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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco.
As four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain, author Laila Lalami asks: What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth the danger?
There's Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who's been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who's fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in Spain; and Faten, a student and religious fanatic whose faith is at odds with an influential man determined to destroy her future.
Sensitively written with beauty and boldness, this is a gripping audiobook about what propels people to risk their lives in search of a better future.
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In a boxy apartment building in an Illinois university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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another great book by Roy
- De Amazon Customer en 04-27-15
De: Sandip Roy
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In the Country
- Stories
- De: Mia Alvar
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Don Castro
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere - and sometimes turning back again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My introduction to Filipino literature and culture
- De Amazon Customer en 03-28-16
De: Mia Alvar
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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
- De: Brigid Pasulka
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 696
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 601
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 591
The novel opens on the eve of World War II. In the mountain village of Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon, under the approving eyes of the entire village, courts the beautiful Anielica Hetmanska. But the war's arrival wreaks havoc in all their lives and delays their marriage for six long years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Old & New Worlds Converge & Transcend Time
- De Sara en 11-22-16
De: Brigid Pasulka
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Secret Daughter
- De: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 940
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 801
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 801
Debut novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling tale about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De Stephanie en 06-08-11
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Before We Visit the Goddess
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan, Priya Ayyar, Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 783
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 716
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 719
The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover - but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Worth a Credit
- De Texastanya en 08-27-16
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The Year of the Runaways
- De: Sunjeev Sahota
- Narrado por: Sartaj Garewal
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar, and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her with a call.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Maybe easier to read than to listen to.
- De Eric en 06-15-16
De: Sunjeev Sahota
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The UnAmericans
- Stories
- De: Molly Antopol
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 111
Again and again, Molly Antopol’s deeply sympathetic characters struggle for footing in an uncertain world, hounded by forces beyond their control. Their voices are intimate and powerful and they resonate with searing beauty. Antopol is a superb young talent, and The UnAmericans will long be remembered for its wit, humanity, and heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sensational stories! Brilliant new author.
- De MidwestGeek en 05-04-14
De: Molly Antopol
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When It Happens to You
- A Novel in Stories
- De: Molly Ringwald
- Narrado por: Molly Ringwald
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time, but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. Molly Ringwald mines the complexities of modern relationships in this gripping and nuanced collection of interlinked stories. Writing with a deep compassion for human imperfection, Ringwald follows a Los Angeles family and their friends and neighbors while they negotiate the hazardous terrain of everyday life - revealing the deceptions, heartbreak, and vulnerability familiar to us all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrated by Molly!
- De JillHen en 03-01-13
De: Molly Ringwald
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How to Be an American Housewife
- A Novel
- De: Margaret Dilloway
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington, Emily Durante
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 196
How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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big disappointment
- De Kirsten en 04-12-12
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 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 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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Summer of the Big Bachi
- De: Naomi Hirahara
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own life has gone to seed. His wife is dead. And his livelihood is falling into the hands of the men he once hired by the day. For Mas, a life of sin is catching up to him. And now bachi - the spirit of retribution - is knocking on his door.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A mystery with its roots in WWII
- De Kindle Customer en 04-10-15
De: Naomi Hirahara
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Guapa
- De: Saleem Haddad
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother - the woman who raised him - catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend, Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar Guapa, who has been arrested by the police.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Guapa
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De: Saleem Haddad
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
- A Memoir
- De: Nadja Spiegelman
- Narrado por: Nadja Spiegelman
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers - French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly - exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and "began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand", their relationship grew tense.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Aweful
- De Haley Abreu Kling en 07-05-17
De: Nadja Spiegelman
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The Kite Runner
- De: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrado por: Khaled Hosseini
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20,025
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13,871
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13,877
Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Worhty Read
- De P. C..S. en 08-17-03
De: Khaled Hosseini
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Grand Central
- Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion
- De: Melanie Benjamin, Amanda Hodgkinson, Pam Jenoff, y otros
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
On any particular day, thousands upon thousands of people pass through New York City's Grand Central Terminal, through the whispering gallery, beneath the ceiling of stars, and past the information booth and its beckoning four-faced clock, to whatever destination is calling them. It is a place where people come to say hello and good-bye. And each person has a story to tell.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Grand Central: Memories
- De ZacharyKindle Customer en 05-03-17
De: Melanie Benjamin, y otros
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Diamond Head
- A Novel
- De: Cecily Wong
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Samantha Chen, Angela Lin, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Told through the eyes of the Leongs' secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning the Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, Diamond Head is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of sacrifice, and miraculous hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- De Gina en 09-06-15
De: Cecily Wong
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In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god.
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Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire, his business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them - all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the reinstatement of some kind of all-powerful, benevolent God-type figure, the end of religion, something for his headache, three different girls, infinite grace, and the rare autograph of '40s movie actress Kitty Alexander. With fries.
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- De: Alexa Martin
- Narrado por: Nicole Lewis, Jessica Almasy
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Jude and Lauren don't have much in common, but maybe that's why they've been best friends since the third grade. Through ups and downs, they've been by each other's sides. But now? They’re broke, single, and do the only thing that makes sense - move in together, just like they talked about when they were teenagers. Except when they were younger, the plan didn't include a five-year-old daughter and more baggage than their new townhouse can hold.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for me
- De Christine en 10-27-21
De: Alexa Martin
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Mohawk
- De: Richard Russo
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, Mohawk is set in upstate New York and chronicles more than a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generations - and clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses and the Gaffneys - these remarkably various lives share only the common human dilemmas and the awesome physical and emotional presence of Mohawk itself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator sounds like a computer
- De anne en 02-20-19
De: Richard Russo
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The Boy and the Dog
- A Novel
- De: Seishu Hase, Alison Watts - translator
- Narrado por: Akie Kotabe
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Following a devastating earthquake and tsunami, a young man in Japan finds a stray dog outside a convenience store. The dog’s tag says “Tamon,” a name evocative of the guardian deity of the north. The man decides to keep Tamon, becoming the first in a series of owners on the dog’s five-year journey to find his beloved first owner, Hikaru, a boy who has not spoken since the tsunami. An agent of fate, Tamon is a gift to everyone who welcomes him into their life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful book sad yet with so much meaning
- De Amazon Customer en 02-01-23
De: Seishu Hase, y otros
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How to Find What You're Not Looking For
- De: Veera Hiranandani
- Narrado por: Priya Ayyar
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16
Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs into financial trouble, and her older sister has eloped with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage. As change becomes Ariel's only constant, she's left to hone something that will be with her always—her own voice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chalked full of learning and discussion points
- De Kathy en 07-13-23
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The Night Watch
- De: Sarah Waters
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 18 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past - whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise, and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Captivating Tale of Resilience and War
- De Anonymous User en 12-27-23
De: Sarah Waters