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SO LONG, CHESTER WHEELERby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by Michael CrouchBrilliance Audio | UnabridgedFictionMichael Crouch delivers a heartwarming—and heartbreaking—performance in this exploration of generational differences and death. When Lewis Madigan loses his job and his boyfriend on the same day, he begrudgingly agrees to be an end-of-life caregiver to his combative and homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. To fulfill Chester’s dying wish, Lewis takes him on a cross-country... Read More |
MY NAME IS ANTONby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by Michael CrouchBrilliance Audio | UnabridgedRomantic FictionNarrator Michael Crouch gives voice to a pair of lost souls in this dark but hopeful story of enduring love and sacrifice. Eighteen-year-old Anton is reeling from several devastating losses when a chance encounter with Edith, a neighbor who is also suffering, alters the course of both their lives. As the story progresses from 1965 to 2020, Crouch's endearing performance allows... Read More |
STAYby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by Nick PodehlBrilliance Audio | UnabridgedFictionDelivering this coming-of-age audiobook about friendship, healing, and love, narrator Nick Podehl brings many fascinating characters to life. The story, set in 1969, is told by 14-year-old Lucas, who is coping with insensitive parents, a depressed best friend, and a brother who is serving in Vietnam, as well as the common traumas of adolescence. Podehl has a real talent for... Read More |
THE WAKE UPby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by Nick PodehlBrilliance Audio | UnabridgedFictionThe quiet vulnerability of reserved cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte radiates through Nick Podehl's salt-of-the-earth performance. Aiden is not your typical hardened rancher, especially after he "wakes up" his latent ability to feel the emotions of the animals around him. At that point, he sets a new course for his life. Podehl's performance is a wonderful addition to this... Read More |
WALTER'S PURPLE HEARTby Catherine Ryan-Hyde | Read by Kirby HeyborneTantor Media | UnabridgedFictionKirby Heyborne's narration transforms the author's complicated novel into a fascinating story that defies easy characterization. The audiobook focuses on Walter, who died in battle during WWII and returns to life nearly 20 years later. He visits his friend Michael, who convinced him to enlist and is now a marijuana grower, and his own fiancée, Mary Ann. Hyde weaves these... Read More |
ELECTRIC GODby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by Anthony HealdBlackstone Audio | UnabridgedFictionAt 50, Hayden Reese has been beset by tragedy at every turn. In his younger years, anger management issues landed him in prison, and his wife and child left him. In the present, Hayden's girlfriend returns to her husband, and his dog, friend and constant companion of many years, dies. As Hayden's tempestuous life unfolds in a series of flashbacks, a superior reading by Anthony... Read More |
CHASING WINDMILLSby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by Jesse Bernstein, Amber SealeyBooks on Tape | UnabridgedFictionCHASING WINDMILLS is saved from being a conventional love story by its two unconventional lovers. Sebastian is an isolated teenager just beginning to venture into the adult world. Maria is a young mother trapped in an abusive relationship. They begin their affair during middle-of-the-night rides on New York City subway trains. In alternating chapters, these two main characters... Read More |
LOVE IN THE PRESENT TENSEby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by David Coburn, Jeremy Redleaf, Duana SpeightsRandom House Audio | AbridgedFictionHyde, of PAY IT FORWARD fame, triumphs again in this heartbreaking but hopeful story of three intertwined lives. Thirteen-year-old Pearl, daughter of a drug addict, becomes pregnant and accidentally kills the baby's cop father one horrible night. Pearl becomes her son, Leonard's, loving, protective champion, but, hounded by police, she disappears when he is 5. Her next-door... Read More |
LOVE IN THE PRESENT TENSEby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by Stephen Hoye, Kirby Heyborne, Kathe MazurBooks on Tape | UnabridgedFictionSimultaneously gritty and heartwarming, this production makes perfect use of its three narrators. The triangle formed by the interactions of Pearl, Leonard, and Mitch weaves through the plot, and the skills of the three performers capably prevent the listener from missing a beat. As Pearl becomes a mother, Leonard grows up, and Mitch matures, the voices of Kathe Mazur, Kirby... Read More |
PAY IT FORWARDby Catherine Ryan Hyde | Read by William DufrisBBC Audiobooks America/ Chivers | UnabridgedFictionWilliam Dufris's voice is warm, clear, and easy to listen to. He characterizes each person in this story, succeeding best with Reuben, the social studies teacher who gives an extra-credit assignment, and Trevor, the 12-year-old boy who takes it to heart: What can you do that will change the world? The story is sentimental at times, and Dufris sometimes overplays the women's... Read More |
PAY IT FORWARDby Catherine Ryan-Hyde | Read by Debra Monk et al.Simon & Schuster Audio | AbridgedFictionWhat if a simple plan to make the world a better place came not from a room full of international decision-makers, but from a 12-year-old boy? Here's the plan: Choose three people for whom you will do a favor. They, in turn, will pass on a good deed to three others, and so on. Even more delightful than the premise is the full cast of characters narrating it. Debra Monk is a... Read More |
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