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Tradition, wine, and oysters?
Rock ’n’ roll, tea, and fish and chips?
Or politics, beer, and sausages?
That is a testing choice and conundrum for Mimi. Can she settle for a traditional teacher’s fate, absorbed by her native culture? Can she follow her heart for the English language and embrace an outlandish culture in Britain? Or can she simply follow her adventurous streak and check out the intense culture, which is prevalent in Germany? Can she take roots in a foreign environment? Will she ever be able to bridge the cultural divides?
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before heading home to Sydney. A chance meeting with a charming Frenchman in Bucharest changes her travel plans forever. Acting on impulse, she agrees to visit Fredric in Paris for a week. Put a very French Frenchman together with a strong-willed Australian girl and the result is some spectacular - and often hilarious - cultural clashes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost Terrific
- De Elizabeth en 02-05-13
De: Sarah Turnbull
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Funny in Farsi
- A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
- De: Firoozeh Dumas
- Narrado por: Firoozeh Dumas
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,087
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,654
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,654
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The melting pot, next generation
- De Jerry en 02-15-08
De: Firoozeh Dumas
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Under Red Skies
- Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China
- De: Karoline Kan
- Narrado por: Allison Hiroto
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An intimate view of real life in China
- De Lonnie G. Hardy, Jr. en 08-15-19
De: Karoline Kan
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Maeve's Times
- In Her Own Words
- De: Maeve Binchy
- Narrado por: Kate Binchy
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
From the royal wedding to boring airplane companions, Samuel Beckett to Margaret Thatcher, "senior moments" to life as a waitress, Maeve's Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity - revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor, and unswerving gaze into the true heart of a matter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A GLIMPSE THROUGH MAEVE'S LOOKING GLASS
- De jstrfic en 08-08-17
De: Maeve Binchy
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The Year of Living Danishly
- Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
- De: Helen Russell
- Narrado por: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,294
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,785
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,775
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long, dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries. What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born or made?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting content. Unfortunate delivery.
- De Jennifer Soudagar en 11-13-15
De: Helen Russell
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- De: Suki Kim
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 929
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 811
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 811
Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST).
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- De Michael en 02-22-15
De: Suki Kim
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Laughing Without an Accent
- Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
- De: Firoozeh Dumas
- Narrado por: Firoozeh Dumas
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 175
In the best-selling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning family, and on amusing cultural conundrums, all told with insights into the universality of the human condition. (Hint: It may have to do with brushing and flossing daily.)
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sigh
- De Sara en 01-29-14
De: Firoozeh Dumas
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Mao's Last Dancer
- Young Readers' Edition
- De: Li Cunxin
- Narrado por: Paul English
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime. But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from all that he had ever known and loved. He hated the strict training routines and the strange place he had been brought to. All he wanted to do was go home - to his mother, father, and six brothers, to his own small village. But soon Li realised that his mother was right. He had the chance to do something special with his life - and he never turned back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Happiness rising from the injustise
- De Natasha en 10-29-13
De: Li Cunxin
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Flesh Wounds
- De: Richard Glover
- Narrado por: Richard Glover
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family...Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?' It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed toy collector.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a Meaningful Reflection
- De Awarenessing en 11-28-15
De: Richard Glover
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Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
- De: Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West
- Narrado por: Ilyana Kadushin
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Meet Barbara Reichmann, once known as Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, Gucia studies hard, makes friends, falls in love, and dreams of a bright future. Her world is turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and establish the first Jewish ghetto of World War II in her town of Piotrko´w Trybunalski.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Nordic Artisan en 07-09-18
De: Planaria Price, y otros
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
- De: Bart van Es
- Narrado por: Bart van Es
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over by her parents. The girl had been raised by her foster family as one of their own, but then, well after the war, they were no longer in touch. What was the girl's side of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened during the war and after? So began an investigation that would consume Bart van Es's life and change it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a powerful & unique work on the Holocaust
- De D. Littman en 03-06-19
De: Bart van Es
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On Hitler's Mountain
- Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
- De: Irmgard A. Hunt
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden - just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat - Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality of war - and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime - aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A rare and very much appreciated perspective.
- De tabounds en 12-28-17
De: Irmgard A. Hunt
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River Town
- Two Years on the Yangtze
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 425
In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Peter Berkrot Again?
- De Abstraction en 07-10-11
De: Peter Hessler
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- De: Xiaolu Guo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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must read
- De Jeff Darlington en 10-22-17
De: Xiaolu Guo
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Home Sweet Anywhere
- How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World
- De: Lynne Martin
- Narrado por: Lynne Martin
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 232
Reunited in love after 35 years and suffering from a serious case of pre-retirement wanderlust, Lynne and Tim Martin made a life-altering decision: They sold their house and possessions and hit the road to live internationally full-time. Now tethered to nothing but their suitcases, each other, and their next exotic location, they've never looked back. From sky-high pyramids in Mexico to monkeys in Marrakech, this delightful, inspiring memoir is a romantic tale of derring-do for grown-ups and a road map for anyone who dreams of turning the idea of life abroad into a reality.
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2 out of 5 stars
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She makes it sound SO unappealing!
- De Barbara en 05-18-14
De: Lynne Martin
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Cooking as Fast as I Can
- A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
- De: Cat Cora
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In Cooking as Fast as I Can, Cat Cora reveals, for the first time, coming-of-age experiences from early childhood sexual abuse to the realities of life as a lesbian in the Deep South. She shares how she found her passion in the kitchen and went on to attend the prestigious Culinary Institute of America and apprentice under Michelin-star chefs in France. After her big break as a cohost on the Food Network's Melting Pot, Cat broke barriers by becoming the first-ever female Iron Chef.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen for a chef
- De Nikki en 04-10-24
De: Cat Cora
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Clara Callan
- De: Richard B. Wright
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey, Joanna P. Adler
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Two sisters, small-town Ontario, 1934. Canadian author Richard Wright tells their story, from the ordinary to the extraoridinary with an eye for the commonplace and poignant sense of the larger undercurrents that change people's lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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charming intimate refreshing
- De L en 09-10-04
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