
The Age of Light
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Whitney Scharer
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One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle.
"A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." (Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere)
"I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray.
Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever.
Lee's journey of self-discovery takes her from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, from inventing radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps as one of the first female war correspondents. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it's possible to reconcile stay true to herself while also fulfilling her artistic ambition - and what she will have to sacrifice to do so.
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"An absolutely gorgeous and feminist novel about art, love, and ownership, The Age of Light is truly a work of art in itself, both deeply moving and thrilling. Want to know what it's like to be an artist? Read this astonishing novel and then, like Lee Miller, take time to consider the extraordinary cost she paid to be herself."—Caroline Leavitt, Boston Globe
"The glittering bohemia of 1930s Paris, the pastoral boredom of mid-'60s Sussex, the hollowed-out carnage of postwar Europe; all come equally alive on the page, as do iconic figures like Ray and Cocteau and Kiki de Montparnasse. But none breathe more vividly than Miller herself: Fiercely independent but racked by self-doubt, desperate for affection and approval even as she chafed at sentiment, she spent decades fighting to find her voice. It was worth the wait."—Entertainment Weekly
"Is "woman behaves dangerously, lives wildly" a genre? If so, The Age of Light is its latest poster child. The novel is work of historical fiction about Lee Miller, a Vogue model who became one of the first female war correspondents. In Scharer's plot, Miller travels to Paris where she meets photographer Man Ray, who becomes her collaborator and lover. While most stories about Miller paint her as Ray's muse, this one portrays her as the independent and daring artist she truly was."—Glamour
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Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written by world-famous superstar Jonesy—but Jane hasn’t had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she’s seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight—the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired.
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love her but please get another narrator
- De Holly Viola en 04-12-23
De: Susanna Hoffs
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Another Woman's Husband
- A Novel
- De: Gill Paul
- Narrado por: Laura Aikman
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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1911: When 15-year-old Mary Kirk meets Wallis Warfield at summer camp, she’s immediately captivated by her fearless, brazen, and self-assured personality. Though Mary’s family isn’t crazy about Wallis, Mary stands by her side - even years later when rumors swirl about Wallis and her reckless behavior with the Prince of Wales. But when Mary’s loyalty to Wallis comes into question, their friendship will be put to the test. 1997: After a romantic proposal in Paris, Rachel and her fiancé Alex are in a cab when the car ahead crashes.
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Binge worthy
- De Amanda en 12-24-19
De: Gill Paul
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The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Moorman
- Narrado por: Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Widowed at thirty-five, Josephine Reynolds wishes she could disappear, but her concerned sister convinces her to buy their ancestral home, a Craftsman bungalow in disrepair and foreclosure. It's a welcome distraction, and Josephine can't believe her luck when she finds the home's original door in a salvage yard. When she installs the door and steps through it, Josephine is transported into 1927, where she meets her great-grandmother Alma, a vivacious and daring woman running an illegal speakeasy in the bungalow's basement.
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Family Connecting
- De JLW en 02-10-25
De: Jennifer Moorman
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The Unbreakables
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Barr
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre - a lust for life, art, and steamy sex.
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Could have been a good story
- De Leslie Francis en 12-24-20
De: Lisa Barr
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The Familiars
- De: Stacey Halls
- Narrado por: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she comes across a young local woman named Alice Gray who is gathering herbs. A midwife, Alice promises Fleetwood she can help her deliver a healthy baby.
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good but not worth the big hype
- De Mystic Madness en 03-16-19
De: Stacey Halls
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Forty Autumns
- A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
- De: Nina Willner
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family - of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than 40 years and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A personal look at a tenuous era that divided a city and a nation and continues to haunt us, Forty Autumns is an intimate and beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and love.
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Excellent look into the divided Germanys
- De Mary Aalgaard en 01-18-18
De: Nina Willner
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The Prospectors
- A Novel
- De: Ariel Djanikian
- Narrado por: Jorjeana Marie, Samara Naeymi
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister’s husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice finally seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. What follows is an awakening of ambition for the quietly opportunistic Alice.
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- De Teresa Lee Baker en 10-09-23
De: Ariel Djanikian
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Woman on Fire
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Barr
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth.
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Thrilling mix of history and suspense
- De Trisha A. Harkness en 04-02-22
De: Lisa Barr
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How Far the Light Reaches
- A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
- De: Sabrina Imbler
- Narrado por: Sabrina Imbler
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: How Far the Light Reaches invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live. Conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth.
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THIS IS A MEMOIR
- De Joseph Gee en 03-17-23
De: Sabrina Imbler
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Blink of an Eye
- De: Roy Johansen, Iris Johansen
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Delilah Winter is one of the hottest pop stars on the planet, so how in the world was she kidnapped right in the middle of a show at the famous Hollywood Bowl? If anyone can figure it out, it's Dr. Kendra Michaels, who works with local and federal authorities on only the most impossible cases. Blind for the first 20 years of her life until a revolutionary surgical procedure allowed her to regain her sight, Kendra uses her powers of observation - honed during her years in the dark - to detect what other investigators don't.
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Spoiler Alert
- De Brenna Nance en 02-13-21
De: Roy Johansen, y otros
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The Vacation House
- A Novel
- De: Jane Shemilt
- Narrado por: Amalia Vitale
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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The vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents and their friends drink wine and amuse themselves, a young woman—the teenage daughter of the Greek caretaker—ventures for a walk on their private beach. Her life will never be the same again.
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Child Sex Abuse
- De Katarina Pace en 04-04-25
De: Jane Shemilt
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The Golden Hour
- A Novel
- De: Beatriz Williams
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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The Bahamas, 1941. Newly widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the duke and duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines.
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Stick with it!
- De Colleen en 07-17-19
De: Beatriz Williams
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The Habsburgs
- To Rule the World
- De: Martyn Rady
- Narrado por: Simon Boughey
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.
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An Excellent and Interesting History
- De Darrel Bishop en 09-14-20
De: Martyn Rady
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Chasing Fireflies
- A Novel of Discovery
- De: Charles Martin
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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On a stifling summer day, an old Chevy Impala ignored the warning signals and was annihilated by the oncoming train. What no one realized until much later was that the driver had paused just before entering the tracks and kicked a small boy out of the car. A small boy with broken glasses who is clutching a notebook with all his might...but who never speaks.
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A Minority Opinion
- De Stephen en 10-03-20
De: Charles Martin
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- De: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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A princess in a castle can't fend for herself
- De Summer en 11-11-19
De: Alix E. Harrow
Fantastic Book
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Couldn't stop listening
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Interesting story, but annoying reader
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Couldn’t finish- awful reading and story was meh
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I fell hard for this book!
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But the book itself is so good. I'm pleased. It's written graciously and descriptively ... The reader gets to know the main character.... to understand the fact that she doesn't know herself. Lee is every woman trying to define herself outside of the men she loves. And Man is deceptively easy in his possession of her. It's really good... you won't regret reading.
Excellent
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Beautifully written; fascinating characters
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Not historical fiction
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Exquisite & verbally full-filling, art for the ears.
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What I liked:
Progressive women's views for the time
Sexually positive
The names of relevant artists and authors and figures that popped up
Touching on the theme of PTSD
What I didn't like:
The plot and main character are shallow and manic
A bit too overly dramatic
Took a long time to tell a story that is pretty much conjecture
This book could be adapted to a movie, and I think it would do be one of those rare acceptions where the movie is better than the book.
Manic Historical Fiction RomCom
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