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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. When a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia’s heart is broken. She finds solace in Taslima, a new girl in her close-knit Pakistani-American community. They embark on a series of small rebellions: listening to scandalous music, wearing miniskirts, and cutting school to explore the city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story but audio version not great
- By bgioe on 04-16-23
By: Bushra Rehman
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The Accidentals
- A Novel
- By: Minrose Gwin
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
In the fall of 1957, Olivia McAlister is living in Opelika, Mississippi, caring for her two girls, June and Grace, and her husband, Holly. She dreams of living a much larger life - seeing the world and returning to her wartime job at a landing boat factory in New Orleans. As she watches over the birds in her yard, Olivia feels like an “accidental” - a migratory bird blown off course. When Olivia becomes pregnant again, she makes a fateful decision, compelling Grace, June, and Holly to cope in different ways.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why???
- By Jojo on 10-04-20
By: Minrose Gwin
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The Travelers
- A Novel
- By: Regina Porter
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 60
Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish-American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia’s mother - Agnes Miller Christie - is a beautiful African-American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Each character is quite a character.
- By Anonymous User on 01-01-22
By: Regina Porter
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The Daughters of Erietown
- A Novel
- By: Connie Schultz
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 596
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 500
1957, Clayton Valley, Ohio. Ellie has the best grades in her class. Her dream is to go to nursing school and marry Brick McGinty. A basketball star, Brick has the chance to escape his abusive father and become the first person in his blue-collar family to attend college. But when Ellie learns that she is pregnant, everything changes. Just as Brick and Ellie revise their plans and build a family, a knock on the front door threatens to destroy their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling
- By Barbara Dyke on 06-14-20
By: Connie Schultz
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The Prettiest Star
- By: Carter Sickels
- Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan, Charlie Thurston
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
At 18, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place, and family, he was once so desperate to escape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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important to remember
- By Mary M Dugan on 10-02-20
By: Carter Sickels
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Things We Lost to the Water
- A Novel
- By: Eric Nguyen
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Story4 out of 5 stars 185
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. But with time, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss, her sons grow up in their absent father's shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Vietnamese immigrant experience
- By Susan on 08-30-21
By: Eric Nguyen
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The Drowning Kind
- By: Jennifer McMahon
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Imani Jade Powers
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 492
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Story4 out of 5 stars 441
When Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property. And as she dives in deeper herself, she discovers that the land holds a far darker past than she could have ever imagined.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Have You Ever?
- By Caroline Colvin on 04-12-21
By: Jennifer McMahon
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Dark River Inn
- A Troubled Spirits Novel
- By: J.R. Erickson
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 316
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 316
It’s the day of his ex-wife’s wedding when Dan makes the winding mountain journey to a remote cabin for an escape from the life that another man has stepped into. Less than 48 hours into his reprieve, the forest tranquility is shattered when he looks through a telescope and witnesses the violent abduction of a young woman. Dan springs into action, but there’s no evidence of an abduction nor reports of a missing woman. That is, until Dan sees the missing person’s poster for Ivy Trent.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit disappointing
- By Laurie Kohn on 07-20-21
By: J.R. Erickson
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A Little Hope
- A Novel
- By: Ethan Joella
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 98
Freddie and Greg Tyler seem to have it all: a comfortable home, a beautiful young daughter, a bond that feels unbreakable. But when Greg is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer, the sense of certainty they once knew evaporates. Throughout their town, friends and neighbors face the most difficult of life’s challenges and are figuring out how to survive thanks to love, grace, and hope.
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2 out of 5 stars
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a bit too depressing
- By Barbara S on 12-27-22
By: Ethan Joella
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The Means That Make Us Strangers
- By: Christine Kindberg
- Narrated by: Sarah Brands
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia as the white American daughter of an anthropologist. Then, her family moves to South Carolina in 1964. Adelaide vows to find her way back to Ethiopia, marry Maicaah, and become part of the village for real. But until she turns 18, Adelaide must adjust to this strange, white place that everyone tells her is home. Then, Adelaide becomes friends with the five African American students who sued for admission into the white high school.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Means
- By Deedra on 09-01-21
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Miller's Valley
- A Novel
- By: Anna Quindlen
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,005
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 901
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Story4 out of 5 stars 899
As a young girl in Miller's Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quietly engaging
- By Taryn on 01-07-17
By: Anna Quindlen
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The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee
- By: Talya Tate Boerner
- Narrated by: Em Eldridge
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
There are plenty of things Gracie doesn't know. These things keep her awake at night. Gracie longs for something bigger and grander and truer, and feels certain there is more to life beyond school and dull church sermons. She worries about the soldiers in Vietnam and wonders what it must be like to have been born Lisa Marie Presley from Tennessee instead of Gracie Lee Abbott from Arkansas. Mostly, she wishes her Daddy wasn't so mean.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't stop listening.
- By AnnabelLee on 08-18-17
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Skinship
- Stories
- By: Yoon Choi
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Intae Kim, Jennifer Kim, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town ... A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years ... A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims. Through an indelible array of lives, Yoon Choi explores where first and second generations either clash or find common ground,
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite from this year!
- By Marla Lev on 12-14-21
By: Yoon Choi
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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
- A Novel
- By: Lorrie Moore
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 404
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 354
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 354
The summer Berie was 15, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger - until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help - and then everything changes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written and read
- By EOS STUDIO on 01-11-21
By: Lorrie Moore
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The Gone Dead
- A Novel
- By: Chanelle Benz
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 139
Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day - and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years later, Billie returns, but her father's home is unnervingly secluded. As Billie encounters the locals, she hears a strange rumor: that she herself went missing on the day her father died.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I HATED the ending.
- By Anonymous User on 06-28-19
By: Chanelle Benz
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It Is Wood, It Is Stone
- A Novel
- By: Gabriella Burnham
- Narrated by: Gisela Chípe
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Linda, an anxious and restless American, has moved to São Paulo, with her husband, Dennis, who has accepted a yearlong professorship. As Dennis submerges himself in his work, Linda finds herself unmoored and adrift, feeling increasingly disassociated from her own body. Linda’s unwavering and skilled maid, Marta, has more claim to Linda’s home than Linda can fathom. Marta, who is struggling to make sense of complicated history and its racial tensions, is exasperated by Linda’s instability.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Warm, sweet tropics
- By Amazon Customer on 08-07-20
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All Manner of Things
- By: Susie Finkbeiner
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story5 out of 5 stars 52
When Annie Jacobson's brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he hands her a piece of paper with the address of their long-estranged father. If anything should happen to him in Vietnam, Mike says, Annie must let their father know. In Mike's absence, their father returns to face tragedy at home, adding an extra measure of complication to an already tense time. As they work toward healing and pray fervently for Mike's safety overseas, letter by letter the Jacobsons must find a way to pull together as a family, regardless of past hurts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Real fiction
- By Katijanae on 01-19-23
By: Susie Finkbeiner