Bestsellers
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The Keeper of Stars
- A Novel
- By: Buck Turner
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Phillips
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Seeking answers, Ellie turns to her sister for help, but before they can get to the bottom of the mystery, news reaches them of their aunt’s death, sending Ellie back to the water’s edge with the hopes of finding the truth and rewriting the stars....
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Sweet and gentle.
- By Susan Garrett on 05-28-24
By: Buck Turner
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
- A Novel
- By: Kirsten Miller
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
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I disliked the whole book, I couldn’t finish it.
- By Laura on 07-29-24
By: Kirsten Miller
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores....
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Not my cup of tea
- By NorthernPerson on 04-21-20
By: Grady Hendrix
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The Water Keeper
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Jonathan K. Riggs
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds for a church with no parishioners, and he’s dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes....
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Wrong Narrator
- By SusieSunshine0945 on 05-17-20
By: Charles Martin
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The Incredible Winston Browne
- By: Sean Dietrich
- Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Beloved writer Sean Dietrich - also known as Sean of the South - will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her....
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A new favorite!
- By Highlandannie on 07-16-21
By: Sean Dietrich
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All the Sinners Bleed
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust....
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Visceral, gripping, thrilling and entertaining
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 06-26-23
By: S. A. Cosby
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The Keeper of Stars
- A Novel
- By: Buck Turner
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Phillips
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Seeking answers, Ellie turns to her sister for help, but before they can get to the bottom of the mystery, news reaches them of their aunt’s death, sending Ellie back to the water’s edge with the hopes of finding the truth and rewriting the stars....
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Sweet and gentle.
- By Susan Garrett on 05-28-24
By: Buck Turner
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
- A Novel
- By: Kirsten Miller
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
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I disliked the whole book, I couldn’t finish it.
- By Laura on 07-29-24
By: Kirsten Miller
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores....
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Not my cup of tea
- By NorthernPerson on 04-21-20
By: Grady Hendrix
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The Water Keeper
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Jonathan K. Riggs
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds for a church with no parishioners, and he’s dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes....
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Wrong Narrator
- By SusieSunshine0945 on 05-17-20
By: Charles Martin
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The Incredible Winston Browne
- By: Sean Dietrich
- Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Beloved writer Sean Dietrich - also known as Sean of the South - will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her....
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A new favorite!
- By Highlandannie on 07-16-21
By: Sean Dietrich
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All the Sinners Bleed
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust....
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Visceral, gripping, thrilling and entertaining
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 06-26-23
By: S. A. Cosby
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A Happier Life
- By: Kristy Woodson Harvey
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Devon Sorvari, Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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“New York Times bestselling author and southern sensation Kristy Woodson Harvey” (Good Morning America) presents a touching novel about eternal love and the places we call home.
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Might be a trigger for some
- By Maggie Terry on 08-05-24
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The Southern Lawyer
- Joe Hennessy Legal Thriller Series, Book 1
- By: Peter O'Mahoney
- Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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After more than twenty years away from the law, Joe Hennessy is forced back into the courtroom. Trying to save his vineyard after years of drought, Hennessy returns to practice in Charleston, South Carolina–the city he walked away from after the murder of his ten-year-old son....
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Enjoyed it
- By Rick 73000 on 05-11-23
By: Peter O'Mahoney
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Run, Rose, Run
- A Novel
- By: James Patterson, Dolly Parton
- Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Kelsea Ballerini, James Fouhey, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering with danger and desire—a story that only America’s #1 beloved entertainer and its #1 bestselling author could have created....
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I can't.
- By Teresa3607 on 03-08-22
By: James Patterson, and others
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Southern Man
- A Novel
- By: Greg Iles
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 45 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world....
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I could have done without all of the anti-Trump/MAGA rhetoric.
- By Tina C on 06-09-24
By: Greg Iles
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The Lords of Discipline
- By: Pat Conroy
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lords of Discipline is a novel about coming of age, brotherhood, betrayal, and a man’s forging of his own personal code of honor....
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Hauntingly Excellent
- By Hbug on 02-21-23
By: Pat Conroy
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The Thing About Home
- By: Rhonda McKnight
- Narrated by: Yinka Ladeinde
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony ends in her being left at the altar, the former model turned social media influencer has new fame—the kind she never wanted....
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Best book I’ve read on a long time!
