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Fifty Words for Rain
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- Narrado por: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwan, Jeena Yi, Sarah Skaer, Louis Ozawa
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Best Seller!
From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” (Kristin Hannah, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Nightingale)
Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist."
Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin.
The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond - a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it - a battle that just might cost her everything.
Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"This virtuosic debut enthralled me from the very first page. Lemmie's compelling and compassionate portrait of a young girl in post-WWII Japan is meticulously researched and beautifully crafted. What a heartbreaking, exceptional story by a sublime talent - I can't wait to see what she does next!" (Fiona Davis, nationally best-selling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue)
"Fifty Words for Rain is an impressive debut novel about a mixed-race girl growing up in post WWII Japan. Sensitive and bristling with closely-observed humanity, Asha Lemmie tells a story that we have not heard before with an ending that is as surprising as it is brutally honest." (Mark Sullivan, best-selling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky)
"Asha Lemmie's debut novel Fifty Words for Rain follows eight-year-old Nori after she is abandoned by her mother and left to fend for herself in the unkind graces of a family built on tradition and power. Lemmie has penned an impassioned story that confronts the uncomfortable truths behind institutionalized prejudice and the history of violence and subjugation of the powerless by those on the highest rungs of society. It’s an emotional journey with an unexpected ending." (Mary Lynn Bracht, author of White Chrysanthemum)
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Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara's life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein, a young Chinese girl mysteriously driven from her home a century before. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core - and force her to make an impossible choice.
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1880s Washington Territory and Chinese Exclusion
- De Debbie en 12-11-15
De: Kelli Estes
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The Yellow Bird Sings
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Rosner
- Narrado por: Anna Koval, Jennifer Rosner
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside beckons. In this make-believe world, Róza can shield Shira from the horrors that surround them. But the day comes when their haven is no longer safe, and Róza must make an impossible choice: whether to keep Shira by her side or give her the chance to survive apart.
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Bravo!
- De Mary Ann Bennett en 07-31-20
De: Jennifer Rosner
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- De: John Boyne
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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The story of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some information about the audiobook, but in this case we think that would spoil the listening. We think it's important that you start to listen without knowing what it is about.
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Absolutely Phenomenal!!!
- De Jensophie en 05-04-09
De: John Boyne
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrado por: Blair Brown
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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A strong story
- De Anita Kristensen en 06-08-19
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The Secrets We Kept
- A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
- De: Lara Prescott
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan, Cynthia Farrell, Mozhan Marnò, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world - using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and is under Sally's tutelage....
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Eh...it was ok.
- De Nunya en 09-06-19
De: Lara Prescott
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A Burning
- A Read with Jenna Pick
- De: Megha Majumdar
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam, Priya Ayyar, Deepti Gupta, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely—an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor—has the alibi that can set Jivan free, but it will cost her everything she holds dear.
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Heartbreaking and Brilliantly Performed
- De David P en 07-28-20
De: Megha Majumdar
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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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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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The story has too much child abuse discription
- De DTurek en 07-14-21
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Apeirogon
- A Novel
- De: Colum McCann
- Narrado por: Colum McCann
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate. Their worlds shift irreparably after 10-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and 13-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them.
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Too many chapters & interruptions
- De sara robbins en 03-02-20
De: Colum McCann
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The Music of Bees
- A Novel
- De: Eileen Garvin
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned out the way she dreamed. Even the beloved honeybees she raises in her spare time aren't helping her feel better these days.
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A little too many political agendas
- De Mike Thompson en 05-26-21
De: Eileen Garvin
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The Love of My Life
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- De: Rosie Walsh
- Narrado por: Imogen Church, Theo Solomon
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – researching and writing about his wife’s life. But as he starts to unravel the truth, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name isn’t real.
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My preference
- De Avid series reader en 03-03-22
De: Rosie Walsh
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The Atomic Weight of Love
- De: Elizabeth J. Church
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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For Meridian Wallace - and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s - being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother's sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn't expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he's recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.
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Unbearable weight of self-pity
- De Lori K. en 04-08-17
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When the Jessamine Grows
- De: Donna Everhart
- Narrado por: Tiffany Morgan
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion is not favored by many in their community, including Joetta's own father-in-law, Rudean.
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Fabulous Civil War era story
- De George P. en 01-28-24
De: Donna Everhart
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Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
- A Novel
- De: Julie Kibler
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth’s red-light districts, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation to prostitutes, addicts, unwed mothers, and “ruined” girls without forcibly separating mothers from children.
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Lots of adjectives
- De JeanneGB en 09-05-19
De: Julie Kibler
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In Five Years
- A Novel
- De: Rebecca Serle
- Narrado por: Megan Hilty
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend - the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content. But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man.
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If you want a happy story, try another book
- De Mel en 03-23-20
De: Rebecca Serle
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Violeta
- A Novel
- De: Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle
- Narrado por: Yareli Arizmendi
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.
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Not my favorite....
- De Pat Brett en 02-14-22
De: Isabel Allende, y otros
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Hester
- A Novel
- De: Laurie Lico Albanese
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic—leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other.
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Exquisite
- De Bird Miller en 10-08-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Fifty Words for Rain
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- L. McGinty
- 07-21-24
Unusual ending
I loved the story but was unpleasantly surprised by the ending. The ending was not congruent with the story.
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- Anne Marie Feerick
- 09-30-20
The story went nowhere in the end.
It had a strong beginning, pointless middle and didn’t really have an ending. It just fizzled out. Such a disappointment.
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- Donna Testa
- 03-18-22
a great listen
I loved the story and the narators. I listened in Audible. I was sad for the main character Nordy and loved to hate many of the others.
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- Donna
- 07-25-22
Must Read
Excellent book with many twist and turns. I had a difficult time setting it aside to perform my routine daily tasks . Enjoy
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- 05-19-23
Beautifully written and elegantly told
Such powerful writing that I felt like I was growing with the main character, experiencing her pain, sorrow, hope, and joy. A story that I didn’t want to end.
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- donna
- 06-12-23
Really depressing book
The story was good and well told. I am not familiar with Japanese culture. If this is an accurate picture, all I can say is thank God I’m not!
I now need a funny rom-com desperately
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- Stephanie
- 08-14-23
Sins of the father…
I appreciated the history lesson on post-war Japan. I liked some of the characters who were trying to do the right thing. I disliked the victim mentality, petulance, and 9 lives along the way. Overly long with unusual twists.
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- charles
- 12-06-20
Surprise!
Wonderful story weaving the tale of a young fragile Japanese girl born into a family of power and standing. The characters are well developed with rich scenery and movement all the way to the end. Wonderful first book by Asha Lemmie. I look forward to more coming by this young novelist!
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- Maxeywest
- 11-15-20
Great Read by the talented Asha Lemmie
Great book debut by a talented author. It was hard to put the book down, I was invested in the characters. I like the story development, the descriptions and the character evolution. I did Whispersync so I enjoyed both listening and reading the book. The bonus today was having Asha Lemmie at our Literary Circle Meeting. She is gracious and wise beyond her years. I highly recommend reading Fifty Words for Rain.
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- H.A.N.
- 04-12-22
Compelling but…
The performers were generally fine but the British accents were laughably poor. I wasn’t even sure if those characters were supposed to be British at all. The story itself is very compelling, however the ending is a head-scratcher.
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