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In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in midtown Manhattan, Dottie steals kisses from her steady beau, meets her girlfriends for drinks, and eyes the latest fashions. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful daughter, living with her Yiddish-speaking parents on the Lower East Side. So when, after a single careless night, she finds herself in a family way by a charismatic but unsuitable man, she is desperate: unwed, unsure, and running out of options.
After the birth of five children - and 20 years as a housewife - Dottie's immigrant mother, Rose, is itching to return to the social activism she embraced as a young woman. With strikes and breadlines at home and National Socialism rising in Europe, there is much more important work to do than cooking and cleaning. So when she realizes that she, too, is pregnant, she struggles to reconcile her longings with her faith.
As mother and daughter wrestle with unthinkable choices, they are forced to confront their beliefs, the changing world, and the fact that their lives will never again be the same.
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Brzeziny, Poland, 1939. Zofia's comfortable lifestyle overturns when her husband, Jabez, who monitors Nazi activity, has gone missing. Rather than fleeing the country with her young son, as she had promised Jabez who is fearing retaliation, she decides to stay. She cannot possibly leave her friend, Aanya. Since their childhood they have amazed fellow Brzeziners that it does not matter that Aanya is Jewish and deaf, and that Zofia is Catholic and hearing. Now, more than ever with war looming, Zofia will do whatever is necessary to protect her family and Aanya.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It was good
- De J. John en 10-20-24
De: Elaine Stock
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The Space Between Us
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Purva Bedi
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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Best-selling author Thrity Umrigar won the Nieman Fellowship and earned a finalist spot for the PEN/Beyond Margins award with The Space Between Us. Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though separated by their stations in life, the two women share bonds of womanhood that prove far stronger than the divisions of class or culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Story that stays with you
- De gardener97 en 04-25-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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The Secrets She Carried
- De: Barbara Davis
- Narrado por: Tiffany Morgan
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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Though Peak Plantation has been in her family for generations, Leslie Nichols can't wait to rid herself of the farm left to her by her estranged grandmother Maggie. But Leslie isn't the only one with a claim to Peak. Jay Davenport, Peak's reclusive caretaker, has his own reasons for holding onto the land bequeathed to him by Leslie's grandmother. Before she died, Maggie hinted at a terrible secret surrounding Adele Laveau, a lady's maid who came to Peak during the 1930s and died under mysterious circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book of the year
- De Joanne Tailele en 10-08-18
De: Barbara Davis
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Eve's Daughters
- De: Lynn Austin
- Narrado por: Kitty Hendrix
- Duración: 17 h y 59 m
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Is there a secret terrible enough that it should never be revealed, not even if it was tearing a family apart? For more than five decades, Emma Bauer has kept one - carefully guarding it with all her strength, and for more than five decades, that choice has haunted her life and also the lives of her daughters and granddaughter. Is it too late for wrongs to be righted? Does Emma even have the strength to let the healing power of truth work in her family?
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5 out of 5 stars
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great read
- De Sharon en 01-16-19
De: Lynn Austin
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The Undertaker’s Assistant
- De: Amanda Skenandore
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies - and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer's shortcomings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A riveting story that will keep your interest.
