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The Good Hand
- A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown
- Narrado por: Michael Patrick F. Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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This audiobook edition includes an original score and seven songs performed by The Good Hand.
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- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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In a frigid New Hampshire winter, Jay Porter is trying to eke out a living and maintain some semblance of a relationship with his former girlfriend and their two-year-old son. When he receives an urgent call that Chris, his drug-addicted brother, is being questioned by the sheriff about his missing junkie business partner, Jay feels obliged to come to his rescue. After Jay negotiates his brother's release from the county jail, Chris disappears into the night.
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Excellent Listen!
- De Jason en 08-19-15
De: Joe Clifford
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- De Monique en 01-08-19
De: Tim Gautreaux
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The Boy Kings of Texas
- A Memoir
- De: Domingo Martinez
- Narrado por: Emilio Delgado
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.
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It was Okay
- De DebKoo en 05-17-13
De: Domingo Martinez
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Three-Fifths
- De: John Vercher
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
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Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he’s never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn’t, 22-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden his truth from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a hardened racist.
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Good BUT not as good as it sounded
- De jaymie thomas en 12-13-19
De: John Vercher
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We Begin at the End
- De: Chris Whitaker
- Narrado por: George Newbern
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Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.
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Horrible narrator in this audible book
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No Angel
- My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
- De: Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
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Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols - these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but true story of how he infiltrated the legendary Hells Angels.
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"I would avoid this one..."
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De: Jay Dobyns, y otros
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Of Mice and Minestrone
- Hap and Leonard: The Early Years (Hap and Leonard)
- De: Kathleen Kent - introduction, Kasey Lansdale - contributor, Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Hap Collins looks like a good ol’ boy. But even in his misspent youth, his best pal is Leonard Pine, who is Black, gay, and the ultimate outsider. Inseparable friends, Hap and Leonard climb into the boxing ring, visit their families, get in bar fights, and just go fishing - all the while confronting racists, righting wrongs, and eating a whole lot of delicious food.
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Wringing every last drop
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 04-08-23
De: Kathleen Kent - introduction, y otros
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The Death of Cool
- From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood
- De: Gavin McInnes
- Narrado por: Gavin McInnes
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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This is his story, or, rather, stories - lots of them, and all gut-punchingly hilarious, from that first far reach into a girl's tight jeans to turning forty with a cataclysmic party. In between you’ll hear about acid trips, threesomes, Nazi skinheads, his band Anal Chinook (Inuit for “warm wind”), Martians in northern Canada, throwing pedophiles in jail, dinner with the Clash, what happens when you crash Bill Maher's show wasted, and the true story of Vice magazine.
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if you don't buy this book, the terrorists win
- De Kelsey Gholi en 04-03-17
De: Gavin McInnes
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Junkie Love
- De: Joe Clifford
- Narrado por: Timothy McKean
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From the cow fields of Connecticut to the streets of San Francisco, Joe Clifford's Junkie Love traverses the lost highways of America, down the rocky roads of mental illness to the dead ends of addiction. Based on Clifford's own harrowing experience with drugs as a rock 'n' roll wannabe in the 1990s, the audiobook draws on the best of Kerouac and the Beats, injecting a heavy dose of pulp fiction as it threads a rollicking narrative through a doomed love triangle, lit up by the many strange characters he meets along the way.
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WOW! an inside look into an junkies mind
- De TinkerMel en 05-16-17
De: Joe Clifford
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The Drop
- De: Dennis Lehane
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
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Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets a damaged woman looking for something to believe in. As their relationship grows, they cross paths with the Chechen mafia; a man grown dangerous with age and thwarted hopes; two hapless stick-up artists; a very curious cop; and the original owner of the puppy, who wants his dog bac.k…
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THAT IS LIFE,
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 12-06-14
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Fourth of July Creek
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- De: Smith Henderson
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After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral 11-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.
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The Ghost of Tom Joad & the Wrath of Grapes
- De Mel en 06-30-14
De: Smith Henderson
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Saguaro
- De: Carson Mell
- Narrado por: Carson Mell
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Saguaro chronicles the life of rock legend Bobby Bird as he finds himself rolled up in barbiturates, at sea with satanic cults, finding true love, selling out, and coming back. Bird may be many things - a legend in pink cotton, a living history in tattoos, the very embodiment of rock and roll - but he isn’t a bad man. At least not all the time. He made his name as a crooner, revered as a singer with soul, a soul he quickly sold without ever considering the implications.
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Animal Cruelty Warning
- De AJLecter en 02-06-23
De: Carson Mell
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The Ninth Metal
- The Comet Cycle, Book 1
- De: Benjamin Percy
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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The town of Northfall, Minnesota, will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This “omnimetal” has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source…and a weapon. John Frontier returns for his sister’s wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government.
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Everyone Will Enjoy This Except My Mother
- De Liv Rosin en 06-04-21
De: Benjamin Percy
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Art in America
- De: Ron McLarty
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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Art in America tells the story of unknown writer Steven Kearney, an aging man whose lifelong commitment to his art finally brings him to homelessness in NYC. Then miraculously he receives an invitation to become playwright in residence of a troubled Rocky Mountain town.
