Claire Cook has 15 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is The Wildwater Walking Club.
Seven Year Switch
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Just when she's finally figured out how to manage on her own, Jill Murray's ex-husband, Seth, is back - crashing into the man-free existence Jill and her 10-year-old daughter, Anastasia, have built so carefully. Jill's life just hasn't turned out quite the way she'd planned. By now, she'd hoped to be jetting around the world as a high-end cultural coach. Instead, she's answering phones for a local travel agency and teaching cooking classes at the community center. Enter free-spirited entrepreneur Billy who hires Jill as a consultant for an upcoming business trip. Suddenly, her no-boys-allowed life is anything but. They say that every seven years you become a completely new person, but Jill isn't sure she's ready to make the leap. It takes a Costa Rican getaway to help her make a choice - not so much between the two men in her life, but between the woman she is and the woman she wants to be.
©2015 Claire Cook (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Shine On
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If you're a 40-to-forever woman who's interested in aging well, don't miss this motivating and inspiring audiobook. Join New York Times best-selling author Claire Cook on an inspirational journey that will help you shake off all those worries about getting older and embrace what can be the most vibrant, creative, and empowering chapter of your life. Claire wrote her first book in her minivan at 45. At 50, she walked the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the adaptation of her novel Must Love Dogs, starring Diane Lane and John Cusack. With another milestone birthday on the horizon, she was old enough to know the signs: "It was time to get my act together. Again." Shine On: How to Grow Awesome Instead of Old speaks to midlife women everywhere and is filled with Claire's trademark humor, heart, honesty, and encouragement.
©2015 Claire Cook (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Wildwater Walking Club
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When Noreen takes a buyout and gets dumped by a boyfriend in one fell swoop, she finds herself with nothing but time to notice everything that's missing in her life. Tess is the teacher next door, who thought she'd be spending the summer with her college-bound daughter, but now that daughter isn't speaking to her. The Wildwater Walking Club is complete when they meet Rosie, the dutiful daughter who moved onto her parents' lavender farm after her mother died - and dragged her family with her. As the Wildwater women walk and talk, they tally their steps, share their secrets, and let life take them in some new and surprising directions. Throw in a road trip, a clothesline controversy that could only happen in the 'burbs, plenty of romantic twists and turns, and a quirky multigenerational cast of supporting characters, and the result is pure Claire Cook - fun, fast, and totally fabulous.
©2009 Claire Cook (P)2009 BBC Audio
Life's a Beach
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Life's a bit of a beach these days for Ginger Walsh, who's single at 41 and living back home in the family FROG (Finished Room Over Garage). Geri, her BlackBerry-obsessed sister, is also nearly off the deep end, about her pending 50th birthday (and might just drag Ginger with her). Toss in a dumpster-picking father, a Kama Sutra T-shirt-wearing mother, a movie crew come to town with a very cute gaffer, an on-again, off-again glassblower boyfriend, plus a couple of Red Hat realtors, and hilarity ensues.
©2007 Claire Cook (P)2007 BBC Audiobooks America
Must Love Dogs: A Howliday Tale
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From Claire Cook, New York Times best-selling author of the novel turned romantic comedy movie starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, comes Must Love Dogs: A Howliday Tale, book six of the hilarious and heartwarming Must Love Dogs series. In the charming small beach town of Marshbury, Massachusetts, preschool teacher Sarah has the heartbreak of a messy divorce behind her and the promise of a second chance with John ahead. When she finds out that buying the family house also means hosting the holidays, her only goal is survival. They've got a house full of animals and a renovation in full throttle. Sarah's single and pregnant teaching assistant Polly is staying with them, too, as is her brother Johnny, whose marriage is on the rocks, and Sarah has just been made chair of the Bayberry Preschool holiday performance. Can she and John survive all this?
