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The Van Ripper women have been the talk of Tarrytown, New York, for centuries. Some say they're angels; some say they're crooks. In their tumbledown "Stitchery", not far from the stomping grounds of the legendary Headless Horseman, the Van Ripper sisters - Aubrey, Bitty, and Meggie - are said to knit people's most ardent wishes into beautiful scarves and mittens, granting them health, success, or even a blossoming romance. But for the magic to work, sacrifices must be made - and no one knows that better than the Van Rippers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
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By: Lisa Van Allen
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Falling Home
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 598
Cassie Madison has it all: A high-powered advertising career; a stylish Manhattan apartment; and a sophisticated, rich, and gorgeous fiancé. It's a far cry from her childhood in Walton, Georgia, home of the annual Kudzu Festival and hot, sticky summers. And then there are all the bad memories, the heartache. When Cassie's estranged sister calls to say that her father is dying, Cassie knows it's time to set aside her feelings and go home and face the sister she hasn't seen in 15 years.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Could not finish
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By: Karen White
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Love Walked In
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 376
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Story4 out of 5 stars 285
Award-winning poet Marisa de los Santos crafts an irresistibly touching debut novel. Love Walked In is a contemporary tale, steeped in nostalgic, cinematic charm, of love in all its forms. Unapologetically idealistic about love, Cornelia Brown appears to catch the break of a lifetime when the dashing Martin Grace, her own personal Cary Grant, comes strolling into her life. But it is Martin's connection to 11-year-old Clare Hobbes that touches Cornelia's heart in ways she never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful audio quality
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,134
Tory Bodeen grew up in a run-down house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt - and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. Her one escape was her neighbor Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn’t allowed to be at home: a child. Then Hope was brutally murdered, and everything fell apart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good and Bad
- By paula lewis on 06-07-09
By: Nora Roberts
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The Undoing of Saint Silvanus
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- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,519
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Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close. She hadn't seen him - or her grandmother, the ice queen - in almost 20 years. But when Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, called and said her expenses would be paid if she'd fly in for the burial, a free trip to New Orleans was too intriguing to resist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Beth, highly recommend!!
- By Susan on 12-22-16
By: Beth Moore
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Table for Five
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- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire have nothing in common. She guards her independent lifestyle with a ferocity that hides a fear of love and the pain it can bring. He’s always been a rolling stone, making his own way. But with the sudden deaths of a couple close to them both, the two become joined in grief and a knowledge that they must step up and care for the three orphaned children. With little more than hope and dedication, these five embark on a cross-country road trip filled with the ups and downs, the joys and frustrations that make up a family.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ok if you’re in the mood for women’s fiction
- By Jane on 02-18-13
By: Susan Wiggs
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One Last Dance
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
On the eve of their 40th wedding anniversary, the Seagraves are among the most envied couples in their community, and still deeply in love - until the night Lydia Seagrave picks up a gun and shoots her husband. Confronting a tangle of family lies in the wake of this shocking tragedy are the three Seagrave sisters.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sit it out
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By: Eileen Goudge
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The Last House on the Street
- A Novel
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- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
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Architect Kayla Carter and her husband designed a beautiful house for themselves in Round Hill’s new development, Shadow Ridge Estates. It was supposed to be a home where they could raise their three-year-old daughter and grow old together. Instead, it’s the place where Kayla’s husband died in an accident - a fact known to a mysterious woman who warns Kayla against moving in. The woods and lake behind the property are reputed to be haunted, and the new home has been targeted by vandals leaving threatening notes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 01-12-22
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The Secret Hour
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- Narrated by: Christina Traister
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Beneath his controlled demeanor, attorney John O’Rourke is a man in turmoil. Since the death of his wife, he has been juggling the rigors of a controversial capital murder case and the demands of raising two children. As 11-year-old Maggie and 14-year-old Teddy long for the past, they must also contend with the hostility that swirls around them since their father took on the defense of a despised killer - including a brick through their window one autumn morning.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's a Fairy Tale...eventually
- By Bette on 03-18-13
By: Luanne Rice
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The Salt House
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Duffy
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4 out of 5 stars 38
In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly have settled down to a life of wedded bliss. They have a beautiful family, a growing lobster business, and the Salt House - an oceanfront cottage they're renovating into their dream home. But tragedy strikes when their young daughter doesn't wake up from her afternoon nap, taking her last breath without making a sound. A year later each member of the Kelly family navigates the world on their own private island of grief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Culturally closed minded to what going on today.
- By Susan Griggs on 01-11-22
By: Lisa Duffy
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A Good Idea
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- Narrated by: Alex McKenna
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Finley and Betty's close friendship survived Fin's ninth-grade move from their coastal Maine town to Manhattan. Calls, letters, and summer visits continued to bind them together, and in the fall of their senior year, they both applied to NYU, planning to reunite for good as roommates. Then Betty disappears.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An absolute must listen/read!
- By Mel on 03-05-17
By: Cristina Moracho
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The Beach House
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- Narrated by: Mary Alice Monroe
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,417
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,268
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,264
Caretta Rutledge thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother – coming just as her own life is spinning out of control – has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide “turtle lady” and renews old acquaintances long thought lost.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, very poor audio quality
- By Dawn on 04-11-16
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Hum If You Don't Know the Words
- By: Bianca Marais
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan, Bahni Turpin
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 427
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 378
Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a 10-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred...until the Soweto Uprising.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Completely wrong accents
- By Debbie on 02-12-22
By: Bianca Marais
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Home Before Dark
- By: Susan Wiggs
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby Sirois
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past 16 years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering crisis, she's decided to fix the broken pieces of her heart and seek out Lila, even if it means she has to upset the world of Lila's adoptive mother...her very own sister, Luz.
