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Jack Maggs
- De Kathleen en 04-04-05
De: Peter Carey
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The Crown
- De: Nancy Bilyeau
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 251
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 215
In this debut historical thriller, an aristocratic young nun must find a legendary crown in order to save her father’s life and preserve all she holds dear. When novitiate nun Joanna Stafford learns her rebel cousin is condemned by King Henry VIII to be burned at the stake, she makes the decision to break the sacred rule of enclosure and flee her Dominican order in Dartford to stand at her cousin’s side. Arrested for interfering with king’s justice, Joanna, along with her father, Sir Richard Stafford, is sent to the Tower of London.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Torture
- De S. Wells en 03-24-13
De: Nancy Bilyeau
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The School of Mirrors
- A Novel
- De: Eva Stachniak
- Narrado por: Ell Potter
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the King’s favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained as potential courtesans for the King. When the time is right, each girl is smuggled into the palace of Versailles, with its legendary Hall of Mirrors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Heartbreaking
- De HistoryNerd en 08-21-22
De: Eva Stachniak
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Merivel
- A Man of His Time
- De: Rose Tremain
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. But Versailles leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with a seductive Swiss botanist allows him to dream of an honorable future. But back home, his loyalty and medical skill are about to be tested to the limit, while the captive bear he has brought back from France begins to cause havoc.
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5 out of 5 stars
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On Foolishness and Mortality
- De Ilana en 12-27-14
De: Rose Tremain
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Cover Her Face
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Penelope Dellaporta
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 794
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 682
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 674
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P. D. James' electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Bit slow
- De ListenLoud en 05-24-12
De: P. D. James
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Green Darkness
- De: Anya Seton
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 23 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 237
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 239
The marriage of the Englishman Richard Marsdon and his young American wife, Celia, slowly turns tragic as Richard withdraws into himself and Celia suffers a debilitating emotional breakdown. A wise mystic realizes that Celia can escape her past only by reliving it. She journeys back four hundred years to her former life as the servant girl Celia de Bohun during the reign of Edward VI - and to her doomed love affair with the chaplain Stephen Marsdon.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A different narrator would have made all the difference.
- De J en 06-04-15
De: Anya Seton
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All the Ever Afters
- The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
- De: Danielle Teller
- Narrado por: Jane Copland
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 222
In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous re-imagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella’s "evil" stepmother. We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was expecting...
- De IonyWinter en 07-15-19
De: Danielle Teller
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The Ashes of London
- De: Andrew Taylor
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 194
London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnable cathedral of St. Paul's is engulfed in flames and reduced to ruins. Among the crowds watching its destruction is James Marwood, son of a disgraced printer and reluctant government informer. In the aftermath of the fire, a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St. Paul's, in a tomb that should have been empty. The man's body has been mutilated, and his thumbs have been tied behind his back.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining Historical Fiction
- De Simone en 05-01-17
De: Andrew Taylor
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The Secrets of Wishtide
- De: Kate Saunders
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,534
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,111
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in nearby Highgate with his wife and 10 children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow. When a case arises involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Laetitia sets off for Lincolnshire undercover as the family's new governess.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- De Episteme en 12-31-16
De: Kate Saunders
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The Town House
- De: Norah Lofts
- Narrado por: Juliet Prague, Martyn Read
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
"It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me… the man whose lightest word was to us, his villeins, weightier than the King’s law or the edicts of our Holy Father…” So began the story of Martin Reed - a serf whose resentment of the automatic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite author
- De Karie en 07-09-15
De: Norah Lofts
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
- De: Gregory Maguire
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 274
Gregory Maguire, critically acclaimed author of Wicked, returns with his eagerly anticipated second novel. Using a dazzling reincarnation of the Cinderella story set in 17th century Holland, Maguire deftly weaves together stories of inner and outer beauty. Iris is a plain but intelligent young girl. Forced to flee England with her recently widowed mother, Margarethe, and her older sister, she finds herself swept into a life that becomes a legend. Arriving destitute, the family becomes employed in the home of a wealthy tulip merchant.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Very Human Story!
- De SamiJo McQuiston en 05-02-18
De: Gregory Maguire
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The Winthrop Woman
- De: Anya Seton
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 27 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 870
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 785
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 782
In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends, the Siwanoy Indians; and, above all, dared to love a man as her heart and her whole being commanded.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical Fiction that Aged Very Well
- De Lulu en 11-26-14
De: Anya Seton
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Except the Dying
- A Murdoch Mystery, Book 1
- De: Maureen Jennings
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 302
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 257
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 258
In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girl's life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families?
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1 out of 5 stars
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If you like the show - don't buy
- De Sarah en 06-09-16
De: Maureen Jennings
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The Girl in the Ragged Shawl
- The Children of the Workhouse, Book 1
- De: Cathy Sharp
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Eliza was left as a small baby at the workhouse in Whitechapel, wrapped in her mother’s shawl, which is all she has of the mother she never knew. At 11 years old, she has survived sickness, near starvation and harsh beatings. Master Simpkins and his cruel daughter rule the workhouse with a rod of iron, but when Romany boy Joe arrives at the workhouse, his spirit and courage give Eliza hope. When she is sold into service, Eliza is relieved to be out of the workhouse and hopes her fortunes are changing for the better, but cruelty and unkindness are everywhere....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Emotional story
- De Justine harpin en 12-10-19
De: Cathy Sharp
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A Mortal Bane
- De: Roberta Gellis
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 656
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 487
Magdalene la Batarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. She and her women are expected to engage in a number of sinful activities, but bloody murder isn't one of them until Baldassare, the messenger, dies. Though Baldassare isn't a regular client of the Old Priory Guesthouse, Magdalene and her women refuse to allow his death to go unavenged. Of course, their efforts aren't completely altruistic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Jim en 08-25-05
De: Roberta Gellis
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The Taker
- De: Alma Katsu
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 468
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 424
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 424
On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae—Lanny—walks into his ER, she changes his life forever. A mysterious woman with a past and plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her...despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too dark for my taste
- De Margaret en 05-04-14
De: Alma Katsu