The Storyteller's Secret
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Soneela Nankani
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By:
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Sejal Badani
About this listen
An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.
From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.
Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past.
Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi - her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant - who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.
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- Narrated by: Carmine Gallo
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 667
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 590
In The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch on and Others Don't, keynote speaker, best-selling author, and communication expert Carmine Gallo reveals the keys to telling powerful stories that inspire, motivate, educate, build brands, launch movements, and change lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ehhh
- By J on 11-23-18
By: Carmine Gallo
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The Sun's Shadow
- A Novel
- By: Sejal Badani
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd, Vanessa Johansson
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
Celine’s life is spiraling out of control. She’s in danger of losing the beloved equestrian farm that was her childhood home. Her distant husband, Eric, is devoting a suspicious amount of time to a stunning new colleague. Then her young son, Brian, receives a devastating cancer diagnosis. As her life falls apart, she faces an impossible fight
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5 out of 5 stars
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love, trust, family
- By Gwen on 03-27-25
By: Sejal Badani
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Paper Wife
- A Novel
- By: Laila Ibrahim
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,701
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,166
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,155
Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife - a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and detainment on Angel Island. But when she finally reaches San Francisco, she’s met with a surprise. Her husband, Chinn Kai Li, is a houseboy, not the successful merchant he led her to believe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just okay..disappointed
- By Donna Smith McG on 11-03-18
By: Laila Ibrahim
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The Widower's Tale
- A Novel
- By: Julia Glass
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 527
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4 out of 5 stars 270
In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, 70-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: Reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. No longer can he remain aloof from his community.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Shedding old skin ...
- By Kelly on 09-23-10
By: Julia Glass
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The Woman in the White Kimono
- A Novel
- By: Ana Johns
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 299
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 298
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man - an American sailor, a gaijin - and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child, she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.
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1 out of 5 stars
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DO NOT LISTEN! Decent story, HORRIBLE narration!!!
- By David Meier on 05-07-20
By: Ana Johns
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The Days Before Us
- Good Intentions Collection
- By: Sejal Badani
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4 out of 5 stars 27
Autumn, a mother-to-be, has an unsteady grip on the meaning of family. Her father abandoned her. She hasn’t seen her estranged mother in more than twelve years. And her marriage is crumbling. As Autumn struggles with painful memories of her childhood and fosters hopes for her own baby’s future, she must come to terms with the past to be the mother she and her child need her to be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written, enjoyable
- By blazer188 on 06-09-24
By: Sejal Badani
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A Single Thread
- A Novel
- By: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,504
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,315
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,306
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well-written but Not for Everyone
- By Janna Wong Healy on 04-05-20
By: Tracy Chevalier
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The Storyteller of Casablanca
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,332
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,175
Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters. It’s a world away from the trouble back home—and Josie loves it. Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city, Zoe, is struggling—with her marriage, her baby daughter and her new life as an expat in an unfamiliar place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sweet and profound
- By EYM on 11-15-21
By: Fiona Valpy
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The Complete Jaipur Trilogy
- The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris
- By: Alka Joshi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Ariyan Kassam, Deepa Samuel
- Length: 33 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 445
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 413
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Story5 out of 5 stars 413
Vivid and compelling, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own. Years later, she is confronted by her husband who has tracked her down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An fabulously expanding adventure !
- By Miki Lee on 11-24-23
By: Alka Joshi
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Ruthie Ann Miles, Kimiko Glenn, Alex Allwine, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,165
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,954
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,896
The thrilling new novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple.
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5 out of 5 stars
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***EXCELLENT*** Six stars if I could !!
- By ROBIN on 04-10-17
By: Lisa See
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The Keeper of Happy Endings
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman, Hope Newhouse
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,852
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,477
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,458
Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline’s world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams, determined to forget.
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3 out of 5 stars
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French accent
- By Lilya on 10-22-21
By: Barbara Davis
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The God of Small Things
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,743
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,440
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,436
Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens when it was first published 20 years ago, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of an Indian family in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthy Booker winner!
- By Saman on 08-10-17
By: Arundhati Roy
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The Time Keeper
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,095
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,859
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,859
From the author who's inspired millions worldwide with books like Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most imaginative novel yet, The Time Keeper--a compelling fable about the first man on earth to count the hours.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing and thought provoking story
- By Karen F on 10-04-12
By: Mitch Albom
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The Palace of Illusions
- By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,209
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 986
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 988
The novel traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India.
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5 out of 5 stars
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timeless story
- By Richard on 03-15-08
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,863
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22,252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,148
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
- By Anita Kristensen on 06-08-19
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The Museum of Failures
- By: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 287
Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl—and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that his mother is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I loved this story...until I didn't...
- By R Cravey on 11-24-23
By: Thrity Umrigar
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Before I Let You Go
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,699
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,545
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,546
The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister's voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar - and in trouble, again. Lexie has always bailed Annie out, given her money, a place to sleep, sent her to every kind of rehab. But this time, she's not just strung out - she's pregnant and in premature labor. If she goes to the hospital, she'll lose custody of her baby - maybe even go to prison. But the alternative is unthinkable.
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3 out of 5 stars
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To much whining
- By angel on 04-24-18
By: Kelly Rimmer
An amazing love story about family and friendships
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A MUST Read!!!
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the story teller had me in India.
I wanted to hear more of what happened after the children went to America.
I didn't want it to end!!
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Amazing!
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This book is a must-listen!
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Glad I ignored the negative reviews
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Amazing!
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Learning the culture and traditions while hearing a great love storytelling
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Fabulous Book
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A special story
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