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How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
- A Decolonial Memoir
- Narrado por: Shayla Lawson
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“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America
Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability.
One of Esquire's Best Memoirs of 2024
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Elle, Them, Book Riot, LitHub, Stylecaster, and Chicago Review of Books
In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, and disabled. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self.
Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in the Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year’s Eve in Mexico City, Lawson’s travels bring unexpected wisdom about life in and out of love. They learn the strength of friendships and the dangers of beauty during a narrow escape in Egypt. They examine Blackness in post-dictatorship Zimbabwe, then take us on a secretive tour of Black freedom movements in Portugal.
Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads listeners from a castle in France to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica to a traditional theater in Tokyo to a Prince concert in Minnesota and, finally, to finding liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location—and their deepest emotions—to the fullest. In the end, they discover how the trials of marriage, grief, and missed connections can lead to self-transformation and unimagined new freedoms.
Reseñas de la Crítica
“Lawson is an insightful and unfailingly open-handed writer: eager to share what they’ve learned, sharp but never jaded, honest about their trials, unafraid to be vulnerable. Though their book is structured like a travel memoir, it defies easy categorization. Bursting with humor and life, it will do more than transport readers; for many, it will be transformative.”—Esquire, Best Memoirs of 2024 (So Far)
“Phenomenal. Shayla Lawson’s How to Live Free in a Dangerous World is luminously intimate. It is a memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose. Lawson is at once marvelously and unapologetically Black, incisive, and vulnerable. They are an unflinching observer of the world who takes us on a journey that is both wide and deep. This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America
“Some writers have the gift of talent. Some writers’ talent is a gift to others, namely the reader. Then there are those writers who fall into both categories. Shayla Lawson is one such author. Thought provoking, raw, honest, funny, moving. This book is a treasure. Shayla is a marvel. I’m so grateful for what they and the book have given us.”—Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can’t Touch My Hair
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Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation she feels in nearly every aspect of life, from her lifelong singleness to a battle with depression. She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyperawareness stemming from the effects of slavery.
De: Morgan Parker
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Ours
- A Novel
- De: Phillip B. Williams
- Narrado por: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Duración: 22 h y 48 m
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In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours. It is in this miraculous place that Saint’s grand experiment—a truly secluded community where her people may flourish—takes root.
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Absolutely Incredible & Worth Every Page!!
- De Ely B en 04-25-24
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The Secret Life of Hidden Places
- Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
- De: Stefan Bachmann, April Genevieve Tucholke
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes listeners on a tour of eighteen of the world’s most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in the Swiss Alps, a Japanese temple full of traps, a Parisian apartment locked and untouched since World War II, a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Washington, DC, and a spooky “initiation” well in Portugal built by a secret society.
De: Stefan Bachmann, y otros
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Dinner on Monster Island
- Essays
- De: Tania De Rozario
- Narrado por: Tania De Rozario
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to “banish the evil” from Tania. That day, the young girl realized that monsters weren’t just found in horror tales. They could lurk anywhere—including your own family and community—and look just like you. Dinner on Monster Island is Tania’s memoir of her life and childhood in Singapore—where she discovered how difference is often perceived as deviant, damaged, disobedient, and sometimes, demonic.
De: Tania De Rozario
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Landlines
- The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain
- De: Raynor Winn
- Narrado por: Raynor Winn
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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The Cape Wrath Trail is hundreds of miles of grueling terrain through Scotland's remotest mountains and lochs. But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards. Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour years earlier—and their hope is that this experience can work its magic again.
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Inspirational and Thought Provoking
- De A. Burks en 05-11-24
De: Raynor Winn
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White Supremacy Is All Around
- Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World
- De: Akilah Cadet DHSc MPH
- Narrado por: Akilah Cadet DHSc MPH
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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White Supremacy Is All Around arrives as the U.S.’s ongoing racial reckoning has left people searching for voices they can trust. BIPOC, disabled people, and other intentionally ignored Americans want to feel heard and empowered; organization leaders and allies invested in dismantling white supremacy want a framework for how best to contribute. Dr. Akilah Cadet speaks to all these needs, drawing from her life experiences and work helping leading brands build inclusive and equitable cultures to offer an informed perspective that prioritizes belonging.
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Everything!
- De Veebaddiee en 03-15-24
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My Side of the River
- A Memoir
- De: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips. She was preparing to enter her freshman year of high school as the number one student when suddenly, her own country took away the most important right a child has: the right to have a family. When her parents’ visas expired and they were forced to return to Mexico, Elizabeth was left responsible for her younger brother, as well as her education.
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Inspirador!
- De Pilar Mejia en 04-13-24
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
- De: Tia Williams
- Narrado por: Mela Lee, Preston Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she’s the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they’re long-stemmed roses, she’s a dandelion: an adorable bloom that’s actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that somewhere, a different, more exciting life awaits her. When regal nonagenarian Ms. Della invites her to rent the bottom floor of her Harlem brownstone, Ricki jumps at the chance for a fresh beginning.
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New age fairytale
- De Shoshana Y en 02-14-24
De: Tia Williams
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Splinters
- Another Kind of Love Story
- De: Leslie Jamison
- Narrado por: Leslie Jamison
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters enters a new realm. In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond.
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Hope after divorce
- De Katie H en 05-14-24
De: Leslie Jamison
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The Other Significant Others
- Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- De: Rhaina Cohen
- Narrado por: Rhaina Cohen
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Why do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who put deep friendship at the center of their lives? In The Other Significant Others, NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner—these are friends who are home co-owners, co-parents or each other’s caregivers.
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Best book I’ve read in a while, and I will definitely recommend it!
- De Destiny DiMattei en 02-24-24
De: Rhaina Cohen
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Be a Revolution
- How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too
- De: Ijeoma Oluo
- Narrado por: Ijeoma Oluo
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them?
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Easy, attainable ways to make change!
- De Homeostasis en 02-04-24
De: Ijeoma Oluo
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Smoke and Ashes
- Opium's Hidden Histories
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Ranjit Madgavkar
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis trilogy ten years ago, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history were swept up in the story. Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research.
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Interesting Research, Terrible Reading
- De Paula de la Cruz en 03-09-24
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Acts of Forgiveness
- A Novel
- De: Maura Cheeks
- Narrado por: Jade Wheeler
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father’s struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being able to forget who she might have become. Now, as the president of the United States prepares to pass the Forgiveness Act, a bill that would allow Black families to claim reparations if they can prove they are the descendants of slaves, Willie delves deeper into her family’s history, while also trying to keep the family from going into bankruptcy.
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Thought Provoking, Well-Written story
- De L. Pickford en 03-08-24
De: Maura Cheeks
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Ordinary Human Failings
- A Novel
- De: Megan Nolan
- Narrado por: Jessica Regan
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"—ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances.
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Extraordinary performance ! Love Irish literature
- De Lighthouse en 05-10-24
De: Megan Nolan
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- 03-11-24
An Extraordinary Travel Memoir
This is a truly extraordinary travel memoir that I've been recommending all my friends read immediately. Written with exquisite prose, it will grab you on page 1, draw you into its world, and take you on a incredible journey that will leave you thinking about the book for quite a while afterwards. Having traveled to 50+ countries, Shayla's vivid travel stories of experiencing the world through the lens of being Black, Femme, Nonbinary, and Disabled leads to uniquely profound insights on race, femininity, pronoun usage, privilege, solidarity, decolonizing ourselves, seeking liberation in the world, and the emotional inner journey towards self love. Highly recommended!
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