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The haunting and poignant story of a how a young Japanese girl's understanding of the historic and tragic bombing of Hiroshima is transformed by a memorial lantern-floating ceremony.
Twelve-year-old Nozomi lives in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. She wasn't even born when the bombing of Hiroshima took place. Every year Nozomi joins her family at the lantern-floating ceremony to honor those lost in the bombing. People write the names of their deceased loved ones along with messages of peace, on paper lanterns and set them afloat on the river. This year Nozomi realizes that her mother always releases one lantern with no name. She begins to ask questions, and when complicated stories of loss and loneliness unfold, Nozomi and her friends come up with a creative way to share their loved ones' experiences. By opening people's eyes to the struggles they all keep hidden, the project teaches the entire community new ways to show compassion.
Soul Lanterns is an honest exploration of what happened on August 6, 1945, and offers listeners a glimpse not only into the rich cultural history of Japan but also into the intimate lives of those who recognize - better than most - the urgent need for peace.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Kuzki and translator Balistrieri create a compelling and age-appropriate account of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and its aftermath." (Booklist)
"This gut-wrenching tale of the Hiroshima bombing from a Japanese perspective is a tender and honest exploration of empathy in the aftermath of unimaginable pain and grief." (School Library Journal)
"Kuzki, a the child of [Hiroshima] bombing survivors herself, presents an intimate look at the effects of the [Hiroshima] bomb a generation later, and how such an event has long-lasting impact on the community to which it happened." (The Bulletin)
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- A Search for Six of Six Million
- De: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 22 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite Narration, Breathtakingly Heartfelt Book
- De Gillian en 08-14-16
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Ordinary Light
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Tracy K. Smith
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 162
Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply spoken - poetic
- De CarolynneRHarris en 04-27-15
De: Tracy K. Smith
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The Vagrants
- De: Yiyun Li
- Narrado por: Jackie Chung
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Yiyun Li is the winner of the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Vagrants, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary. Though suffering, Li's characters nevertheless struggle to maintain hope amid cruel circumstance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lovely prose, good story, deadly narration
- De Athene en 05-10-13
De: Yiyun Li
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How Dare the Sun Rise
- Memoirs of a War Child
- De: Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta
- Narrado por: Sandra Uwiringiyimana
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 203
This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sandra's voice is mesmorizing!
- De Karissa Barber en 04-18-18
De: Sandra Uwiringiyimana, y otros
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The Bastard of Istanbul
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 420
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 278
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 280
In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a 19-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A tender gift from far away
- De Barbara en 11-07-07
De: Elif Shafak
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Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
- Stories of Changes, Choices, and Growing Up for Kids Ages 9-13
- De: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, y otros
- Narrado por: Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap
- Duración: 1 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Our preteen years, ages nine to 13, can present some of the most difficult times in our young lives, a period of tremendous physical and emotional change. We're eager to leave the "kid" stage, yet we're uncertain about what adolescence will bring; we start hearing the familiar refrain "wait until you're older" far too often. Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul is a companion guide for these transitional years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for children!
- De T Renaud en 01-04-15
De: Jack Canfield, y otros
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Return to Sender
- De: Julia Alvarez
- Narrado por: Ozzie Rodriguez, Olivia Preciado
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’ t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book for preteens
- De Anonymous User en 02-10-18
De: Julia Alvarez
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- De: Xiaolu Guo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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must read
- De Jeff Darlington en 10-22-17
De: Xiaolu Guo
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A Chance in the World
- An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
- De: Steve Pemberton
- Narrado por: Steve Pemberton
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 127
A Chance in the World is the unbelievably true story of a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience, determination, and vision. Through it all, Steve's story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Book
- De Amazon Customer en 08-19-20
De: Steve Pemberton
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 639
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 571
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 575
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she' s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she' d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy' s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For Literary Lovers
- De M. Shipe en 04-25-14
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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How Do You Live
- De: Genzaburo Yoshino, Bruno Navasky, Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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How Do You Live? is narrated in two voices. The first belongs to Copper, 15, who after the death of his father must confront inevitable and enormous change, including his own betrayal of his best friend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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pure joy
- De greta shlafmitz en 01-09-22
De: Genzaburo Yoshino, y otros
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Secret Daughter
- De: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 940
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 801
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 801
Debut novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling tale about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De Stephanie en 06-08-11
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Life in a Jar
- De: Jack Mayer
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 367
During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love of neighbor
- De minime en 03-26-16
De: Jack Mayer
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The Lost Carousel of Provence
- De: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 282
Long, lonely years have passed for the crumbling Château Clement, nestled well beyond the rolling lavender fields and popular tourist attractions of Provence. Once a bustling and dignified ancestral estate, now all that remains is the château's gruff, elderly owner and the softly whispered secrets of generations buried and forgotten. But time has a way of exposing history's dark stains, and when American photographer Cady Drake finds herself drawn to the château and its antique carousel, she longs to explore the relic's shadowy origins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It!
- De T Heskett en 09-23-18
De: Juliet Blackwell
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Mosaic
- A Chronicle of Five Generations
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 19 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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>i>Mosaic is compelling storytelling at its best - from the fascinating details of Polish-Jewish culture and the rivalries and dramas of family life, to its moving account of lives torn apart by war and persecution, this an extraordinary true story of a family, and of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely excellent!
- De Roberta en 09-22-11
De: Diane Armstrong
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Where the Past Begins
- A Writer's Memoir
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Amy Tan
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narration Issues
- De Sara en 12-14-17
De: Amy Tan
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 27 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,668
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,869
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,857
Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany's dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany's difficult voice as intended. In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys – best friends – are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary and terrifying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Alan en 03-28-11
De: John Irving