The Story of the Lost Child
The Neapolitan Novels, Book 4
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Elena Ferrante
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The Neopolitan quartet traces the friendship between Elena and Lila, from their childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Naples to their 30s, when both women are mothers but each has chosen a different path.
Their lives are still inextricably linked, for better or worse, especially when it comes to the drama of a lost child.
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Marina and Lee
- The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- De: Priscilla Johnson McMillan
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray, Joseph Finder
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Marina and Lee is one of the best and truest audiobooks about the Kennedy assassination. Priscilla Johnson McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s she knew Kennedy well for a time when he was hospitalized with Addison's disease. She talked to him frequently, brought him books, knew his wife, and formed a strong opinion of the sort of man he was. What is astonishing is that she also knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now I know why he did it
- De Rodd en 06-09-14
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Things I've Been Silent About
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Naila Azad
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Family portrait in the frame of history
- De Galina COS en 07-02-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Kokoro
- De: Natsume Soseki
- Narrado por: Matt Shea
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 431
The subject of Kokoro, which can be translated as 'the heart of things' or as 'feeling,' is the delicate matter of the contrast between the meanings the various parties of a relationship attach to it. In the course of this exploration, Soseki brilliantly describes different levels of friendship, family relationships, and the devices by which men attempt to escape from their fundamental loneliness. The novel sustains throughout its length something approaching poetry, and it is rich in understanding and insight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Heart Of Things, Relationships & Feelings
- De Sara en 04-27-15
De: Natsume Soseki
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A Happy Marriage
- A Novel
- De: Rafael Yglesias
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret’s life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, children, and Enrique.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Difficult Review -- A Difficult Read
- De Lulu en 06-04-12
De: Rafael Yglesias
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At Home with the Templetons
- De: Monica McInerney
- Narrado por: Ulli Birve
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in country Australia, they set the locals talking – and with good reason. From the outside, the seven Templetons seem so bohemian, peculiar even. No one is more intrigued by the family than their neighbours, single mother Nina Donovan and her young son Tom. Before long, the two families' lives become entwined in unexpected ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A dreadful mistake
- De Julie en 11-14-10
De: Monica McInerney
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
- A Novel
- De: John Boyne
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,163
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6,516
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,485
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding. A Must listen.
- De Keith G en 09-04-17
De: John Boyne
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Princess
- A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
- De: Jean Sasson
- Narrado por: Catherine Byers
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 931
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 810
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 814
Princess describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, and her country. Sultana tells of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: 13-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age; young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room". Princess is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and courage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story but...
- De Jay Friedman en 07-25-14
De: Jean Sasson
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 135
In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
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5 out of 5 stars
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clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Crime and Punishment
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Constantine Gregory
- Duración: 22 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,067
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,875
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,873
A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty-stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means? Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov makes his decision and then has to live with it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterpiece
- De Timothy en 02-20-16
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Forbidden Sister
- Forbidden, Book 1
- De: V. C. Andrews
- Narrado por: Amy Rubinate
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Emmie Wilcox was only six when her sister, Roxy, was thrown out of their New York City apartment. Their stern father's military style left no room for rebellion, and Roxy was continually defiant and rebellious. Emmie is obedient, respectful. Two sisters, total opposites - yet Emmie is secretly obsessed with the mystery and imposed silence surrounding Roxy. She wants excitement, and being a good girl all the time is harder than it seems. Finally, Emmie goes behind her father's back to track down and spy on the sister she can't help but be fascinated with.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love VC Andrews series !
- De Grace R. en 02-05-18
De: V. C. Andrews
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Jennie Gerhardt
- A Novel
- De: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Jennie Gerhardt is the tragic story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from an extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs with two different men from a much higher social class. How members of her family, the family of one of the wealthy men, and society in general react to her situation is the basis of this classic story.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Need a pick me up.
- De knvmxi en 05-15-16
De: Theodore Dreiser
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Where the Past Begins
- A Writer's Memoir
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Amy Tan
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 158
Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narration Issues
- De Sara en 12-14-17
De: Amy Tan
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The Golden Notebook
- De: Doris Lessing
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 27 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 439
Author Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer’s block by writing a comprehensive "golden notebook" that draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook. Anna’s struggle to unify the various strands of her life – emotional, political, and professional – amasses into a fascinating encyclopaedia of female experience in the ‘50s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcendent narration of a masterpiece.
- De @vmarinelli en 07-03-12
De: Doris Lessing
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Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- De: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 921
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 836
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 832
Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears ( The Queen, High Fidelity) and starring Judi Dench ( Skyfall, Notes on a Scandal) and Steve Coogan ( The Trip, Hamlet 2): the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman". Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Moving Story
- De Cariola en 02-09-14
De: Martin Sixsmith
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Death Is Hard Work
- A Novel
- De: Khaled Khalifa, Leri Price - translator
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is - after all - only a two-hour drive from Damascus. There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The bleakness of living in a war-torn country!
- De Susan en 03-20-19
De: Khaled Khalifa, y otros
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Daughter of Darkness
- De: V. C. Andrews
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 270
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 229
Seventeen-year-old Lorelei Patio is the adopted daughter of 200-year-old vampire Sergio Patio. She never realized why her family has had to move so often or why she is not permitted to get too friendly with other young people. In fact, except for one shocking moment that seemed more like a dream, Lorelei never fully realized who and what her father was nor what her sisters were brought up to do for him. But one day, that all changed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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not the usual vc andrews book
- De Janae en 09-14-13
De: V. C. Andrews