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To Touch the Clouds is a powerful continuation of Peter Watt's much-loved saga of the Duffy and Macintosh clan, which all began in The Cry of the Curlew.
'They had all forgotten the curse...except one...until it touched them. I will tell you of those times when the whitefella touched the clouds and lightning came down on the earth for many years.'
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But someone close to them has an agenda of his own—someone who would betray not only his family but his country to satisfy his greed and lust for power. As the world teeters on the brink of conflict, one family is plunged into a nightmare of murder, drugs, treachery and treason.
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Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. He is immediately overwhelmed by the heady vibrancy of the tropical city, but with barely a moment to acclimatize or to deal with the ghosts that still haunt him, Wyndham is caught up in a murder investigation that threatens to destabilize a city already teetering on the brink of political insurgency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Warning - Same book was issued May 5, 2016
- De Katharine en 07-04-17
De: Abir Mukherjee
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The Jewel in the Crown
- Raj Quartet
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 239
In the India of 1942, two rapes take place simultaneously - that of an English girl in Mayapore, and that of India by the British. In each, physical violence, racial animosity, the coercion of the weak by the strong all play their part, but playing a part too are love, affection, loyalty, and recognition that the last division of all to be overcome is the colour of the skin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is one to get
- De Jeremy en 10-28-14
De: Paul Scott
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Troubles
- De: J. G. Farrell
- Narrado por: Kevin Hely
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely delightful read
- De E. Kim en 02-25-20
De: J. G. Farrell
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The Centurions
- De: Jean Larteguy, Robert D. Kaplan - foreward
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the "age of heroics is over". As relevant today as it was half a century ago, The Centurions is a gripping military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superbly read. Unbelievably timely
- De Benjamin en 05-05-21
De: Jean Larteguy, y otros
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The Daughters of Mars
- De: Tom Keneally
- Narrado por: Jane Nolan
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 117
Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour, and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Here, new outrages - gas, shell-shock - present themselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting WWI novel with an Australian bent
- De Sarah Gamp en 03-09-13
De: Tom Keneally
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A Beautiful Blue Death
- Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1
- De: Charles Finch
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,118
Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like cozy
- De Sheryl en 05-21-12
De: Charles Finch
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Story of a Secret State
- Penguin Modern Classics
- De: Jan Karski
- Narrado por: Janusz Guttner
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 81
I do not pretend to have given an exhaustive picture of the Polish Underground, its organisation and its activities. Because of our methods, I believe that there is no one today who could give an all-embracing recital...This book is a purely personal story, my story. Jan Karski's Second World War memoir is a heroic act of witness: the courageous testimony of a man who risked everything for his country. First published in 1944, the book became an instant bestseller in the US while the war still raged in Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De David en 10-20-11
De: Jan Karski
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Code Name: Lise
- The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
- De: Larry Loftis
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,494
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,338
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,334
1942: World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and a plane crash later, she finally lands in occupied France to begin her mission. It is here that she meets her commanding officer, Captain Peter Churchill. As they successfully complete mission after mission, Peter and Odette fall in love. All the while, they are being hunted by the cunning German secret police sergeant, Hugo Bleicher, who finally succeeds in capturing them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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SKIP THE PROLOGUE!
- De Erica J. Conway en 09-17-19
De: Larry Loftis
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Event
- De: David L. Golemon
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,059
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 949
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 943
In the summer of 1947, an unidentified object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. There were no survivors. Now it's happened again. But this time, two creatures have emerged from the wreckage alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Series.
- De Frank en 07-29-13
De: David L. Golemon
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Shaman's Crossing, Book One of the Soldier Son Trilogy
- De: Robin Hobb
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 24 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 934
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 937
Hugo and Nebula Award finalist Robin Hobb crafts intricate fantasy tales featuring larger-than-life characters and exotic landscapes. Nevare Burvelle survives the King’s Cavalla Academy—where nepotism and corruption reign—to become a soldier in the Gernian king’s army. As he and his fellow soldiers are thrust onto the front lines of the king’s brutal territorial expansion campaign, they struggle against the Plainspeople—forest-dwellers who possess a powerful magic long dismissed by the Gernians.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes Magic Isn't A Good Thing
- De Therese M. Woolley en 10-18-13
De: Robin Hobb
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Sword of Honor
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 195
This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At least one chapter missing
- De Sviatoslav en 08-17-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Once a Soldier
- De: Mary Jo Putney
- Narrado por: Beverley A. Crick
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 247
As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her. Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried in her independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mediocre book made worse by narrator
- De Anne en 10-29-19
De: Mary Jo Putney
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Hornet Flight
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,060
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,109
It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Outstanding Spy Novel
- De C. McCoy en 03-13-05
De: Ken Follett
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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
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 89
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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A Duty to the Dead
- A Bess Crawford Mystery
- De: Charles Todd
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,878
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,611
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,607
The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his patriotic footsteps, volunteering to serve her country as a nurse during the Great War. In 1916 she promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to a brother. When Bess arrives at the Graham house in Kent, Jonathan Graham listens to his brother's last wishes with surprising indifference.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrific period mystery
- De Anne en 12-04-10
De: Charles Todd
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Topaz
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba - and himself. A thrilling and well-paced novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A spy thriller in disguise
- De Shmuel M en 04-14-19
De: Leon Uris