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- De: Meryl Gordon
- Narrado por: Vanessa Cortland
- Duración: 17 h y 31 m
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A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art, and fashion.
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Well written bio.
- De Minda Leah Kahn en 09-01-18
De: Meryl Gordon
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American Ghost
- A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
- De: Hannah Nordhaus
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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The dark-eyed woman in the long, black gown was first seen in the 1970s, standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas fireplaces turned off and on without anyone touching a switch. Glasses flew off shelves. And in one second-floor suite with a canopy bed and arched windows looking out to the mountains, guests reported alarming events.
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A true American tale
- De Cleo Colorado en 05-29-15
De: Hannah Nordhaus
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
- The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
- De: The Countess of Carnarvon
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS series, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war.
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the lowdown on Downton times
- De connie en 03-17-12
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Jefferson's Daughters
- Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
- De: Catherine Kerrison
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery — apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself.
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- De Amazon Customer en 02-17-18
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Daughters of the Samurai
- A Journey from East to West and Back
- De: Janice P. Nimura
- Narrado por: Emily Zeller
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities.
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- De Shazz en 10-23-16
De: Janice P. Nimura
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The Husband Hunters
- American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
- De: Anne de Courcy
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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Towards the end of the 19th century and for the first few years of the 20th, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege, and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, 50 years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known "Dollar Princess", married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage....
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Bondfide Valuable History Lesson
- De A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. en 09-21-18
De: Anne de Courcy
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George and Marina
- Duke and Duchess of Kent
- De: Christopher Warwick
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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For eight brief years, before he was tragically killed in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War, Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V and Queen Mary, and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, were the British monarchy's - indeed, high society's - most glamorous royal couple; and as golden royal icons, they are still remembered.
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-02-17
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The Sugar King of Havana
- The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
- De: John Paul Rathbone
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the world sugar market, controlling vast swaths of the island's sugar interests.
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VERY INFORMATIVE
- De Terry en 03-26-12
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Those Wild Wyndhams
- Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
- De: Claudia Renton
- Narrado por: Claudia Renton
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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They were confidantes to British prime ministers, poets, writers, and artists, their lives entwined with the most celebrated and scandalous figures of the day, from Oscar Wilde to Henry James. They were the lovers of great men - or men of great prominence... They lived in a world of luxurious excess, a world of splendor at 44 Belgrave Square and later at the even more vast Clouds, the exquisite Wiltshire house on 4,000 acres, the "house of the age", designed in 1876 by the visionary architect Philip Webb - the model for Henry James' The Spoils of Poynton.
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SLOW START BUT STICK WITH THIS ONE
- De The Louligan en 01-22-19
De: Claudia Renton
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Black Diamonds
- The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England
- De: Catherine Bailey
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
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When the sixth Earl Fitzwilliam died in 1902, he left behind the second largest estate in 20th-century England, valued at more than three billion dollars in today's money - a lifeline to the tens of thousands of people who worked either in the family's coal mines or on their expansive estate. The earl also left behind four sons, and the family line seemed assured. But was it?
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Could use a good editor...
- De Phyllis en 04-30-18
De: Catherine Bailey
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Emily Post
- Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
- De: Laura Claridge
- Narrado por: Christine Williams
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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From the excesses of the late 19th-century Gilded Age, through the horrors of World War I, to the transformations of the Roaring 20s that gave birth to her magisterial Etiquette, Emily Post unfailingly took the measure of her era. A Baltimore blue blood with a populist heart, she helped the masses live the American dream with her hugely popular book, which has been continuously in print for over 85 years.
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Typical for Emily Post
- De Stephanie en 01-07-19
De: Laura Claridge
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The Riviera Set
- Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
- De: Mary S. Lovell
- Narrado por: Jill Rolls
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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The Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped, and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of 40 years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960. At the heart of dynamic group was the amazing Maxine Elliott, the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut, who built the beautiful art deco Château.
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Riviera Set
- De Lois Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Mary S. Lovell
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Ladies of the Canyons
- A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
- De: Lesley Poling-Kempes
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....
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Stunning Tale of Surprising Women
- De L. Nicholson en 03-30-18
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Eiffel's Tower
- And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris
- De: Dr. Jill Jonnes
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Reminiscent of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, this fascinating account from acclaimed author Jill Jonnes recaptures the 1889 Paris World's Fair. Casting vehement criticism aside, Gustave Eiffel built his tower to be the fair's centerpiece. Perched at the top all summer, he hosted a string of dignitaries.
