The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
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Gabra Zackman
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Lynda Cohen Loigman
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"Gabra Zackman gloriously performs this charming dual-timeline audiobook." —AudioFile on The Matchmaker's Gift
This program features an author's note read by the author.
It's never too late for new beginnings.
On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty years earlier.
As a teenager growing up in 1920’s Brooklyn, Augusta’s role model was her father, Solomon Stern, the trusted owner of the local pharmacy and the neighborhood expert on every ailment. But when Augusta’s mother dies and Great Aunt Esther moves in, Augusta can’t help but be drawn to Esther’s curious methods. As a healer herself, Esther offers Solomon’s customers her own advice—unconventional remedies ranging from homemade chicken soup to a mysterious array of powders and potions.
As Augusta prepares for pharmacy college, she is torn between loyalty to her father and fascination with her great aunt, all while navigating a budding but complicated relationship with Irving. Desperate for clarity, she impulsively uses Esther’s most potent elixir with disastrous consequences. Disillusioned and alone, Augusta vows to reject Esther’s enchantments forever.
Sixty years later, confronted with Irving, Augusta is still haunted by the mistakes of her past. What happened all those years ago and how did her plan go so spectacularly wrong? Did Irving ever truly love her or was he simply playing a part? And can Augusta reclaim the magic of her youth before it’s too late?
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Brooklyn's Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever for Zev Altshul. He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes he can't stay. His saving grace is handball, his gift from God, and the one thing he can rely on as he is shuttled, chased, and abandoned by trusted elders, family, and friends. Even as Zev never fully escapes from the guilt of his choices, he sets course across the United States to discover where loyalty really lies and what it means.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story
- De Howard W. Levitin, MD en 05-24-24
De: Matthew Daub
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The Matchmaker's Gift
- A Novel
- De: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky, Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 446
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 405
Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York’s Lower East Side, Sara’s vocation is dominated by devout older men—men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous threat to their traditions and livelihood. After making matches in secret for more than a decade, Sara must fight to take her rightful place among her peers, and to demand the recognition she deserves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Little Ms Fun en 04-04-23
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The Wartime Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrado por: Emily Lawrence
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the armory factories as a “soldier of production”. Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very rudimentary story; horrible narrator
- De Bob L. en 07-03-21
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The Two-Family House
- A Novel
- De: Linda Cohen Loigman
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 937
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 835
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 837
Brooklyn, 1947: In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage, with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear, and their once deep friendship begins to unravel. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; one moment of tragedy. Heartbreak wars with happiness and almost but not quite wins.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Two Family Saga
- De Sara en 08-17-17
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The Empress of Cooke County
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Bass Parman
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Thirty-eight-year-old Posey Jarvis is the self-appointed “empress” of rural Spark in Cooke County, Tennessee. She spends her days following every word about her idol and look-alike Jackie Kennedy, avoiding her stalwart husband Vern, and struggling to control her newly defiant daughter Callie Jane—all while sneaking nips of gin. When Posey unexpectedly inherits a derelict mansion from her quirky old aunt Milbrey, she finagles her way into hosting her high school’s twentieth reunion there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Southern small town charm
- De Britain Singleton en 10-15-24
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The Trade Off
- A Novel
- De: Samantha Greene Woodruff
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market’s stocks and patterns in the financial pages. After college she’s determined to parlay her talent for the prediction game into personal and professional success. But in the 1920s, in a Lower East Side tenement, opportunities for women don’t just come knocking. Bea will have to create them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I WISH IT WAS THE BOOK DESCRIBED IN THE SYNOPSIS
- De Bradley en 02-15-25
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Leaving Eastern Parkway
- De: Matthew Daub
- Narrado por: Luzer Twersky
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Brooklyn's Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever for Zev Altshul. He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes he can't stay. His saving grace is handball, his gift from God, and the one thing he can rely on as he is shuttled, chased, and abandoned by trusted elders, family, and friends. Even as Zev never fully escapes from the guilt of his choices, he sets course across the United States to discover where loyalty really lies and what it means.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story
- De Howard W. Levitin, MD en 05-24-24
De: Matthew Daub
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Family Family
- A Novel
- De: Laurie Frankel
- Narrado por: Laurie Frankel, Patti Murin
- Duración: 14 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 138
India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actor. Armed with a stack of index cards (for research/line memorization/make-shift confetti), she goes from awkward sixteen-year-old to Broadway ingenue to TV superhero. Her new movie is a prestige picture about adoption, but its spin is the same old tired story of tragedy. India is an adoptive mom in real life though. She wants everyone to know there’s more to her family than pain and regret. So she does something you should never do—she tells a journalist the truth: it’s a bad movie.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story but horrible language
- De Jed en 01-26-24
De: Laurie Frankel
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The Lion Women of Tehran
- De: Marjan Kamali
- Narrado por: Mozhan Navabi, Nikki Massoud
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,667
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,589
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,589
In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story Awful Narration
- De Sogol en 08-14-24
De: Marjan Kamali
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Wild Reverence
- De: Rebecca Ross
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Born in the firelit domain of the under realm, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods often kill each other to steal power and alliances break as quickly as they are forged, Matilda must come of age sooner than most. She may be known to carry words and letters through the realms, but she holds a secret she must hide from even her dearest of allies to ensure her survival. And to complicate matters . . . there is a mortal boy who dreams of her, despite the fact they have never met in the waking world.
