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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 338
Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she's forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover the truth and save her own skin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully read, and probably provocative to some
- By Mary M. Campbell on 05-14-18
By: Barbara Neely
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Love After Love
- A Novel
- By: Ingrid Persaud
- Narrated by: Ingrid Persaud
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 111
After Betty Ramdin’s husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr. Chetan, to move in with her and her son, Solo. Over time, the three become a family, loving each other deeply and depending upon one another. Then, one fateful night, Solo overhears Betty confiding in Mr. Chetan and learns a secret that plunges him into torment. Solo flees Trinidad for New York to carve out a lonely existence as an undocumented immigrant, and Mr. Chetan remains the singular thread holding mother and son together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Alicia J. on 09-19-20
By: Ingrid Persaud
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All the Children Are Home
- A Novel
- By: Patry Francis
- Narrated by: Kimberly Woods, Nora Hunter, Mia Barron, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl’s life. Eleven years after they began fostering, Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused and neglected, they can’t say no.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Potential, but the Ending Fell Flat
- By Brande Fraley on 05-03-22
By: Patry Francis
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The Life I'm In
- By: Sharon G. Flake
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In The Skin I'm In, listeners saw into the life of Maleeka Madison, a teen who suffered from the ridicule she received because of her dark skin color. For decades fans have wanted to know the fate of the bully who made Maleeka's life miserable, Char. Now in Sharon Flake's latest and unflinching novel, The Life I'm In, we follow Charlese Jones, who, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read ASAP!
- By leah on 08-01-22
By: Sharon G. Flake
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Anywhere You Run
- A Novel
- By: Wanda M. Morris
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Shayna Small, Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 142
It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best
- By Maria on 12-03-22
By: Wanda M. Morris
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Gordo
- Stories
- By: Jaime Cortez
- Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Performance
- By VeeF on 10-26-22
By: Jaime Cortez
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Find Layla
- A Novel
- By: Meg Elison
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 153
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 152
Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science, protect her vulnerable younger brother, and steer clear of her unstable mother. Then a school competition calls for a biome. Layla chooses her own home, a hostile ecosystem of indoor fungi and secret shame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hidden Gem
- By Jules on 01-06-22
By: Meg Elison
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A Happy Catastrophe
- A Novel
- By: Maddie Dawson
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 528
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 527
Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are imperfectly perfect together. Still, there are some things that maybe need a little attention. Marnie’s ebullient; he’s brooding. She thrives on change; he prefers stability. She sees marriage and parenthood in their future, but he can’t see beyond the shadow of an earlier tragedy. Then an eight-year-old surprise from Patrick’s past shows up on their doorstep, cartwheeling into their lives and spinning things in all directions.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I wish I had read it instead of listening to it.
- By Dave & Amy Astle on 10-08-20
By: Maddie Dawson
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A Piece of Normal
- By: Maddie Dawson
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
“You know what people really need? Somebody who will listen hard and then find a way to tell them, ‘It’s not all your fault. It’s going to work out fine. Don’t give up.’” So advice columnist ‘Dear Lily’ Brown deeply believes. But Lily could write a letter to herself, asking what to do about an ex-husband who still wants her dating advice, how to redecorate the family home she’s kept exactly the same since her parents died tragically young, how to move on with her strangely becalmed life...and what to do when your wild-child estranged sister storms back into town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Enjoyable Story
- By Debbie Cortina on 04-27-22
By: Maddie Dawson
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Free Lunch
- By: Rex Ogle
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 156
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story5 out of 5 stars 124
A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex's is a compelling story of a more profound hunger - that of a child for his parents' love and care.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Read
- By Rose on 04-06-20
By: Rex Ogle
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The Institute
- A Novel
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45,373
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40,936
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40,754
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and 10-year-old Avery Dixon.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I really wanted to like this novel.. but..
- By Wendi on 09-21-19
By: Stephen King
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Black and Blue
- By: Anna Quindlen
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 289
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 230
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Story4 out of 5 stars 230
When 19-year-old Fran married Bobby Benedetto, she never dreamed that she would find herself in an abusive relationship. Every time her New York City policeman husband hit her, she would think of convincing reasons to stay. Now, with her 10-year-old son in tow, she is running for her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Quindlen Jewel
- By Carol T. Carr on 09-11-12
By: Anna Quindlen
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Fighting Words
- By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 173
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story5 out of 5 stars 150
Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf - her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always known how to keep quiet where it counts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Robert Zuker on 10-18-22
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Taína
- By: Ernesto Quiñonez
- Narrated by: Daniel José Molina
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant 15-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina’s baby as a revolution in nature).
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By Melissa Vega on 08-10-20
By: Ernesto Quiñonez
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Tex
- By: S. E. Hinton
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 113
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Story5 out of 5 stars 111
At 15, Tex is spirited as a wild mustang and good-natured as a pup. He and his 17-year-old brother Mason have been on their own since Pop left for the summer rodeo tour. Come October, the money has run out and still no Pop. None of this bothers Tex much - until Mason sells Tex's horse to pay the bills. After that things turn sour between the brothers. Tex is constantly getting into trouble, but he resents Mace acting like a parent. Friends like Johnny and his gorgeous sister Jamie help Tex forget his problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- By Hetty mattice on 07-18-20
By: S. E. Hinton
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Never Be Alone
- By: Paige Dearth
- Narrated by: Heather Masters
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Eight-year-old Joon has no time to grieve her parents’ sudden death. Ripped from the security of a loving family, she endures horrific abuse in a system intended to protect her. After four years of torture and her foster brother’s attempt to steal her innocence, she runs away to Philadelphia’s poverty-stricken streets. Coming of age while homeless, Joon must fight just to stay alive. Despite the danger and desperation that surrounds her, she clings to her dream of offering the world something positive. But kind acts don’t put food in her belly as she searches for love and a place to call home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good but dark
- By Sawdustninja on 10-10-20
By: Paige Dearth