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Yasmeena's Choice
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- De: Jean Sasson
- Narrado por: Parisa Johnston
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena's shocking journey is a tale of the madness of war, of the sexual brutality unleashed by chaos, and of one woman’s courage to stand in danger’s way to aid her fellow sufferers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected.
- De Kelleefornia en 03-13-15
De: Jean Sasson
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Princess
- A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
- De: Jean Sasson
- Narrado por: Catherine Byers
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 913
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 792
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 796
Princess describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, and her country. Sultana tells of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: 13-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age; young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room". Princess is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and courage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story but...
- De Jay Friedman en 07-25-14
De: Jean Sasson
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Shalimar the Clown
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Aasif Mandvi
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 568
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 235
When Maximilian Ophuls is murdered outside his daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, it appears to be a political killing. Ophuls is the former U.S. ambassador to India and America's leading figure in counter-terrorism. But there is much more to Ophuls and his assassin, a mysterious man calling himself "Shalimar the Clown", than meets the eye. One woman is at the center of their shared history, a history of betrayal and deception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- De Barry en 12-07-05
De: Salman Rushdie
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Death Is Hard Work
- A Novel
- De: Khaled Khalifa, Leri Price - translator
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is - after all - only a two-hour drive from Damascus. There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The bleakness of living in a war-torn country!
- De Susan en 03-20-19
De: Khaled Khalifa, y otros
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Golden Earrings
- De: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 533
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 483
Catalina, grand-daughter of Spanish refugees, is a disciplined student with the School of the Paris Opera Ballet. Little gets inthe way of her career until the visit of an otherworldly being, who leaves her a mysterious pair of golden earrings. Given a quest, Catalina realises she must explore her own Spanish heritage and makes the connection between the visitor and ‘La Rusa’, a young Andalusian flamenco star. La Rusa died in exile in Paris in 1952, her death ruled as suicide. But as Catalina begins to discover, there were those in the community, who had good reason for wanting La Rusa dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous story
- De Paddington en 10-19-12
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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 98
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 88
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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Between Two Worlds
- Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
- De: Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Zainab Salbi was 11-years-old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move. As a palace insider, Zainab offers a singular glimpse of what it is like to come of age under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle". She watched as Saddam pitted friends, spouses, and even children against each other to compete for his approval.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An excellent history lesson
- De Ella en 12-01-09
De: Zainab Salbi, y otros
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Led by Faith
- De: Immaculée Ilibagiza
- Narrado por: Immaculée Ilibagiza
- Duración: 4 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 189
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 164
For three months in the spring of 1994, the African nation of Rwanda descended into one of the most vicious and bloody genocides the world has ever seen. Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young university student, miraculously survived the savage killing spree that left most of her family, friends, and a million of her fellow citizens dead. Immaculée's remarkable story of survival was documented in her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting perspective
- De RayChu en 03-13-13
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The Museum of Innocence
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (translator)
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 321
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 241
Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie - a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the very best I've ever heard
- De Rebecca Lindroos en 03-06-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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The Daughter of Auschwitz
- My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
- De: Tova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 350
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 317
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and well told
- De Tracy F. en 03-31-23
De: Tova Friedman, y otros
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Aleph
- De: Paulo Coelho
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 575
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 491
Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him. Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian Railway, he initiates a journey to revitalize his energy and passion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strangely compelling read
- De Kathy in CA en 11-22-11
De: Paulo Coelho
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A Time to Betray
- The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
- De: Reza Kahlili
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 468
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 374
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 374
A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, Farsi speakers will hate narrator
- De Johnny en 10-27-13
De: Reza Kahlili
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The Scent of Water
- Discovering What Remains
- De: Naomi Zacharias
- Narrado por: Naomi Zacharias
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 39
Follow Naomi as she talks to women working in brothels in Mumbai; survivors of an Indonesian tsunami in which more than 160,000 lives were lost; a young girl waiting on an operation to save her life; and victims of domestic violence horrifically burned by fire. Be still with her when she realizes the pain she feels in the face of these extreme injustices reveals a common struggle that exists within all of humanity. And rise with her as she wrestles with confusion over her identity, comes face to face with redemption, and then begins to understand her own story.
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3 out of 5 stars
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- De Justicepirate en 05-21-18
De: Naomi Zacharias
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The Pendulum
- A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
- De: Julie Lindahl
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 225
This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' role in the Third Reich, as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story - the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations - emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 01-14-19
De: Julie Lindahl
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After the Roundup
- Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
- De: Joseph Weismann
- Narrado por: J. Clark Allison
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp and brutally separated. A thousand children were left behind to wait for a later train. The French guards told the children that they would soon be reunited with their parents, but Joseph and his new friend, Joe Kogan, chose to risk everything in a daring escape attempt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A “must-listen” book
- De Jonathan R Scupin en 09-25-18
De: Joseph Weismann
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Push Not the River
- De: James Conroyd Martin
- Narrado por: Dawn Harvey
- Duración: 19 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 174
Push Not the River is the rich story of Poland in the late 1700's - a time of heartache and turmoil as the country's once peaceful people are torn apart by neighboring countries and divided loyalties. It is then, at the young and vulnerable age of seventeen, that Lady Anna Maria Berezowska loses both of her parents and must leave the only home she has ever known.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Save your time; buy something else.
- De AMS en 10-22-15
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Shadow of a Century
- De: Jean Grainger
- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 226
Mary Doyle arrives in Dublin in 1913, doomed, she fears, to a life of domestic service. Instead, however, she finds herself deeply affected by the social and political turmoil of a fledgling nation struggling for independence. Suddenly, all that was once inevitable is no longer a certainty as she is embroiled in the very heart of the Easter Rising.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book!
- De Amazon Customer en 11-14-20
De: Jean Grainger
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The Island
- De: Victoria Hislop
- Narrado por: Emma Powell
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding plans a trip to her mother's childhood home in Plaka, Greece hoping to unravel Sofia's hidden past. Given a letter to take to Sofia's old friend, Fotini, Alexis is promised that through Fotini, she will learn more. Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the deserted island of Spinalonga—Greece's former leper colony. Fotini reveals the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters, and a family rent by tragedy, war, and passion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will listen to it again someday
- De RN en 01-07-23
De: Victoria Hislop