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Jane Collingwood
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Rebecca Starford
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A twisting, sophisticated World War II novel following a spy who goes undercover as a part of MI5—in chasing the secrets of others, how much will she lose of herself?
Evelyn Varley has always been ambitious and clever. As a girl, she earned a scholarship to a prestigious academy well above her parents' means, gaining her a best friend from one of England's wealthiest families. In 1939, with an Oxford degree in hand and war looming, Evelyn finds herself recruited into an elite MI5 counterintelligence unit.
A ruthless secret society seeks an alliance with Germany and, posing as a Nazi sympathizer, Evelyn must build a case to expose their treachery. But as she is drawn deeper into layers of duplicity—perhaps of her own making—some of those closest to her become embroiled in her investigation. With Evelyn's loyalties placed under extraordinary pressure, she'll face an impossible choice: save her country or the people who love her. Her decision echoes for years after the war, impacting everyone who thought they knew the real Evelyn Varley.
Beguiling and dark, An Unlikely Spy is a fascinating story of deception and sacrifice, based on the history of real people within the British intelligence community.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 621
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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
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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 167
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
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 Placeholder en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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I Couldn't Love You More
- A Novel
- De: Esther Freud
- Narrado por: Niamh Cusack
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 29
A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past.
De: Esther Freud
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The Shadow Lines
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Raj Varma
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows two families - one English, one Bengali - as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian-born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Doesn't Know How to Pronounce
- De Amazon Customer en 08-27-11
De: Amitav Ghosh
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The Bermondsey Bookshop
- De: Mary Gibson
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A glimpse into the past
- De Luci-Lu en 10-27-21
De: Mary Gibson
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The German House
- De: Annette Hess
- Narrado por: Nina Franoszek
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess’ international best seller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator - caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power - as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation’s past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just ok
- De Jennifer en 12-16-19
De: Annette Hess
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The Perfume Collector
- A Novel
- De: Kathleen Tessaro
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,889
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,591
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,576
London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate young woman. Despite her sheltered upbringing in Oxford, her recent marriage has thrust her into the heart of London's most refined and ambitious social circles. Then one evening a letter arrives from France that will change everything. Grace has received an inheritance. There's only one problem: she has never heard of her benefactor, the mysterious Eva d'Orsey. Told by invoking the three distinctive perfumes she inspired, Eva d'Orsey's story weaves through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unbearable Narration
- De D McKay en 08-05-15
De: Kathleen Tessaro
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The Traitor
- De: V.S. Alexander
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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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The Sound of Light
- De: Sarah Sundin
- Narrado por: Rachel Leblang
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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 Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova
- A Novel
- De: Ruth Hogan
- Narrado por: Nina Wadia
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
After inheriting her mother’s fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of Tarot cards have seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other people’s secrets, Madam Burova is ready to have a little piece of life for herself. But she still has one last thing to do—to fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Trigger warning
- De Kristyn Rose en 01-30-23
De: Ruth Hogan
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The Royal Correspondent
- A Novel
- De: Alexandra Joel
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel - set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s - about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story engaging. Narrator not so much.
- De Anne M. Kelley en 09-15-22
De: Alexandra Joel