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    The Narrator: That Magical Voice that Brings Books to Life |Lauren Carr's ​Audiobook-a-palooza

    Today I’m happy to have Lauren Carr guest posting here. The Narrator: That Magical Voice that Brings Books to Life After years of prodding by readers, I finally made the jump to have my mysteries made available in audio. Of course, the first question was, “Where and who would I find to narrate my mystery masterpieces?” One option that I immediately took off the table for the narrator was not me! That left me with only one other option—finding the perfect voice to bring my books to life. Since my first three books had been picked up by a traditional…

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    In the Light of the Garden

    In the Light of the Garden is a novel about unearthed family secrets, the enchantment of past loves, and the indelible power of forgiveness. Inheriting her grandparents’ island estate on Florida’s Gulf coast is a special kind of homecoming for thirty-one-year-old Charity Baxter. Raised by a narcissistic single mother, Charity’s only sense of a loving home comes from childhood summers spent with Gramps and Grandma. But piercing her fondest memories is her sharpest grief—the death of her beloved grandmother, when Charity stopped believing in the magical healing power of the weeping willow that still casts a shadow on their property.…

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    Thief Of Glory

    Thief of Glory Sigmund Brouwer Published by WaterBrook Press 0307446492 (ISBN13: 9780307446497) …A boy coming of age in a time of war …the love that inspires him to survive In the early 1940s, Jeremiah Prins was a 12-year-old living a content life as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). When Holland declared war on the Japanese in 1941, the situation changed swiftly. The Japanese army invaded, and Jeremiah and his family were placed in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp-a camp Jeremiah takes on the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings when his father and…