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In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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TW: incest
- De Carrissa en 04-12-17
De: Tiphanie Yanique
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The Samurai's Garden
- A Novel
- De: Gail Tsukiyama
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 389
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Novel Painted with a Master's Brush
- De Bay Area Califa en 06-25-18
De: Gail Tsukiyama
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Angel of Harlem
- De: Kuwanna Haulsey
- Narrado por: Brenda Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Enjoyed!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-08-19
De: Kuwanna Haulsey
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The Hundred Wells of Salaga
- A Novel
- De: Ayesha Harruna Attah
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father's court. These two women's lives converge as infighting among Wurche's people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.
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Mudbound
- De: Hillary Jordan
- Narrado por: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,276
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 962
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 968
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- De Betty en 03-25-12
De: Hillary Jordan
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Lazaretto
- A Novel
- De: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
Isolated on an island where two rivers meet, the Lazaretto quarantine hospital is the first stop for immigrants who wish to begin new lives in Philadelphia. The Lazaretto's black live-in staff forge a strong social community, and when one of them receives permission to get married on the island the mood is one of celebration, particularly since the white staff - save the opium-addicted doctor - are given leave for the weekend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mediocre
- De atlfolk en 02-20-17
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Sula
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,031
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,662
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,658
Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
- De Karen en 04-11-11
De: Toni Morrison
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The Vine of Desire
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vine of desire
- De Mz Shantay en 03-27-21
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Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 258
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
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The Blue Between Sky and Water
- De: Susan Abulhawa
- Narrado por: Jennifer Woodward
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother, Mamdouh, tends to the village bees. Their younger sister, Mariam, with her striking mismatched eyes, spends her days talking to imaginary friends and writing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrible pronunciation
- De Debra Sabah Press en 11-08-18
De: Susan Abulhawa
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The Joy Luck Club
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Gwendoline Yeo
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,054
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,617
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,608
Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other. Nearly 40 years later, one of the women has died, and her daughter arrives to take her place. However, the daughter never expected to learn of her mother's secret lifelong wish - and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation creates among the women an urgent need to remember the past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Joy Luck - abridged
- De Leslie Teicholz en 03-16-04
De: Amy Tan
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The Unreal and the Real
- Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Shame on you, Audible
- De Audrey McCombs en 07-03-20
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Anna in the Tropics
- De: Nilo Cruz
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
This poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and The American Dream prove a volatile combination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing performances
- De Kristie en 12-17-08
De: Nilo Cruz
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The Witch of Little Italy
- De: Suzanne Palmieri
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
When young Eleanor Amore gets pregnant, she returns to her estranged family in the Bronx, called by the "Sight" they share. It is the first time she has been back since she was 10, and while everyone else remembers that summer, Eleanor can’t recall anything earlier than the moment she left. With her past coming back to her in flashes, she becomes obsessed with recapturing those memories. Aided by her childhood sweetheart, she learns the secrets still haunting her magical family.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kept me entertained......
- De Barbara en 05-25-13
De: Suzanne Palmieri
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 880
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 687
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 687
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros