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The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.
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Curiously, mundanely real
- De Amber en 01-07-12
De: Jay McInerney
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Charms for the Easy Life
- De: Kaye Gibbons
- Narrado por: Kate Fleming
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts.
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So Lovely!
- De Doodle slave en 01-04-17
De: Kaye Gibbons
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The Night Ocean
- De: Paul La Farge
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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Marina Willett, MD, has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears.
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Frustratingly Uneven Due to Clumsy Plot Structure
- De Adam en 06-15-17
De: Paul La Farge
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The Untelling
- De: Tayari Jones
- Narrado por: Michele Blackmon
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling with their own guilt - real and imagined. At 25, Aria believes she can reinvent herself through her planned marriage with all its promise of a family of her own. Her infertility changes her life as swiftly and irrevocably as the urban landscape around her.
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Don’t waste your time!
- De shasha en 09-18-20
De: Tayari Jones
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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Never Change
- De: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Berg
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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A self-anointed spinster at 51, Myra Lipinski is reasonably content with her quiet life, her dog, Frank, and her career as a visiting nurse. But everything changes when Chip Reardon, the golden boy she adored in high school, is assigned as her new patient. Choosing to forgo treatment for an incurable illness, Chip has returned to his New England hometown to spend what time he has left. Now, Myra and Chip find themselves engaged in a poignant redefinition of roles, and a complicated dance of memory, ambivalence, and longing.
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sweet story and lovely writing
- De LVG en 07-21-22
De: Elizabeth Berg
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She's Come Undone
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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Really disappointing narrator!
- De Jessica Williams en 01-21-12
De: Wally Lamb
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The Pull of the Moon
- De: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Berg
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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In the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness - and the allure - of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters.
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For women over 50
- De Laura en 07-07-15
De: Elizabeth Berg
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The Canterbury Sisters
- De: Kim Wright
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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Che Milan's life is falling apart. Not only has her longtime lover abruptly dumped her, but her eccentric, demanding mother has recently died. When an urn of ashes arrives along with a note reminding Che of a half-forgotten promise to take her mother to Canterbury, Che finds herself reluctantly undertaking a pilgrimage. Within days she joins a group of women who are walking the 60 miles from London to the shrine of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
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The Canterbury Sisters
- De Melissa en 09-22-19
De: Kim Wright
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The Rest of Her Life
- De: Laura Moriarty
- Narrado por: Julia Gibson
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy, the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community.
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Obnoxious musical interludes ruin the story
- De Joan en 12-25-11
De: Laura Moriarty
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For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters - and now it is heading in our direction.It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts - or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore.
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very good. intense
- De Nick Thomson en 11-25-18
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The Snow Hare
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- De: Paula Lichtarowicz
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Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, alongside her husband and child. But as her end approaches, buried memories begin to return. Of her childhood in Poland, and her passion for science. Of the early days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything.
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Devastating, But Well Written
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Notes on a Banana
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- Narrado por: David Leite
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Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life, from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his 23-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David's readers and listeners as "The One", which began with (what else?) food.
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Finished it in a day!
- De Kathryn en 08-23-17
De: David Leite
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Pulp
- De: Robin Talley
- Narrado por: Stephanie Cannon
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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In 1955, 18-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend, Marie, a secret. It's not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself - and Marie - to a danger all too real.
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Wonderful historical fiction!
- De Emily en 02-11-19
De: Robin Talley
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Half Life
- A Novel
- De: Jillian Cantor
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
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The USA Today best-selling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she’d made a different choice.
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Exceptional!
- De Andrea M Schooley en 06-17-21
De: Jillian Cantor
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The Orphan of Cemetery Hill
- De: Hester Fox
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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Tabby has a peculiar gift: She can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby's gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now a young woman and tragically separated from Alice, Tabby works with her adopted father, Eli, the kind caretaker of a large Boston cemetery.
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It was a good story
- De LYSO129 en 12-13-23
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Melmoth
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Perry
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For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters - and now it is heading in our direction.It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts - or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore.
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very good. intense
- De Nick Thomson en 11-25-18
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The Snow Hare
- A Novel
- De: Paula Lichtarowicz
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Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, alongside her husband and child. But as her end approaches, buried memories begin to return. Of her childhood in Poland, and her passion for science. Of the early days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything.
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Devastating, But Well Written
- De Holly_avocado en 04-04-23
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Notes on a Banana
- A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
- De: David Leite
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Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life, from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his 23-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David's readers and listeners as "The One", which began with (what else?) food.
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Finished it in a day!
- De Kathryn en 08-23-17
De: David Leite
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Pulp
- De: Robin Talley
- Narrado por: Stephanie Cannon
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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In 1955, 18-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend, Marie, a secret. It's not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself - and Marie - to a danger all too real.
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Wonderful historical fiction!
- De Emily en 02-11-19
De: Robin Talley
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Half Life
- A Novel
- De: Jillian Cantor
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
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The USA Today best-selling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she’d made a different choice.
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Exceptional!
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The Orphan of Cemetery Hill
- De: Hester Fox
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Tabby has a peculiar gift: She can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby's gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now a young woman and tragically separated from Alice, Tabby works with her adopted father, Eli, the kind caretaker of a large Boston cemetery.
