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Melanie Dobson
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What happened to Brigitte Berthold?
That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was 13, when he and 10-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival. Daniel vowed to find Brigitte after the war, a promise he has fought to fulfill for more than 70 years.
Now a wealthy old man, Daniel's final hope in finding Brigitte rests with Quenby Vaughn, an American journalist working in London. He believes Quenby's tenacity to find missing people and her personal investment in a related WWII espionage story will help her succeed where previous investigators have failed. Though Quenby is wrestling her own demons - and wary at the idea of teaming up with Daniel's lawyer, Lucas Hough - the lure of Brigitte's story is too much to resist. Together, Quenby and Lucas delve deep into the past, following a trail of deception, sacrifice, and healing that could change all of their futures.
©2017 Melanie Dobson (P)2017 Two Words Publishing, LLCOur favorite moments from Catching the Wind
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Winner of the Audie Award for Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction 2018
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Nancy Peterson began her career with petty theft. Her dad’s brand-new and strictly off-limits tape recorder was too tempting to bear. Purloining the gadget, she and her friends recreated worlds from their favorite books as they read out loud for hours on end. She never could have dreamed that this would be the beginning of a career she loves. An Audie Award-winning narrator and multiple Voice Arts and Independent Audiobook Awards nominee, Nancy has a penchant for dialects—diving deep into the study of language. Her narration style, summed up by AudioFile magazine, "creates the sense of listening to a play instead of a straightforward reading." Nancy resides near the foothills of Salt Lake City with her husband and children, two dogs, three fish, one turtle, one snake, a hive of bees, and a gecko.
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so lovely
- By LindaMercury on 10-26-21
By: Melissa Payne
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Hidden Among the Stars
- By: Melanie Dobson
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,245
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,128
As Hitler’s troops sweep into Vienna, Austrian Max Dornbach promises to help his Jewish friends hide their most valuable possessions from the Nazis, smuggling them to his family’s summer estate near the picturesque village of Hallstatt. He enlists the help of Annika Knopf, his childhood friend and the caretaker’s daughter. Eighty years later, Callie Randall is mostly content with her quiet life, running a bookstore with her sister and reaching out into the world through her blog. Then she finds a cryptic list in an old edition of Bambi that connects her to Annika’s story.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A stirring Christian time-slip
- By Cover Lover on 07-14-19
By: Melanie Dobson
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The Winter Rose
- By: Melanie Dobson
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
In this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace’s past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a little disappointed
- By Anonymous User on 01-14-22
By: Melanie Dobson
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The Wings of Poppy Pendleton
- By: Melanie Dobson
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family’s castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Poppy, once and for all.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too long getting to the heart of the story
- By Barbara L. Frank on 12-29-24
By: Melanie Dobson
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Memories of Glass
- By: Melanie Dobson
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 980
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 880
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 874
Reminiscent of Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, this stunning novel draws from true accounts to shine a light on a period of Holland’s darkest history and bravest heroes. 1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few daring citizens to rescue Eliese’s son and hundreds of other Jewish children who await deportation in a converted theater in Amsterdam. But amid their resistance work, Josie and Eliese’s dangerous secrets could derail their friendship and their entire mission.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memorable, Inspirational WWII Story
- By A+D on 09-08-19
By: Melanie Dobson
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The Secrets We Left Behind
- By: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 942
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 849
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 848
Occupied France, 1940. When the staff at a field hospital draw straws to find out who will join the evacuation from Dunkirk, Nurse Cate is left behind. But when the Nazis arrive to claim prisoners of war, she takes her chance and flees into the night, taking one patient with her. Fifty miles away, the surrendering soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment are shot dead by the advancing Germans. Beneath the pile of bodies two men survive, crawling to the safety of a nearby farmhouse, where sisters Elise and Adelaide risk their lives to take them in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By Auntie JoJo 607 on 12-04-21
By: Soraya M. Lane
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The Night of Many Endings
- A Novel
- By: Melissa Payne
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Janet Metzger, Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 852
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 775
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 774
Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother’s decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. She holds on to the hope that she’ll be reunited with her missing brother and does what she can at the town library. It’s her home away from home, but it’s also a sanctuary for others who, like her brother, could use a second chance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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so lovely
- By LindaMercury on 10-26-21
By: Melissa Payne
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This Place of Wonder
- A Novel
- By: Barbara O'Neal
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo, Amy Landon, Alaska Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,585
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,453
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,448
When famed chef Augustus Beauvais dies, he leaves behind a celebrated reputation—and four women grappling with loss, anger, pain, and the question of how the world will turn without him...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wish I would have waited to purchase
- By Admirer of great books; critic of bad books. on 07-25-22
By: Barbara O'Neal
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The Black Cloister
- By: Melanie Dobson
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
When Elise Friedman’s mother died suddenly on Elise’s eighth birthday, any hope of unlocking her mysterious past died with her. Raised by her adoptive father, Elise has spent years trying to learn the truth about her mother, Catrina, and the life Catrina left behind when she emigrated to America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping
- By flowermama on 12-06-23
By: Melanie Dobson
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The Curator's Daughter
- By: Melanie Dobson
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry an SS officer and adopt a young girl, she begins to see behind the Nazi facade. A prayer labyrinth becomes a storehouse for her secrets, but as she comes to love Lilly as her own daughter, she fears that what she’s hiding—and what she begins to uncover—could put them both in mortal danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unique storyline
- By KC on 04-15-24
By: Melanie Dobson
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These Tangled Vines
- A Novel
- By: Julianne MacLean
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,593
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,129
If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret - even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way...until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance - along with two half siblings.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really enjoyed this story, but it was sad...
