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The product of 30 years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self probes behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well - a virtual who's who of the American Century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Princess Margaret, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done!
- De Christopher en 03-22-16
De: Jay Parini
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Looking for Lorraine
- The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 140
Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Radiant
- De Rose Brookins en 03-20-19
De: Imani Perry
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City Boy
- My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretense upon pretense.
- De Shalin Desai en 06-01-15
De: Edmund White
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty
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Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
- De: Matthew Parker
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
For two months every year, from 1946 to his death 18 years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white-sand beach on Jamaica's stunning north coast. All the James Bond novels and stories were written there. This audiobook explores the huge influence of Jamaica on the creation of Fleming's iconic postwar hero. The island was for Fleming part retreat from the world, part tangible representation of his values, and part exotic fantasy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ian Fleming lead a fascinating life.
- De Allen en 07-02-15
De: Matthew Parker
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Butterfly in the Typewriter
- The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces
- De: Cory MacLauchlin
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. In Butterfly in the Typewriter, Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues as well as full access to the extensive Toole archive at Tulane University, capturing his upbringing in New Orleans, his years in New York City, his frenzy of writing in Puerto Rico, his return to his beloved city, and his descent into paranoia and depression.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth it! Good biography. Informative.
- De French Quarter en 07-09-13
De: Cory MacLauchlin
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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The Voice is All
- The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
- De: Joyce Johnson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac's Voice
- De Robert L. Stofel en 09-26-12
De: Joyce Johnson
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So We Read On
- How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
- De: Maureen Corrigan
- Narrado por: Maureen Corrigan
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 197
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece may be one of the most popular novels in America, many of us first read it when we were too young to fully comprehend its power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading Gatsby as an adult reveals its greatness!
- De Mark en 10-06-14
De: Maureen Corrigan
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Rebel Souls
- Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
- De: Justin Martin
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists - regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan - rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand–up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Read with Vibrant Characters
- De A en 11-11-15
De: Justin Martin
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Flapper
- A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
- De: Joshua Zeitz
- Narrado por: Daniella Rabbani
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920's puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Book, Poor Performance
- De redsrule1 en 03-16-14
De: Joshua Zeitz
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
- De: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eerie and fascinating
- De Jikai Zenshin en 03-19-21
De: Roberto Bolaño, y otros
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 922
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 916
Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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When Paris Sizzled
- The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
- De: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them - one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative, but no sizzle
- De OzEnigma en 06-01-17
De: Mary McAuliffe
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Careless People
- Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
- De: Sarah Churchwell
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books, delighting audiences across the world. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail the relation of Fitzgerald's classic to the chaotic world he in which he lived. Fitzgerald set his novel in 1922, and Careless People carefully reconstructs the crucial months during which Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald returned to New York in the autumn of 1922.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating study of the Fitzgeralds and Jazz Age
- De Sand en 06-11-14
De: Sarah Churchwell
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
- De: Gerald Martin
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. While telling the story of the sloppily dressed, skinny young man who rose from obscurity as a provincial journalist to international fame as the progenitor of a new literature, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in García Márquez's life between celebrity and the personal quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of power, solitude, and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great content, somewhat disappointing narrator.
- De Paola Herrington en 01-08-13
De: Gerald Martin
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Outlaw Marriages
- The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
- De: Rodger Streitmatter
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other "for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health" for periods of 30 or 40 - sometimes as many as 50 - years. In short, they loved and supported each other every bit as much as any husband and wife. In Outlaw Marriages, cultural historian Rodger Streitmatter reveals how some of these unions didn’t merely improve the quality of life for the two people involved but also enriched the American culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sames Sex Couples Through History
- De Susie en 12-11-12
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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We Carry Their Bones
- The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
- De: Erin Kimmerle
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and “mysterious” deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school’s management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Story of Historical Justice
- De Anonymous User en 04-26-24
De: Erin Kimmerle
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Denial
- A Memoir
- De: Jessica Stern
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder. She has interviewed some of the most feared terrorists in their own camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has worked with the National Security Council and the FBI as an expert on what extreme trauma can do to a person. By her own admission, she feels no fear in these terrifying scenarios. On a fall night in Concord, a quiet Massachusetts suburb, in 1973, Jessica was 15. She and her sister were at doing their homework after ballet class when a serial rapist entered their bedroom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book!
- De Jesse en 02-04-24
De: Jessica Stern
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Where Did You Go?
