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General4 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
Set against the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, and Genoa, and Naples, peopled with historical characters and filled with the details of the life of a 17th-century painter, The Passion of Artemisia is the story of Gentileschi's struggle to find love, forgiveness, and wholeness through her art.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Kay en 05-21-03
De: Susan Vreeland
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Tulip Fever
- De: Deborah Moggach
- Narrado por: Rula Lenska
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 298
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 272
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 269
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania, basking in the wealth it has generated. Sophia’s husband Cornelis, an ageing merchant, is among those grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and as ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception, their reckless gamble propels their lives towards a thrilling and tragic conclusion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting book
- De Kevin Crumpton en 01-31-17
De: Deborah Moggach
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Cover Her Face
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Penelope Dellaporta
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 803
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 688
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 680
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P. D. James' electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK but...
- De NoelleJ en 11-14-14
De: P. D. James
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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
- De: Dominic Smith
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography's founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre's invention took the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury, the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process. Believing the world will end within one year, he creates his "Doomsday List", 10 items he must photograph before the final day. It includes a woman he has always loved but has not seen in half a century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dud
- De Deborah en 01-31-08
De: Dominic Smith
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The Blue Guitar
- A Novel
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- De Amazon customer en 11-25-15
De: John Banville
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 1,135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,030
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Unbearable Narrator
- De ACB en 06-08-17
De: Sarah Perry
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The Gods of Tango
- A Novel
- De: Carolina De Robertis
- Narrado por: Carolina De Robertis
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father's cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she remains: living in a tenement, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. Still, she is seduced by the music that underscores life in the city: tango, born from lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous dance of brothels and cabarets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A rousing tale
- De Jean en 07-24-15
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Jerusalem Maiden
- De: Talia Carner
- Narrado por: Lise Bruneau
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris - and to believe that God has a special destiny for her. When tragedy strikes her family, Esther views it as a warning from an angry God....
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4 out of 5 stars
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No dreaming, No painting, No thinking . . .
- De Debbie en 04-18-15
De: Talia Carner
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Wintersong
- De: S. Jae-Jones
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 238
All her life, 19-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family's inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns. But when her sister Kathe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Muddled
- De Ingrid en 03-13-17
De: S. Jae-Jones
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The House Girl
- A Novel
- De: Tara Conklin
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,248
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,095
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,100
The year is 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. The year is 1852: Josephine is a 17-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm - an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. It is through her father, renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers a controversy rocking the art world: Art historians now suspect that the revered paintings of Lu Anne Bell, an antebellum artist known for her humanizing portraits of the slaves who worked her Virginia tobacco farm, were actually the work of her house slave, Josephine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Jeanette Finan en 02-21-13
De: Tara Conklin
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Palimpsest
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Aasne Vigesaa
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 134
Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse - a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Prose, but lacks maturity
- De Michael en 08-09-15
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The Lost Wife
- A Novel
- De: Alyson Richman
- Narrado por: George Guidall, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,960
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,415
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,408
In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, there's an inescapable glance of recognition between two strangers. Providence is giving Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the Occupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and the strength of memory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love, Strength & Survival
- De Sara en 01-27-14
De: Alyson Richman
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The Color of Light
- De: Helen Maryles Shankman
- Narrado por: Simon Slater, Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 23 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 161
At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school's handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel. Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe's Academy. But she is floundering amidst the ups and downs of a relationship with egotistical art star Lucian Swain. Then, one of Tessa's sketches catches Rafe's attention: a drawing of a young woman in 1930s clothing who is covering the eyes of a child.
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2 out of 5 stars
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UGH... Will the Heroine Ever Grow Up?
- De Amazon Customer en 06-11-19
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My Beautiful Enemy
- De: Sherry Thomas
- Narrado por: Charlotte Anne Dore
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
Catherine Blade's uncommon beauty and daring have taken her far in the world, but she still doesn't have the freedom to live life as she chooses. Finally given the chance to earn her independence, who should be standing in her way but the only man she's ever loved - the only person to ever betray her. Despite the scars Catherine left him, Captain Leighton Atwood has never been able to forget the mysterious girl who once so thoroughly captivated him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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my least favorite from this author, and still good
- De Christina en 09-04-14
De: Sherry Thomas
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
- De: Gregory Maguire
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 329
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 286
Gregory Maguire proves himself to be “one of contemporary fiction’s most assured myth-makers” (Kirkus Reviews) with Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, his ingenious and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella fairy tale. Perhaps best known for his dark and breathtaking Oz series The Wicked Years—including the novel Wicked, which inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical—Maguire is a master at upending the ordinary to help us see the familiar in a brilliant new light.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Very Human Story!
- De SamiJo McQuiston en 05-02-18
De: Gregory Maguire
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The Forgotten Room
- De: Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
- Narrado por: Morgan Hallett, Susan Bennett
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,918
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,911
It's 1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?
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3 out of 5 stars
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The same story 3 times over...
- De Amazon Customer en 03-30-16
De: Karen White, y otros
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The Magician's Lie
- A Novel
- De: Greer Macallister
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan, Nick Podehl
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,459
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,312
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,317
The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young policeman Virgil Holt watching from the audience, she swaps her trademark saw for a fire ax. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder? When Arden's husband is found lifeless beneath the stage later that night, the answer seems clear.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too Fantastic
- De Ms. Lucy en 02-22-15