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From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary.
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- De Leslie Gail Mnich en 10-25-20
De: Tracy Rees
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Maurice
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Peter Firth
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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'Ah for darkness...not the darkness of a house which coops up a man among furniture, but the darkness where he can be free!' Maurice Hall knows he must choose between living life in the shadows or denying himself a chance at love and fulfilment. Aware of his attraction to the same sex, in a time where it was considered unlawful and immoral to have homosexual desires, Maurice must decide whether to battle or submit to a prejudiced 20th-century English society.
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Finally!!! It's past time!
- De Christopher P. en 11-18-10
De: E. M. Forster
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Sanshiro
- Penguin Classics
- De: Natsume Soseki, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
- Narrado por: Andrew Koji
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.
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This story had no point.
- De icelandicponies en 12-30-21
De: Natsume Soseki, y otros
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The Bermondsey Bookshop
- De: Mary Gibson
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
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Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss' struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate has only her own brave spirit and dreams of finding her father to keep her going. She has barely enough money to feed herself, or to pay the rent. The factory where she works begins to lay off people and it isn't long before she has fallen into the hands of the violent local money-lender.
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A glimpse into the past
- De Luci-Lu en 10-27-21
De: Mary Gibson
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The War Nurses: A Moving Wartime Romance Saga Full of Heart
- The War Nurses Series
- De: Lizzie Page
- Narrado por: Marian Hussey
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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You will love every moment of this absolutely brilliant wartime saga, perfect for fans of Diney Costeloe, Soraya M. Lane, and Nadine Dorries. As war takes its toll, the love and care of two brave young nurses become everything to the wounded soldiers they tend... 1914. Two plucky young nurses pledge to help the war effort: Mairi, a wholesome idealist hoping to leave behind her past and Elsie, a glamorous single mother with a weakness for handsome soldiers. Despite their differences, the pair become firm friends.
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I really really wanted to like this book...
- De Teresa M. Thornborough en 09-26-19
De: Lizzie Page
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Bel Ami
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami follows journalist Georges Duroy and his increasing stature among the Paris elite. With an immense thirst for power, Georges is not above an almost gleeful use of wealthy mistresses to achieve his ends.
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Bel Ami or how to socially climb in 1885 Paris
- De Neil Chisholm en 12-03-13
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The Wall
- De: John Hersey
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 29 h y 14 m
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Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of 40 men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty - a gripping and visceral story, impossible to pause.
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Fascinating
- De Phil en 06-14-21
De: John Hersey
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Crime and Punishment
- Penguin Classics
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oliver Ready
- Narrado por: Don Warrington
- Duración: 25 h y 2 m
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This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society's laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues.
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Best translation on audible – mediocre narrator
- De Fantod en 04-29-20
De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, y otros
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Father
- De: Elizabeth Von Arnim
- Narrado por: Penelope Freeman
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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Since her mother's death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns her attention to her own interests. While Jennifer is desperate to experience life on her own terms within her reduced financial means, her neighbour, Alice, is pre-occupied with ensuring her position as head of her brother's household is never challenged.
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Worse Audio Book I Have Ever Heard
- De Phyllis Woodford en 11-05-21
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Cold Hand in Mine
- De: Robert Aickman
- Narrado por: Reece Shearsmith
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full. The listener is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story ("Pages from a Young Girl's Journal") but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing.
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Aickman is unique
- De Stark en 08-19-23
De: Robert Aickman
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Little Women
- De: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 18 h y 29 m
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Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of this, Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring novel. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy - united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.
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A Flash from the Past
- De Happy Cook en 02-28-09
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Tempest-tost
- The Salterton Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Robertson Davies
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colorful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare's play, falls in love with the beautiful Griselda Webster. When Griselda shows she has plans of her own, Hector despairs on the play's opening night.
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First of the first (and shows it)
- De Mary en 12-22-09
De: Robertson Davies
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of her students. The scandalously outspoken Miss Brodie makes big waves in the conservative Scottish school, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring.
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creme de la creme
- De Kathleen en 01-04-08
De: Muriel Spark
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The Door
- De: Magda Szabó, Len Rix - translator
- Narrado por: Siân Thomas
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Intense, brilliant and moving, The Door is a compelling story about the relationship between two women of opposing backgrounds and personalities: one, an intellectual and writer; the other, her housekeeper, a mysterious, elderly woman who sets her own rules and abjures religion, education, pretense and any kind of authority. Beneath this hardened exterior of Emerence lies a painful story that must be concealed.
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Challenging, but an engrossing, literary work.
- De Earnest en 09-05-17
De: Magda Szabó, y otros
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West
- A Novel
- De: Carys Davies
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and heads west.
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Immediately and completely fascinated throughout this book!
- De SalJJon en 07-10-18
De: Carys Davies
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The Gathering
- De: Anne Enright
- Narrado por: Terry Donnelly
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Regarded as one of her country's foremost voices, Irish author Anne Enright makes a fresh mark on a rich literary tradition. The Gathering is a deeply insightful family saga, steeped in secrets and intrigue, unfolding over three generations.
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Not For Everyone
- De Lori en 11-07-08
De: Anne Enright
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Evenings and Weekends
- A Novel
- De: Oisín McKenna
- Narrado por: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city’s parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke.
De: Oisín McKenna
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The Postcard
- De: Anne Berest, Tina Kover - translator
- Narrado por: Barrie Kealoha
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest’s maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques—all killed at Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why.
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The author’s words deserve a better narrator
- De TK en 05-22-23
De: Anne Berest, y otros
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The Summer Book
- De: Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal - translator
- Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer - its sunlight and storms - into 22 crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent.
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GORGEOUS. FULL OF GRACE. NEEDED THIS.
- De Annie Armstrong en 04-14-22
De: Tove Jansson, y otros
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The Door
- De: Magda Szabó, Len Rix - translator
- Narrado por: Siân Thomas
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Intense, brilliant and moving, The Door is a compelling story about the relationship between two women of opposing backgrounds and personalities: one, an intellectual and writer; the other, her housekeeper, a mysterious, elderly woman who sets her own rules and abjures religion, education, pretense and any kind of authority. Beneath this hardened exterior of Emerence lies a painful story that must be concealed.
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Challenging, but an engrossing, literary work.
- De Earnest en 09-05-17
De: Magda Szabó, y otros
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West
- A Novel
- De: Carys Davies
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and heads west.
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Immediately and completely fascinated throughout this book!
- De SalJJon en 07-10-18
De: Carys Davies
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The Gathering
- De: Anne Enright
- Narrado por: Terry Donnelly
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Regarded as one of her country's foremost voices, Irish author Anne Enright makes a fresh mark on a rich literary tradition. The Gathering is a deeply insightful family saga, steeped in secrets and intrigue, unfolding over three generations.
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Not For Everyone
- De Lori en 11-07-08
De: Anne Enright
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Evenings and Weekends
- A Novel
- De: Oisín McKenna
- Narrado por: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city’s parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke.
De: Oisín McKenna
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The Postcard
- De: Anne Berest, Tina Kover - translator
- Narrado por: Barrie Kealoha
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest’s maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques—all killed at Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why.
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The author’s words deserve a better narrator
- De TK en 05-22-23
De: Anne Berest, y otros
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The Summer Book
- De: Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal - translator
- Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer - its sunlight and storms - into 22 crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent.
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GORGEOUS. FULL OF GRACE. NEEDED THIS.
- De Annie Armstrong en 04-14-22
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- De: Shehan Karunatilaka
- Narrado por: Shivantha Wijesinha
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali.
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Absolutely Splendid...
- De Paul Frandano en 02-07-23
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Lady Oracle
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organize her own death.
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A Feminist Romp
- De annkpowers en 07-02-22
De: Margaret Atwood
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Bear
- A Novel
- De: Julia Phillips
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can’t earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their existence.
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Wow. LOVED this book.
- De Maryanne T. en 07-05-24
De: Julia Phillips
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Consent
- A Memoir
- De: Jill Ciment
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 4 h
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In this close-up look at the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was seventeen and he was forty-seven and married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1990s memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth when she wrote about their passion back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love.
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Very thought provoking
- De Donna WEnsell en 07-12-24
De: Jill Ciment
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This Tender Land
- De: William Kent Krueger
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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1932: Located on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota, Lincoln School is home to hundreds of Native American boys and girls who have been separated from their families. The only two white boys in the school are orphan brothers Odie and Albert, who, under the watchful eyes of the cruel superintendent Mrs. Brickman, are often in trouble for misdeeds both real and imagined. The two boys' best friend is Mose, a mute Native American who is also the strongest kid in school. And they find another ally in Cora Frost, a widowed teacher who is raising her little girl, Emmy, by herself.
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"Didn't need the underlying social message"
- De Curtis en 09-23-19
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Brooklyn
- A Novel
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.
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Loved every word
- De J. P. Fitzpatrick en 02-24-17
De: Colm Toibin
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-06-24
The war time era in Hungary
I found the story very interesting but hard to follow with the different characters. I always thought something was missing. I thing I will listen again to the story
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- Wendy
- 10-25-20
Who knew boarding school could be exciting?
Abigail is a statue in a strict religious boarding school in Hungary in the late years of WWII. Abigail is the visible tip of a secret organization against the war.
The good parts of this seemingly all repressive institution are developed over time with the gradual awareness of a fairly spoiled young woman from the high life of the capital. Interesting characters!
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- J. John
- 01-15-24
Loved this
Such a great book. The storyline was unique and had lots of twists and turns. The characters were interesting. The narrator was easy to listen to.
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- Arlene Cogen, CFP Author
- 04-25-24
Coming of age story of curiosity
Interesting perspective on growing up in unexpected conditions— how boarding school, war, teenage hood, family dynamics and heroism all overlap to make an interesting story
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- Eleanor H. Watts
- 03-27-21
An engrossing story of a 15 year old's experiences
This is an engrossing story of a 15 year old's experiences after being placed in a Convent by her widowed father for her safety as as he is called to perform top secret duties for the Allies during WW II. Non-fiction is combined with the very real challenges facing this teen-ager as she struggles to adapt to a very demanding communal life and still be faithful to the promises made to her father.
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- Trey S.
- 10-06-22
Fantastic Book
I loved this book. It was heart wrenching and heart warming. I was on the edge of my seat at the end. The narrator was not the best, but the story was fantastic.
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