Across the China Sea
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In the waning days of the German occupation of Norway, Karin and her husband move from Oslo to a tiny village in the south with their young son, the narrator. There they aim to live out their dream of caring for those who can't look after themselves. They have spent months building a modest house with rooms for patients, and it's soon filled with three adult men who are psychologically unstable - including Karin's uncle Josef, who suffered a head injury in a carriage accident - and five siblings whose parents have been declared unfit, and who are the subjects of much conversation in the village. This small and idiosyncratic community persists for nearly three decades.
After his parents' deaths, the son returns to clean out this unusual home. The objects of his childhood retain a talisman - like power over him, and key objects - including an orange crate where he and his sister slept as infants, Josef's Medal of Honor, his mother's beloved piano, and many others - unlock vivid memories.
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- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,826
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,659
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,648
Told with the same old-fashioned narrative power as the novels of Herman Wouk, The Seamstress is the true story of Seren (Sara) Tuvel Bernstein and her survival during wartime. This powerful eyewitness account of survival, told with power and grace, will stay with listeners for years to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overcome with Emotion
- De Meryl en 05-16-13
De: Sara Tuvel Bernstein, y otros
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The Optimist's Daughter
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Eudora Welty
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 282
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 237
This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful writing
- De Teresa en 07-15-13
De: Eudora Welty
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The Girl from the Train
- De: Irma Joubert
- Narrado por: Sarah Zimmerman
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 949
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 951
Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They mean to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl's unscheduled train reaches the bomb first. Gretl is the only survivor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story covering the middle of the 20th C.
- De john en 04-12-16
De: Irma Joubert
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The Lightkeeper's Daughters
- A Novel
- De: Jean E. Pendziwol
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg, Dawn Harvey, Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 164
Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth's eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over her beloved books or gaze at the paintings that move her spirit, she fills the void with music and memories of her family, especially her beloved twin sister, Emily. When her late father's journals are discovered after an accident, the past suddenly becomes all too present. With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at her senior home, Elizabeth goes through the diaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very good
- De Jason Burger en 09-17-17
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The Saturdays
- De: Elizabeth Enright
- Narrado por: Pamela Dillman
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 265
The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twelve-year-old mischievous Rush; ten-year-old Randy who loves to dance and paint; and thoughtful Oliver, who is just six-years-old.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent for children and adults
- De Dale en 05-15-04
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Wolf Winter
- De: Cecilia Ekback
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms BlackAsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow.
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3 out of 5 stars
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So atmospheric, it hurts
- De Bookmarque en 08-24-15
De: Cecilia Ekback
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The Lost Girls
- A Novel
- De: Heather Young
- Narrado por: Alice Rosengard, Laurel Schroeder
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 718
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 652
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 650
In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family - her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, Justine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging story spanning three generations.
- De LilMissMolly en 09-23-16
De: Heather Young
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The October Country
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 338
Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: "The Small Assassin": a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true - or her nightmare.... "The Emissary": the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connection with the world outside - and beyond.... "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone": a most remarkable case of murder - the deceased was delighted! And more!
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5 out of 5 stars
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The October Country
- De steven richard pohl en 09-17-19
De: Ray Bradbury
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The Member of the Wedding
- De: Carson McCullers
- Narrado por: Susan Sarandon
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,006
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 907
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 905
The best way to experience this classic of the American South is by joining five-time Academy Award nominee and Best Actress winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking, Thelma & Louise) as she guides the listener on a journey through the anguish of adolescence and isolation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a Classic People
- De FanB14 en 05-14-12
De: Carson McCullers
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 521
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 369
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
- De: Flannery O'Connor
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive "The Misfit", as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It contains the following stories:
- De Erica Smith en 11-09-23
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Dandelion Wine
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 839
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 746
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 743
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Turn to wonder and remember childhood summers
- De April Rose en 06-26-19
De: Ray Bradbury
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The Last Ballad
- A Novel
- De: Wiley Cash
- Narrado por: Karen White, Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
Twelve times a week, 28-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No. Two in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The insular community considers the mill's owners - the newly arrived Goldberg brothers - white but not American and expects them to pay Ella May and other workers less because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet, Ella May's best friend. While the dirty, hazardous job at the mill earns Ella May a paltry nine dollars for 72 hours of work each week, it's the only opportunity she has.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dryer than a popcorn fart
- De Scott Wilson en 02-11-18
De: Wiley Cash
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The Promise
- De: Ann Weisgarber
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 677
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 612
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 614
1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In desperation she agrees to marry him, but when Catherine travels to Oscar's farm on Galveston Island, Texas—a thousand miles from home—she finds she is little prepared for the life that awaits her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written and read
- De RueRue en 04-21-14
De: Ann Weisgarber
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Without a Map
- A Memoir
- De: Meredith Hall
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Your Average "16 and Pregnant"
- De Susie en 12-11-12
De: Meredith Hall