Rebecca Macauley has narrated 20 audiobooks on Listento.it by 9 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 59 ratings. The most-rated is Charming as Puck.
Charming as Puck
Summary
The man could charm the panties off a nun.... Nick Murphy. Hockey god. My best friend’s big brother. My friend with mind-blowing benefits. The best thing to happen to my nether regions since my subscription to the toy of the month club. The man I’ve been secretly in love with for years. And a total ass. I am so done with him. Except there’s one small problem. Now that I’ve cut him off, his hockey game is in the toilet. He’s convinced I’m his good luck charm, and he wants me back. But only for his game. I’ll be strong. I will. I’ll resist. Asses don’t change their stripes. Or do they? This plan would be so easy if the man wasn't charming as puck.... Charming as Puck is a romping fun romance between a hockey player and his sister's best friend, complete with farm animals, epic birthday presents, and Berger twin sightings. This romantic comedy stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers and ends with a pucking awesome happily ever after.
©2019 Pippa Grant (P)2019 Pippa Grant
Endless
Summary
Love will kill us all.
Angels are real. They aren’t always kind. Violet Eden is certain of all this because she is Grigori - part angel, part human. She has felt the influence of both light and dark.
When Hell unleashes its worst, Violet must embrace every facet of her angel self to save the people she cares about and the world as she knows it. But death is not the worst thing that Violet will face. For her, the endless question "Can love conquer all?" will finally be answered.
©2012 Jessica Shirvington (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Embrace
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All Violet wants is to be with Lincoln. But he has a secret so great it could tear them apart.
Then there’s Phoenix. He’s intense and enigmatic, but he's always there for her.
Caught up in a battle between light and dark - where angels seek vengeance and humans are warriors - Violet must decide who she’s willing to sacrifice and who to trust, because the wrong choice could cost her not only her life, but her destiny.
©2010 Jessica Shrivington (P)2012 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Emblaze
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Violet has come to terms with the fact that being part angel, part human, means her life will never be as it was. Now Violet has something Phoenix - the exiled angel who betrayed her - will do anything for, and she has no intention of letting it fall into his hands. The only problem is that he has something she needs, too. With the help of surprising new allies, ancient prophecies are deciphered, a destination set and, after a shattering confrontation with her father, Violet leaves for the islands of Greece without knowing if she will have a home to return to....
©2011 Jessica Shirvington 2011 (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Entice
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A fantasy romance thriller with a deep-set mythology and expansive ideas. Violet Eden is Grigori - part angel, part human. Her destiny is to protect humans from the vengeance of exiled angels. Knowing who to trust is key but when Grigori reinforcements arrive it becomes clear everyone is hiding something. Even Lincoln. The only thing Violet does know... Phoenix's hold over her is more dangerous than ever. The race to find the one thing that could forever tilt the balance of power takes them all to the sacred mountains of Jordan, where Violet's own powers will be pushed to the extreme. And the ultimate betrayal exposed.
©2012 Jessica Shirvington (P)2012 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
On the Jellicoe Road
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Winner of the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult literature. A highly anticipated follow-up from the best-selling author of Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca, both highly acclaimed productions available from Bolinda Audio. Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs - the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. But what she needs to do, more than anything, is unravel the mystery of her past and find her mother - who abandoned her on the Jellicoe Road six years before. The only connection to her past, Hannah, the woman who found her, has now disappeared, too, and he only clue Taylor has about Hannah and her mother's past is a partially written manuscript about a group of five kids from the Jellicoe School, 20 years ago.
©2008 Melina Marchetta (P)2006 Bolinda Publishing
Lost Without You
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From ABIA award-winning and best-selling author Rachael Johns comes a fresh and poignant novel of family, journeys, past decisions...and dresses. Four women, one dress and the secret that binds them all.... On a special night, a celebration of new beginnings, Paige MacRitchie’s joy quickly falls away when her mother collapses. Terrified of losing her, Paige decides she wants to make the ultimate tribute to her parents’ perfect marriage: she will wear her mother’s wedding dress for her own big day. There’s just one problem - her mum, Rebecca, no longer has the dress. As Paige tries to track it down, she discovers that Rebecca has a long-hidden secret that could blow her whole family apart. Her new friend Josie is at a crossroads, too. She met her husband, Nik, when she was singing in an '80s-themed bar, but now she’s wondering if Nik understands her at all. And then there’s nurse Clara. When she married up-and-coming rock star Rob Jones, she thought she was in it forever. But now Clara needs to make a new life for herself, and Rob can’t seem to understand that it’s over. When the fates of these four women intertwine in an unexpected and powerful way, none of their lives will ever be the same again.