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Just read the first half
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-08-09
De: Dr. Jill Jonnes
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To Marry an English Lord
- De: Gail MacColl, Carol McD. Wallace
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details-plus quotes and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette - To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.
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Not Great on Audio
- De Lynne en 03-10-16
De: Gail MacColl, y otros
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Florence Grace
- De: Tracy Rees
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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Florrie Buckley is an orphan living on the wind-blasted moors of Cornwall. It's a hard existence, but Florrie is content; she runs wild in the mysterious landscape. She thinks her destiny is set in stone. But when Florrie is 14, she inherits a never-imagined secret. She is related to a wealthy and notorious London family: the Graces.
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Utterly brilliant!!!
- De Maria en 07-04-16
De: Tracy Rees
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The Social Graces
- De: Renée Rosen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 12 h
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1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, women are valued by their pedigree, dowry, and, most importantly, connections. They have few rights and even less independence - what they do have is society. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor - the Mrs. Astor.
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Disappointing Effort
- De HistoryNerd en 05-11-21
De: Renée Rosen
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Call Me God
- The Untold Story of the DC Sniper Investigation
- De: Jim Clemente, Tim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
- Narrado por: Maureen O'Connell
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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Inside Michael’s craft supply store, cashier Ann Chapman rings up another customer. Then it happens. A loud crack; a gust of wind; the light in register five goes dark. Over the next 23 days, the entire DC area will be thrust into a reign of terror unprecedented in American history. Sniper attacks targeting and murdering everyday citizens will bring the entire region to its knees as a nation still reeling from the recent attacks of 9/11 and the anthrax scare is forced to confront a new type of brutal assault - this time in their own backyard.
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much like the GSK Audio book
- De Moranda Haines en 10-30-19
De: Jim Clemente, y otros
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Those Girls
- De: Chevy Stevens
- Narrado por: Jorjeana Marie, Emily Woo Zeller, Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father's fists. One night a fight gets out of hand, and the sisters are forced to go on the run, only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a small town. Events spiral out of control, and a chance encounter with the wrong people leaves them in a horrific and desperate situation.
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Not good, not good at all
- De Najima Rainey en 07-15-15
De: Chevy Stevens
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The Curse of Oak Island
- The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
- De: Randall Sullivan
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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The Curse of Oak Island is a fascinating account of the strange, rich history of the island and the intrepid treasure hunters who have driven themselves to financial ruin, psychotic breakdowns, and even death in pursuit of answers. And as Michigan brothers Marty and Rick Lagina become the latest to attempt to solve the mystery, as documented on the History Channel’s television show The Curse of Oak Island, Sullivan takes listeners along to follow their quest firsthand.
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The ultimate Osk Island show add on
- De Amazon Customer en 03-27-19
De: Randall Sullivan
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Ripper
- The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.
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I thought this was a new book.
- De Stephanie en 03-01-17
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Florence Grace
- De: Tracy Rees
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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Florrie Buckley is an orphan living on the wind-blasted moors of Cornwall. It's a hard existence, but Florrie is content; she runs wild in the mysterious landscape. She thinks her destiny is set in stone. But when Florrie is 14, she inherits a never-imagined secret. She is related to a wealthy and notorious London family: the Graces.
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Utterly brilliant!!!
- De Maria en 07-04-16
De: Tracy Rees
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The Social Graces
- De: Renée Rosen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 12 h
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1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, women are valued by their pedigree, dowry, and, most importantly, connections. They have few rights and even less independence - what they do have is society. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor - the Mrs. Astor.
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Disappointing Effort
- De HistoryNerd en 05-11-21
De: Renée Rosen
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Call Me God
- The Untold Story of the DC Sniper Investigation
- De: Jim Clemente, Tim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
- Narrado por: Maureen O'Connell
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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Inside Michael’s craft supply store, cashier Ann Chapman rings up another customer. Then it happens. A loud crack; a gust of wind; the light in register five goes dark. Over the next 23 days, the entire DC area will be thrust into a reign of terror unprecedented in American history. Sniper attacks targeting and murdering everyday citizens will bring the entire region to its knees as a nation still reeling from the recent attacks of 9/11 and the anthrax scare is forced to confront a new type of brutal assault - this time in their own backyard.
