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The New York Times best-selling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war.
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Through the controversial, wrenching, and wildly honest David Granger, Matthew Quick offers a no-nonsense but ultimately hopeful view of America's polarized psyche. By turns irascible and hilarious, insightful and inconvenient, David is a complex, wounded, honorable, and loving man. The Reason You're Alive examines how the secrets and debts we carry from our pasts define us; it also challenges us to look beyond our own prejudices and search for the good in us all.
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"Narrator R.C. Bray brings the contentious, gruff yet thoughtful main character of this moving novel to life.... Bray understands this character, and his performance, which consistently hits the dramatic, shocking, and humorous notes expertly, is simply remarkable. This is one of the best matches of material to narrator this year." (AudioFile)
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Barely 30, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she’s been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland’s housing prices have nearly quadrupled in 15 years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it’s their last best chance to own their own home - and obtain the security they’ve never had. While she has enough for the down payment, she needs her mother to cover the rest of the asking price.
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Willy knows tragedy
- By Phil Bailey on 08-03-21
By: Willy Vlautin
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Love May Fail
- A Novel
- By: Matthew Quick
- Narrated by: Cris Dukehart, Jim Meskimen, Lorna Raver, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Lost and alone, looking to find the goodness she believes still exists in the world, Portia sets off to save herself by saving someone else - a beloved high school English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident.
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Solid contemporary fiction with a light touch
- By JillHen on 09-13-15
By: Matthew Quick
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Energy Medicine
- The Science and Mystery of Healing
- By: Jill Blakeway
- Narrated by: Jill Blakeway
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The first comprehensive look at the groundbreaking field of energy medicine and how it can be used to diagnose and treat illness, from one of the world’s foremost practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine.
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Solid science and also inspiring
- By Clausula on 02-18-20
By: Jill Blakeway
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The New David Espinoza
- By: Fred Aceves
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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David Espinoza is tired of being messed with. When a video of him getting knocked down by a bully’s slap goes viral at the end of junior year, David vows to use the summer to bulk up - do what it takes to become a man - and wow everyone when school starts again the fall. Soon David is spending all his time and money at Iron Life, a nearby gym that’s full of bodybuilders. Frustrated with his slow progress, his life eventually becomes all about his muscle gains. As it says on the Iron Life wall, What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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This Book Has Taught Me So Much
- By Tiffany on 04-19-20
By: Fred Aceves
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All That's Left Unsaid
- A Novel
- By: Tracey Lien
- Narrated by: Aileen Huynh, Yen Nguyen, Amelia Nguyen
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Just let him go. These are the words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends. That night, Denny—optimistic, guileless, brilliant Denny—is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, an indifferent police force, and the worst heroin epidemic in Australian history.
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A haunting story
- By Barbara S on 09-23-22
By: Tracey Lien
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Abominations
- Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Lionel Shriver
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Novelist, cultural observer, and social satirist Lionel Shriver is among the sharpest talents of our age. A writer who embraces “under-expressed, unpopular or downright dangerous” points of view, she filets cherished shibboleths and the conformity of thought and attitude that has overtaken us.
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Fearless thinker
- By Irene E Nunn on 12-03-22
By: Lionel Shriver
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We Are the Light
- A Novel
- By: Matthew Quick
- Narrated by: Luke Kirby
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero—everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst Karl. It is only when Eli, an 18-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins camping out in Lucas’s backyard that an unlikely alliance takes shape and the two begin a journey to heal their neighbors and themselves.
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Moving and Believable
- By GBS on 12-30-22
By: Matthew Quick
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Soul Archaeology
- A (Totally Doable) Approach to Creating a Self-Loving and Liberated Life
- By: Sarah Sapora
- Narrated by: Sarah Sapora
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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In this highly anticipated debut, plus-size personal growth trailblazer Sarah Sapora redefines self-love, offering the knowing nod, the deep cleansing breath, and the older sister wisdom which women of all sizes have been waiting for. Soul Archaeology begins with a simple, illuminating question: “What’s hurting me right now?” Acting as your guide, Sapora helps you through the sticky, liberating process of self-discovery to uncover your Ultimate You.
