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Big Girl
- A Novel
- By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings. The pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are relentless, as are the expectations passed down from her painfully proper mother and sharp-tongued grandmother. As she comes of age in the 1990s, she finds solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah, but her weight continues to climb—until a family tragedy forces her to face the source of her hunger, ultimately shattering her inherited stigmas and embracing her own desire.
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Powerful and Moving
- By David P on 02-25-23
- Big Girl
- A Novel
- By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
A book I can read over again!
Reviewed: 01-16-23
The narrator and the Story of this Big Girl will touch your heart, one can feel every emotion as Malaya goes through her life as a young girl growing into a young adult dealing with morbid obesity and it’s challenges. From getting bullied to the constant criticism of her grandmother and others, as the story takes place in Harlem it took me back to the neighborhood I myself lived in that has since gone through gentrification. Excellent read! Thank you!
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Good Grief
- By: Ngozi Anyanwu
- Narrated by: Nnamdi Asomugha, Ngozi Anyanwu, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Nkechi was a good Nigerian American girl. She did everything right. Went to med school. Made plans. Then life happened. And plans changed. A first-generation coming-of-age journey of love, loss, and growing into adulthood, Good Grief follows Nkechi as she navigates Pennsylvania’s suburbs alongside her childhood crush, her would-be-philosopher brother, and her immigrant parents.
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Thank you, Ngozi
- By AJ on 10-18-20
Excellent story! Left me wanting more!
Reviewed: 02-20-21
Narration, music, actors were/are awesome! Looking forward to hearing more of their work. Thank you!
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Of Blood and Bone
- Chronicles of The One, Book 2
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before - the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted - and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.
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Can't Wait for the next!
- By Tayln on 12-12-18
- Of Blood and Bone
- Chronicles of The One, Book 2
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Excellent!
Reviewed: 09-12-20
Held my attention constantly. Loved the narrators, the story, the suspense. Left me wanting more!
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Living Lies
- By: Natalie Walters
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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In the little town of Walton, Georgia, everybody knows your name - but no one knows your secret. At least that's what Lane Kent is counting on when she returns to her hometown with her five-year-old son. Dangerously depressed after the death of her husband, Lane is looking for hope. What she finds instead is a dead body. Lane must work with Walton's newest deputy, Charlie Lynch, to uncover the truth behind the murder. But when that truth hits too close to home, she'll have to decide if saving the life of another is worth the cost of revealing her darkest secret.
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Truly Great All Around!
- By Astraea on 05-29-19
- Living Lies
- By: Natalie Walters
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
Keeps you wanting more!
Reviewed: 05-21-20
A very relatable message. A nice romantic mystery that allows the reader to get close to the characters.
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Heart-Shaped Box
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet. For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost. It's the real thing.
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Yikes! Five stars for fright
- By Lesley on 02-23-07
- Heart-Shaped Box
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang
A great mystery!
Reviewed: 11-25-19
A worthwhile book to listen to. Interesting and unexpected twists and turns. Keeps you riveted.
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