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Five
- A Mister Standalone, Book 0.5
- By: JA Huss
- Narrated by: Anna Riordan, Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,998
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,991
Five Aston has known Rory Shrike for as long as he can remember. He played with her in the sandbox. He went to every damn horse show just to be supportive. He helped her with her French, walked her home from school, and faked his test scores just to stay with her a little longer and not be sent off to college early. But eventually he had to move on. And so did she. Never has a second chance meant so much to a boy who loves a girl.
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5 out of 5 stars
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✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫
- By 🎧 Cyndi Marie 🎧 on 02-02-18
By: JA Huss
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Perfect Chemistry
- By: Simone Elkeles
- Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez, Blas Kisic
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 742
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 619
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Story4 out of 5 stars 627
When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created perfect life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Chemisty has perfect chemistry.
- By Leslie on 04-21-10
By: Simone Elkeles
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Rough & Tumble
- Men of Haven, #1
- By: Rhenna Morgan
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 237
A self-made man with his fingers in a variety of successful businesses, Jace Kennedy lives for the challenge, and he always gets what he wants. From the start, he sees Vivienne Moore's hidden wild side and knows she's his perfect match, if only he can break it free. He will have her. One way or another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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TA DA.. AN EXCITING & MULTIFACETED SERIES IS BORN
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 02-25-17
By: Rhenna Morgan
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Alex, Approximately
- By: Jenn Bennett
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 268
Classic movie buff Bailey "Mink" Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by "Alex". Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush. Faced with doubts (what if he's a creep in real life - or worse?), Bailey doesn't tell Alex she's moved to his hometown. Or that she's landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that she's being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth - a.k.a. her new arch-nemesis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great But Don't Read the Synopsis!
- By Lorna on 09-26-17
By: Jenn Bennett
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Whatever It Takes
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- By: Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
- Narrated by: Cooper North, Charlotte North
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 113
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Call me what you want: Bad Boy Next Door. Trouble. That Kid Who Can’t Do Anything Right. When Willow moves into my neighborhood, nothing should have happened. She’s geeky. Shy. A true wallflower. Willow is a good girl. Too good for me. And how the hell was I supposed to know that she’s related to Loren Hale - yeah, that douchebag celebrity that lives on my street. The same guy I've been pranking by spray painting vulgar words on his mailbox and worse. Much worse. I'm cursed. Simple as that. People who are cursed break everything they touch. And yet...I still want to touch her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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For the young adult market.
- By Pix on 07-02-20
By: Krista Ritchie, and others
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Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit
- By: Jaye Robin Brown
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees. Although it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of her new friend at school. But Jo couldn't possibly think of breaking her promise to her dad.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Straitest lesbian romance I’ve ever read
- By Anonymous User on 05-13-22
By: Jaye Robin Brown
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Off Campus
- Bend or Break, Book 1
- By: Amy Jo Cousins
- Narrated by: Cooper North
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 320
With his father's Ponzi scheme assets frozen, Tom Worthington believes finishing college is impossible unless he can pay his own way. After months of sleeping in his car and gypsy cabbing for cash, he's ready to do just that. But his new older-student housing comes with an unapologetically gay roommate. Tom doesn't ask why Reese Anders has been separated from the rest of the student population. He's just happy to be sleeping in a bed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very powerful, sweet, good narration
- By Morgan A Skye on 10-07-16
By: Amy Jo Cousins
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Crew
- By: Tijan
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,197
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,087
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,091
To survive where I live, you have two options. You can be a Normal - a cheerleader, jock, member of the debate team, or on the yearbook committee. You pretend everything is normal. Or you can be crew. You insult us? We hurt you. You hurt us? We really hurt you. And if you f--k with us, we will end you. My name is Bren. I'm the only female in the Wolf Crew - the best, fiercest, and most dangerous crew there is - and we have a rule: There's no falling in love. Well...too late.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I tried to like it
- By Roxann Garcia on 11-16-18
By: Tijan
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The Fall of Legend
- Legend Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Meghan March
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon, Joe Arden
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,256
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,252
We come from two different worlds. I’m from the streets. She might as well live in an ivory tower. I made my living with my fists. I doubt she could even throw a punch. Our paths never should have crossed. We never should have met. That doesn’t change the facts. I would sell my soul to taste those red lips. Fight the devil himself to hear her laugh. Burn in hell to have a single night. Scarlett Priest shouldn’t even know men like me exist, but sometimes temptation is stronger than will. If this is how I go down, it’ll be worth every second of the fall.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Let me tell you...
- By Cami Cole on 01-13-20
By: Meghan March
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Casanegra
- A Tennyson Hardwick Story
- By: Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4 out of 5 stars 70
In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson is an actor struggling to hang on to his career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged him from his family, especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him "Sir". Now, in the wake of his father's sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking the fall for a murder. In the process, he discovers his hidden talents - the hard way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What's The Beef?
- By James Gordon on 11-24-07
By: Blair Underwood, and others
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Purple Hearts
- A Novel
- By: Tess Wakefield
- Narrated by: Kyle Mason, Shayna Thibodeaux
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 218
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Story4 out of 5 stars 217
Cassie Salazar and Luke Morrow couldn't be more different. Sharp-witted Cassie works nights at a bar in Austin, Texas, to make ends meet while pursuing her dream of becoming a singer/songwriter. Luke is an army trainee, about to ship out for duty, who finds comfort in the unswerving discipline of service. But a chance encounter at Cassie's bar changes the course of both their lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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RATING PURPLE HEARTS BOOK VS PURPLE HEARTS MOVIE
- By Rozzy on 02-05-23
By: Tess Wakefield
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Ramona Blue
- By: Julie Murphy
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 115
Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever. Since then it's been Ramona and her family against the world. Standing over six feet tall, with unmistakable blue hair, Ramona is sure of three things: She likes girls, she's fiercely devoted to her family, and she knows she's destined for something bigger than the trailer she calls home in Eulogy, Mississippi. But juggling multiple jobs, her flaky mom, and her well-meaning but ineffectual dad forces her to be the adult of the family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where was this book ten years ago?