- A Life-Changing Journey to Connect with Those We've Lost
- De: Christina Rasmussen
- Narrado por: Erin Moon
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
An acclaimed grief educator and the author of Second Firsts teaches listeners how everyday people can communicate with loved ones who have passed away in this groundbreaking, science-driven guide to connecting with the afterlife.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forever grateful for this path!
- De LVSeal82 en 02-08-19
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Gay Bar
- Why We Went Out
- De: Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Narrado por: Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Duración: 7 h y 52 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 171
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
In the era of Grindr and same-sex marriage, gay bars are closing down at an alarming rate. What, then, was the gay bar? Set between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, Gay Bar takes us on a time-traveling, transatlantic bar hop through pulsing nightclubs, after-work dives, hardcore leather bars, gay cafes, and saunas, asking what these places meant to their original clientele, what they meant to the author as a younger man, and what they mean now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gay Bar : A Review
- De Anonymous User en 05-17-21
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Returning Light
- Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael
- De: Robert L. Harris
- Narrado por: Robert L. Harris
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful!
- De Elizabeth B. en 11-19-23
De: Robert L. Harris
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Heretic
- A Memoir
- De: Jeanna Kadlec
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive, she would need to leave behind the church and every foundational building block she knew. Heretic is a memoir of rebirth. Within, Kadlec reckons with religious trauma and Midwestern values, as a means of unveiling how evangelicalism directly impacts every American--religious or not--and has been a major force in driving our democracy towards fascism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Average story about faith and being LGBTQ
- De A. Sampson en 11-26-23
De: Jeanna Kadlec
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We Carry Their Bones
- The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
- De: Erin Kimmerle
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and “mysterious” deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school’s management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Story of Historical Justice
- De Anonymous User en 04-26-24
De: Erin Kimmerle
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Denial
- A Memoir
- De: Jessica Stern
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder. She has interviewed some of the most feared terrorists in their own camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has worked with the National Security Council and the FBI as an expert on what extreme trauma can do to a person. By her own admission, she feels no fear in these terrifying scenarios. On a fall night in Concord, a quiet Massachusetts suburb, in 1973, Jessica was 15. She and her sister were at doing their homework after ballet class when a serial rapist entered their bedroom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book!
- De Jesse en 02-04-24
De: Jessica Stern
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Where Did You Go?
- A Life-Changing Journey to Connect with Those We've Lost
- De: Christina Rasmussen
- Narrado por: Erin Moon
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
An acclaimed grief educator and the author of Second Firsts teaches listeners how everyday people can communicate with loved ones who have passed away in this groundbreaking, science-driven guide to connecting with the afterlife.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forever grateful for this path!
- De LVSeal82 en 02-08-19
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Gay Bar
- Why We Went Out
- De: Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Narrado por: Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Duración: 7 h y 52 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 171
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
In the era of Grindr and same-sex marriage, gay bars are closing down at an alarming rate. What, then, was the gay bar? Set between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, Gay Bar takes us on a time-traveling, transatlantic bar hop through pulsing nightclubs, after-work dives, hardcore leather bars, gay cafes, and saunas, asking what these places meant to their original clientele, what they meant to the author as a younger man, and what they mean now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gay Bar : A Review
- De Anonymous User en 05-17-21
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Returning Light
- Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael
- De: Robert L. Harris
- Narrado por: Robert L. Harris
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful!
- De Elizabeth B. en 11-19-23
De: Robert L. Harris
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Heretic
- A Memoir
- De: Jeanna Kadlec
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive, she would need to leave behind the church and every foundational building block she knew. Heretic is a memoir of rebirth. Within, Kadlec reckons with religious trauma and Midwestern values, as a means of unveiling how evangelicalism directly impacts every American--religious or not--and has been a major force in driving our democracy towards fascism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Average story about faith and being LGBTQ
- De A. Sampson en 11-26-23
De: Jeanna Kadlec
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Silent Earth
- Averting the Insect Apocalypse
- De: Dave Goulson
- Narrado por: Dave Goulson
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
In the tradition of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental classic Silent Spring, an award-winning entomologist and conservationist explains the importance of insects to our survival and offers a clarion call to avoid a looming ecological disaster of our own making.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important book for all
- De Wren Jen en 03-24-24
De: Dave Goulson
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Dancer from the Dance
- A Novel
- De: Andrew Holleran
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Now in audio for the first time! Award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award nominee David Pittu narrates one of the most influential books in gay literature. Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance defined gay life in late 1970s New York. Published in 1978, the novel captures the time post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS where sexual freedom was celebrated and the future appeared limitless.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Charles Lloyd en 12-25-22
De: Andrew Holleran
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Fellow Travelers
- De: Thomas Mallon
- Narrado por: Christian Barillas
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting take on history
- De Jp mccann en 10-30-23
De: Thomas Mallon
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Great Society
- A New History
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 316
In Great Society, Shlaes offers a powerful companion to her legendary history of the 1930s, The Forgotten Man, and shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Johnson and Nixon. Just as technocratic military planning by "the Best and the Brightest" made failure in Vietnam inevitable, so planning by a team of the domestic best and brightest guaranteed fiasco at home. At once history and biography, Great Society sketches moving portraits of the characters in this transformative period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How have we forgotten how bad these ideas were?
