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Dearest Josephine
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Publisher's Summary
Love arrives at the most unexpected time....
The year 1821: Elias Roch has ghastly luck with women. He met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again.
The year 2021: Josie De Clare has questionable taste in boyfriends. The last one nearly ruined her friendship with her best friend.
Now, in the wake of her father's death, Josie finds Elias' letters. Suddenly she's falling in love with a guy who lived 200 years ago. And star-crossed doesn't even begin to cover it....
“Dearest Josephine is the type of story that becomes your own. The characters’ heartaches worked their way into my own chest until I hurt with them, hoped with them, and dared to dream with them. This book is teeming with swoon-worthy prose, adorable humor, and an expert delivery of ‘Will they end up together?’ I guarantee you’ll be burning the midnight candle to a stub to get answers. Step aside Pride and Prejudice, there’s a new romance on the English moors.” (Nadine Brandes, author of Romanov)
“Caroline George infuses an epistolary love story with a romance and charm that crosses centuries. Touching and inventive, it bursts with wit, warmth, and a blending of classic and contemporary that goes together like scones and clotted cream. Dearest Josephine is a delight.” (Emily Bain Murphy, author of The Disappearances)
“Dearest Josephine is more than an immersive read. It is a book lover’s dream experience. Josie’s residence in a gothic English manor and her deeply romantic connection to Elias, who lived years in the past, is as chillingly atmospheric as Rochester calling across the moors. This story is George’s treatise on the power of books and character to creep across centuries, to pull us close and invite us to live in a fantasy where we find love - literally - in the kinship of ink and binding. But it also acknowledges the dangers of letting ourselves fall too deeply when sometimes an equally powerful connection is waiting next door. This love letter to books, and the readers who exist in and for them, is a wondrously singular escape.” (Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration and The Mozart Code)
Romantic and evocative listen in both contemporary and historical time periods
Stand-alone novel
Book length: 86,000 words
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- Audre
- 07-22-21
Couldn’t get past a few chapters
I don’t like reading books that are just a grouping of letters and texts as a general rule, but listening is way worse. It does not lend itself to audiobook format, especially having to listed to the email to and from, re, .com…. Etc. The little sound clip every time a text is sent was soooo annoying.
Also, the narrator isn’t skilled enough for this. Everyone sounds the same except for the American character is slightly different because the accent sounds like a very strange blurring of British, Australian and Boston.
I had to stop less than an hour in.
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- E.F.B.
- 05-29-21
A Masterpiece
I completely admit that this was an impulse buy. I'd seen it around Instagram, but it was a cross between contemporary and historical told using text messages, emails, letters, and even excerpts from one character's novel. I've never read anything quite like that, so I was super unsure if it would be my thing. But one person's post intrigued me when they mentioned how there's a slightly mysterious element since the main character discovers two-hundred-year-old love letters to a young woman eerily similar to her. Oh, and she has the same name, too.
So, I decided to try something outside my comfort zone and pre-ordered the audio. Honestly? I was impressed. It did take me a few chapters to get used to the flow of the alternating texts, letters, and novel chapters, but once I did it was easy to follow and interesting. I stayed intrigued throughout, wondering how all these things tied together. Was the Josephine in the letters and novel really the same as Josie, the modern girl? Would she somehow, miraculously, be united with Elias from two hundred years ago? I was truly curious to learn what would happen while also being touched by the deep thoughts on grief and love (romantic and non-romantic) that the author wove throughout.
I've heard in passing that there may be varying opinions on the ending. Some readers may have been unhappy while some liked it. I'm in the latter camp. I liked it. In fact, I got a little misty-eyed, and the more I think about it, the more I like it and really appreciate what the author did with it because it wasn't JUST about giving her characters a happy ending. It was about how sometimes a happy ending may look different from what we first thought we wanted, but different can still be good. It was about letting go of the past so we don't miss out on the future, but also acknowledging and appreciated the gifts the past gave us and the way it and the people we knew shaped us. This is the point where I can't talk more without SPOILERS, so if you'd rather not know how things work out, now is the time to stop reading. I'm serious, I'll start spoiling things in the next paragraph.
