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The Butterfly Girl
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- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Secrets and lies can’t stay buried forever in Cedar Valley. In the summer, hikers and campers pack the small Colorado town’s meadows and fields. And in the winter, skiers and snowboarders take over the mountains. Season by season, year after year, time passes, and the lies, like the aspens and evergreens that surround the town, take root and spread deep. Now, someone has uncovered the lies, and it is his murder that continues a chain of events that began almost 40 years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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intriguing
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One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. She doesn't want to be found. Or at least, that's the story. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn’t be put back together. They called it a “walk away.” It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over. But is that what really happened to Molly Clarke?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than Gone Girl!
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Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of New Haven. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book’s release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Nightmare Man
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In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!
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Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
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Ever been to Bangkok?
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Following her father's death, Jane North-Robinson and her mom move from sunny California to the dreary, dilapidated old house in Maine where her mother grew up. All they want is a fresh start, but behind North Manor's doors lurks a history that leaves them feeling more alone...and more tormented.
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Unsatisfying
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story lacked... understanding
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It’s been 17 years since the tragic summer the McAvoy sisters fell apart. Lindy, the wild one, left home, carved out a new life in the city, and never looked back. Delia, the sister who stayed, became a mother herself, raising her daughters and running the family shop in their small Ohio hometown on the shores of Lake Erie. But now, with their mother’s ailing health and a rebellious teenager to rein in, Delia has no choice but to welcome Lindy home.
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Great story
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Jo Carter never thought she'd return to Clear Springs, Minnesota. But when the former journalist receives a cryptic note about the disappearance of her friend Sam twenty years before, she's compelled to find out what really happened. During her investigation, she learns another high school friend has died in a mysterious accident. Nothing is as it seems, and Jo must probe Clear Springs' darkest corners and her own painful and unreliable memories to discover the truth - and save herself from the killer who could still be on the hunt.
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Home is not always where the heart is...
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When 39-year-old Maria Forssmann wakes up in her 17-year-old body, she doesn’t know how she got there. All she does know is she has to get back: to her home in Bienville, Mississippi, to her job as a successful psychiatrist and, most importantly, to her husband, daughters, and unborn son.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Religious
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- justin
- 09-24-22
Amazing
I love both books. I listened to this one in one day!!! It definitely made me cry a couple of times!!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-18-24
An incredible detailed story of the world
It took me by surprise from the beginning with the amount of details and how easily the story and the narration located me in all those places Naomi and Selia wandered. And as the story evolved, the characters lead us to an adventure of heroes, villains and people.
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- E. Samms
- 03-15-24
The Butterfly Girl
This book came into my radar from reading through a list of popular books on the GoodReads website - which I tend to do from time to time. So, I went ahead and purchased it because the premise of the book intrigued me. Now, once I got into the thick of it all, the story really opened up for me. I’ll admit, it’s a slow burn though - almost a little too slow but once it revs up it keeps you in. I appreciated how the author would blend the surrealism of the characters inner worlds into the, often times, stark and dark realities of their real world. It was a lovely way to highlight how the power of the mind can transform and transport you to places of solace to keep you alive in hardest of circumstances. Overall, good book! Now that I know there was book prior to this, I’ll be picking up a copy of that too. The author has made me a fan of her works!!
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- Stacey H
- 03-29-24
The sorrow of street kids
This was well written. A hard read/story. I will think differently of the street people. The book will make you more aware.
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- Gator girl
- 01-30-20
Sappy story
Full of technical holes. Not recommended. So.... it took 24 years for protagonist to begin to search for her sister. Guess she had more important things to do.
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- Kim D. Rucklos
- 02-21-23
Well Done!
I loved this book and also The Child Finder. Engaging and beautiful writing! Well done!
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- PDX
- 04-06-24
A good story with an overworked theme
Great story, especially as a sequel. Nice way to reveal the perpetrator in the end. Good climax and finish. but I got a bit annoyed with all the butterfly references - it was too much.
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- Alisha Nimmo
- 11-09-19
amazing
Such a fantastic book. So well written. It plays on all my emotions. I couldn't stop listening!
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- Jennifer C.
- 01-01-22
Gripping, two book series
Held my attention from page one, please make sure and read the first book, The Child Finder and then, The Butterfly Girl. Well written w a great story line, so glad I found this author and these two books.
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- Julianne S.
- 05-22-24
I love this author
the story drew me in just like the last one. some boys are hard to listen to but never gratuitous
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