
Girl Braiding Her Hair
Inspired by the True Story of a Revolutionary Female Artist History Forgot
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
3 meses gratis
Compra ahora por $24.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Leah Daniels
Acerca de esta escucha
Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, shed been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story, along with Ellie's, a modern woman a century later at a crossroads of her life, who pulls Suzanne from the shadows of the past into the light.
A brand-new novel from the author of the bestselling novel of THE SECRET LIFE OF SUNFLOWERS.
The perfect Book Club listen!
©2023 Marta Dana (P)2024 Marta DanaLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
The Secret Life of Sunflowers
- De: Marta Molnar, Dana Marton
- Narrado por: Kendra Murray
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law.
-
-
Nothing like a expected…
- De LOVETOQUILT en 05-06-23
De: Marta Molnar, y otros
-
Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
- De: Simone Arnold-Liebster
- Narrado por: Simone Arnold-Liebster
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
- Versión resumida
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
FACING THE LION is the autobiographical account of a young girl's faith and courage. In the years immediately preceding World War II, Simone Arnold is a young girl who delights in life – her doting parents, her loving aunts and uncles, and her grandparents at their mountain farm in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. As Simone grows into her preteen years, her parents turn from the Catholic Church and become devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simone, too, embraces the faith. The Nazi party (the "Lion") takes over Alsace-Lorraine, and Simone's schools become Nazi propaganda machines.
-
-
True apapè love
- De Jo en 04-09-25
-
The Violin Conspiracy
- A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)
- De: Brendan Slocumb
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Brendan Slocumb
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music.
-
-
Enjoyable But Flawed
- De woodbridge98 en 02-12-22
De: Brendan Slocumb
-
The Lives of Lee Miller
- De: Antony Penrose
- Narrado por: Esther Wane, Adam Grayson
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Condé Nast. Lee Miller, 1929 - Paris: Protégé and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography, develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer, and plays the statue in Cocteau's film Blood of a Poet. Lee Miller, 1939-45 - Europe: Living at times with her future husband, the painter Roland Penrose, she becomes a US war correspondent and covers the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris.
-
-
Lovely and introspective biography
- De Jessica en 04-20-25
De: Antony Penrose
-
Twist
- A Novel
- De: Colum McCann
- Narrado por: Colum McCann
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth.
-
-
So happy he’s still writing fiction
- De Franki en 03-31-25
De: Colum McCann
-
Mademoiselle Eiffel
- A Novel
- De: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Claire Eiffel, the beautiful, brilliant eldest daughter of the illustrious architect Gustave Eiffel, is doted upon with an education envied by many sons of the upper classes, and entirely out of the reach of most daughters. Claire’s idyllic childhood ends abruptly when, at fourteen, her mother passes away. It’s soon made clear that Gustave expects Claire to fill her mother’s place as caregiver to the younger children and as manager of their home.
-
-
The narration had me speeding up to get through it.
- De Hawk en 11-09-24
De: Aimie K. Runyan
-
The Secret Life of Sunflowers
- De: Marta Molnar, Dana Marton
- Narrado por: Kendra Murray
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law.
-
-
Nothing like a expected…
- De LOVETOQUILT en 05-06-23
De: Marta Molnar, y otros
-
Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
- De: Simone Arnold-Liebster
- Narrado por: Simone Arnold-Liebster
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
- Versión resumida
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
FACING THE LION is the autobiographical account of a young girl's faith and courage. In the years immediately preceding World War II, Simone Arnold is a young girl who delights in life – her doting parents, her loving aunts and uncles, and her grandparents at their mountain farm in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. As Simone grows into her preteen years, her parents turn from the Catholic Church and become devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simone, too, embraces the faith. The Nazi party (the "Lion") takes over Alsace-Lorraine, and Simone's schools become Nazi propaganda machines.
-
-
True apapè love
- De Jo en 04-09-25
-
The Violin Conspiracy
- A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)
- De: Brendan Slocumb
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Brendan Slocumb
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music.
-
-
Enjoyable But Flawed
- De woodbridge98 en 02-12-22
De: Brendan Slocumb
-
The Lives of Lee Miller
- De: Antony Penrose
- Narrado por: Esther Wane, Adam Grayson
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Condé Nast. Lee Miller, 1929 - Paris: Protégé and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography, develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer, and plays the statue in Cocteau's film Blood of a Poet. Lee Miller, 1939-45 - Europe: Living at times with her future husband, the painter Roland Penrose, she becomes a US war correspondent and covers the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris.
