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Hardacre is the sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacre family. This dramatic family saga follows generations of the Hardacres from Victorian times to the 1950s. Set against the backdrop of major historical events, Hardacre traces the family's humble beginnings to their position of great wealth.
Sam Hardacre makes a tough yet honest living as a fish gutter. But he has ambitions for a life far removed from the harsh existence on the quays of the north English coast. Through drive and determination he builds a business empire and amasses a fortune. His wife, Mary, once a poor street urchin, must learn to adapt to her new role as mistress of a grand house in Yorkshire.
Sam's sons, Joe and Harry, inherit some but not all of their father's qualities. Their opposing personalities lead them to make very different choices about their futures. Meanwhile, their younger sister, Jane, is born into a life of privilege and has no experience of her family's early struggles.
The three siblings and their offspring will know love, hate, passion and tragedy, as they live through the dramatic events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The lives of the Hardacres are shaped by the extraordinary events of the Boer War, the Great War, the Wall Street Crash, the Second World War, Hitler's Germany, and the London Blitz.
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30
The house was built in the Old Queen's time: built for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home. It survived many eras, many reigns: it saw the passing of Cromwell and the Civil War. It became rich with an Indian Nabob and poor with a 20th century innkeeper. It saw wars, and lovers, and death. Children were born there, both heirs and bastards. It had ghosts and legends and a history that grew stranger with every generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bless This House - my take
- De Kalona1982 en 04-05-09
De: Norah Lofts
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A Handful of Dust
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Andrew Sachs
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 264
Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow Start then Subtle
- De Michael en 05-16-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Call the Midwife
- A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
- De: Jennifer Worth
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,570
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,543
At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I've listened to this year
- De Richard en 06-12-13
De: Jennifer Worth
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After the War Is Over
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Lucy Rayner
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boardinghouse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More romance than history
- De RueRue en 08-17-16
De: Jennifer Robson
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A Beautiful Blue Death
- Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1
- De: Charles Finch
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,298
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,151
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,150
Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like cozy
- De Sheryl en 05-21-12
De: Charles Finch
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Celia Garth
- De: Gwen Bristow
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
A bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution, where supplies and weapons for the rebel army must be unloaded and smuggled north. From the window of the dressmaker's shop where she works, lovely Celia Garth, recently engaged to the heir to a magnificent plantation, watches all of this thrilling activity. When the unthinkable occurs and the British capture and occupy Charleston, bringing fiery retribution to the surrounding countryside, Celia sees her world destroyed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable listen
- De Stevon en 05-09-21
De: Gwen Bristow
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Scoop
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Cadell
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 278
In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure", Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well Written & Funny but Lacking
- De Michael en 07-19-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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South Riding
- De: Winifred Holtby
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In this rich and memorable evocation of the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire are the lives, loves and sorrows of the central characters. There is Sarah Burton, fiery young headmistress; Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, a councillor tormented by his own disastrous marriage; Jo Astell, a socialist fighting poverty and his own illness; and Mrs Beddows, the first woman Alderman of the district (like Winifred's own mother).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth Revisiting
- De Ilana en 11-04-12
De: Winifred Holtby
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Dying in the Wool
- A Kate Shackleton Mystery, Book 1
- De: Frances Brody
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills, and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens...until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing under dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again. Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants to make one last attempt at finding her father. Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles. So who better to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Fluff & Nonsense
- De Sara en 01-03-15
De: Frances Brody
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Staying On
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Paul Shelley
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return ‘home’ when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pankot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their imposing landlady threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasant Meander
- De Ian C Robertson en 09-22-14
De: Paul Scott
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Gone with the Wind
- De: Margaret Mitchell
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 49 h y 2 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 15,273
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13,122
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13,127
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Got the Accents Right
- De Noel en 04-27-10
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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 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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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A Clergyman's Daughter
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 141
Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher’s bill. But even Dorothy’s strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bottom-Shelf Orwell, but still G-D Orwell
- De Darwin8u en 08-11-19
De: George Orwell
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Daughters of Eden
- De: Charlotte Bingham
- Narrado por: Kim Hicks
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at Eden Park is a surprise, not least to them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book everyone should read.
- De XX en 09-11-05
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The Arrangement
- De: Joan Wolf
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Widow Gail Saunders is struggling to support her eight-year-old son, Nicky, by running a small riding school when the Earl of Savile arrives to tell her that Nicky has unexpectedly inherited money from Savile’s cousin. Gail and Nicky spend the summer at Savile Castle, where Gail falls in love with the charming Raoul, a man as far above her in social station as the sun is to the earth. To add to her troubles, someone seems to be trying to kill Nicky.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True love knows no class
- De Darlene en 10-11-18
De: Joan Wolf
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Mrs. Tim of the Regiment
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Vivacious, young Hester Christie tries to run her home like clockwork, as would befit the wife of British Army officer, Tim Christie. However hard Mrs Tim strives for seamless living amidst the other army wives, she is always moving flat-out to remember groceries, rule lively children, side-step village gossip and placate her husband with bacon, eggs, toast and marmalade. Left alone for months at a time whilst her husband is with his regiment, Mrs Tim resolves to keep a diary of events large and small in her family life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life as a military wife
- De Jerri C en 03-09-13
De: D. E. Stevenson
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The Woman of the House
- De: Alice Taylor
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
An enchanting and nostalgic tale of Ireland in the 1950s by Ireland’s favourite writer, Alice Taylor. The Phelans have owned Mossgrove for generations. The small, rural Irish farm has been the pride of them all until Ned's wife, Martha, arrives and begins to undermine generations of hard work and happiness. She resents the deep history of the place and sets about making it her own, shutting out what is left of Ned's family. She is particularly jealous of Ned's sister, Kate, a local nurse and doting aunt to Martha's children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brings you right there
- De Amazon Customer en 08-26-20
De: Alice Taylor
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In the year of our Lord 1363, two suspicious deaths in the infirmary of St. Mary's Abbey catch the attention of the powerful John Thoresby, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York. One victim is a pilgrim, while the second is Thoresby's ne'er-do-well ward, both apparently poisoned by a physic supplied by Master Apothecary Nicholas Wilton. In the wake of these deaths, the archbishop dispatches one-eyed spy Owen Archer to York to find the murderer.
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Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland’s most famous story, “The Stranger”, left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the story lines of her favorite literature.
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Madeleine Talmage Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their 29-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love. On their honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time - and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
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When literary celebrity Gerald Candless suddenly dies, the beautiful façade he has carefully created begins to crumble. Behind the vision of the happy family on the English seashore lie Candless’ inexplicable cruelty toward his wife, his manic devotion to his daughters, and the mysterious sources of his fiction. To assuage her grief, his loving daughter Sarah begins a memoir project. But it soon becomes an obsessive search for identity. As Sarah digs into her father’s secret past, the startling logic of his puzzling behavior is revealed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my Top 20 books
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Small town, big hopes, warm hearts Small town Hope, WI, is happy to welcome Habitat for Humanity as they volunteer to building homes on its newest street, New Neighbor Lane. But each family helping build their new house, needs more than a structure to live in. Past hurts, such as financial hardship, abandonment, loss of family members or painful divorce have left them hurting and doubting God’s love for them. But God isn’t finished with them. He has plans for them, plans to prosper them and not to harm, plans to give them hope and a future.
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A fateful shipwreck leaves the young and wealthy Lord Brandon presumed dead, and his estate in England lies abandoned and ripe for the picking. Years later, his step-cousin Justine finds him alive and drug-addicted, and against his family's wishes, boldly brings him home to reclaim his inheritance. Dark surprises disturb Brandon at every turn - a ruined property, a traitorous, bitter family, his fiancee married to his rival. And Justine, the shy, quiet girl he grew up with is no longer a little girl, but an alluring and determined young woman.
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3 out of 5 stars
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so wanted to love this book
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In the year of our Lord 1363, two suspicious deaths in the infirmary of St. Mary's Abbey catch the attention of the powerful John Thoresby, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York. One victim is a pilgrim, while the second is Thoresby's ne'er-do-well ward, both apparently poisoned by a physic supplied by Master Apothecary Nicholas Wilton. In the wake of these deaths, the archbishop dispatches one-eyed spy Owen Archer to York to find the murderer.
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Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland’s most famous story, “The Stranger”, left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the story lines of her favorite literature.
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Madeleine Talmage Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their 29-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love. On their honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time - and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner.
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Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an angel. Even Mouse doesn't know who - or what - she is. But she means to find out. When young King Ottakar shows up at the Abbey wounded by a traitor's arrow, Mouse breaks church law to save him and then agrees to accompany him back to Prague as his personal healer.
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Incredible Story!
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Not by Sight
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With Britain caught up in WWI, Jack Benningham, heir to the Earl of Stonebrooke, has declared himself a conscientious objector. Instead, he secretly works for the Crown by tracking down German spies on British soil, his wild reputation and society status serving as a foolproof cover. Blinded by patriotism and concern for her brother on the front lines, wealthy suffragette Grace Mabry will do whatever it takes to assist her country's cause.
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During the Great Depression, labor camps crop up in remote areas throughout the American South. Destitute workers live under terrible conditions. Trapped in these isolated locations, workers are entirely dependent on the often greedy, abusive camp owners who provide food and housing at grossly inflated prices. But for the most desperate among America's vast unemployed, these camps are often the last and only option.
