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Jill Ciment lives in New York, has a pet dachshund, and is married to an artist. This is also all part of the situation of her newest book, which has landed on Oprah's summer reading list. This tightly packed novel has three parallel plot lines, narrated with metropolitan charm by Elisabeth Rodgers. Alex and Ruth Cohen have been living in the same East Village apartment for almost five decades, and they have no idea how much it's worth, but they do know they are tired of climbing its five flights of stairs. They don't want to leave their neighborhood; they just want a place with an elevator.
Enter the real estate broker, by turns savvy and slimy, voiced by Rodgers with all the hilarious pomp and satire such a stereotype deserves. The Cohens are astounded to discover the asking price on their little apartment is a million bucks. They are also saddened to discover that their beloved dachshund, Dorothy, suddenly cannot use her hind legs. So the bulk of the story concerns the escalating stakes in the Cohens' pursuit of a situation that is better for their own legs and for Dorothy's.
As they rush back and forth between open houses and the surgical veterinary hospital, their progress is constantly interrupted by the fact that a suspected mad bomber is loose somewhere nearby. Rodgers does some very careful work with the tone here, as Ruth and Alex repeatedly find themselves sliding into awkward ethical dilemmas. As long as the terrorist is running amok, the offers on their apartment are getting larger. They must also decide whether to use a visit to Dorothy, recovering from her back surgery, as an excuse to outbid other prospective buyers. Some of the best bits here are when Rodgers narrates from the unique point of view of the cute little dog, a task more intricate and less cheesy than it sounds.
As the three plot lines converge, the narration gets ever more frantic. Will the bomber surrender? Will Dorothy ever walk again? Will the Cohens make enough money on the sale of their apartment to afford their dream apartment just a few blocks away? Rodgers constructs a very fine web of anxiety here, humanizing two of the most fundamental moral questions of our age that Ciment has neatly laid out: What would you do for a million dollars, and what wouldn't you do for just ten thousand more? —Megan Volpert
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New York City is on high alert: a gasoline truck is stuck in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled. Through panic and gridlock, Alex and Ruth must transport their beloved old dachshund, whose back legs are suddenly paralyzed, to the animal hospital, using a cutting board as a stretcher. But this is also the weekend when Alex and Ruth must sell the apartment in which they have lived for most of their adult lives.
Over the course of 48 hours, as the mystery of the missing truck driver terrorizes the city and the dachshund's life hangs in the balance, the bidding war over their apartment becomes a barometer for collective hope and despair. Told in shifting points of view - Alex's, Ruth's, and the little dog's - Heroic Measures is a moving, deft novel about urban anxiety and the love that deepens over years.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 877
A rising star at her prestigious Seattle law firm, Dana Hill knows all about stress. She pours herself into her work and family with all the energy she has. But her carefully balanced life is about to be turned upside down. First a frightening medical diagnosis forces her to reassess her roles as a lawyer, mother, and wife to a man she suddenly no longer trusts. Then her life is rocked further by the shocking and brutal murder of her twin brother.
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Better than average mystery/thriller
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By: Robert Dugoni
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Revenge
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 98
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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Maybe, more Gray then Dark?
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By: Yoko Ogawa
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A Three Dog Life: A Memoir
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 183
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Story4 out of 5 stars 160
When Abigail Thomas’s husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institution. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude.
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Eloquent & Honest
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By: Abigail Thomas
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Dating Dead Men
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- Narrated by: Deanna Hurst
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 486
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 384
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Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating 40 men in 60 days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado - a state-run mental hospital - and is taken hostage by a charismatic "doctor" who is on the run from the Mob.
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Another Stephanie Plum
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Killer Weekend
- Walt Fleming, Book 1
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Eight years ago, in Sun Valley - snowcapped playground for the wealthy and ambitious - all that stood between New York State attorney general Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now, Liz Shaler returns to Sun Valley as the crown jewel and keynote speaker for billionaire Patrick Cutter's world-famous C3, a media and communications conference where the richest, most powerful business tycoons converge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good.
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By: Ridley Pearson
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The Winds of Marble Arch
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Tom, an American, is in London for a conference when he begins to experience unusual forces in the Underground. Is it an easily-explained phenomenon - or ghosts from Britain's past?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hugo award winner
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By: Connie Willis
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On the Blue Comet
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Oscar Ogilvie is living with his dad in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, in Cairo, Illinois, when world events change his life forever. The great stock market crash has rippled across the country, and the bank takes over their home - along with all their cherished model trains. Oscar’s dad is forced to head west in search of work, and Oscar must move in with his no-nonsense aunt Carmen. Only a mysterious drifter helps alleviate Oscar’s loneliness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story to listen to with your kids!!
- By Aaron on 03-27-23
By: Rosemary Wells
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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- Narrated by: Peter Riegert
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,535
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,355
For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the federal district of Sitka, a temporary safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the district is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Didn't finish...
