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The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Roxanne Granville is used to getting what she wants - even if she has to break the rules. But after a falling-out with her grandfather, a powerful movie mogul, she has to face life on her own for the first time....
Roxanne forges a career unique for women in the 1950s, becoming an agent for hungry young screenwriters. She struggles to be taken seriously by the men who rule Hollywood and who often assume that sexual favors are just a part of doing business. When she sells a script by a blacklisted writer under the name of a willing front man, more exiled writers seek her help. Roxanne wades into a world murky with duplicity and deception, and she can’t afford any more risks.
Then she meets Terrence Dexter, a compelling African-American journalist unlike anyone she’s ever known. Roxanne again breaks the rules and is quickly swept up in a passionate relationship with very real dangers that could destroy everything she’s carefully built.
Roxanne Granville is a woman who bravely defies convention. She won’t let men make all the rules and won’t let skin color determine whom she can love.
The Great Pretenders is a riveting, emotional novel that resonates in today’s world and reminds us that some things are worth fighting for.
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"What a good book! Engagingly readable, full of Golden Age of Hollywood glitz - and a wonderful story of idealism, courage and the price of love. Enjoyed every page!" (Diana Gabaldon, number-one New York Times best-selling author of Outlander)
"In her riveting new novel, Laura Kalpakian has given us a heroine to cheer for in this juicy tale of Hollywood. Roxanne Granville’s journey from diffident daughter of privilege to boundary-shattering career woman who takes on both the Hollywood blacklist and the racial prejudices of the early Civil Rights era is breathtaking and moving, even epic.” (Melanie Benjamin, New York Times best-selling author of The Girls in the Picture)
“[An] empowering, beautifully written story transports readers to 1950s-era Hollywood.” (Woman’s World)
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It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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- De Little old lady from Iowa en 06-11-23
De: Robert Hillman
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A Fine Imitation
- A Novel
- De: Amber Brock
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus - the most coveted address on Park Avenue. But behind the sparkling social whirl, Vera is living a life of quiet desperation. Her days are an unbroken loop of empty, champagne-soaked socializing while her nights are silent and cold, spent waiting alone in her cavernous apartment for a husband who seldom comes home.
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Transporting
- De Riley Pennington en 05-08-19
De: Amber Brock
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Wunderland
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Cody Epstein
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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Once inseparable, Berlin teenagers Ilse Fischer and Renate Bauer find their friendship ripped apart by their nation’s abrupt swing into fascism. Ilse, a so-called Aryan, throws her lot in with the Nazi Party, while Renate sees her once-secure world dismantled by Adolf Hitler's race laws and then shattered by a shocking betrayal. Decades later, that same betrayal will upend the life of Ilse's daughter, Ava, as she discovers long-buried truths about her mother's past.
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Amazing book
- De Paula Boudreault en 05-20-19
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The Last Debutantes
- A Novel
- De: Georgie Blalock
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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When Valerie de Vere Cole, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, makes her deep curtsey to the King and Queen of England, she knows she’s part of a world about to end. The daughter of a debt-ridden father and a neglectful mother, Valerie sees firsthand that war is imminent. Nevertheless, Valerie reinvents herself as a carefree and glittering young society woman, befriending other debutantes from England’s aristocracy as well as the vivacious Eunice Kennedy, daughter of the US Ambassador.
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Wonderful characters & great historical references
- De Melissa Holden en 12-17-21
De: Georgie Blalock
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Fragments of Light
- De: Michele Phoenix
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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Cancer stole everything from Ceelie - her peace of mind, her self-image, perhaps even her 23-year marriage to her college sweetheart, Nate. Without the support of Darlene, her quirky elderly friend, she may not have been able to endure so much loss. So when Darlene’s own prognosis turns dire, Ceelie can’t refuse her seemingly impossible request - to find a WWII paratrooper named Cal, the father who disappeared when Darlene was an infant, leaving a lifetime of desolation in his wake.
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A beautiful heartrending story of redemption!
- De Morgan Tarpley Smith en 11-09-20
De: Michele Phoenix
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Red Letter Days
- De: Sarah-Jane Stratford
- Narrado por: Ilyana Kadushin, Sarah-Jane Stratford
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted - caught in the Red Menace that is shattering the lives of suspected Communists. Desperate to work, she escapes to London, determined to keep her dream alive and clear her good name. There, Phoebe befriends fellow American exile Hannah Wolfson, who has defied the odds to build a career as a successful television producer in England.
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Subpar
- De Birdy en 09-15-22
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
- De: Robert Hillman
- Narrado por: Daniel Lapaine
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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- De Little old lady from Iowa en 06-11-23
De: Robert Hillman
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Exile Music
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Steil
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
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As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler's rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family's identity, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor, Anneliese.
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Superb!
- De Judi Forman en 09-14-20
De: Jennifer Steil
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A Net for Small Fishes
- A Novel
- De: Lucy Jago
- Narrado por: Sarah Durham
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court.
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Sad, But True, Historical Telling
- De Vance L en 12-06-21
De: Lucy Jago
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The Stolen Child
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Carey
- Narrado por: Caroline Lennon
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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May 1959. From one side of St. Brigid's Island, the mountains of Connemara can be glimpsed on the distant mainland; from the other, the Atlantic stretches as far as the eye can see. This remote settlement, without electricity or even a harbor, has scarcely altered since its namesake saint set up a convent of stone huts centuries ago. Those who live there, including sisters Rose and Emer, are hardy and resourceful, dependent on the sea and each other for survival.
