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REVIEW: Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde

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Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde Audiobook Narrated by Chris Chappell and Cassandra Morris My rating: 1.5 out of 5 Stars Synopsis Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors—beautiful manicurist Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and 9-year-old Grace and her former addict mother Eileen. But most of them have never seen Billy. Not until Grace begins to sit outside on the building’s front stoop for hours every day, inches from Billy’s patio. Troubled b

REVIEW: The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

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The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn Audiobook Narrated by Ann Marie Lee My rating: 2 out of 5 Stars Synopsis It isn't paranoia if it's really happening.... Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are

REVIEW: How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway

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How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway Audiobook Narrated by Ryan Vincent Anderson, Christopher Ryan Grant, Cynthia Farrell, Lauren Fortgang, and Caitlin Kelly My rating: 1 out of 5 Stars Synopsis On a cold December day, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a frozen pond. Her death looks like a tragic drowning accident at first, but an autopsy reveals something sinister -- the teenager's body shows unmistakable signs of strangulation. The discovery upends an otherwise une

REVIEW: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Audiobook Narrated by David LeDoux My rating: 2.5 out of 5 Stars Synopsis Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery

REVIEW: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

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Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Audiobook Narrated by Alex McKenna My rating: 2 out of 5 Stars Synopsis The bestselling novel about a young woman's coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New York's most elite restaurants. Now a STARZ Original Series. Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job as a "backwaiter" at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. What follows is the story of her education: in champagne and cocaine, love and lust, dive bars and fine dining rooms, as she learns to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing life she has chosen. As her appetites awaken—for food and wine, but