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Weekends with Matt
- A Memoir of an Unlikely Friendship Forged over Wine
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Weekends with Matt is a classic odd-couple tale of two very different men and the common ground that can be found over a shared passion.
The peacock's tail is used to describe a wine that is wonderfully complex and ultimately rewarding. Surely there's no better metaphor for life. It was at the bottle shop, somewhere between the chardonnay and the zinfandel, that Peter realised he didn't have a clue about wine. On his way to a dinner party and in a mild panic, he called Matt, a wine-loving acquaintance who expertly steered him towards the perfect bottle. The selection was a hit, but it was Matt's passion that stuck in Peter's mind. He decided to visit Matt's vineyard for an introduction to the noble grape. One visit led to another and this unlikely pairing of a Proust-quoting intellectual and a farmer with a love of hunting found themselves bonding over life, ideas, vulnerability, aspiration, nature, philosophy and, of course, a glass or three of wine. Like a tipsy Tuesdays with Morrie, this well-crafted tale is as much a guide to life as the mysteries of wine. With thought-provoking notes and philosophical undertones, this is a delightful story that listeners will love to sip and savour.
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In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very, very disappointing
- De Tamara Greer en 06-08-16
De: Eric Weiner
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The Road to Burgundy
- The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France
- De: Ray Walker
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 252
Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion that he couldn't stifle. Ray neglected his work, spending hours poring over ancient French winemaking texts, learning the techniques and the language, and daydreaming about vineyards. After Ray experienced his first taste of wine from Burgundy, he could wait no longer. He quit his job and went to France to start a winery - with little money, a limited command of French, and virtually no winemaking experience.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring story: I wish he'd learn some humility!
- De Desmond en 12-15-14
De: Ray Walker
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Mr Doubler Begins Again
- De: Seni Glaister
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25
Baked, mashed, boiled or fried, Mr Doubler knows his potatoes. But the same can’t be said for people. Since he lost his wife, he’s been on his own at Mirth Farm - and that suits Doubler just fine. Crowds are for other people; the only company he needs are his potato plants and his housekeeper, Mrs Millwood, who visits every day. So when Mrs Millwood is taken ill, it ruins everything - and Mr Doubler begins to worry that he might have lost his way. But could the kindness of strangers be enough to bring him down from the hill?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book
- De Cole M Miller en 12-07-19
De: Seni Glaister
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Surprised by Oxford
- A Memoir
- De: Carolyn Weber
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 136
Surprised by Oxford is the memoir of a skeptical agnostic who comes to a dynamic personal faith in God during graduate studies in literature at Oxford University.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully Written book
- De Adam Shields en 10-11-22
De: Carolyn Weber
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Outline
- The Outline Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Kate Lock
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 34
A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking - about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Excruciating
- De Devoted Online Shopper en 03-15-23
De: Rachel Cusk
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The Dark Flood Rises
- A Novel
- De: Dame Margaret Drabble
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
- De Sara en 03-22-17
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The Just City
- Thessaly, Book 1
- De: Jo Walton
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 164
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 164
Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community populated by over 10,000 children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Could Not Get Past Mispronunciations
- De Martha K. en 04-22-17
De: Jo Walton
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In the Light of What We Know
- De: Zia Haider Rahman
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 21 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power.
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1 out of 5 stars
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dreadful
- De sam en 06-05-15
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Three Daughters of Eve
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 203
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Review 3 daughters of Eve
- De CA en 04-28-18
De: Elif Shafak
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The Lost Carousel of Provence
- De: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 282
Long, lonely years have passed for the crumbling Château Clement, nestled well beyond the rolling lavender fields and popular tourist attractions of Provence. Once a bustling and dignified ancestral estate, now all that remains is the château's gruff, elderly owner and the softly whispered secrets of generations buried and forgotten. But time has a way of exposing history's dark stains, and when American photographer Cady Drake finds herself drawn to the château and its antique carousel, she longs to explore the relic's shadowy origins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It!
- De T Heskett en 09-23-18
De: Juliet Blackwell
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Almost French
- De: Sarah Turnbull
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
After backpacking her way around Europe journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before heading home to Sydney. A chance meeting with a charming Frenchman in Bucharest changes her travel plans forever. Acting on impulse, she agrees to visit Fredric in Paris for a week. Put a very French Frenchman together with a strong-willed Australian girl and the result is some spectacular - and often hilarious - cultural clashes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost Terrific
- De Elizabeth en 02-05-13
De: Sarah Turnbull
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The Lemon Tree Hotel
- De: Rosanna Ley
- Narrado por: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
In the beautiful village of Vernazza, the Mazzone family have transformed an old convent overlooking the glamorous Italian Riviera into the elegant Lemon Tree Hotel. For Chiara, her daughter, Elene, and her granddaughter, Isabella, the running of their hotel is the driving force in their lives. One day, two unexpected guests check in. The first, Dante, is a face from Chiara's past, but what exactly happened between them all those years ago, Elene wonders. Isabella is preoccupied with the second guest, a mysterious young man who seems to know a lot about the history of the old convent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please write another
- De Marathon en 07-20-19
De: Rosanna Ley
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The Year of Living Danishly
- Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
- De: Helen Russell
- Narrado por: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,782
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,772
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long, dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries. What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born or made?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting content. Unfortunate delivery.
- De Jennifer Soudagar en 11-13-15
De: Helen Russell
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Wicked Autumn
- Booktrack Edition
- De: G. M. Malliet
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. The death looks like an accident, but Max's training as a former agent kicks in, and before long he suspects foul play.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just OK
- De Jeanne en 08-05-21
De: G. M. Malliet
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Reading Like a Writer
- De: Francine Prose
- Narrado por: Nanette Savard
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire listeners to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Practical, literate, generous
- De Gare en 04-13-08
De: Francine Prose
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Shadows in the Vineyard
- The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
- De: Maximillian Potter
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 232
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an anonymous note threatening the destruction of his priceless vines by poison - a crime that in the world of high-end wine is akin to murder - unless he paid a one million euro ransom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Eet waz eenteresteeng
- De J. Cadow en 04-25-16
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Keys to the Kingdom
- De: Alison A. Armstrong
- Narrado por: Alison A. Armstrong
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 886
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 762
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 761
In Keys to the Kingdom, Alison Armstrong takes you on a journey of discovery into the workings of men, women, and relationships. Much of the information acquired during Alison's 15-year study of men is brought to life by the novel's charming and genuine characters. This heartfelt story communicates the type of wisdom taught in Alison's Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women workshops.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great if you can get past the story
- De Anonymous YK en 02-10-16