Listen to New Releases Audiobooks in Fiction, Chick Lit

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Title: Ruined

Author: Ann Barker

Narrator: Julie Teal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-10

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

Jessie Warburton has been hopelessly in love with the rakish Earl of Ashbourne for years. Tired of being ignored, she accepts the proposal of the Reverend Henry Lusty, and goes to London to stay with her fiancés sister. Mrs Machin, a secret writer of sensational novels, is delighted to learn that her visitor is closely acquainted with a rake, and seeks to take advantage of the situation. To help her hostess, Jessie immerses herself in London life, and the earl experiences a change of role, as he finds himself having to keep a watchful eye over her. In London, Jessie blossoms, and Ashbourne becomes attracted to her, but he is not her only admirer. Will Jessie make the right choice?

Members Reviews:

really enjoyable, well read

Lovely easy story, likeable Characters, enjoyed listening to it.

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Title: One Flight Up

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Susan Fales-Hill

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

After years of searching for and finally landing that one perfect man, four Manhattan friends find themselves simultaneously questioning their romantic choices. Smart, strong, but jaded divorce lawyer India Chumley leads this pack of feisty thirty-somethings, all friends since grade school at the Sibley School, an Upper East Side institution for sophisticated ladies-in-training. There's Abby Rosenfeld Adams, a Jewish gallery owner married to her WASP college sweetheart; Monique Dawkins-Dubois, gynecologist and card-carrying member of Harlem's thriving Buppie-ocracy; and Esme Sarmiento Talbot, a Colombian heiress married to the All-American boy next door. When India, the most straightlaced of them all, learns that her friends are considering straying from their partners, she is dismayed. That is, until India's ex-fiance - the love of her life, the destroyer of her heart, and the best sex ever - comes back into the picture, and she finds herself caught between the dependable man she thought was her future and the man she never quite let go of.

Against the backdrop of New York at its most glamorous, One Flight Up is a delicious debut from a talented new writer.

Critic Reviews:

"I had a ball reading One Flight Up. I wish the characters were real so we might have lunch!... A fun, fabulous, New York story that you won't be able to put down!" (Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author)

Members Reviews:

Boring, sorry

The storying line was supposed to be my favorite but this author missed the mark. Sorry, can't recommend this one. The narrator sometimes forgot who she was speaking for and the writer filled the book with nothing more than upscale descriptions which didnt move the story along, just filled pages. (or cds)

Not very interesting :o(

It seems like a bunch of stuff going on...just stuff going on, with nothing spectacular AT ALL.There is no direction and no point to what's going on. The book has been broken into 2 parts for quicker downloading. I can usually go through an audiobook in 2 days. I have had this for almost a MONTH and I just finished PART ONE yesterday. I would not recommend this book or waste the time on it- unless your forgot to load your other audiobooks to your listening device and this is the ONLY thing you have for a lo-o-ong driving trip.

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Title: French Kissing

Author: Catherine Sanderson

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

Name: Sally Marshall Status: single mother Age: 32 Nationality: ten years in France, yet still English through and through I like: living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four years old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread...

So reads Sallys ad, posted on a French online dating site called Rendez-Vous. Sally left Nicolas, her French boyfriend of ten years and Lilas father, after she discovered that he was having an affair with his secretary. Six months have now passed and shes beginning to bounce back. But making a new start is fraught with complications....

Members Reviews:

Brush up on your French

Many phrases were translated for the listener in the accompanying paragraphs but not all. That was annoying. But more annoying was the obsession that developed with the online dating. Not quite what the summary promised. Still the author captured the life of the divorcee in the small details and the audio was true to that in tone.

Production error with a repeated sentence somewhere around chapter 9. Narrator lost her accent and voice of the character once or twice. But on whole did a creditable job.

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Title: The Bay of Angels

Author: Anita Brookner

Narrator: Eleanor Bron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

Moving between Nice and London, The Bay of Angels makes the point that not everyone needs conventional relationships to be happy. It relates the story of Zoe, whose life changes when her widowed mother marries a wealthy older man and moves to Nice.

Members Reviews:

A "celebration" of passivity and death

As always, Eleanor Bron is a superb reader. The book, though, which is about characters of an astounding lack of vitality, itself lacks any narrative drive. The least interesting Anita Brookner I've read or listened to.

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Title: The Accidental Family

Author: Rowan Coleman

Narrator: Juanita McMahon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-10

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

Six months ago, city girl Sophie Mills gave up everything to move to Cornwall. All to be with the man she thinks she loves, and his two daughters who she knows she loves. But adjusting to life as a semi-permanent mother in the countryside isn't quite as easy as Sophie imagined it would be.

