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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse - a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Prose, but lacks maturity
- De Michael en 08-09-15
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
- De: Morgan Parker
- Narrado por: Morgan Parker
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 108
The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly laughing in the therapist's office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, and ruthless, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and déjà vu.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just no.
- De Janice en 07-08-20
De: Morgan Parker
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The Incarnations
- A Novel
- De: Susan Barker
- Narrado por: Timo Chen, Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 161
Who are you? You must be wondering. I am your soul mate, your old friend, and I have come back to this city of 16 million in search of you. So begins the first letter that falls into Wang's lap as he flips down the visor in his taxi. The letters that follow are filled with the stories of Wang's previous lives - from escaping a marriage to a spirit bride to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What was that you said?
- De cecil reniche-smith en 08-29-15
De: Susan Barker
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
- Stories
- De: Karen Russell
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Joy Osmanski, Kaleo Griffith, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 249
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 250
In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979", a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis" find Russell veering into more sinister territory.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Stylish modern magic realism
- De Ryan en 04-10-13
De: Karen Russell
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
- De: Nayomi Munaweera
- Narrado por: Priya Ayyar
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pronunciation
- De Mahidevran en 04-07-18
De: Nayomi Munaweera
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Magical Negro
- Poems
- De: Morgan Parker
- Narrado por: Morgan Parker
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics - of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of time
- De Lida en 07-19-20
De: Morgan Parker
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Arcadia
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 316
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 314
Lauren Groff’s acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- De Kathleen en 03-22-12
De: Lauren Groff
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Her Body and Other Parties
- Stories
- De: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 603
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 519
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 526
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-17
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
- A Novel
- De: Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdam - translator
- Narrado por: Tony Chiroldes
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 79
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz’s heroic campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. Perhaps Fuentes’ masterpiece, The Death of Artemio Cruz is a haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writing
- De Kelly B. en 05-01-14
De: Carlos Fuentes, y otros
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Brand New Ancients
- De: Kae Tempest
- Narrado por: Kae Tempest
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 62
Kae Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem "Brand New Ancients" won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap, and storytelling - combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist - has won her legions of followers all over the UK. Her remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An extraordinary experience
- De James en 04-02-15
De: Kae Tempest
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A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing
- The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
- De: DaMaris B. Hill
- Narrado por: Mia Ellis
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair and isolation in order to lodge their protests. In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, DaMaris Hill honours their experiences with at times harrowing, at times hopeful responses to her heroes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Andrea Reynolds en 09-19-19
De: DaMaris B. Hill
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New American Best Friend
- De: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrado por: Olivia Gatwood
- Duración: 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- De Keaira en 07-29-19
De: Olivia Gatwood
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The Secret Life of Mrs. London
- De: Rebecca Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own career on hold to support her husband, but Jack doesn't see it that way...until Charmian is pulled from the audience during a magic show by escape artist Harry Houdini, a man enmeshed in his own complicated marriage. Suddenly charmed, Charmian's eyes open to a world of possibilities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who Knew...?
- De L. Ronayne en 05-04-18
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Disappearing Act
- A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories
- De: Robert Sheehan
- Narrado por: Robert Sheehan
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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as strange as he is
- De DEKEY en 04-08-24
De: Robert Sheehan
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Lips Touch: Three Times
- De: Laini Taylor
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
A girl who’s always been in the shadows finds herself pursued by the unbelievably attractive new boy at school, who may or may not be the death of her. Another girl grows up mute because of a curse placed on her by a vindictive spirit, and later must decide whether to utter her first words to the boy she loves and risk killing everyone who hears her if the curse is real.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Darkly gorgeous
- De Brandilyn en 04-19-15
De: Laini Taylor
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Because You Love to Hate Me
- 13 Tales of Villainy
- De: Ameriie - editor
- Narrado por: Ameriie, Kevin T. Collins, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
In this unique YA anthology, 13 acclaimed, best-selling authors team up with 13 influential BookTubers to reimagine fairy tales from the oft-misunderstood villains' points of view. These fractured, unconventional spins on classics like Medusa, Sherlock Holmes, and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' provide a behind-the-curtain look at villains' acts of vengeance, defiance, and rage - and the pain, heartbreak, and sorrow that spurned them on. No fairy tale will ever seem quite the same again!
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4 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed more than I expected
- De Doha en 08-30-17
De: Ameriie - editor
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- De: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, y otros
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry’s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Caroline Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman’s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life’s journey.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Still struggling with poetry
- De Beatrice en 01-30-12
De: Adrienne Rich, y otros
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Beatlebone
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching 40s, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Nooooo way
- De James en 11-17-15
De: Kevin Barry