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A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
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"A singular voice in the world of literature." (Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down)
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A National Book Award Finalist
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A New York Public Library Top 10 Best Book of the Year
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A Raleigh News & Observer Best Book of the Year
An Amazon Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild audio selection
National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) Freeman Book Award Winner
An L.A. Times Book Award Nominee
"Passionately and fearlessly, Ribay delves into matters of justice, grief, and identity." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
"A perfect convergence of authentic voice and an emphasis on inner dialogue." (School Library Journal, starred review)
"Powerful and courageous." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
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Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed 'Rapture,' all that's left of her parents are two holes in the roof. Suddenly, she doesn't know who or what to believe. With her best friend Harp and a mysterious ally, Peter, Vivian embarks on a desperate cross-country road trip through a paranoid and panic-stricken America to find answers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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juvenile
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By: Katie Coyle
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Picture Us in the Light
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
When Danny discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember, and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A poignant, touching novel for the Asian American millennial
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The Last Time We Say Goodbye
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The last time Lex was happy, it was before. When she had a family that was whole. A boyfriend she loved. Friends who didn't look at her like she might break down at any moment. Now she's just the girl whose brother killed himself. And it feels like that's all she'll ever be. As Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. But there's a secret she hasn't told anyone--a text Tyler sent that could have changed everything.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such sweet sorrow
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By: Cynthia Hand
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Await Your Reply
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Story4 out of 5 stars 140
Three strangers who are trying to find their way in the wake of loss become entwined in an identity theft scheme, which has a resounding impact on them all. A gorgeously written psychological study, and a meditation on identity in the modern world, this is a literary novel with the haunting momentum of a thriller.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Well Narrated, but Thoroughly Depressing
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By: Dan Chaon
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Driftwood
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Los Angeles, California: Clem Jasper is a trust fund kid with a world famous rock musician for a father. When he dies suddenly (playing ping pong) she discovers he's left her a strange legacy: a series of letters that take her on a mysterious road trip around California. Ignoring her aunt's suggestion that she pitch the trip as a reality show, she embarks on her own to discover just what it was that her father meant her to find. What secret could be so powerful that he had to die before telling her?
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5 out of 5 stars
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I cried with this one,
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By: Elizabeth Dutton
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Turtles All the Way Down
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- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,874
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Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I hate to call it a trigger warning, but-
- By Lynnzee on 10-23-17
By: John Green
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The Forgotten Girl
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
The past has arrived uninvited at Jason Danvers’s door - and it’s his younger sister, Hayden, a former addict who severed all contact with her family as her life spiraled out of control. Now she’s clean and sober but in need of a desperate favor - she asks Jason and his wife to take care of her teenage daughter for 48 hours while she handles some business in town. But Hayden never returns.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Distracting narration
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By: David Bell
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A Good Country
- A Novel
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- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
A timely novel about the radicalization of a Muslim teen in California - about where identity truly lies, and how we find it. Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Reza Courdee, a 14-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very important contribution
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By: Laleh Khadivi
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Keep This to Yourself
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
It's been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, 18-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him - easier said than done since Mac's best friend Connor was the murderer's final victim.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Mystery with Some Nice Twists
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By: Tom Ryan
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When his mom decided it was time for them to leave for good, Thomas knew they better get far away or he'd come and find them. It was Christmas Day, with Mom sweating in a tiny room over a tiny stove, and Dad watching college basketball and drinking with a vengeance. "Thomas, I want you to get your sister and go out to the car, okay?" Mom had promised them that they would be getting a special Christmas present today. Just the two kids. They couldn’t mention it to Dad. This is her present, Thomas thought....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Giving and FORGIVING . . . Great Christmas Story
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By: Jimmy Wayne, and others
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The Paper Girl of Paris
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- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 160
Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than 70 years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II. With the help of Paul, a charming Parisian student, she sets out to uncover the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A new favorite of mine
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By: Jordyn Taylor
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Red Hot Lies
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiancé, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil starts counting. But trouble keeps coming. Sam is implicated in the client's death, her apartment is broken into and it's not just the authorities who are following her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A bit uneven, but fun!
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By: Laura Caldwell
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The Good Sister
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 57
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In New York Times best-selling author Wendy Corsi Staub's electrifying new thriller, a mother races to save her daughter before her darkest nightmare comes true. Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy and studious Carley becomes the target of vicious bullies. But the real danger at Sacred Sisters goes much deeper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This was an okay book
- By Erica on 05-09-15
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The Leaving
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to, until today. Today five of those kids returned. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists will leave listeners breathless.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Plot Twist
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By: Tara Altebrando
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Man Alive
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth a listen
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Eliza and Her Monsters
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Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is popular. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just...... Breathtaking
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By: Francesca Zappia
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The Mystery of Grace
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 207
Grace, as her friends call her, has a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg and grease worked deep into her hands. She works at Sanchez Motorworks customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. Now Grace has to find the line in her own life. Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful, except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business: He's haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never stopped feeling responsible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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interesting love story
- By Yuriko on 08-23-10
By: Charles de Lint
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If You See Her
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4 out of 5 stars 133
The house on Old Mill Road has stood in an open field for longer than Jesse Wells has been alive, its crooked windows and jutting turret tormenting the kids of Warsaw, Michigan the way only a haunted house knows how. Everyone imagines that something terrible lurks within the house’s abandoned rooms - especially Jesse and his two closest friends, Casey and Reed. But when Reed chooses the house as a backdrop for his own suicide, childhood ghost stories are transformed into a nightmare that sends Jesse into a downward spiral of grief.
