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Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations.
At its heart is one woman’s search for her twin brother. When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Alissa leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror of her own self, Ali is lost.
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Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows two families - one English, one Bengali - as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian-born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Doesn't Know How to Pronounce
- De Amazon Customer en 08-27-11
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Trumpet
- De: Jackie Kay
- Narrado por: Cathleen McCarron
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered fury brings the press to the doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a remote Scottish village. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet by Jackie Kay is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and True
- De Colin en 05-24-17
De: Jackie Kay
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Brick Lane
- De: Monica Ali
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Sastre
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Nanzeen's inauspicious birth in a Bangladeshi village imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents. Married off to a man old enough to be her father, Nanzeen moves to London and cares for her family. But gradually she begins to question whether fate controls her or whether she has a hand in her own destiny. She discovers both the complexity that comes with free choice and the depth of her attachment to her husband, her daughters and her new world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A truly wonderful book!
- De A M en 11-24-03
De: Monica Ali
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I Couldn't Love You More
- A Novel
- De: Esther Freud
- Narrado por: Niamh Cusack
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 29
A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past.
De: Esther Freud
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
- De: Laura Ruby
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
When Frankie’s mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That’s why Frankie's not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now, Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other orphans - two young, unwanted women doing everything they can to survive.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring, boring, boring
- De Marie J. en 08-20-21
De: Laura Ruby
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A Nail Through The Heart
- A Poke Rafferty Thriller
- De: Timothy Hallinan
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 520
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 442
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 440
Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ever been to Bangkok?
- De Richard Delman en 12-11-11
De: Timothy Hallinan
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Lady Oracle
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organize her own death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Feminist Romp
- De annkpowers en 07-02-22
De: Margaret Atwood
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Pearl in a Cage
- Woody Creek, Book 1
- De: Joy Dettman
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman - foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant - is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the woman is brought to her door. Try as she might, Gertrude is unable to save her, but the baby lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pearl in a Cage
- De Verita en 06-16-17
De: Joy Dettman
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 136
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- De Turtle en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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A Slow Fire Burning
- A Novel
- De: Paula Hawkins
- Narrado por: Rosamund Pike
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,062
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,447
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,421
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book should have a DISCLAIMER!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-06-21
De: Paula Hawkins
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The Snakes
- A Novel
- De: Sadie Jones
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 86
The Snakes exposes the damage wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new member of the family, Dan, a mixed-race man from Peckham who marries Bea, the daughter who refuses to take any of her father’s filthy money. But when Bea’s brother, Alex (who runs a shabby hotel in Paligny, France), dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the confusion and suspicion which arise bring other dark family secrets - and violence - to the surface. And none of the family, even the good members, go untouched.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary!
- De Bibliophile en 07-21-19
De: Sadie Jones