- By Debbie on 07-02-21
By: Julianne MacLean
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Slightly South of Simple
- Peachtree Bluff, Book 1
- By: Kristy Woodson Harvey
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus, Janet Metzger
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,689
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,490
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,487
Caroline Murphy swore she'd never set foot back in the small Southern town of Peachtree Bluff; she was a New York girl born and bred and the worst day of her life was when, in the wake of her father's death, her mother selfishly forced her to move - during her senior year of high school, no less - back to that hick-infested rat trap where she'd spent her childhood summers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A work of brilliance
- By Retired Disabled CA Guy on 06-20-19
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What Happens Next
- By: Christina Suzann Nelson
- Narrated by: Rebecca Quinn Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 258
Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne has made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy—but her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. When she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person case on her podcast, she uncovers desperate secrets and must face the truth before she can move forward.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed This!
- By Freida Keith on 05-14-23
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A Woman in Time
- A Novel
- By: Bobi Conn
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 229
The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee, the last living headstrong daughter in Granny McKenzie’s line, soaked up everything she could about the secrets of the forest before a series of tragedies left her alone, without the protection of the women who came before her.
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1 out of 5 stars
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BORING
- By Jack Kelley on 02-21-23
By: Bobi Conn
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Chateau of Secrets: A Novel
- By: Melanie Dobson
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 810
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 726
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 727
A courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters; 70 years later, her granddaughter visits the family’s abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past. Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her family’s medieval chateau in Normandy. Now, with Hitler’s army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the German occupation of France. But when German soldiers take over the family’s château, Gisèle is forced to host them as well.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected Twist
- By Chastity Lee on 06-14-20
By: Melanie Dobson
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Enchanted Isle
- By: Melanie Dobson
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 156
In the spring of 1958, Jenny Winter embarks on a two-month adventure to one of the most enchanting places on earth, a quaint village in England's magical Lake District. With a new camera and an eye for capturing the beauty others miss, she can't wait to explore the heathery fells and mystical waters. Adrian Kemp, a handsome and enigmatic local, makes the sightseeing even more beguiling - and he's about to invite Jenny into one of the area's most enduring legends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mesmerizing Tale of Love and Loss
- By Debbie on 09-03-19
By: Melanie Dobson
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A Girl Called Samson
- A Novel
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,575
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,467
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,467
In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in the Continental Army.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Alternate facts
- By Kay on 04-20-23
By: Amy Harmon
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The Secret Wife
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman, Thomas Judd
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,171
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,953
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,944
The stories of two very different women, linked by the secrets and lies of history, merge together as past and present weave together in this stunning story of love, loss and resilience. 2016. Kitty, fleeing from a devastating revelation in her own life, finds herself at her great-grandfather's cabin in Lake Akanabee. There she discovers a gorgeous necklace, which leads her uncover to long-buried family secret. 1914. Tatiana, Grand Princess of Russia, falls in love with Dmitri, a Russian solider, as she nurses him back to health.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unexpected jewel with refreshing perspectives
- By Amazon Customer on 12-17-16
By: Gill Paul
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The Librarian Spy
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Madeline Martin
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,131
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002
Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story, disturbing narration.
- By John on 09-22-22
By: Madeline Martin
Most of all, all of the references to Christianity, Christ's redemptive power, and biblical quotes that came out of nowhere in conversations about other things really bugged me. I'm not a Christian and had I known that was the bent of this book, I probably would have passed.
That being said, the story was well drawn and the ending a surprise (even though I figured it out about 3/4 of the way through the book).
If you're a conservative Christian, you'll love this book. If you don't mind being preached to, you'll probably love it too, regardless of your religious persuasion. I found myself rolling my eyes everytime the narrator started talking about the love of Christ and the power of his promise.
Good story but basically G-Rated Christian Lit
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Wonderful story
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needs to be a movie
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This one made me feel like I was part of the Story
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I didn’t want it to end
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Great book
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Subject matter was hard at times, but really inspirational novel.
One of the better books I've listened to and a really sweet story.
Thoroughly enjoyed everything about this book.
Inspriational and Compelling
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Excellent book, not a typical WWII story
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great story
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Terrific Romance
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