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The Earthquake Child

A Novel

by Elayne Klasson ...

The Earthquake Child is the story of an adoption, told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother.How can Joshua’s behavior be explained? This question is all-consuming for his adoptive family. Joshua was relinquished at birth, then adopted only days later. Is it his genetic inheritance of substance abuse and generational poverty ... Read more

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The Earthquake Child is the story of an adoption, told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother.How can Joshua’s behavior be explained? This question is all-consuming for his adoptive family. Joshua was relinquished at birth, then adopted only days later. Is it his genetic inheritance of substance abuse and generational poverty
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Love Is a Rebellious Bird

A Novel

by Elayne Klasson ...

Who is it we love and why do we love these people? Toward the end of her life, Judith asks these questions, trying to understand why she chose Elliot Pine to love. Why, for sixty years, did she persist in loving someone who never gave as much as he was given? In her quest for understanding, she writes her story to this exceptional man. Meeting as children in Chicago, they move to opposite coasts. ... Read more

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Who is it we love and why do we love these people? Toward the end of her life, Judith asks these questions, trying to understand why she chose Elliot Pine to love. Why, for sixty years, did she persist in loving someone who never gave as much as he was given? In her quest for understanding, she writes her story to this exceptional man. Meeting as children in Chicago, they move to opposite coasts.
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Earthquake Child, The

A Novel

by Elayne Klasson ...

Narrated by Kimberly M. Wetherell ...

Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

Nature Versus Nurture? Adopted soon after birth, Joshua is a beautiful, lovable boy--but as he grows, his high-risk, self-destructive behaviors drive his adoptive mother to despair. Told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother who never gives up hope, this novel will resonate with anyone who has been part of the adoption ... Read more

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Nature Versus Nurture? Adopted soon after birth, Joshua is a beautiful, lovable boy--but as he grows, his high-risk, self-destructive behaviors drive his adoptive mother to despair. Told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother who never gives up hope, this novel will resonate with anyone who has been part of the adoption
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Love Is A Rebellious Bird

by Elayne Klasson ...

Narrated by Kimberly M. Wetherell ...

Unabridged

12 hours 46 min

This tale of a sixty-year love affair examines the age-old question of why we love the people we do. A beautiful, charismatic and wildly successful man is adored by a woman. Even as children, he held the power. Though bound by tragedy and friendship, he defined the terms of their relationship, until finally, in old age, the power shifts. Looking at the roles of Beauty, Insanity, Magic, Deceit, ... Read more

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This tale of a sixty-year love affair examines the age-old question of why we love the people we do. A beautiful, charismatic and wildly successful man is adored by a woman. Even as children, he held the power. Though bound by tragedy and friendship, he defined the terms of their relationship, until finally, in old age, the power shifts. Looking at the roles of Beauty, Insanity, Magic, Deceit,
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The Dollmaker

A Novel

by Nina Allan ...

Narrated by Alex Wyndham ...

Unabridged

10 hours 30 min

A love story of two very real, unusual people, and a novel rich with wonders that shines a radically different light on society's marginal figures.Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique, and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's ... Read more

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A love story of two very real, unusual people, and a novel rich with wonders that shines a radically different light on society's marginal figures.Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique, and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's
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Dressed for a Dance in the Snow

Women's Voices from the Gulag

by Monika Zgustova ...

Narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

An unexpectedly uplifting account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors.The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustova’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament ... Read more

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An unexpectedly uplifting account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors.The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustova’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament
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The Music of What Happens

by John Straley ...

Narrated by David Chandler ...

Series series Cecil Younger Investigation
Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

In the third entry to the series, Alaska P.I. Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab with a head wound, a child custody case from hell, and the clients to match.Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her, and thus, she hires Cecil Younger to investigate. This is the first time Younger has to deal with lawyers in flashy ... Read more

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In the third entry to the series, Alaska P.I. Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab with a head wound, a child custody case from hell, and the clients to match.Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her, and thus, she hires Cecil Younger to investigate. This is the first time Younger has to deal with lawyers in flashy
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The Mother's Secret

A heartbreaking but uplifting novel from the author of Before We Grow Old

by Clare Swatman ...