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Still here? Okay, don't say I didn't warn you.
This book is NOT a fantasy or time travel story, so it HAD to end with reality. That meant that no, Elias and Josie didn't and couldn't end up together, separated by time as they were. In fact, it turned out that "true love conquers all, including time" wasn't the point the author was trying to make. See, "true love" is a nice concept, and some people do fall in love quickly, stay in love, get married, and make choices that help them keep that marriage healthy and long lasting, all without ever having needed to pursue/date more than that one person. It's a beautiful thing when that happens, BUT many people fall in love with someone only to end up, for one reason or another, not staying with that person permanently, and the reason may not be something within their control.
This is what "Dearest Josephine" addresses. It also addresses non-romantic love, because we can very much love someone like a friend or family member and then they end up leaving our lives, maybe because of a big move, or your lives going different directions, or, in the case of Josie's father, death. We then find ourselves at a point of needing to choose whether to cling to what we had in the past and try to bring it back, or move on.
For much of this story we watch Elias trying to pursue Josephine (the one from two hundred years ago) via writing her letters. What he felt and what she taught him while they were together was life changing for him and the reader is able to see that it was indeed something special and sweet. After she left, he sent the letters to where he thought she was, trying to communicate his love for her. And you WANT him to find her. You WANT them to end up together. Modern day Josie does too, not the least because Josephine is just like her. They have the same name, the same favorite colors, the same life experiences, tastes, habits, etc, etc. You, Josie, and even her friends become convinced something strange is going on.
Meanwhile, despite being caught up in this mystery, Josie still has to live life in the modern world, which means figuring out what to do with the old English estate her dad left her in his will, dealing with her grief, and becoming a part of a new community. I thought the author did an amazing job balancing Josie's real life stuff with the mystery, showing how Josie at first is using the mystery and her supposed love for Elias to hide from reality, but then learning to use exactly those things to help her connect to real people and FACE her reality. As I said before, Elias and Josie don't end up together. In fact, it turns out that Elias and the Josephine of two hundred years ago didn't end up together either. He never found her. And because he never found her, he ended up meeting another young lady who was different than Josephine but still beautiful, kind, and someone who loved him and whom he could love. It takes him letting go of Josephine to see this, but ultimately he is able to do so, and also acknowledge that having Josephine in his life, even temporarily, helped make him a better person. Instead of being bitter that things didn't work out the way he wanted, he was able to say thank you to her and then move on with peace in his heart.
Similarly, in investigating Elias's letters, the estate her father left her, and her new town, Josie, like Elias, learns things and meets people that change her. She thinks she's falling in love with Elias, but comes to realize that this, among other things she's done in recent years, has been a way for her to hide from the grief she feels over her father's passing. It is by learning what really happened to Elias that she is 1) able to connect with an old friend as well as make new ones, and 2) finally realize that while it can be painful, it's okay to "close the book." It's okay to let go. Because it is only when we close the old book that we are able to pick up a new one. To look to the future and write what happens next in our own life stories. Doing so doesn't mean that we have to forget what happened. It means that we acknowledge the ways the stories and people who were temporarily in our lives changed us and helped us become the people we're meant to be.
And just as Elias was able to write one last letter to Josephine to thank her for being in his life even as he was now ready to let her go, so the book ends with Josie writing a letter to Elias to thank him as she lets him go to take hold of her own future. It was... *sniffles* It was really touching to me.
To end this review, I will share some lines from the song "For Good" from the Broadway play "Wicked" as I think they capture the heart of this story perfectly:
"It well may be/ That we will never meet again/ In this lifetime/ So, let me say before we part/ So much of me/ Is made of what I learned from you/ You'll be with me/ Like a handprint on my heart/ And now whatever way our stories end/ I know you have rewritten mine/ By being my friend./ Like a comet pulled from orbit/ As it passes the sun/ Like a stream that meets a boulder/ Halfway through the wood/ Who can say if I've been changed for the better?/ I do believe I have been changed for the better/ And because I knew you/ I have been changed for good."