©2018 Rachael Johns (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Buddhism for Mothers
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A completely accessible and practical guide to nurturing your child using simple Buddhist practices, become a calmer and happier mother with the best-selling book, Buddhism for Mothers. Buddhism for Mothers discusses Buddhist teachings as applied to the everyday challenges of bringing up children. Parenthood can be a time of great inner turmoil for a woman yet parenting books invariably focus on nurturing children rather than the mothers who struggle to raise them. This book is different. It is a book for mothers. Buddhism for Mothers explores the potential to be with your children in the all-important present moment; to gain the most joy out of being with them. How can this be done calmly and with a minimum of anger, worry and negative thinking? How can mothers negotiate the changed conditions of their relationships with partners, family and even with friends? Using Buddhist practices, Sarah Napthali offers ways of coping with the day-to-day challenges of motherhood. Ways that also allow space for the deeper reflections about who we are and what makes us happy. By acknowledging the sorrows as well as the joys of mothering Buddhism for Mothers can help you shift your perspective so that your mind actually helps you through your day rather than dragging you down. This is Buddhism at its most accessible, applied to the daily realities of ordinary parents.
©2003 Sarah Napthali (P)2008 Bolinda Publishing
Saving Francesca
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Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year 11 at an all boy's school that has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed. But Francesca had not counted on the fierce loyalty of her new friends, or falling in love, or finding that it's within her power to bring her family back together.
©2003 Melina Marchetta (P)2003 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.
The Patterson Girls
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A remarkable story of four sisters, family secrets and discovering what's really important in life.
How can four sisters build the futures they so desperately want when the past is reaching out to claim them?
When the Patterson daughters return home to Meadow Brook to be with their father after their mother’s death, they bring with them a world of complication and trouble.
The eldest sister, obstetrician Madeleine, would rather be anywhere but her hometown; violinist Abigail has fled from her stellar career; while teacher Lucinda is struggling to have the children she and her husband so desperately want. The black sheep of the family, Charlie, feels her life as a barista and exercise instructor doesn’t measure up to that of her gifted and successful sisters.
Dealing with their bereft father, who is determined to sell the family motel, their loves old and new and a series of troublesome decisions doesn’t make life any easier, but when they go through their mother’s possessions and uncover the shocking secret of an old family curse, they begin to question everything they thought they knew.
A warm and wise story about secrets revealed, finding your soulmate and the unique bond between sisters.
©2015 Rachael Johns (P)2015 Bolinda
Spook's Shack
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Deep in the bush, where the trees grow tall, Finn discovers an old deserted shack. Inside is shivery cold, with green fungus on the walls. When a dog growls and a gravelly voice snarls, Finn's hair stands up like bristles on a brush. An old man and his dog are glowing in the darkness. Jack Henry lived in the shack 100 years ago and was friends with all the wild creatures. When Finn is with the old ghost, he can feel what the birds are singing and what the animals are feeling. But now they are all in danger - someone is going to bulldoze the land and wreck their homes. How can one boy and a ghost and his dog save the bush?
©2003 Wendy Orr (P)2004 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Buddhism for Parents on the Go
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With the same calm, rational wisdom and clarity that Sarah Napthali brings to Buddhism for Mothers, here is a book that will inspire you to be more patient and loving through the multifaceted, amazing, and often difficult journey of parenting. From advice to the sleep deprived to dealing with the drama of toddler tantrums to thoughts on teenage egocentrism, this invaluable audiobook will teach you how to manage the expectations you have of yourself, your partner, and your children. Buddhism for Parents On the Go will help you conquer the day-to-day challenges of life, reduce your stress levels, and gain true insight into the ever-changing joys of parenthood.
