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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction)
A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis.
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe.
Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?
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- De Penda K en 06-09-20
De: Megan Giddings
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The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season
- De: Molly Fader
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her 10-year-old daughter in tow, she’s not sure if she’ll be welcomed or turned away with a shotgun by the aunt she has never met.
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Really Enjoyed It
- De Kathryn @theBookDate en 03-30-21
De: Molly Fader
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Don't Look for Me
- A Novel
- De: Wendy Walker
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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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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Better than Gone Girl!
- De Kristen Harris en 09-17-20
De: Wendy Walker
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He Came in with It
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- De: Miriam Feldman
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O’Rourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens off the conventional course. Like the 10 Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another: violence, evictions, arrests, a suicide attempt, a near-drowning - even cancer and a brain tumor - play against the backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal.
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So Beautifully Written
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De: Miriam Feldman
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The Playground
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- De: Jane Shemilt
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There’s Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband, and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle.
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remarkable
- De lisa en 01-10-20
De: Jane Shemilt
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The Last House on Needless Street
- De: Catriona Ward
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 12 h
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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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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!
- De Brenda en 10-04-21
De: Catriona Ward
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Under the Water
- De: Paul Pen, Simon Bruni - translator
- Narrado por: James Daniels
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He’s a loving husband, she’s a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A strange series of misfortunes has left them reeling: an unexplained break-in, a catastrophic handgun accident, and a bizarre poisoning that’s left Grace feeling especially unnerved. Packing up their RV for a move across the country, they’re ready for a fresh start, expecting to leave all their problems safely behind.
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Good syuff
- De Kindle V C en 10-12-19
De: Paul Pen, y otros
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In the Time of Our History
- De: Susanne Pari
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished.
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Enjoyable
- De J. E. Jordan en 05-23-23
De: Susanne Pari
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Growing Things and Other Stories
- De: Paul Tremblay
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden, Graham Halstead, Cassandra Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national best seller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. A masterful anthology featuring 19 pieces of short fiction, Growing Things and Other Stories is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s fantastically fertile imagination.
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Paul Tremblay is totally nuts.
- De Gary & Jay en 07-07-19
De: Paul Tremblay
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The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets
- A Novel
- De: Molly Fader
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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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
- De Nessa en 09-25-23
De: Molly Fader
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Lights over Cloud Lake
- De: Nathan Hystad
- Narrado por: Melissa Thompson
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Reporter Eva Heart is sent to Cloud Lake to write an exposé on flying saucer sightings, a subject she is extremely familiar with. Nearly 20 years ago, Eva, then known as Jessica Carver, went missing, only to appear a week later, confused and frightened. A man went to jail for the crime. Now Eva must face demons from her past as she meets both old and new friends along the way. Will her real identity be exposed? Can history truly repeat itself?
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Suspenseful scifi mystery at its best!
- De rockgnome44 en 12-03-19
De: Nathan Hystad
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Two Truths and a Lie
- A Novel
- De: Meg Mitchell Moore
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They’ve been welcomed by Rebecca Coleman, unofficial former leader of the Newburyport Mom Squad, and her teenage daughter Alexa, Katie’s new babysitter. Truth: Alexa has time on her hands after a falling-out with her friends involving her popular YouTube channel.
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Really more of a YA novel...
- De Faith W. en 09-04-20
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The Paper Palace
- A Novel
- De: Miranda Cowley Heller
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a 50-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace” - the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: Last night, Elle and her oldest friend, Jonas, crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.
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The story has too much child abuse discription
- De DTurek en 07-14-21
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Vanishing Falls
- A Novel
- De: Poppy Gee
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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Deep within the lush Tasmanian rainforest is the remote town of Vanishing Falls, a place with a storied past. The town’s showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its Calendar House - currently occupied by Jack Lily, a prominent art collector and landowner; his wife, Celia; and their four daughters. The elaborate, eccentrically designed mansion houses one masterpiece and 52 rooms - and Celia Lily isn’t in any of them. She has vanished without a trace.… Joelle Smithton knows that a few folks in Vanishing Falls believe that she’s simple-minded.
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OK Story
- De Cindy House en 12-21-21
De: Poppy Gee
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Mark has a wife and two kids, a sense of purpose, financial security, and a fragile contentment. However wistful his visions of the future, Mark knows who he is. But a summer trip with his abrasive brother-in-law and unhappy sister-in-law leave Mark questioning everything he thinks he knows about his family—and himself.
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Perfect vacations or last resorts? In this collection of short psychological thrillers, bestselling authors bring trouble to paradise. Today’s itinerary: surfing, sailing, hiking, facing your worst fears . . . Most dream vacations never live up to expectations—but few cause this many nightmares.
