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Charlotte Smith's future is planned to the last detail, and so was her sister's - until Phoebe became a disruption. When their parents commit Phoebe to a notorious asylum, Charlotte knows there's more to the story than madness.
Shedding her identity to become an anonymous inmate, "Woman 99", Charlotte uncovers dangerous secrets. Insanity isn't the only reason her fellow inmates were put away - and those in power will do anything to keep the truth, or Charlotte, from getting out.
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- Avidreader
- 10-28-20
Bookclub pick!
As teenagers in the late 1800s, sisters Charlotte and Phoebe were captivated by investigative journalist Nellie Bly's reported adventures. Never did they imagine Bly's expose of the deplorable conditions in an insane asylum would become relevant to their own lives. When their parents believe they have reason to commit Phoebe, Charlotte blames herself and devises a plan to rescue her older sister.
Goldengrove claims to be progressive in its time, implementing innovative treatments and using the Greek Muses as inspiration for categorizing the women's so-called ailments. The matron sternly asserts that "if God and science allow, you will be cured." As relationships and alliances develop, Charlotte discovers why her fellow inmates have been committed. While realizing not everyone's revelations are completely trustworthy, it becomes apparent that all that may be necessary to declare a woman insane is "the word of a man who stands to benefit and a doctor willing to sell his say-so."
Charlotte soon discovers that first finding Phoebe among the patients will be a challenge, not to mention getting her out. And so, Macallister masterfully spins a complex tale, with Charlotte eventually questioning whether there are some ways in which, in spite of its terrors, the asylum frees women from the demands of society's expectations; or, as the matron puts it " . . . unable to achieve the female ideal." With a bit of romantic intrigue and a lot of historical detail this novel will make for an engaging book club selection, prompting discussion about how far we have come, yet how far we have to go to achieve justice and equality for women and for compassionate mental healthcare.
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- Shayla Williams
- 12-24-20
Read it in one sitting.
Well, sort of. I went back and forth from audio to paperback, but I started at 3am, and just finished this thing. One hell of a book! I am deeply grateful that conditions have changed so much between 1888 and my own stints in psych wards a century later.
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- Runner girl
- 11-05-19
Intriguing topic, naive writing
Topic was intriguing, but the writing was a bit naive, or amateur. A good story for someone who enjoys historical fiction
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- Nita
- 08-27-19
Must Read
Greer has done it again! 5☆! However the narrator about destroyed it. Better to read.
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- Tina R.
- 02-04-23
Very Educational
A fascinating look into insane asylums for women in the 1800s, this story is also about love. Highly recommended!
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- Shantel
- 01-01-22
started off slowish
it started off slowish but soon the story picked up. good narration and ending.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-18-21
finished but... not a "wow'
Loved the premise of novel, it could have been So much better but fell very flat on various points. If your a lover of historical fiction this novel will NOT meet your expections. If your just a fiction lover who enjoys a non romantic drama, this is your cup of tea. Overall characters didn't make strong impact when I truly wanted to connect with them. The plot seemed very forced for last two hours. The performance was very well done.
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- billybob1983017384
- 11-11-21
Beyond needed
I needed this book. It was not only a beautiful portrait of the mind and an engaging story but the meaning that it is okay to be different and you shouldn’t feel worthless because of it.
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- Dee
- 05-09-19
Loved this story
Well written and the narrator is wonderful. I enjoyed the story so much and felt like I was right there with the characters.
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- Megan Pingatore
- 04-25-19
Gripping read
This is the 3rd of Greer's books that I have read and my favorite and it inspired me to go on to read 10 Days in a Madhouse. Book seems true to its time, and kept me engaged with the characters
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Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder. Survivors of the expedition willing to publicly support her sit in the front row. There are only five. What happened out there on the ice?
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Not what I thought it would be.
- By Morgana on 12-16-20
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Such a Perfect Wife
- A Novel
- By: Kate White
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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On a sunny morning in late September, Shannon Blaine sets off for a jog along the rural roads near her home in Lake George, New York. It’s her usual a.m. routine, her “me time” after dropping the kids off at school...except on this day, she never returns. Is her husband lying when he says he has no clue where she is? Could Shannon have split on her own, overwhelmed by the pressures of her life? Or is she the victim of a sexual predator who had been prowling the area and snatched her before she knew what was happening?
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ok
- By lisa on 05-13-19
By: Kate White
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The Face of Fear
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Don’t look down.... Because you’re trapped on the 40th floor of a deserted office building by a psychopath called "The Butcher". Don’t look down.… Because you’re an ex-mountain climber and a fall from Everest left you with a bad leg and a paralyzing fear of heights. Don’t look down.… Because The Butcher hasslaughtered the guards an.d short-circuited the elevators - the stairways are blocked, and for you and the beautiful woman with you, there’s only one escape route. Don’t look down.… Because 600 feet of empty space are looking back at you.