©2010 Sarah Napthali (P)2011 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ten Things I Hate About Me
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There are a lot of things Jamie hates about her life: her dark hair, her dad's Stone Age Charter of Curfew Rights, her real name – Jamilah Towfeek. For the past three years Jamie has hidden her Lebanese background from everyone at school. It's only with her email friend John that she can really be herself. But now things are getting complicated: the most popular boy in school is interested in her, but there's no way he would be if he knew the truth. Then there's Timothy, the school loner, who for some reason Jamie just can't stop thinking about. As for John, he seems to have a pretty big secret of his own.
©2010 Randa Abdel-Fattah (P)2007 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Home Fires
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A devastating bushfire. Three scorched marriages. An an inflammatory secret that will rock a town. When a lethal bushfire tore through Myrtle, nestled in Victoria’s breathtaking Otway Ranges, the town’s buildings - and the lives of its residents - were left as smouldering ash. For three women in particular, the fire fractured their lives and their relationships. Eighteen months later, with the flurry of national attention long past, Myrtle stands restored, shiny and new. But is the outside polish just a veneer? Community stalwart Julie thinks tourism could bring back some financial stability to their little corner of the world and soon prods Claire, Bec and Sophie into joining her group. But the scar tissue of trauma runs deep, and as each woman exposes her secrets and faces the damage that day wrought, a shocking truth will emerge that will shake the town to its newly rebuilt foundations.... An evocative story of everyday people fighting for themselves, their families and their town.
©2019 Fiona Lowe (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing
Does My Head Look Big in This?
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Winner in the Australian Book Industry Awards 2006 - Australian Book of the Year for Older Children. The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: What is your confession, my child? I was stuffed. The priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call me a traitor.... The Priest asked me again: What is your confession, my child? I'm Muslim. I whispered. Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a 17 year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still trying to come to grips with my various identity hyphens. It's hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil on your head and practicing the bum's up position at lunchtime and you know you're in for a tough time at school. Luckily my friends support me, although they've got a few troubles of their own. Simone, blonde, gorgeous and overweight - she's got serious image issues, and Leila's really intelligent but her parents are more interested in her getting a marriage certificate than her high school certificate! And I thought I had problems.
©2005 Randa Abdel-Fattah (P)2006 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.
A Home Like Ours
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A Home Like Ours is a timely audiobook exploring prejudice and privilege from best-selling Australian author Fiona Lowe. Tara Hooper is at breaking point. With two young children, a business in a town struggling under an unexpected crime wave and her husband more interested in his cricket team than their marriage, life is a juggling act. Then, when new neighbours arrive and they are exactly the sort of people the town doesn't want or need, things get worse. Life has taught Helen Demetriou two things: being homeless is terrifying and survival means keeping your cards close to your chest. Having clawed back some stability through her involvement in the community garden, she dares to relax. But as she uncovers some shady goings-on in the council, that stability turns to quicksand. For teenage mother Jade Innes, life can be lonely among the judgement of the town and the frequent absences of her boyfriend. A chance encounter draws her into the endangered community garden where she makes friends for the first time. Glimpsing a different way of life is enticing but its demands are terrifying. Does she even deserve to try? Can these women with such differing loyalties unite to save the garden and ultimately stop the town from tearing itself apart?
©2021 Fiona Lowe (P)2021 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Daughter of Mine
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When your world falls apart, the only person you can depend on is your sister. The three Chirnwell sisters are descended from the privileged squattocracy in Victoria's Western District - but could a long-held secret threaten their family? Harriett Chirnwell has a perfect life - a husband who loves her, a successful career and a daughter who is destined to become a doctor just like her. Xara has always lived in Harriet's shadow; her chaotic life with her family on their sheep farm falls far short of her older sister's standards of perfection and prestige. Georgie, the youngest sister and a passionate Teacher, is the only one of the three to have left Billawarre. But is her life in Melbourne happy? All three sisters have a different and sometimes strained bond with their mother. Despite this, they come together to organise a party for her milestone birthday - the first since their father's death. But when Edwina arrives at her party on the arm of another man, the tumult is like a dam finally breaking. Suddenly the lives of the Chirnwell sisters are flooded by scandal. Criminal accusations, a daughter in crisis and a secret more than 50 years in the making start to crack the perfect facade of the prominent pastoral family. A thought-provoking novel about family expectations, secrets and lies.
