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A Powerful Tale
- De Sara en 11-29-13
De: Harry Bernstein
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Three Comrades
- De: Erich Maria Remarque, Arthur Wesley Wheen - translator
- Narrado por: Michael Braun
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 54
The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can have never imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love and friendship in a dying world.
- De Tarquin en 03-18-19
De: Erich Maria Remarque, y otros
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The Underground River
- A Novel
- De: Martha Conway
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue - until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical fiction audiobook
- De LindaJS en 10-03-17
De: Martha Conway
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Understood Betsy
- De: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 216
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 183
Elizabeth Ann is being carefully brought up by her Aunt Frances. Aunt Frances shares in all Elizabeth Ann's fears and slights, walks her to and from school each day, and conscientiously follows the most modern theories on child-rearing. She is the original helicopter parent. Not surprisingly, at nine years old Elizabeth Ann is timid and shy, friendless, and completely dependent on her doting aunt. Then an emergency occurs, and the fearful little girl is temporarily sent to other relatives who live on a farm in Vermont.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Like a picnic on a warm spring day
- De Jo en 11-15-16
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The Girl from the Savoy
- A Novel
- De: Hazel Gaynor
- Narrado por: Jennifer Jones, Lucy Rayner, Paul Fox
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
Dolly Lane is a dreamer, a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but her life has been fractured by the Great War. Memories of the soldier she loved, of secret shame and profound loss, by turns pull her back and spur her on to make a better life. When she finds employment as a chambermaid at London's grandest hotel, The Savoy, Dolly takes a step closer to the glittering lives of the Bright Young Things who thrive on champagne, jazz, and rebellion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WONDERFUL‼️❤️❤️❤️
- De Leslie Gail Mnich en 12-05-19
De: Hazel Gaynor
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The Stopped Heart
- A Novel
- De: Julie Myerson
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden, Lucinda Clare
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, have just moved to a cottage on the edge of a small village. The house hasn't been lived in for years, but they are drawn to its original features and surprisingly large garden, which stretches down into a beautiful apple orchard. It's idyllic, remote, picturesque: exactly what they need to put the horror of the past behind them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I expected.
- De Heather en 04-26-16
De: Julie Myerson
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East of the Sun
- De: Julia Gregson
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Indian history takes a back seat to 3 young women
- De Richard en 05-24-16
De: Julia Gregson
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 355
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 274
In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of her students. The scandalously outspoken Miss Brodie makes big waves in the conservative Scottish school, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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creme de la creme
- De Kathleen en 01-04-08
De: Muriel Spark
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Celia's House
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Lesley Mackie
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
In name and by birth, Celia was a Dunne. She had inherited the beautiful old family home by the Rydd Water – but was she bound to live her life by the principles of her predecessors? Was there some hidden restraint that compelled her to heed the past? Celia’s house is a moving and poignant story of the struggle between old and young: the older generation anxious to preserve the values they have helped create while their children are determined at all costs to make lives of their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Boarder area of Scotland
- De Jerri C en 03-14-11
De: D. E. Stevenson
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Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure
- De: Georgia Byng
- Narrado por: Clare Higgins
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Molly Moon returns...and bumps into earlier versions of herself, four of them, to be exact, all kidnapped and transported back in time to nineteenth-century India by Molly's most fearsome nemesis yet, an insane maharaja. Molly foiled his plans once already, by stopping Primo Cell from becoming president of the United States. This time around, the maharaja is determined to alter the course of history. The only thing standing in his way is Molly and her brave pug, Petula.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De Burt en 12-30-13
De: Georgia Byng
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All-of-a-Kind Family
- De: Sydney Taylor
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 457
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 339
It's the turn of the 20th century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters. Follow along on their adventures and experience their holiday fun.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story about family life.
- De lavenderknitter en 10-27-15
De: Sydney Taylor
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The Beekeeper's Daughter
- De: Santa Montefiore
- Narrado por: Lucinda Clare
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the marquess and marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeeper's daughter, she knows her place and what the future holds - that is until her father dies. Her childhood friend, Freddie, has recently become her lover, and she is thankful when they are able to marry and take over her father's duties. But there is another man who she just can't shake from her thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!
- De AlecZander en 05-12-15
De: Santa Montefiore
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Delta Wedding
- A Novel
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Sally Darling
- Duración: 12 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for Dabney Fairchild’s wedding.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soul Food
- De Carolyn en 03-06-13
De: Eudora Welty
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Before I Met You
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Jewell
- Narrado por: Helen Duff
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,235
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,972
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,959
After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs in order to care for Arlette. Now she's ready for whatever life throws at her, and, since the will included a beneficiary unknown to her who lives in the city, she heads there to find the mysterious woman. In 1920s London, Arlette is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she's drawn into a hedonistic world, but then tragedy strikes, and she flees back to her childhood home....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Awful
- De cristina en 08-13-18
De: Lisa Jewell
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The Troupe
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Best-selling author Robert Jackson Bennett has won widespread critical acclaim for his unique brand of darkly inventive fiction. In The Troupe, 16-year-old George Carole joins vaudeville in search of Heironomo Silenus, the man he believes to be his father. But what he discovers casts a dark pall over his world: Silenus' troupe hides a dangerous secret - one that invites death to all in its vicinity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not worth the effort!
- De Howard en 08-12-13
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An Irish Country Doctor
- A Novel
- De: Patrick Taylor
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,851
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,852
Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree and little else in the way of worldly possessions, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice. At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Something's Missing ... But It's Not the "F Bomb"!
- De Bookworm en 09-06-13
De: Patrick Taylor