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The Tale of Despereaux
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- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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Critic reviews
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Good start to the series!
- By Ravens9308 on 08-26-18
By: G. Bailey
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What Women Fear
- Walking in Faith that Transforms
- By: Angie Smith
- Narrated by: Pam Turlow
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
From a challenge of faith to a means of transformation: Did God really say you couldn't eat from any tree in the garden? This seed of doubt planted so long ago bears the fruit of fear on some level every day - the idea that our actions could ruin something beautiful and God might not have control over things. In What Women Fear, acclaimed writer and speaker Angie Smith admits, "Fear is a major part of my testimony," as she talks openly about significant struggles she has experienced. Giving a voice to the problem, she says, "I truly believe every single one of us struggles with some type of fear...."
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5 out of 5 stars
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So refreshing!
- By Alison Smith on 03-12-14
By: Angie Smith
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Malcolm
- By: S.J. West
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 647
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 646
On the night Anna was born, she was promptly sent away from the down-world to live in the cloud city of Cirrus. That very same night her future was decided for her when she became betrothed to Crown Prince Augustus Amador. For 21 years, she has lived as Lady Anna. Although Anna's destiny seemed laid out for her, fate intervenes to reveal the true path she was always meant to take. With the unexpected arrival of Malcolm Devereaux into her world, Anna knows without a shadow of a doubt that she has finally been reunited with the missing piece of her soul.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well...
- By Tracy on 09-15-18
By: S.J. West
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Still Waiting
- Hope for When God Doesn't Give You What You Want
- By: Ann Swindell
- Narrated by: Ann Swindell
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Most of us know what it's like to wait for God to change our circumstances. But whether we're waiting for physical healing, an emotional breakthrough, or better relationships, waiting is something we usually try to avoid. Why? Because waiting is painful and hard. The truth is it's also inevitable. In Still Waiting, Ann Swindell explores the depths of why God wants us to wait by chronicling her own compelling story of waiting for healing from an incurable condition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Raquel on 06-14-17
By: Ann Swindell
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Mended
- Pieces of a Life Made Whole
- By: Angie Smith
- Narrated by: Pam Turlow
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
There is no one whose brokenness is too broken for God. We know this is true for our friends when we want to encourage them. Yet, when it comes to the places of out innermost sense of regret, we often wonder if it is really true that God can work all things together for good for those who love Him. Angie Smith is one who was quick to encourage a friend, but struggled to believe that God could truly make something spectacular out of her brokenness and disappointments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shocking and amazing.
- By Dawn Vincent on 01-12-24
By: Angie Smith
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The Kitchen God's Wife
- By: Amy Tan
- Narrated by: Gwendoline Yeo
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 669
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 595
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 595
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than 50 years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose all that has been concealed, when she decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths - her own and Winnie's, as well as the dreadful news that Winnie's daughter, Pearl, has been keeping from her mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Holds your attention through out
- By GrandmaNurseHeather on 06-08-17
By: Amy Tan
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The Devil's Arithmetic
- By: Jane Yolen
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 364
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists", The Devil's Arithmetic plunges the listener into the terrible realities of the Nazi concentration camps. Chaya's tale is a celebration of the strength of the human spirit and a dramatic introduction to the darkest period of modern history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite books
- By Savannah Cassen &Maisie on 02-20-16
By: Jane Yolen
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The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)
- By: Jennifer Lynch
- Narrated by: Sheryl Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 949
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 876
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 869
Lifeless and wrapped in plastic. This is how Sheryl Lee was first introduced as "Laura Palmer" in the cult television classic, Twin Peaks. Now, Sheryl returns to voice Laura's darkest secrets in the audiobook event that fans of the show have long awaited.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wrapped in plastic
- By Phillip Frangules on 05-08-17
By: Jennifer Lynch
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Bewitching
- By: Alex Flinn
- Narrated by: Casey Holloway
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn’t. I go to a new school now - one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I’m not still here because I’m stupid; I just don’t age. You see, I’m immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years - except for when to take my powers and butt out. Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn’t get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Emma and Kendra
- By Elizabeth Gordon on 07-12-16
By: Alex Flinn
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On the Jellicoe Road
- By: Melina Marchetta
- Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 304
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Story4 out of 5 stars 257
Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs - the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. B ut what she needs to do, more than anything, is unravel the mystery of her past and find her mother.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Strange but good
- By Dorothea on 07-05-11
By: Melina Marchetta
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The Unwelcomed Child
- By: V. C. Andrews
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 837
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 723
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 723
Elle Edwards, who has been told she's a product of her mother's sinful mistake, has never gone to school, never met a teenager her own age, never even been allowed off of her grandparents' property. Convinced that their granddaughter is infected with evil, Myra and Prescott Edwards believe that only the harshest child-rearing methods will prevent Elle from becoming an instrument of the devil.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I wanted it to be better.
- By A. Smith on 11-25-19
By: V. C. Andrews
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Flunked
- By: Jen Calonita
- Narrated by: Kristin Condon
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 208
Gilly wouldn't call herself wicked, exactly... but when you have five little brothers and sisters and live in a run-down boot, you have to get creative to make ends meet. Gilly's a pretty good thief (if she does say so herself). Until she gets caught.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun fairytale retelling
- By Kira on 10-30-15
By: Jen Calonita
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Everything Is Illuminated
- By: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 87
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding reading
- By bookworm123abc on 02-10-23
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Margot
- By: Jillian Cantor
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4 out of 5 stars 52
Anne Frank has long been a symbol of bravery and hope, but there were two sisters hidden in the annex, two young Jewish girls, one a cultural icon made famous by her published diary and the other, nearly forgotten. In the spring of 1959, The Diary of Anne Frank has just come to the silver screen to great acclaim, and a young woman named Margie Franklin is working in Philadelphia as a secretary at a Jewish law firm. On the surface she lives a quiet life, but Margie has a secret: a life she once lived, a past and a religion she has denied, and a family and a country she left behind.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Had higher hopes for this intriguing story...
- By Amy D. Caldwell on 11-21-14
By: Jillian Cantor
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The Cider House Rules
- By: John Irving
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,405
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,806
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,796
From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Patricia B Tripoli on 07-02-07
By: John Irving
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Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
- By: Bruce Coville
- Narrated by: Bruce Coville
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Story5 out of 5 stars 161
If Howard Morton and Freddie the Frog Killer were trying to hold you down so that Mary Lou Hutton could kiss you, you might run as fast as Jeremy Thatcher did the day he stumbled into Mr. Elives' Magic Shop. And if you stumbled into that strange shop, you, too, might be asked to make a choice. What would you buy? The Chinese rings? The Skull of Truth? Or the dragon's egg?
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5 out of 5 stars
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love this book as a kid
- By Jamie wool on 11-16-17
By: Bruce Coville