Family Drama Fiction
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Finding Tomorrow
- Bluebird Bay Series, Book 1
- By: Denise Grover Swank, Christine Gael
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Celia Burrows thought she had it all - a handsome husband, two successful children, and a gorgeous beach house on the northern coast of Maine. But her perfect life cracks apart when her husband of 30 years informs her that he's leaving. In a note. And since problems come in threes, her adult children reveal they've both been struggling with issues of their own.
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Great for falling asleep to
- By Elizabeth L on 03-07-23
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Finding Tomorrow
- Bluebird Bay Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Series: Bluebird Bay Series, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-12-20
- Language: English
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Celia Burrows thought she had it all - a handsome husband, two successful children, and a gorgeous beach house on the northern coast of Maine. But her perfect life cracks apart when her husband of 30 years informs her that he's leaving....
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This Family
- the compelling and beautifully written story of family drama and motherhood
- By: Kate Sawyer
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and laugh and bicker in this house. Today she is getting married in this house, with all her family in attendance. The wedding celebrations have brought fractured family together for the first time in years: there's Phoebe and her husband Michael, children in tow. The young and sensitive Rosie, with her new partner. Irene, Mary's ex-mother-in-law. Even Emma, Mary's eldest, is back for the wedding - despite being at odds with everyone else.
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Awful editing
- By Daisydays on 10-01-24
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This Family
- the compelling and beautifully written story of family drama and motherhood
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and laugh and bicker in this house. Today she is getting married in this house, with all her family in attendance....
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Dara Palmer's Major Drama
- By: Emma Shevah
- Narrated by: Avita Jay
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet eleven-year-old Dara Palmer. She loves dancing and dreams of being a world famous actress - which means she has to get the main part in the school play. When she doesn't get any part at all, Dara begins to wonder whether it's because of her looks rather than her acting skills. But Dara has big ideas - and is determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
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uck another racist book
- By Claire on 08-06-24
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Dara Palmer's Major Drama
- Narrated by: Avita Jay
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-09-15
- Language: English
- Meet 11-year-old Dara Palmer. She loves dancing and dreams of being a world famous actress - which means she has to get the main part in the school play....
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Completely Cassidy: Drama Queen
- Completely Cassidy, Book 3
- By: Tamsyn Murray
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Cassidy can't wait to enrol at Dance and Drama Academy summer school! She's always dreamed of discovering her hidden talent - could she be a star in the making? But with auditions looming, Cassidy is gripped by stage fright. As big brother Liam keeps reminding her, she does have a knack for embarrassing herself. What if Cassidy's stage debut turns out to be an all-singing, all-dancing disaster?
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Great audiobook!✨❤️
- By Anonymous User on 02-05-24
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Completely Cassidy: Drama Queen
- Completely Cassidy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Series: Completely Cassidy, Book 3
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-08-16
- Language: English
- Cassidy can't wait to enrol at Dance and Drama Academy summer school! She's always dreamed of discovering her hidden talent - could she be a star in the making? Find out....
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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
- By: Katya Apekina
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley, Roger Wayne
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother, Marianne, dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, puddle of urine on the floor, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother's dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father, Dennis, a former civil rights activist and literary figure on the other side of success.
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Thank the lord this is free
- By Amazon Customer on 31-03-24
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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley, Roger Wayne
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 30-10-18
- Language: English
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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish powerfully captures the quiet torment of two sisters craving the attention of a parent they can't, and shouldn't, have to themselves....
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Life After Truth
- A Novel
- By: Ceridwen Dovey
- Narrated by: Rachel Butera
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won’t share what is haunting her. Mariam and Rowan, who married young, are struggling with the demands of family life and starting to regret prioritising meaning over wealth in their careers.
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Unsatisfying
- By Hannah on 28-06-20
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Life After Truth
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rachel Butera
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities....
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
- By: Dyan Sheldon
- Narrated by: Jo Wyatt
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Lola moves from New York City to boring Dellwood - Deadwood - Falls she thinks her life is over. But she soon discovers a way to shake things up - and it involves taking on the high school's biggest bully, getting the lead in the school play, not to mention crashing a rock star's party!
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
- Narrated by: Jo Wyatt
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 30-01-20
- Language: English
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When Lola moves from New York City to boring Dellwood - Deadwood - Falls she thinks her life is over. But she soon discovers a way to shake things up....
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Phreaks
- By: Matthew Derby
- Narrated by: Ben McKenzie, Carrie Coon, Christian Slater, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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The year is 1970. Emma Gable, a blind teenager coming of age in a small industrial town in Western New York, is about as far from the seismic cultural transformations rocking campuses and city streets across America as a person can get. Emma escapes the chaos of her dysfunctional family by dialing up random numbers on the phone in her bedroom, just to see who'll answer.
