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This Side of Brightness
- A Novel
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.
In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Above ground, the sandhogs - black, white, Irish, Italian - keep their distance from each other until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow diggers - a bond that will bless and curse the next three generations.
Years later, Treefrog, a homeless man driven below by a shameful secret, endures a punishing winter in his subway nest. In tones ranging from bleak to disturbingly funny, Treefrog recounts his strategies of survival - killing rats, scavenging for discarded soda cans, washing in the snow. Between Nathan Walker and Treefrog stretch 70 years of ill-fated loves and unintended crimes.
In a triumph of plotting, the two stories fuse to form a tale of family, race, and redemption that is as bold and fabulous as New York City itself. In This Side of Brightness, Colum McCann confirms his place in the front ranks of modern writers.
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Odd choice for narrator
- De lindsey b. en 01-23-19
De: Hannah Tinti
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Arcadia
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 325
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 323
Lauren Groff’s acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- De Kathleen en 03-22-12
De: Lauren Groff
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Fourth of July Creek
- A Novel
- De: Smith Henderson
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews, Jenna Lamia
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 761
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 677
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 677
After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral 11-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Ghost of Tom Joad & the Wrath of Grapes
- De Mel en 06-30-14
De: Smith Henderson
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Her Body and Other Parties
- Stories
- De: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 629
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 540
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 547
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-17
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Church of Marvels
- A Novel
- De: Leslie Parry
- Narrado por: Denice Stradling
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 114
New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If Dickens needed a NY location for a story..
- De Sandi from Oregon en 05-13-15
De: Leslie Parry
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Glorious
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Alfre Woodard
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 254
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 187
Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden's rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gruesome violence
- De Marilyn en 11-22-11
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
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Gathering of Waters
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi - a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!
- De Naima en 07-26-16
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The Good Thief
- De: Hannah Tinti
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
Twelve-year-old Ren doesn't know who his parents were. He doesn't know who left him at St. Anthony's orphanage, or how he lost his left hand when still an infant. He is resigned to life without a family to call his own and terrified of the future. But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren's long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents is enough to persuade the monks at the orphanage to release the boy. But is Benjamin really who he says he is?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Close But No Cigar?
- De Andrew Moore en 10-03-09
De: Hannah Tinti
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Nowhere is a Place
- De: Bernice McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 298
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 304
Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Mother and Daughter Tear. It. Up.
- De Susie en 01-15-14
De: Bernice McFadden
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
- A Novel
- De: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Narrado por: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 635
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 567
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 565
Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
- De Amazon Customer en 12-12-18
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The Wettest County in the World, or Lawless
- A Novel Based on a True Story
- De: Matt Bondurant
- Narrado por: Erik Steele
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 452
The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the dusty red roads trying to find the brothers and break the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just outstanding!
- De Rich en 08-18-12
De: Matt Bondurant
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NOS4A2
- A Novel
- De: Joe Hill
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17,565
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16,119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,094
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping performance by Kate Mulgrew....
- De Leslie en 05-06-13
De: Joe Hill
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Southern Gods
- De: John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrado por: Eric G Dove
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 165
Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark, driving music - broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio statio - is said to make living men insane and dead men rise. Disturbed and enraged by the bootleg recording the DJ plays for him, Ingram follows Hastur's trail into the strange, uncivilized backwoods of Arkansas, where he hears rumors the musician has sold his soul to the Devil.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Big, Bold and Bright
- De John en 08-23-11
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Promise
- A Novel
- De: Minrose Gwin
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart - one Black, one White; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager - fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Disappointing
- De Anjoli en 06-15-19
De: Minrose Gwin
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The Fireman
- A Novel
- De: Joe Hill
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
- Duración: 22 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,321
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,691
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7,670
No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it's Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies - before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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GOD'S WAITING ROOM; AKA FLORIDA
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-25-17
De: Joe Hill
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Peter Riegert
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,554
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,377
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,373
For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the federal district of Sitka, a temporary safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the district is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Didn't finish...
- De Ann E O'Connor en 10-16-17
De: Michael Chabon
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Dancer
- A Novel
- De: Colum McCann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon of New York in the '80s, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, nurses and translators, Margot Fonteyn, Eric Bruhn, and John Lennon.
De: Colum McCann
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Kaleidoscope
- A Novel
- De: Cecily Wong
- Narrado por: Courtney Lin, Dan Bittner
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
Morgan and Riley Brighton are joint heirs to Kaleidoscope: a glittering, ‘global bohemian’ shopping empire—created in sleepy Oregon and catapulted into haute New York—sourcing luxury goods from around the world. Morgan, statuesque beauty and Kaleidoscope’s talented designer, is adored by all, especially by the Brighton parents. Yet no one loves her more than Riley, whose shy and adventurous spirit is exalted by her sister.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What happens when the glue is gone?
