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At the Edge of the Orchard
- De: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the 50 apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of an easier life back in Connecticut; while Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic refuge from brutal frontier life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The performance was superb
- De cheryl retired bookseller en 05-30-17
De: Tracy Chevalier
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Walk In My Soul
- De: Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Narrado por: Laurie Klein
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee. And the dreams each had for their land and their people were far apart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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i honestly don't know what is going in this book
- De Bryntainia Holloway en 09-21-19
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She Would Be King
- A Novel
- De: Wayétu Moore
- Narrado por: Wayétu Moore
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful example of magical realism.
- De Danielle en 10-07-18
De: Wayétu Moore
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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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Crockett of Tennessee
- A Novel Based on the Life and Times of David Crockett
- De: Cameron Judd
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
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From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David Davy Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were - to his delight - told, retold, and elaborated on. As a US congressman, the former Creek War militiaman steadfastly opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I highly recommend
- De That Man They Call Shad en 05-05-21
De: Cameron Judd
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Dessa Rose
- A Novel
- De: Sherley Anne Williams
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 2 h y 56 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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This is the story of an extraordinary friendship between two remarkable women, both caught in the shadow of slavery in the 19th-century South. One is an escaped black slave under sentence of death; the other is white, yet committed to end the horrors her neighbors accept as a matter of course. Ruby Dee's passionate and sensitive readings gives a poignant sense of reality to this magnificent novel of courage, daring and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One Star from Perfect
- De Marty en 01-26-18
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfection
- De Mel en 04-06-15
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The Hundred Wells of Salaga
- A Novel
- De: Ayesha Harruna Attah
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father's court. These two women's lives converge as infighting among Wurche's people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.
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Stealing Freedom
- De: Elisa Carbone
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Inspired by a true story, here is the riveting novel of a young slave girl's harrowing escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. The moment Ann Maria Weems was born, her freedom was stolen from her. Like her family and the other slaves on the farm, Ann works from sunup to sundown and obeys the orders of her master. Then one day, Ann's family - the only joy she knows - is gone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One one of the best Narrated books I have listen to.
- De Wendy en 09-08-21
De: Elisa Carbone
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Mrs. Mike
- De: Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of Canada to life and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How could I have missed this all these years?
- De Dale C. Farran en 01-30-10
De: Benedict Freedman, y otros
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Mudbound
- De: Hillary Jordan
- Narrado por: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 962
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 968
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- De Betty en 03-25-12
De: Hillary Jordan
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Across Five Aprils
- De: Irene Hunt
- Narrado por: Terry Bregy
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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This compelling classic of a boy's coming of age during the Civil War is based on stories the author's grandfather told her about his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great History book for kids
- De Shannon en 04-02-12
De: Irene Hunt
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The Sacred Place
- De: Daniel Black
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Visiting from Chicago, 14-year-old Clement is unfamiliar with the social customs of the tiny town of Money. Striding into a general store, he offends the white store clerk by not placing his nickel in her hand. This seemingly innocuous act leads to a horrific murder and a conflict drawn along racial lines.
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4 out of 5 stars
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learning experience
- De BearBearWolf en 02-22-19
De: Daniel Black
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Demon's Pass
- De: Robert Vaughn, Ralph Compton
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Parker Stanley's family had a dream: to start a new life in the Far West. But en route, a Cheyenne band slaughters his parents and abducts his sister. Then cowboy Clay Springer rides to the rescue - and comes up with an idea. He's got a team ready to deliver goods to the Mormons in Utah, but he's short on funds for supplies. He knows that Parker managed to hold on to his family's savings, so he suggests a 50-50 partnership. With a three-wagon, seven-man team, Parker and Clay will traverse the barren land, but out in the wilderness, Parker's sister needs saving - and he has vowed to find her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Story!
- De Josh en 06-25-23
De: Robert Vaughn, y otros
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Drums Along the Mohawk
- De: Walter D. Edmonds
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 21 h y 1 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,383
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,379
Drums along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds' masterpiece, is not only the best historical novel about upstate New York since James Fenimore Cooper, it was also number one on the bestseller list for two years, only yielding to the epic Gone with the Wind. This is the story of the forgotten pioneers of the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Here Gilbert Martin and his young wife struggled and lived and hoped.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Robert en 09-06-15
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The Unreal and the Real
- Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Shame on you, Audible
- De Audrey McCombs en 07-03-20
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Roots
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- BigTymer2047
- 02-01-23
Outstanding.
This was my third time listening to this book and every time gets better. So much emotion in the hardships and the happiness. Wonderful work.
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- Hayley
- 09-11-18
Just WOW!
Don’t hesitate, this is one of the very best audio books ever. I feel inspired, educated and entertained after listening to it. An emotional saga of intensity and historical relevance. Enjoy!
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- Gopalakrishna
- 01-09-18
inspired to dig into my ancestry
enjoyed the lineage descriptions feel enthusiastic about our ancestral lineage. Learnt hardships and bonding in family for generations
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- M. Khalil
- 04-23-17
Avery Brooks was great.
I just loved every bit of the narration. Avery brought the whole book to life so much that I could sometimes feel I was standing right there.
His rendition of Uncle Mongo was just outstanding.
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