Hallie Ricardo has narrated 19 audiobooks on Listento.it by 12 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 9 ratings. The most-rated is South of the Buttonwood Tree.
South of the Buttonwood Tree
Summary
USA Today best-selling author Heather Webber's South of the Buttonwood Tree is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she’s happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree. Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton is at a crossroads. She has always tried so hard to do the right thing, but her own mother would disown her if she ever learned half of Sarah Grace’s secrets. The unexpected discovery of the newborn baby girl will alter Blue’s and Sarah Grace’s lives forever. Both women must fight for what they truly want in life and for who they love. In doing so, they uncover long-held secrets that reveal exactly who they really are - and what they’re willing to sacrifice in the name of family. A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books
©2020 Heather Webber (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
Girl at Heart
Summary
As the daughter of a successful Major League pitcher, Charlie Hastings has baseball in her blood. Unfortunately, being the only girl on her high school baseball team, Charlie has always been just one of the guys. When her best friend, and secret love of her life, asks another girl to the prom, Charlie is devastated. She’s tired of being overlooked by boys because she’s not like other girls. Suffering a massive identity crisis, she decides to hang up her cleats and finally learn how to be a girl. But with only two weeks until the state championships, the Roosevelt High Ravens can’t afford to lose their star catcher. Team captain Jace King makes her a deal: Don’t quit the team, and he’ll help her become the girl she’s so desperate to be. After all, he’s got four sisters, one of whom happens to be a cheerleader. He knows a thing or two about girls. (And if he can win her heart in the process, all the better.) From the best-selling young adult author of Cinder & Ella, V is for Virgin, and the Avery Shaw Experiment comes a new sweet romance that's sure to leave you with all the feels! Girl at Heart is a clean and wholesome sports romance that will leave you with warm fuzzies and an itch to watch a baseball game.
©2019 Kelly Oram (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Flood
Summary
A sparkling debut set in Mark Twain's boyhood town, Flood is a story of what it means to be lost...and found. Laura Brooks fled her hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, 10 years ago after a historic flood and personal heartbreak. Now she's returned unannounced, and her family and friends don't know what to make of it. She says she's just home for a brief visit and her high school reunion, but she's carrying too much luggage for that: literal and metaphorical. Soon Laura is embroiled in small-town affairs - the contentious divorce of her rowdy best friend, Rose; the campaign of her 12-year-old godson, Bobby, to become the town's official Tom Sawyer; and the renewed interest of the man Laura once thought she'd marry, Sammy McGuire. Leaving town when she was 18 had been Laura's only option. She feared a stifling existence in a town ruled by its past, its mythological devotion to Mark Twain, and the economic and racial divide that runs as deep as the Mississippi River. She can't forget that fateful Fourth of July when the levees broke or the decisions that still haunt her. Now, as the Mississippi rises again, a deep wound threatens to reopen, and Laura must decide if running away once more might be the best way to save herself.
©2017 Melissa Scholes Young (P)2017 Hachette Audio
Flood
Summary
Winner of the Literary Fiction category for the 2017 Best Book Award. A sparkling debut set in Mark Twain's boyhood town, Flood is a story of what it means to be lost...and found. Laura Brooks fled her hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, 10 years ago after a historic flood and personal heartbreak. Now, she's returned unannounced, and her family and friends don't know what to make of it. She says she's just home for a brief visit and her high school reunion, but she's carrying too much luggage for that: literal and metaphorical. Soon, Laura is embroiled in small-town affairs - the contentious divorce of her rowdy best friend, Rose; the campaign of her 12-year-old godson, Bobby, to become the town's official Tom Sawyer; and the renewed interest of the man Laura once thought she'd marry, Sammy McGuire. Leaving town when she was 18 had been Laura's only option. She feared a stifling existence in a town ruled by its past, its mythological devotion to Mark Twain, and the economic and racial divide that runs as deep as the Mississippi River. She can't forget that fateful Fourth of July when the levees broke or the decisions that still haunt her. Now, as the Mississippi rises again, a deep wound threatens to reopen, and Laura must decide if running away once more might be the best way to save herself.
