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Eva Ibbotson
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Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiance have begun to track her down. . .
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- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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Vivacious, young Hester Christie tries to run her home like clockwork, as would befit the wife of British Army officer, Tim Christie. However hard Mrs Tim strives for seamless living amidst the other army wives, she is always moving flat-out to remember groceries, rule lively children, side-step village gossip and placate her husband with bacon, eggs, toast and marmalade. Left alone for months at a time whilst her husband is with his regiment, Mrs Tim resolves to keep a diary of events large and small in her family life.
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Life as a military wife
- De Jerri C en 03-09-13
De: D. E. Stevenson
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Gone with the Wind
- De: Margaret Mitchell
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 49 h y 2 m
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire....
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Got the Accents Right
- De Noel en 04-27-10
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Buddenbrooks
- The Decline of a Family
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 26 h y 57 m
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First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lübeck.
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Where Have You Been All My Life, Thomas Mann?
- De Virginia Waldron en 03-30-17
De: Thomas Mann
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Understood Betsy
- De: Dorothy Canfield
- Narrado por: Bobbie Frohman
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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Elizabeth Ann was orphaned at an early age and raised by her maiden aunts in the busy city. But suddenly illness forces the aunts to send her to other relatives: the Putnams, who live in the country on a farm. Elizabeth Ann learns all about the farm and making butter and applesauce and dearly loves the the life there. Then, one of the aunts comes back and wants to take her back to the city. Such a dilemma!
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Loved by kids, mom, and dad!
- De Customer Review en 03-11-17
De: Dorothy Canfield
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To Taste the Wine
- De: Fern Michaels
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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Chelsea Myles earns her living as an actress with her uncle's theater troupe, performing cheap plays on the streets of London and picking the customers' pockets. Until one night, a robbery goes awry and Chelsea is left holding a purse with enough gold to buy her passage to Australia, and the chance of a fresh start. Once on board the vessel, Chelsea is intrigued by a fellow passenger, Quaid Tanner, who is returning to his vineyard in Australia. As much as Quaid admires the feisty, courageous Chelsea, circumstances seem destined to keep them apart.
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Great story but too detailed in sex scenes for me
- De Private en 09-23-15
De: Fern Michaels
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Rebecca
- De: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrado por: Anna Massey
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.... The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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Easily the best audiobook I have ever heard!
- De Kid at Heart en 11-10-18
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Three Souls
- A Novel
- De: Janie Chang
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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We have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this.... So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her own funeral from above and wonders why she is being denied entry to the afterlife. Beside her are three souls - stern and scholarly yang; impulsive, romantic yin; and wise, shining hun - who will guide her toward understanding. She must, they tell her, make amends.
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Very different but compelling point of view.
- De Kevin Wickline en 06-08-23
De: Janie Chang
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The Last Summer
- De: Judith Kinghorn
- Narrado por: Jane Wymark
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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Clarissa is almost 17 when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer - and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled.
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The Last Summer Delivers
- De Carmen dela Cruz en 05-22-16
De: Judith Kinghorn
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Laughter in the Dark
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
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Death is often the point of life's joke
- De Darwin8u en 05-19-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Carol Boyd
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently....
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
- De James A. Dittes en 08-13-16
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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A Song for Summer
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Penelope Rawlins
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she soon knows she's found her calling. Swept into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all around her. But it's the handsome, mysterious gardener, Marek, who intrigues her - Marek, who has a dangerous secret. As Hitler's troops march across Europe, Ellen finds she has promises to keep, even if it means sacrificing her future happiness.
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I had high hopes, but it didn't live up to them.
- De Heidi A Cook en 08-15-21
De: Eva Ibbotson
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The Secret Countess
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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Rupert, the young Earl of Westerholme, returns home from the war - and Anna, a housemaid, falls hopelessly in love with him. But they can never be together - Rupert is engaged to the snobbish and awful Muriel. And anyway, Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks.
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paint-by-numbers masterpiece
- De connie en 02-06-12
De: Eva Ibbotson
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Madensky Square
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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Susanna Weber is the best dress maker in Imperial Vienna. Through skill and hard work, she now owns her own dress shop, looking out over the beautiful Madensky Square. To do so, she has left her past behind, if not without regret, at least resolutely. Looking around her, at her customers and friends, Susanna is aware that she has more than most - but a few small changes cause her to realize just how precarious her situation is.
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Charming afternoon treat
- De Marina en 01-09-14
De: Eva Ibbotson
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The Secret Countess
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
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Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to become a housemaid and she finds work at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion.