- By TW on 05-27-23
By: Rhonda McKnight
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Kinfolk
- By: Sean Dietrich
- Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or “Nub,” has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he’s no good—first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter....
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The most beautifully written book I have ever read
- By Kindle Customer on 04-24-24
By: Sean Dietrich
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Reunion Beach
- Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
- By: Elin Hilderbrand, Adriana Trigiani, Patti Callahan Henry, and others
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In this warm and moving anthology, a group of best-selling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life best-selling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy, capturing her unforgettable spirit, joy, and humor in stories of reunions and love....
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All over the place, no plot
- By Victoria Barden on 05-18-21
By: Elin Hilderbrand, and others
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When Cicadas Cry
- By: Caroline Cleveland
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross in a rural church on Cicada Road in Walterboro, South Carolina. Sam Jenkins, a Black man, is found covered in blood. In a state already roiling with racial tension, this is not just a murder case: it's a powder keg....
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Surprisingly good!
- By ALG on 06-30-24
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The Southern Trial
- Joe Hennessy Legal Thriller Series, Book 4
- By: Peter O'Mahoney
- Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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After twenty years of anguish, after twenty years of pain, defense attorney Joe Hennessy has the chance to confront the man who ordered the murder of his ten-year-old son....
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One of my Favorite Series
- By Linda A. on 02-29-24
By: Peter O'Mahoney
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The Sweetness of Water (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Harris
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm....
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Masterful storytelling and an exceptional audio performance
- By Pamela on 06-18-21
By: Nathan Harris
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French Quarter Fright Night
- Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Ellen Byron
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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It's Halloween in New Orleans, and the staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum is setting up a fantastic haunted house tour for their visitors. But when flashy movie star Blaine Taggart and his entourage move into the mansion next door, gift shop proprietor Ricki James-Diaz gets a fright of her own.
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Loved it!
- By Holly on 09-04-24
By: Ellen Byron
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Double Lives
- Lexington, Alabama, Book 4
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Shari Peele
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in—and out—of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn’t be more different.
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WOW!!!
- By Paula Odume on 03-30-24
By: Mary Monroe
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One Summer in Savannah
- A Novel
- By: Terah Shelton Harris
- Narrated by: Zuzu Robinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive....
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Forgiveness
- By Giomara Montes on 12-11-23
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Nothing More Dangerous
- By: Allen Eskens
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In a small Southern town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition....
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Eskens writes another solid coming of age...
- By shelley on 11-21-19
By: Allen Eskens
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Love, Honor, Betray
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss, Tracey Conyer Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers the latest thrillingly scandal-filled novel in her Depression-era saga of a church-going lady and her oh-so-upstanding husband racing to cover up their many sins—and gambling on one scheme too many....
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Enjoyed this installment
- By Andra D. Johnson on 05-20-23
By: Mary Monroe
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The Faculty Lounge
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Mathieu
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educators, a timely glimpse at today’s pressing school issues, and a tender character study, The Faculty Lounge follows a sprawling cast of teachers, administrators, and staff at a Texas high school.
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Not Funny
- By P. Rishel on 08-24-24
By: Jennifer Mathieu
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The Beach House
- South Carolina Sunsets, Book 1
- By: Rachel Hanna
- Narrated by: Becky Brabham
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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She’s 43 years old…and starting over from scratch. How did this happen? She had it all together. A stable marriage of two decades. Two grown daughters. And now she and her husband, empty nesters, were moving to a beach house. Until he showed up late one night and tore their marriage apart....
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Sweet & Sour
- By Amazon Customer on 07-02-24
By: Rachel Hanna
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
- By: Flannery O'Connor
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive "The Misfit", as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories....
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Meater story teller
- By Gary Hunt on 02-04-20
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The Natchez Burning Trilogy
- A Penn Cage Collection Featuring: Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and Mississippi Blood
- By: Greg Iles
- Narrated by: David Ledoux, Robert Petkoff, Scott Brick
- Length: 96 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Raised in Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now Tom has been accused of murdering the Black nurse with whom he worked in the 1960s and Penn is determined to exonerate him....
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Wake me up before you go go (or before something new happens)
- By Brenda in Alabama on 03-23-24
By: Greg Iles
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The Great Santini
- By: Pat Conroy
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of Bull Meecham, the epitome of the Marine officer. Demanding, authoritarian, as tough a disciplinarian at home as at the base, Bull is a difficult man to please, and even harder to love. This is also the story of Ben Meecham, Bull’s oldest son....
