James P. Barraza
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Manhattan Beach
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind, Vincent Piazza
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,151
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,625
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,629
Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love !!
- De MNC en 10-28-17
- Manhattan Beach
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind, Vincent Piazza
Excellent character development
Revisado: 01-06-18
Author takes you into the head of its main characters in an emotional and gripping journey. Multiple readers enhance effect. Very entertaining real life scenarios.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- De: Mark Sullivan
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 17 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48,274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43,256
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 43,070
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- De Chip Atkinson en 08-07-17
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- De: Mark Sullivan
- Narrado por: Will Damron
Astounding experience
Revisado: 08-30-17
Powerful story of war experience in Italy. Profoundly personal love between two young people. Excruciating description of war atrocities. Learned a lot about wartime Italy.
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Cloudsplitter
- A Novel
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 29 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War, when slavery was tearing the country apart. But within this broader scope, Russell Banks has given us a riveting, suspenseful, heartbreaking narrative filled with intimate scenes of domestic life, of violence and action in battle, of romance and familial life and death that make the listener feel in astonishing ways what it is like to be alive in that time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating read
- De James P. Barraza en 08-02-17
- Cloudsplitter
- A Novel
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
Captivating read
Revisado: 08-02-17
Would you listen to Cloudsplitter again? Why?
Yes, gave me a new perspective on a topic I knew little about.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Cloudsplitter?
The death of Owen's niece from accidental scalding.
Which character – as performed by Pete Larkin – was your favorite?
John Brown by far!
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes. Remembrances of Owen and how they were described were extraordinary.
Any additional comments?
As a southerner with predisposed attitudes toward slavery, this book opened my mind to the realities of how horrible things were for blacks and the terrible price so many people paid.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45,880
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41,513
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41,342
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
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
Gentlemen is Outstanding
Revisado: 07-24-17
Loved it! Wonderfully written, exceptional reading, highly recommend! Quite a bit of Russian historical information.
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On Power
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Robert A. Caro
- Duración: 1 h y 42 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,034
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,690
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,680
From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time National Book Award winner Robert A. Caro: a short, penetrating reflection on the evolution and workings of political power - for good and for ill.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could be called 'On Robert Caro'
- De Anna en 09-04-17
- On Power
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Robert A. Caro
Great author disappointing product
Revisado: 05-16-17
Robert sounds tired. Not much new. Enjoyed the rehash but entirely too short for cost.
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Inga
- Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect
- De: Scott Farris
- Narrado por: Scott Farris
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
In addition to her romance with Kennedy, Arvad married four times - including to an Egyptian prince, the brilliant filmmaker Paul Fejos, and the famed cowboy movie star Tim McCoy. She had affairs with Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch, the noted surgeon Dr. William Cahan, and Winston Churchill's right hand man, Baron Robert Boothby. But by all accounts her admirers among the European and American elite loved Inga not for her physical beauty, but for her joie de vivre.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Kennedy Read
- De James P. Barraza en 04-14-17
- Inga
- Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect
- De: Scott Farris
- Narrado por: Scott Farris
Excellent Kennedy Read
Revisado: 04-14-17
Excellent read for anyone who is a Kennedy aficionado. Learned more information re Kennedy family and particularly Jack and what was apparently the love of his life. Packed with inside information.
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The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 746
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 664
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 658
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Vivid Dramatic Accounting
- De Jean en 11-11-16
- The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
great read
Revisado: 11-17-16
liked. perspective from both men. in depth political as well as military position. a bit long in the finish.
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