©2018 Claire Cook (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Multiple Choice
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There was a time when March Monroe thought that she and her daughter, Olivia, would never really cut the cord. They'd just upgrade to a wireless connection. Now, Olivia is heading off to college, and March hasn't even told her that she's decided to continue her own higher education. So it's hard to say who's more shocked when they run into each other at a local radio station where, it turns out, they're both student interns. Adding to the fireworks are a 14-year-old son who probably won't be speaking to March for much longer, a slightly tired marriage, a midlife crush, and a quantum-physics class that just might put March over the edge. This new novel from the author of Must Love Dogs is an effervescent story of family life that will strike a chord with women of all ages. Required reading!
©2004 Claire Cook (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.
Must Love Dogs: Fetch You Later
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From Claire Cook, USA Today best-selling author of the novel-turned-movie starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, comes Must Love Dogs: Fetch You Later, book three of the hilarious and heartwarming Must Love Dogs series. Sarah Hurlihy knows how to move on to the next guy. But she really, really doesn't want to do that anymore. What she wants to figure out is how to stick around and make things work with John Anderson. But John's suggestion for a romantic trip to canine camp before Sarah's job as a preschool teacher gears up again is sounding anything but romantic, and Sarah and her sisters are worried about their father's new girlfriend, Sweepstakes Sally. And there's a hot new male teacher at Bayberry Preschool. Could it be that what Sarah wants and what she needs are two entirely different things?
©2018 Claire Cook (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Must Love Dogs: Bark & Roll Forever
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From Claire Cook, New York Times best-selling author of the much-loved novel-turned-movie starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, comes Must Love Dogs: Bark & Roll Forever, book four of the hilarious and heartwarming Must Love Dogs series. Sarah and John are finally going to move in together. But where? And what's up with Sarah's ex enrolling his twins at Bayberry Preschool and Sarah's wasband's wife trying to sell Sarah's house right out from under her? Sarah's new teaching assistant has a secret, her niece Siobhan has a boyfriend who could be trouble, and her dad has a new job working for the Bark & Roll Forever ladies as well as plans to date at least one of them!
©2018 Claire Cook (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Never Too Late
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Wondering how to get to that life you really thought you'd be living by now? Claire Cook speaks to real women - our fears and obstacles and hopes and desires - and gives us cutting-edge tools to get where we want to go. Bursting with inspiration, insider stories, and practical strategies. Filled with humor, heart, encouragement, and great quotes. Claire Cook shares everything she's learned on her own journey - from writing her first book in her minivan at 45, to walking the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of Must Love Dogs at 50, to becoming the internationally best-selling author of 18 books and a sought-after reinvention speaker. You'll hop on a plane with Claire as you figure out the road to your own reinvention. You'll laugh a lot and maybe even shed a few tears as Claire tells her stories and those of other reinventors and shares her best tips for getting a plan, staying on track, pulling together a support system, building your platform in the age of social networking, dealing with the inevitable ups and downs, overcoming perfectionism, and tuning in to your authentic self to propel you toward your goals. Never Too Late: Your Roadmap to Reinvention (Without Getting Lost Along the Way) is real, grounded, and just the audiobook you need to start reinventing your life.
©2014 Claire Cook (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Best Staged Plans
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As a professional home stager, Sandy Sullivan is an expert at transforming cluttered rooms into attractive houses ready for sale. If only reinventing her life were as easy as choosing the perfect paint color. She’s eager to put her family’s suburban Boston home on the market, to downsize, and to simplify her own life. But she must first deal with her foot-dragging husband and her grown son, who has moved back home after college to inhabit the basement “bat cave.” After reading them the riot act, Sandy takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta recently acquired by her best friend’s boyfriend. The good news is that she can spend time with her recently married daughter, Shannon, in Atlanta. The bad news is that Shannon finds herself heading to Boston for job training, leaving Sandy and her southern son-in-law, Chance, as reluctant roommates. If that’s not complicated enough, Sandy begins to suspect that her best friend’s boyfriend may be seeing another woman on the side. Filled with characters who are fresh and original, yet recognizable enough to live in your neighborhood - plus plenty of great tips and tricks for fixing up houses, and lives - this is a wise and witty story of letting go and moving on. Best Staged Plans is Claire Cook at her most humorous and heartfelt.
