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- Deedra
- 06-17-19
For love of Daniel
Loved it! Tom Zainea was a fine narrator.
I was given this book by the narrator,author or publisher free for an honest review.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Paula McLeod
- 05-15-19
Short and sweet!
This novella was a quick listen. The story line could have been longer but it was not necessary for this tale. Remarkable cast. Definitely worth a 5 star rating!
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- Catrina P
- 04-23-19
For Love of Daniel
Such a heartfelt and touching story.
Frances and Jack are friends and have each resigned themselves to being alone in life. Their lives are drastically changed when an infant is left with them. Will they come together as a family or are they fated to be alone...
John Isaac Jones is a master storyteller. His descriptions are so detailed and his characters are so vibrant. It’s like I’m right there in the story.
Tom Zainea’s narration was fantastic. His timing was impeccable and he really brought out the emotions.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- DubaiReader
- 05-10-19
Bound by a child.
This is a 79 page novella, just one minute short of 3 hours of audio. It kept me entertained on a long-haul flight, but for some reason I wasn't totally invested in it. It has a great premise: two social misfits come together and discover happiness when they find themselves sharing the care of a baby.
There are several hiccups; questions are going to be asked when you suddenly appear with a child, out of the blue. These were the parts that kept my interest, while the remainder of the narrative rolled along uneventfully.
Maybe it was the fact that this was short, maybe I just didn't have time to get into the lives of the characters. Perhaps I needed a bit more body to the story.
Quite a surprise ending, raised my rating to 4 stars.
I loved the narration by Tom Zainea, who has read several of John Isaac Jones's novellas.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 166
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story4 out of 5 stars 142
When Ruie Ann Park - a pillar of the Van Buren, Arkansas, community - was found beaten to death and lying in a pool of blood in her home, the police and local residents assumed her son was the murderer. But the years would uncover a more sinister story. Up till that night, the Park family seemed to have it all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting true-crime tale terrific narration
- By Amiesbookreviews on 10-02-15
By: Anita Paddock
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Jimmy
- By: Robert Whitlow
- Narrated by: Robert Whitlow
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Jimmy knows he's different from the other teenagers in Piney Grove, Georgia. He's what people call "slow", which means he doesn't always understand what he sees and hears. But Jimmy sees and hears a lot, even the occasional angel. And Jimmy remembers it all with uncanny accuracy, which is why his lawyer father asks him to testify in a trial. Jimmy's testimony saves the man from jail but has far-reaching consequences for himself and the people he loves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story!
- By Lynette Eppley on 12-14-16
By: Robert Whitlow
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Bootlegger's Daughter
- By: Margaret Maron
- Narrated by: C.J. Critt
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 543
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 412
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Story4 out of 5 stars 410
Attorney Deborah Knott is North Carolina's answer to V.I. Warshawski, a legal sleuth with a knack for sniffing out the most baffling crimes. Deborah has just done the unthinkable: entered the heated race for judge of old-boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she's busy reeling in voters and giving campaign speeches. There couldn't be a worse time for Gayle Whitehead to beg Deborah to investigate the 18-year-old unsolved murder of Gayle's mother, Janie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Series
- By J. Byerly on 01-06-14
By: Margaret Maron
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The Choice
- By: Robert Whitlow
- Narrated by: Heath McClure
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Even as a pregnant, unwed teen in 1974, Sandy Lincoln wanted to do the right thing. But when an ageless woman approached her in a convenience store with a mysterious prophecy and a warning, doing the right thing became even more unclear. She made the best choice she could... and has lived with the consequences. More than 30 years later, a pregnant teen has come into her life, and Sandy’s long-ago decision has come back to haunt her. The stakes rise quickly, leaving Sandy with split seconds to choose once more. But will her choice decision bring life... or death?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story good but narration awful
- By Doris on 11-05-12
By: Robert Whitlow
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The Whole Town's Talking
- A Novel
- By: Fannie Flagg
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,095
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 979
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Story4 out of 5 stars 978
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening out at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it's called, is anything but still. Funny and profound, this novel in the tradition of Flagg's Can't Wait to Get to Heaven and Thornton Wilder's Our Town deals with universal themes of heaven and earth and everything in between, as Flagg tells a surprising story of life, afterlife, and the mysterious goings-on of ordinary people.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Skipping stones
- By Janice on 12-03-16
By: Fannie Flagg
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Bring on the Blessings
- A Novel
- By: Beverly Jenkins
- Narrated by: Lynnette Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 149
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Story5 out of 5 stars 149
Bernadine Brown is a woman with money to spend. Henry Adams is a town in desperate need of cash. But after Bernadine puts up the money, she has some ideas about how the town should be run. Will the townspeople be willing to shake up their comfortable lives to share the gift they’ve been given with others who really need it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very entertaining
- By Anonymous User on 03-14-22
By: Beverly Jenkins
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The Silver Suitcase
- By: Terrie Todd
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 658
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 567
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 563
It's 1939, and Canada is on the cusp of entering World War II. Seventeen-year-old farm girl Cornelia is heartbroken when she learns that her beloved soldier, Henry, has been killed in a train wreck. Alone and carrying a heavy secret, she makes the desperate choice that will haunt her for years to come. Never telling a soul, Cornelia pours out the painful events of the war in her diary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Diary, WWII, and Wrestling with God
- By Debbie on 03-03-16
By: Terrie Todd
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
- A Novel
- By: Fannie Flagg
- Narrated by: Fannie Flagg
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 401
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie). Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ABRIDGED? You must be kidding!