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Still Santini, Still Great
- By Anthony A. Ferrante on 02-10-23
By: Pat Conroy
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My Magnolia Summer
- A Novel
- By: Victoria Benton Frank
- Narrated by: Dorothy Dillingham Blue
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Maggie struggles to find her place in the world when she receives a phone call bringing her back to her hometown of Sullivan's Island....
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my Magnolia summer
- By Jean Carr on 08-24-24
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Hell of a Book
- A Novel
- By: Jason Mott
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ronald Peet
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent....
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Four Stars for Content, One More for...
- By Paul Frandano on 08-12-21
By: Jason Mott
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Send Down the Rain
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family's beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida's Gulf Coast when she loses her second husband to a terrifying highway accident. She is devastated - until a cherished person from her past returns....
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Charles Martin breathes life into every story
- By Barbara M on 05-17-18
By: Charles Martin
New releases
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The Empress of Cooke County
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Bass Parman
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Thirty-eight-year-old Posey Jarvis is the self-appointed “empress” of rural Spark in Cooke County, Tennessee. She spends her days following every word about her idol and look-alike Jackie Kennedy, avoiding her stalwart husband Vern, and struggling to control her newly defiant daughter Callie Jane—all while sneaking nips of gin. When Posey unexpectedly inherits a derelict mansion from her quirky old aunt Milbrey, she finagles her way into hosting her high school’s twentieth reunion there.
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A strong debut, and not the last I'll read by her.
- By brian on 09-07-24
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The Queen City Detective Agency
- A Novel
- By: Snowden Wright
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream.
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Not a fan of the narration
- By Amazon Customer on 08-19-24
By: Snowden Wright
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Southern Discomfort
- Sandy Island, Book 1
- By: Ashley Farley
- Narrated by: Amelia Mendez
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabelle is haunted by remorse over a past mistake that drastically changed the lives of those closest to her. Apologizing would be a step in the right direction—if only she could muster the courage to say, "I'm sorry." Her world is turned upside down when her late husband's will stipulates that she transform their waterfront estate into a bed and breakfast. As the summer's first guests are due to arrive, Isabelle feels increasingly overwhelmed. Unexpected help arrives in the form of her twenty-four-year-old granddaughter.
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Touching Story
- By Lynn Boyles on 08-26-24
By: Ashley Farley
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The Unicorn Woman
- By: Gayl Jones
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army veteran Buddy Ray Guy as he embodies the fate of Black soldiers who return, not in glory, but into their Jim Crow communities. A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he’s a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he is a true self-educated intellectual and a classic seeker: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love.
By: Gayl Jones
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Beautiful Dreamers
- By: Minrose Gwin
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Belle Cote by Virginia’s childhood friend Mac McFadden, whose verve and energy buoy the recently divorced Virginia to embrace this new chapter. Memory (“Mem”) is unlike other girls: she is attuned to the voices of plants and animals and is missing two fingers on her twisted left hand. The three of them knit their lives together and become a close, though unconventional, family.
By: Minrose Gwin
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Ain’t No Grave
- By: Mary Glickman
- Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can't imagine a world where they aren't together. Unfortunately, no one-not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906-wants to see a White middle-class Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper. It's only a matter of time before fate will separate the two. And that day comes on the eve of Ruby's womanhood, when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.
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Wonderful characters and story
- By Lee H on 09-04-24
By: Mary Glickman
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The Empress of Cooke County
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Bass Parman
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Thirty-eight-year-old Posey Jarvis is the self-appointed “empress” of rural Spark in Cooke County, Tennessee. She spends her days following every word about her idol and look-alike Jackie Kennedy, avoiding her stalwart husband Vern, and struggling to control her newly defiant daughter Callie Jane—all while sneaking nips of gin. When Posey unexpectedly inherits a derelict mansion from her quirky old aunt Milbrey, she finagles her way into hosting her high school’s twentieth reunion there.
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A strong debut, and not the last I'll read by her.
- By brian on 09-07-24
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The Queen City Detective Agency
- A Novel
- By: Snowden Wright
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream.
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Not a fan of the narration
- By Amazon Customer on 08-19-24
By: Snowden Wright
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Southern Discomfort
- Sandy Island, Book 1
- By: Ashley Farley
- Narrated by: Amelia Mendez
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabelle is haunted by remorse over a past mistake that drastically changed the lives of those closest to her. Apologizing would be a step in the right direction—if only she could muster the courage to say, "I'm sorry." Her world is turned upside down when her late husband's will stipulates that she transform their waterfront estate into a bed and breakfast. As the summer's first guests are due to arrive, Isabelle feels increasingly overwhelmed. Unexpected help arrives in the form of her twenty-four-year-old granddaughter.
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Touching Story
- By Lynn Boyles on 08-26-24
By: Ashley Farley
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The Unicorn Woman
- By: Gayl Jones
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army veteran Buddy Ray Guy as he embodies the fate of Black soldiers who return, not in glory, but into their Jim Crow communities. A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he’s a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he is a true self-educated intellectual and a classic seeker: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love.
By: Gayl Jones
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Beautiful Dreamers
- By: Minrose Gwin
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Belle Cote by Virginia’s childhood friend Mac McFadden, whose verve and energy buoy the recently divorced Virginia to embrace this new chapter. Memory (“Mem”) is unlike other girls: she is attuned to the voices of plants and animals and is missing two fingers on her twisted left hand. The three of them knit their lives together and become a close, though unconventional, family.
By: Minrose Gwin
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Ain’t No Grave
- By: Mary Glickman
- Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can't imagine a world where they aren't together. Unfortunately, no one-not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906-wants to see a White middle-class Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper. It's only a matter of time before fate will separate the two. And that day comes on the eve of Ruby's womanhood, when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.
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Wonderful characters and story
- By Lee H on 09-04-24
By: Mary Glickman
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Head Games
- The Mike Garrity Mysteries
- By: Thomas B. Cavanagh
- Narrated by: C.L. Berns
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Former Orlando detective Michael Garrity doesn't have a good track record when it comes to women. With two ex-wives and a teenage daughter he rarely sees, the most significant relationship in his life right now is with the tumor in his head. Terminal cancer is no joke, but Mike is determined to make the best of it. He's even named the tumor Bob. With Bob literally on his mind at all times, Mike needs a distraction. And he gets one when the most popular member of a platinum-selling boy band goes missing.
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a mix of suspense and mystery that worked for me
- By Amazon Customer on 08-23-24
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Uncharted Therapy
- By: Tiffany Killoren
- Narrated by: Hope Shangle
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Julia has checked in to a rehab facility deep in rural Georgia that promises to help her find herself. Other women have done the same, all of them recognizing that they can no longer continue down the path they’re on. As Gwen, Cate, and Julia come to understand more about themselves and their destructive behaviors, they forge firm friendships in the toughest of circumstances. But in order to continue to heal, they must learn to confide in one another and unburden themselves. In the company of friends, they rebuild and recover, beginning to confront their pasts.
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Enjoyable Journey with Likable Characters
- By hps123 on 08-20-24
By: Tiffany Killoren
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Where the River Runs Red
- By: Howard K. Pollack
- Narrated by: Val Cole
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When Chad Greer is convicted of murdering his girlfriend Megan, he's only 17, and of course he insists he didn't do it. When he's still insisting fifteen years later, he is denied parole. But by then his beloved sister Sawyer is a brand-new assistant district attorney, determined to prove his innocence, and Sawyer won't take no for an answer. Digging into the case, she turns up Mason Walcott, a war-scarred journalist who mysteriously appears and offers to help vindicate her brother.
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Taking Boston
- By: J. Steven Butler
- Narrated by: Ben Prendergast
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Jake Wilson is something peculiar in the deep-south Bible belt town of Warner Robins, GA. He's a single pastor. In his early thirties, he's built a large, contemporary church with plans for an expansive building project. His nine-year-old goddaughter, Boston, lives on the other side of the country. When her parents are killed in a car accident, she becomes an orphan, and Jake becomes an overnight father.
By: J. Steven Butler
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Archivio dei bambini perduti
- By: Valeria Luiselli
- Narrated by: Concita De Gregorio
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York una famiglia chiude casa e si mette in macchina verso il sudovest del Paese. Il padre vuole raggiungere i monti dove vivevano gli apache, gli ultimi ad arrendersi, la madre vuole documentare l'emergenza dei bambini migranti. Con i due figli attraversano deserti e montagne, fermandosi in diner e motel lungo la strada. Nello stesso momento, migliaia di bambini sono in marcia verso il nord, senza mappe né passaporti, solo un numero di telefono cucito nel colletto. Non tutti riusciranno ad arrivare.