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- Sara
- 07-26-21
Ok story, terrible format
This is a totally ok story. Unfortunately, the format makes it almost impossible to follow in audio book format. The story is told mainly through texts, emails, letters, and the reading of a novel which becomes incredibly difficult to follow. I have an hour and a half left to the book and, quite honestly, I'm not sure if I can stand listening to "To: Faith Moretti, kardashian-underscore-for-life-at-mailbox-dot-com" enough to finish the story.
I'd say this is a lighthearted story that watchers of Bridgerton would enjoy, but the format makes it one that should be read hard copy instead of listened to.
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- Angela Parker
- 05-03-21
Did not finish
Save your time & money. Annoying main characters + mediocre writing = why waste my time. I’m annoyed I wasted a credit on this one.
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- Amanda
- 07-31-21
Wow
my job is to pack orders, and I stumbled across this one during work. I decided to give the audio book a go. I loved it. The ending was honestly the biggest tear jerker.
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- Lisa Laird
- 03-14-21
Delightful read!!!
What a delightful story this was! And the narrator was brilliant! I highly recommend it!
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Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day her family self-destructed. That was the night Eryn, Magpie's sister, skipped town and left her to fend for herself. That was the night of Brandon Phipp's party. Now, Magpie is called a slut whenever she walks down the hallways of her high school, her former best friend won't speak to her, and she spends her lunch period with a group of misfits who've all been socially exiled like she has. And so, feeling trapped and forgotten, Magpie retreats to her notebook, dreaming up a place called Near.
By: Katrina Leno
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The Winter Duke
- By: Claire Eliza Bartlett
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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All Ekata wants is to stay alive - and the chance to prove herself as a scholar. Once Ekata's brother is finally named heir to the dukedom of Kylma Above, there will be nothing to keep her at home with her murderous family. Not her books or her experiments, not her family's icy castle atop a frozen lake, not even the tantalizingly close Kylma Below, a mesmerizing underwater kingdom that provides her family with magic. But just as escape is within reach, her parents and 12 siblings fall under a strange sleeping sickness, and no one can find a cure.
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Problematic story structure & bad main character
- By Brandon Kennedy on 07-26-21
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One Small Thing
- By: Erin Watt
- Narrated by: Charlotte North
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Beth’s life hasn’t been the same since her sister died. Her parents try to lock her down, believing they can keep her safe by monitoring her every move. When Beth sneaks out to a party one night and meets the new guy in town, Chase, she’s thrilled to make a secret friend. It seems a small thing, just for her. Only Beth doesn’t know how big her secret really is....
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Contains language and sensitive topics (rape, death)
- By Toni on 01-17-20
By: Erin Watt
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We Came Here to Shine
- A Novel
- By: Susie Orman Schnall
- Narrated by: Carly Robins, Dan Bittner, Lauren Fortgang, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Gorgeous Vivi is the star of the Aquacade synchronized swimming spectacular, and plucky Max is a journalist for the fair's daily paper. Both are striving to make their way in a world where men try to control their actions and where secrets are closely kept. But when Vivi and Max become friends and their personal and professional prospects are put in jeopardy, they team up to help each other succeed and to realize their dreams during the most meaningful summer of their lives.
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Great book!!!
- By Annissa Armstrong on 01-03-21
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The Star Thief
- By: Lindsey Becker
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Honorine's life as a maid at the Vidalia mansion is rather dull, dusting treasures from faraway places and daydreaming in front of maps of the world. But everything changes when she catches two brutish sailors ransacking Lord Vidalia's study and then follows a mysterious girl with wings out into the night. Suddenly Honorine is whisked into the middle of a battle between the crew of a spectacular steamship and a band of mythical constellations.
