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The Children in the Apple Tree
About This Book
Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family of five living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, father Roger and mother Georgia make a series of choices that will have catastrophic consequences for their three children.
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Reading Time Estimates
7h 2m
slow reader
180 WPM
5h 4m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 37m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 75,900 words📅 11 days at 30 min/day
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5 h 4 min
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Audiobook (1.5x)
5 h 37 min
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8 h 26 min
Audio 2x
4 h 13 min
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- 📅11 days reading 30 min/day
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