Gloria Goldreich has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is The Paris Children.
The Bridal Chair
Summary
As a child growing up in 1920s Paris, Ida Chagall copes with her father Marc Chagall's brilliant artistic mind and overbearing ego and the tight leash he keeps on her. But as Ida blossoms into a young woman, she begins to glimpse freedom and opportunities for herself. When she falls in love for the first time, her father paints "The Bridal Chair" as her wedding present, a symbol of his anger that pierces Ida to the heart. Against a backdrop of the Nazi invasion of France, Ida fights for her own survival as an independent young woman while nurturing the dark, creative genius of her parents.
©2015 Gloria Goldreich (P)2015 Recorded Books
The Paris Children
Summary
Paris, 1935. A dark shadow falls over Europe as Adolf Hitler's regime gains momentum, leaving the city of Paris on the brink of occupation. Young Madeleine Levy - granddaughter of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish World War I hero - steps bravely into a new wave of resistance and becomes the guardian of lost children. When Madeleine meets a small girl in a tattered coat with the hollow look of one forced to live a nightmare - a young Jewish refugee from Germany named Anna - she knows that she cannot stand idly by. Paris is full of children like Anna - frightened and starving, innocent casualties of a war barely begun. Madeleine offers them comfort and strength while working with other members of the resistance to smuggle them into safer territories. But as the Paris she loves is transformed into a theater of tension and hatred, many people are tempted to abandon the cause - and the country. And amidst the impending horror and doubt, Madeleine's relationship with Claude, a young Jewish Resistance fighter, as passionate about saving vulnerable children as she is, deepens. With a questionable future ahead of them, all Madeleine can do is continue fighting and hope that her spirit - and the nation's - won't be broken. A remarkable, paranoramic novel, The Paris Children is a story of love and tragedy that illuminates the power of hope and courage in the face of adversity.
©2020 Gloria Goldreich (P)2020 Recorded Books
Die Tochter des Malers
Summary
Paris, 1935: Ida ist die behütete Tochter des Ausnahmekünstlers Marc Chagall und eines seiner Lieblingsmotive. Als sie sich in den Studenten Michel verliebt, steht die innige Beziehung zu ihrem Vater auf dem Spiel. Dann wird Frankreich von den Deutschen besetzt, und ihrer Familie droht tödliche Gefahr, was Chagall jedoch in blinder Hingabe an seine Kunst verleugnet. Schon bald muss Ida sich entscheiden - zwischen ihrem eigenen Lebensweg und der Rettung ihres Vaters.>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2016 Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (P)2017 Audible Studios
Open Doors
Summary
Acclaimed artist Elaine Gordon can't believe her loving husband is gone. After a lifetime spent utterly devoted to her soul mate and their marriage, Elaine is now tetherless, faced with widowhood and all the decisions that come with it - not least of which is what to do with her rambling, now-empty family home. Anxious to console their mother in her time of grief, Elaine's four grown children urge her to put everything on hold and spend some healing time with them. But visiting each unique and complicated child opens Elaine's eyes to the fact that the children she raised have become adults she hardly knows: Sarah, who abandoned Western life for an orthodox enclave in Jerusalem; Lisa, Sarah's accomplished twin and polar opposite, who will do anything for a child of her own; Peter, trapped in a hollow marriage in California; and Denis, the youngest, who just wants Elaine to accept his gay lifestyle. As Elaine tries to bridge the physical and emotional miles, her eyes are opened to the startling truths of her own family, and what she must do to come to terms with her kids' lives - and a future that's completely, wonderfully…hers.
©2008 Gloria Goldreich (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
After Melanie
Summary
Can they start again, or will they lose one another forever? David and Judith's fragile marriage is threatened by the sudden death of their beloved 13-year-old daughter, Melanie. As they struggle to cope with their loss, they confront bewildering challenges. But instead of turning to each other, they find comfort with others. David is drawn to Nancy, a colleague and single mother, and a survivor of her own personal tragedy, while Judith grows close to Jeffrey, a recently widowed physician whom she meets through her volunteer work at a thrift shop, itself the scene of multiple daily dramas. As their grief drives them further apart, does their future lie together "after Melanie", or are they destined to lose one another forever?
©2019 Gloria Goldreich (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
The Guests of August
Summary
Five families come together for a summer vacation that will change their lives forever in this moving tale of love, loss, and hope. The Edwards, the Ames, the Epsteins, the Currans, and the Templetons - five families bound together by the decades-old tradition of spending their August vacation at the idyllic Mount Haven Inn in New Hampshire. Despite living separate, disparate lives, the summer ritual of reconnecting remains an important yearly fixture for the families, with the inn and its tranquil surroundings offering a welcome safe haven and respite from their struggles - a place to draw comfort from their shared past and memories. But strained relationships, heartache, loss, and devastating secrets all come to a head one climactic summer - a summer that will change their lives forever...
©2019 Gloria Goldreich (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books