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Title: The Playdate

Author: Louise Millar

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 47 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy's life isn't as simple as it seems. It's time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? And who will care for her rather frail daughter, Rae, while she is gone? Suzy and Callie live close to each other on a typical cramped, anonymous London street. Neighbours seem to move in, and move on, before you have even learned their names. Callie's increased sense of alienation leads her to try to befriend a new resident on her street, Debs. But Debs is anxious, odd. You wouldn't trust her with your child - especially not if you knew anything about her past.

Members Reviews:

Very Good

This was a very good book. The plot was interesting from the beginning. Very Engrossing. The narrator was top notch. I highly recommend. I would classify this as a phsychologial thriller.

Totally unexpected book. Loved it!

This book was nothing that I anticipated. Well written.Love the Narrator. Clare Corbett can read Chinese and I would still love her.

Narrator Clare Corbett is SO TALENTED!

Wow. I am amazed at this narrator's talent, AMAZED! She tells this story and switches seemlessly between a British an American female accent and does it like a pro! I really don't know if she really is British or American to be honest, she's that good. This is one of those instances where the narrator makes this story and Millar I am sure appreciates that. I'll keep my eye out for Corbett's work in the future, what a talent!

a nice surprise

This book was more complex than I originally thought it would be( based on the synopsis).

It was well written and drew me in from the start. Definitely a "wortth listening" to book.

Great psychological thriller!

I didn't want to stop listening! Great story, good twists and excellent narration. Loved it.

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Title: Springwater Wedding

Author: Linda Lael Miller

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-12

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Once a frontier stagecoach stop, tiny Springwater has grown and changed and entered the 21st century. Cattle rustlers may still be stirring up trouble, but now they're high-tech operators in a modern world. Where stagecoaches once rolled along muddy roads, the Internet is now the newest highway in town. But heartbreak is still heartbreak, and love still love, and Springwater still boasts a rich legacy of joy, sorrow, and second chances - as two childhood sweethearts discover when they rekindle a long-ago passion in the place they will always call home.

Maggie McCaffrey left her fast-paced corporate job to take a chance on a more rewarding - but riskier - business venture: turning the dilapidated Springwater Station into a bed-and-breakfast. But Maggie didn't count on running straight into J.T. Wainwright, the hometown boy who stole her heart many years before. A tough former New York City cop, J.T. survived a grave gunshot wound and returned to Springwater to find a better way of life. Now as deputy town marshal, he's facing off with modern-day cattle thieves who are plaguing local ranchers. Stronger than ever, J.T. seems ready for anything -- except, of course, Maggie.

With her trademark sensuality and her flair for wit, Linda Lael Miller brings Springwater to life - this time, at the dawn of a new era.

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Title: Get Lucky

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Katherine Center

Narrator: Vanessa Hart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

How do you change your luck? Katherine Center's marvelously entertaining and poignant new novel is about choosing to look for happiness-and maybe getting lucky enough to find it.

Sarah Harper isn't sure if the stupid decisions she sometimes makes are good choices in disguise-or if they're really just stupid. But either way, after forwarding an inappropriate email to her entire company, she suddenly finds herself out of a job.

So she goes home to Houston-and her sister, Mackie-for Thanksgiving. But before Sarah can share her troubles with her sister, she learns that Mackie has some woes of her own: After years of trying, Mackie's given up on having a baby-and plans to sell on eBay the entire nursery she's set up. Which gives Sarah a brilliant idea-an idea that could fix everyone's problems. An idea that gives Sarah the chance to take care of her big sister for once-instead of the other way around.

But nothing worthwhile is ever easy. After a decade away, Sarah is forced to confront one ghost from her past after another: the father she's lost touch with, the memories of her mother, the sweet guy she dumped horribly in high school. Soon everything that matters is on the line-and Sarah can only hope that by changing her life she has changed her luck, too.

Members Reviews:

Love be this author

I ran out of Liane Moriarty and then I found this author. I love her feel good human stories. Sometimes you just need something to lift your spirits. She captures that.

Performance

I just couldn't ever get used to the senior sounding cigarette voice for the main character who was 30ish.

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Title: Overwintering op Nova Zembla [Wintering on Novaya Zemlya]

Author: Lieneke Dijkzeul

Narrator: Bard Bothe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-29-12

Publisher: First Monkey

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In 1596 vaart stuurman Willem Barents voor de derde maal uit voor een reis om de Noord, in de hoop een doorvaart naar China te ontdekken. De tocht verloopt rampzalig: het schip raakt vast in het ijs en de bemanning moet overwinteren op de barre kust van Nova Zembla. Ze bouwen het Behouden Huys en brengen daar tien eenzame maanden door, gekweld door honger en bittere kou. Ten slotte proberen ze, verzwakt en uitgeput, in twee open bootjes de bewoonde wereld te bereiken. Een adembenemend, waarheidsgetrouw verslag gebaseerd op het dagboek van een van de bemanningsleden van een ongelofelijke reis. De overwintering van Nova Zembla is een bewerking van het eerder verschenen Bevroren tijd. Een waarheidsgetrouw, aangrijpend boek.

