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"The book’s charm lies in its first-person narrative, which poignantly conjures the Blondin family’s challenges along with the author’s reactions to historical events." (Publishers Weekly)
"Riveting and poignant. Savage captures the tragedy and tenacity that define the history of Québec and its diaspora across North America. A rare sympathetic view from an Anglo-Canadian." (David Vermette, A Distinct Alien Race: The Untold Story of Franco-Americans)
"Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Strangers in the House is a remarkable achievement." (Roy MacGregor, Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People)
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story
- De Pumpkin99 en 12-24-22
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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Master Slave Husband Wife
- An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- De: Ilyon Woo
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Necessary story well told!
- De Marc W Rhoades en 01-19-23
De: Ilyon Woo
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Finding Samuel Lowe
- China, Jamaica, Harlem
- De: Paula Williams Madison
- Narrado por: Paula Williams Madison
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Thanks to her spiteful, jealous Jamaican mother, Nell Vera Lowe was cut off from her Chinese father, Samuel, when she was just a baby, after he announced that he was taking a Chinese bride. By the time Nell was old enough to travel to her father's shop in St. Anne's Bay, he'd taken his family back to China, never learning what became of his eldest daughter. Bereft, Nell left Jamaica for New York to start a new life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De ayodele higgs en 01-27-16
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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My Father's Paradise
- A Son's Search For His Family's Past
- De: Ariel Sabar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story well told
- De B. Cohen en 11-23-23
De: Ariel Sabar
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Slaves in the Family
- De: Edward Ball
- Narrado por: Edward Ball
- Duración: 20 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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The Ball family hails from South Carolina - Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to 4,000 Black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gives a good insight for moving forward today
- De Wendy Wood en 05-05-19
De: Edward Ball
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Into the Forest
- A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
- De: Rebecca Frankel
- Narrado por: Natalie Pela
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 231
In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story with an added benefit
- De Scottsville Stu en 12-30-21
De: Rebecca Frankel
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The Other Madisons
- The Lost History of a President's Black Family
- De: Bettye Kearse
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse - a descendant of a slave named Coreen and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison - finally shares her family story, exploring legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De D C en 08-24-20
De: Bettye Kearse
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The Address Book
- What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
- De: Deirdre Mask
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Simply OK
- De CJFLA en 07-18-20
De: Deirdre Mask
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West of the West
- Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
- De: Mark Arax
- Narrado por: Mark Arax
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West", and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it.
De: Mark Arax
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When We Were Arabs
- A Jewish Family's Forgotten History
- De: Massoud Hayoun
- Narrado por: Massoud Hayoun
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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painful to read.
- De Eli Cukierman en 03-13-20
De: Massoud Hayoun
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Travels with George
- In Search of Washington and His Legacy
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Does George Washington still matter? Best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all 13 former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun listen but too much about slavery
- De Paul W. Brazis en 09-19-21
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The S.S. Officer's Armchair
- Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi
- De: Daniel Lee
- Narrado por: Alex Wyndham
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
One night at a dinner party in Florence, historian Daniel Lee was told about a remarkable discovery. An upholsterer in Amsterdam had found a bundle of swastika-covered documents inside the cushion of an armchair he was repairing. They belonged to Dr. Robert Griesinger, a lawyer from Stuttgart, who joined the S.S. and worked at the Reich's Ministry of Economics and Labor in Nazi-occupied Prague during the war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good book; strange voice...
- De S. Hall en 11-15-20
De: Daniel Lee
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The Cubans
- Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
- De: Anthony DePalma
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Anthony DePalma
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 43
Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The real Cuba
- De Tinkerbell en 10-11-20
De: Anthony DePalma
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Mitka’s Secret
- A True Story of Child Slavery and Surviving the Holocaust
- De: Steven W. Brallier, Joel N. Lohr, Lynn G. Beck
- Narrado por: Trevor Thompson
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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This is Mitka’s account of facing the past, confronting his captors, connecting with lost relatives, and finding peace in the rediscovery of his origins. For Mitka, this also meant reclaiming his Jewish heritage - a journey that gave him a new sense of purpose and freedom from the lingering effects of trauma that had filled his life to that point. By the end, Mitka’s Secret is less a story of survival and more one of redemption and transformation - from hidden suffering to abundant joy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This should be a movie!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-11-21
De: Steven W. Brallier, y otros
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Inge's War
- A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
- De: Svenja O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Growing up in Paris, the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. In this transporting and illuminating audiobook, the award-winning journalist vividly reconstructs the story of her grandmother Inge's life from the rise of the Nazis through the brutal postwar years, from falling in love with a man who was sent to the Eastern Front just after she became pregnant with his child, to spearheading her family's flight as the Red Army closed in, her young daughter in tow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling story, superb narrator
- De Someone who knows en 01-16-24
De: Svenja O'Donnell
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Stealing Home
- Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
- De: Eric Nusbaum
- Narrado por: David Owen Nelson
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 351
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 298
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 296
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Once Upon a Time at Dodger Stadium
- De James Gamble en 03-06-21
De: Eric Nusbaum