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Midnight in Broad Daylight
- A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
- By: Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara - all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest - moved to Hiroshima, their mother's ancestral home. Eager to go back to his own land - America - Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor. Despite being sent to an internment camp, Harry dutifully volunteered to serve his country. Back in Hiroshima, his brothers, Frank and Pierce, became soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army.
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A must listen
- By Jon on 02-01-16
- Midnight in Broad Daylight
- A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
- By: Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
So engaging
Reviewed: 07-04-24
Story moved along nicely and its a story people need to hear. It could have been my in laws story.
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The Rent Collector
- By: Camron Wright
- Narrated by: Diane Dabczynski
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Mean Chey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money - a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.
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Good story but has some issues
- By BR on 02-23-16
- The Rent Collector
- By: Camron Wright
- Narrated by: Diane Dabczynski
Like a warm breeze
Reviewed: 12-13-23
I so enjoyed this book. The tone, pacing and visual descriptions in the story were great. Relaxing to read an quite unexpected
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The Dutch House
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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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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Not my favorite Patchett
- By Regina on 12-07-19
- The Dutch House
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks
Like swinging on the porch on summer afternoon
Reviewed: 05-13-20
Listening to this story is like wearing your favorite slippers and jammies. You walk comfortably through the rooms of the house with Ann Patchett who weaves a loving story across generations using the house as the main prop and told from the point of view of the families young son who grows up there. Tom Hanks is the PERFECT voice to tell this story. As I got captured by the story it became a page turner of a listen just like an afternoon cup of tea and warm fireplace hold you captive all afternoon too
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims?
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fascinating
- By Sara on 10-20-08
- The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Good info
Reviewed: 04-13-20
Listen with your older kids. Good to know info. Not too technical and easy to remember. Did u know that in one plane crash those who survived 7 only had all looked at the plane info in the sear pocket?
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The Lost Girls of Paris
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs - each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war.
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I don’t understand the good reviews
- By Heather on 03-30-19
- The Lost Girls of Paris
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace Thaxton
A true story delivered as a mystery
Reviewed: 11-20-19
Those readers who like non fiction and or mysteries, will enjoy the lost girls of Paris. It is set during WW II and rings true to there way women were treated at the time and holds the readers attention throughout. I enjoyed it.
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Next Year in Havana
- By: Chanel Cleeton
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia, Frankie Maria Corzo
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, 19-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest - until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary...Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee during the revolution. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate.
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Amazing story line but the performance...
- By Grace F on 07-10-18
- Next Year in Havana
- By: Chanel Cleeton
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia, Frankie Maria Corzo
Authentic
Reviewed: 11-20-19
Having lived and worked in Miami in the early 80's this story rings true as it captures the tension between those who left Cuba and those who stayed woven across 3 generations of a family. The book is an enjoyable read and rings true in place, time, and characterizations. It provides a glimpse of the politics involved. A fun fictional start to deeper reading.......or not.
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Green City in the Sun
- By: Barbara Wood
- Narrated by: Edie Tusor
- Length: 27 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1917 Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with those of the Mathenge tribe, an African family that has lived on the land for years. Grace soon finds a deadly rival in Mama Wachera, an African medicine woman who fights to maintain native traditions against the encroaching whites.
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Beautifully written
- By nancy wanty on 12-18-23
- Green City in the Sun
- By: Barbara Wood
- Narrated by: Edie Tusor
Fun if you are going on Safari in Kenya
Reviewed: 11-20-19
A family history saga, with beautiful description of place and life as it was in Kenya. I enjoyed it because Nairobi and the parks I visited: Ambrosseli, Ole Prejeta, and Masaii Mara near Sand River all feature in the book. So it was fun to have seen the locations described. I think it was actually better that I read it right after I returned as the locations were much more familiar to me.
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Claude & Camille
- A Novel of Monet
- By: Stephanie Cowell
- Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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In the mid-19th century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his fathers nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his fathers will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris.
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As a painter
- By janice hedwall on 03-08-16
- Claude & Camille
- A Novel of Monet
- By: Stephanie Cowell
- Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Focus: Monet's relationships not life's work
Reviewed: 11-20-19
Fun read. Very personal account of his relationships with family and especially his first wife. Reads easily. Excellent for those who like the personal focus. Does touch on his painting, painting difficulties, and painting friends. If you are looking to familiarize yourself with the relationship with friends and family, the place and the painter this is the book for you. If you want a more scholarly study of Monet's struggles and work, look elsewhere.
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