©2017 Fiona Lowe (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Birthright
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An addictive story of the relationships between siblings and of deceit, betrayal and revenge. Is an inheritance a privilege or a right? Does it show love? Margaret, the matriarch of the wealthy Jamieson family, has always been as tight-fisted with the family money as she is with her affection. Her eldest daughter, Sarah, is successful in her own right as a wife, mother and part owner of a gourmet food empire. But it’s not enough to impress her mother. Always in the shadow cast by the golden glow of her younger brother, Sarah feels compelled to meet Margaret’s every demand to earn her love. Does it give security? After a poverty-stricken childhood, Anita has claimed the social status she’s worked so hard to achieve by marrying Cameron Jamieson. Although they have a comfortable life, she’s never able to fully relax, fearing everything could change in a heartbeat. Or does it mean freedom? Ellie, the youngest, has lived a nomadic and - according to her siblings - a selfish life, leaving them to care for their ageing mother. For her, freedom means staying far away from the strings attached to her inheritance, but she needs to consider her young son’s future as well. As their mother’s health deteriorates, will long-held secrets and childhood rivalries smash this family into pieces?
©2018 Fiona Lowe (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Just an Ordinary Family
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Every family has its secrets.... Alice Hunter is smarting from the raw deal life has thrown her way: suddenly single, jobless and forced to move home to her parents' tiny seaside town. And now she faces an uncomfortable truth. She wants her twin sister Libby's enviable life. Libby's closest friend Jess Dekic has been around the Hunter family for so long she might as well be blood. She's always considered herself a sister closer to Libby than Alice ever could be. Libby Hunter has all of life's boxes ticked: prominent small-town doctor, gorgeous husband and two young daughters. But when she is betrayed by those she loves most, it reveals how tenuous her world is. For Karen Hunter, her children are a double-edged sword of pain and pride. She's always tried to guide her girls through life's pitfalls, but how do you protect your children when they're adults? As the family implodes, the fallout for these four women will be inescapable. Best-selling Australian author Fiona Lowe wields a deft hand, creating utterly addictive storytelling that will have you questioning your own perceptions of what family is.
©2020 Fiona Lowe (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing
Guida astrologica per cuori infranti
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Trent'anni passati da un po', single (non per scelta) e con un impiego che offre ben poche prospettive di carriera, Alice Bassi accoglie la notizia del matrimonio del suo indimenticato ex come il proverbiale colpo di grazia. Se non fosse ancora abbastanza, nella piccola rete televisiva per cui lei lavora arriva Davide Nardi. Sguardo magnetico e sorriso indecifrabile, Davide sarebbe il sogno proibito di Alice... peccato sia stato assunto come "tagliatore di teste". Insomma: non ce n'è una che vada per il verso giusto. Ma poi Alice incontra Tio, un attore convinto di conoscere il segreto per avere successo: l'astrologia. Non quella spacciata sui giornali, bensì una "vera" lettura delle stelle, che esistono proprio per segnalarci i giorni più favorevoli per la sfera professionale o per farci trovare l'anima gemella. Seppur scettica, Alice decide di provare e inizia a uscire con uomini compatibili col suo segno zodiacale. Però, stranamente, l'affinità astrale non le impedisce di collezionare incontri sbagliati, fallimenti imbarazzanti e sorprese di cui avrebbe fatto volentieri a meno. Come non impedisce a Davide di diventare sempre più attraente. Tuttavia a lui Alice non osa chiedere di che segno sia. Perché ha paura che la risposta la deluda o, peggio, che la illuda. E perché, in fondo, spera che l'amore non abbia bisogno delle stelle per trovare la sua strada.
©2015 Editrice Nord (P)2019 Adriano Salani Editore