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It was a good story
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Stitches in Time
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When an antique bridal quilt appears under mysterious circumstances at the vintage clothing shop where Rachel Grant works, she is fascinated. She has never been able to resist handmade textiles from the past, for she believes that through the ages women wove protective magic into their fabrics in order to mark the important events of their lives: birth, marriage, and death.
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Stitches in Time
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Beneath the Mountain
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New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a reality show about roadies that skyrocketed them to fame. But now Salinger's left that all behind, to move with his wife, Annelise, and young daughter, Clara, to the remote part of Italy where Annelise grew up - the Alto Adige. Nestled in the Dolomites, this breathtaking, rural region that was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire remains more Austro than Italian.
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Excellet Narration - Unusual Story
- De Katy of Bookopolis en 11-16-19
De: Luca D'Andrea
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Sanctuary
- De: V.V. James
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When young Daniel Whitman is killed at a high-school party, the community is ripped apart. The death of Sanctuary's star quarterback seems to be a tragic accident, but everyone knows his ex-girlfriend Harper Fenn is the daughter of a witch - and she was there when he died. Was Daniel's death an accident, revenge, or something more sinister? As accusations fly, paranoia grips the town, culminating in a witch-hunt...and the town becomes no sanctuary at all.
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97% of this Book is INCREDIBLE
- De Jeffrey veals en 11-21-20
De: V.V. James
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Here Comes Everybody
- The Story of the Pogues
- De: James Fearnley
- Narrado por: James Fearnley
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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October 1982: ABC, Culture Club, Shalamar and Survivor dominate the top twenty when the Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of King's Cross, a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic songwriting of Shane MacGowan.
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Great stories about the Pogues - told boorishly
- De jamesh-lantern-media en 04-07-16
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The Silent Treatment
- A Novel
- De: Abbie Greaves
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By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn’t sure what, exactly, provoked Frank’s silence, though she has a few ideas. Day after day, they have eaten meals together and slept in the same bed in an increasingly uncomfortable silence that has become, for Maggie, deafening.
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A tender page turner
- De M. Diamonti en 04-17-20
De: Abbie Greaves
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Veil of Doubt
- A Novel
- De: Sharon Virts
- Narrado por: Gary Hoffman
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Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is accused of poisoning her three-year-old daughter, Maud. It isn’t the first death in her home—her husband and three other children all died of mysterious illnesses—so when Maud succumbs to an unexplained malady, the town suspects foul play. Soon Mrs. Lloyd is charged not only with poisoning the child but also with murdering her children, her husband, and her aunt.
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I just couldn’t stop listening!
- De KS en 11-15-23
De: Sharon Virts
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The Dutch Wife
- De: Ellen Keith
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Amsterdam, May 1943. As the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or - for a chance at survival - join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS Officer Karl Müller arrives at the camp hoping to meet his father’s expectations of wartime glory. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, their lives change forever.
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Holocaust Porn???
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Night Wherever We Go
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On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself—have decided to turn around the farm’s bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a “stockman” to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves.
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The historical content of how king Black woman have healed themselves in the mist of a world trying to kill them- amazing read!
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A Dangerous Duet
- A Novel
- De: Karen Odden
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- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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Nineteen-year-old Nell Hallam, an exceptionally talented pianist, aspires to attend the Royal Academy; but with tuition beyond her means, Nell sets out to earn the money herself - by playing piano in a popular Soho music hall. She will have to disguise herself as a man and slip out at night to do it. Spending evenings at the Octavian is like entering an alternate world - one of dark secrets. And when Nell stumbles upon the operations of an infamous crime ring working in the shadows of the music hall, she is drawn into a conspiracy that stretches the length of London.
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ENGAGING, WELL-NARRATED MYSTERY
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De: Karen Odden
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Kick
- The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
- De: Paula Byrne
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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Encouraged to be "winners" from a young age, Rose and Joe Kennedy's children were the embodiment of ambitious, wholesome Americanism. Yet even within this ebullient group of overachievers, the fourth Kennedy child, the irrepressible Kathleen, stood out. Lively, charismatic, extremely clever, and blessed with graceful athleticism and a sunny disposition, the alluring socialite fondly known as Kick was a firecracker who effortlessly made friends and stole hearts.
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Very Nicely Done
- De Kaks en 07-21-16
De: Paula Byrne
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Mrs. England
- De: Stacey Halls
- Narrado por: Imogen Wilde
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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West Yorkshire, 1904. When recently graduated Ruby May takes a nanny position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear something is not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs. England.
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Fabulous!!
- De LA en 08-20-22
De: Stacey Halls
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The Great Mrs. Elias
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Chase Riboud
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall.
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The Voices of Proud Majesty
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- 02-15-20
Book took a while
I almost put this book down several times very slow sometimes boring. Eventually I finished and was glad I did. Was endearing.
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- Carolyn E. Jaques
- 02-17-21
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Loved this unique love story. Well crafted, with a great narrator. I highly recommend it!
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- Barbara T.
- 12-19-22
Great writing, weak story line
Talented writing, but the story was difficult to get into, to relate to, to be glad you read it.
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