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Amor Towles
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From the New York Times best-selling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility comes a stylish and alluring new story about art, money, and a precious family heirloom - brought magically to life by the beloved voice of six-time Emmy-winner John Lithgow.
Like many well-to-do Upper East Siders over the age of 65, esteemed art appraiser Percival Skinner had planned to spend his retirement living off his savings. But a market correction has left him living below his prior means. One day he’s visited by a dapper fixer in search of a famous work by the Renaissance master Giuseppe Didomenico. Skinner knows the work well: The original was owned by his ancestor, and was passed down through his family over the generations. If, as an intermediary, he can coordinate a sale, a small fortune awaits. Problem is, he might not be the only one on the make.
Told with the quixotic energy of a classic Henry James tale and the gleeful absurdity of drawing-room comedy, this playful and effortlessly heartwarming story from one of America’s most gifted writers is a welcome reminder that sometimes what we find is more valuable than what we are looking for.
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About the Creator
About the Performer
John Lithgow’s celebrated career began on the stage. Weeks after he made his 1973 Broadway debut in David Storey’s The Changing Room, he won his first Tony Award. Since that promising beginning, he has performed on Broadway more than 20 times, with iconic roles in M. Butterfly, The Front Page, Sweet Smell of Success (for which he won his second Tony Award), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He’s been nominated for more than ten Emmy Awards and has won six, for unforgettable performances including his portrayals of Winston Churchill on The Crown, serial killer Arthur Mitchell on Dexter, and alien High Commander Dick Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun. Lithgow’s extensive television work has also won him two Golden Globes, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, and a Critics' Choice Television Award. A two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor (The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment), he is also an accomplished painter and the author of the memoir, Drama: An Actor’s Education, and several best-selling children’s books.
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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces, and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The language is astoundingly beautiful.
- De Kindle Customer en 05-30-17
De: Niall Williams
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You Have Arrived at Your Destination
- Forward collection
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: David Harbour
- Duración: 1 h y 22 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,082
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,076
When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De RueRue en 10-19-19
De: Amor Towles
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
- De: Amor Towles - editor, Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright, Christina Delaine, Terrence Kidd
- Duración: 21 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T. C. Boyle. Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, New York Times bestseller Amor Towles has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not For Me
- De 3POnR2 en 03-12-24
De: Amor Towles - editor, y otros
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Table for Two
- Fictions
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,524
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,374
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,374
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I adore Amor Towles!!
- De Deb Mitchell en 04-20-24
De: Amor Towles
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Lessons
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon McBurney
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 599
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 593
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Simon McBurney gets my 100% rating
- De Peggy M en 09-26-22
De: Ian McEwan
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Open House
- De: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrado por: Becky Baker
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 391
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 219
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 221
In this superb novel - an Oprah Book Club selection - a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house to strangers and her heart to the simple miracle of possibility.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Open House
- De Iris en 11-11-03
De: Elizabeth Berg
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History of the Rain
- De: Niall Williams
- Narrado por: Jennifer McGrath
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 205
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces, and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The language is astoundingly beautiful.
- De Kindle Customer en 05-30-17
De: Niall Williams
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The Lincoln Highway
- A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel)
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, Dion Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23,105
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20,374
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20,251
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm totally opposite
- De Meaghan Bynum en 10-10-21
De: Amor Towles
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46,005
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41,625
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41,455
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- De Cathy Lindhorst en 08-27-17
De: Amor Towles
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The Best Short Stories 2024
- The O. Henry Prize Winners
- De: Amor Towles - editor, Jenny Minton Quigley - editor
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Kristen DiMercurio, Blair Young, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by Kate DiCamillo, Jess Walter, Dave Eggers, Allegra Goodman, Jai Chakrabarti, Francisco Gonzalez, and more.
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2 out of 5 stars
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First several are Bleak, downers
- De Otis Lake en 04-07-25
De: Amor Towles - editor, y otros
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Rules of Civility
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,925
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,564
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,531
On the last night of 1937, 25-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society - where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bright Young Things in a Dark World
- De Michele Kellett en 08-13-12
De: Amor Towles
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Night Came with Many Stars
- De: Simon Van Booy
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 144
In Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible!
- De Laissie en 09-24-21
De: Simon Van Booy
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Last Bus to Wisdom
- A Novel
- De: Ivan Doig
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,803
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,479
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,470
The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an 11-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a lovely final book.
- De B.J. en 02-26-16
De: Ivan Doig
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Foster
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 947
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 809
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 806
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- De CTKG en 11-01-22
De: Claire Keegan
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Thalia Book Club: Amor Towles "A Gentleman in Moscow"
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Liesl Schillinger, Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 24
Brimming with humor and wit, an unforgettable cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, A Gentleman in Moscow casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose. Amor Towles joins us for an evening of conversation with Liesl Schillinger on this thrilling new work. With a reading by Tony Award-winning actor Boyd Gaines.
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1 out of 5 stars
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poor audio
- De toppadiddypop en 01-10-18
De: Amor Towles
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- De: Shehan Karunatilaka
- Narrado por: Shivantha Wijesinha
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 242
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Splendid...
- De Paul Frandano en 02-07-23
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Crossing to Safety
- De: Wallace Stegner
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,613
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,378
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,380
One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two couples that meet during the Great Depression and form a lifelong bond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Stegner and his beautiful last book
- De Rebecca en 11-16-13
De: Wallace Stegner
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The Space Between Us
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Purva Bedi
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,018
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017
Best-selling author Thrity Umrigar won the Nieman Fellowship and earned a finalist spot for the PEN/Beyond Margins award with The Space Between Us. Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though separated by their stations in life, the two women share bonds of womanhood that prove far stronger than the divisions of class or culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Story that stays with you
- De gardener97 en 04-25-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 449
Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Kate Atkinson multi-generational story
- De Satisfied Customer en 11-08-18
De: Kate Atkinson
Perfection
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Absolutely delightful
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You can never go wrong with John Lithgow
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Delightfully Pompous
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We highly recommend it. 😎😎😎
Excellent
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Delicious narration by john lithgow
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Great listen!
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Why We SO Miss Manhattan (when away)
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Excellent Story...the voice
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Great short story!
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