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3 out of 5 stars
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May Be Susan Wiggs Worst
- By C. Scarborough on 06-24-12
By: Susan Wiggs
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Follow the Stars Home
- By: Luanne Rice
- Narrated by: Susie Breck
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Diane Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and darkest sorrow. Weeks before her daughter was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news that every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea. Diane was left with a newborn - almost alone.
By: Luanne Rice
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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- By: Tobias Wolff
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 135
Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By chris on 04-11-08
By: Tobias Wolff
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The Hollow Ground
- By: Natalie S. Harnett
- Narrated by: Luci Christian
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 534
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 469
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Story4 out of 5 stars 472
The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced 11-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung-stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disfunction makes a good read
- By NHull on 05-30-14
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Loved It!!
- By Matthew on 11-26-19
By: Andrea Bobotis
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What We Keep
- By: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrated by: Stephanie Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,344
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,223
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,223
Ginny Young is on a plane en route to see her mother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for 35 years. She thinks back to the summer of 1958, when she and her sister, Sharla, were young girls. Moving back and forth in time between the girl she once was and the woman she's become, Ginny at last confronts painful choices that occur in almost any woman's life and learns surprising truths about the people she thought she knew best.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bebop
- By BARBARA A BROWN on 11-20-18
By: Elizabeth Berg
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Two Thousand Minnows
- A Young Girl's Story of Separation, Forgiveness, and Hope
- By: Sandra Leigh Vaughan
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,644
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,423
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,410
When Sandra Leigh was seven years old, she fell into the role of protector of her mother and three younger siblings. One winter night, she ushered her mother out of the house during one of her father’s tirades, and then snuck her back into the dark home through a window. Sandra was used to events like these; what she wasn’t used to were the mountains and nature surrounding her new home in West Virginia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story
- By Terry W-C on 11-30-20
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The Moon Sisters
- By: Therese Walsh
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,339
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,117
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,113
After their mother’s probable suicide, Jazz and Olivia Moon struggle to move on with their lives. Olivia, an 18-year-old who can taste words and see sounds, blinds herself by staring at the sun, then decides to walk to the remote setting of her mother’s unfinished novel to resuscitate her hopes and dreams. Jazz, plagued by unresolved conflict with her mother and a hidden trove of her unsent letters, takes a job in a funeral home before being forced back into the role of her sister’s keeper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great audio book
- By Amazon Customer on 10-15-18
By: Therese Walsh
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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
- By: Heather B. Moore
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,505
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization - the criminal tong - brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves. With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police squad, Donaldina becomes a tireless social reformer to stop the abominable slave and prostitution trade.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Should be classified as a “Youth Fiction” book
- By J on 02-26-21
By: Heather B. Moore
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The Tumbling Turner Sisters
- By: Juliette Fay
- Narrated by: Katie Schorr, Eileen Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,335
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,212
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,205
In 1919 the Turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping by. Their father is a low-paid boot stitcher in Johnson City, New York, and the family is always one paycheck away from eviction. When their father's hand is crushed and he can no longer work, their irrepressible mother decides that the vaudeville stage is their best - and only - chance for survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yes, it's a 5 star review and well earned!
- By Jess on 06-22-19
By: Juliette Fay
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Firefly Cloak
- By: Sheri Reynolds
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Story4 out of 5 stars 132
Eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her little brother, Travis, are left at a campground by their mother and her boyfriend, a crooked-nosed man named Goose. All the two children have is a tent, their bags of clothes, the firefly cloak they'd used for covers the night before, and a phone number printed in magic marker on Travis' back. Tessa Lee knows that her momma and Goose have skedaddled in a car with recently changed license plates. She just doesn't know why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By shopgirl on 08-24-07
By: Sheri Reynolds
What listeners say about The Myth of Perpetual Summer
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- Jo
- 09-24-18
Summer
This is a very enjoyable, relatable and quite descriptive book. The author was thoughtful in describing the south and southern families and ways of living. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend!!😁
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- D
- 02-20-21
Hidden gem
This was included with audible and I wasn’t sure it would be good, but an incredible read. I’m not sure when the last time I got such pleasure in a writer’s descriptions and choice of words. Great read! Download today. This is literally my first ever review!
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- Valerie
- 07-26-21
Great book!
The reader was excellent! The overall story was wonderful-I can, we all can, relate to the “secrets” of our families past and why our elders did/didn’t do. It had some interesting analogies I re-played bc I needed to hear it again for my own peace with my past.
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- JLynn
- 07-14-21
A must read!
I highly recommend reading this book. Definitely one of my favorites so far this year.
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- Annette
- 03-27-22
Couldnt stop listening!
Narrator was great, story was intriguing but ended rather abruptly
Would recommend this book
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- Maura
- 06-06-22
Excellent
I don’t know what it is about stories with peacan harvests in them but they’re all so good. Great story and happy ending🌹
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- Rona
- 11-13-21
Loved it
I liked this book so much because I grew up in a family that had mental health struggles. It was nice to hear a story that I could relate to a little.
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- Jami Steiner
- 08-28-22
Wonderful must listen!
This was such a great story . The narrator was fantastic . I burned through this book in a weekend ! This is. Must listen!
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- kathy Powell
- 08-01-21
Great story of family and healing.
I liked the story line and the twists and turns it took.
The unveiling and the healing, and I always enjoy Southern Stories.
Narration was great.
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- Celeste Albers
- 12-02-21
A hidden gem
That’s what audible called this book when it was recommended for me and how right they were. I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn’t stop listening.
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