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Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City “will steal your heart” (People)
With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey City - a place known for its political corruption and industrial blight - with the tales that have swirled around her relatives for decades. Navigating a childhood of toxic waste and tough love, Stapinski tells an extraordinary tale at once heartbreaking and hysterically funny.
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“By turns hilarious and alarming, [Helene Stapinski’s] book reads on the surface like something by Damon Runyon and Elmore Leonard, with a dark undertow of real-life pain and disillusion.” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
“What [Frank] McCourt did for Limerick, Ireland, Helene Stapinski does for Jersey City.” (The Star-Ledger)
“Hugely entertaining.” (The Sunday Times - London)
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Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- De connie en 02-19-12
De: Laura Lippman
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All Souls
- A Family Story from Southie
- De: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Narrado por: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30
The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working-class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child. But the threats - poverty, drugs, a shadowy gangster world - were real. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world".
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5 out of 5 stars
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this book broke me in the best way
- De anon en 02-14-23
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Detroit
- An American Autopsy
- De: Charlie LeDuff
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,321
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,164
In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Avid Reader and Listener en 07-09-13
De: Charlie LeDuff
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After Visiting Friends
- A Son's Story
- De: Michael Hainey
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 83
Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Son's Search for Father Brings on Self-knowledge
- De sheila kehoe en 08-15-13
De: Michael Hainey
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The Hour I First Believed
- A Novel
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 25 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,215
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 854
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 856
When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent all around yarn
- De G. en 01-10-09
De: Wally Lamb
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Twentynine Palms
- A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave
- De: Deanne Stillman
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 112
August 2, 1991, Twentynine Palms, California: a troubled Marine who has recently returned from the Gulf War savagely murders two young girls. One was about to turn 16, the other 21. Exquisitely and inexorably, Deanne Stillman uses this tragedy as a prism through which she examines a rootless culture of fatherless families, shattered dreams, and relentless violence. She also traces the family histories of each murder victim back for generations, in one case to the Donner Party and the other to a shack in the Philippines.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ugh...
- De Ashley en 11-03-20
De: Deanne Stillman
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Baltimore Blues
- Tess Monaghan, Book 1
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Deborah Hazlett
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,489
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,191
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,183
Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- De connie en 02-19-12
De: Laura Lippman
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The Upside
- A Memoir
- De: Abdel Sellou
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In 1992, Count Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo, on the heels of his wife's diagnosis with a terminal illness, suffered a paragliding accident that left him a quadriplegic. Forty-two years old, trapped inside his luxurious Paris town house, he was an outcast for the first time in his life. Abdel, an unemployed Algerian immigrant who had been an outcast for his entire existence, would become Phillipe's unlikely caretaker. Quick-thinking, unsentimental, and more than a little wild, Abdel surprises both himself and his employer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- De RockyDog en 01-31-19
De: Abdel Sellou
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Sunny's Nights
- Lost and Found at the Bar at the End of the World
- De: Tim Sultan
- Narrado por: Robert Malloch
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Imagine that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit hole. In the tradition of J. R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar and the classic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here is an indelible portrait of what is quite possibly the greatest bar in the world—and the mercurial, magnificent man behind it. The first time he saw Sunny’s Bar, in 1995, Tim Sultan was lost, thirsty for a drink, and intrigued by the single bar sign among the forlorn warehouses lining the Brooklyn waterfront.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visiting an Era
- De Carolyn en 03-01-16
De: Tim Sultan
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Learning to Die in Miami
- Confessions of a Refugee Boy
- De: Carlos Eire
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962 - a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born. In this enchanting new work, narrated in Eire's inimitable and lyrical voice, young Carlos adjusts to life in his new country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent memoir of a forgotten time in history
- De BRB en 03-23-15
De: Carlos Eire
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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 368
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 329
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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The Last Madam
- A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
- De: Christine Wiltz
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 9 h y 36 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 269
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 266
1916: Norma Wallace, age 15, arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974, she tape-recorded her memories. With those tapes and original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles Norma's rise and fall with the social history of New Orleans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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pronunciations
- De lynda en 07-29-19
De: Christine Wiltz
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Wilde Lake
- A Novel
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Kathleen McInerney, Nicole Poole
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 574
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 511
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 512
Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected - and first female - state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn't see many homicides.
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2 out of 5 stars
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In a word saccharine and boring
- De Rena en 05-12-16
De: Laura Lippman
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Little Girl Lost
- A Foundlings Novel
- De: Wendy Corsi Staub
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 111
May 1968 - On a murky pre-dawn Mother’s Day, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New York City. In Harlem, a church janitor finds a newborn in a basket. In Brooklyn, an elusive serial killer prowls slumbering families, leaving a trail of blood. These seemingly unrelated lives - and deaths - are destined to intersect on a distant, blood-soaked day. October, 1987 - Reeling from shocking personal discoveries, two strangers navigate a world where nothing is as it seems.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Up To Staub's Standards
- De Gracie en 12-29-18
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Always Running
- La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
- De: Luis J. Rodriguez
- Narrado por: Luis J. Rodriguez
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 472
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 417
By age 12, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Book for all educators
- De Heather M. Vitz en 03-15-15
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Gangster Squad
- Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
- De: Paul Lieberman
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Like the movie
- De KEITH en 02-21-13
De: Paul Lieberman
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St. Marks Is Dead
- The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
- De: Ada Calhoun
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful history of a wonderful place.
- De bsolo en 11-07-15
De: Ada Calhoun
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The Cost of These Dreams
- Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
- De: Wright Thompson
- Narrado por: Wright Thompson
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 392
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 390
There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most-read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers. But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just great
- De ACK en 06-02-19
De: Wright Thompson
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse
- Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
- De: Dan Barry
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disabilities and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than 30 years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our Brothers' Keepers?
- De Gillian en 12-01-16
De: Dan Barry
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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A Heartwarming & Foulmouthed Memory of Jersey City
With tales of crime, corruption and Aunt Millie's famous meatballs, the author recounts in her own echt Jerseyite voice the rough-and-tumble milieu of Hudson County that she grew up in—one she spent years trying to escape before acknowledging a certain affection for its snaggletoothed charm. Listeners on the other hand will soon admire this memorable memoir and the fascinating history it holds.
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