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In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny.
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By: Anita Abriel
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Forgotten Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Cynthia Pelayo
- Narrated by: Natalie Duke, B.J. Harrison
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River. They’re tethered to a disquieting past, and with nowhere else to go, nothing can part them from their family home. Not the maddening creaks and disembodied voices that rattle the old walls. Not the inexplicable drownings in the area, or the increasing number of bodies that float by Anna’s window. To stave off loneliness, Anna has a podcast, spinning ghostly tales of Chicago’s tragic history. But when Anna captures the attention of an ardent male listener, she awakens to the possibilities of a world outside.
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Wild ride
- By Camila Russell on 04-24-24
By: Cynthia Pelayo
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Chicano Frankenstein
- By: Daniel A. Olivas
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the reanimation process erased.
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Chicano Frankenstein
- By Bathory Spells on 04-10-24
By: Daniel A. Olivas
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In a Not So Perfect World
- A Novel
- By: Neely Tubati-Alexander
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Sloane Cooper is up for her dream job as a designer for a top video game company. During the interview, though, she somehow promises the all-male panel that she’ll remain single and fully dedicated to the work. It’s actually fine—after her last boyfriend cheated on her, she vowed to focus on her career anyway.
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The Perfect RomCom!!
- By Alyssa Lawson on 03-21-24
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Flirty Little Secret
- By: Jessica Lepe
- Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez, Will Collyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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School counselor Lucy Galindo has a secret. To her coworkers, friends, and even family, she’s shy, sweet, and constantly struggling to hold off disaster (read: manage her anxiety and depression). But online? She’s bold, confident, and always knows what to say—it’s how she’s become the wildly popular @TheMissGuidedCounselor. It’s also why she keeps her identity anonymous. Her followers would never trust the real Lucy with their problems.
By: Jessica Lepe
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I Let Her In
- By: Maria Frankland
- Narrated by: Emma Swan, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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I open the front door and there’s Amy, smiling sweetly and ready to help. She’s been a lifesaver since Jon and I moved here–from walking the dog to picking up my little son Teddy from nursery last minute. I’m so lucky we met in the playground the first day we arrived. Amy is more than just a good friend. My only friend, really. Whenever Amy and Jon exchange glances I’m sure it seems like they’ve met before, even though Jon swears they haven’t. But then again Jon recognises lots of people from his childhood round here without truly knowing them.
By: Maria Frankland
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On Her Own
- A Novel
- By: Lihi Lapid
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Nina, a teenage runaway, wakes up in the unfamiliar stairwell of a Tel Aviv apartment in a torn minidress. As her memory starts to resurface—the abusive older man she’s running away from, the crime she witnessed—she knows one thing: she needs to find a place to hide. When one of the building’s tenants, Carmela, a lonely old widow suffering from memory loss, mistakes Nina for her granddaughter she hasn’t seen in years, Nina jumps at the opportunity for a safe haven. Soon, the two strangers become each other’s lifeline as Nina settles into the apartment with sweet, reassuring Carmela.
By: Lihi Lapid
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Cascade Failure
- A Novel
- By: L. M. Sagas
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table. It ain't easy. Branded a Guild deserter, Jal "accidentally" lands a ride on a Guild ship. Helmed by an AI, with a ship's engineer/medic who doesn't see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a "don't make me shoot you" XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is a little . . . different.
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Very Invested in Characters
- By Devin Rose on 05-01-24
By: L. M. Sagas
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The Morningside
- A Novel
- By: Téa Obreht
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in a place called Island City where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family’s past, and because the once-vibrant city where she lives is now half-underwater. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her early years, nor does she fully understand why she and her mother had to leave.
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Another Beautiful Tale
- By Francis on 04-20-24
By: Téa Obreht
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Witch of Wild Things
- By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
- Narrated by: Krysta Gonzales
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Sage Flores has been running from her family—and their “gifts”—ever since her younger sister Sky died. Eight years later, Sage reluctantly returns to her hometown. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses her ability to communicate with plants to discover unusual heritage specimens in the surrounding lands.
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I recommend!
- By Linda Lay on 10-26-23
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Say You'll Be Mine
- A Novel
- By: Naina Kumar
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Meghna Raman’s parents wanted her to be an engineer, but instead she’s followed her passion, becoming a theater teacher and aspiring playwright. But when she discovers that her beloved writing partner, best friend, and secret crush, Seth, is suddenly engaged—and not to her—she realizes he’s about to become the one-that-got-away. Even worse, he’s asked her to be his best man. And worse than that, she’s agreed. Determined to try and move on and relieve a bit of the pressure she feels, Meghna agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match.
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Well written but…
- By The Goph on 03-10-24
By: Naina Kumar
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Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures out to Walden Pond . . . and a muse to Emerson. But Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama.
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Slow Go for a valuable Woman
- By Alison M. Montemarano on 05-04-24
By: Allison Pataki
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- Anonymous User
- 03-29-24
A beautiful adventure
The Waves That Take You Home is a fantastic and lovely adventure that I found impossible to stop listening to. It chronicles the life and self discovery of Vi, a universally relatable character who bravely faces the lifelong debates we all go through. How dreams of our parents become our own, how their values become ours, and how we discover and pursue our own dreams while struggling to stay true to the values we came from.
Anyone lucky enough to come upon this book will see the through the eyes of likeable young first generation immigrant who travels from the beaches of Colombia to the bustle of NYC and back. Vi's character and emotions are written with great depth that it would seem could only be written by someone who has lived her adventure. Beautifully written in a light fast paced fun voice while grappling with profound truths and emotion.
Barrios is a rare talent to create a fun yet meaningful vacation book that inspires reflection long after it's over. Also helps that the reader is great, perfectly brings Barrios's characters to life. Listen to this book, you won't regret it.
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- Frank
- 05-04-24
I enjoyed the performance. The actress who read the book did a fantastic job of voicing all the different characters.
The story was sweet and the start of it really drew me in. Overall, I enjoyed the book but in the later chapters, the story got repetitive and predictable losing the freshness and fun from the early chapters. And sadly, the main character, Vi, became a bit insufferable with some of her decisions.
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I wish Vi would have ended up alone. The constant need to go back to her first love, Rafa, made her other decisions seem like they didn’t really matter to her. She had success and was in a healthy relationship with Liam but she struggled cause he didn’t understand her love for her grandmother’s restaurant. Of course, he didn't understand it, Vi never took a moment to explain it to him. Sure, at times she tried but when he would ask her questions about it and say, “I don’t understand, please tell me,” she would t. I wish she did cause Liam loved her and wanted to look towards the future yet she wanted to stay in the past with Rafa.
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- DS
- 03-30-24
Repetitive
The protagonist’s constant indecision annoying. The story was too repetitive and the outcome predictable. I would have rather more depth into the grandmother’s life. She was the most interesting character in the story.
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