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Though Susan has little memory of the accident, her arrival has alarmed those who fear what may lie dormant in Susan's memory. But it is her maternal grandmother, Alex Montoro, a proud, intense, aging doyenne of the ballet, who believes that that memory must be unlocked. For Susan is the only living witness to the tragedy - and Alex suspects that her daughter's fall was no accident.
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Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Murdoch Amazes
- By Sara on 08-30-17
By: Iris Murdoch, and others
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The Bad Seed
- By: William March
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 243
There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around?
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- By CoCo B.M.J on 07-23-19
By: William March
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The Stranger House
- By: Reginald Hill
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 155
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 100
For years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to travellers. People like Sam, a brilliant young mathematician, who believes that anything that can't be explained by maths isn't worth explaining. And Miguel, a historian running from a priests' seminary, who sees ghosts. Sam is an experienced young woman, Miguel a 26-year-old virgin.
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3 out of 5 stars
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an OK read
- By Jen Terry on 01-18-08
By: Reginald Hill
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The Distant Hours
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,259
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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Right Mood At The Right Time
- By Simone on 11-13-12
By: Kate Morton
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Galilee
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 23 hrs and 56 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 281
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Story4 out of 5 stars 254
The Barbarossa family’s roots are far more ancient and ethereal, but they are bound to the Gearys by a shared history of murder, insanity, and adultery. When Rachel Geary and Galilee, the seductive prince of the Barbarossa clan, fall in love, they unleash powerful enmities that could destroy both dynasties. Shorter and more conventional than some of Barker’s other work, this novel is especially rich with complex, passionate, three-dimensional characters, lush settings, and elegant language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Audiophile's Dream
- By Joseph on 09-01-11
By: Clive Barker
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Sea Change
- By: Karen White
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Kate Forbes, Peggity Price
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 429
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 387
Karen White' s New York Times best-selling novels keep audiences up well into the night with their compelling plots and engaging characters. Sea Change is a riveting tale of second chances, forgiveness, and leaps of faith. Plagued by feelings of loneliness and not belonging, 35-year-old Ava Whalen is as shocked as anyone when she falls for child psychologist Matthew Frazier, elopes with him, and settles down on St. Simons Island, Georgia. But her newfound happiness is threatened when her past proves difficult to escape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow moving
- By Mon on 11-21-12
By: Karen White
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The Magus
- By: John Fowles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 916
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 807
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Story4 out of 5 stars 816
John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- By Darwin8u on 01-29-14
By: John Fowles
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The Last Summer
- By: Judith Kinghorn
- Narrated by: Jane Wymark
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Clarissa is almost 17 when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer - and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Last Summer Delivers
- By Carmen dela Cruz on 05-22-16
By: Judith Kinghorn
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Breaking the Silence
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 626
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 561
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Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing-except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Laura's promise results in another death: her husband's. And after their five-year-old daughter, Emma, witnesses her father's suicide, Emma refuses to talk about it - to talk at all.Frantic and guilt ridden, Laura contacts the only person who may be able to help.
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1 out of 5 stars
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can't listen to the narrator
- By Sandy on 01-05-15
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The Island
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding plans a trip to her mother's childhood home in Plaka, Greece hoping to unravel Sofia's hidden past. Given a letter to take to Sofia's old friend, Fotini, Alexis is promised that through Fotini, she will learn more. Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the deserted island of Spinalonga—Greece's former leper colony. Fotini reveals the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters, and a family rent by tragedy, war, and passion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will listen to it again someday
- By RN on 01-07-23
By: Victoria Hislop
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The Haunting of Hill House
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10,881
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,671
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Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written horror tale
- By C K White on 02-11-14
By: Shirley Jackson
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Dreams Underfoot
- The Newford Collection
- By: Charles de Lint
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Welcome to Newford: to the music clubs, the waterfront, and the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too Much Urban Fantasy Wears Thin
- By Jefferson on 06-15-13
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In Malice, Quite Close
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French ex-pat Tristan Mourault is the wealthy, urbane heir to a world-renowned collection of art - and an insatiable voyeur enamored with Karen Miller, a 15-year-old from a working-class family in San Francisco. Deciding he must 'rescue' Karen from her unhappy circumstances, Tristan kidnaps her and stages her death to mask his true crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In malice,Quite close
- By Wendy on 09-06-11
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- Anonymous User
- 12-08-21
One of my favorite authors
I have read Phyllis A. Whitney books for over 45 years. This book is an enjoyable read; it kept my interest as I tried to figure out who 'done it' and had a surprise ending like many of her books do.
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- wwexplorer
- 05-22-21
Well written
It took me a few chapters to real start enjoying the story but once I did, I was all in...
Enjoy!
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- Heather K
- 06-25-19
meh
This is not Whitney's best effort - more like bottom 10%. Narrator was ok. Story ok.
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- Sunny
- 07-08-21
This is an excellent Book
The moment I had free time I found myself coming back to read this book. A must read
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- Michelle Hubbard
- 11-16-21
No Matter What Family is Family
We can get too tied up inside about the details a family is made up of people choosing to stick together and far less of DNA!
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- Voracious Reader
- 05-30-21
Classic Phyllis Whitney
I've been a fan of Phyllis Whitney for many years. I love everything about her books.
The Ebony Swan, like her others, is filled with foreboding and suspense. Anna Fields has done a wonderful job of of performing it.
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- MerylB
- 09-15-21
Not bad
This book was fairly enjoyable, though flawed. Except for the main character - an aging former prima ballerina - the other characters are pretty one-dimensional; and while the “evil” characters are given pat explanations of why they are evil, they are just a little too OBVIOUSLY evil. Also, the “romance” between two characters is WAY too fast to make sense.
However, the narration is quite good, covering a lot of flaws.
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- Julie
- 01-26-24
I love this story
I love Phyllis Whitney and all of her books. They are easy reads but so special.
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- Molly
- 08-05-22
Heard It
Great! Great! You never guess "who dunnit"!
Great plot with believable characters. A must read.
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Patricia
- 01-11-22
Wow a Phyllis Whitney!
This book was as good if not better than all her novels I’ve read. I’ve been in love with her writing ever since I first read the young adult novel, The Eyes Have It…. Earthquake in SanFrancisco and a fantastic black sculptured cat. She fought my imagination then and has never lost it.
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