-
-
Lovely and introspective biography
- De Jessica en 04-20-25
De: Antony Penrose
-
Twist
- A Novel
- De: Colum McCann
- Narrado por: Colum McCann
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth.
-
-
So happy he’s still writing fiction
- De Franki en 03-31-25
De: Colum McCann
-
Mademoiselle Eiffel
- A Novel
- De: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Claire Eiffel, the beautiful, brilliant eldest daughter of the illustrious architect Gustave Eiffel, is doted upon with an education envied by many sons of the upper classes, and entirely out of the reach of most daughters. Claire’s idyllic childhood ends abruptly when, at fourteen, her mother passes away. It’s soon made clear that Gustave expects Claire to fill her mother’s place as caregiver to the younger children and as manager of their home.
-
-
The narration had me speeding up to get through it.
- De Hawk en 11-09-24
De: Aimie K. Runyan
-
Kingmaker
- Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
- De: Sonia Purnell
- Narrado por: Louise Brealey
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing–and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes–on both sides of the Atlantic–remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today.
-
-
Pamela reigns! But.....
- De Lucy Johnson en 11-30-24
De: Sonia Purnell
-
The Chanel Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Judithe Little
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they’ve grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive.
-
-
Straining Against Convention
- De Dan Collins en 05-15-21
De: Judithe Little
-
This Is a Love Story
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Soffer
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew.
-
-
A waste of time — not worth the credit
- De E. Zimmerman en 03-12-25
De: Jessica Soffer
-
Mary Jane
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Anya Blau
- Narrado por: Caitlin Kinnunen
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In 1970s Baltimore, 14-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house.
-
-
👍
- De Alana Torres en 05-22-21
-
Only the Beautiful
- De: Susan Meissner
- Narrado por: Xe Sands, Jorjeana Marie
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
California, 1938—When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser’s daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert’s spacious house with a secret, however—Rosie sees colors when she hears sound. She promised her mother she’d never reveal her little-understood ability to anyone, but the weight of her isolation and grief prove too much for her. Driven by her loneliness she not only breaks the vow to her mother, but in a desperate moment lets down her guard and ends up pregnant.
-
-
Seeing the world in colors…
- De Bridgeman Family en 03-04-24
De: Susan Meissner
-
The Tiffany Girls
- A Novel
- De: Shelley Noble
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous for his stained-glass windows, is planning a unique installation at the Paris World’s Fair, the largest in history. At their fifth-floor studio on Fourth Avenue, the artists of the Women’s Division of the Tiffany Glass Company are already working longer shifts to finish the pieces that Tiffany hopes will prove that he is the world’s finest artist in glass. Known as the “Tiffany Girls,” these women are responsible for much of the design and construction of Tiffany’s extraordinary glassworks, but none receive credit.
-
-
So good
- De John en 07-02-23
De: Shelley Noble
-
The Day the World Came to Town
- 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
- De: Jim DeFede
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of US airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill.
-
-
👍👍 From one of the Plane People
- De Timothy en 12-30-19
De: Jim DeFede
-
The Address
- A Novel
- De: Fiona Davis
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld, Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house the Dakota, leads to a job offer for Sara Smythe, her world is suddenly awash in possibility - no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America. The opportunity to be the female manager of the Dakota. And the opportunity to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like no one else...and is living in the Dakota with his wife and three young children.
-
-
Should be a movie!
- De Linda Slater en 10-19-17
De: Fiona Davis
-
Homeseeking
- De: Karissa Chen
- Narrado por: Katharine Chin, Kenneth Lee
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back. Suchi was seven when she first met Haiwen in their Shanghai neighborhood, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossomed into soul-deep love, but when Haiwen secretly enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me.
-
-
Vivid characters, uniquely delivered histories
- De Cherry D. en 04-23-25
De: Karissa Chen
-
Dear Theo
- The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh
- De: Irving Stone, Jean Stone
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 21 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was all scrupulously recorded and shared. In these letters, Van Gogh reveals himself as artist and man. Even more than if he had purposely intended to tell his life story, Van Gogh’s letters lay bare his deepest feelings, as well as his everyday concerns and his views of the world of art.
-
-
Worst narrator ever!
