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This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don't say no. You don't ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far at the back of your head you think: Soon there must come a day when I can say for myself: This and that I shall do, this and that I shall not.
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Here is the remarkable story - based on individuals connected to the author's family - of a fiercely independent woman who will settle for nothing and for no one. Unwilling to accept the future that lies ahead of her, Philida continues to test the limits and lodges a complaint against the Brink family. Then she sets off on a journey-from the southernmost reaches of the Cape, across a great wilderness, to the far north of the country - in order to reclaim her soul.
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
- De: Eleanor Morse
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- De Kathi en 03-15-13
De: Eleanor Morse
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Wicked
- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- De: Gregory Maguire
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9,521
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6,653
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Heralded as an instant classic of fantasy literature, Maguire has written a wonderfully imaginative retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch's point of view. More than just a fairy tale for adults, Wicked is a meditation on the nature of good and evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's not easy being green
- De PangaeaReads en 07-30-08
De: Gregory Maguire
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Augustown
- De: Kei Miller
- Narrado por: Dona Croll
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 111
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Ma Taffy may be blind, but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don't, and plenty of things that shouldn't happen do.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SUPERB
- De ** en 06-25-17
De: Kei Miller
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Independent People
- De: Halldór Laxness
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 20 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I am so confused about this introduction
- De George M en 09-10-18
De: Halldór Laxness
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The Canal Bridge
- A Novel of Ireland, Love, and the First World War
- De: Tom Phelan
- Narrado por: Paul Nugent
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn and Con Hatchel, lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish midlands, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of England and join the British army. A year later, while en route to India, their troop ship is recalled and they soon find themselves in the European slaughterhouse that was World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, disturbing and unforgettable
- De Kathy en 05-25-16
De: Tom Phelan
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The Known World
- De: Edward P. Jones
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A meandering audiobook...
- De Daniel en 09-03-04
De: Edward P. Jones
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The Power and the Glory
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 541
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 474
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Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in 1930s Mexico during the era of Communist religious persecutions. As revolutionaries determine to stamp out the evils of the church through violence, the last Roman Catholic priest is on the lam, hunted by a police lieutenant. Despite his own sense of worthlessness—he is a heavy drinker and has fathered an illegitimate child—he is determined to continue to function as a priest until captured.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lousy recording quality of bad narration
- De Vincent en 10-08-12
De: Graham Greene
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Wolf Winter
- De: Cecilia Ekback
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms BlackAsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow.
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3 out of 5 stars
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So atmospheric, it hurts
- De Bookmarque en 08-24-15
De: Cecilia Ekback
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Far North
- A Novel
- De: Marcel Theroux
- Narrado por: Yelena Schmulenson
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spellbinding!
- De Joan en 01-14-10
De: Marcel Theroux
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Trigger Warning
- Short Fictions and Disturbances
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Neil Gaiman
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,220
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,842
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,823
In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013--as well as "Black Dog", a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It Triggered Me to Stay Up Late and Listen
- De Jan en 02-10-15
De: Neil Gaiman
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Master and Man
- De: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrado por: Walter Zimmerman
- Duración: 2 h y 10 m
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 50
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In the story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly to purchase the forest before other contenders can get there. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself suffering from hypothermia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent. totally enngaging. naratorr quite wonderful!
- De J. RYBERG en 01-05-17
De: Leo Tolstoy, y otros
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The Woman of the House
- Mossgrove, Book 1
- De: Alice Taylor
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
An enchanting and nostalgic tale of Ireland in the 1950s by Ireland’s favourite writer, Alice Taylor. The Phelans have owned Mossgrove for generations. The small, rural Irish farm has been the pride of them all until Ned's wife, Martha, arrives and begins to undermine generations of hard work and happiness. She resents the deep history of the place and sets about making it her own, shutting out what is left of Ned's family. She is particularly jealous of Ned's sister, Kate, a local nurse and doting aunt to Martha's children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brings you right there
- De Amazon Customer en 08-26-20
De: Alice Taylor
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Copper Sun
- De: Sharon M. Draper
- Narrado por: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Fifteen-year-old Amari witnesses the murder of her family and the destruction of her remote African village. She endures countless humiliations as she is beaten, branded, and forced to board a slave ship. The atrocities continue as she struggles through endless days of backbreaking work and daily degradation on a plantation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story
- De Gabrielle en 04-05-11
De: Sharon M. Draper
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The Winemaker
- De: Noah Gordon
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
From the author of The Physician and Shaman now comes this story of a young man - the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he loves, and his struggle against an evil that seeks to destroy him. Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa Eulália, in Northern Spain, where his father grows black grapes that are turned into cheap vinegar. In Madrid, an assassination plot creates a storm of intrigue that sucks into its vortex a group of innocent young farm workers in Santa Eulália.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring, true to life
- De Cody W. en 12-18-20
De: Noah Gordon
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How Green Was My Valley
- De: Richard Llewellyn
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 16 h y 22 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 562
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 561
How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn’s best-selling - and timeless - classic, as well as the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyn’s characters fight, love, laugh, and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people. Richard Llewellyn (1906–1983), a Welsh novelist, was born in Hendon, England, in the county of Middlesex.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The rhythm of life... the pattern of words...
- De Jan en 04-16-13
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Philida
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- Country Bookworm
- 01-27-15
Hard to keep up.
I liked Philida. The problem I had with this book was when a new chapter started I had no idea who was talking. The author doesn't tell you ch 8 Philida, or ch 13 Franz. They talk and you have wait and figure out who's speaking.
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- Ilze
- 01-14-18
Appalling pronunciation
Great story, but mere torture to follow due to the mispronunciation of Afrikaans words and names.
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- abby
- 01-29-15
Not worth your time
I've always looked forward to Andre Brink's novels, but Philida was pedantic and remarkably dull.
The voice of Philida - word usage and syntax was inconsistent. All the characters were flat and caricaturist.
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