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This is a memoir of an unconventional childhood that explores what it means to be an only child. This audiobook is for all children who have ever felt like the fulcrum of a seesaw, the focus of all eyes and expectations, torn between love and fear, obedience and rebellion, duty and the longing to escape.
Only is revelatory, lyrical and life affirming, for anyone who has felt the burden of trying to be a good daughter.
©2017 Caroline Baum (P)2017 W F Howes LtdLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Such a Meaningful Reflection
- De Awarenessing en 11-28-15
De: Richard Glover
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The Museum of Innocence
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (translator)
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 246
Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie - a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the very best I've ever heard
- De Rebecca Lindroos en 03-06-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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Us: A Novel
- De: David Nicholls
- Narrado por: David Haig
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 869
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 774
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 778
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that seduces beautiful Connie into a second date...and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades later, they live more or less happily in the London suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldn’t be worse. Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great novel - my favorite in years
- De Mark en 07-21-15
De: David Nicholls
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Putney
- A Novel
- De: Sofka Zinovieff
- Narrado por: Michelle Ford
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man 20 years her senior. Masterfully told from three diverse viewpoints - victim, perpetrator, and witness - Putney is a subtle and enormously powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the greatest stories of all time!
- De Valarie en 06-17-20
De: Sofka Zinovieff
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
- A Memoir
- De: Nadja Spiegelman
- Narrado por: Nadja Spiegelman
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers - French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly - exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and "began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand", their relationship grew tense.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Aweful
- De Haley Abreu en 07-05-17
De: Nadja Spiegelman
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 135
In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
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5 out of 5 stars
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clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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The Dark Flood Rises
- A Novel
- De: Dame Margaret Drabble
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
- De Sara en 03-22-17
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A Closed Eye
- De: Anita Brookner
- Narrado por: Prunella Scales
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, and retains a curious innocence that neither her marriage to Freddie Lytton, nor her friendship with the beautiful Tessa can dispel. Freddie is far older than she is - a companion rather than a lover - and slightly disapproving of Tessa and her irresponsible, attractive husband, Jack. Yet all four are bound together: by their backgrounds, their children, by Harriet’s unspoken feelings for Jack and by the tragedy that lies in wait for all of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Late Great Ms. Brookner
- De David P en 05-15-16
De: Anita Brookner
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The Pendulum
- A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
- De: Julie Lindahl
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 225
This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' role in the Third Reich, as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story - the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations - emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 01-14-19
De: Julie Lindahl
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A Happy Marriage
- A Novel
- De: Rafael Yglesias
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret’s life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, children, and Enrique.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Difficult Review -- A Difficult Read
- De Lulu en 06-04-12
De: Rafael Yglesias
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Corduroy Mansions
- A Novel
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 654
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 513
In London’s Pimlico neighborhood lies a tenement described in architectural guides as “a building of no interest whatsoever.” But the residents of Corduroy Mansions—including a literary agent, a wine merchant, a thoroughly unpleasant member of Parliament, and a vegetarian dog—are a rather fascinating lot.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oedipus Snark, MP
- De connie en 04-25-12
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The Good Liar
- A Novel
- De: Nicholas Searle
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 150
Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, he's moved into Betty's lovely cottage and is preparing to accompany her on a romantic trip to Europe. Betty's grandson disapproves of their blossoming relationship, but Roy is sure this scheme will be a success. He knows what he's doing. As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy's and Betty's futures, it also unwinds their pasts.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hope the movie is better than the book?
- De S. Smith en 10-17-19
De: Nicholas Searle
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This Close to Happy
- A Reckoning with Depression
- De: Daphne Merkin
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I should be the last person to recommend this book
- De Mariaposa en 03-04-17
De: Daphne Merkin
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Palace of Tears
- De: Julian Leatherdale
- Narrado por: Ming-Zhu Hii
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
The dazzling story of family, passion, secrets and vengeance, woven through the hardships of both World Wars and revealing the intriguing history of the Palace, the opulent Blue Mountains hotel famed for its luxury and mysterious owner. A sweltering summer's day, January 1914: the charismatic and ruthless Adam Fox throws a lavish birthday party for his son and heir at his elegant clifftop hotel in the Blue Mountains. Everyone is invited except Angie, the girl from the cottage next door.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Distractingly bad acting by narrator!
- De Bunny en 01-30-16
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Fraud
- De: Anita Brookner
- Narrado por: Anna Massey
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
When Anna Durrant is reported missing her friends seem unconcerned at her disappearance. After all, her life has been one of concealment. For years Anna submitted to the protective dependence of her mother, and even after Amy Durrant’s death she simply conformed to the expectations of others. Increasingly, Anna feels herself trapped by these expectations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top Shelf Brookner
- De David P en 09-15-15
De: Anita Brookner
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Three Daughters of Eve
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 211
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Review 3 daughters of Eve
- De CA en 04-28-18
De: Elif Shafak
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Mosaic
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 19 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
>i>Mosaic is compelling storytelling at its best - from the fascinating details of Polish-Jewish culture and the rivalries and dramas of family life, to its moving account of lives torn apart by war and persecution, this an extraordinary true story of a family, and of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely excellent!
- De Roberta en 09-22-11
De: Diane Armstrong
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Gold Dust
- De: Kimberley Freeman
- Narrado por: Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 245
Three women linked by their blood, their dreams...and their sins. From Leningrad in the '70s to America and London in the present day, Kimberley Freeman's new novel follows the lives of two sisters, Lena and Natalia, and their cousin, Sofi, as they move away from Russia and all they have known. Despite promising to always take care of each other, a pact to meet every winter is shattered as their lives change and long-held resentments begin to surface. Can that resentment turn to hatred? To murder?
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's just not the same without Caroline Lee
- De Maria en 12-04-17