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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and grew up under the drab, muddy, gray mantle of one of communism’s most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places. But when Bulgaria was formally inducted to the European Union she decided it was time to return to the home she had spent most of her life trying to escape. What she found was a country languishing under the strain of transition. This two-part memoir of Kapka’s childhood and return explains life on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good start, but ended up not liking the author
- De Giselle en 11-02-21
De: Kapka Kassabova
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House of Stone
- A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- De: Anthony Shadid
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
When Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma, where he was raised by his Lebanese American family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather, a place filled with memories of a lost era when the Middle East was a world of grace, grandeur, and unexpected departures.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bit depressing
- De Astrid Dahl en 03-17-12
De: Anthony Shadid
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Black Dog of Fate
- A Memoir
- De: Peter Balakian
- Narrado por: Peter Balakian
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
The first-born son of his generation, Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia. He was immersed in an all-American boyhood defined by rock 'n' roll, adolescent pranks, and a passion for the New York Yankees that he shared with his beloved grandmother. But beneath this sunny world lay the dark specter of the trauma his family and ancestors had experienced: the Turkish government's extermination of more than a million Armenians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De Lm en 06-27-13
De: Peter Balakian
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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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Jerusalem Maiden
- De: Talia Carner
- Narrado por: Lise Bruneau
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris - and to believe that God has a special destiny for her. When tragedy strikes her family, Esther views it as a warning from an angry God....
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4 out of 5 stars
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No dreaming, No painting, No thinking . . .
- De Debbie en 04-18-15
De: Talia Carner
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The Patriots
- A Novel
- De: Sana Krasikov
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- De: Amos Oz
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 23 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 337
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 297
It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.
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1 out of 5 stars
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His life was interesting, but not his memoir
- De DR Harle en 01-27-19
De: Amos Oz
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Something Fierce
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
- De: Carmen Aguirre
- Narrado por: Carmen Aguirre
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Carmen Aguirre was six-year-old when she and her family fled to Canada following General Augusto Pinochet’s violent 1973 coup in Chile. She was only eleven-years-old when her mother and stepfather joined the resistance movement and returned to South America, taking Carmen and her sister went with them. As their mother and stepfather set up a safe house for resistance members in La Paz, Bolivia, the girls' own double lives began. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria.
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4 out of 5 stars
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revolutionary read
- De David Brown en 04-05-18
De: Carmen Aguirre
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Three Cups of Tea
- One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
- De: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,736
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 909
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 936
In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Fraud
- De Sara en 02-23-16
De: Greg Mortenson, y otros
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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 20,086
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13,925
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13,931
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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The Great Spring
- Writing, Zen, and This ZigZag Life
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An enjoyable insight
- De Leigh A en 05-22-23
De: Natalie Goldberg
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The Corpse Washer
- De: Sinan Antoon
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father's wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gorgeous story with talented narration
- De N. Barnes en 03-11-18
De: Sinan Antoon
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Habibi
- De: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
For 14-year-old Liyana Abboud, life in St. Louis, Missouri is perfect. She loves shopping in the nearby stores and walking down streets where she knows everyone. Even better, she has just had her first kiss. But her father is moving the family to Jerusalem - the land where he was born. Suddenly Liyana finds herself a stranger in a threatening world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good Performance
- De Muhammad en 04-07-15
De: Naomi Shihab Nye
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Murder in Matera
- A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy
- De: Helene Stapinski
- Narrado por: Helene Stapinski
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
Since childhood Helene Stapinski heard lurid tales about her great-great-grandmother, Vita. In Southern Italy she was a loose woman who had murdered someone. Immigrating to America with three children, she lost one along the way. Helene's youthful obsession with Vita deepened as she grew up, eventually propelling the journalist to Italy, where, with her own children in tow, she pursued the story, determined to set the record straight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story about unraveling the family lore
- De Denise Sproed en 08-04-17
De: Helene Stapinski
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Dreamers of the Day
- A Novel
- De: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 138
A 40-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as an historic Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinions - and a small, noisy dachshund named Rosie - enters into the company of the historic luminaries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Little Big Woman
- De W.Denis en 10-02-08
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Three Daughters of Eve
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 205
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Review 3 daughters of Eve
- De CA en 04-28-18
De: Elif Shafak
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Praise Song for the Butterflies
- A Novel
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 214
Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's advice, places the girl in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abeo for the 15 years she is held in the shrine. When she is finally rescued, broken and battered, she must struggle to overcome her past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Searing!
- De Susie Bright en 09-05-18
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