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The Lord Nelson Tavern: a Halifax watering hole in the early 1960s. The group of young university students who hang out there - a ramshackle coterie of aspiring artists, economists, poets, and philosophers - come together to gossip and ponder the big questions of art and life, all the while pining after the vain and untouchable Francesca.
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city - the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism. Spanning his four-decade career, these more than 30 refreshingly frank, sparely written stories are among John O’Hara’s finest work, exploring the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters and showcasing the snappy dialogue.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I read it because I paid for it.
- De MaryAnn en 10-01-19
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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Clara Callan
- De: Richard B. Wright
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey, Joanna P. Adler
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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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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The Stuff that Never Happened
- A Novel
- De: Maddie Dawson
- Narrado por: Teri Clark Linden
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn’t have any complaints. She’s been in a stable marriage that’s lasted almost three decades and has provided her with two wonderful children and thousands of family dinners around a sturdy oak table. Other wives envy the fact that Grant is not the type of man who would ever cheat on her or leave her for a younger woman. The trouble is Annabelle isn’t sure she wants to be married to Grant anymore. The trouble is she’s still in love with someone else.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t pass this one up.
- De Lauren en 03-10-20
De: Maddie Dawson
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BUtterfield 8
- De: John O'Hara, Lorin Stein - introduction
- Narrado por: Gretchen Mol
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
A masterpiece of American fiction and a best seller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress, stockings, and panties. When she steals a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she unleashes a series of events that can only end in tragedy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wildly Uneven
- De David P en 08-27-15
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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Youngblood Hawke
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 41 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 235
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 230
Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man moves from rural Kentucky to New York to assault the citadel of New York publishing with his first novel, an oversized manuscript that becomes an instant success. Toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of popularity, he gives himself over to the lush life that gilds artistic success. Love comes with an affair with an older married woman and an unfulfilled flame with his editor, while wealth pours in with the publication of his second novel, and participation in real-estate developments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More than a good yarn
- De Arken en 10-24-18
De: Herman Wouk
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The Hourglass
- De: Tracy Rees
- Narrado por: Charlotte Strevens, Imogen Church
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 628
It's 2014. Sensible Nora has always taken success for granted until suddenly her life begins to fall apart. Troubled by anxiety and nightmares, she finds herself drawn to the sweeping beaches of Tenby, a place she's been only once before. Together with a local girl, she rents a beautiful townhouse and slowly begins to settle in to her new life. But Tenby hides a secret, and Nora will soon discover that this little town by the sea has the power to heal even the most painful memories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Buy it!!!!
- De LoveAmazon en 11-12-17
De: Tracy Rees
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Lady Oracle
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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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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Talking It Over
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey, Alex Jennings, Clare Higgins
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 83
Introducing Stuart, Gillian and Oliver. One by one they take their turn to speak straight out to the camera - and give their side of a contemporary love triangle. What begins as a comedy of misunderstanding slowly darkens and deepens into a compelling exploration of the quagmires of the heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Narrative Gimmick Works
- De Alan en 11-22-11
De: Julian Barnes
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Fault Lines
- A Novel
- De: Emily Itami
- Narrado por: Lydia Wilson
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 115
Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It’s everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Confused by the choice of narrator
- De Bri T. en 02-13-22
De: Emily Itami
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Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
- De: Marian Keyes
- Narrado por: Amy McAllister
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
Lucy Sullivan is 26 and living it up (and occasionally down) in London. Hers is a life of quiet, undisciplined desperation. But when she and three friends visit a psychic for a bit of fun and the woman's predictions start coming true, Lucy is horrified. For the fortune-teller insisted she'd soon be married - within the year, in fact. Not only does Lucy not have a boyfriend, but the chances of getting one are looking slim. Between the bottles of wine, antidepressants and her addiction to self-help books, she's not quite ready to walk, or even stumble, down the aisle sober.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worst characters ever
- De Ada Harsema Engdahl en 01-30-20
De: Marian Keyes
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Embassy Wife
- A Novel
- De: Katie Crouch
- Narrado por: Marni Penning
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia, takes her job as a representative of her country seriously and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive a range of problems: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s general counsel but instead a secret agent in the CIA. She takes the new trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Have narrator re-record this book
- De Amazon Customer en 09-30-21
De: Katie Crouch
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Main Street (Annotated): 100th Anniversary Edition
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Kitty Hendrix
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
A biting satire that countered the American myth of wholesome small-town life with a depiction of narrow-minded provincialism, it was to some degree based on Lewis's own experience of growing on Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Set in mid-1910s, it depicts the struggles of Carol Kennicott, a city girl, as she tries to adapt to small town life, having left her librarian job and St. Paul, Minnesota to marry Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie. Dismayed by the town’s drabness and the conforming, petty inhabitants, Carol optimistically sets out to improve the town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Are Your Assumptions About Yourself & Others
- De Benny Fife en 02-06-20
De: Sinclair Lewis
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Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
- A Novel
- De: Jenny Colgan
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Sophie Chesterton is London's "It Girl". She knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, and wears all the right clothes...and her rich parents pay for everything. But deep down she suspects that her best "friends" - and her posh lifestyle - are nothing but shallow fakes. Then one evening Sophie's life takes a shocking, drastic turn, and her father decides it's high time for the party girl to make her own way in the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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On par for a Colgan story
- De Talb en 06-21-20
De: Jenny Colgan
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The Beautiful and Damned
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 920
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 748
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 753
Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."
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5 out of 5 stars
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i loved it
- De Emily en 01-20-05
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All My Friends are Going to be Strangers
- De: Larry McMurtry
- Narrado por: John Randolph Jones
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
Danny Deck - Emma's friend from Terms of Endearment - is a promising young writer losing touch with his talent and drifting from Texas to California because "that's where all the writers are." Set in the early 60s, this is a very funny (and raunchy) satire of life in Texas and California and a true and American portrait of an artist as a young man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Favorite audio book ever
- De melanie christner en 06-01-16
De: Larry McMurtry
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The Lonely Lady
- De: Harold Robbins
- Narrado por: Maria Debonair
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
Meet JeriLee Randall, aspiring actress, ambitious writer, and sexual powerhouse. It is this ambition that takes her away from her tiny hometown of Port Clare and sets her on a collision course with her future. Surviving on determination and seduction, she makes her way to Broadway and then on to Hollywood. The bright lights mask a deeper darkness, and JeriLee is quickly drawn into a world of greed, drugs, casting couches, and smooth-talking power players.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Lonely Lady
- De Shelly-Ann Brown en 02-25-21
De: Harold Robbins