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My Favorite Author does it again
- De Elizabeth Wynegar en 05-12-17
De: Lisa Carey
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The Light of Paris
- De: Eleanor Brown
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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Madeleine is trapped - by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears - in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside it looks like she has everything, but on the inside she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother, Margie, is the kind of woman she should have been - elegant, reserved, perfect. bold, romantic trip to Jazz Age Paris, she meets the grandmother she never knew: a dreamer who defied her strict, staid family and spent an exhilarating summer writing in cafés.
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Repetitive Whinefest!
- De Knitme23 en 08-24-16
De: Eleanor Brown
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And They Called It Camelot
- A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- De: Stephanie Marie Thornton
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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Few of us can claim to be the authors of our fate. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy knows no other choice. With the eyes of the world watching, Jackie uses her effortless charm and keen intelligence to carve a place for herself among the men of history and weave a fairy tale for the American people, embodying a senator’s wife, a devoted mother, a First Lady - a queen in her own right. But all reigns must come to an end.
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I tried to like this book
- De Rita T en 03-11-20
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In Royal Service to the Queen
- A Novel of the Queen's Governess
- De: Tessa Arlen
- Narrado por: Mhairi Morrison
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Marion Crawford can remember each of the wonderful 16 years when she was governess to the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose: included in their lives, confided in, needed, trusted, and loved. These memories will never dim, ever. In Marion's mind, she will always be their Crawfie. But things become increasingly complicated as the young royals navigate adulthood. It is May 1945, and Princess Elizabeth - the heiress presumptive to the British throne - has fallen in love, and the only member of her family who is happy for her is her governess.
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Boring
- De Maggie Terry en 08-28-23
De: Tessa Arlen
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Off the Wild Coast of Brittany
- De: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrado por: Hope Newhouse, Xe Sands
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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Natalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Brittany. But then Francois-Xavier breaks things off with her without warning, leaving her flat broke and in the middle of renovating the guesthouse they planned to open for business.
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Swept away by this wonderful story
- De pam g en 03-29-21
De: Juliet Blackwell
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A Reluctant Queen
- The Love Story of Esther
- De: Joan Wolf
- Narrado por: Sarah Zimmerman
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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She was a simple girl faced with an impossible choice. He was a magnificent king with a lonely heart. Their love was the divine surprise that changed the course of history. The beloved story of Esther springs to fresh life in this inspired novel that vibrates with mystery, intrigue, and romance.
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Beautiful
- De Marni Adler-Rogers en 08-22-23
De: Joan Wolf
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Dear Ann
- A Novel
- De: Bobbie Ann Mason
- Narrado por: Janet Metzger
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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Ann Workman is smart but naïve, a misfit who’s traveled from rural Kentucky to graduate school in the transformative years of the late 1960s. While Ann fervently seeks higher learning, she wants what all girls yearn for—a boyfriend. But not any boy. She wants the “Real Thing,” to be in love with someone who loves her equally. Then Jimmy appears, as if by magic. Although he comes from a very different place, upper-middle class suburban Chicago, he is a misfit too, a rebel who rejects his upbringing and questions everything.
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trip down memory lane
- De Mary Patten en 11-12-20
De: Bobbie Ann Mason
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Becoming the Talbot Sisters
- De: Rachel Linden
- Narrado por: Madison Lawrence
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Celebrity chef Waverly Talbot has built a successful career with her home-entertaining show Simply Perfect. Yet she and her husband, Andrew, have never been able to realize the true desire of Waverly’s heart: to become a mother. Meanwhile Waverly’s twin sister, Charlie, buries her bitter disappointment and shattered idealism beneath a life spent serving others as an international aid worker in Budapest, Hungary. When the beloved aunt who raised them passes away, Waverly and Charlie come together in their grief after living years on separate continents. Struck by a fierce desire to bridge the distance between them, Charlie offers Waverly and her husband the selfless gift of surrogacy. But soon the sisters find they are each in danger of losing their jobs, seemingly putting their dreams on hold once again. When Waverly shows up unannounced in Budapest with a plan to rescue Simply Perfect, the sisters embark on an adventure across central Europe that could save them both from occupational hazards. Though the twins haven’t had to rely on each other since childhood, a dramatic turn in their journey forces them to stand together to save their careers, the baby, and each other.
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Simply ridiculous storyline
- De Laura Karr Warfield en 05-16-18
De: Rachel Linden
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White Chrysanthemum
- De: Mary Lynn Bracht
- Narrado por: Greta Jung
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves her younger sister from a Japanese soldier and is herself captured and transported to Manchuria. There she is forced to become a "comfort woman" in a Japanese military brothel. But haenyeo are women of power and strength. She will find her way home.
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Magnificent debut novel
- De Reed Ramlow en 03-24-21
De: Mary Lynn Bracht
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Courage, My Love
- De: Kristin Beck
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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When the Nazi occupation of Rome begins, two courageous young women are plunged deep into the Italian Resistance to fight for their freedom in this captivating debut novel.
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If this is ms. Becks debut novel then she should have a very successful career
- De paula wright en 07-07-21
De: Kristin Beck
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Great Pretenders
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- Ash
- 10-05-19
Good book and easy to stop and start
The reading performance was fantastic! So many characters represented well vocally.
Some of the writing is a little repetitive without meaning.
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- Evonne
- 05-14-20
OUTSTANDING
I was drawn in from the start.. considering the state of the world at the moment, prejudices & racism ; 1956 wasnt that long ago and we still have a long way to go.. but this book reminded what really matters. The setting of the story in Hollywood's golden age was as vivid as if I lived in that time myself. Kudos
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- Peter
- 11-20-20
Disappointing
The topic--racial tensions during the 1950s--is an important part of the history of this country's institutional racism. The setting--the Hollywood film industry during the Red-baiting of that period--is an important part of the history of this country's polarized politics. Alas, the writing does not do justice to the topic, although it does a more reasonable job of portraying the setting. As limited as the book is, the narration is even more mediocre.
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