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My Southern Journey
- True Stories from the Heart of the South
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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From celebrated New York Times best-selling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Rick Bragg comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the South. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, Bragg explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions with college football and fishing to mayonnaise and spoonbread to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition, My Southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging listen, especially for Southerners (or Southerners at heart) and anyone who appreciates great writing.
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"Rick Bragg says Southern storytellers speak as if they're slowly chewing each word, savoring the sound and meaning. And that's just the way he presents this collection of his published essays.... His use of metaphor and rich descriptions comes across especially effectively when spoken." (AudioFile)
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The history of the American South is a complicated one. The region is marked by resilience and cultural depth in the face of adversity. From mountain folk celebrating their communities in southern Appalachia to the chefs working tirelessly to honor the South’s traditional cuisine, the culture of the South is vibrant, diverse, and wholly its own. This list presents the multifaceted identity of the South with listens that get to its heart.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as a novel
- De Sarah C en 05-30-12
De: Annie Proulx
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Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 156
Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator’s attempt at a southern accent distracting to story
- De Ryan C. Bango en 01-05-22
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Cannery Row
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Jerry Farden
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,372
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,902
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,885
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack and his boys, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and most poignant works.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five stars with a Caveat
- De Bette en 04-23-12
De: John Steinbeck
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The Winemaker's Daughter
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
When Brunella Cartolano visits her father on the family vineyard in the basin of the Cascade Mountains, she's shocked by the devastation caused by a four-year drought. Passionate about the Pacific Northwest ecology, Brunella, a cultural impact analyst, is embroiled in a battle to save the Seattle waterfront from redevelopment and to preserve a fisherman's livelihood. But when a tragedy among fire-jumpers results from a failure of the water supply - her brother Niccolo is among those lost - Brunella finds herself with another mission.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Obviously Not Read By A Washington Resident
- De John C Schuyler en 04-24-19
De: Timothy Egan
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Close Range
- Wyoming Stories (Selected Unabridged Stories)
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Frances Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 203
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below", a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer", an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderfully Ironic and Surprising Read
- De Susan L. Stewart en 04-21-12
De: Annie Proulx
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Gary Sinise
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,442
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,775
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,773
In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck’s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature—to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gary Sinise is fantastic!
- De C. Wilson en 01-11-17
De: John Steinbeck
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I sure tried.
- De A.C. CALLOWAY en 01-28-24
De: Joy Williams
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 508
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 358
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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Walking to Listen
- 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
- De: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Narrado por: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 337
At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcends the typical trekking story
- De barefoot rabbit en 08-07-18
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The World's Largest Man
- A Memoir
- De: Harrison Scott Key
- Narrado por: Harrison Scott Key
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 181
Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women pregnant. At the center of his world was his larger-than-life father - a hunter, a fighter, and a football coach. Harrison, with his love of books and excessive interest in hugging, couldn't have been less like Pop, and when it became clear that he was not able to kill anything very well or otherwise make his father happy, he resolved to become everything his father was not.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I laughed every day to and from work. Loved it!
- De KufRN en 06-06-18
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
De: Toni Morrison
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Nothing with Strings
- NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
- De: Bailey White
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 4 h y 52 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 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The mundane and the miraculous stand side by side in these sketches and stories of Southern small-time life by the author of Quite a Year for Plums.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real jewel.
- De Mary en 12-31-08
De: Bailey White
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Bad Indians
- A Tribal Memoir
- De: Deborah A. Miranda
- Narrado por: Deborah Miranda
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
This beautiful and devastating book - part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir - should be required for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad recording
- De Aspyn Maes en 09-18-21
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Prodigal Summer
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,999
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,265
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,262
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches them from an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and her solitary life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Lily en 10-12-08
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Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Essays
- De: Michael Paterniti
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly intimate voice for humanity
- De Ed Hodges en 01-02-16
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Goodbye to a River
- De: John Graves
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 180
In this classic from the Lone Star State, John Graves learns that the river he knew and loved as a youth, the Brazos in north-central Texas, is slated to be dammed at multiple points - and he understands that things will never be the same. Goodbye to a River is a poignant narrative of one man's journey by canoe down the river of his memories. Along the way, he describes the colorful Texas landscape and recounts its rich history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Undoubtedly a great piece of American literature
- De Chris en 04-04-13
De: John Graves
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Magic Lessons
- A Prequel to Practical Magic
- De: Alice Hoffman
- Narrado por: Sutton Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,310
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,911
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,894
Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Nameless Arts". Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Alice Hoffman Never Disappoints
- De Elle Estee en 10-07-20
De: Alice Hoffman
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The Most They Ever Had
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 620
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 556
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 557
In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The mill had become almost a living thing, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story.
- De Barbara A. Witte en 05-28-15
De: Rick Bragg
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All Over But the Shoutin'
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 2 h y 41 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 920
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 820
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 811
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.