By: Lindsey Becker
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The Story Collector
- A New York Public Library Book
- By: Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library. She knows every room by heart, except the ones her father keeps locked. When Viviani becomes convinced that the library is haunted, new girl Merit Mubarak makes fun of her. So Viviani decides to play a harmless little prank, roping her older brothers and best friend Eva to help out. But what begins as a joke quickly gets out of hand, and soon Viviani and her friends have to solve two big mysteries.
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Charming Tale
- By mc2kelly on 12-11-18
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You Must Not Miss
- By: Katrina Leno
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day her family self-destructed. That was the night Eryn, Magpie's sister, skipped town and left her to fend for herself. That was the night of Brandon Phipp's party. Now, Magpie is called a slut whenever she walks down the hallways of her high school, her former best friend won't speak to her, and she spends her lunch period with a group of misfits who've all been socially exiled like she has. And so, feeling trapped and forgotten, Magpie retreats to her notebook, dreaming up a place called Near.
By: Katrina Leno
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The Winter Duke
- By: Claire Eliza Bartlett
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
All Ekata wants is to stay alive - and the chance to prove herself as a scholar. Once Ekata's brother is finally named heir to the dukedom of Kylma Above, there will be nothing to keep her at home with her murderous family. Not her books or her experiments, not her family's icy castle atop a frozen lake, not even the tantalizingly close Kylma Below, a mesmerizing underwater kingdom that provides her family with magic. But just as escape is within reach, her parents and 12 siblings fall under a strange sleeping sickness, and no one can find a cure.
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Problematic story structure & bad main character
- By Brandon Kennedy on 07-26-21
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One Small Thing
- By: Erin Watt
- Narrated by: Charlotte North
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Beth’s life hasn’t been the same since her sister died. Her parents try to lock her down, believing they can keep her safe by monitoring her every move. When Beth sneaks out to a party one night and meets the new guy in town, Chase, she’s thrilled to make a secret friend. It seems a small thing, just for her. Only Beth doesn’t know how big her secret really is....
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Contains language and sensitive topics (rape, death)
- By Toni on 01-17-20
By: Erin Watt
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We Came Here to Shine
- A Novel
- By: Susie Orman Schnall
- Narrated by: Carly Robins, Dan Bittner, Lauren Fortgang, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Gorgeous Vivi is the star of the Aquacade synchronized swimming spectacular, and plucky Max is a journalist for the fair's daily paper. Both are striving to make their way in a world where men try to control their actions and where secrets are closely kept. But when Vivi and Max become friends and their personal and professional prospects are put in jeopardy, they team up to help each other succeed and to realize their dreams during the most meaningful summer of their lives.
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Great book!!!
- By Annissa Armstrong on 01-03-21
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The Star Thief
- By: Lindsey Becker
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Honorine's life as a maid at the Vidalia mansion is rather dull, dusting treasures from faraway places and daydreaming in front of maps of the world. But everything changes when she catches two brutish sailors ransacking Lord Vidalia's study and then follows a mysterious girl with wings out into the night. Suddenly Honorine is whisked into the middle of a battle between the crew of a spectacular steamship and a band of mythical constellations.
By: Lindsey Becker
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The Story Collector
- A New York Public Library Book
- By: Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library. She knows every room by heart, except the ones her father keeps locked. When Viviani becomes convinced that the library is haunted, new girl Merit Mubarak makes fun of her. So Viviani decides to play a harmless little prank, roping her older brothers and best friend Eva to help out. But what begins as a joke quickly gets out of hand, and soon Viviani and her friends have to solve two big mysteries.
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Charming Tale
- By mc2kelly on 12-11-18
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The Writer's Library
- The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives
- By: Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager
- Narrated by: Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager, Xe Sands, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Before Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Jonathan Lethem became revered authors, they were readers. In this ebullient book, America’s favorite librarian Nancy Pearl and noted-playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's most notable and influential writers about the books that shaped them and inspired them to leave their own literary mark. The Writer’s Library is a revelatory exploration of the studies, libraries, and bookstores of today’s favorite authors.
