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David R. Gillham

Författare till City of Women

5 verk 1,286 medlemmar 117 recensioner

Om författaren

David R. Gillham is the author of City of Women, a New York Times Bestseller and Kirkus Review award winner. (Bowker Author Biography)

Verk av David R. Gillham

City of Women (2012) 1,013 exemplar
Annelies: A Novel (2019) 149 exemplar
Alone with the Stars (2020) 67 exemplar
Shadows of Berlin (2022) 56 exemplar

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Allmänna fakta

Födelsedag
20th century
Kön
male

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Unsolved mysteries are always intriguing for me. I can get caught up in wanting to know what really happened while settling on an outcome that seems reasonable and logical based on the facts available. The tragic disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of those captivating mysteries. When the short story, Alone with the Stars by David R. Gillham, came across my path, I promptly added it to my Audible library.

Alone with the Stars is a story about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance in 1937. Portions of the story are told from A.E.’s perspective while flying. Lizzie is a 15-year-old, living with her dad in Florida. She’s fascinated by her dad’s radio and spends one hour every afternoon listening to radio transmissions. One day, she hears A.E.’s distress call. Excited to learn that A.E. is alive and asking for help when everyone else fears A.E. is lost at sea. Lizzie records the transmissions she hears and shares them with her father. Together, they set off to the Coast Guard office to pass along her information in the hopes that Lizzie will be believed and possibly A.E. will be rescued.

As an Audible Original, the audiobook is very well produced and is a great listening experience. Narration was well done by Hillary Huber and Emily Bauer.This is a wonderful historical fiction about Amelia Earhart and a young girl inspired by the brave heroine. This is an Audible Original that is available “Only From Audible.”

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NatalieRiley | 3 andra recensioner | Mar 16, 2024 |
I get that people liked the setting (certainly many things were well-written), and I get that the suspense is well-done, but... well, you kinda picked a suspense-guaranteed setting. Is it worth getting a ground-level discussion of complicity wrapped into a story that will keep people reading? Does that redeem the use of a complicated, terrible piece of history as a sexy backdrop? I don't know, but I have a bit of that fast-food aftertaste that sometimes accompanies popular cinema, as if I've been cheated.

I see reading here that I should have expected a romance/thriller, but this book was passed on to me and I never read the back. I thought, instead, I'd get stories about the women in Berlin, with realistic perspectives. Here I was unequivocally disappointed.
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Kiramke | 91 andra recensioner | Jun 27, 2023 |
This is an interesting ‘ what if’ Anne Frank had survived the war story. I think on the whole it is very well executed and I appreciated the authors note at the end which clarified what was fact and fiction.
 
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LisaBergin | 15 andra recensioner | Apr 12, 2023 |
What if Anne Frank had survived? What if she never died in a concentration camp and instead was reunited with her father and had to pick up the pieces left of her life? Having to deal with a life without her mother and sister. Her life as a writer seems like a pointless dream and her diary lost forever. How can she see forward when so much in her life is bleak and she has lost so much?

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MaraBlaise | 15 andra recensioner | Jul 23, 2022 |

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Statistik

Verk
5
Medlemmar
1,286
Popularitet
#19,936
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
117
ISBN
46
Språk
4

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