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Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator’s attempt at a southern accent distracting to story
- By Ryan C. Bango on 01-05-22
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Fallen Angels
- By: Patricia Hickman
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
During the Great Depression, Jeb Nubey is running from the law when he meets three abandoned children. With nowhere else to go the group passes a stormy night in a comforting church. When they are discovered, a case of mistaken identity ensues. It seems the congregation has been waiting for their new pastor, a widower with three kids. Looks like more trouble for Jeb. Yet the chance for a steady job and three squares a day is too good to turn down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching
- By Christina on 11-11-04
By: Patricia Hickman
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Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
- By: Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 214
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Story4 out of 5 stars 184
In the latest novel from Susan Gregg Gilmore, sometimes you have to return to the place where you began to arrive at the place where you belong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected but........
- By Coach "J" on 03-11-16
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Cold Sassy Tree
- By: Olive Ann Burns
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,894
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,889
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That is the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, elopes with Miss Love Simpson, a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Feel-Good Story
- By Chrissie on 07-13-13
By: Olive Ann Burns
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The Sweet By and By
- A Novel
- By: Todd Johnson
- Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Adriane Lenox, Robin Miles, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Among the longleaf pines and family farms of eastern North Carolina, days seem to pass without incident for Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes until they discover each other in a friendship that will take them on the most important journey of their lives. Margaret, droll and whip smart, has a will of iron that never fails her even when her body does, while Bernice, an avid country-music fan, is rarely lucid.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great 2/3 of a book.
- By Tracy on 07-09-12
By: Todd Johnson
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
- A Novel
- By: Eleanor Henderson
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- By S. Clay on 11-01-17
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- By: Rebecca Wells
- Narrated by: Judith Ivey
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,108
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 966
When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser", the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As usual the book is better than the movie
- By Denzil and Judy's Account on 03-25-10
By: Rebecca Wells
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The Last Carolina Girl
- By: Meagan Church
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- By Savannah Brown on 06-10-23
By: Meagan Church
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- By: Allan Gurganus
- Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
- Length: 49 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and fans alike fell in love with the voice of 99-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 20th century, when she was 15 and her husband was 50. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dated.
- By edie butler on 04-06-21
By: Allan Gurganus
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Angel Sister
- A Novel
- By: Ann H. Gabhart
- Narrated by: Dianna Dorman
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
It is 1936 and Kate Merritt works hard to keep her family together. Her father has slipped into alcoholism, her mother is trying to come to grips with their dire financial situation, and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to all of it. Kate could never have imagined that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be just what her family needs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful angel story
- By Kindle Customer on 02-24-24
By: Ann H. Gabhart
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The Moonflower Vine
- A Novel
- By: Jetta Carleton
- Narrated by: Natalie Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
On a farm in western Missouri, during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy’s fate will be the family’s greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive - and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want it to end!!!
- By Amanda H. on 01-20-21
By: Jetta Carleton
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Paradise
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- By Kennedi Hill on 11-07-19
By: Toni Morrison
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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
- A Novel
- By: Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
Bezellia Grove was born into the most prominent of Nashville families, but that didn’t stop her from having an alcoholic mother and a distant, adulterous father. Her nanny, Maizelle, and Nathaniel, the handyman, are the people who have taken care of her since she can remember. She considers them family, but her parents just consider them servants because they are Black. When Bezellia has a clandestine romance with Nathaniel's son, Whites and Blacks unite in fury at the young couple.
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4 out of 5 stars
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light southern fiction
- By suzanne on 02-08-13
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This Side of the Sky
- By: Elyse Singleton
- Narrated by: Myra Taylor, Sharon Washington, Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Award-winning journalist Elyse Singleton delivers what Essence calls “a gem - the perfect book to curl up with.”
