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A Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Secrets told in the church ladies' room are supposed to stay in the ladies' room. But that doesn't mean that what Trudy overhears there during her great-aunt Gertrude's funeral won't change the rest of her life.
Trudy has a daughter in the middle of a major rebellion, a two-timing husband who has been cheating for their entire married life, and a mother with Alzheimer's residing in the local nursing home. She doesn't really need a crumbling old house about to fall into nothing but a pile of memories and broken knickknacks.
Billy Lee Tucker, resident oddball in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, lived next door to Gert, and in her will she leaves him the funds to help Trudy remodel the old house. That's fine with Billy Lee, because he's been in love with Trudy since before they started school. And just spending time with her is something he'd never ever allowed himself to dream about.
A beautiful home rises up from the old house on Broadway, and right along with it rises up a relationship. But is Trudy too scarred from what she heard in the ladies' room to see a lovely future with Billy Lee?
Critic reviews
"Donna Postel creates a glowing narration in this whimsical Southern tale about life’s unpredictable twists and turns.... Postel excels in showcasing Trudy’s fierce new independence. Her reading demonstrates the perfect recipe for a pleasing performance." (AudioFile)
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- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 175
Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant façade. But secretly, her marriage is falling apart and her need to control people around her threatens to destroy them all. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. But she has no money, she has no home, and her life is held together by "chewing gum, paper clips, and spit." When their father dies, the sisters inherit a house in Prosper, North Carolina.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Book So Far, by Far!
- By Dee on 04-19-09
By: Virginia DeBerry, and others
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Texas Rich
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Erin Yuen
- Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 200
Young Billie Ames naively fell for the exciting pilot Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months, she was pregnant, married, and traveling across the country to Austin...to the 250,000-acre spread known as Sunbridge and into the tantalizing world of the Texas rich. In a vast land dominated by the industrious Colemans, Billie fights to maintain control of her life and her marriage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awful Southern Accent
- By Tina Peters on 03-24-16
By: Fern Michaels
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Plantation
- A Lowcountry Tale
- By: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrated by: Susie Breck
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 454
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 380
When Caroline Wimbley Levine learns that her mother, Miss Lavinia, has supposedly gone mad, she leaves the big city bustle of Manhattan and returns to Tall Pines Plantation. Caroline originally left Tall Pines to escape her feisty, eccentric mother and her drunken brother, Trip. When Miss Lavinia dies, Caroline is forced to come to terms with her family's troubled history as well as her failing relationship with her husband.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Abridged!!
- By Teresa on 04-18-16
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Shade of My Own Tree
- By: Sheila Williams
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
When Opal Sullivan walks out on an abusive husband after 15 years, she has only her dreams in her pocket. Her new beginning starts in a graceful but dilapidated house. Like Opal, the house is worn-out and somewhat beaten up, but it still stands proudly and deserves a second chance. Opal opens her doors - and her heart - to a parade of unforgettable characters. It is one of these people who helps Opal understand a funny thing about life: You can't move forward if you keep looking back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Im not sure if I wanted this book to end
- By Nichole F. on 05-10-19
By: Sheila Williams
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The Daisy Children
- A Novel
- By: Sofia Grant
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
When Katie Garrett gets the news that she’s received an inheritance from the grandmother she hardly knew, it couldn’t have come at a better time. She flees Boston and travels to rural Texas. There, she’s greeted by her distant cousin Scarlett. Friendly and flamboyant, Scarlett couldn’t be more different from sensible Katie. And as they begin the task of sorting through their grandmother’s possessions, they discover letters and photographs that uncover the hidden truths about their shared history, and the long-forgotten tragedy of the New London school explosion of 1937 that binds them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hank’s voice is the same as the other male characters
- By Laura S on 03-24-24
By: Sofia Grant
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Garden Spells
- By: Sarah Addison Allen
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,046
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,381
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,392
The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers.
Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.
Together again in the house they grew up in, the Waverley sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy - if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom - or with each other.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I so want to give it 5 stars...!!!!
- By Joihelene on 10-09-10
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Lavender Morning
- By: Jude Deveraux
- Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 763
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 671
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 666
Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother grew up attending private schools and afternoon teas, but she married the local handyman. After her mother died when Joce was only five years old, her father remarried into his own class, and Joce became an outsider - until she met Edilean Harcourt. Although she was sixty years Joce's senior, Miss Edi was a kindred soul who understood her like no one else ever had. When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Joce all her worldly possessions, including an eighteenth-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941.
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4 out of 5 stars
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should have been book #2.
- By sandy on 07-05-14
By: Jude Deveraux
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Weekend Warriors
- Sisterhood, Book 1
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,012
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 839
On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had. The Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead...or you can get up fighting...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Weekend Warriors
- By Ms Mare on 04-04-09
By: Fern Michaels
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Arsenic with Austen: A Mystery
- The Crime with the Classics, Book 1
- By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
- Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 113
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 115
When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great-aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart 35 years before, and nearly lose her own life. Emily travels to the sleepy coastal village of Stony Beach, Oregon, to claim her inheritance, centered on a beautiful Victorian estate called Windy Corner but also including a substantial portion of the real estate of the whole town.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts with great promise, but....
