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This Was Our Malvern
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- Narrado por: Richard Lyntton
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Be sure to enjoy From Cottage to Palace, Worcestershire & Malvern History Series Book 1.
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Unforgettable journey into the past
- De Adeliese Baumann en 05-27-18
De: Liza Picard
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Pearl in a Cage
- Woody Creek, Book 1
- De: Joy Dettman
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman - foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant - is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the woman is brought to her door. Try as she might, Gertrude is unable to save her, but the baby lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pearl in a Cage
- De Verita en 06-16-17
De: Joy Dettman
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Wait for Me!
- Memoirs
- De: Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The last of the Mitford Sisters
- De Irene en 01-11-11
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The Little Princesses
- The Story of the Queen's Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford
- De: Marion Crawford, Jennie Bond - foreword
- Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 53
Originally published in 1950, The Little Princesses was the first account of British Royal life inside Buckingham Palace as revealed by Marion Crawford, who served as governess to princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Beginnig of My Interest on the Royal Family
- De A. Bauza Higuera en 12-30-22
De: Marion Crawford, y otros
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The Housekeeper's Tale
- The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
- De: Tessa Boase
- Narrado por: Tessa Boase
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 213
The Housekeeper's Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women's careers. Using secret diaries, unpublished letters, and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain's most prominent households.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Utterly intriguing
- De Pamela Jane en 09-14-17
De: Tessa Boase
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Maggie-Now
- A Novel
- De: Betty Smith
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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no unabridged
- De sally en 08-03-21
De: Betty Smith
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Jane of Lantern Hill
- De: L.M. Montgomery
- Narrado por: Lauren Saunders
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
For as long as she can remember, Jane Stuart and her mother have lived with her controlling grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead, so she was shocked to receive an invitation to stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island. But from their very first meeting, Jane fell in love with her charming father and his whimsical cottage. During her stay with him, she even found herself daring to dream that there could be such a house back in Toronto.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adore the book. The recording needs to be EDITED!
- De Island Girl en 06-17-20
De: L.M. Montgomery
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A Woman's Story
- De: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 1 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to “capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris.” She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable at once, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A stiff and uninteresting story
- De Ellen en 11-19-23
De: Annie Ernaux, y otros
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Main Street (Annotated): 100th Anniversary Edition
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Kitty Hendrix
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
A biting satire that countered the American myth of wholesome small-town life with a depiction of narrow-minded provincialism, it was to some degree based on Lewis's own experience of growing on Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Set in mid-1910s, it depicts the struggles of Carol Kennicott, a city girl, as she tries to adapt to small town life, having left her librarian job and St. Paul, Minnesota to marry Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie. Dismayed by the town’s drabness and the conforming, petty inhabitants, Carol optimistically sets out to improve the town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Are Your Assumptions About Yourself & Others
- De Benny Fife en 02-06-20
De: Sinclair Lewis
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Cocaine Blues
- De: Kerry Greenwood
- Narrado por: Stephanie Daniel
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,013
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,468
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,459
It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A series that just gets better
- De Barbara Kindle Customer en 02-01-11
De: Kerry Greenwood
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
- De: Robert Hillman
- Narrado por: Daniel Lapaine
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Listener beware
- De Little old lady from Iowa en 06-11-23
De: Robert Hillman
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Home Fires
- The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War
- De: Julie Summers
- Narrado por: Juliet Mills
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Away from the frontlines of World War II, in towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their country's war effort. As members of the Women's Institute, an organization with a presence in a third of Britain's villages, they ran canteens and knitted garments for troops, collected tons of rosehips and other herbs to replace medicines that couldn't be imported, and advised the government on issues ranging from evacuee housing to children's health to postwar reconstruction. But they are best known for making jam.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tread Carefully & Be Amazed
- De Sara en 12-27-15
De: Julie Summers
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Owls Do Cry
- De: Janet Frame
- Narrado por: Heather Bolton
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Owls Do Cry is one of the classics of New Zealand literature, and has remained in print continuously for 50 years. A fiftieth anniversary edition was published in 2007.
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4 out of 5 stars
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well told but a wee bit depressing.
- De Muzza en 11-03-19
De: Janet Frame
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The Star of Kazan
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Ruth Jones
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. One day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door.
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2 out of 5 stars
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not recommended for pleasure
- De SEE en 08-27-17
De: Eva Ibbotson
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Nothing Daunted
- The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
- De: Dorothy Wickenden
- Narrado por: Dorothy Wickenden, Margaret Nichols
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 128
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York, for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their soci-ety luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they learned that two teach-ing jobs were available in a remote mountaintop schoolhouse and applied—shocking their families and friends.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not as Described
- De Sara en 08-10-14
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Small Things Like These
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Aidan Kelly
- Duración: 1 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,069
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 942
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 940
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Charming and Inspiring
- De David P en 09-05-22
De: Claire Keegan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre This Was Our Malvern
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-29-22
Wonderful tale
I was given a free copy of this audio book in exchange for an honest review. I felt like I was right in the wonderful descriptions! captivating! I want to go to Malvern, on my bucket list. cute, sweet, witty and fun memories of life. great history. the book is wonderfully organized and easy to follow. definitely recommend.
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