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Freshwater
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance125
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Story125
Ada was born with one foot on the other side. Having prayed her into existence, her parents, Saul and Saachi, struggle to deal with the volatile and contradictory spirits peopling their troubled girl. When Ada comes of age and heads to college, the entities within her grow in power and agency. An assault leads to a crystallization of her selves: Asughara and Saint Vincent. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves - now protective, now hedonistic - seize control of Ada, her life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction.
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Mindblowing seems a little on the nose..
- By Amazon Customer on 08-08-19
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Freshwater
- Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 27-12-18
- Language: English
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The Novel Habits of Happiness: Isabel Dalhousie, Book 10
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance128
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Story128
From a small town outside Edinburgh comes the news that a young boy has been recounting vivid recollections of a past life: a perfect description of an island off the coast of Scotland which he couldn't possibly know and a house there where he claims to have spent his former life. When the boy's mother asks Isabel to investigate his claims, she feels she must - of course! - help them learn the truth, and she and her husband, Jamie, set off for the island.
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Poor quaility recording!
- By Julie White on 02-06-15
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The Novel Habits of Happiness: Isabel Dalhousie, Book 10
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 10
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-05-15
- Language: English
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La ricreazione è finita
- By: Dario Ferrari
- Narrated by: Riccardo Ricobello
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il legame e cerca di prolungare ad libitum la sua condizione di post-adolescente. Per spirito di contraddizione, partecipa a un concorso di dottorato in Lettere, e imprevedibilmente vince la borsa. Entra così nel mondo accademico e il suo professore, un barone di nome Sacrosanti, gli affida come tesi un lavoro sul viareggino Tito Sella, un terrorista morto in carcere.
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La ricreazione è finita
- Narrated by: Riccardo Ricobello
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 21-11-25
- Language: Italian
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Mister Teacher
- By: Jack Sheffield
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance55
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Story55
It's 1978, and Jack Sheffield begins his second year as headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. There are three letters on his desk - one makes him smile, one makes him sad and one is destined to change his life forever. This is from nine-year-old Sebastian, suffering...
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Heart warming!
- By Kindle Customer on 30-11-18
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Mister Teacher
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Series: Teacher, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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Fugly
- By: Jenny Rachel Weiner
- Narrated by: Tavi Gevinson, Ethan Jones, Heléne Yorke, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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Overall13
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Performance13
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31-year-old Lee has her dream job at tech startup Everfore—but being the youngest-looking person in the office means she's always fighting to be taken seriously among the bros on her team who treat her more like a kid sister than a colleague. When her boss challenges the team to develop the next viral app for Gen Z, Lee sees her chance to finally shine—even if it means going undercover as a high school student in the process.
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A true treat for all millennials
- By rosie hopegood on 27-03-26
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Fugly
- Narrated by: Tavi Gevinson, Ethan Jones, Heléne Yorke, Timothy Simons, Josh Pais, Oona Yaffe, Noah Pacht, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Savannah Ruiz, Sofie Zamchick
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-03-26
- Language: English
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Mary Ann in Autumn
- A Tales of the City Novel
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall96
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Performance88
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Story87
The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin’s Mary Ann in Autumn is...
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Loved it
- By Mrs K on 13-07-14
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Mary Ann in Autumn
- A Tales of the City Novel
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Series: Tales of the City, Book 8
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-11-10
- Language: English
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The Godfather
- The Lost Years
- By: Mark Winegardner
- Narrated by: Joe Grifasi
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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Overall44
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Performance34
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Story34
"The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete," begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, "until a year of delicate manoeuvring established Michael Corleone as the most powerful Family chief in the United States." The Godfather: The Lost Years takes place in the years 1955-65, but it is built upon the story of that "year of delicate political manoeuvring" and how, in winning the battle of that year, Michael Corleone set the stage to lose the war.
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How short the story is
- By Nick on 06-05-25
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The Godfather
- The Lost Years
- Narrated by: Joe Grifasi
- Series: The Godfather Returns (abridged), Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-11-05
- Language: English
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Dinner at the Night Library
- The perfect next comfort read for lovers of Japanese fiction
- By: Hika Harada, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
For fans of What You Are Looking For is in the Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Translated by Philip Gabriel, the translator of IQ84 and The Travelling Cat Chronicles The Night Library is no ordinary library. Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of...
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Dinner at the Night Library
- The perfect next comfort read for lovers of Japanese fiction
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-09-25
- Language: English
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No Humans Involved
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance36
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Story37
No Humans Involved stars necromancer Jaime Vegas. She’s on a television shoot in Brentwood, Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. Invisible hands brush her arms, she sees movements out of the corner of her eye, and unintelligible fragments of words are whispered in her ear. Jaime’s used to seeing the dead and hearing them clearly. But now, for the first time in her life, she knows what humans mean when they say they’re being haunted.
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Always a favorite!
- By Jj on 06-06-21
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No Humans Involved
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Series: Otherworld, Book 7
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-07-11
- Language: English
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A Kind of Loving
- By: Stan Barstow
- Narrated by: Richard Huw
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Overall27
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Performance24
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Story24
Stan Barstow's A Kind of Loving finds Vic Brown in a bleak Yorkshire industrial town, striving for maturity in his relationship with girlfriend Ingrid and her small-town ways. The story examines in great detail his feelings as the relationship develops.
Richard Huw perfectly captures the mood and the character in his reading.