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Another great tale from Ron McLarty
- De TypicalConsumer en 08-18-09
De: Ron McLarty
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The Rabbit Factory
- De: Marshall Karp
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte, James Jenner
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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Marshall Karp is an acclaimed playwright known for his witty sense of humor and crackling dialogue. His debut novel The Rabbit Factory stars the irreverent LAPD detective duo of Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose.
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Bizarre but engaging mystery.1st-rate performance.
- De MidwestGeek en 12-19-12
De: Marshall Karp
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Legendary New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry recounts his years playing for one of the most storied and celebrated teams in sports history - the world champion New York Yankees during their heyday in the Bronx Zoo years, with manic manager Billy Martin, headline loving owner George Steinbrenner, and an ego-driven all-star cast that included everyone from slugger Reggie Jackson and All Star catcher Thurman Munson to Cy Young Award winners Sparky Lyle and Catfish Hunter.
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a great book!
- De Albert Joseph Izzo, Jr. en 11-07-18
De: Ron Guidry, y otros
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- troy
- 02-09-22
much better than I thought
great story, well read and told, with interesting characters and insights from the author. highly recommended
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- Joseph Thompson
- 03-07-23
Good story
After 1 year you’re only starting to figure that part of the oilfield out. Great book overall but feel like his main reason for going was to write a book about it but honestly appreciated that a liberal went out and experienced the life rather than writing a book about the horrors of the oilfield without actually experiencing it first hand. Thank you for that.
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- Barb
- 06-09-23
Good story but weak ending
It was a fascinating story. The intertwining of the author’s life and background with that of so many oil field workers was interesting given the varied backgrounds everyone came from. However after the build up of so many months of working in the oil fields it just became a “time to go home. The end” sort of ending. I was looking for a little more insight and introspection than I received.
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- Jan
- 03-06-21
Wonderful engaging story. A true artist.
I loved the insight this author developed about childhood trauma, the search for his own manhood the revelations along the way of feeling so different and out of place and eventual acceptance into a brotherhood of men. I would and have encouraged others to enjoy this audio. Loved having the author read his own work. Felt like he was personally sharing his experiences with me. Will watch for more by this author.
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- Monrovial
- 08-15-21
Good, but...
It's been a couple weeks since I finished listening to this book, and I have mixed emotions:
The story on a whole was good. He captured the people, the lifestyle, the transformation from his start to finish in the fields very well. He was the only one who could do justice to reading this story, and I'm glad he did. I appreciated the commentary on how important oil has become in this world. I was invested in the people in this book and thankful he gave us an epilogue of sorts on where they wound up.
If I stopped there, you might think I loved the book, but...
The singing between chapters was brutal. He speaks in the book of attending a concert where a singer was off-key throughout but how the singer was great because of the words and meaning of the songs...the beauty of the perfomance. Perhaps you have to love someone's music enough to tolerate the off-key singing. With the author, I could not. It was brutal...and as I heard him singing, it took me back to parts where he talked of a famous singer telling him he did a good job after a set or his relationships with other famous artists and left me feeling that I couldn't trust the story because it seems he thinks he is a good artist. I could not get past the voice to even understand his lyrics...and then the name dropping and talking up about his music got irritating. It would have been better had I never heard him sing.
Also, the ending seemed ranging, lost, and while I understand perhaps that captured the author at the time, his editor failed him here.
So I guess, even though I think I liked the book overall, I would not recommend it to my friends unless they outright showed an interest in the oil fields or blue-collar struggles in general—and only then would I recommend the book vs. the audiobook.
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- Stephen
- 03-02-21
Woody Allen drills for oil
I saw the rating for this book and thought, great – a Hillbilly Elegy for the Bakken Oil Fields. In a word, no. Unlike Mr. Vance, Mr. Smith is not introducing you to people that he knows and for whom he empathizes. Mr. Smith takes great pains to repeatedly tell the reader that he is an artist who is there for a suffering tour. He spends most of the book describing how horrible and dysfunctional these people are, how sensitive and artistic he is, and how mean to him they are to him. The reader gets jarring cuts of his bluegrass music that seem as out of place with the prose as he is to the people. Mr. Smith rails against every left-wing boogeyman, but never actually does much of anything about them. But he is quick to inform you again and again and again, that he has talked to people who have. The book deals with damaged people doing difficult and dangerous work. These people are far from perfect, but I had a lot more empathy for them then I did the author who came across like the stereotypical neurotic whiney New Yorker who is between visits to his therapist. If however, your view of the middle of the country is that it is filled with semi-literate, knuckle-draggers who drool at the mouth, this book will reinforce all of your prejudices. You will love it.
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- Terry Kaufman
- 03-26-21
way to go magic!
thanks for your honesty
can't wait to see what you do next!
this is a story that needs to be shared
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- Bruce Betzer
- 07-13-21
Musical interludes
The author’s original songs added greatly to the sense of authenticity and his narration feels honest and sincere.
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- Kevin Hill
- 07-22-21
A Great Listen!
Interesting memoir about something I knew nothing about, working in an oil field. Hard to believe he’s not a professional writer, very descriptive audio book and I enjoyed how they incorporated his music into the story. Spoken by the author himself, he does a good job narrating his own story. Highly recommend!
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- Reader
- 06-07-21
Well done.
I enjoyed this book. I have family members who have worked on rigs, albeit not in winter in North Dakota. Hats off to these guys.
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