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Excellent
- De Cheyenne en 06-13-15
De: Karim Dimechkie
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About Face
- De: Fern Michaels
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
When Dr. Blake Hunter discovers Casey Edwards wandering along a Sweetwater, Georgia, road, she's a woman without a past, her memory stripped of the terrifying events that shattered her innocence a decade ago. The scrap of paper she clutches in her hand bears the address to Swan House, the magnificent mansion where Casey's mother lives with her mysteriously ailing husband. But "home" turns out to be anything but a safe haven.…
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De susan bowser en 08-07-15
De: Fern Michaels
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Diamond Head
- A Novel
- De: Cecily Wong
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Samantha Chen, Angela Lin, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 112
Told through the eyes of the Leongs' secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning the Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, Diamond Head is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of sacrifice, and miraculous hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- De Gina en 09-06-15
De: Cecily Wong
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Before We Visit the Goddess
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan, Priya Ayyar, Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 783
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 716
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 719
The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover - but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Worth a Credit
- De Texastanya en 08-27-16
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The Boy in the Suitcase
- A Nina Borg Mystery
- De: Lene Kaaberbøl - author/translator, Agnete Friis
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,058
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,837
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,842
Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is trying to live a quiet life. The last thing her husband wants is for her to go running off on another dangerous mission to help illegal refugees. But when Nina's estranged friend, Karin, leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, and begs her to take care of its contents, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous case yet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not recommended
- De Sarah C en 06-18-12
De: Lene Kaaberbøl - author/translator, y otros
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The Wrong Sister
- De: T. E. Woods
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,456
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,250
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,242
From behind the wheel of her car, Tess Kincaid glimpses a woman walking down a Madison, Wisconsin, street. They've never met, but Tess sees the same features every time she looks in the mirror. Tess introduces herself and discovers that she and her doppelganger, Mimi, have more than appearance in common. They even share the same birthday. Mimi - confident and outgoing where Tess is understated and shy - is convinced they're twins, separated shortly after birth. When a body is discovered in a local marsh, Tess is entangled in a search for the truth....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nothing like anything T E Woods has written B4!!!
- De shelley en 03-01-18
De: T. E. Woods
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One Amazing Thing
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Purva Bedi, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 97
Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An ok way to kill some time
- De R.Reader en 11-07-12
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The World We Found
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
Best-selling author and PEN and Beyond Margins Award finalist Thrity Umrigar’s acclaimed novels “resonate with rich prose and vibrant depictions of India” ( Booklist). In The World We Found, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta - once friends at the University of Bombay - reconnect 30 years later when Armaiti is diagnosed with cancer. Coming together, all four women are forced to reexamine their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story but performance not so much!
- De Alisha en 09-13-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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Breaking the Silence
- De: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 589
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 527
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 527
Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing-except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Laura's promise results in another death: her husband's. And after their five-year-old daughter, Emma, witnesses her father's suicide, Emma refuses to talk about it - to talk at all.Frantic and guilt ridden, Laura contacts the only person who may be able to help.
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1 out of 5 stars
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can't listen to the narrator
- De Sandy en 01-05-15
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Keeper of the Light
- Keeper Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrado por: Arielle DeLisle
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,834
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,672
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667
Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina's Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman's life, Olivia realizes who she is - Annie O'Neill, the woman Olivia's husband, Paul, is in love with.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I can't finish this...
- De Calmeridian Tink en 03-31-16
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Nearly Normal
- Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
- De: Cea Sunrise Person
- Narrado por: Cea Sunrise Person
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This one is just not for me
- De Pamela Plimpton en 03-15-19
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Every Waking Moment
- De: Brenda Novak
- Narrado por: Lenore Zann
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 467
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 312
Emma Wright has finally escaped the dangerous man who's controlled her every move for the past six years. Taking her 5-year-old son, she has fled across the country seeking freedom, safety, and a fresh start. But Max's father isn't giving them up so easily.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great listen!
- De Julie en 08-03-05
De: Brenda Novak
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The Story Hour
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 780
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 701
An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman doesn't need a shrink; she needs a friend.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A stellar performance almost carried the book...
- De Daryl en 03-04-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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Cry No More
- De: Linda Howard
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 808
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 569
With an astonishing blend of savvy, instinct, and passion, Milla Edge displays an uncanny gift for finding lost children. When all seems helpless, desperate souls from across the country come to her for hope and results. Traveling to a small village in Mexico on a reliable tip, Milla begins to uncover the dire fate of countless children who have disappeared over the years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best of the best
- De Diana en 08-28-08
De: Linda Howard
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- De: Juliann Garey
- Narrado por: Dan Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 496
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 454
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 453
In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- De Vira en 04-02-13
De: Juliann Garey
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Inheriting Edith
- A Novel
- De: Zoe Fishman
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 200
For years Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies, leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance - a house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: the deceased's 82-year old mother, Edith.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is distracting.
- De Onelove en 05-13-20
De: Zoe Fishman
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The Unsung Hero
- Troubleshooters, Book 1
- De: Suzanne Brockmann
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor, Melanie Ewbank
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 502
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 447
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 449
After a near-fatal head injury, Navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the Navy dismisses the sighting as injury-induced imaginings. In a last-ditch effort to prevent disaster, Tom creates his own makeshift counterterrorism team, assembling his most loyal officers, two elderly war veterans, a couple of misfit teenagers, and Dr. Kelly Ashton.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New narration breathes life into this for me
- De Kindle Customer (VH) en 06-21-16