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Interesting
- By brigitta on 06-08-20
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Phreaks
- Narrated by: Ben McKenzie, Carrie Coon, Christian Slater, Justice Smith, Bree Klauser, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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The year is 1970. Emma Gable, a blind teenager coming of age in a small industrial town in Western New York, is about as far from the seismic cultural transformations rocking campuses and city streets across America as a person can get....
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Alexa, Why Can't You Love Me?
- By: David Rossmer
- Narrated by: Judd Hirsch, Maria Dizzia, Lizan Mitchell
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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After 40 years with his beloved wife, Henry is alone for the first time. His sudden bachelorhood is a struggle for him and his daughter Lisa, who is feeling pressure to fill the void. To give Henry the companionship he’s craving, Lisa buys him a personal robotic assistant. The device transforms Henry’s life and inspires him to embrace the possibility of romance during his golden years.
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Thanks, but no
- By Anonymous User on 15-11-23
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Alexa, Why Can't You Love Me?
- Narrated by: Judd Hirsch, Maria Dizzia, Lizan Mitchell
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- Language: English
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After 40 years with his beloved wife, Henry is alone for the first time. His sudden bachelorhood is a struggle for him and his daughter Lisa, who is feeling pressure to fill the void. To give Henry the companionship he’s craving, Lisa buys him a personal robotic assistant....
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A Daughter’s Ruin
- By: Kitty Neale
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Seventeen-year-old Constance has had a privileged upbringing in Clapham, with staff to attend to her every need. But her parents have always been cold and distant, never showing her love.Craving affection, Constance falls into the arms of Albie Jones, the cook’s grandson. But one fateful encounter leaves her ashamed and pregnant, and she is soon shunned from the family home. Heartbroken and threatened by scandal, Constance is forced to wed Albie and moves to Battersea, where she suffers unforgiving stares and cruel whispers from the neighbours.
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Great story with great norrator
- By suzanne barber on 21-08-23
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A Daughter’s Ruin
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-02-20
- Language: English
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Seventeen-year-old Constance has had a privileged upbringing in Clapham, with staff to attend to her every need. But her parents have always been cold and distant, never showing her love. Craving affection, Constance falls into the arms of Albie Jones, the cook’s grandson....
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In a Single Moment
- By: Imogen Clark
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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It’s the hottest day of the 1976 heatwave and there’s not a breath of fresh air in the labour ward at Lincoln County Hospital. Michelle is having her fourth child, a girl, while beloved husband Dean is sipping a cold pint in the pub. Their little house is already bursting at the seams, but Michelle is sure they’ll find a way to stretch their budget and continue life as a blissfully chaotic happy family. They name their new baby Donna.
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Good listening
- By Nichola Mollison on 23-04-24
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In a Single Moment
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-11-23
- Language: English
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From million-copy bestselling author Imogen Clark comes a story of two families, two babies and one maddeningly hot day that will change their lives forever....
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The House of Lost Secrets
- By: Anstey Harris
- Narrated by: Annabelle Dowler, Elle Newlands
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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The weatherworn cottage Clachan has always been Jo Wilding’s sanctuary, a blissful escape from her tumultuous home life. From the first summer Rachel invited her to join the Willoughby family in the wilds of Scotland, she fell in love with the sea air, sandy beach and Tristan, Rachel’s older brother… All these years later, Clachan is where their most important occasions and conversations take place, so when Rachel organises a weekend there, Jo never suspects that this weekend will change everything.
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The House of Lost Secrets
- Narrated by: Annabelle Dowler, Elle Newlands
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-09-24
- Language: English
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She thought she knew her best friend…She was wrong....
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Cheated
- By: Roberta Kray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Sheltered and naïve Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life. But when Rex announces his retirement and plans to leave his vast wealth to his three daughters, Carmen doesn't thank her father as effusively as he'd like, enraging him. Cast out from her home, Carmen assumes a new identity and starts her life over, but she knows she can't outrun the sins of her family for ever.
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The number of people interwoven in outcome made it unguessable.
- By Chrissy2912 on 23-11-23
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Cheated
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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Sheltered and naïve Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life. But when Rex announces his retirement and plans to leave his vast wealth to his three daughters, Carmen doesn't thank her father as effusively as he'd like, enraging him....
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The Family Man
- By: Kimberley Chambers
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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Kenny Bond is finally out of prison after doing a long stretch for killing a copper and is determined to get back to life on the straight and narrow. Kenny’s son Donny might lack his father’s edge but his twin grandsons, Beau and Brett - well, they are Bonds through and through. Like him, they won’t let anyone stand in their way.