- De w.l. en 10-21-22
De: Cecily Wong
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A Song Everlasting
- A Novel
- De: Ha Jin
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
At the end of a US tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York to pick up some extra cash for his daughter’s tuition fund, but the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, Tian is informed that the sponsors of the event were supporters of Taiwan’s secession, and that he must deliver a formal self-criticism. When he is asked to forfeit his passport to his employer, Tian impulsively decides instead to return to New York to protest the government’s threat to his artistic integrity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-22
De: Ha Jin
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Gertrude and Claudius
- A Novel
- De: John Updike
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet’s father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband’s body is cold. But in this imaginative "prequel" to the play, John Updike makes a case for the royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and family dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, erratic, disaffected prince.
De: John Updike
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The Death of Jim Loney
- De: James Welch, Jim Harrison
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of White and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Second audio book by this author ruined by narrator mispronunciation
- De Amrica J en 12-30-21
De: James Welch, y otros
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Silent Winds, Dry Seas
- A Novel
- De: Vinod Busjeet
- Narrado por: Mahesh Jadu
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan is a young boy yet to learn the truth beyond the rumors of his family's fractured histories - an alliance, as his mother says, of two bankrupt families. In evocative chapters, the first two decades of Vishnu's life in Mauritius unfolds with heart wrenching closeness as he battles to experience the world beyond, and the cultural, political, and familial turmoil that hold on to him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reminiscent of VS Naipaul
- De CFK en 09-20-22
De: Vinod Busjeet
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Dancer
- A Novel
- De: Colum McCann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon of New York in the '80s, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, nurses and translators, Margot Fonteyn, Eric Bruhn, and John Lennon.
De: Colum McCann
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Kaleidoscope
- A Novel
- De: Cecily Wong
- Narrado por: Courtney Lin, Dan Bittner
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
Morgan and Riley Brighton are joint heirs to Kaleidoscope: a glittering, ‘global bohemian’ shopping empire—created in sleepy Oregon and catapulted into haute New York—sourcing luxury goods from around the world. Morgan, statuesque beauty and Kaleidoscope’s talented designer, is adored by all, especially by the Brighton parents. Yet no one loves her more than Riley, whose shy and adventurous spirit is exalted by her sister.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What happens when the glue is gone?
- De w.l. en 10-21-22
De: Cecily Wong
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A Song Everlasting
- A Novel
- De: Ha Jin
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
At the end of a US tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York to pick up some extra cash for his daughter’s tuition fund, but the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, Tian is informed that the sponsors of the event were supporters of Taiwan’s secession, and that he must deliver a formal self-criticism. When he is asked to forfeit his passport to his employer, Tian impulsively decides instead to return to New York to protest the government’s threat to his artistic integrity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-22
De: Ha Jin
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Gertrude and Claudius
- A Novel
- De: John Updike
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet’s father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband’s body is cold. But in this imaginative "prequel" to the play, John Updike makes a case for the royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and family dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, erratic, disaffected prince.
De: John Updike
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The Death of Jim Loney
- De: James Welch, Jim Harrison
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of White and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Second audio book by this author ruined by narrator mispronunciation
- De Amrica J en 12-30-21
De: James Welch, y otros
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Silent Winds, Dry Seas
- A Novel
- De: Vinod Busjeet
- Narrado por: Mahesh Jadu
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan is a young boy yet to learn the truth beyond the rumors of his family's fractured histories - an alliance, as his mother says, of two bankrupt families. In evocative chapters, the first two decades of Vishnu's life in Mauritius unfolds with heart wrenching closeness as he battles to experience the world beyond, and the cultural, political, and familial turmoil that hold on to him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reminiscent of VS Naipaul
- De CFK en 09-20-22
De: Vinod Busjeet
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Daughters of the Dust
- A Gullah-Geechee Novel
- De: Julie Dash
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 61
Drawing from the magical world of her iconic Sundance award-winning film, Julie Dash’s stand-alone novel tells another rich, historical tale of the Gullah-Geechee people: a multigenerational story about a Brooklyn College anthropology student who finds an unexpected homecoming when she heads to the South Carolina Sea Islands to study her ancestors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My BFF Bahni...
- De Lillian Collins en 12-31-22
De: Julie Dash
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Walking on the Ceiling
- A Novel
- De: Aysegül Savas
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 3 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 27
After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family, hoping to impress and inspire him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book!
