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Escape Velocity
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Best known for his glorious comic novels—including the American classic True Grit—Charles Portis was also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Now, for the first time, these writings—journalism, short fiction, memoir, travel stories, and even a play—have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany.
The collection encompasses the breadth of Portis’s fifty-year writing career, covering topics as varied as road tripping in Baja, Elvis’s visits to his aging mother, and his own boyhood in Arkansas. Also included in Escape Velocity are Portis’s three-act play Delray’s New Moon; “Damn!”, a rare short story from 1957; and tributes by Donna Tartt, Wells Tower, Ron Rosenbaum, Ed Park, and Roy Blount, Jr.
While fans of Charles Portis’s sly and distinctive humor, quirky characters, and keen ear for detail will be thrilled at this new addition to their libraries, Escape Velocity will also serve as an essential introduction to those not yet familiar with his work.
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A Classic Brought to Life
- De Sil A. en 11-25-16
De: Jack Kerouac
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Gary Sinise
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,444
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,777
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,775
In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck’s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature—to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gary Sinise is fantastic!
- De C. Wilson en 01-11-17
De: John Steinbeck
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Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up
- De: Dave Barry
- Narrado por: Arte Johnson, Dave Barry - introduction
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Yes, it's true: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dave Barry's columns get out of the paper and sent around more than those of any other columnist in America. Join Dave as he runs for president, plays Claptonesque guitar in the world's most literary band (The Rock-Bottom Remainders), and gets the real scoop on all those UFO sightings. Warning: Dave Barry has a knack for giving his readers a few laughs and lots of expensive merchandise (ordered from the Home Shopping Club). No, we're not making this up!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dave Barry Makes Me Happy
- De Sher from Provo en 11-17-11
De: Dave Barry
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The Deep Blue Good-By
- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 1
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 6 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,837
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4,287
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,294
He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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Lilian Jackson Braun 2-in-1 Edition, Volume 3
- The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal and The Cat Who Moved a Mountain
- De: Lilian Jackson Braun
- Narrado por: Theodore Bikel
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Phoenix Books brings together two of Braun's best mysteries in the series, featuring: The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal: When the director of the Pickax Theatre Club's Shakespeare production is found dead in Qwilleran's apple orchard, Qwilleran and his Siamese sleuths must discover which player staged the murder. The Cat Who Moved a Mountain: On vacation in the Big Potato Mountains, Qwilleran stumbles into a mystery involving the murder of J. J. Hawkinfield, the developer who was pushed off a mountain years before after announcing his plans to develop the region.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not the full books
- De Lisa Cissna en 07-15-20
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Player Piano
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,258
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,034
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Genuine 5-Stars
- De R.A. en 06-07-19
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18,584
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16,618
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,593
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Essays of E. B. White
- De: E. B. White
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest." Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features 31 of White's most memorable essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E.B. White writes honestly, fearlessly and clearly
- De Bonny en 09-03-17
De: E. B. White
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Beyond the Black Stump
- De: Nevil Shute
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 127
When Stanton Laird, American geologist, goes prospecting for the Topeka Exploration Company in the savage Australian outback, he finds something a good deal more precious than oil.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Davina Porter is a wonderful narrator
- De Brian PDX en 07-26-14
De: Nevil Shute
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Alas, Babylon
- De: Pat Frank
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,331
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,450
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,430
This true modern masterpiece is built around the two fateful words that make up the title and herald the end - “Alas, Babylon.” When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness....
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4 out of 5 stars
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One apocalypse--hold the zombies
- De Lesley en 01-07-14
De: Pat Frank
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The Longest Road
- Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
- De: Philip Caputo
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 107
Philip Caputo, who had just turned 70, his wife, and their two English setters took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered 17,000 miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than 80 Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 03-25-18
De: Philip Caputo
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Falconer
- De: John Cheever
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 78
A convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man while inside a nightmarish prison. Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unsettling and beautiful
- De Darwin8u en 01-21-13
De: John Cheever
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The Confessions of Al Capone
- De: Loren D. Estleman
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 19 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago’s underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he and his Outfit committed, the Bureau has a good chance of nailing key members who now are active in the wartime black market.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story
- De Michael en 02-07-17
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That Old Ace in the Hole
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as a novel
- De Sarah C en 05-30-12
De: Annie Proulx
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1 Dead in Attic
- After Katrina
- De: Chris Rose
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor - in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still Makes Me Hurt
- De Gillian en 02-27-15
De: Chris Rose
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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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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Love, Africa
- A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
- De: Jeffrey Gettleman
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past 20 years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling his teenage dream of living in Africa. Love, Africa is the story of how he got there - and of his difficult, winding path toward becoming a good reporter and a better man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book!!!
- De Benjamin en 05-26-17
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What's So Funny?
- My Hilarious Life
- De: Tim Conway, Jane Scovell, Carol Burnett - foreword
- Narrado por: Tim Conway, Carol Burnett, Dick Hill, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,924
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,915
Six-time Emmy Award-winning funnyman Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnett Show, offers a straight-shooting and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor and comedian. In television history, few entertainers have captured as many hearts and made as many people laugh as Tim Conway. There's nothing in the world that Tim Conway would rather do than entertain - and in his first-ever memoir, What's So Funny?, that's exactly what he does.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not narrated by Tim
- De Bob Murdock en 05-05-14
De: Tim Conway, y otros
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