- By Wendie Lubic on 07-16-16
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On the Right Side of a Dream
- A Novel
- By: Sheila Williams
- Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Having escaped her urban existence, middle-aged Juanita Lewis enjoys her new life in Paper Moon, Montana - but she still has a long list of places she wants to visit. With her true love's blessing, she embarks on a journey of American exploration. When her eccentric friend Millie suddenly dies, however, she rushes home and learns she has inherited Millie's bed-and-breakfast. At last Juanita has it all - true love and financial independence! But does this diner cook turned entrepreneur have too much on her plate? This novel overflows with gentle, self-effacing humor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My review
- By DemiE on 05-15-19
By: Sheila Williams
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Ain't She Sweet?
- By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 211
The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But 15 years have passed, and now she's come home - broke, desperate, and too proud to show it. The people of Parrish don't believe in forgive and forget. But none of them have reckoned on the unexpected strength of a woman who's learned survival the hard way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderfully read
- By older reader on 06-14-20
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Tapestry of Fortunes
- By: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 107
Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen - and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find the people and things they miss.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mellow story
- By Amazon Customer on 04-24-17
By: Elizabeth Berg
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Her Sister's Shoes
- By: Ashley Farley
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 221
Samantha Sweeney has always been the glue that holds her family together, their go-to girl for love and support. When an ATV accident leaves her teenage son in a wheelchair, she loses her carefully constructed self-control. In the after-gloom of her dreaded 50th birthday and the discovery of her husband's infidelity, Jackie realizes she must reconnect with her former self to find the happiness she needs to move forward.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming family issues.
- By Schmanet on 07-25-16
By: Ashley Farley
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She's Come Undone
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrated by: Linda Stephens
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,018
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,751
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,767
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really disappointing narrator!
- By Jessica Williams on 01-21-12
By: Wally Lamb
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How to Be an American Housewife
- A Novel
- By: Margaret Dilloway
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington, Emily Durante
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 237
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 195
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Story4 out of 5 stars 196
How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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big disappointment
- By Kirsten on 04-12-12
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Tryin' To Sleep In the Bed You Made
- By: Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant
- Narrated by: Fran L. Washington
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 669
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 579
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 579
Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her life complete. Patricia was the intellectual who thought that rising to the top of her career would make her happy. And then there is Marcus Carter, who has been linked to both Gayle and Pat since the tragedy that occurred when they were all children. Can either one save him from himself? Can friends survive a love that comes between them? Each of them gets what she wants, but no one counts on the price they have to pay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better with each chapter!
- By Cyn B. on 02-09-16
By: Virginia DeBerry, and others
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The Sandcastle Hurricane
- By: Carolyn Brown
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Cousins Tabby and Ellie Mae are due for a change. Running their aunt’s beachfront bed-and-breakfast in Sandcastle, Texas, is just the thing to shake things up…though their lives spin out of control in more ways than one when a hurricane barrels into the coastline. It’s a miracle it didn’t carry them off to Kansas. Not so lucky are the assisted-living center and a small eclectic group of local folks who take shelter with the cousins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- By Kindle Customer on 04-06-23
By: Carolyn Brown
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Small Town Rumors
- By: Carolyn Brown
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,178
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,634
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,619
Everyone is talking about Jennie Sue Baker and the mess she made of her life in New York. The former high school queen bee - and wealthy darling of Bloom, Texas - has returned home after all these years, riding on a common bus and bearing two bounced alimony checks. In a town that thrives on gossip, Jennie’s fall from grace has shamed her mother, set the town buzzing, and caused old, jealous enemies to whisper in delight. They say she’s taken a job as a housekeeper, gotten a garage apartment, and might be crushing on Rick Lawson, a simple farmer with modest dreams.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you like Hallmark movies, you'll like this
- By Ruth on 12-08-18
By: Carolyn Brown
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The Lucky Shamrock
- By: Carolyn Brown
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Family doesn’t mean everyone has to like each other. That’s the case when cousins Taryn, Anna Rose, and Jorja return to Shamrock, Texas, to help manage their grandmother’s flower shop, the Lucky Shamrock. The reunion isn’t exactly a beautiful arrangement—considering they’re as compatible as ranchers and coyotes. Thank heaven for a handsome go-between like Clinton, who lives above the shop.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sweet story but predictable
- By Foodiewife on 07-31-23
By: Carolyn Brown
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Riverbend Reunion
- By: Carolyn Brown
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 724
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 652
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Riverbend, Texas, doesn’t look like the crossroads of anywhere. But for four high school besties reuniting after twenty years, it’s a place to unpack a lot of baggage. Risa’s headed for divorce, Mary Nell’s been kicked to the curb by her leech of a boyfriend, and Haley was just blindsided by a shocking family secret. But restless army veteran Jessica Callaway, looking to plant roots, has an idea: corral her fellow former cheerleaders and renovate an abandoned church smack-dab in the middle of three dry counties into a bar.
