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Sea of Poppies
- Ibis Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 18 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 750
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 514
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 515
At the heart of this vibrant saga is an immense ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its purpose to fight China's vicious 19th-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ignorance may be bliss
- De Evelyn M Kloepper en 07-27-09
De: Amitav Ghosh
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The Daughters of Mars
- De: Tom Keneally
- Narrado por: Jane Nolan
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour, and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Here, new outrages - gas, shell-shock - present themselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting WWI novel with an Australian bent
- De Sarah Gamp en 03-09-13
De: Tom Keneally
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The Glass Palace
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 688
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 522
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 520
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I struggled to finish... enough said.
- De Ty en 05-02-10
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Call the Midwife
- A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
- De: Jennifer Worth
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,315
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,388
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,362
At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I've listened to this year
- De Richard en 06-12-13
De: Jennifer Worth
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Annie Dunne
- De: Sebastian Barry
- Narrado por: Caroline Lennon
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah’s small farm running. Suddenly, Annie’s young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Splendid
- De Shady en 06-21-23
De: Sebastian Barry
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The Irishman's Daughter
- De: V.S. Alexander
- Narrado por: Lucy Rayner
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining scraps of land. But when the potato crop falls prey to a devastating blight, families Briana has known all her life are left with no food, no resources, and no mercy from the English landowner.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wasted a credit
- De Emily Coonce en 05-26-19
De: V.S. Alexander
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Birds Without Wings
- De: Louis de Bernieres
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 23 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 313
Birds Without Wings is the story of a small town in Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the men and women (Armenians, Christians, and Muslims) whose lives are intertwined and rooted there: Iskander, the potter and local fount of wisdom; Philotei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd, a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness; and many more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the faint of heart
- De a en 01-03-05
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Sword of Honor
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At least one chapter missing
- De Sviatoslav en 08-17-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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North and South
- North and South Trilogy, Book 1
- De: John Jakes
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 30 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,983
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,645
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,648
Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point.... Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter - until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating novel of the Civil War
- De 9S en 01-12-13
De: John Jakes
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The Passion
- De: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues, Daniel Pirrie
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meets their singular destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellence.
- De Scottie V. en 10-07-19
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The Cossacks
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: David Thorn
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
The colorful Cossack way of life is made alive and real in this historical novel.
Tolstoy's first novel and acknowledged as one of his best, it is based on his own forays into the Caucasus, abandoning his aristocrat life of gambling and carousing in Moscow and volunteering to be attached to the regular army.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tolstoy masterpiece is wounded by terrible audio
- De Darwin8u en 07-24-13
De: Leo Tolstoy
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Shaman's Crossing, Book One of the Soldier Son Trilogy
- De: Robin Hobb
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 24 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 924
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 927
Hugo and Nebula Award finalist Robin Hobb crafts intricate fantasy tales featuring larger-than-life characters and exotic landscapes. Nevare Burvelle survives the King’s Cavalla Academy—where nepotism and corruption reign—to become a soldier in the Gernian king’s army. As he and his fellow soldiers are thrust onto the front lines of the king’s brutal territorial expansion campaign, they struggle against the Plainspeople—forest-dwellers who possess a powerful magic long dismissed by the Gernians.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes Magic Isn't A Good Thing
- De Therese M. Woolley en 10-18-13
De: Robin Hobb
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When the Lion Feeds
- The Courtneys, Book 1
- De: Wilbur Smith
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 635
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 565
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 561
It is the 1870s, and twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney are born into the wilds of Natal. They could not be more different, and fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is the promise of fortune, adventure, destiny and love.... When the Lion Feeds is the best-selling novel that launched Wilbur Smith's stellar career and the first in the riveting saga of the Courtney brothers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What did you do with John Lee?
- De SAM en 04-03-19
De: Wilbur Smith
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Doctor Zhivago
- De: Boris Pasternak, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator, Richard Pevear - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 23 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 738
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 630
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is a new translation of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Russian Philosophical Feast
- De Syd Young en 02-16-13
De: Boris Pasternak, y otros
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April Morning
- De: Howard Fast
- Narrado por: Jamie Hanes
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper is anxcious to join the excitement and action of the Revolutionary War. On the morning of April 19, 1775, he stands beside his Massachusetts farmer father to face the redcoats marching out of Boston. But suddenly, his father falls on the village green, and Adam’s hands are shaking as he shoots at columns of marching men. With realistic drama and riveting suspense, Howard Fast brings the glory and the agony of the colonial battlefield vividly to life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic for a reason
- De Gerald Collier en 01-05-22
De: Howard Fast
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The Bell Messenger
- De: Robert Cornuke
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Adventurer and author Robert Cornuke delivers an archaeological thriller that crosses the globe and spans two centuries. With these hopeful words, a dying Confederate lad bequeaths his Bible to the Union soldier who just shot him: "Be God's messenger as I have been." And so begins the journey of Elijah Bell's cherished Bible as it travels the world, transforming hearts wherever it goes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Pamela en 12-26-10
De: Robert Cornuke
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The Women in the Castle
- De: Jessica Shattuck
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,091
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,687
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,681
Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined - an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times notable book The Hazards of Good Breeding.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Skating On The Thin Ice Of Life
- De Sara en 04-29-17
De: Jessica Shattuck
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March
- De: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrado por: Richard Easton
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,398
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,025
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,023
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, greatly narrated
- De Paula en 07-30-06
De: Geraldine Brooks