- By Karen C. Parker on 10-30-13
By: Fannie Flagg
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To See the Moon Again
- By: Jamie Langston Turner
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
The first step to letting go of the past is forgiving it …Every day of her life Julia Rich lives with the memory of a horrible accident she caused long ago. In the years since, she has tried to hide her guilt in the quiet routine of teaching at a small South Carolina college, avoiding close relationships with family and would-be friends. But one day a phone call from Carmen, a niece she has never met, disrupts her carefully controlled world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story of Forgiveness and Selfless Love
- By sharon on 09-20-14
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Maude
- By: Donna Mabry
- Narrated by: Shana Gagnon
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,823
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,626
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622
In 1906 I was barely over 14 years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She said, "You've always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now you're going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?"
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration made listening almost unbearable
- By Sandra on 01-07-16
By: Donna Mabry
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Child of the River
- By: Irma Joubert
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Persomi is young, white, and poor, born the middle child of illiterate sharecroppers on the prosperous Fourie farm in the South African Bushveld. Persomi’s world is extraordinarily small. She has never been to the local village and spends her days absorbed in the rhythms of the natural world around her, escaping the brutality and squalor of her family home through the newspapers and books passed down to her from the main house and through her walks in the nearby mountains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story and
- By Ann Cunningham on 12-16-16
By: Irma Joubert
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The Rising
- Murder, Heartbreak, and the Power of Human Resilience in an American Town
- By: Ryan D'Agostino
- Narrated by: Ryan D'Agostino
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
On July 23, 2007, Dr. William Petit suffered an unimaginable horror: Armed strangers broke into his suburban Connecticut home in the middle of the night, bludgeoned him nearly to death, tortured and killed his wife and two daughters, and set their house on fire. He miraculously survived, and yet living through those horrific hours was only the beginning of his ordeal. Broken and defeated, Bill was forced to confront a question of ultimate consequence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You won't be able to stop listening
- By Barbara on 12-18-15
By: Ryan D'Agostino
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The Waiting
- The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up
- By: Cathy LaGrow, Cindy Coloma - contributor
- Narrated by: Pamela Klein
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 214
In the summer of 1928, sixteen-year-old Minka was looking forward to a sewing class picnic. This would be a rare chance to put aside farm chores, don a pretty dress, and enjoy an outing with other girls. It would be a day to remember. And it was - but not in the way Minka had dreamed. Cornered by a stranger in the woods, the young girl was assaulted. Minka still believed that the stork brought babies; she would not discover for months that she was pregnant.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good read. Simple Story!
- By Andrea on 05-15-15
By: Cathy LaGrow, and others
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Blackwater: The Complete Saga
- By: Michael McDowell
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 30 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,456
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,652
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,633
Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido's first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A 6 Star Worthy Epic!
- By jksullycats on 10-29-17
By: Michael McDowell
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Liberating Paris
- A Novel
- By: Linda Bloodworth Thomason
- Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Woodrow McIlmore, the town's golden boy and local gynecologist, is married to his beautiful high school sweetheart, Milan, and seems by all appearances to be leading the perfect life with his two children and extended family and friends. But when Wood's daughter announces that she is smitten with a college classmate and intends to marry him, her parents are stunned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving, a great listen
- By Cynthia on 11-27-05
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The Pecan Man
- By: Cassie Dandridge Selleck
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,690
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,678
In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chief's son is found stabbed to death near his camp, the man Ora knows as Eddie is arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out to tell the truth about the Pecan Man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still Thinking About this Book
- By L. O. Pardue on 08-01-16
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Vegas Rich
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Performance