From Denise Gagen, Circulation, Southold Free LibraryAmerican Dirt Author: Jeanine CumminsGenre: Fiction; SuspenseThis is a fictional story of a Mexican bookseller who is forced to flee her home with her son. They set out on a harrowing journey to get to the United States. The story line was compelling, the writing good, and it kept my interest the whole way.There is controversy regarding the marketing of the book, the idea of a non Latino writing this story, the lack of diversity in publishing, etc. But in spite of (or because of) this, the book has spent 12 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Despite protests from authors, Oprah Winfrey selected it for her book club. Give it a try!This title is available for download on our website via Live-brary.
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Here's the link to get the Audible deal, and I've shared all of my favorite audiobooks for women below. These are the ones I find myself recommending over and over and over, although it's been years since I discovered some of them. They're the best of the best.
Love Does is one of only two audiobooks I've ever listened to more than once. Bob Goff's books don't read like Christian commentary or even Christian anything because he's writing essays (stories really) about life and living and loving and being. He's talking about living love and being like Jesus because Jesus was love. I absolutely adored this book - it is positive, optimistic, and full of charm. I want Bob Goff to be my uncle or next door neighbor. 5 stars.
I listen to audiobooks every single day on my 60 minute walk around the neighborhood, and before that, I used to listen every day on my hourlong commute to work. If you've seen any of my Instagram live videos or Insta stories, you've probably seen me talking about the latest book and how much I love it.
I get all of my audiobooks through Audible. The rates are easy on the budget ($14.95 per month for 1 regular title plus unlimited titles from the Prime library), and I get to keep the books in my library forever. I upgraded to the 2 books per month plan, and it's still relatively inexpensive.
Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski - This book rivals Crawdads for my new favorite. It is real and painful and beautiful and honest. It's about a band of misfits (I seem to have a thing for books about bands of misfits.) who all sign up to commit suicide together. There is a guy and his sick cat, a bipolar woman, a woman with chronic pain, an older widower, and a bunch more. They tour the country, and their final destination is driving off a cliff in California. In the end, some live, and some die. But their journey is incredible and moving. I laughed in a lot of parts, and I cried a few times. (I recommended this to a friend who said it sounded depressing, but it wasn't depressing. Maybe you have to have a history of mental illness and suicidal thoughts to relate? I don't know, but I connected with this book in a very meaningful way, and I know I will read it again at least one or two more times.) 5++++ stars.
Love Does is the only audiobook I've ever listened to more than once. Bob Goff's books don't read like Christian commentary or even Christian anything because he's writing essays (stories really) about life and living and loving and being. He's talking about living love and being like Jesus because Jesus was love. I absolutely adored this book - it is positive, optimistic, and full of charm. I want Bob Goff to be my uncle or next door neighbor. 5 stars.
Waterfall is a young adult book, but don't hold that against it! It's like the Christian version of Outlander complete with a girl who goes through time and a handsome prince from the past. It's well written and interesting, and I completely got into the story very quickly. I breezed right through the whole series, although books 4 and 5 aren't available in audio (but they're worth reading). 5 stars.
I would listen to Bob Goff read the phone book. His voice makes me smile, and it's always pleasant and optimistic and upbeat, even when he's talking about a devastating housefire or the loss of his original book manuscript in a break-in. While I love his writing too, the audio version of his books are amazing, and his words match the tone of his voice. In Everybody Always, he talks about how Christians are called to love everybody, always, and how that can plan out in our lives. Full disclosure: I didn't love this one as much as Love Does, but it was still very good and worth listening to. See also, the note about Bob Goff reading the phone book. 4 stars.
Call the Midwife is a memoir, but it's really just a series of vignettes about various midwifery clients the author saw over a period of years in a very poor district of London immediately after World War II. It's very well written, and the audiobook is excellently narrated. The only thing I didn't love about it was that I missed the overarching story that most of the other books on my list have. I missed a compelling start, middle, and end. For what it is, Call the Midwife does have lovely characters and stories, and I found myself both laughing and crying at different times. I think there's also a tv show, maybe on Netflix?, based on this book and the others in the series. 3 stars.
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