Deborah Reed
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4 out of 5 stars 112
A series of tragedies brings Vivvie's young grandchildren into her custody, and her two estranged daughters back under one roof. Jackson, Vivvie's husband, was shot and killed 30 years ago, and the ramifications have splintered the family into their own isolated remembrances and recriminations. This deeply personal, hauntingly melancholy look at the damages families inflict on each other - and the healing that only they can provide - is filled with flinty, flawed, and complex people stumbling towards some kind of peace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed this
- By karen on 11-15-17
By: Deborah Reed
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Queen Sugar
- A Novel
- By: Natalie Baszile
- Narrated by: Miriam Hyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,247
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,816
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,808
Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her 11-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning can prepare Charley for a Louisiana that's mired in the past: as her judgmental but big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is always going to be a white man's business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't think I would like it but I loved it 😊
- By Colette M. Cummings on 12-05-16
By: Natalie Baszile
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Among the Lesser Gods
- By: Margo Catts
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally set as a child to her mother's abandonment and now an unwanted pregnancy, she knows better than most that small actions can have terrible consequences. Yet when her grandmother calls and asks her to watch over the children of a recent widower in a small, isolated town in Colorado, she takes it as a chance to finally organize her life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Without a doubt...
- By RueRue on 10-07-19
By: Margo Catts
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Sabrina & Corina
- Stories
- By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 303
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado - a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite - these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force. In “Sugar Babies,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the Earth but tend to rise during land disputes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely wonderful
- By Brady on 05-21-19
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- By: T. C. Boyle
- Narrated by: T. C. Boyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 86
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Bag
- By AuntGert on 09-22-20
By: T. C. Boyle
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Battleborn
- By: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrated by: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- By Pedro Ramirez on 12-03-15
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We the Animals
- By: Justin Torres
- Narrated by: Frankie J. Alvarez
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 325
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Story4 out of 5 stars 278
Three brothers tear their way through childhood—smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I want my credit back!
- By Van Gilder on 09-02-11
By: Justin Torres
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Little Broken Things
- By: Nicole Baart
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Story4 out of 5 stars 242
I have something for you. When Quinn Cruz receives that cryptic text message from her older sister Nora, she doesn't think much of it. They haven't seen each other in nearly a year. But when a haunted Nora shows up at the lake near Quinn's house just hours later, a chain reaction is set into motion that will change both of their lives forever. Nora's "something" is more shocking than Quinn could have ever imagined: a little girl, cowering, wide-eyed, and tight-lipped. Nora hands her over to Quinn with instructions to keep her safe, and then Nora disappears.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Sigh, unconsciously racist plus convoluted
- By gisele on 12-01-17
By: Nicole Baart
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Mr. Splitfoot
- By: Samantha Hunt
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 244
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 216
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 216
Ruth and Nat are orphans packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later Ruth's niece, Cora, finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and full of intention. She is on a mysterious mission, leading Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York on foot. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Huffing Ectoplasm
- By Mel on 03-03-17
By: Samantha Hunt
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Say No More
- Faderville Novels, Book 1
- By: N. Gemini Sasson
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Cam McHugh died in a tragic farming accident. He has a message for his son and only his dog can hear him. Halo is no ordinary dog. Not only can she see ghosts, she can talk to them, too. If only she could tell Hunter that death doesn't mean an end to being around the ones we love, maybe she could help him find his voice again. Unfortunately, she may never have the chance. Dognapped by the man who threatens to destroy the only family she has ever known, Halo must escape and find her way home - hundreds of miles away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story!
- By LAUREL H. on 10-27-22
By: N. Gemini Sasson
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Little Lovely Things
- By: Maureen Joyce Connolly
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 932
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 867
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 862
Claire Rawlings, mother of two and medical resident, will not let the troubling signs of an allergic reaction prevent her from making it in for rounds. But when Claire's symptoms overpower her while she's driving into work, her two children in tow, she must pull over. Moments later, she wakes up on the floor of a gas station bathroom - her car and her precious girls have vanished. The police have no leads, and the weight of guilt presses down on Claire as each hour passes with no trace of her girls.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reviews are baffling
- By Momx3 on 06-05-19
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All the Best People
- By: Sonja Yoerg
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,847
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,585
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,577
Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life. She cares for her children, balances the books for the family's auto shop, and laughs when her husband slow dances her across the kitchen floor. Her tragic childhood might have happened to someone else. But now her mind is playing tricks on her. The accounts won't reconcile and the murmuring she hears isn't the television.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- By Samantha on 05-20-17
By: Sonja Yoerg
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The Roanoke Girls
- A Novel
- By: Amy Engel
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,037
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 960
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Story4 out of 5 stars 960
After her mother's suicide, 15-year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran...fast and far away. Eleven years later Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run, too? Or something worse?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ick, ugh, yuck! Spoilers ahead!
- By NMwritergal on 03-12-17
By: Amy Engel