Narrated by Candida Gubbins, Claire Morgan, Charlotte Strevens ...

Unabridged

10 hours 11 min

There’s nothing a mother wouldn’t do for her children – even if it means telling a lie…Sisters Georgie and Kate have always been close. Brought up by their mum Jan after the death of their father, this family of women have always been able to rely on each other.Jan loves her daughters with all her heart. She knows some people think she’s an over-protective mother, but they didn’t know what she ... Read more

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There’s nothing a mother wouldn’t do for her children – even if it means telling a lie…Sisters Georgie and Kate have always been close. Brought up by their mum Jan after the death of their father, this family of women have always been able to rely on each other.Jan loves her daughters with all her heart. She knows some people think she’s an over-protective mother, but they didn’t know what she
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The Family Next Door

A page-turning, addictive read from Caroline Finnerty

by Caroline Finnerty ...

Narrated by Caroline Lennon ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

A powerful story of secrets, friendship and second chances that will make you cry and smile... From the bestselling author of The Last Days of UsNo one really knows what goes on behind closed doors.On the quiet street of St Brigid's Terrace in Dublin, Eileen Murphy lives alone at number 26 with her dog Dora. Virtually a recluse, she keeps herself to herself as she tries to come to terms with her ... Read more

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A powerful story of secrets, friendship and second chances that will make you cry and smile... From the bestselling author of The Last Days of UsNo one really knows what goes on behind closed doors.On the quiet street of St Brigid's Terrace in Dublin, Eileen Murphy lives alone at number 26 with her dog Dora. Virtually a recluse, she keeps herself to herself as she tries to come to terms with her
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I Wanted You To Know

The utterly beautiful, heartbreaking book club pick from BESTSELLER Laura Pearson

by Laura Pearson ...

Narrated by Tamsin Kennard ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

The utterly heartbreaking, beautiful book club pick from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel BeaumontDear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew up by my side. But it wasn’t to be…When Jess gives birth to Edie, it’s the happiest day of her life. She knows, from the moment her little girl’s hand grasps her finger, that her ... Read more

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The utterly heartbreaking, beautiful book club pick from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel BeaumontDear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew up by my side. But it wasn’t to be…When Jess gives birth to Edie, it’s the happiest day of her life. She knows, from the moment her little girl’s hand grasps her finger, that her
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No Lemons in Moscow

by Helen Whitten ...

Will Kate risk everything for love and a good cause?It’s Moscow, 1990. Gorbachev is initiating dramatic change in Russia. On a literary tour, London-based Kate Chisholm meets the young and passionate investigative journalist Valentin Kotov.Over the next thirteen years, her love for him and her belief in his cause will put her own life and that of her surviving son Tom at risk and threaten to ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Will Kate risk everything for love and a good cause?It’s Moscow, 1990. Gorbachev is initiating dramatic change in Russia. On a literary tour, London-based Kate Chisholm meets the young and passionate investigative journalist Valentin Kotov.Over the next thirteen years, her love for him and her belief in his cause will put her own life and that of her surviving son Tom at risk and threaten to
... Read more
A Year of Firsts

A New Season, #1

by Liz Flaherty ...

Series Book 1 - A New Season
"I'm Sydney Cavanaugh. Just passing through."Widow Syd Cavanaugh is beginning a "year of firsts" with the road trip she'd promised her husband she'd take after his death. An unplanned detour lands her in Fallen Soldier, Pennsylvania, where she meets the interesting and intelligent editor of the local paper.Television journalist Clay McAlister's life took an unexpected turn when a heart attack ... Read more

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"I'm Sydney Cavanaugh. Just passing through."Widow Syd Cavanaugh is beginning a "year of firsts" with the road trip she'd promised her husband she'd take after his death. An unplanned detour lands her in Fallen Soldier, Pennsylvania, where she meets the interesting and intelligent editor of the local paper.Television journalist Clay McAlister's life took an unexpected turn when a heart attack
... Read more

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