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2 out of 5 stars
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ABRIDGED
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-16
De: Rick Bragg
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Where I Come From
- Stories from the Deep South
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 427
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 424
Celebrated author and newspaper columnist Rick Bragg brings us an ode to the stories and history of the Deep South, filled with “eclectic nuggets about places and people he knows well” (USA Today) and written with honesty, wit, and deep affection. A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns — from Bragg’s love of Tupperware (his mother preferred margarine tubs and thought Tupperware was “just showing off”) to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pickup truck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing as usual
- De Tina en 10-30-20
De: Rick Bragg
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The Best Cook in the World
- Tales from My Momma's Southern Table: A Memoir and Cookbook
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 19 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 478
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 416
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 414
From the beloved, best-selling author of All over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, his mother. In The Best Cook in the World, Rick Bragg finally preserves his heritage by telling the stories that framed his mother's cooking and education, from childhood into old age. Because good food always has a good story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delicious Tales
- De Noreen en 05-08-18
De: Rick Bragg
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The Prince of Frogtown
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 203
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 204
Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his 10-year-old stepson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This guy can write.
- De colleen en 03-08-14
De: Rick Bragg
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Ava's Man
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 442
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 439
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving
- De Kate en 08-12-03
De: Rick Bragg
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The Most They Ever Had
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 620
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 556
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 557
In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The mill had become almost a living thing, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story.
- De Barbara A. Witte en 05-28-15
De: Rick Bragg
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All Over But the Shoutin'
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 2 h y 41 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 920
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 820
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 811
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.
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2 out of 5 stars
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ABRIDGED
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-16
De: Rick Bragg
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Where I Come From
- Stories from the Deep South
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 427
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 424
Celebrated author and newspaper columnist Rick Bragg brings us an ode to the stories and history of the Deep South, filled with “eclectic nuggets about places and people he knows well” (USA Today) and written with honesty, wit, and deep affection. A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns — from Bragg’s love of Tupperware (his mother preferred margarine tubs and thought Tupperware was “just showing off”) to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pickup truck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing as usual
- De Tina en 10-30-20
De: Rick Bragg
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The Best Cook in the World
- Tales from My Momma's Southern Table: A Memoir and Cookbook
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 19 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 478
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 416
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 414
From the beloved, best-selling author of All over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, his mother. In The Best Cook in the World, Rick Bragg finally preserves his heritage by telling the stories that framed his mother's cooking and education, from childhood into old age. Because good food always has a good story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delicious Tales
- De Noreen en 05-08-18
De: Rick Bragg
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The Prince of Frogtown
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 203
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 204
Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his 10-year-old stepson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This guy can write.
- De colleen en 03-08-14
De: Rick Bragg
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Ava's Man
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 442
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 439
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving
- De Kate en 08-12-03
De: Rick Bragg
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The Speckled Beauty
- A Dog and His People
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 680
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 606
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 601
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finest Book on Audible, Bar None (imho)
- De Mary Burnight en 08-12-22
De: Rick Bragg
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 15 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 222
A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like "Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On" and "Great Balls of Fire", that gave rock and roll its devil’s edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his 13-year-old second cousin - his third wife of seven - and ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Unsparing Portrait of a Southern Kinsman
- De Patrick en 11-01-14
De: Rick Bragg
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The Poet of Tolstoy Park
- De: Sonny Brewer
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
This book is based on the true life of Henry Stuart. When the 67-year-old former professor finds out he is dying of tuberculosis, he vows to “learn in solitude how to save myself.” He sets off for Fairhope, Alabama, with only the writings of his beloved Tolstoy for company. There, the barefoot poet builds himself a small hut and slowly becomes an inspiration for the rest of the utopian town. When his last few months become his last few years, Henry’s attempt to understand death becomes a lesson on life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Jimmy Oaks en 03-23-15
De: Sonny Brewer
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At Home in the World
- A Memoir
- De: Joyce Maynard
- Narrado por: Joyce Maynard
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 166
In the spring of 1972, Joyce Maynard, a freshman at Yale, published a cover story in The New York Times Magazine about life in the sixties. Among the many letters of praise, offers for writing assignments, and request for interviews was a one-page letter from the famously reclusive author, J.D. Salinger. At Home in the World is the story of a girl who loved and lived with J.D. Salinger, and the woman she became. A crucial turning point in Joyce Maynard's life occurred when her own daughter turned eighteen--the age Maynard was when Salinger first approached her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narration Distracted From Beautiful Writing
