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A dialect is a regional or social variant of a language, typically influenced by regional or social background. Dialects can be distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and accents.
Yorkshire is the largest county in England and has a vast range of dialects to match. The Sheffield dialect is one of the greatest historical assortments of English. The Sheffield dialect has numerous shortenings to its words and phrases. Towns that surround Sheffield, such as Barnsley, Chesterfield, and Doncaster, nicknamed the residents of Sheffield "dee-dars". This is because Sheffielders are famously known to use the sound of d, instead of the traditional pronunciation of th. Dialect words such as "thee" and "thou" end up sounding like "dee" and "daa", hence the derived nickname "dee-dars".
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Billy Connolly may be a citizen of the world, but in his heart he's never been far from his homeland. Made in Scotland is Billy's unique and intimate portrait of his native Scotland, a love letter to the places and people that made him. It's an adventure inspired by a single incident: the moment Billy received his Knighthood and was asked, 'How does it feel to have achieved all this when you came from nothing?' His response was, 'But I did come from something!'
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1 out of 5 stars
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I can't believe I wasted a credit on this blather.
- De J. M. Popa en 01-23-20
De: Billy Connolly
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The Town House
- De: Norah Lofts
- Narrado por: Juliet Prague, Martyn Read
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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"It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me… the man whose lightest word was to us, his villeins, weightier than the King’s law or the edicts of our Holy Father…” So began the story of Martin Reed - a serf whose resentment of the automatic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another winner by Norah Lofts
- De Bird Lady 147 en 10-03-17
De: Norah Lofts
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Coming up for Air
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to “come up for air” from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. But the pool is gone, Lower Binfield has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of Bowling’s holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Orwell Flirts and Fishes w/ Nostalgia & Modernity.
- De Darwin8u en 07-10-12
De: George Orwell
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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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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
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The Book of Ebenezer le Page
- De: G. B. Edwards
- Narrado por: Roy Dotrice
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late 20th century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between England and France yet a world away from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the story of those he has known.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss Ebenezer
- De Mel en 01-15-18
De: G. B. Edwards
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A Clergyman's Daughter
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher’s bill. But even Dorothy’s strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bottom-Shelf Orwell, but still G-D Orwell
- De Darwin8u en 08-11-19
De: George Orwell
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Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
- Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
- De: Louise Rennison
- Narrado por: Stina Nielson
- Duración: 5 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 333
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Several things about 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson's life are very wrong. Her bedroom smells like her little sister probably peed somewhere, but she can?t find where. Angus, her enormous cat, keeps terrorizing Mrs. Next Door's poodle. Dad's gone off to look for work in New Zealand. And one of her friends has rated Georgia's nose a zero on a scale from 1-10. But what's really driving her crazy is that Sex God Robbie doesn't give her the time of day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious listen for pre-teens and adults
- De Kristi en 10-08-05
De: Louise Rennison
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Foster
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- De CTKG en 11-01-22
De: Claire Keegan
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
- Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Aunjanue Ellis
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African-American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writer - Great Reader
- De Avid Listener en 09-09-20
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The Shepherd's Hut
- De: Tim Winton
- Narrado por: Kate Mulvany
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Jaxie Clackton is a brutalized rural youth who flees from the scene of his father's violent death and strikes out for the vast wilds of Western Australia. All he carries with him is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the harsh saltlands alone is a savage business. And once he discovers he's not alone out there, all Jaxie's plans go awry. He meets a fellow exile, the ruined priest Fintan MacGillis, a man he's never certain he can trust, but on whom his life will soon depend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning!
- De Antoniya Boyd en 07-09-18
De: Tim Winton
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Once Were Warriors
- De: Alan Duff
- Narrado por: Jay Laga'aia
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4000X better then the movie
- De Amazon Customer en 02-15-18
De: Alan Duff
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Bloody Jack
- De: L. A. Meyer
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of 18th-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas. There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes it clicks
- De Terry en 12-09-09
De: L. A. Meyer
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A Clockwork Orange
- De: Anthony Burgess
- Narrado por: Tom Hollander
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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A vicious 15-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic, a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. In Anthony Burgess' nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, great narration, but not for everyone
- De Steve en 06-28-09
De: Anthony Burgess
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Trumpet
- De: Jackie Kay
- Narrado por: Cathleen McCarron
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered fury brings the press to the doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a remote Scottish village. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet by Jackie Kay is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and True
- De Colin en 05-24-17
De: Jackie Kay
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Girls Like Us
- De: Gail Giles
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo, Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 3 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Quincy and Biddy are both graduates of their high school's special ed program, but they couldn't be more different: suspicious Quincy faces the world with her fists up, while gentle Biddy is frightened to step outside her front door. When they're thrown together as roommates in their first "real world" apartment, it initially seems to be an uneasy fit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth Hearing a Second Time!!!
- De Daizy en 10-30-17
De: Gail Giles
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Cocaine Blues
- De: Kerry Greenwood
- Narrado por: Stephanie Daniel
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,012
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,467
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It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A series that just gets better
- De Barbara Kindle Customer en 02-01-11
De: Kerry Greenwood