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much like the GSK Audio book
- De Moranda Haines en 10-30-19
De: Jim Clemente, y otros
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Those Girls
- De: Chevy Stevens
- Narrado por: Jorjeana Marie, Emily Woo Zeller, Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father's fists. One night a fight gets out of hand, and the sisters are forced to go on the run, only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a small town. Events spiral out of control, and a chance encounter with the wrong people leaves them in a horrific and desperate situation.
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Not good, not good at all
- De Najima Rainey en 07-15-15
De: Chevy Stevens
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The Curse of Oak Island
- The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
- De: Randall Sullivan
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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The Curse of Oak Island is a fascinating account of the strange, rich history of the island and the intrepid treasure hunters who have driven themselves to financial ruin, psychotic breakdowns, and even death in pursuit of answers. And as Michigan brothers Marty and Rick Lagina become the latest to attempt to solve the mystery, as documented on the History Channel’s television show The Curse of Oak Island, Sullivan takes listeners along to follow their quest firsthand.
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The ultimate Osk Island show add on
- De Amazon Customer en 03-27-19
De: Randall Sullivan
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Ripper
- The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.
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I thought this was a new book.
- De Stephanie en 03-01-17
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Heiresses
- The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
- De: Laura Thompson
- Narrado por: Laura Thompson
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Heiresses: Surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife’s inheritance was the property of her husband, making her vulnerable to kidnap, forced marriages, even confinement in an asylum. And in modern times, heiresses fell victim to fortune-hunters who squandered their millions.
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tough listen and tough to keep track
- De Amazon Customer en 03-29-23
De: Laura Thompson
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Lady on the Hill
- How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon
- De: Howard E. Covington
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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Lady on the Hill tells the inspiring story of the 35-year effort to restore a fading beauty, the Biltmore Estate, to her former glory - all without a penny of government funding or outside foundation grants. Central to this true-life tale of rebirth against the odds is George Vanderbilt's grandson William A. V. Cecil, a well-mannered, highly educated man who, when caught up in an idea, becomes a whirling dervish, generating enough energy and enthusiasm to motivate everyone around him.
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The fact that it has remained as a privately owned enterprise.
- De Mary Kovacs en 07-04-24
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The Loch
- The Loch Series, Book 1
- De: Steve Alten
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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Loch Ness holds secrets, ancient and deadly. Does a monster inhabit its depths, or is it just myth? Why, after thousands of reported sightings and dozens of expeditions, is there still no hard evidence? Marine biologist Zachary Wallace knows, but the shock of his near-drowning as a child on Loch Ness have buried all memories of the incident. Now, a near-death experience suffered while on expedition in the Sargasso Sea has caused these long-forgotten memories to resurface.
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FRINGE SCIENCE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-26-17
De: Steve Alten
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The Wild Girl
- De: Kate Forsyth
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
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One of six sisters, Dortchen Wild lives in the small German kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early 19th century. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the handsome but very poor fairy-tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm.
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Painful
- De kem en 01-12-18
De: Kate Forsyth
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The Taster
- De: V.S. Alexander
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty - working for the Reich or marrying to produce strong, healthy children. After an interview with the civil service, Magda is assigned to the Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat. Only after weeks of training does she learn her assignment: she will be one of several young women tasting the Führer's food, offering herself in sacrifice to keep him from being poisoned.
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A MUST READ!!!!!
- De Sara en 02-10-18
De: V.S. Alexander
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Opium and Absinthe
- A Novel
- De: Lydia Kang
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be - can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death.
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2nd Book — High Society in New York in 1800’s
- De Linda en 07-24-20
De: Lydia Kang
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The Castle of Kings
- A Novel
- De: Oliver Pötzsch
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 25 h y 18 m
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In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolt against the harsh treatment by their aristocratic overlords. Agnes, the daughter of one of these overlords, is not a typical 16th-century girl. She refuses to wear dresses and spends more time with her pet falcon than she does trying to attract potential suitors. In fact there is only one man who interests her: Mathis, a childhood friend whom she can never marry because of his lowly birth.
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Very well done Hitorical Novel.
- De John en 08-02-16
De: Oliver Pötzsch
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Chicago's Great Fire
- The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
- De: Carl Smith
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it. Carl Smith’s compelling narrative at last gives this epic event its full and proper place in our national chronicle.
