The Guncle Abroad
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Steven Rowley
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Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy.
Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker after their mother’s passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by and relaunch his dormant acting career. After the run of his second successful sit-com comes to a close, Patrick feels on top of the world . . . professionally. But some things have had to take a back seat. Looking down both barrels at fifty, Patrick is single again after breaking things off with Emory. But at least he has a family to lean on. Until that family needs to again lean on him.
When Patrick's brother, Greg, announces he’s getting remarried in Italy, Maisie and Grant are not thrilled. Patrick feels drawn to take the two back under his wing. As they travel through Europe on their way to the wedding, Patrick tries his best to help them understand love, much as he once helped them comprehend grief. But when they arrive in Italy, Patrick is overextended managing a groom with cold feet; his sister, Clara, flirting with guests left and right; a growing rivalry with the kids’ charming soon-to-be-launt (lesbian aunt), and two moody young teens trying to adjust to a new normal, all culminating in a disastrous rehearsal dinner.
Can Patrick save the day? Will teaching the kids about love help him repair his own love life? Can the change of scenery help Patrick come to terms with finally growing up?
Gracing the work with his signature blend of humor and heart, Steven Rowley charms with a beloved story about the complicated bonds of family, love, and what it takes to rediscover yourself, even at the ripe age of fifty.
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
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Alice's journey begins as all good journeys do: hitting on the sales guy at REI. After a tumultuous breakup, a quick career transition, family upheaval, and a sobriety journey that didn't fix her life quite as much as she expected it to, Alice decides that the only way to solve all her problems is to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. But as she begins preparing for the months-long quest, she realizes the answers she's seeking might not be on top of a snow-covered mountain. Especially since she just learned there was snow in California.
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Chuck full of laughs to lift anyone's spirits.
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The Answer Is No
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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
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By: Fredrik Backman, and others
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Separated by 10 years, 3,000 miles, and the unrelenting stresses of adulthood, best friends Janet and Serena plan a 40th birthday girls’ trip to reconnect. But after a massive crash, they’re the only survivors to wash ashore on an uncharted Caribbean Island. Armed with only the clothes on their backs and zero survival skills, they fight to overcome hunger, thirst, deadly wildlife—and most terrifyingly—decades of accrued resentment. Can they find their way home, or will they kill each other first?
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Get ready to Laugh
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SO GOOD
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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When two childhood best friends blow up their respective romantic relationships, they make a time-sensitive pact: serial-cheater Chuck cannot sleep with anyone as she attends a three-month-long recovery group for cheaters, while sex-deprived Sofia vows to hook up with as many people as possible before recommitting to monogamy and tying the knot with her long-time fiancé. To keep things interesting, Chuck and Sofia decide to revive a past tradition from their summer camp days—also known as the dawning of sluthood.
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Hilarious
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The True Story of The Coward Brothers follows two musical brothers – one English, one American, both the illegitimate sons of dubious parentage who may, as they claim to be, "one and half-brothers" – perhaps a reference to the disparity in their height and relative talents.
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Cute
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best audiobook I have ever listened to
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I Can't Make This Up
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56,024
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 50,466
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50,210
Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Audiobook I Ever Listened To
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American Psycho
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,274
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,675
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Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
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Fanntastic book but maybe not for everyone....
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
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What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Encouraging memoir: Sorry, cheer
- By Aaron Menz on 07-03-23
By: Jessica Pan
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It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a beautiful book
- By Brooke Baker on 08-15-24
By: Alison Espach
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The Mars House
- A Novel
- By: Natasha Pulley
- Narrated by: Daniel de Bourg
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January’s life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger—a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January’s job choices, housing, and even transportation are dictated by this second-class status, and now a xenophobic politician named Aubrey Gale is running on a platform that would make it all worse.
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there is no cliffhanger ending
- By Anonymous User on 04-09-24
By: Natasha Pulley
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
- A Novel
- By: Kirsten Miller
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books—none of which she’s actually read. To replace the “pornographic” books she’s challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she’s sure the town’s readers need.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I disliked the whole book, I couldn’t finish it.
- By Laura on 07-29-24
By: Kirsten Miller
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The Gathering
- A Novel
- By: C. J. Tudor
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven’t seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know who’s responsible: a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs living in an old mine settlement deep in the woods.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- By Michael Carr on 08-22-24
By: C. J. Tudor
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The Paris Secret
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Melle Stewart
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Story5 out of 5 stars 958
England, 1939: The Penrose sisters couldn't be more different. Skye is a daring and brash pilot, and Liberty is the one to defy her at every turn. Even if women aren't allowed in the Royal Air Force, Skye is determined to help the war effort. She's thrilled when it reunites her with her childhood soul mate, Nicholas. She's less thrilled to learn Nicholas is now engaged to an enigmatic Frenchwoman named Margaux Jourdan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING!
- By Daniela Laws on 10-05-20
By: Natasha Lester
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- Kindle Customer M
- 05-30-24
an enjoyable ride
the twist was so well made I didn't see it coming the story is still as good as the first one hopefully there will be a third one
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- meg
- 06-10-24
LOVE
LOVE LOVE LOVE! Am I able to give this book more than 5 stars? One of the bests books in 2024! Can’t wait to read read.
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- Suzi Ogulnick
- 06-09-24
Perfectamente
I am so sad the isn’t another Steven Rowley book waiting in the wings for me to read next !
I’ll have to start them all again.
I smiled and laughed thru this entire book. (Oh, and I also cried- a bonus!)
This book touched every emotion you can touch and was just absolutely wonderful. Thank you Steven Rowley- you da man!!! I loved every word!
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- Anonymous User
- 06-22-24
It was nice
Another cute story to add to the mix. Steven Rowley takes you that place of caring for these characters. Patrick is the best guncle
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- Amazon Lover
- 06-27-24
Fun entertainment!
The author does a wonderful job narrating his book! I was very entertained and laughed out loud several times. Really enjoyed the European aspect. Fun story!
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- Suzanne
- 06-13-24
Loved it!
Patrick does it again! Just so sweet and joy filled- just loved this story from start to finish!
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- Stephanie Sapp
- 07-23-24
Guncle Fun
I love this series and can’t wait to hear about their next adventure. It’s fun and playful.
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- Beth Benson
- 09-10-24
The narrator
Loved it all Great book to listen to for the loving story of a family struggling with loss
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- C.
- 09-19-24
warm feelings
A taste for the finer things and a struggle with love languages brings this story to heart.
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- Jennifer Joy
- 06-13-24
Laughs and tears ♥️♥️
Every bit as good as the first - which is a tall order. I loved it from the first minute to the last.
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