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Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears ( The Queen, High Fidelity) and starring Judi Dench ( Skyfall, Notes on a Scandal) and Steve Coogan ( The Trip, Hamlet 2): the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman". Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Moving Story
- De Cariola en 02-09-14
De: Martin Sixsmith
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The Bishop and the Missing L Train
- De: Andrew Greeley
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
International best-selling author Andrew M. Greeley is hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a fascinating novelist" with a rare, possibly unmatched point of view. In this baffling mystery, the unpopular and incompetent Bishop Gus Quill is assigned to the Archdiocese of Chicago despite loud protests. When he disappears while riding the L Train, it falls to Bishop Blackie Ryan to find him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another humane author, hooray!
- De Mary en 11-11-08
De: Andrew Greeley
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Things I've Been Silent About
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Naila Azad
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Family portrait in the frame of history
- De Galina COS en 07-02-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Fifth Business
- The Deptford Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Robertson Davies
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 696
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 689
This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross but who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As we hear Ramsey tell his story, we begin to realize that, from childhood, he has influenced those around him in a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Been waiting for this
- De Vinity en 12-10-11
De: Robertson Davies
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Sign of the Cross: A Collins-Burke Mystery, Book 1
- De: Anne Emery
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 252
Monty Collins is a sharp-tongued public defender who just wants to represent an upstanding character for a change. A priest with something to hide isn't quite what he had hoped for, but when the literate, arrogant, and tight-lipped Father Brennan Burke is implicated in the strange murder of a young woman, Monty doesn't just take the case - the case takes him. When Burke won't come clean, Monty is forced to play private detective, traveling into his client's past. Things look good for the case until another body is found....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hybrid Mystery
- De connie en 07-31-12
De: Anne Emery
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Thus Bad Begins
- A Novel
- De: Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted ghost, and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend implicated in unsavory rumors that Muriel now asks Juan to investigate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating plot, superb performance, psychological depth
- De Doctor George en 12-05-16
De: Javier Marias, y otros
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Princess
- A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
- De: Jean Sasson
- Narrado por: Catherine Byers
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 913
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 792
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 796
Princess describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, and her country. Sultana tells of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: 13-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age; young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room". Princess is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and courage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story but...
- De Jay Friedman en 07-25-14
De: Jean Sasson
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The Miracle Detective
- An Investigative Reporter Sets Out to Examine How the Catholic Church Investigates Holy Visions and Discovers His Own Faith
- De: Randall Sullivan
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the matter was officially placed "under investigation" by the Catholic diocese. Investigative journalist Randall Sullivan wanted to know how, exactly, one might conduct the official inquiry into such an incident, so he set off to interview theologians, historians, and postulators.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating book on the study of miracles
- De H Walsh en 11-16-15
De: Randall Sullivan
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If the Oceans Were Ink
- An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
- De: Carla Power
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend, Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship - between a secular American and a madrasa-trained sheikh - had always seemed unlikely, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the battles being fought in their names.
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2 out of 5 stars
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WAY TOO LONG-but good material
- De teri_novabern en 07-30-16
De: Carla Power
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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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More Die of Heartbreak
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Ramiz Monsef
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Kenneth Trachtenberg, an eccentric and witty native of Paris, travels to the Midwest to spend time with his famous American uncle, a world-renowned botanist and self-described "plant visionary". After numerous affairs and failed relationships, the restless Uncle Benn seeks a settled existence in the form of marriage - but tying the knot again opens the door to a host of new torments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book
- De John A. en 03-16-22
De: Saul Bellow
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No Safe Place
- De: Richard North Patterson
- Narrado por: Alexander Adams
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
In the year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick Mason has come down to the last seven days—the time remaining until the California presidential primary. Whoever wins in California is likely to win the Democratic nomination, a prize that the Vice President is determined to deny Kerry at any cost. And for all the votes and enthusiasm his passion and personal magnetism have gained him, Kerry's problems are formidable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If Only It Had Happened That Way ...
- De Snoodely en 11-23-12
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Rumpole of the Bailey
- The Rumpole of the Bailey Series, Book 1
- De: John Mortimer
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister at law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature. He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he’d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife Hilda, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rambling and irreverent, Rumpole captures you
- De VW en 08-30-18
De: John Mortimer
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A Very English Scandal
- Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
- De: John Preston
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 179
As a member of Parliament and leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, Jeremy Thorpe's bad behavior went under the radar for years. Police and politicians alike colluded to protect one of their own. In 1970, Thorpe was the most popular and charismatic politician in the country, poised to hold the balance of power in a coalition government. But Jeremy Thorpe was a man with a secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who knew?
- De Dorothy en 10-24-16
De: John Preston
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Treasure in Clay
- The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen
- De: Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
- Narrado por: Greg Friedman O.F.M.
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 208
This autobiography includes childhood and seminary reflections, as well as Sheen's views on media stardom, pastoral work, international travels, conversions, Vatican II, Mary, and more. Listeners can expect to hear many of this saintly and sage communicator's famous phrases and inspiring stories. Treasure in Clay illuminates why Bishop Sheen is now called "Servant of God", a step towards possible canonization in the Catholic Church.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must-Read for Modern Communicators
- De Walter en 10-24-11
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The Schooldays of Jesus
- De: J. M. Coetzee
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4.5 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
David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog, Bolivar, to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon, and he should be at school. And so, with the guidance of the three sisters who own the farm where Simon and Ines work, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky.
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2 out of 5 stars
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SEXUAL PERVERSION PRESENTED AS BRILLIANT
- De Amazon Customer en 09-29-18
De: J. M. Coetzee
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
- An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 905
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 585
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 579
New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith, winner of the first-ever Saga Award for Wit, has entertained millions with his beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mysteries. Now this phenomenally popular author introduces a fresh series, brimming with the charm and humor his stable of dedicated fans can't get enough of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Advice For Prospective Listeners
- De DCinMI en 02-18-13
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Balanced treatment of the issue
Pedophilia within the Catholic Church is a horrible thing, but the great thing about this book is that it reveals the personality of a true priest, with his own struggles, and his own gifts and his own generosity towards others. His presence outweighs the bad apples in the bunch.
Humphrey Bower is also one of my favorite readers He brings the characters alive and does not use sarcasm or other fake affectations in his reading. He is very authentic.
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