Please note: This audiobook is in Dutch.

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Title: The Comforts of Home

Author: Jodi Thomas

Narrator: Julia Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

To the delight of her fans, RITA Award winner and New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Jodi Thomas pens contemporary Western-themed romances set in her native Texas. In The Comforts of Home, a tornado rips through the quiet town of Harmony. Emerging from the devastation, Harmonys citizens struggle with relationships both old and new - and grow stronger by risking their hearts to make connections with others.

Members Reviews:

TOWN SURVIVES

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

Yes. Love Jodi and all her characters. It's like she's talking about real people in all our lives. She really knows how to put our feelings on paper

Who was your favorite character and why?

Reagan. She is a true survivor and because she is so determined to survive her life is full of adventure and she always make the best of each situation.

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Title: The Department of Lost & Found

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Allison Winn Scotch

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-12

Publisher: HarperCollins

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In this hopeful, humorous, and astonishingly deft debut, Allison Winn Scotch explores what happens when a young woman thinks she's lost everything that matters' and ends up discovering what's truly important. This is a novel that will leave you taking stock of what's important in your own life . . . and never letting it go.

It didn't start out as the worst day of Natalie Miller's life. At 30, she is moving up the political ladder, driven by raw ambition and ruthless determination. As the top aide to New York's powerful female senator, she works hard, stays late, and enjoys every bit of it, even if the bills she's pushing through do little to improve the lives of the senator's constituents. And if her boyfriend isn't the sexiest guy alive, at least he's a warm body to come home to.

Then he announces he's leaving. But that news is barely a blip compared to what Natalie's doctor tells her: She has breast cancer. And she can't cure it by merely being headstrong. Now the life Natalie must change is her own.

All her energy, what little of it she has left, must go into saving herself from a merciless disease. So when she's not lying on the sofa recovering from her treatments and indulging in a curious addiction to The Price Is Right, she realizes it's time to take a hard look at her choices. She begins by tracking down the five loves-of-her-life to assess what went wrong. Along the way, she questions her relationships with her friends, her parents, her colleagues, the one who got away, and, most important, with herself: Why is she so busy moving through life that she never stops to embrace it?

As Natalie sleuths out the answers to these questions, her journey of self-discovery takes her down new paths and to unexplored places. And she learns that sometimes when life is at its most unexpected, it's not what you lose that makes you who you are . . . it's what you find.

Members Reviews:

specific in your descriptions of books

Any additional comments?

The book was a good debut novel. It was a heart wrenching story, but no where in the description did it mention a 30 year old had to have both breasts removed. With all the breast cancer victims in the world today, you might want to give them warning to be sure they are ready to face their experience again.

It's Really Chic Fic

If this is an Allison Winn Scotch "debut" novel, then I can say she's bettered her craft considerably since writing this book.The situations here are so simple and archetypal they have become "de rigueur", and the author engages in the customary contemporary product placements, brand names, etc. A sidebar: why do all the latest novels now have a "sectional sofa" - perversely even called a "couch" - that is always mentioned as if to specifically connote trendiness?

Anyway, this is mild enough to be a beach read, even the hard-hitting and traumatic health situation, which turns out all OK if a bit of a stretch. Becoming social with one's gynecologist is also a bit unrealistic but I guess it's part of suspending disbelief.

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Title: Faster Pastor

Author: Sharyn McCrumb, Adam Edwards

Narrator: Susan Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Fan favorite Sharyn McCrumb teams with professional race car driver Adam Edwards for this high-speed tale of horsepower and high jinks. When hotshot stock car driver Camber Berkley crashes his ride on a winding mountain road, the wreckage interrupts the funeral of a wealthy racing fan. The folks of Judas Grove, Tennessee, give Camber a choice. He can either spend three months in the slammer, or he can train the local ministers as they prepare for a lucrative two-million-dollar race.

Members Reviews:

Funny and the reader is fabulous.

Not only is this book laugh out loud funny, but the NASCAR and racing part of the story are right on. Loved the reader.

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Title: Silver Like Dust

Subtitle: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

Author: Kimi Cunningham Grant

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Kimis Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth. Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to Ojichans (grandfathers) stories for the thousandth time, Obaachan was a missing link to Kimis Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfathers attempts to teach her the language. But there was one part of Obaachans life that fascinated and haunted Kimi ever since the age of elevenher gentle yet proud Obaachan was once a prisoner, along with 112,000 Japanese Americans, for more than five years of her life. Obaachan never spoke of those years, and Kimis own mother only spoke of it in whispers. It was a source of haji, or shame. But what really happened to Obaachan, then a young woman, and the thousands of other men, women, and children like her? Obaachan would meet her husband in the camps and watch her mother die there, too. From the turmoil, racism, and paranoia that sprang up after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the terrifying train ride to Heart Mountain, to the false promise of V-J day, Silver Like Dust captures a vital chapter of the Japanese-American experience through the journey of one remarkable woman. Her story is one of thousands, yet is powerful a testament to the enduring bonds of family and an unusual look at the American dream.

