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A beautiful, wrenching portrait of a downtrodden man from the much-loved author of Lean On Pete.
Meet Horace Hopper, a 21-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he's had to family in years. But Horace, half white, half Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things.
Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads south to reinvent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul. But at what cost, and what of those he's left behind?
Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, Don't Skip Out on Me is an extraordinary work of compassion - a novel about the need for human connection and understanding - and essential listening, now more than ever.
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- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 483
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 260
Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring. The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict, "West Coast Director of a large Italian-American finance firm" (read: mobster) who helped to keep James Frey clean in A Million Little Pieces.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Kathy en 11-04-05
De: James Frey
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Where I'm Calling From
- Selected Stories
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Love Carver, But Dietz Ruins It With Reading
- De Noirbat en 05-10-18
De: Raymond Carver
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- De Monique en 01-08-19
De: Tim Gautreaux
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I'll Be There
- De: Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir - despite her average voice - is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight they are connected. Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run. He and his little brother, Riddle, have spent their entire lives constantly uprooted by their unstable father. As Sam and Riddle are welcomed into the Bells' lives, they witness the warmth and protection of a family for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needs to be a film!
- De TreasureHunter en 06-25-16
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The Rabbit Factory
- De: Marshall Karp
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte, James Jenner
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
Marshall Karp is an acclaimed playwright known for his witty sense of humor and crackling dialogue. His debut novel The Rabbit Factory stars the irreverent LAPD detective duo of Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bizarre but engaging mystery.1st-rate performance.
- De MidwestGeek en 12-19-12
De: Marshall Karp
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The Golden State
- A Novel
- De: Lydia Kiesling
- Narrado por: Amanda Dolan
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 66
In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent - her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error" - Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet will bring clarity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious read but delightful reader Amanda Dolan
- De Eric en 02-14-19
De: Lydia Kiesling
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This Dark Road to Mercy
- A Novel
- De: Wiley Cash
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Erik Bergmann, Scott Sowers
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 276
This Dark Road to Mercy is a tale of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, a story that involves two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins. When their mother dies unexpectedly, twelve-year-old Easter Quillby and her six-year-old sister, Ruby, are shuffled into the foster care system in Gastonia, North Carolina, a little town not far from the Appalachian Mountains. But just as they settle into their new life, their errant father, Wade, an ex-minor-league baseball player whom they haven't seen in years, suddenly reappears and steals them away in the middle of the night.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Easter offers chance at redemption; but no spark
- De W Perry Hall en 01-31-14
De: Wiley Cash
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Factotum
- De: Charles Bukowski
- Narrado por: Christian Baskous
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 768
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 661
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 661
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
- De I Ate Your Pug For Lunch and It was Tasty en 12-26-13
De: Charles Bukowski
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
- Stories
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved fiction writers. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Humanity at the Breaking Point
- De Darwin8u en 03-31-19
De: Raymond Carver
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The Boy Kings of Texas
- A Memoir
- De: Domingo Martinez
- Narrado por: Emilio Delgado
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 323
A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was Okay
- De DebKoo en 05-17-13
De: Domingo Martinez
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We'll Fly Away
- De: Bryan Bliss
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Best friends since childhood, Luke and Toby have dreamed of one thing: getting out of their dead-end town. Soon they finally will, riding the tails of Luke's wrestling scholarship, never looking back. If they don't drift apart first. If Toby's abusive dad, or Luke's unreliable mom, or anything else their complicated lives throw at them doesn't get in the way. In a format that alternates between Luke's letters to Toby from death row and the events of their senior year, Bryan Bliss expertly unfolds the circumstances that led to Luke's incarceration.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story Except....
- De Willizz en 05-18-18
De: Bryan Bliss
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Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- De: Ted Conover
- Narrado por: Ted Conover
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Riding the rails, Ted Conover tasted the life of a tramp with companions like Pistol Pete, BB, and Sheba Sheila Sheils. From them he learned survival skills - how to "read" a freight train, scavenge for food and clothing, avoid the railroad "bulls." He was initiated into the customs of their unique, shadowy society - men and women bound together by a mutual bond of failure, camaraderie, and distrust.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Had potential, but fell short.
- De Evan en 01-06-12
De: Ted Conover
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
- De: A. S. King
- Narrado por: Lynde Houck
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone - the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to? Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: Smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving, disturbing, and humorous
- De Julie en 08-26-11
De: A. S. King
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Mecca
- De: Susan Straight
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Patricia R. Floyd, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Johnny Frias has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Spanish settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days working for the California Highway Patrol pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man who was in the midst of assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who proceeded to run away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An eye opening read
- De Anonymous User en 10-10-22
De: Susan Straight
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- De: Juliann Garey
- Narrado por: Dan Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 496
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 454
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 453
In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- De Vira en 04-02-13
De: Juliann Garey
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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
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General4 out of 5 stars 759
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 675
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 675
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