Members Reviews:

Narrator read too slowly

Couldn't finish this audiobook because the narrator read too slowly and lost interest in the story. Usually enjoy this author, but couldn't get into it because of the narrator.

Original Storyline.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend it to a friend as good

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Accidental Family?

When Sophie and Louie talked about their future after he found out she was pregnant. It was so honest and down to earth, not sappy.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Juanita McMahon?

Sure, though the voice she used for Louie made him sound silly.

If you could rename The Accidental Family, what would you call it?

The Patchwork Family.

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Title: Room Service

Author: Beverly Brandt

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 131 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

Jet-setter Katya Morgan believes that love comes in gilt-wrapped packages. So when her father disinherits her, her first priority is to get her money and her cushy life back. But meanwhile, having no way to pay the enormous bill she racked up at the sumptuous Royal Palmetto Hotel poses a slight problem. Then Alex Sheridan, the hotel manager, has the gall to suggest that she pay off her debt by working at the hotelas a maid!

Alex doesn't much care for the spoiled Ms. Morgan at first. But when she dons the uniform and proves her mettle as a housekeeper who cares about more than cold, hard cash, he begins to change his mind. When a rash of disasters befalls his beloved hotel, Alex finds himself dealing with a saboteur, just as he is beginning to fall for the once-spoiled brat who's acting more and more like a real woman every day.

Critic Reviews:

Brandt dishes up another lighthearted office romance touched with humor and suspense.fun, breezy beach reading. (

Publishers Weekly)

A fine, funny tale. (

Booklist)

Members Reviews:

GREAT

THIS BOOK WAS PRETTY GOOD. ITS ABOUT A WOMAN WHO GET CUT OFF AFTER HER FATHER DIES AND LEAVES EVERRYTHING TO HIS WIFE, HER STEP MOM. ITS AN INTERESTING STORY AND THE END IS GREAT.

WORTH LISTENING TO

Room Service

A really good chick lit novel unrealistic as a lot of these are everyone is very glamourous and rich but

I loved it. Would love more from this author.

Fun book with great narration!

I really enjoyed this audio book. Hillary Huber made the book come to life. Great ending!

Couldn't get into it...

I only listened to the first couple hours and just couldn't get into it. The main character is totally unlikable.

Fun Read

It is a litlle like a cookie cutter novel but it is fun to listen to and the reader is decent. Don't be discouraged by the beginning, it is a good time.

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Title: Summer at Fairacre

Author: Miss Read

Narrator: Prunella Scales

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

Summer at Fairacre charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the backdrop of roses, skylarks and bees...

Joseph Coggs finds a temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Reads friend Amy mysteriously disappears. And, perhaps most difficult of all, Mrs. Pringle, the grumpy school cleaner, is unable to work because of her bad leg. Still, the sounds of children playing and the fragrance of summertime flowers fill the air, as Miss Read shepherds her students and friends through the warm season.

Members Reviews:

A Gentle Pleasure

I enjoyed this book very much. There is something pleasing and gentle about the Fairacre stories. It was well read by Prunella Scales but I prefer Gwen Watford's narration of the Miss Read books.

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Title: In Her Shoes

Author: Jennifer Weiner

Narrator: Karen Ziemba

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

Meet Rose Feller. She's 30 years old and a high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up little sister to get her life together.

Meet Rose's sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous, and only occasionally employed. Although her dreams of big-screen stardom haven't progressed, Maggie also dreams of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime.

These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever believe.

In Her Shoes observes Rose and Maggie, the brain and the beauty, as they make journeys of discovery. Along the way, they'll encounter a wild cast of characters, and they'll borrow shoes and clothes, and boyfriends, and make peace with their most intimate enemies - each other.

Funny and poignant, In Her Shoes will speak to anyone who has endured the bonds of big - or little - sisterhood, or longed for a life different from the one the world has dictated, and dreamed of trying something else on for size.

Members Reviews:

I loved the movie

I loved the movie, and when I read the book, I loved it too. Interesting to note how different the movie and book are, not just in terms of plot but also in terms of character. The two sisters are both deeply flawed women in a dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship, and ironically it is only when they become estranged that they each realize their full potential and self-worth, and the depth of their love for one another. Had Rose continued to put up with and enable her sister's destructive behaviour, they each would've ended up unhappy and alone. Weiner treats her characters with sensitivity and compassion, and her writing is engaging and makes you want to read the book to the end in one sitting.

