
The Bright Side of Disaster
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Thérèse Plummer
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Katherine Center
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A new mother must adjust to a life she never asked for - and learns that sometimes the worst thing that can happen is exactly what you’ve been waiting for - in this spirited novel from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire
“Charming...cleverly told and uncommonly appealing.” (People)
Very pregnant and not quite married, Jenny Harris doesn’t mind that she and her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned. But Dean is acting distant, and the night he runs out for cigarettes and doesn’t come back, he demotes himself from future husband to sperm donor. And the very next day, Jenny goes into labor.
In the months that follow, Jenny plunges into a life she never anticipated: single motherhood. At least with the sleep deprivation, sore boobs, and fits of crying (both hers and the baby’s), there’s not much time to dwell on her broken heart. Then things start looking up: Jenny learns how to do everything one-handed, makes friends in a mommy group, and even gets to know a handsome, helpful neighbor. But Dean is never far from Jenny’s thoughts or, it turns out, her doorstep, and in the end she must choose between the old life she thought she wanted and the new life she’s been lucky to find.
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Slow, miscommunication trope, unlikeable characters
- De Jennifer en 07-28-23
De: Katherine Center
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Happiness for Beginners
- A Novel
- De: Katherine Center
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Helen Carpenter can’t quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. So when her annoying younger brother, Duncan, convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course in the backwoods of Wyoming—she hopes it’ll be exactly what she needs.
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Cute East quick read
- De Amazon Customer en 01-27-24
De: Katherine Center
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Happiness for Beginners
- A Novel
- De: Katherine Center
- Narrado por: Ellie Kemper
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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Helen Carpenter can’t quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. So when her annoying younger brother, Duncan, convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course in the backwoods of Wyoming—she hopes it’ll be exactly what she needs. Instead, it’s a disaster. It’s nothing like she wants, or expects, or anticipates. She doesn’t anticipate the surprise summer blizzard, for example—or the blisters, or the rutting elk, or the mean pack of sorority girls.
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Better than the movie
- De SLP en 11-07-24
De: Katherine Center
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Things You Save in a Fire
- De: Katherine Center
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's excellent at dealing with other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, it's an emergency of a kind Cassie never anticipated. The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren't exactly thrilled to have a "lady" on the crew.
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Pretty predictable
- De Susan Jordan en 09-14-19
De: Katherine Center
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The Love Haters
- A Novel
- De: Katherine Center
- Narrado por: Patti Murin
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past—now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job as a video producer or, at her coworker Cole’s request, take a career-making gig profiling Tom “Hutch” Hutcheson, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West. The catch? Katie’s not exactly qualified. She can’t swim—but pretends that she can. Plus, Cole and Hutch are brothers. And they don’t get along. Next stop: paradise!
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Great narration. Vivid imagery. Lovely depictions of older female friendships.
- De J. Olich en 05-24-25
De: Katherine Center
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The Bodyguard
- A Novel
- De: Katherine Center
- Narrado por: Patti Murin
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker.
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Thank you Katherine Center!!
- De Alice Vargo en 07-20-22
De: Katherine Center
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The Rom-Commers
- A Novel
- De: Katherine Center
- Narrado por: Katherine Center, Patti Murin
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies—good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates—The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!—it’s a break too big to pass up.
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A laugh-out-loud, feel good RomCom!
- De meagan en 06-14-24
De: Katherine Center
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You Had Me at Hello
- De: Mhairi McFarlane
- Narrado por: Julie Hesmondhalgh
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane. Rachel and Ben. Ben and Rachel. It was them against the world. Until it all fell apart. It’s been a decade since they last spoke, but when Rachel bumps into Ben one rainy day, the years melt away. They’d been partners in crime and the best of friends. But life has moved on: Ben is married. Rachel is not. Yet in that split second, Rachel feels the old friendship return. And along with it, the broken heart she’s never been able to mend.
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Narrator ruins it
- De Sandi P en 09-07-16
De: Mhairi McFarlane
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What Might Have Been
- De: Holly Miller
- Narrado por: Sofia Zervudachi
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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Lucy is at a crossroads. The same night she quits her thankless job she meets Caleb, a local photographer in her seaside town, and has a run-in with Max—the once love of her life. As Lucy decides the right path forward—finally pursue her dream of becoming a writer, or move to London and revive her career—her choice will change her life in unimaginable ways.
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Maid for Each Other
- De: Lynn Painter
- Narrado por: Saylor Bell Curda, Teddy Hamilton
- Duración: 9 h
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As a professional cleaner, Abi Mariano never thought her apartment would have any sort of infestation, but because of a building-wide outbreak, she now needs somewhere to stay for a week. As a part-time student with two jobs, she doesn’t have many options. Then the solution presents itself: the owner of the penthouse she cleans is out of town for the week. She normally wouldn’t consider it, but he’s literally never around (she hasn’t even met him). It goes great…until one morning she finds two strangers in the kitchen.
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The Girl Who Chased the Moon
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Addison Allen
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times best-selling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world - no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return?
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Lovely Writing ends Abruptly
- De LNT en 05-12-11
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Sunset Beach
- De: Mary Kay Andrews
- Narrado por: Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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Drue Campbell’s life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn’t seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother’s funeral after a 20-year absence. Worse, he’s remarried - to Drue’s eighth-grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they’re offering her a job. It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her inheritance - her grandparents’ beach bungalow in the sleepy town of Sunset Beach.
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I love when a book takes me completely by surprise
- De BookJunkie en 05-08-19
De: Mary Kay Andrews
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Seabreeze Inn
- Summer Beach, Book 1
- De: Jan Moran
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Ivy Marin’s life implodes after discovering her late husband spent their life savings on a beach house. Strapped for cash as an art teacher and with nowhere to go, Ivy and her recently jilted sister head to Summer Beach to recreate their lives. If only renovating a historical home didn’t unveil a host of hidden secrets in the beachside community—and her former high school crush wasn’t in charge of the small town.
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Wonderful Story & Narration🎧 A Heartfelt Delight!
- De Bette en 04-23-20
De: Jan Moran
predictable yet fun!!!!!
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I Wish it went on longer
I wish I could know what happens to Jenny and Jon next just because.
I’m a romantic
How funny it is!
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Good until the end
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Another great book by Katherine Center
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Lighthearted
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Cute but predictable
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Good story that took a few wrong turns
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Love Katherine Center’s stories!
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Fictional what to expect when your expecting
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“The Bright Side of Disaster” is "Katherine Center’s"debut novel. Jenny is very pregnant, she never planned to be pregnant but needs to embrace this life path .. she thinks Dean her finance and father of her baby is on the same path. But Dean’s head in a different space - he is more interested in his cheesy cover band, has a bad smoking habit and very unsupportive Jane. One night he goes out for cigarettes and just never comes back. Jane wakes up and finds a note from Dean .. he is not in love with her anymore and needs to get away .. this all before their baby is born.
Once the baby is born, a little girl Jenny names Elizabeth Maxine; Maxie, life with a new baby just gets harder, motherhood is not what she expected - Jenny’s milk takes it time coming in causing a hungry baby turning Maxie into a crier.
“No, I haven't showered in a week because the baby cries when I put her down"
Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, let the baby cry occasionally and take a damn shower.
With the help of her mother, a new Mommy Group and bargaining with a neighbor for help in exchange for home cooked meals and even the possibility of a new love interest Jenny gets somewhat of a handle on her life until .. yep you guess right .. Dean shows up.
Finally Jenny realizes ..
“And I was grateful. For all the things that had brought me to this moment, and for every single thing that would follow.”
While I found “The Bright Side of Disaster” and easy quick read, I got very frustrated with Jenny - she makes dumb decision making her character look weak with no backbone. I felt the end of the books was a tad rushed BUT I am still giving it ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This was an audiobook narrated by one of my favorite narrators, Thérèse Plummer.
good debut novel
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