©2011 Claire Cook (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life
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Claire Cook's most enduring characters are back in book two of the Must Love Dogs series! Life after divorce for Sarah Hurlihy used to consist of juggling her job as a preschool teacher with the demands of her interfering family. But after a rocky start, Sarah and John Anderson have shared six months of dating bliss. Now their relationship is basically on hold because Sarah's brother, Michael, and his dog, Mother Teresa, are staying with her. And John's new puppy, Horatio, hates Sarah. With a passion. Michael hopes absence will, in fact, make his wife Phoebe's heart grow fonder. Sarah hopes she can do her sisterly duty and send Michael on his merry way before she ends up single again herself. John hopes Sarah and his puppy can work things out before it's too late. Sarah's bossy big sister, Carol, hopes both Michael and their father will start dating again. When Phoebe packs up their daughters and heads home to Savannah, Georgia, Michael follows her from Marshbury, Massachusetts, and the Hurlihy clan tags along for reinforcement, including Dad, who has finally upgraded his Smith Corona to a laptop and already has a date with a woman named Sugar Butt.
©2018 Claire Cook (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Summer Blowout
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Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips - an occupational hazard, since she works at Salon de Paolo, her family-run beauty salon, along with her four half-brothers and sisters. The owner is her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, a gregarious, three-times divorced charmer with Donald Trump hair who is obsessed with all things Italian. After Bella's own marriage flames out spectacularly when her half-sister runs off with her husband, Bella decides she has seen enough of the damage love can do. She makes a vow: no more men. But then Bella meets a cute entrepreneur, and despite their bickering, they can't seem to stay away from each other. A small, well-tressed dog also finds her way into Bella's life, and her heart, and she decides to chance that, too. When the whole clan heads to Atlanta for a big Southern wedding, sparks fly - in a summer blowout no one will ever forget.
©2008 Claire Cook (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks America
Must Love Dogs: Who Let the Cats In?
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From Claire Cook, New York Times best-selling author of the novel turned romantic comedy movie starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, comes Must Love Dogs: Who Let the Cats In?, book five of the fun and fabulous Must Love Dogs series. Sarah and John are buying Sarah's family house, and they're hoping their relationship will survive it. Sarah's dad is part of the deal, and so is the litter of kittens they've discovered under the front porch. Finding a contractor isn't as easy as they thought it would be, one of the parents at Bayberry Preschool is driving Sarah crazy, and a big nor'easter is barreling toward town.
©2018 Claire Cook (P)2018 Blackstone Publishing
Must Love Dogs
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Voluptuous, sensuous, alluring, and fun. Barely 40 DWF seeks special man to share starlit nights. Must love dogs. Life after divorce for Sarah Hurlihy consists of juggling her job as a preschool teacher and the demands of her interfering family. Then her bossy big sister decides to place a personal ad for her, and the unexpected becomes a daily event. Everybody wants Sarah to put the past behind her and take a bold step towards a fresh start. But when Sarah winds up with a lot of new men and rambunctious dogs in her life, along with plenty of awkward situations, unexpected emotions, and not-so-easy decisions, she wonders whether those mindless evenings sitting alone and watching The Brady Bunch were really so bad.
©2002 Claire Cook (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks
The Wildwater Walking Club: Back on Track
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For Noreen, Tess, and Rosie, walking the beach together every day has been everything. But after all those steps forward, the Wildwater Walking Club is doing some serious backsliding. Now they're dodging each other in the neighborhood, and Noreen is spending time working on pints of Ben & Jerry's instead of her romance with Rick, the also-lost boyfriend she met at career counseling. A new adventure might be just what they need. Their destination: Provence, the ultimate lavender trip. It turns into the trip of a lifetime, filled with Van Gogh and vineyards, wine and chocolate, plus lavender and more lavender. Join Noreen, Rosie, and Tess as they get back on track!
©2019 Claire Cook (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing