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History professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of 12 years in small-town Maine when he receives a phone call from his estranged friend - Jack - telling him that another friend - Andy - is very ill and possibly near death. As Ned boards a plane to Chicago on his way to his friend's bedside, he embarks on another journey into memory, examining the major events and small moments that have shaped his world and his relationships with these two very different, very important men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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To Every Season...
- De Donald en 10-01-13
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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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In the Country We Love
- My Family Divided
- De: Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford
- Narrado por: Diane Guerrero
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,281
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,999
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,988
Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the US, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Moves very slowly
- De Laura S. en 07-23-16
De: Diane Guerrero, y otros
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 529
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 458
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 454
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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Born Bright
- A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
- De: C. Nicole Mason
- Narrado por: Robin Eller
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Born Bright, C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, is a story of reconciliation, constrained choices, and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason was raised by a beautiful but volatile 16-year-old single mother. Early on, she learned to navigate between an unpredictable home life and school, where she excelled. By high school, Mason was seamlessly straddling two worlds.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid Book
- De Daryl en 11-06-16
De: C. Nicole Mason
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Everybody's Son
- A Novel
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 405
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 364
During a terrible heat wave in 1991 - the worst in a decade - 10-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house less than three blocks away, nearly unconscious and half-naked.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging and insightful
- De Amazon Customer en 07-12-17
De: Thrity Umrigar
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Disgruntled
- De: Asali Solomon
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's black - most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are, too. Maybe it's because she calls her father - a housepainter-slash-philosopher - "Baba" or because her parents' friends gather to pour out libations "from the Creator, for the Martyrs" and discuss "the community".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved It!!!
- De ayodele higgs en 05-20-15
De: Asali Solomon
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True Biz
- A Novel
- De: Sara Novic
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan, Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 999
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 996
True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges listeners into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book about Deaf experience!
- De Yasmine en 04-15-22
De: Sara Novic
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Boaz Brown
- De: Michelle Stimpson
- Narrado por: Caroline Clay
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Fans of T.D. Jakes' Cover Girls will delight in Michelle Stimpson's debut book Boaz Brown. LaShondra Smith has been waiting for a man like Stelson Brown. He is intelligent, funny, and a man of God - but he's white. Can LaShondra get past her prejudices and fears and allow herself to love this man she's always dreamed of?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging and realistic!
- De Face To Face With Yolanda en 10-08-21
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Fragile Beasts
- A Novel
- De: Tawni O'Dell
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Laural Merlington
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
When their hard-drinking but loving father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who ran out on them years ago. But in a strange twist of fate, their town's matriarch, an eccentric, wealthy old woman whose family once owned the county coal mines, hears the boys' story and takes them in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tawni O'Dell Fan
- De bette en 09-20-10
De: Tawni O'Dell
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A Hope in The Unseen
- An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
- De: Ron Suskind
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
New York Times best-selling investigative journalist Ron Suskind based this book on his Pulitzer Prize winning articles about Cedric Jennings, a Black youth struggling to survive one of D.C.'s toughest school districts. A moving portrait of inner city life, A Hope in the Unseen offers a view of life through the eyes of someone trying desperately to make his way up from the bottom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story
- De Adam Evans en 12-25-10
De: Ron Suskind
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The Wrong End of the Table
- A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
- De: Ayser Salman, Reza Aslan - foreword
- Narrado por: Ayser Salman, Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Part memoir and part how-not-to guide, The Wrong End of the Table is everything you wanted to know about Arabs but were afraid to ask, with chapters such as “Tattoos and Other National Security Risks,” “You Can’t Blame Everything on Your Period; Sometimes You’re Going to Be a Crazy Bitch: and Other Advice from Mom,” and even an open letter to Trump. This is the story of every American outsider on a path to find themselves in a country of beautiful diversity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was looking for
- De Amazon Customer en 09-01-22
De: Ayser Salman, y otros
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Accident of Birth
- De: Heather Neff
- Narrado por: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Reba Freeman has loved two men in her life. Her current husband, Carl, has supported her through their 20-year marriage and given her all the material wealth a suburban wife could hope for. Reba is comfortable, if not necessarily content, in her life with Carl and their blossoming teenage daughter, Marisa, until she learns that her first love and first husband, Joseph Thomas, has been detained by the World Court of Human Rights.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Listen
- De Tricia en 02-24-08
De: Heather Neff
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Redefining Realness
- My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
- De: Janet Mock
- Narrado por: Janet Mock
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,582
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,421
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,418
With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering listeners accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Memoir
- De Jo en 01-24-16
De: Janet Mock
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Bring on the Blessings
- A Novel
- De: Beverly Jenkins
- Narrado por: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 219
Bernadine Brown is a woman with money to spend. Henry Adams is a town in desperate need of cash. But after Bernadine puts up the money, she has some ideas about how the town should be run. Will the townspeople be willing to shake up their comfortable lives to share the gift they’ve been given with others who really need it?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not my idea of a Christian story
- De DJ Stevenson en 04-12-21
De: Beverly Jenkins
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The Song and the Silence
- A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright
- De: Yvette Johnson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 183
"Have to keep that smile", said Booker Wright in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time Wright was a waiter in a Whites-only restaurant and a local business owner who would become an unwitting icon of the civil rights movement. For he did the unthinkable: Before a national audience, he described what life was truly like for the Black people of Greenwood, Mississippi.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceeded every expectation
- De ZeeJ84 en 05-23-21
De: Yvette Johnson
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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
- Versión resumida
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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