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With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student.
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Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than 20 years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring - the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.
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This book left me cursing!!
This book builds and builds and builds leaving you with question after question. Then just like that ends and gives you nothing!!
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Compelling
** spoiler alert ** Wow, this book is compelling. In it, some horrible but unidentified event has occurred which is affecting the whole world. I was so intent on finding out what it was and what the “big problem” was, that I really powered through the whole thing. I do love being that excited about getting through a book! However the big shock is that the reader finds out NOTHING at the end. The big problem is still unidentified! It was like a metaphor for life: the final lesson is that one doesn’t know how it’ll turn out and has to keep on living day by day and doing one’s best to stay on top of things, NO MATTER WHAT. In this case there was a LOT to deal with, but the lesson is the same. SO… that’s life, and it can be scary.
The big terror in the book is like the pandemic in a way. It’s a horrible problem enveloping the whole world and it seems to be getting worse, not better. It is scary and it causes people to behave toward each other in ways that are very revealing of their character, just like in this book. The characters in the book each seem to revert to their own stereotypical behavior in how they deal with the terror.
Even though I enjoyed reading the book, I didn’t much like the writing; I felt it was pretentious. Who uses the vocabulary words synechdoche, pudendum, susurrus? And the metaphor, “the laptop was hot enough to intubate tumors in her abdomen.” That irritated me. Also, I didn’t appreciate the writer’s air of superiority in putting the characters down for their normal, if shallow, ways of life. Amanda and Clay are portrayed so negatively, but really they are just a couple of pretty normal people. Aren’t we all?
The other issue I had was that after the story was set up and the two families were both inhabiting the country house, there is really little else that happens. The writer has to draw out the story by delving into the characters’ inner lives, past, feelings etc. In the mean time, all the reader wants is to find out WHAT IS HAPPENING to the world. It could just be me and my impatience, but I found myself skimming past the characters’ actions or inner thoughts about their past, etc. I just wanted to get to THE PROBLEM, whatever it was. And then… nothing happens. I do get the message about living life to your fullest each day, but… what a disappointment after all that set up.
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- bugsmeany
- 06-10-21
Ask yourself these questions
This book is about a world-altering event, experienced as it unfolds by two families stuck together by circumstance. Alien invasion? Terror attack? Virus? A foreign country's surprise act of war? We learn a little bit more than the characters, but not much.
I’m seeing a lot of poor reviews from people who can’t tolerate not learning every single detail.
So. Do you _need_ to know what the event is? Who or what caused it? How we plan to fight back, if we even can? The ultimate outcome, months or years or decades in the future?
If you answered no, this novel is for you. Let your imagination fill in the blanks. The story was gripping enough without explaining everything. And Marin Ireland continues to be one of the best narrators around.
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- RMan
- 06-16-23
It might be well done but I’m too depressed to be sure
This book would be best for a book club selection, since it has so many topics to discuss, or for someone who’s mood is so positive that they need something to take them down a little. It’s a decent book but I didn’t necessarily enjoy it. I can see its merit though because it held my attention and is technically good, just not for me.
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- Lanette
- 03-20-21
What Matters In the End?
I must have been misled by reviews as I thought this was a story about racial tensions between two families--and while there is some of that, briefly, in the beginning, the novel actually turns out to be a
stop if you want nothing spoiled
a dystopian disaster story in which the previous tensions melt away as the families realize the world is ending and are drawn to support one another through their common humanity.
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- bjs
- 04-23-21
Leaves you wondering
This is a book that you either love or hate. There are no pet answers as to why everything is happening, and if you want a book that has everything neatly tied up in the end you will be disappointed. It leaves you with a desire to know what happens next, but you have to only imagine it. I loved the way the author developed her characters so vividly. She is a very descriptive writer.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-25-20
Medicine for covid
The book is framed as “timely” — and it is. I found the terror this book conjures to be a strange balm for the pain of 2020. I worried he couldn’t possibly land the finish...but know that he does.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-27-20
Impotent Plot
Struggled to finish. Impotent plot "supported" by unbelieveable characters and unchallenged events. Omnicient narrator scurries in to resolve the mess but explains nothing except that something realky did happen. Waste of time.
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- JKinLA
- 02-23-21
wow
This is all I will say - this novel is NOT what I'd expected after reading media reviews. I'm glad the reviewers didn't spill the beans, so I won't. This is a very engrossing book, and the narration is superb.
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- StephT
- 06-12-21
Meh
I kept waiting for something, anything, to happen and it just never came. The book was boring, incredibly boring.
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