- De Robert S. Allen en 02-09-20
De: Amity Shlaes
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Ready or Not
- Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World
- De: Madeline Levine
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 7 h y 24 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 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
Ready or Not explores how today’s parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future - and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health, and happiness.
De: Madeline Levine
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Confessions of a Funeral Director
- How the Business of Death Saved My Life
- De: Caleb Wilde
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Death. It happens to everyone, yet most of us don't want to talk about this final chapter of existence. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde intimately understands this reticence and fear. The son of an undertaker, he hesitated to embrace the legacy of running his family's business. Yet he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones profoundly changed his faith and his perspective on death - and life itself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Story, But narrator is the wrong guy
- De Dale R Clock en 01-17-18
De: Caleb Wilde
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Good Grief
- On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter
- De: E.B. Bartels
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great Topic, Poor Execution
- De J Stryker en 02-01-24
De: E.B. Bartels
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Just by Looking at Him
- A Novel
- De: Ryan O'Connell
- Narrado por: Ryan O'Connell
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 167
Elliott appears to be living the dream as a successful TV writer with a doting boyfriend. But behind his Instagram filter of a life, he’s grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, he can’t seem to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and his cerebral palsy is making him feel like gay Shrek.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read
- De Matthew Walker en 06-08-22
De: Ryan O'Connell
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Bad Gays
- A Homosexual History
- De: Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller
- Narrado por: Ben Allen
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked. Based on the hugely popular podcast series, Bad Gays subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ+ history, sexuality and identity through its villains and baddies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Stick with the history
- De John Bryan en 03-11-23
De: Huw Lemmey, y otros
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Nothing General About It
- How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital
- De: Maurice Benard
- Narrado por: Maurice Benard
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 698
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 622
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 619
Maurice Benard has been blessed with family, fame, and a successful career. For 25 years, he has played one of the most well-known characters on daytime television: General Hospital’s Michael "Sonny" Corinthos, Jr. In his life outside the screen, he is a loving husband and the father of four. But his path has not been without hardship. When he was only 20, Maurice was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very honest and moving as well as entertaining
- De Sharon Bagozzi en 05-22-20
De: Maurice Benard
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- De: Lizzy Goodman
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 625
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 545
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 541
In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Deeply disappointing.
- De ChicagoRob en 01-18-20
De: Lizzy Goodman
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The Other Side of the Coin
- The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
- De: Angela Kelly
- Narrado por: Angela Kelly
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 326
When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for 25 years, initially as Her Majesty’s Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty’s Personal Advisor, Curator, Wardrobe, and In-house Designer. As the first person in history to hold this title, she shares a uniquely close working relationship with The Queen.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Read the book!
- De Mikal E. en 11-18-19
De: Angela Kelly
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Fire Island
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Brandon
- 08-23-23
Really good book!
A very interesting read! I really enjoyed the book, learned a lot of cool queer history
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- Dennis Hinkamp
- 06-28-22
Mixed Bag of history and commetary
I have never been to Fire Island but the name is part of cultural literacy so I wanted to find out more. The author is a literature student so as you would expect there are dozens of literary references to writers who spent time on Fire Island. The book does go into the geographical history of the place and it's evolution to a gay mecca. The author is gay so I appreciate the inside perspective. It veers off into commentary several times about what is the "right" way to be gay. I found it interesting but a diversion from the original reason I got the book.
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- Tyler Schultz
- 09-20-23
Fantastic
Excellently written and narrated. I am recommending to all of my friends whom I’ve shared many a Fire Island summer with.
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- Jonathan Hurst
- 08-16-23
Excellent
Learning gay history through the lens of Fire Island was incredible. The well researched, well thought out, and well written book is excellent. I encourage you to take a visit through this amazing piece.
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- Dave
- 01-17-24
Not good
Story didn’t have a well thought out narrative. Political nonsense shoehorned in. Lacks depth and caters to the most surface level of thought. Narrator voice is not suitable.
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