Better then her first book

I couldnât put it down. I enjoyed the character development. At first I didnât like Maggie and wanted to stop reading the book. But as the story continued the changes in her made me like her. Great story Sisters !!

Loved it...

I loved this book. And as i always have to do before i review - i read some of the 'bad' reviews. People - this is fiction. Everything in fiction isnt supposed to be believable - hence the title FICTION. Anyhow, i thought it was entertaining, well-written, a really good story, good character development (the things the people complained about not being able to figure out as to how the characters made changes...it was all explained if you read the whole book!), and a good feeling at the end as far as NOT wanting it to end - and 'learning' something from the story. I really didnt want to put the book down, becuz i was so curious as to what was going to happen to the characters. It's not a PERFECT book - but not many are.

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Title: How to Break Your Own Heart

Author: Maggie Alderson

Narrator: Catherine Milte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-09

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 35 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

Maggie Alderson brings her deep understanding of the human heart to this new novel about the compromises we make in life, and about those rare moments of grace when we decide to risk everything for the chance to be truly, madly and deeply happy.

Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy - a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most - a baby. Ed, her husband, is funny, affectionate and sophisticated but simply not interested in parenthood. He likes his life neat and tidy. And he likes having a wife who attends solely to his needs.

As she approaches 37, Amelia is faced with a life-changing decision, aided and abetted by Kiki, her hopelessly disorganised but ridiculously rich friend. Should Amelia stay in her nearly happy marriage, or expose herself to the vagaries of single life and the distant possibility of meeting someone who wants to start a family?

Editorial Reviews:

What separates Maggie Aldersons clever How to Break Your Own Heart from other chick lit offerings is her candid, fully realized portrayal of 37-year-old protagonist Amelia, who is forced to reevaluate her 15-year marriage to frustratingly conventional and overly fastidious husband Ed after she realizes his enthusiasm for having children doesnt quite match hers.

Catherine Miltes lively, animated performance guides the listener through this immensely entertaining listen, particularly in her portrayal of Amelias affluent, sharp-tongued, and fashion-obsessed friend Kiki, the catalyst for Amelias rediscovery of her independence and zest for life.

Critic Reviews:

"At last we've found her, the female Seinfeld. Warm, witty, wise and well-dressed, Alderson is the haute couture of humour." (Kathy Lette)

Members Reviews:

An average read

This is not a bad story, but I expected better from Maggie Alderson after listening to "Cents and Sensibility".

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Title: Spring Broke

Author: Melody Carlson

Narrator: Pam Turlow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-09

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

In the 86 Bloomberg Place series, four diverse young women with varying levels of faith, differing interests, and unique personal issues share a four-bedroom bungalow in an energetic college town. In Spring Broke, Kendall's housemates help her plan a garage sale to pay off her accumulated shopoholic debt. Megan is trying to decide whether to quit her job and pursue work more meaningful than designing wealthy people's homes. Anna must battle her family's condescending attitudes toward her Caucasian boyfriend, Edmond. And Lelani is trying to work up the nerve to go home to Maui, where her controlling parents are caring for her infant daughter. Lelani invites her roommates to come to Hawaii with her, but far from being a carefree spring vacation, the trip turns into an emotional opportunity for the housemates to confront their deeper fears and work through the most troubling aspects of their relationships, with surprising and rewarding outcomes.

©2009 Melody Carlson; (P)2009 Oasis

Members Reviews:

Pro-Life Propaganda Disguised as Chick Lit

If you are pro-choice, do NOT listen to this audiobook, or you may gag. This book should come with a warning attached - honestly, it is nothing but pro-life propaganda. It comes complete with a girl with an unwanted pregnancy and considering abortion portrayed as a promiscuous, bitchy, materialistic, clueless airhead, while a girl who chose to have her baby (and give it to her parents, who wanted another child) is portrayed - big surprise - as a sweet, caring, extremely intelligent, devout church-goer (because we all know that's how pro-choice and pro-life women ALWAYS are in real life). I honestly tried to hang in there with this, but when the sweet churchgoer was trying to convince the clueless airhead to keep her baby and pulled up pictures on her laptop of unborn babies to show her? I had to bail. Honestly, if this were even-handed, I wouldn't have minded so much...but no. Just a warning. If you're pro-life, you'll love it, though.

awful narrator

The narrator was awful! It was not melody carlson's best work but the narrator really killed it.