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message 1: by Drace (last edited Jun 05, 2025 07:16AM) (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7526 comments There are errors to clean up on the book Model Home by Rivers Solomon.

1. US Hardcover: Model Home (ISBN 9780374607135)

- The page count is incorrect. I’m holding a copy and it stops at 286.

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:

The three Maxwell siblings have kept their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. It wasn’t being the only Black kids in the neighborhood that pushed the children to flee, but rather the strange and inexplicable things that began to happen in the house as soon as they moved in. Was it some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-class? Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.

As adults, the siblings finally got away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents' death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away.

Rivers Solomon has turned the haunted-house story on its head. Unbridled, raw, and daring, Model Home is the story of secret histories uncovered and of a family battling for their right to live, grieve, and heal amid the terrors of contemporary American life.

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2. US Digital Audiobook: Model Home (ISBN 9781250353962)

- The page count is incorrect. It should be 9.

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3. US Audible: Model Home (ASIN B0CWCKB3T3)

- The page count is incorrect. It should be 9.

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4. US Paperback: Model Home: A Novel (ISBN 9781250397591)

- “A Novel” needs to be removed from the title.

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5. UK Audible: Model Home (ASIN B0DK9QRYLG)

- The page count is missing. It should be 9.

- Gabby Beans needs to be added with the Narrator role.

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6. Missing Edition: UK Digital Audiobook:
TITLE: Model Home
AUTHOR: Rivers Solomon
NARRATOR: Gabby Beans
ISBN-10: 1529956560
ISBN-13: 9781529956566
ASIN: 1529956560 [THE ASIN FIELD MUST BE GIVEN THE ISBN-10 NUMBER AS WELL. GOODREADS POLICY REQUIRES A BOOK’S ISBN-10 TO GO IN THE ASIN FIELD; NOT ADDING IT IS A VIOLATION OF GOODREADS SITE POLICY]
PUBLISHER: Merky Books Digital
DATE PUBLISHED: February 20, 2025
NUMBER OF PAGES: 9
FORMAT: Audiobook
DESCRIPTION:

Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in Oak Creek Estate, a wealthy gated community in Dallas, Texas.

The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve and Emmanuel, who have long since abandoned the childhood home in which their parents remained all these years. A home that has haunted and hollowed them throughout their lives, in a neighbourhood where they grew up as the only Black family, hoping to survive a place that wanted to claim them, expel them and ruin them all at once.

In the wake of their parents’ death, Ezri and their siblings are forced to confront the reasons they left, the nightmares that have held them captive and the possibility that realities exist beyond those that have forged them.

Bold and tender, Model Home is a powerful meditation on the power of memory, loss and identity.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: [note: the digital audiobook for the UK is the same as the digital audiobook for Australia, so I have linked the Penguin Australia site instead of Penguin UK because they have high-res art available whereas Penguin UK does not] https://cdn2.penguin.com.au/covers/or... // https://www.penguin.com.au/books/mode...

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7. Missing Edition: UK Paperback:

TITLE: Model Home
AUTHOR: Rivers Solomon
ISBN-10: 1529901707
ISBN-13: 9781529901702
ASIN: 1529901707 [THE ASIN FIELD MUST BE GIVEN THE ISBN-10 NUMBER AS WELL. GOODREADS POLICY REQUIRES A BOOK’S ISBN-10 TO GO IN THE ASIN FIELD; NOT ADDING IT IS A VIOLATION OF GOODREADS SITE POLICY]
PUBLISHER: Merky Books
DATE PUBLISHED: February 5, 2026
NUMBER OF PAGES: 288
FORMAT: Audiobook
DESCRIPTION:

Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in Oak Creek Estate, a wealthy gated community in Dallas, Texas.

The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve and Emmanuel, who have long since abandoned the childhood home in which their parents remained all these years. A home that has haunted and hollowed them throughout their lives, in a neighbourhood where they grew up as the only Black family, hoping to survive a place that wanted to claim them, expel them and ruin them all at once.

In the wake of their parents’ death, Ezri and their siblings are forced to confront the reasons they left, the nightmares that have held them captive and the possibility that realities exist beyond those that have forged them.

Bold and tender, Model Home is a powerful meditation on the power of memory, loss and identity.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7... // https://amzn.eu/d/fFlZEA9


message 2: by Drace (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7526 comments Bumping.


message 3: by Christa綺思 (new)

Christa綺思 (dolldalera) | 728 comments Hi Drace, updates:

#s 1-5 Done
#6: Added https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
#7 Added https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... and listed it as Paperback instead of Audiobook (I think this was a mistype).


message 4: by Drace (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7526 comments Thanks so much for all your help!

One more issue: the US Paperback (#4) has the description set to the French translation's description. It should read as follows:

Welcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.

The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. Right away, bad things, scary things—strange, unexplainable, violent—began to happen in their house.

As adults, the siblings all escaped the horrors of home, leaving their parents alone back in Texas. But when news of their parents’ death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to the house with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present. Their parents did not die a “natural” death . . . but was it supernatural?


message 5: by Christa綺思 (new)

Christa綺思 (dolldalera) | 728 comments Description changed!


message 6: by Drace (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7526 comments Thank you!


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