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Heavily edited
- De Melissa Keating en 06-21-16
De: Eva Ibbotson
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The Morning Gift
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Kate Lock
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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Ruth lives in Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist. When Hitler’s forces invade, Ruth’s family flees to London, but she cannot get a passport. Quin, a young professor and friend of the family, visits Ruth and offers a marriage of convenience. On their return to London, Quin begins to fall desperately in love with her. But then Heini turns up.…
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Same Storyline
- De Wendy en 11-23-13
De: Eva Ibbotson
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Magic Flutes
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Kate Lock
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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Spring, 1922. Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess who’s given up her duties to follow her heart and work backstage at the Viennese opera. She keeps her true identity a well-guarded secret, but when a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa’s two lives collide - and in escaping her inheritance, she finds her destiny....
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An unfortunate audiobook
- De Like it? en 02-23-25
De: Eva Ibbotson
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A Song for Summer
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Penelope Rawlins
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she soon knows she's found her calling. Swept into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all around her. But it's the handsome, mysterious gardener, Marek, who intrigues her - Marek, who has a dangerous secret. As Hitler's troops march across Europe, Ellen finds she has promises to keep, even if it means sacrificing her future happiness.
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I had high hopes, but it didn't live up to them.
- De Heidi A Cook en 08-15-21
De: Eva Ibbotson
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The Secret Countess
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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Rupert, the young Earl of Westerholme, returns home from the war - and Anna, a housemaid, falls hopelessly in love with him. But they can never be together - Rupert is engaged to the snobbish and awful Muriel. And anyway, Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks.
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paint-by-numbers masterpiece
- De connie en 02-06-12
De: Eva Ibbotson
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Madensky Square
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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Susanna Weber is the best dress maker in Imperial Vienna. Through skill and hard work, she now owns her own dress shop, looking out over the beautiful Madensky Square. To do so, she has left her past behind, if not without regret, at least resolutely. Looking around her, at her customers and friends, Susanna is aware that she has more than most - but a few small changes cause her to realize just how precarious her situation is.
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Charming afternoon treat
- De Marina en 01-09-14
De: Eva Ibbotson
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The Secret Countess
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
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Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to become a housemaid and she finds work at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion.
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Heavily edited
- De Melissa Keating en 06-21-16
De: Eva Ibbotson
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The Morning Gift
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Kate Lock
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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Ruth lives in Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist. When Hitler’s forces invade, Ruth’s family flees to London, but she cannot get a passport. Quin, a young professor and friend of the family, visits Ruth and offers a marriage of convenience. On their return to London, Quin begins to fall desperately in love with her. But then Heini turns up.…
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Same Storyline
- De Wendy en 11-23-13
De: Eva Ibbotson
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Magic Flutes
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Kate Lock
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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Spring, 1922. Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess who’s given up her duties to follow her heart and work backstage at the Viennese opera. She keeps her true identity a well-guarded secret, but when a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa’s two lives collide - and in escaping her inheritance, she finds her destiny....
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An unfortunate audiobook
- De Like it? en 02-23-25
De: Eva Ibbotson
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- Jenifer R Majerus
- 06-12-20
Abridged
Loved reading the book but the audible version is very abridged. I've gone back to read parts to make sure I wasn't mistaken about what happens in the story.
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- Rebecca
- 06-05-16
didn't realize this version was abridged...
I love this novel and have read it many times. It has a whimsical and innocent/ mysterious feel to it with its period romance approach with such a refreshinly resilient character. I was very disappointed with this voice actor and the abridged version but couldn't make myself rate it less just because I am so fond of the story.
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- Aziza Chapman
- 06-09-16
love it!!
I love this book. I have a physical copy but I don't have time to read it and just needed to hear this story. So I bought the audio so I can at least listen to it. Yes that is how amazing the story is.
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- laura j bertrand
- 02-24-24
A friend’s recommendation
I liked the story well enough, a friend had recommended it a while back. But the reading was excellent! She balanced all the voices and accents perfectly, giving each character a lovely depth. I’m not sure if I am an Eva Ibston fan, but I am now definitely a fan of Adjoa Andoh!
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-19-21
abridgement choppy but performance good
I love this story, and the performance of the audio was really good, though admittedly the abridgement chops out some of the BEST parts, including what's probably the funniest two scenes in the entire book.
I mean is it REALLY still the same book if we don't have Harriet's father getting turned on by his own students or ballet dancers trying to act like they've had a religious calling to trick Edward? Sigh.
Still wonderful, though.
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- Connie Jones
- 03-06-23
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I love this book and was excited that it was on here. when I started to listen to it I noticed that it seemed like there were somethings being left out. I got my hard copy out and followed along with the narrator and noticed that at least 6 pages worth of text in the first 10 pages were left out! I'm very disappointed!
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