Best friends Lilian and Myraleen, two African American women from rural Mississippi, travel to Europe during World War II to act as members of the Women’s Army Corps. During this time of segregation and destruction, both women discover love and heartbreak, triumph and defeat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Breath of Fresh Air
- By Adina Andreu on 07-19-12
By: Elyse Singleton
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Mudbound
- By: Hillary Jordan
- Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,277
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 962
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 968
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- By Betty on 03-25-12
By: Hillary Jordan
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,360
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,240
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,208
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. But years later, she learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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- By: Ann H. Gabhart
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1933 Louisville, Kentucky, even the ongoing economic depression cannot keep Piper Danson's parents from insisting on a debut party. After all, their fortune came through the market crash intact, and they've picked out the perfect suitor for their daughter. Braxton Crandall can give her the kind of life to which she's accustomed. The only problem? This is not the man - or the life - she really wants.
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Great story! Great Narration! I will be looking for mor books penned by Snn H Gabhart!!!
- By Martha Wessinger on 04-07-24
By: Ann H. Gabhart
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The Undertaker’s Assistant
- By: Amanda Skenandore
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies - and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer's shortcomings.
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A riveting story that will keep your interest.
- By Patricia on 08-02-19
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The Orphan Collector
- By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In the fall of 1918, 13-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the US Army, hoping to prove his loyalty. But an even more urgent threat has arrived. Spanish influenza is spreading through the city. Soon, dead and dying are everywhere. With no food at home, Pia must venture out in search of supplies, leaving her infant twin brothers alone....
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Author is an AMAZING storyteller!
- By Nicole Newman on 08-06-20
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Under the Magnolias
- By: T.I. Lowe
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980: Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Geared towards preteens and Christians
- By Scott Gathright on 08-07-21
By: T.I. Lowe
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The Life She Was Given
- By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
- Narrated by: Lori Gardner
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,330
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On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. Lilly isn't allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. She's never even ventured beyond her narrow room. Momma insists it's for Lilly's own protection, that people would be afraid if they saw her. But on this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time - and sold to the circus sideshow.
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1 out of 5 stars
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If you're sensitive to animal cruelty don't listen
- By Emily on 08-08-17
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- Linda Geel
- 02-23-22
Great story for then and now!
We loved this story and all the intertwined relationships -taking us back to the feelings and experiences of the 1940's while dealing with life issues common to all generations.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-15-23
Southern Living
Leah Weiss captures the southern landscape beautifully! Wonderful storyline and great characters! The reader is wonderful! Mesmerizing and I did not want the story to end!
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- MelissaFBrown
- 08-03-21
Leah Weiss is a gifted author
I’m becoming a big fan after reading two of her books. I highly recommend her work to others.
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- s. j. trull
- 04-10-22
All the little hopes
This book shows the compassion for others and inclusive attitude that is missing today. It is great story of acquiescence and kindness toward one’s fellow man . The main characters show kindness and no jealousy.
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- Jason
- 06-11-23
Enjoyable
Like others have said, it isn’t very complicated or great literature, but charming (usually) and comforting to listen to. I didn’t like the Ouija board parts, and some parts were a too graphic and profane, but it had some lovable characters.
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- Nicholem94
- 11-17-23
Heartwarming!
Such a heartwarming story through the innocent eyes of 2 young girls. A feel good book with extraordinary storytelling. Beautifully written and beautifully read too! I felt the voice matched the energy of the book very well.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-16-22
Good American Litature Story
Good Story, Great Characters, Wasn't to sure on Narrator, got used to her. I would Recommend
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- Jess
- 02-10-23
Really enjoy this unique story
Only disappointment is how the book ended so abruptly. Otherwise, this is an enchanting little story.
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- escoocoo
- 03-10-24
Great!
Exceeded all of my expectations! So good, all the way around: the story, the performance (outstanding!), the characters, the way it all wraps up in the end. This is a good one, folks! I highly recommend it. Listen for free(!☺️) while it is still being offered on Audible Plus…..🤣
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- L
- 03-19-24
Leigh Weiss doesn't disappoint
The characters in this book grabbed me and didn't let go. My only qualm is that it ended too abruptly.
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