- De Aawendel en 03-28-14
De: Irving Stone, y otros
-
Klara's Truth
- A Novel
- De: Susan Weissbach Friedman
- Narrado por: Justine Reiss
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged mother, Bessie, that will dramatically change her life. Her father, she learns—the man who has been absent from her life for the last forty-three years, and about whom she has long been desperate for information—is dead. Has been for many years, in fact, which Bessie clearly knew.
-
-
Magnificent History, Stellar Narration
- De Jacqueline Tyler en 11-17-24
-
The Cartographer's Secret
- De: Tea Cooper
- Narrado por: Casey Withoos
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A gripping historical mystery for fans of Kate Morton and Natasha Lester’s The Paris Seamstress, The Cartographer’s Secret follows a young woman’s quest to heal a family rift as she becomes entangled in one of Australia’s greatest historical puzzles.
-
-
What Happened to Evie?
- De Anonymous User en 11-25-21
De: Tea Cooper
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
-
The Secret Life of Sunflowers
- De: Marta Molnar, Dana Marton
- Narrado por: Kendra Murray
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law.
-
-
Nothing like a expected…
- De LOVETOQUILT en 05-06-23
De: Marta Molnar, y otros
-
Sunflowers
- A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh
- De: Sheramy Bundrick
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In July 1888, in a public garden in Arles, France, Vincent van Gogh meets a young woman who will change his life forever. He came to Arles to escape the strains of Paris and find a different light for his painting. Meeting Rachel was the spark he needed to rededicate himself. Feeding off the energy of this fascinating woman, fighting the hopelessness deep inside him, Vincent throws himself into his work.
-
-
Understanding the Artist
- De William en 03-28-23
De: Sheramy Bundrick
-
The Colony Club
- A Novel
- De: Shelley Noble
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy Harriman is refused a room at the Waldorf because they don’t cater to unaccompanied females, she takes matters into her own hands. She establishes the Colony Club, the first women’s club in Manhattan, where visiting women can stay overnight and dine with their friends; where they can discuss new ideas, take on social issues, and make their voices heard. She hires the most sought-after architect in New York, Stanford White, to design the clubhouse.
-
-
Nicely done!
- De Kristyn Rose en 02-02-25
De: Shelley Noble
-
The Book of Longings
- A Novel
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò, Sue Monk Kidd
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with 18-year-old Jesus changes everything.
-
-
Made me cringe
- De Joan en 05-08-20
De: Sue Monk Kidd
-
The Chanel Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Judithe Little
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they’ve grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive.
-
-
Straining Against Convention
- De Dan Collins en 05-15-21
De: Judithe Little
-
The Memory of an Elephant
- De: Alex Lasker
- Narrado por: Scott Fleming
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Memory of an Elephant is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago. Interwoven with his narrative are the tumultuous lives of the family who raised and then lost him.
-
-
Compelling and moving!
- De TRENT en 11-03-22
De: Alex Lasker
-
The Secret Life of Sunflowers
- De: Marta Molnar, Dana Marton
- Narrado por: Kendra Murray
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law.
-
-
Nothing like a expected…
- De LOVETOQUILT en 05-06-23
De: Marta Molnar, y otros
-
Sunflowers
- A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh
- De: Sheramy Bundrick
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In July 1888, in a public garden in Arles, France, Vincent van Gogh meets a young woman who will change his life forever. He came to Arles to escape the strains of Paris and find a different light for his painting. Meeting Rachel was the spark he needed to rededicate himself. Feeding off the energy of this fascinating woman, fighting the hopelessness deep inside him, Vincent throws himself into his work.
-
-
Understanding the Artist
- De William en 03-28-23
De: Sheramy Bundrick
-
The Colony Club
- A Novel
- De: Shelley Noble
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy Harriman is refused a room at the Waldorf because they don’t cater to unaccompanied females, she takes matters into her own hands. She establishes the Colony Club, the first women’s club in Manhattan, where visiting women can stay overnight and dine with their friends; where they can discuss new ideas, take on social issues, and make their voices heard. She hires the most sought-after architect in New York, Stanford White, to design the clubhouse.
-
-
Nicely done!
- De Kristyn Rose en 02-02-25
De: Shelley Noble
-
The Book of Longings
- A Novel
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò, Sue Monk Kidd
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with 18-year-old Jesus changes everything.
-
-
Made me cringe
- De Joan en 05-08-20
De: Sue Monk Kidd
-
The Chanel Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Judithe Little
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they’ve grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive.