By: Valeria Luiselli
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Wedding Season
- The Carolina Girls, Book 3
- By: Michelle Major
- Narrated by: Carly Robins
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Mariella Jacob was one of the world’s premier bridal designers, but one viral PR disaster later, she’s trying to get her torpedoed career back on track in small-town Magnolia, North Carolina. With a secondhand store and a new business venture helping her friends turn the Wildflower Inn into a wedding venue, Mariella is finally putting at least one mistake behind her. Until that mistake—in the glowering, handsome form of Alex Ralsten—moves to Magnolia too.
By: Michelle Major
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The Wedding Veil
- By: Kristy Woodson Harvey
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus, Janet Metzger, Rebekkah Ross, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Present Day: Julia Baxter’s wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells her that even the veil’s good luck isn’t enough to make her marriage last forever. Overwhelmed, she escapes to the Virgin Islands to clear her head.
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Difficulty with one narrator
- By Pamela on 05-06-22
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The Last Carolina Girl
- By: Meagan Church
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is worlds away from the harsh realities of the day. Loyal to her lumberjack father, she knows only of the familiarity of her small community, the magic of the natural world, and the creative intuition that prompts her to march to the beat of her own drum. But when an accident takes her father's life, leaving her an orphan, Leah finds herself cast into a family of strangers whose welcoming façade hides a terrible secret.
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WOW
- By Savannah Brown on 06-10-23
By: Meagan Church
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The Hearts We Leave Behind
- A Novel
- By: Buck Turner
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Phillips
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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After starting fresh as a nurse in Brentwood, Tennessee, Nora Dawson forges a powerful and unlikely bond with an elderly resident of the nursing home where she works. And soon, he opens up about his experiences as a soldier in World War II — and the devastating twist of fate that changed everything.
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Made no sense to me
- By Joan on 06-19-24
By: Buck Turner
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The Event
- Creek Water Series, Book 1
- By: Whitney Dineen
- Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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There's a reason Emmeline Frothingham left her hometown of Creek Water, Missouri, as soon as humanly possible. That reason is small-minded, judgmental people. After graduating from college, Emmie gets her dream job in New York City. As the head buyer at Silver Spoons - a high-end boutique - and single girl about town, her life is ideal. That is, until the night of The Event, her company's annual awards ball at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Facing the repercussions of her wild night, Emmie is forced to go home to work in her family's business.
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Funny Southern Family
- By Cassidi Freeman on 08-25-24
By: Whitney Dineen
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Lady of Bones
- Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries, Book 24
- By: Carolyn Haines
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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It's Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie's new baby, Maylin. Sarah Booth is just about to refresh the cocktails when she hears a knock on the door and opens it to find a woman named Frankie, distraught at the disappearance of her daughter, Christa, a young journalist. Christa had been investigating the disappearance of young women in New Orleans over a five-year period—one every year around Halloween. Now Christa herself is missing, and Frankie fears it may be connected to a cult based in the Garden District.
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I love this series
- By Cherri Roemeling on 06-16-22
By: Carolyn Haines
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The Two Lives of Sara
- By: Catherine Adel West
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom Riders. Across the country, people like Martin Luther King Jr. are leading the fight for equal rights.
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Review
- By Marti Perronie on 09-20-22
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The Big Door Prize
- By: M. O. Walsh
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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What would you do if you knew your life's potential? That's the question facing the residents of Deerfield, Louisiana, when the DNAMIX machine appears in their local grocery store. It's nothing to look at, really—it resembles a plain photo booth. But its promise is amazing: With just a quick swab of your cheek and two dollars, the device claims to use the science of DNA to tell you your life's potential. With enough credibility to make the townspeople curious, soon the former teachers, nurses, and shopkeepers of Deerfield are abruptly changing course to pursue their destinies.
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Such a let down
- By Anonymous User on 07-06-22
By: M. O. Walsh
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Moneymaker
- By: Josh Boldt
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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“An all-consuming and exhilarating read…highly recommend.” –BookSirens "A heart-pounding, action-packed novel filled with suspense, drama and twisty turns...[with] a well-crafted storyline." - Robin's Reviews While tracking a drug shipment in Savannah, surveillance expert Mack Abbott gets tangled up in a deadly underworld filled with ruthless smugglers who will stop at nothing to protect their product. Abbott's one connection in town is an exotic dancer named Avery Calloway, who has questionable motives and a taste for the smugglers' product. Their relationship deepens as the ...