- De AMANDA en 04-18-16
De: Joyce Maynard
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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 Lost Wife
- A Novel
- De: Susanna Moore
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
One of our most compelling and sensual writers brings to life a devastating Native American revolt and the woman caught in the middle of the conflict in this novel about a seminal and shameful moment in America’s conquest of the West.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Jean Nisbet en 03-01-24
De: Susanna Moore
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The Good House
- A Novel
- De: Ann Leary
- Narrado por: Mary Beth Hurt
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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Hildy Good is a townie. A lifelong resident of a small community on the rocky coast of Boston's North Shore, she knows pretty much everything about everyone. And she's good at lots of things, too. A successful real-estate broker, mother, and grandmother, her days are full. But her nights have become lonely ever since her daughters, convinced their mother was drinking too much, sent her off to rehab. Now she's in recovery—more or less.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Soberingly Funny
- De Mel en 10-16-13
De: Ann Leary
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The Lost Continent
- Travels In Small Town America
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after 10 years in England he decided to go home, to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Written by Bryson's evil twin
- De M. S. Cohen en 08-11-14
De: Bill Bryson
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Kinfolk
- De: Sean Dietrich
- Narrado por: Sean Dietrich
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 116
1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or “Nub,” has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he’s no good—first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter. Sure, his escapades have made him, along with his cousin and perennial sidekick, Benny, just a smidge too familiar with small-town law enforcement, but he’s never harmed anyone—except perhaps himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wholesome book with rich, realistic characters
- De Shari Bartels en 04-24-24
De: Sean Dietrich
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We Must Be Brave
- De: Frances Liardet
- Narrado por: Jayne Entwistle, Juliet Mills
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 944
December 1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, England, the city's residents flee to the surrounding villages. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly married Ellen Parr finds a girl asleep, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. Little Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone. Ellen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home, the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband, Selwyn, had dreamed for themselves. As the war rages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nasty reviews, why? Beautiful book.
- De Kelly en 11-27-19
De: Frances Liardet
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The Sweetness of Water (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- De: Nathan Harris
- Narrado por: William DeMeritt
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,897
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,882
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Equal parts beauty and terror, The Sweetness of Water is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful storytelling and an exceptional audio performance
- De Pamela en 06-18-21
De: Nathan Harris
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The Story of Human Language
- De: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: John McWhorter
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,941
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,017
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,906
Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You'll Never Look at Languages the Same Way Again
- De SAMA en 03-11-14
De: John McWhorter, y otros
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- Susan
- 04-01-20
Southern writing at its best.
I never tire of a Rick Bragg story and it is a joy to hear them in his own voice. He makes me laugh, he makes me cry, and wish for one more meal cooked by my grandmother.
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- Mark F. Volk
- 06-14-21
Great listening
I was spellbound, not only by the story but by the authers/Rick Bragg telling of those stories. I'm deciding which of his books I will listen to next.
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- Mrs.
- 10-15-16
Exceeds 5 stars!
I'd give this collection more than five stars if it were possible! I've enjoyed many of them before, but hearing them in the author's own voice takes them to a deeper level.
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- Mary Nebel
- 06-11-17
Too good for my words...
Rick Bragg makes me laugh and makes me cry. His stories stir up the sweet memories of growing up in the South. This is the only audio book I have that I keep coming back to for the sheer pleasure of his tales.
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- Olivia
- 09-05-16
As a Southerner
As a Southerner, this book is a true reflection of the life I've experienced! Thank you go outing on paper what being a Southerner is all about!
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- CAROLYN B.
- 04-19-19
I could listen to Rick all day long
Although I plan to buy the book, listening to him read this collection of writings and stories gave me such a calm, a peace. His humor and his way with words have captured me for many years. I’m a northerner and I have developed such an appreciation of the south and the southern way of living. I hang on every word, not ever wanting it to end. Will be sharing this on our family road trip through South Carolina. Hope my boys appreciate his writing like I do. Keep the stories coming please.
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- Patrick Artrip
- 10-07-20
Excellent!
I really love the stories that Rick Bragg tells. He brings the south to life and because I grew up not far from where he is from, I can relate to them. Southern writing at its best!
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- PharmGirl
- 05-29-22
A keeper
I love this book. It is soothing and comforting and entertaining and informative and funny. It celebrates the people i come from, the place where I live, and helps me laugh about things that just are. It’s just the best. I’m
So glad Mr. Bragg narrated it himself. It lends an authenticity and realness to it. No one else could do it justice. I love that it’s in short segments-little essays- so if you need a quick pick me up after a bad day, you’ve got one.
This is a real treasure.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-13-22
Southern
This book reminded me Erma Bombeck, Rick Bragg was not as funny, however the book was informative. I was at times on the edge of my seat awaiting the outcome of some topics like football.
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- Mary
- 12-17-21
A Baby-Boomers life story
Anyone from 55 to 75 years old can relate to hundreds of things and situations described in these wonderful stories! A very sentimental and funny array of life situations we have mostly forgotten, but needed to be reminded of! Thank you,
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