- By S. F. Wilson on 05-08-18
By: Julie Murphy
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Loving Day
- By: Mat Johnson
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 164
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 165
On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention, he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter, and she thinks she's white.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Teen lit with heavy erotic imagery
- By Itinerant T on 08-26-15
By: Mat Johnson
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This Is Why They Hate Us
- By: Aaron H. Aceves
- Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Never mind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Never mind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to meet a girl his parents are trying to set him up with. Luckily, Quique’s prospects are each intriguing in their own ways.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Performance; Strange Obsession with White People
- By Legio Evocati on 02-21-23
By: Aaron H. Aceves
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Strike
- Gentry Generations
- By: Cora Brent
- Narrated by: Brian Ingram, Desiree Fultz
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 264
A summer job. That's all it was supposed to be. It never crossed my mind that I was about to collide with a man who would obliterate every plan I ever made. My mother has always warned me that love is like a lightning bolt and it strikes without warning. But I had no intention of getting struck by either lightning or love anytime soon. I'd be too busy finishing my journalism degree and landing a job in a city far more sophisticated than Phoenix. There was certainly nothing in the cards about getting involved with an ex-ballplayer turned nightclub boss.
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5 out of 5 stars
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worth a read
- By BK on 05-14-18
By: Cora Brent
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Tell Me When
- By: Stina Lindenblatt
- Narrated by: Holly B. Goe, Olly Fates
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 37
Amber Scott should be enjoying life as a college freshman. She should be pursuing her dream of becoming a veterinarian. She should be working hard to make sense of her precalculus math class. She shouldn't be waking up her college roommate with screaming nightmares. She shouldn't be flashing back, reliving the three weeks of hell she barely survived last year. And she definitely shouldn't be spending time with sexy player Marcus Reid. But engineering student Marcus is the only one keeping Amber from failing her math course, so she grudgingly lets him into her life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By Nikki on 02-25-14
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Sway
- By: Kat Spears
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
High school senior Jesse Alderman, or Sway as he's known, could sell hell to a bishop. He also specializes in getting things people want—term papers, a date with the prom queen, fake IDs. It's all business with Jesse. He has few close friends and he never lets emotions get in the way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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very enjoyable, but
- By Tamara on 09-01-19
By: Kat Spears
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By: Pedro Martín
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Saints of the Household
- By: Ari Tison
- Narrated by: Timothy Pabon, Alejandro Ruiz
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick to a schedule and keep their heads down. But when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods, instinct takes over and they intervene, breaking up a fight and beating their high school's star soccer player to a pulp. This act of violence threatens the brothers' dreams for the future and their beliefs about who they are.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed the story of these two indigenous Costa Rican young men and how they matured
- By Sherry O'Brien on 04-02-24
By: Ari Tison
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Elf Dog and Owl Head
- By: M.T. Anderson
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
Clay has had his fill of home life. A global plague has brought the world to a screeching halt, and with little to look forward to but a summer of video-calling friends, vying with annoying sisters for the family computer, and tuning out his parents’ financial worries, he’s only too happy to retreat to the woods. From the moment the elegant little dog with the ornate collar appears like an apparition among the trees, Clay sees something uncanny in her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect for dog lovers and adventurers
- By Susan Van Metre on 10-16-23
By: M.T. Anderson
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I'd Rather Burn than Bloom
- By: Shannon C. F. Rogers
- Narrated by: Jensen Olaya
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys, no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them that they were perpetually shouting across, one that she longed to close. But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn’t say.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bitterly Beautiful
- By Tameka Mullins on 12-05-23
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Accountable
- The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
- By: Dashka Slater
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as “edgy” humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account’s discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults—educators and parents—whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accountable was poignant.
- By Karen C. on 02-24-24
By: Dashka Slater
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The Mona Lisa Vanishes
- A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
- By: Nicholas Day
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the Director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating true thriller!
- By Katrina on 11-26-23
By: Nicholas Day
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The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be
- A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
- By: Shannon Gibney
- Narrated by: Shannon Gibney
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be, a book woven from her true story of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee and fictional story of Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth, a child raised by a white, closeted lesbian.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a blessing this young woman is to both families!!
- By Bridget on 01-31-23
By: Shannon Gibney
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Only This Beautiful Moment
- By: Abdi Nazemian
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Iman Nazemzadeh
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An inspiring surprise
- By PB on 04-08-24
By: Abdi Nazemian
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- Latoya
- 04-10-23
Entertaining
Great narration and entertaining story of a close group of friends. Recommend for older teens.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-02-23
Incredible Story of Friendship and Protest in South LA
I so loved this story of friendship, protest, home, and love. Such an appealing book for older YA readers as it is for adults, and the poetry of Jade Adia’s words are brought to life in a beautiful way in this audiobook.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-11-24
Great and funny story about growing up in L.A.
A fantastic young love story that takes place in an L.A. neighborhood that is being gentrified. I loved the group of diverse friends and families. It is also a love story about found families who love their neighborhood and do not want it to change.
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