©2017 Melissa Scholes Young (P)2019 Hachette Audio
Quest
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The daughter of a murdered businessman joins forces with a New York City cop in a perilous hunt for history's most coveted treasure. Claire Andrews loved her father dearly, but now he's dead, brutally slain after attempting to sell an irreplaceable, possibly priceless saltcellar encrusted with rare gems. Leaving the Midwest for New York City, she seeks the help of Detective Artie Modelstein of the NYPD's Frauds/Jewels Squad, hoping to recover the lost treasure and clear her father's sullied name. But there are others on the trail of the missing saltcellar, and their interests lie not in the precious stones but in a secret hidden within. Suddenly Claire and Artie have unwittingly become marked targets in a deadly game that has wound through the centuries like a poisonous snake - following a trail of death and terror from the ancient world to Elizabethan England, through the flames of world war to the present day - as a hunt for stolen jewels becomes a mythic quest that could change their world forever. Rich in action, color, and invention, an epic thriller that spans centuries, Richard Ben Sapir's Quest is a stunning tale of adventure, love, mystery, and revelation.
©1987 Patricia Chute-Sapir, the executrix of the estate of Richard Ben Sapir; This edition published in 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Witch Way to Go
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Another magical clue takes Lily Antony to a burned-down house in Colorado with her fave werewolf by her side. The house might be ruined, but the magical message hidden in the walls remains.... Someone wants to keep Lily from finding out about her world-traveling mother, but Lily has a Winnebago and will travel, and the truth is going to come out. Lily and Romeo decipher her mother’s message and end up back on the road - this time heading to Mexico and a potion witch with a few secrets of her own. The witch, having made some bad deals, is in trouble herself and puts Romeo and Lily between a rock and a hard place. Romeo is captured and is set to fight in an illegal fighting ring - as a wolf. To save Romeo’s life, Lily teams up with her mom’s old friend. Will their partnership be enough? Too bad the werewolf pack is messing with the wrong witch. They need Lily’s blood to complete the cycle. Lily’s not giving up, least of all without a fight. It will take more than just a werewolf pack to bring her down. Join Lily and Romeo on their trip to Mexico to discover more clues behind her mother’s disappearance in Witch Way to Go!
©2019 Judith Berens and Martha Carr (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
A Witch Apart
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Just follow the clues across the map to find your family - dead or alive? Lily makes a magical deal and books passage to Europe on a shipping freighter in pursuit of her missing mother. Of course, trouble starts as soon as they reach France...magicals across Europe are being killed with the same cryptic message left behind: A silhouette of a flying heron, the words “Complete the Circle”, and spells most can’t see. But what does it mean? Can Lily and Romeo figure it out before it’s too late for Greta Antony? All magic comes with a price. That price may be Lily herself. Wait till the dark forces find out - her magic is more powerful than anyone could imagine.... And she can feel it - her mother has to be alive.
©2020 Judith Berens and Martha Carr (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Lights of Sugarberry Cove
Summary
The next charming novel from USA Today best-selling author Heather Webber! Sadie Way Scott has been avoiding her family and hometown of Sugarberry Cove, Alabama since she survived a near-drowning in the lake just outside her mother’s B&B. Eight years later, Sadie is the host of a much-loved show about southern cooking and family, but despite her success, she wonders why she was saved. What is she supposed to do? Sadie’s sister, Leala Clare, is still haunted by the guilt she feels over the night her sister almost drowned. Now, at a crossroads in her marriage, Leala has everything she ever thought she wanted - so why is she so unhappy? When their mother suffers a minor heart attack just before Sugarberry Cove’s famous water lantern festival, the two sisters come home to run the inn while she recovers. It’s the last place either of them wants to be, but with a little help from the inn’s quirky guests, the sisters may come to terms with their strained relationships, accept the past, and rediscover a little lake magic. The Lights of Sugarberry Cove is a charming, delightful story of family, healing, love, and small-town Southern charm by USA Today best-selling author Heather Webber. A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books
©2021 Heather Webber (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
Homeward Witch
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Lily, Greta, and Romeo are on their home turf, chased all the way home by the Black Heron. Can they finally put an end to them? They’re going to need help. Can they get the full support of the Council of Magic? It’s not going to be so easy with a traitor inside the council. On to plan B then! Carmichael is still out there gathering Black Heron survivors. He will do whatever it takes to complete the transference spell and turn magic on its head. Lily and Greta must convince the council of the threat Carmichael is to the world. Will they succeed? The leader of the Black Herons thinks he has everything he needs to repair the Varelos. Once the two Optatus witches are no longer an issue, only Lily will stand in his way. Better pull it together, witches! Can Lily, Greta, and Romeo secure the council’s help and put an end to Carmichael and The Black Heron Society for good?
