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The Cape Ann
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- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
- De: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Narrado por: Shari Peele
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the award-winning and best-selling author of Tumbling, presents Trading Dreams at Midnight - - an Essence Book Club Recommended Read. Back in 1984, 15-year-old Neena's mother left and never came back. And now Neena is following in her footsteps.
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- De Nevada en 08-13-10
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Up from Orchard Street
- De: Eleanor Widmer
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat. Long-widowed Manya is the family's head and its heart. But Manya is no soft touch, except, perhaps, where her granddaughter Elka is concerned. Precocious Elka is her closest companion and confidante. Through Elka's eyes we come to know the fascinating characters who move in and out of the Roths' lives.
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Tenement Life From a Child's Point of View
- De Sara en 08-10-14
De: Eleanor Widmer
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Where I'm Calling From
- Selected Stories
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.
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Love Carver, But Dietz Ruins It With Reading
- De Noirbat en 05-10-18
De: Raymond Carver
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Far From the Tree
- De: Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant
- Narrado por: Fran L. Washington
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant façade. But secretly, her marriage is falling apart and her need to control people around her threatens to destroy them all. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. But she has no money, she has no home, and her life is held together by "chewing gum, paper clips, and spit." When their father dies, the sisters inherit a house in Prosper, North Carolina.
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My Favorite Book So Far, by Far!
- De Dee en 04-19-09
De: Virginia DeBerry, y otros
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Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
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She's Come Undone
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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Really disappointing narrator!
- De Jessica Williams en 01-21-12
De: Wally Lamb
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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The Lost Girls
- A Novel
- De: Heather Young
- Narrado por: Alice Rosengard, Laurel Schroeder
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family - her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, Justine.
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Engaging story spanning three generations.
- De LilMissMolly en 09-23-16
De: Heather Young
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Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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Narrator’s attempt at a southern accent distracting to story
- De Ryan C. Bango en 01-05-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Cape Ann
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- R. Brevitz
- 05-10-21
The narrator made it hard.
I liked this book, but Lark, the little girl who’s the heroine and narrator of the story, sometimes displays the vocabulary and insights of a much older person. Anne of Green Gables can’t match her for big words, and they’re delivered with a straight face, not a suggestion that we’re hearing a child trying to sound erudite. It’s as if her narrative voice changes to that of an adult without notification or demarcation. Also, I’m not an expert on household customs of the 1930s, but Lark has a lot of responsibilities that don’t seem to match the usual life of a six-year-old. Boiling the kettle, weeding the garden???
However, the worst thing is the narrator’s rendition of (most of) the men’s accents. The women have rather neutral accents, but the men speak in a sort of Kentucky-Tennessee drawling twang. This is not how anyone from the Upper Midwest—certainly not Minnesota—talks. It was so dissonant that I almost abandoned the book despite the fact that overall I enjoyed it very much. Aside from Lark’s grown-up responsibilities, the portrayal of small-town Midwestern life is excellent, and the story of Lark’s parents’ unhappy marriage is very believable. (Although it seems an unhappy coincidence in the extreme that both Mama and her sister, another important character, have linked themselves to similarly unappealing men.)
Finally, an important thread of the plot, an exchange between Lark’s uncle and another woman (overheard by Lark, unbeknownst to them), is left dangling. When the author practically shouts, “Something is going to come of this! Wait for it!” and the reader dutifully waits . . . and waits . . . but nothing happens, disappointment and even a sense of having been cheated is the inevitable result.
Still, I liked The Cape Ann, and except for the accent error, the narrator was fine.
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- Penelope L
- 06-07-23
Exceptional
A prodigious child’s voice and tender being unfold life’s mysteries, frights, loves, joys and tragedies in this astounding novel.
I loved this story from it’s first words to the very end.
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- RueRue
- 09-09-20
Old school storytelling
This story is very much in the style of books from 30-40 years ago. The plot takes its time, often seeming like little vignettes of the lives and characters in a Depression era small town. The author doesn’t aim for plot twists, but nevertheless, the narrative has many small unexpected moments, and there are no clear answers or a neat wrap-up at the end. One major point really bothered me, though; the father, Willie, was just a terrible, abusive man, so why did his wife tolerate him for so long, and why did his daughter, Lark, want to keep the family together ?
I can’t rave enough about the narration, it was just perfect.
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- Nyx
- 05-02-19
An all-time favorite finally on audiobook!
I read this book years ago, and it has honestly stuck with me for decades.
Some may not like that Lark is a bit more precocious than perhaps she should be for her age, but that did not stop me from appreciating the story from an intelligent child's perspective. I felt like she gave just the right perspective: smart enough to grasp enough of it to give us a vivid picture but without being tainted by age, pain, and hardness.
I have always felt like this was a beautiful story of a mother and daughter taking what they wanted out of life instead of settling for what life was giving them. Lark's mother knew what she wanted, and even during hard times she refused to give up and settle on her good-for-nothing husband. It reminded me, as a teenager years ago, to not settle for less than I wanted.
As far as the audible recording, I am still listening to it, but so far I'm feeling like Karissa did a great job bringing the Lark I pictured in my mind all those years ago to life. I'm super happy I discovered this book as an audiobook!
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- Audrey
- 12-30-22
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i loved this book..... the story flowed and had much to say about the human condition but I thought the final scene was poor. If I were to recommend it to someone, I would tell them to rip off or delete the final chapter.
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