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The Lion at Sea
- Captain Kelly Maguire Trilogy Series, Book 1
- De: Max Hennessy
- Narrado por: Christopher Weeks
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Kelly Maguire knew from a young age that he could accomplish great things. As World War I begins, Kelly enlists in the Royal Navy, hoping to win both the war and glory. But from the barbarous battles of Gallipoli to the nightmarish action of Antwerp, Kelly learns the trials a soldier must face: trials that will forge him into a man. As the epic battle of Jutland approaches, everything is at stake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Navy Tale
- De David en 10-21-20
De: Max Hennessy
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The Sound of Light
- De: Sarah Sundin
- Narrado por: Rachel Leblang
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, assuming a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the waters to Sweden. American physicist Dr. Else Jensen refuses to leave Copenhagen and abandon her research-her life's dream. While printing resistance newspapers, she hears stories of the movement's legendary Havmand-the merman-and wonders if the mysterious and silent shipyard worker living in the same boardinghouse has something to hide.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story Bad Narration
- De MegPhillips en 02-09-23
De: Sarah Sundin
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The Winds of War
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 45 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,554
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,575
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,562
Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece
- De Robert en 05-24-13
De: Herman Wouk
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The Daughters of Mars
- De: Tom Keneally
- Narrado por: Jane Nolan
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour, and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Here, new outrages - gas, shell-shock - present themselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting WWI novel with an Australian bent
- De Sarah Gamp en 03-09-13
De: Tom Keneally
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Sword of Honor
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At least one chapter missing
- De Sviatoslav en 08-17-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Somewhere in France
- A Novel of the Great War
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Alison Larkin
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants to travel the world, pursue a career, and marry for love. But in 1914, the stifling restrictions of aristocratic British society and her mother’s rigid expectations forbid Lilly from following her heart. When war breaks out, the spirited young woman seizes her chance for independence. Defying her parents, she moves to London and eventually becomes an ambulance driver in the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps - an exciting and treacherous job that takes her close to the Western Front.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Somewhere in France
- De Nicole H Henstrom en 04-16-23
De: Jennifer Robson
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The Barrakee Mystery
- An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, Book 1
- De: Arthur W. Upfield
- Narrado por: Peter Hosking
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? And who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent? This first story of Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, takes him to a sheep station in the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well... mixed blood and divided loyalties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story from another time....
- De A. Raymond en 06-15-15
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The Glass Palace
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 688
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 522
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 520
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I struggled to finish... enough said.
- De Ty en 05-02-10
De: Amitav Ghosh
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If I Were You
- A Novel
- De: Lynn Austin
- Narrado por: Sarah Zimmerman
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,083
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,878
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,868
1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years. Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve’s secrets - and the complicated history of their friendship - to the surface.
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5 out of 5 stars
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performed beautifully
- De Colby en 07-16-20
De: Lynn Austin
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 137
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- De Turtle en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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Tears of the Moon
- De: Di Morrissey
- Narrado por: Kate Hood
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Broome, Australia, 1893. It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets the dashing pearling master, Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the pearl. Sydney, Australia, 1995. Lily Barton embarks on a search for her family roots which leads her to Broome. But her quest for identity reveals more than she could have ever imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thoroughly absorbing saga. . .
- De E. Stacy Creamer en 02-20-23
De: Di Morrissey
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Hornet Flight
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,046
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,099
It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Outstanding Spy Novel
- De C. McCoy en 03-13-05
De: Ken Follett
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East of the Sun
- De: Julia Gregson
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
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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 Traitor
- De: V.S. Alexander
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 200
In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places, or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. Natalya Petrovich, a student, knows who is behind the leaflets - a secret group called the White Rose, led by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends. As a volunteer nurse on the Russian front, Natalya witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. She willingly enters the White Rose's circle....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not all the Germans are guilty.
- De Judy Harley en 09-18-20
De: V.S. Alexander
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Two Crosses
- Secrets of the Cross, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth Musser
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
The glimmering Huguenot cross she so innocently wears leads her deep into the shadows. When Gabriella Madison arrives in the French village of Castelnau in 1961 to continue her university studies, she doesn’t anticipate being drawn into the secretive world behind the Algerian war for independence from France. And the further she delves into the war efforts, the more her faith is challenged. The people who surround her bring a whirlwind of transforming forces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Faith, Romance, Spies, and Fascinating History
- De Amazon Customer en 05-02-19
De: Elizabeth Musser
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Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook
- A Novel
- De: Celia Rees
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation, and prosecute war crimes. Somewhat aimless, bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, 30-something Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission - but she is also recruited by her cousin Leo, who is in the Secret Service.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written but sad
- De Jacque Crabtree en 06-02-22
De: Celia Rees
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The Golden Hour
- A Novel
- De: Beatriz Williams
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 689
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 609
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 603
The Bahamas, 1941. Newly widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the duke and duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stick with it!
- De Colleen en 07-17-19
De: Beatriz Williams