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This Time Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Emma Straub
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Emma Straub
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,239
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,876
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,865
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved!
- By AE on 05-25-22
- This Time Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Emma Straub
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Emma Straub
Boring, unimaginative
Reviewed: 01-28-23
so many ways to go with a timetraveler book, but this author takes none of them. just cheap 1990s flashbacks for those stuck in that period.
and the comment about the female protagonist going back from age 40 to age 16 to bed teen boys was downright pedo. barf
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An Untamed State
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 631
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 574
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Story4 out of 5 stars 578
Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father’s Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, But Disturbing.
- By Kat on 05-30-14
- An Untamed State
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
Brutal Story with a Wonderful Remdemptive Twist
Reviewed: 05-14-22
oh, the pain of reading about a woman held in captivity...raped and tortured. who wants to spend a spring day enduring that? but I did....so tempted to skip thru the worst parts. but the main character's survival. Her finding the strength to remake herself from thr wreckage. The ones who truly love her, as flawed as they are, finding it within themselves to be what she truly needs. This is the beauty hiding at the end of the story. the reward made so much sweeter by the pain of the first half of the book. a rewarding read. thank you for this, Ms. Gay!
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Little Fires Everywhere
- By: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60,972
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53,470
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53,355
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads to the colors of the houses to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring and Drawn Out!!!
- By M. Ryder on 10-05-17
- Little Fires Everywhere
- By: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
all over the place
Reviewed: 09-05-21
I wanted to like this but was disappointed. a trove of cliched separate story lines. the teenage abortion. minority discrimination. surrogate getting over attached to baby. middle aged woman coming of age. teenage pregnancy. teenage inadequacy. parent abandonment. and each of these has their own character to experience it. I'd Ng had focused more on any one of these stories, it might have been good. but she doesn't paint an over arching picture well
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A Long Petal of the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,672
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,110
In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Impressive
- By Jean on 05-24-20
- A Long Petal of the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
bad historical, bad fiction
Reviewed: 06-02-21
shame on Isabel Allende. she starts off with 10 or so pages, fleshing out each character in the wonderful way she's able to. but then abandons that to start ticking off historical events. no color. no attachment to the characters. just a list. so and so was in the Spanish civil war. so and so fled Chile. I've never been so unattached to Allende characters. very disappointed
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Southlands
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,318
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,212
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,207
After being sequestered to a bunker to recover from his wounds, Lee Harden is finally going topside with his fellow Project Hometown Coordinator, Terrence "Tex" Lehy. Lee wants to ally the UES with Texas, in order to combat the threat of a powerful oil cartel to the south. But Tex's methods raise serious questions, and Lee soon discovers that Texas has its own set of problems. In the Fort Bragg Safe Zone, the conflict with the Lincolnists is rapidly escalating. Master Sergeant Carl Gilliard has just returned, and he’s intent on destroying the Lincolnists, using any means necessary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gut punch
- By Bruce Griffith on 05-29-19
- Southlands
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
tremendously exciting
Reviewed: 02-04-21
molles may not be Hemingway, but is writing defines pulse pounding. he's gotten better over the years at also tugging at heart strings and writes female characters more authentically now than he did when Lee Harden first climbed out of his bunker into the primal world. looking forward to part 2!
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The Stationery Shop
- A Novel
- By: Marjan Kamali
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,112
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,884
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,874
On the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square, but suddenly, violence erupts - a result of the coup d’etat that forever changes their country’s future. In the chaos, Bahman never shows. For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. With a sorrowful heart, she resigns herself to never seeing him again. Until, more than 60 years later, an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story
- By Grace on 06-26-19
- The Stationery Shop
- A Novel
- By: Marjan Kamali
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
great writing, predictable story
Reviewed: 07-25-20
it must hurt to be so talented at turning a phrase and so gifted at conveying an emotion, yet so bereft of the ability to compose compelling story with an original plot. Kamali is a poor man's Khaled Housseini and should stick to 500 or less word articles.
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66,331
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 59,906
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59,651
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please be warned
- By N. Thompson on 06-20-17
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
mildly compelling
Reviewed: 05-23-18
We follow elenore, a semi believable, semi functional lunatic along her narrow path of discovery. I only found it plausable at times and would relate to, then completely not relate to the character. Good prose. Often witty. Very British.
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A Column of Fire
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,008
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12,620
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,577
In 1558 the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious divide sweeping across the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. When she becomes queen, all Europe turns against England.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WONDERFUL--As Good as Pillars of the Earth!
- By 070316 on 09-13-17
- A Column of Fire
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
Follett's Still Got It!
Reviewed: 04-29-18
At his age, to research a novel this painstakingly and to write a story as good as any he's done over a decades long career..... Very proud of that old coot Follett! And John Lee still had the pipes to breathe life into the characters!
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Rogue Cell
- A Grower's War, Book 3
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 421
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 387
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 385
The country has become a war zone, and with a Coalition troop surge imminent, the resistance is on the ropes. Walter is in the city of Durham, fighting to survive. He has no idea that his wife, Carolyn, is only miles away, desperately trying to find him. She has information on a special target - a last ditch mission that could turn the tide for the resistance. And Walter may just have access to the only team of fighters capable of pulling it off.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always love DJ Molle’s stories
- By Kevin Kinkade on 04-01-18
- Rogue Cell
- A Grower's War, Book 3
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
Great finish to the series
Reviewed: 03-26-18
Proud of Molles ... He finished up the series as well as it started. An exciting, heart pounding read. Definitely one of the best post apocalyptic roller coasters I've been on.
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The Borrowed World
- A Novel of Post-Apocalyptic Collapse, Volume 1
- By: Franklin Horton
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,854
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,479
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,469
In a night of devastating terror, ISIS operatives have unleashed a coordinated attack on America's infrastructure. With thousands of trapped travelers and scarce law enforcement, the miles between Jim Powell and his family become a brutal gauntlet where the rules of civilized society no longer apply. As Jim puts his years of preparation and planning to the test, he is forced to ask himself if he has what it takes to make it home. Does he have the strength - the brutality - required to meet this new world toe-to-toe?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Close and personal story of the apocalypse
- By Kingsley on 07-25-15
- The Borrowed World
- A Novel of Post-Apocalyptic Collapse, Volume 1
- By: Franklin Horton
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
nothing new here
Reviewed: 01-27-18
your typical, cookie cutter, guy trying to get home to his family when the grid fails and people turn bad story. Nothing new is brought to the table. very little creativity. just retelling the same old tale, and the characters were less compelling and less believable than in many other post apoco stories
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