Elizabeth Garber
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Ann Patchett
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,913
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,678
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,670
“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartfelt Essays, Beautifully Performed
- De Brent Holcomb en 11-23-21
- These Precious Days
- Essays
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Ann Patchett
perfect stories
Revisado: 01-23-25
i dont want to miss a word of these compelling stores of a life fully lived, observed, considered and written. thank you Ann.
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The Optimist's Daughter
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Eudora Welty
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 238
This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful writing
- De Teresa en 07-15-13
- The Optimist's Daughter
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Eudora Welty
Breathtaking writing
Revisado: 01-27-22
The scene that takes place during the long night in the storm in the dark house with a bird knocking on the doors is one of the most brilliant in Amerixan literature. incredible to hear the author read it.
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The Dutch House
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57,112
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 51,077
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50,744
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not my favorite Patchett
- De Regina en 12-07-19
- The Dutch House
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks
fantastic layered complexity of fsmily
Revisado: 10-20-19
I loved it. completely caught up in it. brother sister love and loss. the writing amazed me. I loved hearing Tom Hanks read it, with humor, anger, attitude, wisdom. A gift, this book.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- A Novel
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Neil Gaiman
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24,875
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22,591
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22,545
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie - magical, comforting, wise beyond her years - promised to protect him, no matter what.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shadows Dissolved in Vinegar
- De Cynthia en 06-20-13
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- A Novel
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Neil Gaiman
magical moving story
Revisado: 08-24-19
I was captivated, finished in tears. it all touched me so deeply and inspired me. I have such gratitude my 90 year old mother told me about it.
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My Salinger Year
- De: Joanna Rakoff
- Narrado por: Joanna Rakoff
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 176
At 23, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Rakoff is tasked with answering Salinger’s voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his readers around the world, she finds herself unable to type out the agency’s decades-old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger’s devotees, she abandons the template and begins writing back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story great performance
- De Marla en 05-22-15
- My Salinger Year
- De: Joanna Rakoff
- Narrado por: Joanna Rakoff
I loved this memoir!
Revisado: 04-28-19
I loved her voice creating a 24 year old's life confusion and feelings. I found the story of how deeply literature touches her. I loved the immersion of her time at the office and coming to know Salinger. Listening to this book, felt so much like listening to my own younger self enthralled with favorite books.
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Wishes and Wellingtons
- De: Julie Berry
- Narrado por: Jayne Entwistle
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17,486
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16,014
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,987
Maeve Merritt chafes at the rigid rules at her London boarding school for “Upright Young Ladies.” When punishment forces her to sort through the trash, she finds a sardine tin that houses a foul-tempered djinni with no intention of submitting to a schoolgirl as his master. Soon an orphan boy from the charitable home next door, a mysterious tall man in ginger whiskers, a disgruntled school worker, and a take-no-prisoners business tycoon are in hot pursuit of Maeve and her magical discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn’t want it to end
- De Julia en 10-05-18
- Wishes and Wellingtons
- De: Julie Berry
- Narrado por: Jayne Entwistle
I adored this girl's adventure
Revisado: 03-23-19
As an adult who loves Harry Potter, here was a spunky heroine in 1898 London who grabbed my attention and held it all the way through. I was amazed at how much I enjoyed this story and the complex puzzle of the plot resolving the story. delightful!!
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Elsey Come Home
- A Novel
- De: Susan Conley
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 22
When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, she knows he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we're done. Once a successful painter, now with two young daughters and unable to find a balance between her identities as painter, mother, and, especially, wife, Elsey fills her days worrying, drinking, and descending into desperate unhappiness. So, brochure in hand, she agrees to go and confront the ghosts of her past. There, she meets a group of men and women who will forever alter the way she understands herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply intimate journey with a mother and family
- De Elizabeth Garber en 03-11-19
- Elsey Come Home
- A Novel
- De: Susan Conley
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
Deeply intimate journey with a mother and family
Revisado: 03-11-19
Just went on a road trip and listened to it in two parts. A an engaging story that drew me in to each character and the mother's struggle with alcoholism.
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Now You See the Sky
- De: Catharine H. Murray
- Narrado por: Catharine H. Murray
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
When Catharine H. Murray travels to a small town on the banks of the Mekong River to work at a refugee camp, she falls in love and marries a local man with whom she has three sons. When their middle son is diagnosed with cancer at age five, their pursuit of a cure takes them from Thailand to Seattle, before they eventually return to Thailand, settling on a remote mountaintop. Full of honesty and grace, Now You See the Sky allows the listener to witness the fathomless loss of a beloved child and learn how tragedy can transform us, expand our vision, and make us more fully alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the authenticity of the story
- De knaber73 en 11-23-24
- Now You See the Sky
- De: Catharine H. Murray
- Narrado por: Catharine H. Murray
Quiet, honest beauty in the face of life and death
Revisado: 01-04-19
The author's quiet steady voice describes her life, love, and growing family in Thailand before and during the terminal illness of her middle young son. She incorporates the sounds of Thai language, details of cooking and details of life, as she lives with heartbreaking grief. Her steady thoughtful accounting brings in her spiritual work to greet each moment and challenge with loving kindness. I was moved, feeling a spacious quiet peacefulness in the face of loss. Quite an accomplishment to live and write this story.
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Becoming
- De: Michelle Obama
- Narrado por: Michelle Obama
- Duración: 19 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 182,226
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 161,915
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 161,033
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Didn't know what I was getting into
- De Kenneth Woodward en 12-05-18
- Becoming
- De: Michelle Obama
- Narrado por: Michelle Obama
An Accomplishment of such truthful realness
Revisado: 12-23-18
I was so moved, tearing up as I listened, over and over. Her strength and resilence is breathtaking.
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The Velveteen Daughter: A Novel
- De: Laurel Davis Huber
- Narrado por: Alex Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time, The Velveteen Rabbit, and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an obsessive love affair, and a spectacularly misguided marriage. Throughout, her life raft is her mother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Narrator makes this fine novel pulse with life
- De Elizabeth Garber en 09-12-18
- The Velveteen Daughter: A Novel
- De: Laurel Davis Huber
- Narrado por: Alex Lee
The Narrator makes this fine novel pulse with life
Revisado: 09-12-18
I had read this book first, but since I love audio books, I wanted to hear it read aloud. I was utterly enchanted. The narrator, Alex Lee, brings so much life and feeling and heart into the story so that the characters come to life, and become Real, like the Velveteen Rabbit!
This mother daughter story spans a lifetime, and we the reader enter the story just when there was an end of innocence, the moment when a young girl who was happy to draw at her mother's feet while she cooked, was catapulted to international fame as a child prodigy. The damage is profound, to the girl and her whole family, and we stand witness to the unfolding tragedy, as well as times of magic and delight. The way this book is structured, and the story moves forward and backward across time, is seamless and fascinating. A remarkable book and collaboration with the narrator!
Fortunately, I had a five hour drive across Maine and NH to listen in rapt attention to half the book! What a thrill!
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