©2020 Judith Berens, Martha Carr, Michael Anderle (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Any Witch Way
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With only a creepy stone idol as their next clue, Lily and Romeo are off again. This time the clues will take them to Guatemala’s healing temple of Ichacál, where the situation becomes life or death. Someone’s been kidnapping magical children from small Mexican villages. The locals don’t know who it is or how to stop them. Lily and Romeo stop in their tracks and instead set out to find the lost children. Good deeds sometimes pay off...or do they? In return for their help, a powerful necromancer in the village tries to find answers to Lily’s questions, but even he can’t see what’s chasing Lily. He can see a warning just ahead. The temple of Ichacál is supposed to be a sanctuary for all who enter, but the necromancer has a bad feeling about it for our young witch. Dark signs aren’t enough to keep Lily away, and everyone heads to the refuge of Ichacál. Instead, terrible, hidden secrets are revealed there, and some of them are for Lily. Is her mother there? Or was she killed by whatever awaits them in the temple? Find out in Any Witch Way.
©2020 Judith Berens, Martha Carr (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
To Find a Witch
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The road trip in the Winnie continues to Otiylo, Greece, but Lily and Romeo are being followed, and a trail of death and trouble lies behind them. Is that strange coin she holds a magical GPS? Nothing can keep Lily from searching for her mother, but she’s going to need help from a local coven. Greek witches hold an ancient magic that has mixed blessings. Lily learns more about who and what she is. Will that knowledge make her stronger or turn powerful forces against her? Will she need to fight her way out of this one? The Black Heron’s secrets are coming out. The magical world prepares for the most dangerous spell in magical history. Can Lily stop it? Did her mother leave her clues just to use her?
©2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Return of the Witch
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Has anyone seen Greta Antony? Time to get a witch, a werewolf, and a Winnie across the water to follow the next dangerous clue. Lily and Romeo are offered a deal to get them across the sea to Libya and retrieve a needed sacred relic. Heed this warning - magic often comes with a price and an artifact from the God of Dreams is going to be no exception. A high-speed car chase through the Sahara, hybrid magicals, and a warded cage almost end Lily’s quest - but did you forget about her shadow-bird? Follow the light and battle through to the end or follow the dark and take a shortcut. Better choose soon Lily, because what The Black Heron does to your mom is going to happen to you.
©2019 Judith Berens and Martha Carr (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
One Witch Too Few
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Lily Antony is a young witch playing in a very dangerous treasure hunt. She’s got to follow the clues her mom left behind after her disappearance trekking the world. Maybe even put the pieces of her life back together with each one. First stop - get that cute guy Romeo to help her out. It never hurts to have a werewolf along for the ride. Especially since Lily thinks her mom is still alive - and no one else does. Doubters are going to hate...and chase Lily and Romeo all over the world. Sounds like these doubters have something to hide? Before she can even start, Lily loses everything she owns except for a Winnebago and a little bit of money. It doesn’t matter. This girl has a wand and a will to get the job done. Like mother, like witchy daughter. Together, Lily and Romeo head north in her Winnebago with the first real clues: a business card written in French, a broken piece of metal, and a magical speakeasy hidden beneath the streets of Montreal. Can she figure it all out and find out what happened to her mother? The race is on across the globe with other deadly players in hot pursuit of the young couple, and that team is playing for keeps. What exactly was her mother into?
©2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
A Witch and a Hard Place
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Lily and Romeo are just one desert away from reaching the High Seat of the Black Heron Society, where they’ll finally learn the fate of Lily’s mom, Greta. But Lily is going to need some guidance before she shows up at the Black Heron’s door. Can a clan of magical travelers in a hidden oasis give her what she needs? When Lily sees her mom at last, the young witch knows something is wrong. Can she help her missing mother and perform the spell that will turn magic on its head? It’s a good thing Greta left her daughter one last clue outside the Black Heron fortress. But Lily will have to make a sacrifice in order to step inside. Will our favorite witch take the challenge and fight what happens to the people she loves inside the secret fortress? What will happen to Romeo?