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Annie come back!!
- By fritz on 20-09-21
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The Family Man
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Series: Bonds, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Kenny Bond is finally out of prison after doing a long stretch for killing a copper and is determined to get back to life on the straight and narrow....
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Rainbirds
- By: Clarissa Goenawan
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister Keiko's sudden death. She was viciously stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister's affairs, still failing to understand why she chose to abandon the family and Tokyo for this desolate town years ago. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren struggles to find solace in the void his sister has left behind.
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Raw and real
- By Anonymous User on 02-05-24
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Rainbirds
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 16-03-18
- Language: English
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Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister Keiko's sudden death....
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The Super-Secret Diary of Holly Hopkinson: This Is Going To Be a Fiasco
- Holly Hopkinson, Book 1
- By: Charlie P. Brooks
- Narrated by: Claudia Winkleman
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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These are the memoirs of ME, Holly Hopkinson, aged almost 10, except without any of the rubbish adults usually put in, thank you very much. My dad just lost his job, which means me and the rest of my family have to leave London and move to the middle of nowhere, which is a TOTAL DISASTER! There’s no Wi-Fi, the local kids are FERAL and there’s animal poo EVERYWHERE. But then for my birthday, my eccentric aunt gave me a magic pocket watch, which I can use to hypnotise and control people.
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The Super-Secret Diary of Holly Hopkinson: This Is Going To Be a Fiasco
- Holly Hopkinson, Book 1
- Narrated by: Claudia Winkleman
- Series: Holly Hopkinson, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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These are the memoirs of ME, Holly Hopkinson, aged almost 10, except without any of the rubbish adults usually put in, thank you very much....
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Home Truths
- By: Susan Lewis
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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How far would you go to keep your family safe? Angie Watts had the perfect ordinary family. A new home. A beloved husband. Three adored children. But Angie’s happy life is shattered when her son Liam falls in with the wrong crowd. And when her son’s bad choices lead to the murder of her husband, it’s up to Angie to hold what’s left of her family together. Her son is missing. Her daughter is looking for help in dangerous places. And Angie is fighting just to keep a roof over their heads. But Angie is a mother.
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Boring!! No Story
- By I'm all ears on 23-08-19
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Home Truths
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 22-08-19
- Language: English
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How far would you go to keep your family safe? Angie Watts had the perfect ordinary family. A new home. A beloved husband. Three adored children. But Angie’s happy life is shattered when her son Liam falls in with the wrong crowd....
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Irresponsible Adult
- By: Lucy Dillon
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Sisters Cleo and Robyn may be close in age but their attitudes to life could not be further apart. While Cleo's a fully-fledged adult with a family, a business and a signature scent, Robyn is still waiting for the instruction manual to Adult Life and success is keeping her houseplant alive. Skating by at her job as an estate agent, she's adept at avoiding housework, ignoring admin, and evading her mother's anxious questions about her love life. But then Robyn's fired in the most publicly humiliating way imaginable - and her chaos catches up with her.
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Another Lucy Dillon heartwarmer
- By Janet Smith-Harrison on 10-09-24
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Irresponsible Adult
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Sisters Cleo and Robyn may be close in age but their attitudes to life could not be further apart. While Cleo's a fully-fledged adult with a family, a business and a signature scent, Robyn is still waiting for the instruction manual to Adult Life and success is keeping her houseplant alive.
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The Awakening
- The Dragon Heart Legacy
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Breen Kelly had always been a rule follower. So when her father left when she was 12 years old, promising to return, she waited. Now, more than a decade later, she needs to move forward. She can wait no longer. A summer trip to Ireland seems like the perfect next step. She never dreamed it would lead her through a portal to another world.
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Silly
- By Patricia B. on 28-12-20
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The Awakening
- The Dragon Heart Legacy
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Series: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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Breen Kelly had always been a rule follower. So when her father left when she was 12 years old, promising to return, she waited. Now, more than a decade later, she needs to move forward....
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Where the Story Starts
- By: Imogen Clark
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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As single mother Leah struggles to get her children ready one morning, the doorbell rings. Standing on the doorstep of their terraced house in Whitley Bay is a well-dressed stranger, Clio, who feels an emotional tie to the house that she can’t explain.
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Where the story starts
- By pistachio on 16-07-19
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Where the Story Starts
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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As single mother Leah struggles to get her children ready one morning, the doorbell rings. Standing on the doorstep of their terraced house in Whitley Bay is a well-dressed stranger, Clio, who feels an emotional tie to the house that she can’t explain....
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