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4 out of 5 stars
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it was ok
- By krystal on 07-02-22
By: Carolyn Brown
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On the Way to Us
- By: Carolyn Brown
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Mercy Spenser promised her friend and roommate she'd spend her vacation in west Texas for a charitable mission—she didn't agree to the oppressive heat, massive spiders, or the rowdy cantina next door drowning out her gospel singing. She's not the type to sit idly by, so when she clashes with the sexy-as-hell man who runs the place, her temper is hot enough to nearly burn down the entire town.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Liked The "Love Struck Cafe" Best
- By Grateful Lady on 01-02-24
By: Carolyn Brown
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The Hope Chest
- By: Carolyn Brown
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,603
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,420
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,414
An inheritance has reunited three estranged cousins. Their grandmother Lucy left Nessa, Flynn, and April her cabin nestled in the woods near Blossom, Texas, as well as a hope chest to be unlocked after they complete a special task. Together, they must hand stitch a cherished quilt Lucy left unfinished. It meant everything to her. And now, to three people struggling with their own patchwork pasts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story.
- By Maureen on 06-26-21
By: Carolyn Brown
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- ginger
- 12-22-16
Funny and heartfelt.
This was a wonderful and heartfelt story that you will fully enjoy. I loved it!
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- Bobbie Faye
- 05-10-19
Did not want it to end ...
The Ladies Room was a fun, enjoyable book that made me happy, mad, and sad at times. From living in the south most of my life I could identify with the characters, the food, and the gossip! I literally had a hard time putting the book down and was so sorry when I finished it. I want more books just like this. Very satisfying and wholesome!
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- J. Byerly
- 03-13-17
Happy Ending
New to this author and narrator and love both! The story of Trudy and Billy Lee is a sweet romance that takes time while you drink ice tea on the porch and lovingly restore an old neglected home. It's about their souls being restored just like the home. It's about Trudy, at 40, finally coming into her own and becoming the woman she was meant to be instead of the doormat she was. .... Billy proving that good things come to those that wait. This is not a book filled w/hot sex scenes ..... not even one. But there's plenty of romance and humor and you find yourself cheering for both of them. Heartwarming, relaxing, perfect for a lazy afternoon.
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- Courtney
- 02-01-17
Sweet story with lots of love
What's better then a coming of age story? A coming to middle age story and this book delivers just that packed with relatable situations this one is sure to leave you with a smile.
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- The rod
- 01-23-18
Fun fluff brought to you by McDonalds fast food restaurants
If you want to take a mental vacation where you can:
1. Shed all your problems
2. Start a new life
3. Be suddenly wealthy
4. Renovate your dream house
5. Be adored by a generically perfect man
6. Loose weight without realizing it
7. Feel like McDonalds is mentioned too often and in too much detail ...
Then this is the book for you!
Okay, the book does include worries about getting old, caring for your elderly parents, self-imagine problems, toxic relationships, and ungrateful children--so it's not all fun and games. But it's mostly fluff and I'm okay with that because non-brain taxing fluff is what I needed for my own personal mental vacation right now. And I do like that church and prayer are mentioned.
But how much is McDonalds paying this author? And why do I feel a sudden need for a Big Mac?
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- dmr1
- 05-02-18
Sweet and fluffy
A mindless and easy read that never takes off its version of life through rose colored glasses.
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- Dtmurphy1
- 07-09-17
OK - easy read
it had likable characters. the story had a lot of clichés in it which made the writing seem amateurish.
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- Vicki
- 08-08-17
That was such a wonderful feel good story!
That was such a wonderful feel good story! One that I'm sure to listen to again and again!
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- Christine A
- 09-06-17
Cotton Candy
The Ladies' Room is pure cotton candy - harmless fun. During her aunt's funeral, Trudy overhears a conversation in the bathroom. Major life changes ensue. If you like this type of book, go for it.
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- finally have time
- 02-08-18
Lighthearted, fun, sweet
The female lead (Trudy) attends her bossy great aunt Gert's funeral, only to end up in the church's ladies room, overhearing a conversation between her cousins about the many infidelities of Trudy's husband. It seems that everyone in town knows what has been going on for years, except Trudy. Embarrassed, hurt, and angry, Trudy leaves the church to embark on the rest of her life - without the cheating husband. She moves into Great Aunt Gert's neglected house to discover that the old woman hired the single man next door to renovate the old place. Trudy and the neighbor come to rely on one another and discover just how wise Great Aunt Gert really was. You'll enjoy being along for the amazing changes that occur in Trudy's life.
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