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Jennifer McDonald
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Peter Yeldham
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“The silly sods think they’re all being shipped to Austria. They’ll get one hell of a shock when they end up in Australia!”
Carlo Minelli is about to discover that war and art are certainly not mutually exclusive. His politically ambitious father is carefully curating Carlo’s future at the family’s Lombardy vineyard. But Carlo and his artistic mother have other ideas.
On the day he is meant to take up a highly coveted art scholarship at the French-run Villa Medici in Rome, Il Duce declares war. Carlo is turned away from the heavily guarded entrance to the Villa, leaving him neither a student nor gainfully employed in support of the war effort.
Press-ganged into the Italian Army and captured in North Africa, Carlo the POW sketches and paints his way across three continents and several oceans, bringing the hardships of World War II into sharp relief against unexpected mateship, beauty, and love.
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- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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The gripping story of the author's aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author's own past and the key to discovering his Jewish roots.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Unique
- De Nordic Artisan en 05-11-19
De: Paul Glaser
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At Home with the Templetons
- De: Monica McInerney
- Narrado por: Ulli Birve
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in country Australia, they set the locals talking – and with good reason. From the outside, the seven Templetons seem so bohemian, peculiar even. No one is more intrigued by the family than their neighbours, single mother Nina Donovan and her young son Tom. Before long, the two families' lives become entwined in unexpected ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A dreadful mistake
- De Julie en 11-14-10
De: Monica McInerney
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The Jewel in the Crown
- Raj Quartet
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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In the India of 1942, two rapes take place simultaneously - that of an English girl in Mayapore, and that of India by the British. In each, physical violence, racial animosity, the coercion of the weak by the strong all play their part, but playing a part too are love, affection, loyalty, and recognition that the last division of all to be overcome is the colour of the skin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is one to get
- De Jeremy en 10-28-14
De: Paul Scott
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Corduroy Mansions
- A Novel
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 650
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 508
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In London’s Pimlico neighborhood lies a tenement described in architectural guides as “a building of no interest whatsoever.” But the residents of Corduroy Mansions—including a literary agent, a wine merchant, a thoroughly unpleasant member of Parliament, and a vegetarian dog—are a rather fascinating lot.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oedipus Snark, MP
- De connie en 04-25-12
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44 Scotland Street
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,792
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,422
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,418
The brilliant Alexander McCall Smith became an international sensation with his New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels. His award-winning wit, made famous through that series, is fully on display in 44 Scotland Street.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Smith's answer to Maupin
- De Amazon Customer en 10-23-05
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Marina and Lee
- The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- De: Priscilla Johnson McMillan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray, Joseph Finder
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Marina and Lee is one of the best and truest audiobooks about the Kennedy assassination. Priscilla Johnson McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s she knew Kennedy well for a time when he was hospitalized with Addison's disease. She talked to him frequently, brought him books, knew his wife, and formed a strong opinion of the sort of man he was. What is astonishing is that she also knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now I know why he did it
- De Rodd en 06-09-14
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Past Imperfect
- De: Julian Fellowes
- Narrado por: Richard Morant
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,025
Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern--his fortune in excess of 500 million and who should inherit it on his death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Read Snobs instead
- De cristina en 02-14-13
De: Julian Fellowes
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GI Brides
- The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love
- De: Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
The "friendly invasion" of Britain by over a million American G.I.s bewitched a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms, and aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s easily conquered their hearts, leaving British boys fighting abroad green with envy. But for girls like Sylvia, Margaret, Gwendolyn, and even the skeptical Rae, American soldiers offered something even more tantalizing than chocolate, chewing gum, and nylon stockings: An escape route from Blitz-ravaged Britain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful true stories of very brave women
- De Cindy en 05-12-15
De: Duncan Barrett, y otros
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The Postcard
- De: Leah Fleming
- Narrado por: Elaine Claxton
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to 'Desmond' among her recently deceased father's effects, she is determined to discover this person's identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take her across oceans and into the past...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- De Summer Layne en 03-06-15
De: Leah Fleming
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The Other Side of Midnight
- De: Sidney Sheldon
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 529
In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece in a fabulous villa, an innocent American becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Douglas, a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star...and as Constantin Demeris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Forget the movie. Read the book.
- De Reademandweep en 08-29-16
De: Sidney Sheldon
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The Last Goodnight
- A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal
- De: Howard Blum
- Narrado por: Tristan Morris
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
Betty Pack was charming, beautiful, and intelligent - and she knew it. As an agent for Britain's MI6 and then America's OSS during World War II, these qualities proved crucial to her success. This is the remarkable story of this "Mata Hari from Minnesota" ( Time) and the passions that ruled her tempestuous life - a life filled with dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions vital to the Allied victory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Salui en 11-30-16
De: Howard Blum
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 896
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 897
When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells were empty, and there was no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returned with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he'd go back to again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- De Joschka Philipps en 02-22-18
De: Hisham Matar
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World’s End
- The Lanny Budd Novels, Book 1
- De: Upton Sinclair
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 103
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Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first 13 years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious - but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end. When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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didn't finish
- De Bird Miller en 05-08-22
De: Upton Sinclair
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Behind Enemy Lines
- The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
- De: Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 91
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Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe's sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of a fighter and survivor
- De Magalie Busch en 05-06-19
De: Marthe Cohn, y otros
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Destined to Witness
- Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
- De: Hans Massaquoi
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 133
What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi’s life in Hamburg during the height of Hitler’s regime. Hans is the son of a Black Liberian diplomat father and a white German mother. His father returns to Africa at the beginning of the war, leaving them behind in poverty without the means to flee. Within this tense atmosphere, increasingly violent Nazi policies and Allied bombing raids make Hans and his mother’s lives a day-to-day survival struggle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An important story, marred by lackluster writing.
- De Christopher en 03-04-15
De: Hans Massaquoi
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The Best of Our Spies
- Spy Masters, Book 1
- De: Alex Gerlis
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 812
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 729
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 722
France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy, and the liberation of Europe is under way. In the Pas-de-Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband, Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Kind of Spy Story
- De Linda Hanson en 01-11-16
De: Alex Gerlis