De: Rebecca Ross
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Don't Forget to Write
- A Novel
- De: Sara Goodman Confino
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,493
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,402
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,403
When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it’s Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn’s surprise, Ada’s not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac convertible. She’s sharp, straight-talking, takes her job very seriously, and abides by her own rules…mostly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good!
- De Kristin en 09-07-23
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Real Americans
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Khong
- Narrado por: Louisa Zhu, Eric Yang, Eunice Wong
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 593
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 551
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 551
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STELLAR STORYTELLING
- De Brenda C. en 05-02-24
De: Rachel Khong
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The Return of Ellie Black
- De: Emiko Jean
- Narrado por: Mizuo Peck, Tessa Albertson, Nicole Lewis, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 633
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 612
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 612
It’s been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she’s been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings are rare in Chelsey’s line of work. Then a glimmer: local teenager Ellie Black, who disappeared without a trace two years earlier, has been found alive in the woods of Washington State. But something is not right with Ellie. She won’t say where she’s been, or who she’s protecting, and it’s up to Chelsey to find the answers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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BUCKLE UP!
- De Maryanne T. en 06-04-24
De: Emiko Jean
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The Undoing of Violet Claybourne
- A Novel
- De: Emily Critchley
- Narrado por: Nathalie Buscombe
- Duración: 12 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
1999: When successful writer Gillian Larking receives a letter from the nephew of an old friend, she knows that her past has finally caught up with her. Violet Claybourne, her old boarding school roommate, was a girl who captivated Gillian with stories of her charming sisters and their picturesque home at Thornleigh Hall. Violet Claybourne pulled Gillian into her life, into her family, and changed Gilly's path forever. Violet Claybourne also spent the past sixty years in a psych hospital, and now she wants Gillian to tell her story. The real story.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Boring and convoluted
- De Linda Roberts en 05-27-25
De: Emily Critchley
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Behind Every Good Man
- A Novel
- De: Sara Goodman Confino
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 613
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 584
It’s a doozy of a bad day for Beverly Diamond when she catches her husband, Larry, in a compromising position with his secretary. What’s a DC suburban wife to do with a soon-to-be ex, two young kids, and no degree or financial support in 1962? Beat the louse at his own game, that’s what.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So entertaining
- De Compute en 09-16-24
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We Would Never
- De: Tova Mirvis
- Narrado por: Rachel F. Hirsch
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
No one appears more surprised than Hailey Gelman when she comes under suspicion for the murder of her soon-to-be ex-husband Jonah. Hailey—nicknamed Sunshine by her mother for her bright outlook and ever-present smile—has always tried to do what is expected of her and is regarded as the family peacemaker. But is anyone, including Hailey, who she has always seemed to be? The months leading up to Jonah’s death have been fraught, including a bitter separation and a messy custody battle over their young daughter, Maya.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Annoying characters
- De Sylvia en 04-10-25
De: Tova Mirvis
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Songs for the Brokenhearted
- A Novel
- De: Ayelet Tsabari
- Narrado por: Ayelet Tsabari, Assaf Cohen, Yossi Zabari
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better life. In an overcrowded immigrant camp in Rosh Ha’ayin, Yaqub, a shy young man, happens upon Saida, a beautiful girl singing by the river. In the midst of chaos and uncertainty, they fall in love. But they weren’t supposed to; Saida is married and has a child, and a married woman has no place befriending another man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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heartfelt story about love and loss
- De S. Price en 12-15-24
De: Ayelet Tsabari
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The Secret Book of Flora Lea
- A Novel
- De: Patti Callahan Henry
- Narrado por: Cynthia Erivo, Patti Callahan Henry
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 782
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 689
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 687
In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone—a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My mum was an evacuee…
- De Bettie en 06-09-23
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The Listeners
- A Novel
- De: Maggie Stiefvater
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles. Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her well. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Concept Fully Realized
- De P Chez en 06-08-25
Great story
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Excellent read/listen to
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Excellent story!
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Reader is very easy to listen to and the story never drags. You will enjoy it.
Nice easy listening story
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Senior adult romance is my new favorite
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Listen to audible-voices add to charm of the story
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Beautiful story
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Good to the last drop!
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character development
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Loved it!
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