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This book has helped me find my most precious self!
- By Limitedgrace on 02-15-24
By: Sarah Sapora
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Sorry for Your Trouble
- Stories
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love, and loss. “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant. “Driving Up” follows an American woman’s late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life. “The Run of Yourself”, a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife’s death....
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Beautifully conceived collection
- By Tom on 10-15-20
By: Richard Ford
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Sorta Like a Rock Star
- By: Matthew Quick
- Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom’s boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy (a.k.a Thrice B), have been camped out in the back of Hello Yellow (the school bus her mom drives). Still, Amber, the self- proclaimed princess of hope and girl of unyielding optimism, refuses to sweat the bad stuff. But when a fatal tragedy threatens Amber’s optimism - and her way of life - can Amber continue to be the rock star of hope?
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After being hooked by Silver Linings playbook.....
- By Brad Zerkel on 04-22-13
By: Matthew Quick
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O Caledonia
- A Novel
- By: Elspeth Barker
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-19th century—featuring a new introduction by Maggie O’Farrell, award-winning author of Hamnet.
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A great novel .
- By Amazon Customer on 01-27-23
By: Elspeth Barker
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My Hijacking
- A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
- By: Martha Hodes
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered.
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Childhood memories…a puzzle to solve.
- By Debra L. Paradis on 07-22-23
By: Martha Hodes
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A Crooked Tree
- A Novel
- By: Una Mannion
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with The Field Guide to the Trees of North America, a gift from her father before he died. She finds solace in “The Kingdom,” a stand of red oak and mountain laurel near her home in suburban Pennsylvania, where she can escape from her family and share menthols with her best friend. One night, while driving home, Libby’s mother, exhausted with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby’s little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off is what will happen next.
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enjoyable listen
- By Barbara S on 01-23-21
By: Una Mannion
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- Auvgrl
- 09-16-17
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read this... amazing book. it makes you think before judging someone, puts you in the mind of an opposing views. renews your love for humanity. fantastic peice of writing.
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- Iris
- 09-26-17
Fabulous
This book is awesome in every category. I will surely listen to it over and over.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-21-18
Great book as any other book from Matthew Quick!
Matthew never let me down with his books. Great story! I really connected with the character's relationship with his son and it moved me so much. I even "girly cried" at the end. It's really a great piece of art!
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- Cheryl
- 05-19-24
Started out so opinionated- ended up the opinions were more even
Helped me follow up in another Vietnam themed book I d just read- The Women.
Validated how atrocious the V war was . For so many reasons. And how this f- up veteran struggled everyday to survive the liberal wrong ideas around him.
However he grew and was helped by his friends and family that he could barely stand, and he struggled to change himself and right a lot of wrongs he had created over his life.
So people can work and accept many other diverse groups and ideals if there’s even a little opening afforded them.
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- Jocey
- 11-05-17
Quick delivers!!
I love Matthew Quick and he has never disappointed me. He tells a great story with great narrators!
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- Shantanu Sharma
- 02-07-19
Lovely story, excellent narration, worth the time
This is my first Matthew Quick book and it certainly will not be the last. I think the narrator makes or breaks an audiobook, often times regardless of the material. R. C. Bray is top notch. He captures the mood brilliantly and really elevates an already fantastic novel to a whole new level. I couldn't stop listening and had tears in my eyes more than once.
Highly recommended.
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- Robert J
- 07-07-17
Reasons Why You read
A solid story of A veteran adjusting to life 50 years after the Vietnam war. A story about tolerance and racial profiling. Matthew quick never fails to amaze me.
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- John
- 06-24-21
Loved This Book
Perfect narrator for this touching story. Cut to the quick. Deeply felt. Commands your attention. Give this book a shot.
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- beccabreck
- 11-15-18
Powerful
If you’ve ever wondered what Vietnam soldiers went through, this is your chance to hear it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-15-21
Matthew Quick is a genius
Another home run by Matthew Quick. I could not put this one down. Great story great narration. Loved it.
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