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Fisherman's Blues
- A West African Community at Sea
- Narrado por: Anna Badkhen
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere.
For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find.
Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable - between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder.
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“A profound account of a single community - its primary industries, religious beliefs, and rhythms...[it] unfolds like a novel, featuring well-drawn and sympathetic characters and show[s] how thoroughly the implications of environmental disaster seep into everyday life.” (The New Republic)
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“In elegiac vignettes, Badkhen portrays the trick and snare of a heroic and punishing profession…Her poetic style liberates the reader from the familiar, straightforward quality of traditional reportage, but her work remains equally honest and arguably more compassionate….Fisherman's Blues is Badkhen's ode to a community's fraught ties to geography, and a gentle lament for an existence eroding at the shoreline.” (Dallas Morning News)
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Good book on hunter-gatherer tribe in Indonesia
- De arh8 en 10-11-21
De: Doug Bock Clark
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The Shipping News
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 807
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 708
At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't Explain Why I Love This Book
- De Polly en 03-06-12
De: Annie Proulx
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The Shell Collector
- De: Anthony Doerr
- Narrado por: Hakeem Kae Kazim
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 301
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 259
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take listeners from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties - metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts - and conjures nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator not appropriate to the book.
- De Janet en 02-18-17
De: Anthony Doerr
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- De: Margaret Craven
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 260
The touching story of a young, mortally ill priest who spends his last days working among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uncanny insight...
- De MetaThink en 03-22-15
De: Margaret Craven
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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
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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 Sound of Waves
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 5 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Remote Japanese island beautifully depicted
- De Bruce en 09-17-15
De: Yukio Mishima
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The Plover
- De: Brian Doyle
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. No man is an island, my butt, he thinks. I am that very man.... But the galaxy soon presents him with a string of odd, entertaining, and dangerous passengers, who become companions of every sort and stripe. The Plover is the story of their adventures and misadventures in the immense blue country one of their company calls Pacifica.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poetry, the sea and finally story
- De WA islander en 09-12-15
De: Brian Doyle
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The Mosquito Coast
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 266
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful in every sense of the word.
- De Joan en 07-12-15
De: Paul Theroux
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The Boat Runner
- A Novel
- De: Devin Murphy
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
Beginning in the summer of 1939, 14-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem. On days when they aren't playing with friends, Jacob and Edwin help their uncle Martin on his fishing boat in the North Sea, where German ships have become a common sight. When war breaks out, Jacob's world is thrown into chaos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not a typical World War II story
- De Marsha L. Woerner en 01-31-18
De: Devin Murphy
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Castle of Water
- A Novel
- De: Dane Huckelbridge
- Narrado por: Max Winter
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 323
For Sophie Ducel, her honeymoon in French Polynesia was intended as a celebration of life. For Barry Bleecker, the same trip was meant to mark a new beginning - turning away from his dreary existence in Manhattan finance to seek creative inspiration. But when their small plane is downed in the middle of the South Pacific, the sole survivors of the wreck are left with one common goal: survival.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I wanted a happy ending
- De Avid Reader Girl en 06-20-19
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
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Love with a Chance of Drowning
- A Memoir
- De: Torre DeRoche
- Narrado por: Candice Moll
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
City girl Torre DeRoche isn’t looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He’s just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that’s as exhilarating as it is terrifying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True Adventure and Romance--I Loved It!!
- De Kathy in CA en 09-08-15
De: Torre DeRoche
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Continental Drift
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Now available for the first time in audiobook format, a powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers. Russell Banks' Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Give up and die
- De AI en 12-09-21
De: Russell Banks
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
- De: Nayomi Munaweera
- Narrado por: Priya Ayyar
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pronunciation
- De Mahidevran en 04-07-18
De: Nayomi Munaweera
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Without a Map
- A Memoir
- De: Meredith Hall
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Your Average "16 and Pregnant"
- De Susie en 12-11-12
De: Meredith Hall
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Black Wave
- A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
- De: John Silverwood, Jean Silverwood
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie, Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
When John and Jean Silverwood, both experienced sailors, decided to give their four children a taste of life on the high seas, they hoped the trip would offer important learning experiences - not only about the natural world but about the beauty of human life stripped down to its essence, far from civilization. But the adventure that awaited them would surpass anything they could have imagined.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What Wave
- De James en 09-03-08
De: John Silverwood, y otros
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Crossing the Waters
- Following Jesus Through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas
- De: Leslie Leyland Fields
- Narrado por: Pamela Klein
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The Gospels are dramatic and incredibly wet, set in a rich maritime culture on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Yet we've missed much of this perspective - until now. Leslie Leyland Fields, a seasoned Alaskan fisherwoman, leads us across the waters of time and culture out onto the Sea of Galilee, through a rugged season of commercial fishing with her family in Alaska, and through the waters of the New Testament beside the ragtag fishermen disciples.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breath taking!
- De Meg White Haven Hill en 09-13-17
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American War
- A Novel
- De: Omar El Akkad
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,320
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,103
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best listen in years
- De odin en 04-08-17
De: Omar El Akkad