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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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A princess in a castle can't fend for herself
- De Summer en 11-11-19
De: Alix E. Harrow
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
- De: Susan Vreeland
- Narrado por: Loren Lester, Sheryl Bernstein
- Duración: 5 h
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A professor shows a colleague a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer - but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of stories that trace ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work's inspiration.
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wonderful
- De Sybil en 04-07-03
De: Susan Vreeland
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The Essex Serpent
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Perry
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 14 h y 44 m
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When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one. Wed at 19, this woman of exceptional intelligence and curiosity was ill-suited for the role of society wife. Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space in the wake of the funeral, Cora leaves London for a visit to coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive 11-year old son, Francis, and the boy's nanny, Martha.
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Unbearable Narrator
- De ACB en 06-08-17
De: Sarah Perry
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Land of Love and Drowning
- De: Tiphanie Yanique
- Narrado por: Cherise Boothe, Korey Jackson, Rachel Leslie, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic.
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TW: incest
- De Carrissa en 04-12-17
De: Tiphanie Yanique
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An Irish Country Doctor
- A Novel
- De: Patrick Taylor
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree and little else in the way of worldly possessions, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice. At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly.
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Something's Missing ... But It's Not the "F Bomb"!
- De Bookworm en 09-06-13
De: Patrick Taylor
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Beatlebone
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching 40s, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.
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Nooooo way
- De James en 11-17-15
De: Kevin Barry
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All the Murmuring Bones
- De: A.G. Slatter
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Orphaned as a young child, Mirin O'Malley has been brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling estate Hob's Hallow. Long ago her family prospered due to a deal struck with the mer, the terrifying creatures who live in the depths of the sea: safety for their merchant ships in return for a child of each generation. But for many years the family have been unable to keep their side of the bargain and their fortunes have suffered as a result. When Mirin's grandfather dies, her grandmother puts in train a plan to restore their glory - but at the price of Mirin's freedom.
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Drags on and on.
- De Amanda Turner en 04-10-21
De: A.G. Slatter
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My Name Is Resolute
- De: Nancy E. Turner
- Narrado por: Mhairi Morrison
- Duración: 25 h y 55 m
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The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute is torn between following the rules and breaking free.
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A life well lived!
- De Anonymous User en 06-20-23
De: Nancy E. Turner
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The Sound of Waves
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 5 h
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Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
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Remote Japanese island beautifully depicted
- De Bruce en 09-17-15
De: Yukio Mishima
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The Shipping News
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
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Can't Explain Why I Love This Book
- De Polly en 03-06-12
De: Annie Proulx
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The Golden Hour
- A Novel
- De: Beatriz Williams
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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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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Stick with it!
- De Colleen en 07-17-19
De: Beatriz Williams
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Owls Do Cry
- De: Janet Frame
- Narrado por: Heather Bolton
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her idea behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: 'Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for main characters, and inventing minor characters.'
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well told but a wee bit depressing.
- De Muzza en 11-03-19
De: Janet Frame
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The King in Yellow
- De: Robert W. Chambers
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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There is a book that is shrouded in mystery. Some even say it's a myth. Within its pages is a play - one that brings madness and despair to all who read it. It is the play of the King in Yellow, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. The King in Yellow is a collection of stories interwoven loosely by the elements of the play, including the central figure himself.
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Great Introduction to Robert Chambers
- De David S. Mathew en 11-23-16