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Fairly good
- De Jennett M. Harrell en 07-24-24
De: Carl Smith
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The Awakening
- De: Kate Chopin
- Narrado por: Susie Berneis
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renowned musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention.
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Good story, great reading.
- De Donald en 03-14-17
De: Kate Chopin
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Empire
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 13 m
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The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government - all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the 17th century until the mid-20th. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.
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Not Balanced till Conclusion
- De Hectoris en 08-13-20
De: Niall Ferguson
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When Nietzsche Wept
- De: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental "talking cure", Breuer never expects that he, too, will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient.
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Become who you are!
- De Philip en 09-14-16
De: Irvin D. Yalom
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The Hourglass
- De: Tracy Rees
- Narrado por: Charlotte Strevens, Imogen Church
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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It's 2014. Sensible Nora has always taken success for granted until suddenly her life begins to fall apart. Troubled by anxiety and nightmares, she finds herself drawn to the sweeping beaches of Tenby, a place she's been only once before. Together with a local girl, she rents a beautiful townhouse and slowly begins to settle in to her new life. But Tenby hides a secret, and Nora will soon discover that this little town by the sea has the power to heal even the most painful memories.
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- De LoveAmazon en 11-12-17
De: Tracy Rees
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- Kathy Walunas
- 06-24-18
Like listening to someone describing paint drying
Having just visited the Biltmore Estate, I was excited to get this book, knowing I’d be able to better picture the setting, people and events, but this has ended up being a book I could barely crawl through. The reader is so flat and monotonous that I found myself turning it off after about half a chapter and go to reading mode, but even that didn’t help. This book may be well researched, but it portrays none of the excitement and glamour of the age. Basically it’s boy inherits money, never works; builds a huge house, never finishes it; marries a nice girl, has a child, travels a lot, spends more money, fortune depleted, sells off some land, dies. There is no real sense of what the people were like.
Very disappointed.
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- RBenz212
- 12-22-23
Tough to get through.
The information is interesting but it’s hard to listen to. There is no character development. Would have been better as historical fiction with some excitement. Had to return it,
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- Teri McMahon
- 12-27-18
Fabulous book
An inspiring story of the Vanderbilt family and Biltmore Home. This ties in beautifully with a visit to Asheville NC.
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- Mb Shapiro
- 02-12-18
So much more
I normally don’t listen to nonfiction however I thoroughly enjoyed The Last Castle. It is so much more than the story of the Biltmore Estate. Although the estate is a fascinating tale, it was a bonus to get to know so many other characters of the time period.
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- Beth M. Honeycutt
- 04-06-24
Fascinating
This was a completely riveting read about a home I've always been fascinated with. I loved the background, the description, and all the details. The last section, after George died, lagged a bit and wasn't nearly as interesting. It felt like a rush to wrap everything up after that and I didn't feel we got a full picture of what life was like for the women after his death. It felt like a sad dismantling of all he'd worked to build, although thankfully done in such a way that his biggest legacy remained intact. I also found Cornelia extremely hard to relate to and unlikeable. I had a lot of questions about her actions and motivations that were left unanswered. I also couldn't get a feel for how her and Edith's relationship weathered all the changes. I loved that the author gave us a glimpse of what the future held for all the major characters. A really well-researched and written book.
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- margie e herman
- 07-17-23
Interesting history!
Really great insight into the financial decisions needed to keep this beautiful property going. I’ve got the itch to see it again, now that I have more knowledge. Biltmore is still breathtaking!
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- Catherine Claussen
- 12-08-23
Great story, mediocre narration.
The information was very interesting however the narrator’s voice didn’t seem like a good fit.
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- SueAnn M.
- 05-20-24
Biltmore delight
A fascinating story of the creation and upkeep of the largest private residence in the United States.
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- Lisa K.
- 03-17-22
Well worth the read!!
An interesting story and informative, told by an author that writes and narrates well! I appreciated that the author wove in other personalities and contemporary events so that the story was anchored in perspective. This book is well worth the read! Highly recommend!
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- TSO
- 04-26-22
Not typical historic fiction book---book of facts
I was looking forward to this story and wanted to love it. The narration was simply an out loud reading and often too fast. Tons of facts in the book, but lacking a solid story arc linking them together. I did push through and the pacing of the narration did get better. My internet in the details kept me listening.
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