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Simon Mawer
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Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn't understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground her life. Family and friends surround her, and a RAF officer attempts to bring her the normality of love and affection, but she is haunted by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war helped to develop the atom bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie?
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A bit of a slog....
- De rhl60 en 01-26-24
De: Mick Herron
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The Muse
- A Novel
- De: Jessie Burton
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin, Maria Elena Infantino
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 366
England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed narration
- De Amy Fleury en 08-05-16
De: Jessie Burton
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The Patriots
- A Novel
- De: Sana Krasikov
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
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Goodnight from London
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 870
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 770
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 770
In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Light story
- De Bev Holdgate en 08-10-17
De: Jennifer Robson
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth George
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 822
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 735
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 728
Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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4 out of 5 stars
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good debut novel
- De Stevon en 11-11-19
De: Elizabeth George
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The Ambassador's Daughter
- De: Pam Jenoff
- Narrado por: Joanna Daniel
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 246
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 223
Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital, where she is still looked upon as the enemy. But as she contemplates returning to Berlin and a life with Stefan, the wounded fiancé she hardly knows anymore, she decides that being in Paris is not so bad after all. Bored and torn between duty and the desire to be free, Margot strikes up unlikely alliances: with Krysia, an accomplished musician with radical acquaintances and a secret to protect; and with Georg, the handsome, damaged naval officer who gives Margot a job.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book 0 in the series
- De Stevon en 12-12-17
De: Pam Jenoff
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Daughters of Eden
- De: Charlotte Bingham
- Narrado por: Kim Hicks
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at Eden Park is a surprise, not least to them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book everyone should read.
- De XX en 09-11-05
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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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The Unlikely Spy
- De: Daniel Silva
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,688
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,686
“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable - a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Unlikely Spy
- De Margaret en 12-14-09
De: Daniel Silva
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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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Asylum
- De: Patrick McGrath
- Narrado por: Sir Ian McKellen
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,030
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,767
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,760
In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting - a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues -a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So enjoyed this book!
- De Mebythesea en 10-07-08
De: Patrick McGrath
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Hornet Flight
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,089
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,137
It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Outstanding Spy Novel
- De C. McCoy en 03-13-05
De: Ken Follett
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A Narrow Door
- De: Joanne Harris
- Narrado por: Alex Kingston, Steven Pacey
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely 40, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Optional heading
- De TanyaB en 01-17-22
De: Joanne Harris
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Duet
- De: Kimberley Freeman
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 898
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 893
From the London pop scene, to the opera stages of Europe; from a tiny Greek island, to a stifling manor house full of secrets and deceptions; from the sun-drenched Queensland coast, to the silent outback; Angela and Ellie are two women both looking for something. One in search of her identity and her memory; the other in search of the love that she had and lost; theirs is a duet whose last note will not be sung until the heart-stopping climax, when a shadow from the past returns to claim them both.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gosh that was a great story!
- De Anonymous User en 06-10-09
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The Postcard
- De: Leah Fleming
- Narrado por: Elaine Claxton
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to 'Desmond' among her recently deceased father's effects, she is determined to discover this person's identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take her across oceans and into the past...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- De Summer Layne en 03-06-15
De: Leah Fleming
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Night Soldiers
- De: Alan Furst
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 18 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,901
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,560
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,565
New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Alan Furst novel!
- De Placeholder en 04-27-11
De: Alan Furst