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Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die
- Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, Book 170)
- Narrado por: Tawanda Mulalu
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
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Second person POV releases poignant perspective
- De Storytellersrus en 09-25-21
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Priestdaddy
- A Memoir
- De: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrado por: Patricia Lockwood
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.
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Terrible narration--read, don't listen
- De Penelope en 08-06-17
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Poemcrazy
- Freeing Your Life with Words
- De: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.
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Her Words, Her Voice...
- De S. Schultz en 11-21-14
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Bone
- De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon - foreword
- Narrado por: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
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From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonates to the core of what it means to be human.
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Visceral,blood hot, thrilling poetry-prose
- De Pam en 12-28-22
De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, y otros
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The Lightness
- A Novel
- De: Emily Temple
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother - a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial - Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls”.
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Perfect combination
- De Lauren yett en 06-22-20
De: Emily Temple
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Light Years
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
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Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
- De W Perry Hall en 04-18-19
De: James Salter
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Abandon Me
- Memoirs
- De: Melissa Febos
- Narrado por: Melissa Febos
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection - with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery.
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This journey is captivating to say the least!
- De Ilanna en 08-11-17
De: Melissa Febos
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New American Best Friend
- De: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrado por: Olivia Gatwood
- Duración: 54 m
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One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- De Keaira en 07-29-19
De: Olivia Gatwood
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Speak
- A Novel
- De: Louisa Hall
- Narrado por: Suzan Crowley, Christopher Ashman, Adrienne Rusk, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the 17th century to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human and what it means to be less than fully alive.
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Like nothing else
- De Anonymous User en 06-22-17
De: Louisa Hall
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Mother Tongue
- De: Demetria Martinez
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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A nameless El Salvadoran man, fleeing torture and imprisonment, arrives in the United States - his only hope for asylum. The American woman who has volunteered to help him is searching for something to add meaning to her life. When these two lonely people meet, their haunting relationship fulfills their hearts' desires, but it also gives life to their darkest dreams.
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Outer Banks
- De: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrado por: C. J. Critt
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
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Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig. They came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding early friendship, they spent two idyllic spring breaks at Nags Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weather-beaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea.
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Rather Depressing Tho Good Storyline
- De Gracie en 02-16-18