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Burq Off! is an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a British Pakistani girl trying to find herself in a world of conflicting norms. Nadia was raised as a cultural yo-yo, bouncing between the expectations of her conservative Muslim family and her saucy British school friends. Love, lies, a burqa, and a bikini. Nadia has no idea who she is, but she'll try anything to find out.
Purchase the audiobook, and hear Nadia perform her 21 different characters. Nadia's very own father reads stage directions. At the end you'll discover a special Q & A between Nadia and her father in which they discuss, life, love, and his opinions about this very personal show. www.nadiapmanzoor.com
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Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Cheyenne en 06-13-15
De: Karim Dimechkie
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Saints for All Occasions
- A Novel
- De: J. Courtney Sullivan
- Narrado por: Susan Denaker
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 721
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 631
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 634
Nora and Theresa Flynn are 21 and 17 when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan - a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narration ruined it
- De Janis Reynolds en 06-12-17
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The Teller of Secrets
- A Novel
- De: Bisi Adjapon
- Narrado por: Anniwaa Buachie
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial "secret keeper" of her family, as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her half-sisters' sex lives. But after she is humiliated and punished for her own sexual exploration, Esi begins to question why women's secrets and men's secrets bear different consequences. It is the beginning of a journey of discovery that will lead her to unexpected places. Against a fraught political climate, Esi fights to carve out her own identity, and learns to manifest her power in surprising and inspiring ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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so explicit and honest
- De ugonna en 03-25-24
De: Bisi Adjapon
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Tiger, Tiger
- A Memoir
- De: Margaux Fragoso
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is 51. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a child’s paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother, beset by mental illness and overwhelmed by caring for Margaux, is grateful for the attention Peter lavishes on her, and he creates an imaginative universe for her, much as Lewis Carroll did for his real-life Alice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a weirdly loving diatribe against pervs.
- De Dane Flakeman en 05-21-11
De: Margaux Fragoso
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Trumpet
- De: Jackie Kay
- Narrado por: Cathleen McCarron
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered fury brings the press to the doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a remote Scottish village. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet by Jackie Kay is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and True
- De Colin en 05-24-17
De: Jackie Kay
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
- De: Naomi Jackson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- De Eme en 07-16-15
De: Naomi Jackson
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Bone
- De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon - foreword
- Narrado por: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonates to the core of what it means to be human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visceral,blood hot, thrilling poetry-prose
- De Pam en 12-28-22
De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, y otros
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Land of Love and Drowning
- De: Tiphanie Yanique
- Narrado por: Cherise Boothe, Korey Jackson, Rachel Leslie, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
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 Story Hour
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 780
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 701
An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman doesn't need a shrink; she needs a friend.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A stellar performance almost carried the book...
- De Daryl en 03-04-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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Liberating Paris
- A Novel
- De: Linda Bloodworth Thomason
- Narrado por: Cynthia Darlow
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Woodrow McIlmore, the town's golden boy and local gynecologist, is married to his beautiful high school sweetheart, Milan, and seems by all appearances to be leading the perfect life with his two children and extended family and friends. But when Wood's daughter announces that she is smitten with a college classmate and intends to marry him, her parents are stunned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving, a great listen
- De Cynthia en 11-27-05
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Orange Mint and Honey
- De: Carleen Brice
- Narrado por: Cherise Booth
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
After grad school, Shay Dixon feels like she's had enough for awhile. Inspired by her spiritual adviser - a soul-soothing blues player named Nina Simon - Shay calls her estranged mother Nona for the first time in years, and shocks herself by asking if it would be okay to come home for a while.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One For The Money
- De DiaRose en 09-25-17
De: Carleen Brice
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- De: Rebecca Wells
- Narrado por: Judith Ivey
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 971
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 964
When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser", the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As usual the book is better than the movie
- De Denzil and Judy's Account en 03-25-10
De: Rebecca Wells
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An Ordinary Wonder
- De: Buki Papillon
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: Excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers, and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- De Mary P Browne en 09-20-21
De: Buki Papillon
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Everything Is Illuminated
- De: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding reading
- De bookworm123abc en 02-10-23
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God-Shaped Hole
- A Novel
- De: Tiffanie DeBartolo
- Narrado por: Rachael Warren
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
When Beatrice Trixie Jordan replies to a personal ad, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming, effervescent 30-something free-spirit writer passionately seeking life. He possesses his own turns of phrase and ways of thinking and feeling that dissonantly harmonize with Trixie's off-center vision. As they rollercoaster through the joys and furies of their wrenching romance, they try to come to terms with the hurt brought about by both of their distant fathers who, in different ways, forsook them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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To see a fortune teller or not to see one...
- De Renee en 08-08-18
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The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl
- Adventures in Life and Love in the Heart of Dixie
- De: Jaime Primak Sullivan
- Narrado por: Jaime Primak Sullivan
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 306
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 303
Jaime Primak Sullivan, a Jersey-bred, tough-as-nails PR maven - and unlikely transplant in an upscale suburb of Birmingham, Alabama - has spent her entire life crossing the line: whether she's pushing the boundaries of what proper Southern ladies consider to be "polite behavior" or literally traversing the Mason-Dixon line in the name of love. She isn't afraid to say what everyone is thinking when it comes to love, sex, friendship, and many other topics that are all too often sugar-coated in polite Southern company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book
- De Gwendolyn en 09-23-16
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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness
- A Feminist Coming of Age
- De: Christine Lahti
- Narrado por: Christine Lahti
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now, in True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness, this acclaimed performer channels her creativity inward to share her own story for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Christine Lahti, Actress, Activist and A+ Author!
- De L. Cat Schultz en 10-26-18
De: Christine Lahti