©2020 Judith Berens and Martha Carr (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
A Skinful of Shadows
Summary
A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte family, and as such, she shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts. Reluctant to accept her appointed destiny as vessel for a coterie of her ancestors, she escapes. As she flees the pursuing Fellmottes across war-torn England, she accumulates a motley crew of her own allies, including outcasts, misfits, criminals, and one extremely angry dead bear. From Costa Book of the Year winner Frances Hardinge comes a new dark historical fantasy that's sure to satisfy her leagues of fans who are eager for more.
©2017 Frances Hardinge (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
Jubilee
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When Bianca appears late one night at her brother’s house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of our lived experiences and the surreal possibility of the present to heal the past. The first thread, “Before Jubilee”, follows Bianca in her girlhood home on the Mexicali border as she struggles with her high school sweetheart, Gabe, and a secret they’ve shared since she was 15. The second thread, “With Jubilee”, is told from the point of view of her new love, Joshua, who, along with Bianca’s family, helps her cope with a mysterious trauma by accepting Jubilee as part of the family. As Joshua’s love for Bianca grows, he fears that Jubilee has the power to tear his tiny family apart. Alternating chapters give listeners a unique perspective on Bianca’s present and on her relationship with Jubilee as her past life with Gabe comes to a catastrophic end. Jubilee is at once a darkly suspenseful psychological drama and a luminous reflection on how beauty emerges from even the most traumatic of experiences.
©2020 Jennifer Givhan (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
A Southern Girl
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Set against the exquisite historical backdrop of Charleston's insular South of Broad neighborhood, A Southern Girl is a tale of international adoption and of families lost then found anew through revelations, courage, and the perseverance of a love without bounds. With two biological sons and a promising career, Coleman Carter seems set to fulfill his promise as a resourceful trial lawyer, devoted husband, and dutiful father until his wife, Elizabeth, champions their adoption of a Korean orphan. This seemingly altruistic mission estranges Coleman's conservative parents and demands that he now embrace the unknown as fully as he has always entrenched himself in the familiar. Elizabeth, a self-proclaimed liberal with a global sense of duty, is eager for the adoption while Coleman, a scion of the Old South, is at best a reluctant participant. But the arrival of Soo Yun (later called Allie) into the Carter household and the challenging reactions of Coleman's peers and parents awakens in him a broadening sense of responsibility and dedication to his new family that opens his eyes to the subtle racism and exclusionary activities that had dominated his sheltered life. To garner Allie's entrance into Charleston society, Coleman must come to terms with his past and guide Allie toward finding her own origins as the Carters forge a new family identity and confront generations-old fears inherent in Southern traditions of purity and prestige. Deftly told through the distinctive voices of Allie's birth mother; her orphanage nurse; her adoptive mother, Elizabeth; and finally Coleman himself, A Southern Girl brings us deeply into Allie's plights - first for her very survival and then for her sense of identity, belonging, and love in her new and not always welcoming culture. In this truly international tale, John Warley guides us through the enclaves of Southern privilege in New Hampton, Virginia, and Charleston; the poverty-stricken back alleys of Seoul, South Korea; the jungles of Vietnam; and the stone sidewalks of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, as the bonds between father and daughter become strong enough to confront the trials of their pasts and present alike. The first release from Pat Conroy's Story River Books, A Southern Girl includes a foreword by New York Times best-selling novelist Therese Ann Fowler.
©2014 John Warley (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
The Search for Something More
Summary
Life is about finding things - finding yourself, finding love, finding good friends, finding your happiness after losing someone you loved, and finding peace in the midst of chaos. This book takes you through the stages of falling in love, getting heartbroken, getting over your heartbreak, appreciating friends & family, and the journey to becoming who you really are.
©2016 The Thought & Expression Co. (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Chestnut
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Max comes a heartwarming, middle-grade adventure story about a rescue dog, Chestnut, who befriends a girl trying to save her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina. Chestnut is a dog without a family. After being abandoned in the wild, Chestnut is wandering the North Carolina countryside trying to survive. When 12-year-old Meg stumbles upon him on the outskirts of her family’s Christmas tree farm, she just knows that they’re meant to be together forever. The only problem? The farm is on the brink of closing down, and her family can’t afford a pet. Meg knows she has what it takes to save the business and take care of Chestnut - she’ll just need to keep him a secret until then. Will Meg and Chestnut get their Christmas miracle?
©2020 Alloy Entertainment LLC (P)2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company