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great story
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The Bay at Midnight
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Her family's cottage on the New Jersey shore was a place of freedom and innocence for Julie Bauer - until her 17-year-old sister, Isabel, was murdered. It's been more than 40 years since that August night, but Julie's memories of her sister's death still shape her world. Now someone from her past is raising questions about what really happened that night. About Julie's own complicity. About a devastating secret her mother kept from them all.
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He said, She said
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Daughter of Rome
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When the daughter of a prominent Roman general meets a disinherited Jewish immigrant, neither one can dream of God's plan to transform them into the most influential couple of the early church. Nor can they anticipate the mountains that will threaten to bury them. Their courtship unwittingly shadowed by murder and betrayal, Priscilla and Aquila slowly work to build a community of believers, while their lives grow increasingly complicated thanks to a shaggy dog, a mysterious runaway, and a ruthless foe desperate for love.
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Painful
- De Maria en 02-20-20
De: Tessa Afshar
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Murder in Chianti
- De: Camilla Trinchieri
- Narrado por: Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 210
Mourning the loss of his wife, Rita, former NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle moves to her hometown of Gravigna in the winesoaked region of Chianti. Half Italian and half Irish, Nico finds himself able to get by in the region with the help of Rita’s relatives, but he still feels alone and out of place. He isn’t sure if it’s peace he’s seeking, but it isn’t what he finds. Early one morning, he hears a gunshot and a dog's cries near his cabin and walks out to discover a dead body in the woods, flashily dressed in gold tennis shoes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story but…
- De another consumer en 11-13-21
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Old Friends
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Lowell George Seibel
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
The narrative takes place entirely in a nursing home and focuses on two old men struggling with their circumstances, their memories, and their mortality.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Had to stop listening
- De Mebythesea en 09-09-08
De: Tracy Kidder
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By the Unholy Hand
- Executioner Knights, Book 1
- De: Kathryn Le Veque
- Narrado por: Dene Woods
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 208
1200 AD - In the time following the death of Richard the Lionheart and the ascension of his brother, John, to the throne of England, a plot against the new king is hatched from an unexpected place - deep within the bowels of The Lateran Palace in Rome. It is rumored that the Pope himself is behind it. It is a plot so dark, and so dastardly, that William Marshal needs men who specialize in dark and dirty games in order to save a king they all hate, yet a king that England desperately needs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome from beginning to end
- De Bronwynn Victoria en 06-26-19
De: Kathryn Le Veque
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The Flight of Gemma Hardy
- A Novel
- De: Margot Livesey
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 320
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 285
Fate has not been kind to Gemma Hardy. Orphaned then neglected, young Gemma seemed destined for a life of hardship and loneliness. Yet her bright spirit burns strong. Fiercely intelligent, singularly determined, Gemma overcomes each challenge and setback, growing stronger and more certain of her path. Now an independent young woman, she accepts a position as an au pair on the remote and beautiful Orkney Islands. But Gemma’s biggest trial is about to begin....
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4 out of 5 stars
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f you loved Jane Eyre, you will like this novel.
- De Cecilia en 02-09-12
De: Margot Livesey
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The Last Secret
- A Novel
- De: Maia Caron
- Narrado por: Mariya Khomutova, Nicole Bauman, Vieslav Krystyan, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
As the world around her is ripped apart by war and infiltrated by Nazi soldiers, Savka Ivanets works as a medic for the Ukrainian resistance, stitching wounds by day, stealing supplies by night, and dodging firefights between the SS and Soviet partisans. When her husband, Marko, a reluctant member of the Waffen-SS, forces her to deliver a coded message to an underground bunker, she’s terrified. But when her mission doesn’t go as planned, and her son, Taras, is kidnapped by the KGB, Savka fears she’ll never see him again.
De: Maia Caron
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Bound: Bound, Book 1
- De: Kate Sparkes
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Justine Eyre
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 343
Rowan Greenwood has everything she's supposed to want from life - a good family, a bright future, and a proposal from a handsome and wealthy magic hunter. She knows she should be content with what she has. If only she could banish the idea that there's more to life than marriage and children, or let go of the fascination with magic that she's been forced to suppress since childhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the Story, Females Voice Not For me
- De Visceral Love en 02-03-15
De: Kate Sparkes
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The Outlaws of Sherwood
- De: Robin McKinley
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King's Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father's small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Marian - and keeps remembering that his mother too was gentry and married a common forester. Robin has been granted a rare holiday to go to the Nottingham Fair, where he will spend the day with his friends Much and Marian.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A great story paired with the wrong narrator
- De Gail N. en 11-01-19
De: Robin McKinley