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From the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait: a sweeping family drama where a father's disappearance forces three adult siblings to come together and confront what they really know about their past.
London, 1976. In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordan's newly-retired husband has cleaned out his bank account and vanished. Now, for the first time in years, the three Riordan children are converging on their childhood home: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is failing; Monica, with two stepdaughters who despise her and an ugly secret that has driven a wedge between her and the little sister she once adored; and Aoife (pronounced EE-fah), the youngest, whose new life in Manhattan is elaborately arranged to conceal her illiteracy. As the siblings track down clues to their father's disappearance, they also navigate rocky pasts and long-held secrets. Their search ultimately brings them to their ancestral village in Ireland, where the truth of their family's past is revealed.
Wise, lyrical, instantly engrossing, Instructions for a Heatwave is a richly satisfying thriller from a writer of exceptional intelligence and grace.
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The Poison Tree
- De: Erin Kelly
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
Successful journalist Erin Kelly has electrified readers and critics alike with her debut novel The Poison Tree. In this scintillating work, Karen and her daughter Alice have established a safe, happy life free from the madness of Karen’s past. But when Karen’s former lover Rex is released from prison, her old associations intrude upon the present - and threaten everything she holds dear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I couldn't stop listening the book.
- De Gladys en 07-29-15
De: Erin Kelly
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Brick Lane
- De: Monica Ali
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Sastre
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 98
Nanzeen's inauspicious birth in a Bangladeshi village imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents. Married off to a man old enough to be her father, Nanzeen moves to London and cares for her family. But gradually she begins to question whether fate controls her or whether she has a hand in her own destiny. She discovers both the complexity that comes with free choice and the depth of her attachment to her husband, her daughters and her new world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A truly wonderful book!
- De A M en 11-24-03
De: Monica Ali
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A Golden Age
- A Novel
- De: Tahmima Anam
- Narrado por: Madhur Jaffrey
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming, her children are almost grown, and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air.
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5 out of 5 stars
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sad, poignant, thought-provoking, beautiful
- De Rio Delta Wild en 06-04-08
De: Tahmima Anam
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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The Daughter
- De: Jane Shemilt
- Narrado por: Sophie Aldred
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 211
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 199
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, 15-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.
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1 out of 5 stars
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BORING...
- De Nyesha en 06-08-15
De: Jane Shemilt
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The Year of the Runaways
- De: Sunjeev Sahota
- Narrado por: Sartaj Garewal
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar, and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her with a call.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Maybe easier to read than to listen to.
- De Eric en 06-15-16
De: Sunjeev Sahota
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Crooked Heart
- A Novel
- De: Lissa Evans
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
When Noel Bostock - aged 10, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge - a 36-year-old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surviving The Blitz In WWII Great Britain
- De Sara en 04-24-16
De: Lissa Evans
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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The Secret Keeper
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15,991
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,287
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,261
England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kate Morton (and Caroline Lee) does it again!
- De Maria en 10-20-12
De: Kate Morton
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The Girls in the Garden
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Jewell
- Narrado por: Colleen Prendergast
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,004
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,677
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,677
Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her 13-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Julie en 11-03-17
De: Lisa Jewell
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Everything She Forgot
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Ballantyne
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
They're calling it the worst pileup in London history. Margaret Holloway is driving home, but her mind is elsewhere - on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting - when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls her from the car seconds before it's engulfed in flames. Then he simply disappears.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly emotional
- De RueRue en 04-09-16
De: Lisa Ballantyne
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Carol Boyd
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 96
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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2 out of 5 stars
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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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The Red Address Book
- De: Sofia Lundberg, Alice Menzies - translator
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 591
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 533
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 532
The global fiction sensation - published in 32 countries around the world: Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny - her American grandniece, and her only relative - give her great joy and remind her of her own youth. In writing down the stories of her colorful past - working as a maid in Sweden, modelling in Paris during the '30s, fleeing to Manhattan at the dawn of the Second World War - she may help Jenny, haunted by a difficult childhood, unlock the secrets of their family....
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2 out of 5 stars
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narrator was overwrought
- De Janet L. Hamilton en 02-22-19
De: Sofia Lundberg, y otros
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 222
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 435
Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Kate Atkinson multi-generational story
- De Satisfied Customer en 11-08-18
De: Kate Atkinson
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The Au Pair
- De: Emma Rous
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Sastre, Nicola Barber
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,032
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,033
Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother, Danny, were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within hours of their birth, their mother threw herself from the cliffs, the au pair fled, and the village thrilled with whispers of dark cloaks, changelings, and the aloof couple who drew a young nanny into their inner circle.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just ridiculous
- De ROBIN en 02-06-19
De: Emma Rous
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A Share in Death
- De: Deborah Crombie
- Narrado por: Michael Deehy
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,911
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,547
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,537
A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised significantly when a second murder occurs....
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3 out of 5 stars
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series readers, start here
- De connie en 02-09-13
De: Deborah Crombie