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2 out of 5 stars
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DNF. Quit halfway through. A slog.
- By Smart, AZ on 07-10-22
By: Ania Ahlborn
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Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.
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Touching
- By Darline DeBry on 07-28-22
By: Sabaa Tahir
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The Marrow Thieves
- By: Cherie Dimaline
- Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden—but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.
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Read Greatfully
- By Miss Media Sushi on 04-23-24
By: Cherie Dimaline
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America Is in the Heart
- By: Carlos Bulosan, Elaine Castillo - foreword, E. San Juan Jr. - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the US pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish-American War of the late 1890s.
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Pointless, wandering narrative poorly performed
- By B. Bartok on 08-15-20
By: Carlos Bulosan, and others
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The Door of No Return
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In his village in Upper Kwanta, 11-year-old Kofi loves his family, playing oware with his grandfather and swimming in the river Offin. He’s warned though, to never go to the river at night. His brother tells him ”There are things about the water you do not know. “ Like what? Kofi asks. “The beasts.” His brother answers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and heartbreaking
- By Anonymous User on 03-03-24
By: Kwame Alexander
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I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
- By: Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Channie Waites
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school. When both girls attend the Friday-night football game, what neither expects is for everything to descend into sudden mass chaos. Chaos born from violence and hate. Chaos that unexpectedly throws them together. They aren't friends. They hardly understand the other's point of view. But none of that matters when the city is up in flames.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My heart is in my throat ..
- By john meyerhofer on 06-22-20
By: Kimberly Jones, and others
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The 57 Bus
- A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
- By: Dashka Slater
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 921
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If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But, one afternoon, on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Unusual True-Crime Event...Beautifully Written.
- By Mary Burnight on 02-21-18
By: Dashka Slater
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Filipino Tales: 61 Stories from the Famous Collection
- By: Patrick Healy
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 6
The teacher Patrick Healy travelled around the world, talked with people in different places, and collected around half a thousand myths, legends, and folktales and several alternative versions. His opinion and comments (directly or indirectly) are inevitable. 61 Filipino Tales is the third volume of his work, in his words. He retold the stories with his own opinion and approach to them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Takes little meaning
- By Bettina Whitley on 09-01-23
By: Patrick Healy
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
- By: Ben Philippe
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Norris is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows from watching American sitcoms that those three things don’t bode well when you are moving to Texas. Plunked into a new high school, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Making a ton of friends has never been a priority for him, and this way he can at least amuse himself until it’s time to go back to Canada, where he belongs. Yet those labels soon become actual people to Norris....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming...but profuse profanity.
- By Dajah B. on 01-28-19
By: Ben Philippe
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- Richard Ceasor
- 10-25-22
wonderful life lesson
embedded in this story are targeted life lessons that everyone should attempt to live by
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- Anonymous User
- 06-06-22
Beautiful and Tender.
This book was recommended by a friend of mine who teaches English to high school kids and I think it’s perfect and brilliant. I hope a lot of teens and adults read this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-16-22
A+ performance
The voice performer is SO GOOD. He does the accents of the characters, adding additional authenticity to the story because he is Filipino. So, so, so happy I read this book. The viewpoint as a third culture kid is outstanding.
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- Rita F.
- 03-11-22
Teaching
I m diversifying my curriculum for World Lit. This is a favorite to add. My kids would enjoy it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-16-24
Wow
This book moved me to tears. Incredibly written and impeccably performed. A fantastic read for anyone looking for a deeply impactful story.
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- Mldavis
- 08-11-20
Story to remind you to take the time to reach out to those who are important to you
This is an important story that will reach people across cultures. A great choice for students who are at a point of their lives where they are reflecting on important moments that have made them who and what they are today.
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- Sarah
- 01-16-24
Unique Story
I loved the twists and turns of this story. It started out a little slow and cringe (like an adult trying to write from the viewpoint of a teenager), but it quickly got interesting. I loved seeing the personal growth of not only Jason, but those around him as well.
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- JP Hubbard
- 02-06-24
The best way this story could be told
I am married to a Filipina. Her sons are around this age. I myself am still in my 30's and remember this age. The author is spot on with the POV. This is a story that must be told. There needs to be more novels written on Duterte's time in office so people can get an idea of what it is like in the phils.
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- Jo Ann Ocampo
- 09-07-20
Great story and audio narration
The audio narration was great! I was pleasantly surprised that the Filipino words were not butchered - thank you!!! I also noticed the difference between the accents of the Filipino and Filipino-American/American characters. This was a strong audio performance and really helped to establish the characters and the atmosphere of the story.
This is the first Filipino diaspora story set in modern Philippines that I've read and I think it was tastefully done. It did a good job of providing a glimpse of the good/bad/ugly of Philippine culture and society and how Fil-Americans come to interact/conceptualize it. In the end, what I appreciated the most was the "lesson" that it is essential to first understand before imposing your idea of "solutions" to the Philippines' problems.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-19-22
Wonderful
This book really makes you think, it was a joy to listen to. It sheds light on important current events and inspires you to care and to try to make the world better.
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