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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 127
Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There’s Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband, and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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remarkable
- De lisa en 01-10-20
De: Jane Shemilt
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Foster
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 506
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 503
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- De CTKG en 11-01-22
De: Claire Keegan
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 701
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 618
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 612
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Stick with it!
- De Colleen en 07-17-19
De: Beatriz Williams
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The Dream House
- De: Craig Higginson
- Narrado por: Terry Lloyd-Roberts
- Duración: 7 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A farmhouse is being reproduced a dozen times, with slight variations, throughout a valley. Three small graves have been dug in the front garden, the middle one lying empty. A woman in a wheelchair sorts through boxes while her husband clambers around the old demolished buildings, wondering where the animals have gone. A young woman – called ‘the barren one’ behind her back – dreams of love, while an ageing headmaster contemplates the end of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant Dream House Narration
- De Simon Griffiths en 05-05-21
De: Craig Higginson
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The Waves
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Frances Jeater
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental powers, and she allows each character to tell their own story, through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives, we are drawn into a literary journey that stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing and contradictory nature of human experience. It is read with affection and skill by Frances Jeater.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not an easy read but worth it
- De Lena en 03-26-16
De: Virginia Woolf
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 139
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- De Placeholder en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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The Fortnight in September
- De: R.C. Sherriff
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 282
Meet the Stevens family as they prepare to embark on their yearly holiday to the coast of England. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens first made the trip to Bognor Regis on their honeymoon, and the tradition has continued ever since. They stay in the same guesthouse and follow the same carefully honed schedule - now accompanied by their three children, 20-year-old Mary, 17-year-old Dick, and little brother Ernie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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life-affirming and magical
- De Victoria en 11-23-21
De: R.C. Sherriff
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Old Filth
- De: Jane Gardam
- Narrado por: Bill Wallace
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an 80-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literature at its finest!
- De M. Dyson en 07-29-23
De: Jane Gardam
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The Paper Palace
- A Novel
- De: Miranda Cowley Heller
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 7,933
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,914
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6,903
It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a 50-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace” - the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: Last night, Elle and her oldest friend, Jonas, crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The story has too much child abuse discription
- De DTurek en 07-14-21