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In 1947 St. Louis, Ms. Etta's is the place where a sinner can get all the boozy action he craves - that is until ladies' man Baltimore Floyd rolls into town and falls in the sack with the wrong woman.
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- Shay
- 03-29-18
Fantastic!!!
Where to begin? I stumbled upon this book while looking for a romance novel. Let me first say that Ezra Knight can do no wrong when it comes to narration of a book! He is by far one of the best to ever do it. He actually performs the stories. He doesn't just read. Now to the book, this was my first listen by this author. However, it certainly won't be my last. I can't wait to listen to everything he has on Audible. Generally, I don't listen to books without any Audible reviews , but this was a winner! Though there are multiple characters in the book, the character development is so good that you feel like you know each one of them personally. I was invested in each one of the characters lives. I actually cared about what happened to them. Baltimore and Penny were my favorites. Grab this book quick.
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- iceyscorpio
- 12-17-22
Awesome Storytelling
Wow! I could just imagine this on the big screen. The costumes, the cars, and old St. Louis as the backdrop. The imperfect hero Baltimore was very complex. Good character development.
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- Abra Fortson
- 09-18-22
This needs to be adapted into a broadway play or for the big screen !!!!!
It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to a book that was this engaging and well written. I throughly enjoyed getting to know (and become attached ) to each and every single character in this book !!! I loved the bond shared between Etta & Baltimore I love the intense love trust and adoration they shared. I loved the fierce protectors they became immediately for Penny !!! Just a great read all around. Bonus : Read by the incomparable Ezra Knight !!!! Bravo , bravo sir !!!
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- Tiffanny
- 08-20-20
Good book
I enjoyed this book. However, the story dragged along for about 5 chapters. I did love the fact that the plot twist were unexpected. I didnt expect the story to pan out the way it did. Like MK!! That's was very unexpected. Also, in the beginning I felt Penny would end up in love with Floyd and she would get hurt eventually mental and physically. So, the end of the story was very pleasant.
This book is definitely ringing that old saying my grandmother use to tell me growing up that
everything that glitters ain't gold!
Charter and Morals....
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- Anonymous User
- 08-09-19
Hang on to your hats, you're going on a ride
I loved this book, it felt like watching a movie with all of the details that we tend to overlook when we're watching it on screen.
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- ArlisaHeartsAmazon
- 07-26-19
Worth more than one credit
This was an excellent read. although it was part of the package, it would have been worth multiple credits. very well written and the readers were a pleasure to listen to
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- M. Sheron
- 06-22-19
Great storytelling
Loved this narrator. Deep gravelly black male voice and smooth female. Felt I was back in the 40’s. Not too hard to take the mistreatment of the era - woven in a believable way - at least the way I wanted to hear it. Will look for more from both author and narrator
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- Ellie Mac
- 01-23-19
GREAT BOOK!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the narration was on point. At times it seemed a bit comical, but overall all it was a good book.
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At the height of the civil rights movement, amidst an America convulsed by the 1960s, a pregnant young woman and her brash, profane aunt embark upon an audacious road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles to confront a decades-old mystery from 1920s Black Hollywood in this haunting novel of historical fiction from the author of Wild Women and the Blues.
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Amazing Storytelling and Weaving of Two Timelines
- By PMA1984 on 08-20-22
By: Denny S. Bryce
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Malice in Maggody
- Arly Hanks Series, Book 1
- By: Joan Hess
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she's safe as the town's first female chief of police - until the husband of one of the local barmaids escapes from state prison and heads for town. And that's not all. An EPA official with ties to polluting the local fishing hole has suddenly vanished off the face of the earth.
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A bit of fun
- By Wendy on 06-27-21
By: Joan Hess
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Unspeakable
- By: Sandra Brown
- Narrated by: John Henry Cox
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. After all, he is terrifyingly good at it. Stimulated by violence, he and his brother, Cecil, had easily graduated from juvenile delinquents to full-blown killers. And Carl, now serving a life sentence in an Arkansas penitentiary, carries out a daring escape with a fellow inmate and is on his way back to where he began - Blewer County, Texas. Ann Corbett had been widowed right before her son was born. Beset by debt and personal tragedy, she faces the toughest challenge of her life, unaware that she is at the center of Carl Herbold's vengeful plan.
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Unspeakable - unbelievable!
- By Cathryn on 03-12-03
By: Sandra Brown
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Young Al Capone
- The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925
- By: William Balsamo, John Balsamo
- Narrated by: Daniel May
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Many people are familiar with the story of Al Capone, the legendary Chicago gangster best known for orchestrating the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But few are aware that Capone’s remarkable story began in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, New York. Tutored by the likes of infamous mobsters Johnny Torrio and Frankie Yale, young Capone’s disquieting demeanor, combined with the “technical advice” he learned from these shady teachers, contributed to the molding of a brutal criminal....
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Is this fiction or non-fiction?
- By Gerry B. on 11-03-20
By: William Balsamo, and others
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Plain Heathen Mischief
- By: Martin Clark
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he's served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns as nasty as his parole officer. Talk about a crisis of faith.
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Brilliant!
- By squishy on 02-05-20
By: Martin Clark
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The Quaker Café
- A Quaker Café Novel
- By: Brenda Bevan Remmes
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When Liz Hoole, a free-spirited liberal from the Midwest, marries into a conservative Quaker family, she knows that raising children in compliance with Quaker values will be challenging. Twenty-five years later, she still feels like she's falling short of expectations. Fortunately, her faith and her friends in the small, rural North Carolina town of Cedar Branch keep her strong.
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Misses The Mark For Me
- By Sara on 11-25-15
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The Legal Limit
- By: Martin Clark
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Martin Clark has been praised as "part John Grisham, part Hunter S.Thompson, and part sheer grit". Mason Hunt returns to his small Virginia hometown as the county's commonwealth attorney. Mason's brother Gates, who's currently serving a 20 year prison term, thinks Mason should have enough pull to set him free. And when Mason refuses, Gates hatches a plan to destroy his brother's life with a secret they both swore they'd take to the grave.
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I wish there were more books by this author
- By Mary on 05-11-09
By: Martin Clark
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Georgia Bottoms
- A Novel
- By: Mark Childress
- Narrated by: Debra Monk
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A best-selling author of books for adults and children, Mark Childress pens his most outrageous work yet with Georgia Bottoms. The titular heroine is the epitome of the church-going Southern belle, except for one teeny-tiny aspect of her life. Georgia’s family inheritance has long since evaporated, and to maintain her genteel lifestyle, Miss Bottoms has taken six affluent lovers—the fly in the ointment being that one is a married preacher who’s about to reveal their infidelity to the whole congregation.
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Fun Listen
- By Sue on 04-08-11
By: Mark Childress
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Hoodlum
- By: K'wan
- Narrated by: Honey Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan. Born to one of New York City's most notorious crime families, Shai Clark has always managed to be a good kid. A college hoops star, Shai shunned the world that his father had created and focused on his dreams of going pro. Tommy, Shai's trigger-happy older brother, is next in line for the throne and rules under his father through brute force. But Poppa has bigger plans for Shai.
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Awesome you go K'wan and Honey Jones
- By David Dunn on 10-05-17
By: K'wan
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Strip Tease
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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No matter what you heard or thought about the movie version of Strip Tease, forget it. Film simply can’t catch the layers of humor, satire, and imagination that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Hiaasen creates in each of his novels.
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Hilarious drama
- By Pam W