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The Marriage of Opposites
- De: Alice Hoffman
- Narrado por: Gloria Reuben, Tina Benko, Santino Fontana, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,390
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,953
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,945
Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's belief in her strengths and her deep, lifelong friendship with Jestine, Adelle's daughter. But Rachel's life is not her own.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intoxicating and Complex Journey
- De Mel en 09-02-15
- The Marriage of Opposites
- De: Alice Hoffman
- Narrado por: Gloria Reuben, Tina Benko, Santino Fontana, Alice Hoffman- afterword
Interesting mostly true story!
Revisado: 08-02-16
fascinating tale of lives dared to be true to morals and love, resulting in society showing its true colors.
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The Nightingale
- De: Kristin Hannah
- Narrado por: Polly Stone
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 107,170
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 97,323
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 97,101
With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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HEARTBREAKINGLY POIGNANT AND INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL
- De PatrioticMimi en 02-17-15
- The Nightingale
- De: Kristin Hannah
- Narrado por: Polly Stone
wrenching but worth it, narration not so good
Revisado: 08-02-16
sometimes reads like a dime novel but characters ring true. Narrator: french accent (maman) terrible!
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The Tsar of Love and Techno
- Stories
- De: Anthony Marra
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak, Rustam Kasymov
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 367
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 366
This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Nutcracker's Cosmonautic March
- De W Perry Hall en 10-08-15
- The Tsar of Love and Techno
- Stories
- De: Anthony Marra
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak, Rustam Kasymov
Brilliant
Revisado: 02-02-16
My favorite book of the past many years. The horrors of the Soviet era and its aftermath are somehow made almost beautiful and even wryly funny in this gorgeous, horrific, complex quilt of survival and loss, rivaling the best of Russian folklore.
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At the Water's Edge
- A Novel
- De: Sara Gruen
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,632
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,464
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,471
After disgracing themselves at a high society New Year's Eve party in Philadelphia in 1944, Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a former army colonel who is already ashamed of his son’s inability to serve in the war. Ellis and his best friend, Hank, decide that the only way to regain the colonel's favor is to succeed where the colonel very publicly failed - by hunting down the famous Loch Ness monster.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Can't get past the narrator to finish the story.
- De tkenter en 04-01-15
- At the Water's Edge
- A Novel
- De: Sara Gruen
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
Not too subtle, but a fun read
Revisado: 06-08-15
A simple tale that is fairly predictable, but easy to read and provides good WWII history for those who slept through history class.
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A Farewell to Arms
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: John Slattery
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,080
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,038
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,009
The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is not unabridged
- De Valerian en 06-17-11
- A Farewell to Arms
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: John Slattery
Favorite Hemingway; fabulous narrator
Revisado: 01-23-12
What did you love best about A Farewell to Arms?
This is my favorite Hemingway story.
What did you like best about this story?
The innocence of young adulthood is smashed by the horror and chaos of war.
What does John Slattery bring to the story that you wouldn???t experience if you just read the book?
John Slattery narrates this story with elegance and skill. His ability to mimic an Italian accent, a British accent and a Scottish accent really made the story come alive.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
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Dead End Gene Pool
- A Memoir
- De: Wendy Burden
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest families in New York, thanks to the inherited fortune of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt. By 1955, the year of Wendy Burden's birth, the Burdens had become a clan of overfunded, quirky and brainy, steadfastly chauvinistic, and ultimately doomed bluebloods on the verge of financial and moral decline---and were rarely seen not holding a drink.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Distasteful story, bad narration
- De Susan en 08-02-10
- Dead End Gene Pool
- A Memoir
- De: Wendy Burden
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
Fun romp, terrible narration
Revisado: 08-23-10
I am loving this story. How else could us average folks peep into the world of the formerly uber-rich blue bloods of the robber baron era? Wendy Burdon deftly manages to report on her family's dysfunction with loving and hilarious portraits and vignettes. HOWEVER, where did poor Audible find this narrator, and how many people listened to this before it was approved?? Marlo refers to Dusty Springfeild's Wishing and Hoping as Wishing and Hopping, prounounces Schlumberger like a burger from the slums, completely mangles French accents, etc. Fingernails on the blackboard... Wendy B, you deserved far better than this! Next time, please read it yourself. You'd not only do it better, but presumably save a few bucks, too!
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