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Rashida Murphy
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In an old house with "too many windows and women", high in the Indian hills, young Hannah lives with her older sister Gloria; her two older brothers; her mother - the Magician; a colorful assortment of aunts, blow-ins and misfits; and her father - the Historian. It is a world of secrets, jealousies and lies, ruled by the Historian but smoothed over by the Magician, whose kindnesses and wisdom bring homely comfort and all-enveloping love to a ramshackle building that seems destined for chaos.
And then one day the Magician is gone, Gloria is gone, and the Historian has spirited Hannah and her brothers away to a new and at first bewildering life in Perth. As Hannah grows and makes her own way through Australian life, an education and friendships, she begins to penetrate to the heart of one of the old house's greatest secrets - and to the meaning of her own existence.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 177
Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss' struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate has only her own brave spirit and dreams of finding her father to keep her going. She has barely enough money to feed herself, or to pay the rent. The factory where she works begins to lay off people and it isn't long before she has fallen into the hands of the violent local money-lender.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A glimpse into the past
- De Luci-Lu en 10-27-21
De: Mary Gibson
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The Snakes
- A Novel
- De: Sadie Jones
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 88
The Snakes exposes the damage wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new member of the family, Dan, a mixed-race man from Peckham who marries Bea, the daughter who refuses to take any of her father’s filthy money. But when Bea’s brother, Alex (who runs a shabby hotel in Paligny, France), dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the confusion and suspicion which arise bring other dark family secrets - and violence - to the surface. And none of the family, even the good members, go untouched.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary!
- De Bibliophile en 07-21-19
De: Sadie Jones
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The Playground
- A Novel
- De: Jane Shemilt
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There’s Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband, and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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remarkable
- De lisa en 01-10-20
De: Jane Shemilt
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I Couldn't Love You More
- A Novel
- De: Esther Freud
- Narrado por: Niamh Cusack
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 29
A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past.
De: Esther Freud
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An Ordinary Wonder
- De: Buki Papillon
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: Excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers, and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- De Mary P Browne en 09-20-21
De: Buki Papillon
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In the Time of Our History
- De: Susanne Pari
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
- De J. E. Jordan en 05-23-23
De: Susanne Pari
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The Shadow Lines
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Raj Varma
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows two families - one English, one Bengali - as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian-born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Doesn't Know How to Pronounce
- De Amazon Customer en 08-27-11
De: Amitav Ghosh
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A Slow Fire Burning
- A Novel
- De: Paula Hawkins
- Narrado por: Rosamund Pike
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,647
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,621
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book should have a DISCLAIMER!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-06-21
De: Paula Hawkins
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A Girl Is a Body of Water
- De: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- Narrado por: Tovah Ott
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and - most importantly - how they find their way back to each other. In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small Ugandan village of Nattetta - her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts - but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow.
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3 out of 5 stars
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African narrators for African novels!
- De Lynn en 04-24-21
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The Teller of Secrets
- A Novel
- De: Bisi Adjapon
- Narrado por: Anniwaa Buachie
- Duración: 11 h y 14 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 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial "secret keeper" of her family, as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her half-sisters' sex lives. But after she is humiliated and punished for her own sexual exploration, Esi begins to question why women's secrets and men's secrets bear different consequences. It is the beginning of a journey of discovery that will lead her to unexpected places. Against a fraught political climate, Esi fights to carve out her own identity, and learns to manifest her power in surprising and inspiring ways.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hmm took a while to grasp
- De LATOYA LEWIS en 06-25-24
De: Bisi Adjapon
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
- De: Laura Ruby
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
When Frankie’s mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That’s why Frankie's not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now, Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other orphans - two young, unwanted women doing everything they can to survive.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring, boring, boring
- De Marie J. en 08-20-21
De: Laura Ruby
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The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir
- De: Lesley Allen
- Narrado por: Bríd Brennan
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
Biddy Weir is a quirky girl. Abandoned by her mother as a baby, and with a father who's not quite equipped for the challenges of modern parenting, Biddy lives in her own little world, happy to pass her time painting by the sea and watching the birds go by. That is, until she meets Alison Flemming. Because there are a few things about Biddy that aren't normal, you see. And Alison isn't afraid to point them out to the world. All of a sudden, Biddy's quiet life is thrown into turmoil. If only there was someone to convince her that, actually, everyone's a little bit weird....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Lonely Life Of Biddy Weir
- De George Criticos en 08-10-20
De: Lesley Allen
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Pearl in a Cage
- De: Joy Dettman
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman - foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant - is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the woman is brought to her door. Try as she might, Gertrude is unable to save her, but the baby lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pearl in a Cage
- De Verita en 06-16-17
De: Joy Dettman
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The Puzzle Women
- De: Anna Ellory
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Berlin, 1989. Siblings Rune and Lotte are shaken awake by Mama and told to follow her quietly into the night. Last time they snuck away from Papa, with Mama bruised and broken, they were back within a week. But this time they are starting a new life, Mama says - where nobody can ever hurt them again. Ten years later, the memories of their escape are blurry; Mama is long gone, and the siblings are back at Papa’s house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreak to Joy
- De Jo Ann Roussey en 01-17-21
De: Anna Ellory
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The Parted Earth
- De: Anjali Enjeti
- Narrado por: Deepti Gupta
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De MSE en 05-14-21
De: Anjali Enjeti
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 144
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- De Placeholder en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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The Nanny
- A Novel
- De: Gilly Macmillan
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett, Patience Tomlinson, Ben Eliot
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,625
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,200
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,187
In this compulsively listenable tale of secrets, lies, and deception, Gilly Macmillan explores the darkest impulses and desires of the human heart. Diabolically clever, The Nanny reminds us that sometimes the truth hurts so much you’d rather hear the lie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great gripping story!
- De Jordan Zenzel en 10-01-19
De: Gilly Macmillan
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The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova
- A Novel
- De: Ruth Hogan
- Narrado por: Nina Wadia
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
After inheriting her mother’s fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of Tarot cards have seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other people’s secrets, Madam Burova is ready to have a little piece of life for herself. But she still has one last thing to do—to fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Trigger warning
- De Kristyn Rose en 01-30-23
De: Ruth Hogan