- De cemal en 06-09-19
De: Aysegül Savas
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What a Happy Family
- De: Saumya Dave
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
From the outside, the Joshi family is the quintessential Indian American family. Decades ago, Bina and Deepak immigrated to America, where she became a pillar of their local Indian community and he a successful psychiatrist. Their eldest daughter, Suhani, is following the footsteps of her father’s career and happily married. Natasha, their middle daughter, is about to become engaged to the son of longtime family friends. And Anuj, their son - well, he’s a son, and what could be better than that? But a family scandal shows that nothing is as it seems.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unrealistic depiction of our mental health system
- De 3dogknits en 10-02-24
De: Saumya Dave
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Strangers I Know
- A Novel
- De: Claudia Durastanti
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Descriptive copy is not yet available from the publisher.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De lin en 09-18-24
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Inheritors
- De: Asako Serizawa
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin, Ren Hanami, Catherine Ho, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States, Inheritors paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of its characters as they grapple with the legacies of loss, imperialism, and war. Written from myriad perspectives and in a wide range of styles, each of these interconnected stories is designed to speak to the others, contesting assumptions and illuminating the complicated ways we experience, interpret, and pass on our personal and shared histories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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moving, deep, expansive
- De Mack Eulet en 12-30-20
De: Asako Serizawa
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The Best Possible Experience
- Stories
- De: Nishanth Injam
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam, Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting, The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one of the most populous countries in the world, and its American diaspora, all haunted, in every sense of the word, by a loss of home. Classically elegant in prose and consistently modern in outlook, Injam’s stories question what it means to have a home, to return home, and show, above all, that home is not a place so much as a people ready to accept you as you are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent writing and reading
- De customer en 09-03-23
De: Nishanth Injam
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To the Edge of Sorrow
- A Novel
- De: Aharon Appelfeld, Stuart Schoffman
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters - escapees from a nearby ghetto - hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag band of men and boys into a disciplined force that accomplishes its goals without losing its moral compass.
De: Aharon Appelfeld, y otros
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Maggie Brown & Others
- Stories
- De: Peter Orner
- Narrado por: Peter Orner, Ari Fliakos, Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, Peter Orner, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, takes the short story to new heights. Through 44 compressed gems, Peter Orner chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points, gripping us with a series of defining moments.
De: Peter Orner
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Storyteller
- De: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Narrado por: Tara Gatewood
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Leslie Marmon Silko's groundbreaking book Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and explores how stories and storytelling shape people and communities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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excitement unrequited
- De susanneb en 08-08-23
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The Daughter Ship
- A Novel
- De: Boo Trundle
- Narrado por: Xe Sands, Justis Bolding, Michael Crouch, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
Katherine, an attentive mother to her teenagers, comfortably married to her strapping provider of a husband, longs to overcome her dark thoughts and intermittent fears of sexual intimacy. This brisk, mesmerizing version of her life is told in alternating short chapters by Truitt, Star, and Smooshed Bug—her inner children, each with their particular strategy for coping with Katherine’s past at the hands of a hopeless mother and a terrifying, seductive father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So accurate
- De AJ250 en 07-18-23
De: Boo Trundle
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A Map for the Missing
- A Novel
- De: Belinda Huijuan Tang
- Narrado por: Austin Ku
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Tang Yitian has been living in America, estranged from his family, for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family’s rural village in China. When Yitian returns home and attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate the country’s impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider. So he seeks out a childhood friend: Tian Hanwen, who as a teenager was “sent down” from Shanghai to Yitian’s village as part of China’s rustication campaign.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story, distractingly poor narration
- De Pen Name en 09-21-22
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Bewilderness
- De: Karen Tucker
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Irene, a lonely 19-year-old in rural North Carolina, works long nights at the local pool hall, serving pitchers and dodging drunks. One evening, her hilarious, magnetic coworker Luce invites her on a joyride through the mountains to take revenge on a particularly creepy customer. Their adventure not only spells the beginning of a dazzling friendship, it seduces both girls into the mysterious world of pills and the endless hustles needed to fund the next high.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I was wowed.
- De elletee en 06-07-21
De: Karen Tucker
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre This Side of Brightness
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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Historia3 out of 5 stars
- Tom
- 06-14-21
Disappointing
As usual, McCann’s prose is entrancing. He carries the reader along from scene to scene, character to character with the intensity of a freight train. His characters are well-drawn and fascinating to meet, but I left the book not really knowing where these troubled people have taken me.
While I still admire his craftmanship, I’m not sure I’m better for the experience. Three Stars.
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