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An experiment with an unfortunate outcome
- By sigrun on 05-29-22
By: Nancy Pearl, and others
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Winterhouse
- By: Ben Guterson
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Orphan Elizabeth Somers’ malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms - most notably its massive library. It’s not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family.
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12 year olds might like it - not for adults
- By t on 05-30-18
By: Ben Guterson
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Again, but Better
- By: Christine Riccio
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Shane has been doing college all wrong. Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change - there's nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. She's going to right all her college mistakes: make friends, pursue boys, and find adventure! Easier said than done. She is soon faced with the complicated realities of living outside her bubble, and when self-doubt sneaks in, her new life starts to fall apart.
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Take it on a Plane and Forget It
- By Amazon Customer on 06-14-19
By: Christine Riccio
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Cool for the Summer
- By: Dahlia Adler
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Lara's had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He's tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Oh, and he's talking to her now. On purpose and everything. Maybe...flirting, even? No, wait, he's definitely flirting, which is pretty much the sum of everything Lara's wanted out of life. Except she’s haunted by a memory. A memory of a confusing, romantic, strangely perfect summer spent with a girl named Jasmine.
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Great narration & Bi representation
- By Austin Pierce on 05-23-21
By: Dahlia Adler
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The Woman in the Mirror
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca James
- Narrated by: Charlotte Newton-John, Katharine Mangold
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey’s twin children. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then, the twins’ adoration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surroundings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled.
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Superb Gothic
- By MamaBear on 02-02-21
By: Rebecca James
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The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
- A Novel
- By: Ursula Hegi
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany, to the delight of the island’s people. But after the show, a Hundred-Year Wave roars from the Nordsee and claims three young children. Three mothers are on the beach when it happens: Lotte, whose children are lost; Sabine, a Zirkus seamstress with her grown daughter; and Tilli, just a girl herself, who will give birth later that day at St. Margaret’s Home for Pregnant Girls. After the tragedy, Lotte’s husband escapes with the Zirkus, while she loses the will to care for their surviving son.
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Character Study - Grief and Agency
- By Billy on 08-25-20
By: Ursula Hegi
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Renia's Diary
- A Holocaust Journal
- By: Elizabeth Bellak, Renia Spiegel, Sarah Durand, and others
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English. Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939, Renia began a diary. By the fall of 1939, Renia and her younger sister, Elizabeth (née Ariana), were staying with their grandparents in Przemysl just as the German and Soviet armies invaded Poland. Cut off from their mother, who was in Warsaw, Renia and her family were plunged into war.
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Faith, Hope & Love is captured in a diary of a girl as war came to Poland
- By M.G. Mitchell on 09-28-19
By: Elizabeth Bellak, and others
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You Have a Match
- A Novel
- By: Emma Lord
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it’s mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie...although ever since the B.E.I. (Big Embarrassing Incident) with Leo, things have been awkward on that front.
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Daughter Loved It
- By Love Being a Mom on 01-15-21
By: Emma Lord
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Maybe One Day
- A Novel
- By: Debbie Johnson
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The truth changes everything. For years Jess believed that Joe - the father of her child and the only man she ever loved - had abandoned her during her greatest time of need. That belief nearly destroyed her. Seventeen years later, when cleaning out her mother’s house, Jess unpacks a box of cards and letters hidden in the attic and makes a discovery that changes everything about life as she knows it. Shaken but empowered, Jess - and her two stalwart best friends - set out on a remarkable journey to follow a set of faded postmarks around the world.
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Enjoyed!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-02-23
By: Debbie Johnson
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The Weight of a Piano
- A novel
- By: Chris Cander
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enriching passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family emigrate to America - and loses her piano in the process. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, 26-year-old Clara Lundy is burdened by the last gift her father gave her before he and her mother died in a terrible house fire: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. In sudden frustration, she decides to sell it.
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The Key to Enjoying this Book
- By Sherry Day Foster on 03-09-19
By: Chris Cander