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Narrated by:
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Amy McFadden
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Nick Podehl
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Scott Merriman
About this listen
From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes the stunning and emotional story of a young soldier's unthinkable act...and the bonds of a sister and brother's love.
Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can't believe that his hero doesn't have very good reasons.
Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge, Joseph disappears. In their attempts to find him, Ruth and Aubrey discover he has a past far darker than either of them could imagine. But even as they learn more about their brother, important questions remain unanswered - why did he betray his unit, his country, and now his family? Joseph's refusal to speak ignites a fire in young Aubrey that results in a disastrous, and public, act of rebellion.
The impact of Joseph's fateful decision one night in Baghdad will echo for years to come, with his siblings caught between their love for him and the media's engulfing frenzy of judgment. Will their family ever make their way back to each other and find a way to forgive?
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It’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded - physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she’s in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton’s senior, Edith is slow to trust. But when she needs a safe place to stay, she lets down her guard, and over the course of ten days an unlikely friendship grows.
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She did it again!!
- By Cheryl Coen on 12-07-20
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Just a Regular Boy
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Kate Rudd
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That’s what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies. As seasons pass, supplies run out, and fending for himself grows more desperate, Remy sets out on foot, unprepared for the great unknown of civilization.
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Vaccine, mask, covid... and a kid.
- By Stacey Weaver on 07-25-23
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Leaving Blythe River
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Will Ropp
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he's barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly it's up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, he's his father's only hope.
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Another good story from this author!
- By DeRoseBreathe on 07-18-20
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Allie and Bea
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Janet Metzger
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her cat - on a mission to reclaim what's rightfully hers, even if it means making others pay for what she lost.
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If You've Read One Catherine Ryan Hyde...
- By Gillian on 05-28-17
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Say Goodbye for Now
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, a newly arrived African American father and son.
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Well intended, but poorly executed story about rac
- By g on 01-24-17
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Don't Let Me Go
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Chris Chappell, Cassandra Morris
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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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 nine-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.
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Inspirational and humbling and awesome.
- By Michele on 11-08-15
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Electric God
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Hayden Reese has a bad habit of breaking people's jaws. Granted, he only breaks jaws that deserved some breaking, but he's starting a whole new feud, with the husband of his lover—and this time, it may cost him his life. Hayden's life has never been easy. His father tormented him, his kid brother got all the approval, and he made a fatal mistake that he's never been able to forgive himself for making. But when Hayden's future is shattered by his bad choices, he has to redeem himself in the eyes of his long-estranged daughter Allegra.
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Walk Me Home
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Cristina Panfilio
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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If 16-year-old Carly and 11-year-old Jen can find Teddy, Carly knows he’ll save them from foster care...if he can forgive them for their mother’s vicious lies about him. But when the starving girls get caught stealing food on a Native American reservation, their journey gets put on hold. And after Jen makes a heartbreaking confession, Carly wonders if they’ll ever escape the pain of the past. Set against the backdrop of the American Southwest, Walk Me Home and its resilient heroines will inspire listeners and renew their faith in recovery and redemption.
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Hyde writes another great book
- By Brian PDX on 12-08-15
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Love in the Present Tense
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: David Coburn, Jeremy Redleaf, Duana Speights
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbor Mitch with watching Leonard while she goes off to work. Then one day Pearl drops her son off, and never returns.
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Amazing
- By Linda McMurray on 04-18-16
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Take Me With You
- By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his 19-year-old son died. Every year he’s spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Philip’s ashes instead. An unexpected twist of fate lands August with two extra passengers for his journey, two half-orphans with nowhere else to go. What none of them could have known was how transformative both the trip - and the bonds that develop between them- would prove....
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Perhaps My Biggest Surprise of 2014!
- By Kathy in CA on 12-28-14
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- Kendall
- 04-19-16
An amazing book for the doubtful
This is a beautiful look into the lives of the hurting. Of being saved when you didn't think anyone cared to save you. I very much so enjoyed every moment and it ended in the most important way. Well done Catherine Ryan Hyde. And thank you.
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- Susan
- 04-05-16
ok book
The narration was totally awesome for this audio book. The characters came to life because of their excellent narration. The book's content was only fair compared to their performance.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-03-16
great book
performance and story line very good. parts were dad, but realistic and eventually redeeming.
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- Booklover
- 02-18-18
Captivating, brilliant, emotionally authentic and compelling
Catherine Ryan Hyde 's writing is vivid, with a gifted feel for character and dialogue. Listening to the audiobook was like a virtual reality experience. I look forward to reading more of her work.
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- Bastette54
- 06-28-18
Deeper than I expected, but there were problems
I had my doubts about this at the beginning, thinking it was going to be a best-seller, beach reading type of book, but it did address some difficult issues and situations with more depth than I expected.
One thing I noticed in most of the reviews I've read here was how irritating readers found the younger kids to be, because of all their "whining." But look at those parents! Dad was an authoritarian bully, yelling, criticizing, shaming, and scaring the wits out of the kids. No wonder the younger boy was so angry! And the mother passively accepted everything the father did, without standing up for her kids. I found Ruth to be annoying because of her self-righteous, judgemental attitude. Aubrey was a difficult character, but I actually liked him better than Ruth.
I also found it hard to believe that EVERYONE - the family, the town, and the country - all considered Joseph to be guilty of treason. Doesn't anyone in this book's universe question the military? In real life there would be people standing up for Joseph and demanding to hear his side of the story. Not everyone automatically assumes that someone who disobeys an order while in combat is a traitor to his/her country. Many people in history have gone to prison for refusing to obey orders they found objectionable.
The performance was poor. I really could not stand the way Amy McFadden talked. Someone should tell her that the word "chest" should not sound like "chust." And "said" definitely shouldn't sound like "sad!" That one really irritated me because of all the "I said," "he said," etc, in the book. (Excuse me, "I sad," "he sad.") UGH!
The reader who played Aubrey (Nick Podehl?) was a little better - at least he didn't have that annoying habit of mispronouncing vowels. The reader for Joseph's part was pretty good.
I do have one question, though. Since there were three readers, why couldn't they continue to read their own dialogue, regardless of whose point of view the chapter was being told from? Instead, when it was Aubrey's point of view, he did his character AND Ruth's. Couldn't her reader - annoying as she was - read her dialogue? And vice versa? If you're going to have multiple readers, at least keep the same reader for the same character.
As traumatic as this situation was for everyone, I think the book glossed over the biggest problem in the kids' lives, and that was their controlling, abusive dad, and "yes-woman" mom. That's why they were psychologically screwed up, not because of their brother's actions.
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- Rachel
- 05-20-17
great story!!
this was such a great story I bought it on a daily deal and I am so glad I did!! I really enjoyed it all the way through it was a touching story no regrets here :)
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- D House
- 03-27-19
Love Catherine Ryan Hyde’s books!
Another winner from catherine Ryan Hyde. She never disappoints! All her books have wonderful, life changing messages👍
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- Licha Kelley-King
- 03-15-20
We never ask why
I love this author. We never ask why, not really. Good story of siblings and strangers
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- drjay5438
- 05-26-17
Amazing
What a surprise! It's a story that I would never have imagined told from several perspectives. Uplifting and real. Must listen!
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- Becky
- 09-11-17
enjoyed it
loved Joe & Ham
shows how humans can judge one another yet not have a clue what the other feels sometimes. Good life lesson.
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