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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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The Boy Kings of Texas
- A Memoir
- De: Domingo Martinez
- Narrado por: Emilio Delgado
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 323
A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was Okay
- De DebKoo en 05-17-13
De: Domingo Martinez
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Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?
- Confessions of a Gay Dad
- De: Dan Bucatinsky
- Narrado por: Dan Bucatinsky
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 866
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 794
In 2005, Dan Bucatinsky and his partner, Don Roos, found themselves in an L.A. delivery room, decked out in disposable scrubs from shower cap to booties, to welcome their adopted baby girl - launching their frantic yet memorable adventures into fatherhood. Two and a half years later, the same birth mother - a heroically generous, pack-a-day teen with a passion for Bridezilla marathons and Mountain Dew - delivered a son into the couple’s arms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Parenting Book with Humor and Heart
- De The Reading Date en 02-05-14
De: Dan Bucatinsky
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Wildflower
- De: Drew Barrymore
- Narrado por: Drew Barrymore
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,553
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,965
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,935
Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross-country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hold the shrieking !
- De Dawne en 11-27-15
De: Drew Barrymore
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God-Shaped Hole
- A Novel
- De: Tiffanie DeBartolo
- Narrado por: Rachael Warren
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
When Beatrice Trixie Jordan replies to a personal ad, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming, effervescent 30-something free-spirit writer passionately seeking life. He possesses his own turns of phrase and ways of thinking and feeling that dissonantly harmonize with Trixie's off-center vision. As they rollercoaster through the joys and furies of their wrenching romance, they try to come to terms with the hurt brought about by both of their distant fathers who, in different ways, forsook them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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To see a fortune teller or not to see one...
- De Renee en 08-08-18
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Labor Day
- De: Joyce Maynard
- Narrado por: Wilson Bethel
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 473
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 394
In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's Atonement and Nick Hornby's About a Boy, acclaimed author Joyce Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy - and the man he later becomes - looking back at an unexpected encounter that begins one single, long, hot, life-altering weekend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story but anti clamatic
- De Nana en 11-25-13
De: Joyce Maynard
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There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say
- De: Paula Poundstone
- Narrado por: Paula Poundstone
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 575
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 355
What do the lives of Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and other historical figures have in common with Paula Poundstone? In the hands of this wryly observant and self-deprecating comedian, the answer is outrageously funny and unexpectedly touching. Poundstone compares her crazy life to theirs, as she holds forth on her children, her career, and the time in her life when it appeared she would lose them both.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More!
- De Evelyn en 02-11-07
De: Paula Poundstone
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Kissing Games of the World
- De: Sandi Kahn Shelton
- Narrado por: Myra Platt
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 115
What if the one person you can't bear to be with is also the one person you can't bear to be without? Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited artist and single mother who has at last found peace and freedom sharing a farmhouse with an elderly man and his young grandson. But when the old man dies suddenly her idyllic country life comes to a halt as the old man's estranged son, Nate, returns to claim the house and his child.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writer, Great Narrator ! Loved it!
- De Ms. Critic en 05-30-09
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May We Be Forgiven
- De: A. M. Homes
- Narrado por: Andy Paris
- Duración: 20 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 139
May We Be Forgiven, a darkly comic novel of 21st-century domestic life, stars Harold Silver, a historian who's always been jealous of his successful brother, George. But when the hot-tempered George is institutionalized for committing a violent act, Harold finds himself comforting his brother's wife and children. What follows is a scathing examination of a family so fractured it may never be whole again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Give this one a try!
- De JWB en 02-13-13
De: A. M. Homes
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I'll Be There
- De: Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir - despite her average voice - is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight they are connected. Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run. He and his little brother, Riddle, have spent their entire lives constantly uprooted by their unstable father. As Sam and Riddle are welcomed into the Bells' lives, they witness the warmth and protection of a family for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needs to be a film!
- De TreasureHunter en 06-25-16
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
- De: A. S. King
- Narrado por: Lynde Houck
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone - the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to? Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: Smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving, disturbing, and humorous
- De Julie en 08-26-11
De: A. S. King
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The Last Picture Show
- Thalia Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Larry McMurtry
- Narrado por: John Randolph Jones
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 626
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 567
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 564
An almost-true story about a small town in Texas that ought to exist if it doesn’t, with characters like Sam the Lion, the delectable Jacy, and Ruth Popper, the coach’s wife. Set in a small, dusty, Texas town, The Last Picture Show introduced the characters of Jacy, Duane, and Sonny: teenagers stumbling toward adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not very good
- De Randall en 07-02-17
De: Larry McMurtry
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Nearly Normal
- Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
- De: Cea Sunrise Person
- Narrado por: Cea Sunrise Person
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This one is just not for me
- De Pamela Plimpton en 03-15-19
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Disgruntled
- De: Asali Solomon
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's black - most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are, too. Maybe it's because she calls her father - a housepainter-slash-philosopher - "Baba" or because her parents' friends gather to pour out libations "from the Creator, for the Martyrs" and discuss "the community".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved It!!!
- De ayodele higgs en 05-20-15
De: Asali Solomon
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Go Ask Alice
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 793
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 788
Life at 15 isn't easy for a girl if she's shy and hates the way she looks. Each day is heaven or hell, depending on who talks to her, or who doesn't. So when she's finally accepted by a group, she doesn't refuse their party games, even if it means taking LSD. Soon she's taking little pills to wake up and others to go to sleep, and the days begin to blur. Based on a 15-year-old's diary, Go Ask Alice is the intimate account of one girl's fatal journey into the world of drug addiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WE WERE ALL LIED TO. THIS IS FICTION PEOPLE!!!
- De Sharron en 05-09-14
De: Anonymous
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Tiger, Tiger
- A Memoir
- De: Margaux Fragoso
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is 51. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a child’s paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother, beset by mental illness and overwhelmed by caring for Margaux, is grateful for the attention Peter lavishes on her, and he creates an imaginative universe for her, much as Lewis Carroll did for his real-life Alice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a weirdly loving diatribe against pervs.
- De Dane Flakeman en 05-21-11
De: Margaux Fragoso
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Agorafabulous!
- Dispatches From My Bedroom
- De: Sara Benincasa
- Narrado por: Sara Benincasa
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
One of the funniest and most poignant books ever written about a mental illness, Agorafabulous! is a hilarious, raw, and unforgettable account of how a terrified young woman, literally trapped by her own imagination, evolved into a (relatively) high-functioning professional smartass. Down to earth and seriously funny, Benincasa's no-holds-barred revelations offer listeners the politically incorrect hilarity they heartily crave, yet is so often missing from your typical, weepy, and redemptive personal memoir.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Fun than a Good Cry in a Bathroom Stall
- De Susie en 03-05-15
De: Sara Benincasa
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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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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