Members Reviews:

Powerful!

My grandparents lived through internment as well, so I have a connection with the story. America is so ashamed of this that we never teach about it or talk about it. However, it is vital that we do! Thank you for writing this story and sharing it!

Interesting plot, nearly unbearable performance

Would you try another book from Kimi Cunningham Grant and/or Emily Woo Zeller?

Cunningham Grant's novel was an interesting account of a topic frequently glossed over by American history classes.

Would you be willing to try another one of Emily Woo Zellers performances?

I rarely give any thought to the performer's voice work; however, I nearly stopped listening to this one because of Zeller's obnoxious impersonations of Kimi's grandmother.

True story of internment camp for Japanese people.

Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine

and her grandfather's attempts to teach her the language. But there was one part of her grandmother's life that fascinated and haunted Kimi ever since the age

of eleven - her gentle yet proud Obaachan was once a prisoner, along with 112,000 Japanese Americans, for more than five years of her life. Obaachan never

spoke of those years, and Kimi's own mother only spoke of it in whispers. It was a source of haji, or shame. But what really happened to Obaachan, then

a young woman, and the thousands of other men, women, and children like her? Her grandmother met her husband in the camps and watch her mother die there,

too. A heart-rending story of a shameful period for America.

A New LIfe

Where does Silver Like Dust rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Although it does not rate at the very top of the list (that is reserved for Unbroken).

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Titolo: Una fra tante [One of Many]

Autore: Emilia Ferretti Viola

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 11-21-11

Editore: Collina d'oro

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

Emilia Ferretti Viola, alias Emma,(1844-1929) fu una scrittrice italiana, pioniera del femminismo. Questo libro che svelo' il vero volto della prostituzione, una denuncia sociale quanto mai attuale a tutela dei diritti delle donne.Il fatto che narro in questo libro è un fatto vero....Emma 1877 .

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

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Title: The Crossing

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Serita Ann Jakes

Narrator: April Parker-Jones, Ann Marie Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-11

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Imprisoned by memories, Claudia Campbell lives each day in the shadow of a ten-year-old murder. Who can set her free?

On the way home from a football game, a decade earlier, a masked gunman opened fi re on a Texas school bus. Cheerleading coach B.J. Remington was killed, but her murderer was never found. Claudia, who had a close friendship with the young, spirited teacher, constantly relives the anguish of that day, caught in one moment in time. When her husband, the assistant district attorney, becomes determined to uncover the mystery of that tragedy, the secrets buried over the years threaten to tear their family apart.

Officer Casio Hightower will never forget the day his dreams were destroyed. A star quarterback with a promising future, Casio was on top of the world - until one bullet changed everything. He is eager to help Victor Campbell find B.J.s killer, the man who shot him. Maybe solving the case will help silence the demons driving Casio to hurt the woman he loves.

As the Campbells and Casio teeter on the brink of losing everything, will they be able to discover that what begins at the crossing ends at the cross?

Members Reviews:

It takes courage to face Domestic Violence!

Where does The Crossing rank among all the audiobooks you???ve listened to so far?

I was surprised this book tells the gut-bucket truth without being churchey.

What does April Parker-Jones and Ann Marie Lee bring to the story that you wouldn???t experience if you just read the book?

The uniqueness of voice.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Thou shalt not hurt!

Any additional comments?

Awesome effort!

Great Read

This book was an awesome surprise. We are usd to Bishop Jakes writing wonderful books but I was not sure what this book would be like. I could not put it down. I hated for snything to interrupt me because I wanted to know what each of these characters were going to do next. Great read.

Anemic

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

There was too much going on with too many weakly developed characters whose stories also never developed within the context of the novel and seemed to have no real connection to each other. Never made any sense why Claudia left Victor or whose parents had affairs with each other. Too many social issues with no real focus. The only thing to make this novel a 4 or 5 would have to be a complete rewrite.

What was most disappointing about Serita Ann Jakess story?

The entire story was disappointing, especially the agonizingly drawn out death of BJ with the ineffectual and implausible resolution of whodunit. Didn't make sense.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrators were monotone and whiny, with no real distinctions in the voices of the female characters except the whining of BJ as she was dying. They would be droning on and I would find that I had no idea what was going on or who was speaking, I will usually rewind but they made you not care what was happening making my only thought to just try to get to the end.

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

None, only forced myself to finish because it was my book club read for the month.

Wow

Would you listen to The Crossing again? Why?

Yes, going to listen again and again. I use to listen and read books all the time as a child, and just got out of the habit. So glad I started again especially with this book.