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What if you woke up one day and remembered nothing of your past? Born into an extraordinarily talented family, 29-year-old Michael Van Allen is the gay son of a well-known concert pianist and an equally famous painter. All his life he has yearned for the talent and creativity that should have been his birthright but have somehow been denied him. When he wakes up in a mental hospital, his memory gone, his former life erased, his doctor tells him of his screaming breakdown during one of his father's performances. Van Allen's Ecstasy is the story of Michael's journey in search of his former self. As he pieces together his forgotten life, Michael uncovers jealousy, obsession, and secret desires that threaten to destroy his sanity once again.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 171
Into the drought-weary California town of Valle Rosa comes a stranger who promises he can make it rain. All he asks for is a place to stay and complete privacy. But he is too charismatic to maintain a low profile, and the adobe cottage he's given to live in is owned by an investigative TV reporter struggling to revive her career.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Siri from my Iphone would be a warmer narrator
- By Gwen on 05-30-16
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Endless Love
- A Novel
- By: Scott Spencer
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
First published three decades ago and hailed as "one of the best books of the year" by the New York Times, here is the classic novel that first established Scott Spencer as "the contemporary American master of the love story" ( Publishers Weekly). With more than 2,000,000 copies sold worldwide and translated into more than 20 languages, Spencer's Endless Love is a breathtaking story of teenage passion and obsession.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- By Starla M. on 03-02-20
By: Scott Spencer
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We Spread
- By: Iain Reid
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many “incidents”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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when your mind becomes faulty....
- By Barbara S on 10-31-22
By: Iain Reid
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Disobedience
- By: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Story4 out of 5 stars 351
In a cramped synagogue in north-west London, the eminent elderly rabbi passes away. On the other side of the Atlantic, his estranged daughter, Ronit, hears of her father's death and returns to London for the funeral. She has not returned home in 15 years. Ronit looks forward to a week or two of revisiting old friends, perhaps settling old scores. But she finds the community she grew up in a more confusing place than she'd anticipated.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overall it was ok, I guess... Not really.
- By Stephanie Gomes on 03-02-17
By: Naomi Alderman
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Call Me Zelda
- By: Erika Robuck
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 62
From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you want to read about Zelda and Scott, move on
- By Leahmgordon on 11-14-17
By: Erika Robuck
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The Innocent Sleep
- A Novel
- By: Karen Perry
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano, Michelle Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4 out of 5 stars 74
Tangiers. Harry is preparing his wife's birthday dinner while she is still at work and their son, Dillon, is upstairs asleep in bed. Harry suddenly remembers that he's left Robin's gift at the café in town. It's only a five minute walk away and Dillon's so tricky to put down for the night, so Harry decides to run out on his own and fetch the present. Disaster strikes. An earthquake hits, buildings crumble, people scream and run. Harry fights his way through the crowd to his house, only to find it razed to the ground.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Suspenseful, beautiful and gripping
- By ellegreenland on 03-23-14
By: Karen Perry
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Brass Ring
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 155
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 155
Perpetual optimist Claire Harte-Mathias and her disabled husband, Jon, run a successful foundation to help people with spinal cord injuries. One night Claire witnesses a woman leaping to her death from a bridge, and the tragedy sparks murky childhood memories that leave her confused and frightened. As Claire becomes obsessed with trying to understand the power the haunting memories have over her, she's torn between blocking them from her mind entirely and trying to unearth their source.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed with this one
- By Scott on 03-22-16
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The Editor
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Michael Urie
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 292
After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie - or Mrs. Onassis, as she's known in the office - has fallen in love with James' candidly autobiographical novel, one that exposes his own dysfunctional family. But when the book's forthcoming publication threatens to unravel already fragile relationships, both within his family and with his partner, James finds that he can't bring himself to finish the manuscript.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- By Amazon Customer on 04-18-19
By: Steven Rowley
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Duet
- By: Kimberley Freeman
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,088
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 892
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 887
From the London pop scene, to the opera stages of Europe; from a tiny Greek island, to a stifling manor house full of secrets and deceptions; from the sun-drenched Queensland coast, to the silent outback; Angela and Ellie are two women both looking for something. One in search of her identity and her memory; the other in search of the love that she had and lost; theirs is a duet whose last note will not be sung until the heart-stopping climax, when a shadow from the past returns to claim them both.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gosh that was a great story!
- By Anonymous User on 06-10-09
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The Time Between
- By: Karen White
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda, Barbara Rosenblat, Angela Goethals
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,957
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,952
Eleanor Murray will always remember her childhood on Edisto Island, where her late father, a local shrimper, shared her passion for music. Now her memories of him are all that tempers the guilt she feels over the accident that put her sister in a wheelchair and the feelings she harbors for her sister's husband. To help support her sister, Eleanor works at a Charleston investment firm during the day, but she escapes into her music, playing piano at a neighborhood bar. Until the night her enigmatic boss walks in and offers her a part-time job caring for his elderly aunt, Helena, back on Edisto.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sisters- a little piece of heaven and hell
- By Marie on 01-07-16
By: Karen White
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There's No Place Like Here
- By: Cecelia Ahern
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon, Aidan McArdle
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared 20 years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal and her life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is baffled and concerned by her increasing preoccupation, and she pushes them away further by losing herself in her work. She gives up her life in order to offer a flicker of hope to devastated families...and escape the disappointments of her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brill!
- By Rebecca Bridle on 08-01-17
By: Cecelia Ahern
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The Red Address Book
- By: Sofia Lundberg, Alice Menzies - translator
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 562
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 510
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Story4 out of 5 stars 509
The global fiction sensation - published in 32 countries around the world: Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny - her American grandniece, and her only relative - give her great joy and remind her of her own youth. In writing down the stories of her colorful past - working as a maid in Sweden, modelling in Paris during the '30s, fleeing to Manhattan at the dawn of the Second World War - she may help Jenny, haunted by a difficult childhood, unlock the secrets of their family....
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2 out of 5 stars
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narrator was overwrought
- By Janet L. Hamilton on 02-22-19
By: Sofia Lundberg, and others
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The Lost Language of Cranes
- By: David Leavitt
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 57
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of 25-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bildugsroman for a gay man
- By Marco on 03-30-14
By: David Leavitt
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The Ensemble
- A Novel
- By: Aja Gabel
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 136
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 137
Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; the viola is Henry, a prodigy who's always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest, the angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient leader. Together, they are the Van Ness String Quartet. In The Ensemble, each character takes the spotlight and picks up the melody, from the group's youthful rocky start through to middle age, through both devastating failures and wild success.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great glimpse into the world of classical musicians
- By Tammie from Utah on 05-30-18
By: Aja Gabel
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Despite the Falling Snow
- By: Shamim Sarif
- Narrated by: Shamim Sarif
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
Now a major motion picture. After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has lived in America for 40 years and has managed to bury the tragic memories surrounding his charismatic late wife, Katya - or so he believes. For into his life come two women - one who will start to open up the heart he has protected for so long; another who is determined to uncover the truth about what really happened to Katya all those years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful snow fall
- By Mary findsplaces on 05-22-20
By: Shamim Sarif