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Story4 out of 5 stars 160
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Remote Japanese island beautifully depicted
- By Bruce on 09-17-15
By: Yukio Mishima
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Grief Cottage
- By: Gail Godwin
- Narrated by: Jacob York
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4 out of 5 stars 108
The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from best-selling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. After his mother's death, 11-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there 30 years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Character story or ghost story ?
- By RueRue on 12-18-17
By: Gail Godwin
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Don't Date Rosa Santos
- By: Nina Moreno
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4 out of 5 stars 38
Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea - at least, that's what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially if you're a boy with a boat. But Rosa feels more caught than cursed - caught between cultures and choices, between her abuela, a beloved healer and pillar of their community, and her mother, an artist who crashes in and out of her life like a hurricane. As her college decision looms, Rosa collides - literally - with Alex Aquino, the mysterious boy with tattoos of the ocean whose family owns the marina.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nice Idea, Boring Story
- By Doha on 07-27-19
By: Nina Moreno
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If I Forget You
- A Novel
- By: Thomas Christopher Greene
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
Twenty-one years after they were driven apart by circumstances beyond their control, two former lovers have a chance encounter on a Manhattan street. What follows is a tense, suspenseful exploration of the many facets of enduring love. Told from alternating points of view through time, If I Forget You tells the story of Henry Gold, a poet whose rise from poverty embodies the American dream, and Margot Fuller, the daughter of a prominent, wealthy family, and their unlikely, star-crossed love affair.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but not great.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-01-16
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Land of Love and Drowning
- By: Tiphanie Yanique
- Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Korey Jackson, Rachel Leslie, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 185
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4 out of 5 stars 170
In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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TW: incest
- By Carrissa on 04-12-17
By: Tiphanie Yanique
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Meet the Austins
- Austin Family Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Madeleine L'Engle
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story5 out of 5 stars 56
For a family with four kids, two dogs, assorted cats, and a constant stream of family and friends dropping by, life in the Austin family home has always been remarkably steady and contented. When a family friend suddenly dies in a plane crash, the Austins open their home to an orphaned girl, Maggy Hamilton. The Austin children - Vicky, John, Suzy, and Rob - do their best to be generous and welcoming to Maggy. Vicky knows she should feel sorry for Maggy, but having sympathy for Maggy is no easy thing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My new favorite story
- By Gracie2010 on 06-30-19
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Freckled
- A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii
- By: T. W. Neal
- Narrated by: Sara Malia Hatfield
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 233
We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai’s beautiful, with empty beaches, drip-castle mountains, and perfect surf...but we’ve been "camping" for six months, eating boiled chicken feed for breakfast, and wearing camouflage clothes so no one sees us trespassing in our jungle hideout. The cockroaches leave rainbow colors all over everything from eating the crayons we left outside the tent, and now a tractor is coming to scrape our camp into the river. Standing in front of the tent in my nightgown, I know my own truth: I just want to be normal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Zero to Hero
- By Allen B. Galiza on 08-13-19
By: T. W. Neal
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Morning Girl
- By: Michael Dorris
- Narrated by: Eliza, Reilly Duggan
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4 out of 5 stars 59
Through the alternating voices of 12-year-old Morning Girl and her younger brother Star Boy, we step into the extraordinarily rich lives of an indigenous family on a Bahamian Island in 1492, just as their paradise is about to be discovered and a new world order begins to take shape.
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5 out of 5 stars
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thoughtful and reflective
- By Laura H on 04-06-06
By: Michael Dorris
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Enchanter's Child, Book One: Twilight Hauntings
- By: Angie Sage
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Alex has a set of Enchanted cards. When she flutters her fingers above them, something magical happens: The cards come alive and create moving pictures of what is now and what is yet to come. But Enchantment is illegal in the city of Luma, and those who practice it are imprisoned forever in the Vaults - dark dungeons deep below the city. When Alex is betrayed by her foster sister Zerra, she knows she is in great danger. With the help of her little foster brother, Louie, she makes a daring escape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too hard to listen to
- By J.M. Jaco on 09-30-21
By: Angie Sage
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Mira's Return: The Complete Series: A Mermaid Fantasy Adventure & Prequel to the Elemental Origins Series
- By: A.L. Knorr
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Mira is a mermaid on a mission. It’s time to leave the ocean. Mira Belshaw has been at sea for...well, she doesn’t know how many years. It’s hard to keep track of time when you live in the ocean. But after enough time, the salt water triggers the desire to procreate, and her time is up. Finding a mate is the most important thing to her right now, and to do that, she has to return to the place where she was last human - the coastal city of Saltford.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mermaid Mira
- By Shoe Monger on 04-10-20
By: A.L. Knorr
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Keeper of the Light
- Keeper Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,835
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,673
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,668
Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina's Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman's life, Olivia realizes who she is - Annie O'Neill, the woman Olivia's husband, Paul, is in love with.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I can't finish this...
- By Calmeridian Tink on 03-31-16
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Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle; The Story of Doctor Dolittle; Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
- By: Hugh Lofting
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 194
Rediscover the children’s literature classic with three novels from the beloved series: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office!
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful bedtime story!
- By Holly Masri on 05-02-20
By: Hugh Lofting
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The Seas
- By: Samantha Hunt, Maggie Nelson - introduction
- Narrated by: Samantha Hunt
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean 11 years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid.
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4 out of 5 stars
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bizarre and interesting.
- By Sadie on 03-11-21
By: Samantha Hunt, and others
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Caterpillar Summer
- By: Gillian McDunn
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story5 out of 5 stars 70
Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond. When Chicken has a meltdown, Cat’s the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She always knows what he needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep their family afloat after their father passed away, Cat is the glue holding her family together. When a summer trip doesn’t go as planned, Cat and Chicken end up spending three weeks with grandparents they’ve never met. With their help, Cat can be a kid again for the first time in years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!!!!!😆
- By G. Stiller on 04-10-20
By: Gillian McDunn
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Hound of the Sea
- Wild Man. Wild Waves. Wild Wisdom.
- By: Garrett McNamara, Karen Karbo
- Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara set the world record for the sport, surfing a 78-foot wave in Nazare, Portugal, in 2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge and promise of bigger, more difficult waves, this adrenaline-fueled loner and polarizing figure travels the globe to ride the most dangerous swells the oceans have to offer, from calving glaciers to hurricane swells. But what motivates McNamara to go to such extremes - to risk everything for one thrilling ride?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome Story and Narration.
- By oregonlife on 10-16-18
By: Garrett McNamara, and others