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Sharply written Southern Crime
- By Wes Blake on 09-03-24
By: Josh Boldt
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Blue Christmas
- By: Mary Kay Andrews
- Narrated by: Isabel Keating
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to deck out her shop for the Savannah historical district decorating contest, which she intends to win. Weezie is ready to shoot herself with her glue gun by the time she's done, but the results are stunning. She's certainly one-upped the owners of the trendy shop around the corner, but suddenly things start to go missing from her display and there seems to be an uninvited midnight visitor to her shop.
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Good book, narrator problems
- By karen on 09-15-12
By: Mary Kay Andrews
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The County Line
- A Novel
- By: Steve Weddle
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Life has never been easy for Cottonmouth Tomlin. Raised by an uncle in a hardscrabble Arkansas town, Cottonmouth couldn’t leave fast enough. As a young man, he set out to seek his fortune but was soon caught up in a life of low-level misdeeds, taking him from New Orleans all the way to Honduras. Now he’s back in Columbia County, mourning his uncle and worrying on what to do with the broken-down outlaw camp that represents the sum of his family legacy.
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THE COUNTY LINE
- By Books and more on 02-11-24
By: Steve Weddle
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My Alien Life
- A Novelette
- By: J. Martain
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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In this sassy and sweet coming-of-age story full of laughs, tears, and everyday strangeness, an unusual child finds a home—and love—with her feisty Great-great-aunt Magnolia Rose McClellan.
By: J. Martain
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Love and Hot Chicken
- A Delicious Southern Novel
- By: Mary Liza Hartong
- Narrated by: Dorothy Dillingham Blue
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When PJ Spoon returns home for her beloved daddy’s funeral, she doesn’t expect to stick around. Why abandon her PhD program at Vanderbilt for the humble charms of her hometown, Pennywhistle, Tennessee? Mamma’s broken heart, that’s why. But truth be told, PJ’s own heart ain’t doing too good either. She impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at Pennywhistle’s beloved Chickie Shak, where locals gather for Nashville-style hot chicken. It may not be glamorous, but it’s something to do.
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Funny, Smart, Charming!
- By JPJ on 03-11-24
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Queen Sugar
- By: Natalie Baszile
- Narrated by: Miriam Hyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning can prepare Charley for a Louisiana that's mired in the past: as her judgmental but big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is always going to be a white man's business.
By: Natalie Baszile
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La balada del café triste
- By: Carson McCullers, María Campuzano - traductor
- Narrated by: Àngels Bassas
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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La obra de una de las grandes maestras de la literatura norteamericana con prólogos actualizados. Los relatos más significativos de la singular y sutil narrativa de Carson McCullers, que han accedido ya a la consideración de clásicos de la moderna literatura norteamericana. Prólogo de Paulina Flores.
By: Carson McCullers, and others
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Holler, Child
- Stories
- By: LaToya Watkins
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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In Holler, Child’s eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something—hope, reconciliation, freedom. In “Cutting Horse,” the appearance of a horse in a man’s suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In “Holler, Child,” a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows too well from the other side.
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Great book and readers
- By Paula C. Brancato on 08-10-24
By: LaToya Watkins
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The Right Kind of Fool
- By: Sarah Loudin Thomas
- Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, he wishes he'd obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of Beverly, West Virginia, in ways no one could have imagined.
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Moving
- By Don Hayes on 07-19-24
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The Conjure Woman (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Charles W. Chesnutt
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A northern white couple has relocated to the South to operate a vineyard on a North Carolina plantation. There, they pass their idle hours listening to the stories of one Uncle Julius, who has a deep knowledge of the land. These stories, however, are more than mere entertainments. They all have their time and place, and they offer not only a quiet commentary on the events of the day but also a deeper reckoning with the plantation’s disturbing past.
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What a treausue!
- By Jon on 06-06-23
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Swamp Witch
- By: Robert H. Cherny
- Narrated by: Robert H. Cherny
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A young woman is rescued from an attempt by her poacher father to drown her in a Florida swamp by a mysterious woman alleged to have magical powers. Fearful at first, the young woman learns to trust the secretive woman, who has chosen to hide out in the depths of a hostile environment. The younger woman returns to civilization to claim the farm her father would have stolen from her and to build a relationship with the man she has loved since they were children.
By: Robert H. Cherny