- By Ann E O'Connor on 10-16-17
By: Michael Chabon
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The Cleaner
- By: Elisabeth Herrmann
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reader was very distracting
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- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 110
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May 1968 - On a murky pre-dawn Mother’s Day, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New York City. In Harlem, a church janitor finds a newborn in a basket. In Brooklyn, an elusive serial killer prowls slumbering families, leaving a trail of blood. These seemingly unrelated lives - and deaths - are destined to intersect on a distant, blood-soaked day. October, 1987 - Reeling from shocking personal discoveries, two strangers navigate a world where nothing is as it seems.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Up To Staub's Standards
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
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- Narrated by: Shari Peele
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the award-winning and best-selling author of Tumbling, presents Trading Dreams at Midnight - - an Essence Book Club Recommended Read. Back in 1984, 15-year-old Neena's mother left and never came back. And now Neena is following in her footsteps.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard to follow
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Crimes by Moonlight
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4 out of 5 stars 100
In number-one New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris’s "Dahlia Underground,” venerable vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers survives an attack by an anti-vampire terrorist group, only to show them they tried to blow up the wrong bloodsucker. Bailey Ruth Raeburn, a ghost assigned to assist humans in trouble, steps into the middle of a marital dispute with surprising twists in Carolyn Hart’s “Riding High”....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pleasantly surprised
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How Like a God
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 328
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Story4 out of 5 stars 286
What would it be like, to get absolute power? Would you wear a cape and fight crime? Rule the planet? Or perhaps you would be like Rob Lewis, and watch your world collapse around you. Does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Rob is going to find out.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At one point the main character rapes at 13 year old girl
- By Richard Davis on 05-29-21
By: Brenda W. Clough
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Bloodsucking Fiends
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- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,577
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,217
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,239
A striking red-head, 20-something Jody is attacked and transformed into a vampire while walking home one night in downtown San Francisco. Befriending 19-year-old Tommy, Jody tries to understand her new undead life, but trouble finds her when the cops start suspecting Tommy of being a local bloodsucking serial killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bloodsucking FUN!
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Laguna Heat
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 74
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Laguna: a place where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence - with a fiery vengeance - and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery. It reaches back across 40 years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- By Stacy on 02-24-09
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Lie Still
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 214
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 192
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Nursing the faded scars of a long-held trauma, Emily Page and her husband, awaiting the arrival of their first child, move from New York City to the uber-wealthy Clairmont, Texas. There, Emily is swept into a world of opulent privilege and shifting loyalties. But the secrets she keeps follow her south, and with them comes the danger that her new friends can't protect her from, and her new enemies will not hesitate to use to destroy her once and for all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lie Still
- By Mary K on 06-27-17
By: Julia Heaberlin
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Timeless
- By Robert Massarella on 12-05-23
By: Giuseppe di Lampedusa, and others
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Who Is Maud Dixon?
- A Novel
- By: Alexandra Andrews
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,598
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,266
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,265
Florence Darrow has always felt she was destined for greatness, but after a disastrous affair with her married boss, she starts to doubt herself. All that changes when she sets off for Morocco with her new boss, the celebrated but reclusive author Maud Dixon. Amidst the colorful streets of Marrakesh, Florence begins to feel she’s leading the sort of interesting, cosmopolitan life she deserves. But when she wakes up in the hospital after a terrible car accident, with no memory of the previous night - and no sign of Maud - a dangerous idea begins to take form....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Whoa! Buy this book!
- By Beth on 03-04-21
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
- A Novel
- By: Janice Hallett
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington, Nneka Okoye, Gareth Armstrong, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 47
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and mother and baby disappeared.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Actor chewing noises disgusting. Did not finish.
- By Schwarzian on 03-12-24
By: Janice Hallett
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Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club)
- By: DéLana R. A. Dameron
- Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
So begins award-winning poet DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut novel, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Tabor spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their stories and witnessing their struggles. On Redwood Court, the cul-de-sac in the all-Black working-class suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, where her grandparents live, Mika learns important lessons from the people who raise her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Home Sweet Home
- By Jessica on 02-10-24
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Middlesex
- By: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,835
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,867
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Anything but middle.
- By Michael on 05-04-03
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- Sharlotte
- 01-23-20
Nice Story
I'm not a huge dog fan but this was a real sweet story nonetheless. I enjoyed it.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- appreciative reader
- 03-29-24
Quirky characters
The book was a commentary on aging sprinkled with sly observations about living in an urban area and the media’s empty-headed way of reporting breaking news. I did not like the pet relationship- I did not care about Dorothy at 12 yrs of age heroically saved. Why?
The struggle to find an affordable residence was timely even as its compressed timeline made it unbelievable. The happy ending was frankly corny and predictable.
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