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loved the series
- By keith on 13-02-11
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A Kind of Loving
- Narrated by: Richard Huw
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 16-09-08
- Language: English
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Heartbreak Hotel
- By: Deborah Moggach
- Narrated by: Nicky Henson
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall395
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Performance323
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Story329
The irrepressible Russell "Buffy" Buffery has upped sticks from London and moved to Knockton, Powys, to a B&B inherited from an old flame. With his future spread before him, and a string of failed marriages behind him, Buffy decides it's time for a new challenge. Meanwhile: Harold's wife has run off with a younger woman leaving him alone with his as-yet-unwritten novel narrated by Mary Pickford's cat; Amy's weedy boyfriend has turned out to be not so needy after all; and Andy's partner's corset-and-suspender-clad attempts at seduction are having anything but the desired effect.
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I did not want the story to end.
- By G. Myers on 15-03-13
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Heartbreak Hotel
- Narrated by: Nicky Henson
- Series: Buffy, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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The Other Woman
- By: Amanda Brookfield
- Narrated by: Emma Powell, Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance36
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Story36
On a normal day, in a normal house, on a normal street, wife and mother Fran has had enough. She packs a case, leaves a note for her bullying husband, Pete, and one for her beloved 21-year-old son, Harry, and heads to the airport - and freedom. In another house, on another street, Helena is desperately baiting her husband, Jack, into a fight. These days it feels like the only way to get Jack to take notice of her. Passionate, volatile, increasingly fragile, Helena is fast running out of hope.
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A wonderful book
- By Ellen Lingwood on 15-04-23
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The Other Woman
- Narrated by: Emma Powell, Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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コンビニ人間
- By: 村田 沙耶香
- Narrated by: 大久保 佳代子
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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第155回(2016年)芥川龍之介賞受賞作
36歳未婚女性、古倉恵子。
大学卒業後も就職せず、コンビニのバイトは18年目。
これまで彼氏なし。
オープン当初からスマイルマート日色駅前店で働き続け、
変わりゆくメンバーを見送りながら、店長は8人目だ。
日々食べるのはコンビニ食、夢の中でもコンビニのレジを打ち、
清潔なコンビニの風景と「いらっしゃいませ!」の掛け声が、
毎日の安らかな眠りをもたらしてくれる。
仕事も家庭もある同窓生たちからどんなに不思議がられても、
完璧なマニュアルの存在するコンビニこそが、
私を世界の正常な「部品」にしてくれる――。
ある日、婚活目的の新入り男性、白羽がやってきて、
そんなコンビニ的生き方は
「恥ずかしくないのか」とつきつけられるが……。
現代の実存を問い、
正常と異常の境目がゆらぐ衝撃のリアリズム小説。-
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Beware sound issues
- By nyami on 17-06-23
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Those People
- By: Louise Candlish
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall317
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Performance284
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Story286
Until Darren Booth moves in at number 1, Lowland Way, the neighbourhood is a suburban paradise. But soon after his arrival, disputes over issues like loud music and parking rights escalate all too quickly to public rows and threats of violence. Then, early one Saturday, a horrific crime shocks the street. As the police go house to house, the residents close ranks and everyone’s story is the same: Booth did it. But there’s a problem. The police don't agree with them.
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Neighbours from hell
- By SandraL on 09-07-19
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Those People
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-07-19
- Language: English
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This Book Will Save Your Life
- By: A. M. Homes
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance63
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Story64
Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide hole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house.
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brilliant book, well read
- By Leila on 05-04-09
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This Book Will Save Your Life
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 20-11-07
- Language: English
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House of Echoes
- By: Barbara Erskine
- Narrated by: Isla Blair
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Overall92
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Performance78
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Story80
When Joss, an adopted child, discovers that her real mother has left the beautiful family home, Belheddon Hall, to her, she is thrilled, until she discovers that the Hall is haunted by a presence which will not tolerate husbands or sons living in the house. Joss Grant is eager to begin a new...
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A nice enough story to pass some time
- By Jacq on 27-07-14
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House of Echoes
- Narrated by: Isla Blair
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 25-04-13
- Language: English
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The Revolving Door of Life: 44 Scotland Street, Book 10
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall185
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Performance167
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Story166
Once more we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its ninth season in The Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie and the gang.
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Bertie gets some freedom
- By Mary Carnegie on 01-08-17
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The Revolving Door of Life: 44 Scotland Street, Book 10
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: 44 Scotland Street, Book 10
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-09-15
- Language: English
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Essays in Love
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall238
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Performance195
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Story197
Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story. Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.
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Don't 'read' when your heart is breaking
- By Jeffiner Mitchell on 27-11-16
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Essays in Love
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-12-10
- Language: English
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Le Dernier Choix de Betty
- Destinée suédoise, tome 4
- By: Katarina Widholm
- Narrated by: Charlotte Duran
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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1955. Quatre ans se sont écoulés depuis la mort d'Olof Morin. Sa fille Martina, qui a désormais 17 ans, a quitté l'école pour se consacrer à plein temps aux débuts de sa brillante carrière de chanteuse lyrique. C'était sans compter son coup de foudre pour un jeune musicien de jazz américain qu'elle revoit à Venise. Mais le jour où tout bascule pour Martina, Betty doit affronter son passé et faire des choix.
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Le Dernier Choix de Betty
- Destinée suédoise, tome 4
- Narrated by: Charlotte Duran
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 16-07-25
- Language: French
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