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Helen Cresswell
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First in the super-funny classic series The Bagthorpe Saga, starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family – from best-loved author Helen Cresswell.
Jack’s fed up of living in the shadow of his brilliant siblings. He and his trusty dog Zero are completely ordinary while the rest of them are annoyingly gifted. So when Uncle Parker comes up with a plan to make Jack stand out, he’s more than a little excited. Can he really get away with claiming to predict the future? And will the hare-brained scheme help Jack shine, or get him noticed for all the wrong reasons?
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The Fair Miss Fortune
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Patience Tomlinson
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Jane Fortune causes a stir when she arrives in the small community of Dingleford. She has bought an old cottage and plans to open a tearoom. Old friends Charles Weatherby and Harold Prestcott both fall for the newcomer, but her behaviour seems to vary wildly – she encourages first one then the other and at other times barely recognises them. Is there more to the fair Miss Fortune than meets the eye?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Humorous Look at 1930s English Village Life
- De Pam en 09-13-12
De: D. E. Stevenson
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Love Among the Chickens
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cecil
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 319
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 318
Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his enterprise. Complications ensue, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumptious dog, supercilious chickens, irascible professors, angry creditors, and divided lovers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Do Not Drive or Operate Heavy Machinery!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-13-12
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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High Rising
- A Virago Modern Classic
- De: Angela Thirkell, Alexander McCall Smith - introduction
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 186
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son, Tony, set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbor, George Knox, has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beginning of a journey
- De Jerri C en 11-04-16
De: Angela Thirkell, 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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Mr Doubler Begins Again
- De: Seni Glaister
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 26
Baked, mashed, boiled or fried, Mr Doubler knows his potatoes. But the same can’t be said for people. Since he lost his wife, he’s been on his own at Mirth Farm - and that suits Doubler just fine. Crowds are for other people; the only company he needs are his potato plants and his housekeeper, Mrs Millwood, who visits every day. So when Mrs Millwood is taken ill, it ruins everything - and Mr Doubler begins to worry that he might have lost his way. But could the kindness of strangers be enough to bring him down from the hill?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book
- De Cole M Miller en 12-07-19
De: Seni Glaister
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Novels 1-3
- De: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 26 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The first three mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic sleuth: first, a body is discovered in a Battersea bathroom, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez, on the same night that financier Sir Reuben Levy disappears from his Park Lane home. Then, Wimsey returns to England when his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murdering the fiance of their sister, Lady Mary, and a trial in the House of Lords looms; and finally, an overheard conversation in a restaurant begins an investigation of the strangely premature death of wealthy and terminally ill old lady Miss Agatha Dawson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Lord Peter
- De Mav's mom en 10-16-24
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- De: Jean Kerr
- Narrado por: Marni Webb
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr's parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the 21st century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Poor narration of smart, dry, funny essays
- De Buyseverythingonline en 04-30-16
De: Jean Kerr
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 135
In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
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5 out of 5 stars
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clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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The Go-Between
- De: L. P. Hartley
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
During the long, hot summer of 1900, young Leo Colston is invited to stay for a month at a lordly, aristocratic manor in Norfolk. There he falls in love with his friend's older sister, who commissions him to ferry secret messages to the local farmer, her lover. His naiveté sustains their affair until ultimately leading to an event that will change their lives irrevocably.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great walk back in time.
- De Linda Ward en 01-19-17
De: L. P. Hartley
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Aunt Dimity's Death
- De: Nancy Atherton
- Narrado por: Teri Clark Linden
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 374
Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she's about to inherit a sizable estate - if she can discover the secret hidden in a treasure trove of letters in Dimity's English country cottage. What begins as a fairy tale becomes a mystery - and a ghost story - in an improbably cozy setting, as Aunt Dimity's indominable spirit leads Lori on an otherworldly quest to discover how, in this life, true love can conquer all.
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2 out of 5 stars
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great book, lousy reader
- De Bill en 04-27-13
De: Nancy Atherton
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How It All Began
- De: Penelope Lively
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 459
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 392
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 390
When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an errant cell phone message; a posh yet financially strapped interior designer meets a business partner who might prove too good to be true.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful and beautifully written
- De Molly-o en 02-15-12
De: Penelope Lively
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Talking It Over
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey, Alex Jennings, Clare Higgins
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
Introducing Stuart, Gillian and Oliver. One by one they take their turn to speak straight out to the camera - and give their side of a contemporary love triangle. What begins as a comedy of misunderstanding slowly darkens and deepens into a compelling exploration of the quagmires of the heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Narrative Gimmick Works
- De Alan en 11-22-11
De: Julian Barnes
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The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume 1
- De: E. F. Benson
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton
- Duración: 26 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 79
Sharply observant and wickedly funny, E.F. Benson's six Mapp and Lucia novels satirize the upper-middle-class social climbers in 1920s and '30s rural England. Games of bridge and cups of tea fuel hilarious gossip and vindictive plots a-plenty. It is a masterfully sustained spotlight on the minutiae of village life - a clever and ultimately heart-warming series that seems tailor-made for audio. Volume 1 contains the first three books.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At last!
- De Grace M-T en 06-15-21
De: E. F. Benson
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Enchanted Glass
- De: Diana Wynne Jones
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 302
The mysterious Stalkers show up at almost the same instant 12-year-old Aiden Cain’s grandmother dies. Following his grandmother’s instructions, Aiden decides to seek out a powerful sorcerer at Melstone House. Yet when he arrives, he discovers the man died a year earlier. Melstone House now belongs to the sorcerer’s adult grandson Andrew, who agrees to help Aiden with the Stalker problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magic and Ordinary Life
- De Gentle Reader Jill en 01-24-11
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William's Happy Days
- De: Richmal Crompton
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25
Here are 10 hilarious stories from the genius pen of Richmal Crompton, featuring legendary, lateral-thinking schoolboy William Brown.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun, Light-hearted Stories
- De Mama C en 07-23-09
De: Richmal Crompton