-
-
Straining Against Convention
- De Dan Collins en 05-15-21
De: Judithe Little
-
The Memory of an Elephant
- De: Alex Lasker
- Narrado por: Scott Fleming
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Memory of an Elephant is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago. Interwoven with his narrative are the tumultuous lives of the family who raised and then lost him.
-
-
Compelling and moving!
- De TRENT en 11-03-22
De: Alex Lasker
-
An American Beauty
- De: Shana Abe
- Narrado por: Gail Shalan
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and self-made multimillionaire, is drawn to Arabella from their first meeting. Collis is married and 30 years her senior, yet they are well-matched in temperament, and flirtation rapidly escalates into an affair.
-
-
Loved everything about it
- De Leigh H. en 07-10-23
De: Shana Abe
-
When the Jessamine Grows
- De: Donna Everhart
- Narrado por: Tiffany Morgan
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion is not favored by many in their community, including Joetta's own father-in-law, Rudean.
-
-
Fabulous Civil War era story
- De George P. en 01-28-24
De: Donna Everhart
-
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
- A Novel
- De: Marie Bostwick
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
By early 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan, Viv Buschetti, and Bitsy Cobb, suburban housewives in a brand-new "planned community" in Northern Virginia, appear to have it all. The fact that "all" doesn't feel like enough leaves them feeling confused and guilty, certain the fault must lie with them. Things begin to change when they form a book club with Charlotte Gustafson—the eccentric and artsy "new neighbor" from Manhattan—and read Betty Friedan's just-released book, The Feminine Mystique.
-
-
More Women Need to Read This
- De Amazon Customer en 05-02-25
De: Marie Bostwick
-
The Keeper of Hidden Books
- A Novel
- De: Madeline Martin
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things during times of hardship: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler’s forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising and persecution intensifying, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away, and even starting a clandestine book club.
-
-
Audiobook of the year for me, truly exceptional!
- De john en 08-02-23
De: Madeline Martin
-
The Last Bookshop in London
- A Novel of World War II
- De: Madeline Martin
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
August 1939: London is dismal under the weight of impending war with Germany as Hitler’s forces continue to sweep across Europe. Into this uncertain maelstrom steps Grace Bennett, young and ready for a fresh start in the bustling city streets she’s always dreamed of - and miles away from her troubled past in the countryside. With aspirations of working at a department store, Grace never imagined she’d wind up employed at Primrose Hill, an offbeat bookshop nestled in the heart of the city - after all, she’s never been much of a reader.
-
-
Very very seldom
- De Sherry Tritt Holton en 04-27-21
De: Madeline Martin
-
The Only Woman in the Room
- De: Marie Benedict
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.
-
-
incredible true story about heddy Lamar
- De S. Loew en 01-26-19
De: Marie Benedict
-
She's Come Undone
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 18 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Meet Dolores Price. She’s thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she’s determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up.
-
-
Really disappointing narrator!
- De DrJessWill en 01-21-12
De: Wally Lamb
-
The Indigo Girl
- A Novel
- De: Natasha Boyd
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting to become restless. Her mother wants nothing more than for their South Carolina endeavor to fail so they can go back to England. Soon her family is in danger of losing everything.
-
-
You must read The Indigo Girl
- De maureen m. mukhlis en 11-12-17
De: Natasha Boyd
-
The Glassmaker
- A Novel
- De: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes.
-
-
Wonderfully done history of glassmaking and Venetian culture through the eyes of one woman
- De Marilyn Shade en 07-10-24
De: Tracy Chevalier
-
Unsheltered
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Brilliantly executed and compulsively listenable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred - whether family or friends - and in the strength of the human spirit.
-
-
Spring for a professional narrator, please!
- De Gail D. en 11-05-18
-
Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures out to Walden Pond . . . and a muse to Emerson. But Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama.
-
-
I must’ve missed this group of thinkers in high school being friends
- De Liesl en 04-20-24
De: Allison Pataki
-
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
- De: Lisa See
- Narrado por: Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female patient.
-
-
Another Beautiful Novel from Lisa See!
- De TuxedoedCorgi95 en 06-06-23
De: Lisa See
So fascinating!
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Narrator and Book Review
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Paris art scene
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Some Paintings Should be Seen
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
History and current day story
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Love art and loved this story
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Lost fame
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Good read
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Subject
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
An insightful glimpse into the past
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.