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Rebecca Gibel
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Jon Cleary
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The time is the last two weeks of peace in the summer of 1939. The place is Berlin, the most brilliantly lit city in Europe. Cathleen O'Dea has come from Hollywood to Germany to star in a film. But that is not the real purpose of her visit. She is in Berlin to trace her missing mother.
As Europe plunges towards war, we become enthrallingly involved in Cathleen's story - and the story of Admiral Canaris, as he agonizes over a secret he has uncovered; of an English aristocrat who was once one of Hitler's favorites, and now tries to battle against her disillusion; of General von Albern as he plans to assassinate Hitler; of the General's son Helmut and his war-threatened romance with an English actress, Melissa Hayes. All this we see through the eyes of Sean Carmody, the boy from the Australian bush who has lost his innocence amidst the politics and ambitions of Nazi Germany.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 945
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 808
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Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated - and misunderstood - figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally! Vidal's Great Take on the Life of Burr
- De John in NC en 06-12-19
De: Gore Vidal
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Youngblood Hawke
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 41 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 259
Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man moves from rural Kentucky to New York to assault the citadel of New York publishing with his first novel, an oversized manuscript that becomes an instant success. Toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of popularity, he gives himself over to the lush life that gilds artistic success. Love comes with an affair with an older married woman and an unfulfilled flame with his editor, while wealth pours in with the publication of his second novel, and participation in real-estate developments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More than a good yarn
- De Arken en 10-24-18
De: Herman Wouk
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The Beautiful and Damned
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 930
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 757
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 762
Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."
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5 out of 5 stars
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i loved it
- De Emily en 01-20-05
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- De: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 894
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 789
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 788
The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long live Maigret
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-19-14
De: Georges Simenon, y otros
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The Royal Correspondent
- A Novel
- De: Alexandra Joel
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel - set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s - about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story engaging. Narrator not so much.
- De Anne M. Kelley en 09-15-22
De: Alexandra Joel
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Where Love Has Gone
- De: Harold Robbins
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
In love and soon to be a father, Luke Carey has the life he's always wanted. That is until a mysterious, late-night phone call summons him to San Francisco. Luke's first daughter, whom he hasn't seen in six years, 14-year-old Danielle, needs him, and he's desperate to do anything he can to help. But coming back into Danielle's life means facing his ex-wife, Nora, and the explosive, violent drama of the life he left behind.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Will it ever end?
- De Amazon Customer en 04-23-22
De: Harold Robbins
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The Lonely Lady
- De: Harold Robbins
- Narrado por: Maria Debonair
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
Meet JeriLee Randall, aspiring actress, ambitious writer, and sexual powerhouse. It is this ambition that takes her away from her tiny hometown of Port Clare and sets her on a collision course with her future. Surviving on determination and seduction, she makes her way to Broadway and then on to Hollywood. The bright lights mask a deeper darkness, and JeriLee is quickly drawn into a world of greed, drugs, casting couches, and smooth-talking power players.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Lonely Lady
- De Shelly-Ann Brown en 02-25-21
De: Harold Robbins
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrado por: Blair Brown
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24,835
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22,228
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22,124
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A strong story
- De Anita Kristensen en 06-08-19
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Bel Ami
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 159
Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami follows journalist Georges Duroy and his increasing stature among the Paris elite. With an immense thirst for power, Georges is not above an almost gleeful use of wealthy mistresses to achieve his ends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bel Ami or how to socially climb in 1885 Paris
- De Neil Chisholm en 12-03-13
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The Godmothers
- A Novel
- De: Camille Aubray
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 761
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 677
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 671
Meet the Godmothers: Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family's favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy French girl from upstate New York, escapes an abusive husband after falling in love with Johnny, the oldest of the brothers. Lucy, a tough-as-nails Irish nurse, ran away from a strict girls' home and marries Frankie, the sensuous middle son. And the glamorous Petrina, the family's only daughter, graduates with honors from Barnard College despite a past trauma that nearly caused a family scandal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Easy Enjoyable Read
- De Bunny en 06-23-21
De: Camille Aubray
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The Wall
- De: John Hersey
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 29 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of 40 men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty - a gripping and visceral story, impossible to pause.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Phil en 06-14-21
De: John Hersey