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Grand Hotel

by Vicki Baum, Margot Bettauer Dembo ...

Translated by Basil Creighton ...

A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. ... Read more

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A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin.
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Grand Hotel

by Vicki Baum ...

The basis for the Broadway play and Oscar-winning film: "Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes" ( Shelf Awareness ).In Berlin's luxurious Grand Hotel, the lives of rich and famous guests play out in front of the all-seeing eyes of the humble porters, chambermaids, an... ... Read more

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The basis for the Broadway play and Oscar-winning film: "Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes" ( Shelf Awareness ).In Berlin's luxurious Grand Hotel, the lives of rich and famous guests play out in front of the all-seeing eyes of the humble porters, chambermaids, an...
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Grand Hotel. Basil Creighton (Translator). Illustrated

by Vicki Baum ...

Translated by Basil Creighton ...

Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel is a timeless classic of 20th-century literature that captures the intersecting lives of strangers within the walls of Berlin’s most luxurious hotel. Behind the glittering façade of wealth and elegance, guests from different walks of life—an aging ballerina, a terminally ill bookkeeper, a charming but desperate baron, a ruthless businessman, and a hopeful young ... Read more

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Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel is a timeless classic of 20th-century literature that captures the intersecting lives of strangers within the walls of Berlin’s most luxurious hotel. Behind the glittering façade of wealth and elegance, guests from different walks of life—an aging ballerina, a terminally ill bookkeeper, a charming but desperate baron, a ruthless businessman, and a hopeful young
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Grand Hotel

by Vicki Baum ...

''Grand Hotel'' by Vicki Baum was first published in the original German in 1929 and then in this very successful English translation by Basil Creighton, published in 1930, and now public domain. A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum’s celebrated novel, a Weimar-era best seller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the ... Read more

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''Grand Hotel'' by Vicki Baum was first published in the original German in 1929 and then in this very successful English translation by Basil Creighton, published in 1930, and now public domain. A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum’s celebrated novel, a Weimar-era best seller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the
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Love and Death in Bali

by Vicki Baum ...

Set in the first decade of the 20th century, this moving book shares the tragic reality of the Dutch invasion of Bali and the mass suicides that ensued.In Love and Death in Bali, renowned author Vicki Baum skillfully intermeshes several different narratives that all culminate in the infamous puputan (the "ending"), the slaughter and mass suicides that brought the old Bali to an end in 1906. ... Read more

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Set in the first decade of the 20th century, this moving book shares the tragic reality of the Dutch invasion of Bali and the mass suicides that ensued.In Love and Death in Bali, renowned author Vicki Baum skillfully intermeshes several different narratives that all culminate in the infamous puputan (the "ending"), the slaughter and mass suicides that brought the old Bali to an end in 1906.
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Grand Hotel

by Vicki Baum ...

Narrated by Katherine Anderson ...

Unabridged

11 hours

Everyone comes to the Grand Hotel with a purpose. No one leaves the same.In a glittering Berlin luxury hotel, a handful of strangers arrive carrying private dreams and quiet desperation. A fading ballerina fights for one last moment in the spotlight. A powerful industrialist—facing death—searches for meaning beyond his fortune. A charming baron risks everything on love and luck. Around them, hotel ... Read more

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Everyone comes to the Grand Hotel with a purpose. No one leaves the same.In a glittering Berlin luxury hotel, a handful of strangers arrive carrying private dreams and quiet desperation. A fading ballerina fights for one last moment in the spotlight. A powerful industrialist—facing death—searches for meaning beyond his fortune. A charming baron risks everything on love and luck. Around them, hotel
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Skylight

A Novel

by José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa ...

Unabridged

12 hours

Skylight has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

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The Devil’s Claw

A Jennifer Dorey Mystery

by Lara Dearman ...

Narrated by Fiona Hardingham, Ralph Lister ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Jennifer Dorey Mysteries
Unabridged

10 hours 4 min

Following a traumatic incident in London, journalist Jennifer Dorey has returned home to Guernsey, taking a job as a local newspaper reporter. When she finds a drowned woman on a beach, Jennifer uncovers something much bigger and more sinister than she first thought.Jennifer enlists the help of DCI Michael Gilbert, an officer on the verge of retirement, to investigate a pattern of similar deaths ... Read more

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Following a traumatic incident in London, journalist Jennifer Dorey has returned home to Guernsey, taking a job as a local newspaper reporter. When she finds a drowned woman on a beach, Jennifer uncovers something much bigger and more sinister than she first thought.Jennifer enlists the help of DCI Michael Gilbert, an officer on the verge of retirement, to investigate a pattern of similar deaths
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Valiant Gentlemen

A Novel

by Sabina Murray ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

20 hours 15 min

In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward's extraordinary wife, the Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford. Valiant Gentlemen takes the reader on an intimate journey, from Ward and Casement's misadventurous youth in the ... Read more

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In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward's extraordinary wife, the Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford. Valiant Gentlemen takes the reader on an intimate journey, from Ward and Casement's misadventurous youth in the
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Why Read the Classics?

by Italo Calvino ...

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

Unabridged

9 hours 42 min

“All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics.”—from Why Read the Classics?Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in ... Read more

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“All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics.”—from Why Read the Classics?Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in
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A Voyage Long and Strange

Rediscovering the New World

by Tony Horwitz ...

Narrated by John H. Mayer ...

Unabridged

17 hours 16 min

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists ... Read more

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On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists
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Dressed for a Dance in the Snow

Women's Voices from the Gulag

by Monika Zgustova ...

Narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

An unexpectedly uplifting account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors.The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustova’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament ... Read more

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An unexpectedly uplifting account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors.The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustova’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament
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