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Messy, Wonderful Us
- By: Catherine Isaac
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance105
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Story105
Allie has lived a careful, focused existence. But now she has unexpectedly taken leave from her job as an academic research scientist to fly to a place she only recently heard about in a letter. Her father, Joe, doesn’t know the reason for her trip, and Allie can’t bring herself to tell him that she’s flying to Italy to unpick the truth about what her mother did all those years ago.
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Caroline
- By Caz on 01-06-20
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Messy, Wonderful Us
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-11-19
- Language: English
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The Tree of Man
- By: Patrick White
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 22 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
An extraordinary story about a couple’s experience of moving into the remote Australian wilderness. Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company, journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife, Amy, to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.
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Very well read. A masterpiece
- By Mimi Roberts on 12-04-25
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The Tree of Man
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 22 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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The Children's House of Belsen
- By: Hetty E. Verolme
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall162
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Performance145
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Story145
Hetty’s family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the Children’s House, within Belsen concentration camp. As one of the eldest, Hetty became the ‘Little Mother’, helping to care for not only her siblings, but the other children as well.In a direct and powerful style, Hetty recalls one of the remarkable, largely untold stories of the Holocaust – the extraordinary struggle and survival of this group of children through those terrible years.
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Heart-breaking!
- By Ian on 26-08-16
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The Children's House of Belsen
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-06-11
- Language: English
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The Memory Book
- By: Rowan Coleman
- Narrated by: Robert Blackwood, Clare Corbett, Anna Bentinck, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance83
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Story84
The name of your first-born. The face of your lover. Your age. Your address... What would happen if your memory of these began to fade? When Claire starts to write her Memory Book, she already knows that this scrapbook of mementoes will soon be all her daughters and husband have of her. But how can she hold onto the past when her future is slipping through her fingers...?
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So sad
- By Catherine on 20-08-15
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The Memory Book
- Narrated by: Robert Blackwood, Clare Corbett, Anna Bentinck, Laura Kirman, Various
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-03-14
- Language: English
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By Its Cover
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 23
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance76
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Story77
By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene.
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Narrator
- By Gillian M. on 24-05-15
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By Its Cover
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 23
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: Commissario Brunetti, Book 23
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-04-14
- Language: English
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Tales of the City
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Frances McDormand
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall237
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Performance213
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Story213
Introduction written and read by Rachel Maddow Narrated by Frances McDormand The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City “A consummate entertainer who has...
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Return to this old favourite
- By Jockette61 on 31-07-15
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Tales of the City
- Narrated by: Frances McDormand
- Series: Tales of the City, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-03-13
- Language: English
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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
- By: Shankari Chandran
- Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney – populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, an oasis of familiar delights – a beautiful garden, a busy kitchen and a bountiful recreation schedule. But this ordinary neighbourhood is not without its prejudices. The serenity of Cinnamon Gardens is threatened by malignant forces more interested in what makes this refuge different rather than embracing the calm companionship that makes this place home to so many.
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The exposure of the truth ……..
- By vanee on 24-03-26
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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
- Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-01-22
- Language: English
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
- By: Steven Pressfield
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance17
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Story17
In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game - Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen - meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six hole showdown. They are joined by another player, a troubled war hero called Rannulph Junah. But the key to the outcome lies not with these golfing titans but with Junah's caddie and mentor, the mysterious, sage and charismatic Bagger Vance - for he is the custodian of the secret of the Authentic Swing...
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Entertaining, impressive, a touch pretentious.
- By Lee on 08-03-25
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 30-05-13
- Language: English
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Village School
- Fairacre Series, Book 1
- By: Miss Miss Read
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 5 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall38
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Performance30
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Story30
Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school, and at the heart of the school, its head mistress, Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see their trials and tribulations, from the irascible school cleaner Mrs. Pringle, to the young school children, with their scraped knees, hopeful faces, and inevitable mischief.
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happy reminder of my childhood
- By margaret on 15-03-22
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Village School
- Fairacre Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Series: Fairacre, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 15-08-06
- Language: English
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Gods Behaving Badly
- By: Marie Phillips
- Narrated by: Glen McCready
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance41
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Story41
Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: Nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water.
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A Great Voice does not a good audiobook make
- By Charles on 14-09-09
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Gods Behaving Badly
- Narrated by: Glen McCready
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-05-08
- Language: English
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The Cleverness of Ladies
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance49
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Story49
Glorious short stories from international bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, in a collection written especially for World Book Day. There are times when ladies must use all their wisdom and good sense to face life's problems and mysteries. Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, keeps her wits about her as she looks into why the country's star goalkeeper isn't saving goals.
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A mix of beautiful short stories
- By Silva4 on 16-07-19
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The Cleverness of Ladies
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Series: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 12.6
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-04-12
- Language: English
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A Thousand Moons
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall214
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Performance190
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Story189
Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand.
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A good follow on from Days Without End
- By Peter Richardson on 25-09-20
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A Thousand Moons
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Series: The Days Without End Series, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 20-03-20
- Language: English
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Ghost Children
- By: Sue Townsend
- Narrated by: Rob Crossan
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Story14
Sue Townsend, creator of the much-loved Adrian Mole series, tells a compassionate and gritty story of love and loss in Ghost Children. Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and retreated from the world. However, when he makes a horrifying discovery on the heath, he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As they start seeing each other again, can they avoid past mistakes? And will their future together be eclipsed by the mistakes of yesterday?
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Poor narration
- By Mercutio on 09-08-17
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Ghost Children
- Narrated by: Rob Crossan
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-07-13
- Language: English
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Don't Skip Out on Me
- By: Willy Vlautin
- Narrated by: Willy Vlautin
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance17
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Story17
Meet Horace Hopper, a 21-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he's had to family in years. But Horace, half white, half Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads south to reinvent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul. But at what cost, and what of those he's left behind?
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Life's hard.
- By SteveB on 08-06-19
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Don't Skip Out on Me
- Narrated by: Willy Vlautin
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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Island Beneath the Sea
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: S. Epatha Merkerson
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance71
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Story70
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible...
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- By John on 07-11-10
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Island Beneath the Sea
- Narrated by: S. Epatha Merkerson
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-05-10
- Language: English
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Winging It
- By: Anna Jefferson
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story17
Emily Jones is a new mum: she's bought the swank buggy, planned her labour soundtrack, read the books. Then her little girl actually arrives and Emily realises: she has all the gear, no idea - and only 12 months of maternity leave to figure it out. Lonely but not alone, it's the women Emily befriends in this first year who really see her through to the other side.
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bloody excellent
- By Ms Emma L Knight on 24-05-19
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Winging It
- Narrated by: Helen Keeley
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 16-05-19
- Language: English
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An Imaginative Experience
- By: Mary Wesley
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance48
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Story47
A traveller on a train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees her face is full of tragedy. Considering tragedies of his own, he does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind: a strange but familiar despair, unable, despite itself
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Remarkable narration...
- By Restorationwoman on 24-11-22
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An Imaginative Experience
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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Teacher, Teacher!
- By: Jack Sheffield
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance72
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Story73
It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year and his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young and inexperienced headmaster. The many colourful chapters...
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Dull dull dull
- By Colin on 13-02-16
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Teacher, Teacher!
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Series: Teacher, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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The Wedding
- By: Nicholas Sparks
- Narrated by: Tom Wopat
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance57
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Story57
After 30 years of marriage, Wilson is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun (originally recounted in The Notebook), and their 50-year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. With his daughter about to marry and his wife thinking about leaving him, Wilson knows it is time to act. He will do anything he can to save his marriage.
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Fantastic, can never guess the ending
- By MR B WEBSTER on 29-03-22
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The Wedding
- Narrated by: Tom Wopat
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-01-19
- Language: English
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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
- (Middle School 4)
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp – until he finds out it’s a summer school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily makes friends with his troublemaking cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy nicknamed Booger Eater, who puts up with endless...
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Fabulous one of my favourites
- By Roz on 11-10-21
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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
- (Middle School 4)
- Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
- Series: Middle School, Book 4
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-06-13
- Language: English
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