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Some good surprises in store...
- By Abstractchick on 08-09-13
By: Dean Koontz
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The Last Ballad
- A Novel
- By: Wiley Cash
- Narrated by: Karen White, Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve times a week, 28-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No. Two in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The insular community considers the mill's owners - the newly arrived Goldberg brothers - white but not American and expects them to pay Ella May and other workers less because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet, Ella May's best friend. While the dirty, hazardous job at the mill earns Ella May a paltry nine dollars for 72 hours of work each week, it's the only opportunity she has.
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Dryer than a popcorn fart
- By Scott Wilson on 02-11-18
By: Wiley Cash
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The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted
- A Novel
- By: Bridget Asher
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her intolerably jaded 16-year-old niece, to spend the summer repairing their family home in a small village in the south of France. There, thousands of miles from home, Charlotte makes a shocking confession, and Heidi learns the truth about her mother’s “lost summer” when she was a child.
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Wouldn't cure my broken heart
- By Placeholder on 01-20-12
By: Bridget Asher
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Only One Lie
- By: Audrey J. Cole
- Narrated by: Krys Janae, Kimberly Austin
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Seattle, 1942. News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of young Max Ellis, heir to the wealthiest banking family on the west coast. When the boy’s parents comply with the ransom demands, the kidnapper is found dead and their son remains missing. For newlywed Vera Chandler, the story hits close to home—her husband Hugh is just six months into his job as the Ellis’s private pilot.
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Suspenseful
- By Thomas Scott on 02-15-23
By: Audrey J. Cole
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Gone for Good
- By: Joanna Schaffhausen
- Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after 20 years with no trace of him, many believe that he's gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods that he hunted in, and if she can figure out how he selected his victims, she will have the key to his identity.
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Great book, give the narrator time to relax.
- By Pegaz on 08-16-21
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Under Cover of Darkness
- By: James Grippando
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The youngest lawyer ever to grab the helm of Seattle's most prominent law firm, Gus Wheatley has found success - as well as money, power, and prestige. He thinks nothing can interfere with his meteoric rise to the top. Until his wife, Beth, vanishes. Beth's disappearance coincides with a series of brutal murders the FBI dubs the "bookend killings". They think Beth is the killer's latest victim...or his willing accomplice. But Gus knows his wife would never ally herself with a cold-blooded killer.
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Excellent book and narrator
- By GrannieW on 03-20-17
By: James Grippando
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Now You See Us
- A Novel
- By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
- Narrated by: Angela Lin
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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An explosive news story shatters Singapore’s famous tranquility—and sends a chill down the spine of every domestic worker. Flordeliza Martinez, a Filipina maid, has been arrested for murdering her female employer. The three women don’t know the accused well, but she could be any of them; every worker knows stories of women who were scapegoated or even executed for crimes they didn’t commit. Shocked into action, Donita, Corazon, and Angel will use their considerable moxie and insight to piece together the mystery of what really happened.
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Interesting story
- By Lesley Fuller on 07-31-23
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Moonglow
- A Novel
- By: Michael Chabon
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather". It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies.
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Wonderful novel, terrible narrator
- By Joyce M. Bernheim on 12-30-16
By: Michael Chabon
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Girl in Disguise
- By: Greer Macallister
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cozart
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the streets of Chicago offer a woman mostly danger and ruin - unless that woman is Kate Warne, the first female Pinkerton detective and a desperate widow with a knack for manipulation. Descending into undercover operations, Kate is able to infiltrate the seedy side of the city in ways her fellow detectives can't. She's a seductress, an exotic foreign medium, a rich train passenger - all depending on the day and the robber, thief, or murderer she's been assigned to nab.
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Someone has to be first...
- By Cindy on 06-28-17
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Marvelous
- A Novel
- By: Molly Greeley
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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1547: Pedro Gonsalvus, a young boy living on the island of Tenerife, understands that he is different from the other children in his village. He is mercilessly ridiculed for the shiny layer of hair covering his body from head to toe. When he is kidnapped off the beach near his home, he finds himself delivered by a slave broker into the dangerous and glamorous world of France’s royal court. There “Monsieur Sauvage,” as he is known, learns French, literature, and sword fighting, becoming an attendant to the French King Henri II and a particular favorite of his queen.
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Marvelous!
- By adp on 05-23-23
By: Molly Greeley
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Taunting the Dead
- DS Allie Shenton, Book 1