- De Patricia en 08-02-19
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Stars over Sunset Boulevard
- De: Susan Meissner
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 213
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Los Angeles, present day. When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind ends up in Christine McAllister's vintage clothing boutique by mistake, her efforts to return it to its owner take her on a journey more enchanting than any classic movie.... Los Angeles, 1938. Violet Mayfield sets out to reinvent herself in Hollywood after her dream of becoming a wife and mother falls apart, and she lands a job on the film set of Gone with the Wind.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pass on this
- De Lulew en 03-24-17
De: Susan Meissner
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We Shall Not Shatter
- A WWII Story of Friendship, Family, and Hope Against All Odds (Resilient Women of WWII Series, Book 1)
- De: Elaine Stock
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Brzeziny, Poland, 1939. Zofia's comfortable lifestyle overturns when her husband, Jabez, who monitors Nazi activity, has gone missing. Rather than fleeing the country with her young son, as she had promised Jabez who is fearing retaliation, she decides to stay. She cannot possibly leave her friend, Aanya. Since their childhood they have amazed fellow Brzeziners that it does not matter that Aanya is Jewish and deaf, and that Zofia is Catholic and hearing. Now, more than ever with war looming, Zofia will do whatever is necessary to protect her family and Aanya.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It was good
- De J. John en 10-20-24
De: Elaine Stock
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The Lost Wife
- A Novel
- De: Alyson Richman
- Narrado por: George Guidall, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,491
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In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, there's an inescapable glance of recognition between two strangers. Providence is giving Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the Occupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and the strength of memory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love, Strength & Survival
- De Sara en 01-27-14
De: Alyson Richman
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The Whisper Sister
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer S. Brown
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island. Her father, who left Ukraine when Minnie was a toddler, feels like a stranger. She sleeps on a mattress on the kitchen floor. She understands nothing at school. They came to America for this? As her family adjusts to this new life, Minnie and her brother work hard to learn English and make friends. When her father, Ike, opens his own soda shop, stability and citizenship seem within reach.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The whisper sister sent me
- De Christina E. en 10-30-24
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All the Little Hopes
- De: Leah Weiss
- Narrado por: Kate Forbes
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Deep in the tobacco land of North Carolina, nothing's been the same since the boys shipped off to war and worry took their place. Thirteen-year-old Lucy Brown is precocious and itching for adventure. Then Allie Bert Tucker wanders into town, an outcast with a puzzling past, and Lucy figures the two of them can solve any curious crime they find - just like her hero, Nancy Drew. Their chance comes when a man goes missing, a woman stops speaking, and an eccentric gives the girls a mystery to solve that takes them beyond the ordinary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Leah Weiss is a gifted author
- De MelissaFBrown en 08-03-21
De: Leah Weiss
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When the Yellow Mocker Calls
- Two Feather's Legacy, Book 1
- De: Lila M. Beckham
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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In the South Carolina Hills, along the Savannah River Watershed, in the fall of 1829, 14-year-old, three-quarter Cherokee Sahani, whose Christian name is Charity, sets out on a journey with her 83-year-old white grandfather to Fort Charlotte for what she thinks is a trip to trade the pelts he has accumulated in order to replenish their supplies. However, Charity soon discovers that her grandfather's objective in making this trip is to get her married off and settled somewhere.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely love both stories in this series!
- De Karli en 01-13-22
De: Lila M. Beckham
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The Two-Family House
- A Novel
- De: Linda Cohen Loigman
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 934
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 832
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Brooklyn, 1947: In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage, with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear, and their once deep friendship begins to unravel. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; one moment of tragedy. Heartbreak wars with happiness and almost but not quite wins.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Two Family Saga
- De Sara en 08-17-17
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Fugitive Colors
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Barr
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 888
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Fugitive Colors is a gripping debut novel of an artist's indomitable vengeance after World War II. Julian Klein, a young American artist, rebels against his religious upbringing and is eager for the artistic freedom of 1930s Paris. He flees Chicago only to find himself consumed by a world in which a paintbrush is far more lethal than a gun. An artist turned spy, Julian at the same time competes with jealous inferior artists who feverishly attempt to destroy those with true talent.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good and Not So Good
- De Arizona Kitty Luvr en 11-29-18
De: Lisa Barr
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Modern Girls
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- QueeneB21
- 07-07-24
3.5 Stars
1930s. What lengths a woman will go to to keep herself and her family safe
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- Jennifer Gardella
- 04-11-18
Thank you
Thank you Elizabeth Wiley for narrating a text with such excellence and compassion. I’m not Jewish and I needed you to translate the words so that they were genuine. I am so infinitely glad I selected an audiobook v text on paper. The story of mother and daughter felt as real and devastating and beautiful as the day my own daughter was born. Thank you Jennifer Brown for making my heart ache and for writing about the love that is motherhood.
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- Sara Ann Dinkelo
- 01-27-17
great
You know its a good book when you have to mourn it is over and are dying to know how things end up. I loved the character development and the perspectives that switched from the mother to daughter. Highly recomend it.
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- RueRue
- 03-16-17
Narration was a bit over-the-top
Entertaining melodrama (heavy on the melodrama) and way over-the-top narration, which somehow worked for the character of Rose but not so much with Dottie. I liked the backdrop of the Jewish community in NYC, 1935.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-25-17
Super annoying voiceover
Really interesting story, although at times trite and predictable. But I wish I had read it as opposed to listening to it as I found the voiceover reader to be irritating.
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- mramos
- 05-18-18
I want more
A great story, but I want to know what happens next! Will there be a sequel?
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