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America 2013: All the madness, insanity and absurdity we witness every day in politics, journalism and personal life began in the laboratories of humanities departments in academia, when English professors, based upon their ability to read, decided they were experts in EVERYTHING and unleashed the virus of Political Correctness on an unsuspecting nation. Wielding the unholy trinity of race, class and gender, academics seized power not only in academia but in journalism and politics as well, creating our current dystopia, The Kingdom Of Absurdities. Return with us now to those days with Chase, a grad student in English at The University of Southern Arizona (U of SA), as he attempts to lead a one-person revolution against the triple-headed hydra of Political Correctness as it crawls its way out of academia into the USA. Savagely funny, indignant and politically incorrect, The Kingdom of Absurdities is an all-too-timely warning against not only letting the lunatics take over the asylum, but letting them loose to run the rest of the world as well.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 179
One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain. Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school.
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3 out of 5 stars
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this book was just ok
- De Josh Fields en 02-26-20
De: Joanna Goodman
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Outside Looking In
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 181
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- De Christopher Meeks en 05-25-19
De: T. C. Boyle
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Three Daughters of Eve
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 202
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Review 3 daughters of Eve
- De CA en 04-28-18
De: Elif Shafak
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Guapa
- De: Saleem Haddad
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother - the woman who raised him - catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend, Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar Guapa, who has been arrested by the police.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Guapa
- De Mah Maass en 08-25-16
De: Saleem Haddad
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Vita Nostra
- A Novel
- De: Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko, Julia Meitov Hersey - translator
- Narrado por: Jessica Ball
- Duración: 18 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 392
Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin. As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dark but beautiful
- De J. OBrennan en 11-19-18
De: Sergey Dyachenko, y otros
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The Happy Man
- A Tale of Horror
- De: Eric C. Higgs
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
Charles Ripley has a good job as an engineer, a pretty wife, and an expensive house in a fashionable San Diego suburb. But it isn't until Ruskin Marsh moves in next door that Ripley realizes how passionless his life really is. Marsh, a connoisseur of the arts, high-powered lawyer, model husband and father, and effortless seducer of women, is so supremely alive that Ripley finds himself irresistibly drawn to him. But after Marsh's arrival, local girls begin to vanish, marriages end violently, and horribly mutilated corpses are found.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a neighborhood friend telling you a crazy story
- De Midwestbonsai en 04-15-18
De: Eric C. Higgs
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By the Book
- A Novel
- De: Julia Sonneborn
- Narrado por: Amy McFadden
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Anne Corey is about to get schooled. An English professor in California, she's determined to score a position on the coveted tenure track at her college. All she's got to do is get a book deal, snag a promotion, and boom! She's in. But then Adam Martinez - her first love and ex-fiancé - shows up as the college's new president. Funny, smart, and full of heart, this modern ode to Jane Austen's classic Persuasion explores what happens when we run into the demons of our past...and when they turn out not to be so bad, after all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Dr. DonnaJeanne en 03-07-18
De: Julia Sonneborn
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
- De: Eva Jurczyk
- Narrado por: Hannah Cabell
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 81
Liesl Weiss long ago learned to be content working behind the scenes in the distinguished rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Why?
- De Kenna en 08-14-22
De: Eva Jurczyk
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Bright Lights, Big City
- De: Jay McInerney
- Narrado por: Daniel Passer
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 332
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 276
The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Curiously, mundanely real
- De Amber en 01-07-12
De: Jay McInerney
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The Book Club
- De: Mary Alice Monroe
- Narrado por: Deanna Hurst
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 322
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 277
Discover this moving story of five remarkable friends as Mary Alice Monroe, the New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House, explores the power of friendship with tenderness and honesty.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Beware: Title Is Deceptive !!
- De Fran Foster en 02-07-16
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Sex with Shakespeare
- Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love
- De: Jillian Keenan
- Narrado por: Jillian Keenan
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 106
Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, Keenan's smart and passionate memoir brings new life to his work. With 14 of his plays as a springboard, she explores the many facets of love and sexuality - from desire and communication to fetish and fantasy. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Keenan unmasks Helena as a sexual masochist - like Jillian herself. In Macbeth, she examines criminalized sexual identities and the dark side of "privacy".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Innovative
- De Just Joe en 01-21-17
De: Jillian Keenan
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Rats Saw God
- De: Rob Thomas
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
By his senior year, Steve York has come through the worst two years of his life. His parents have divorced, and his girlfriend has betrayed him. Worse yet, after running away to live with his mother in San Diego, forays into the drug culture have turned his A-average into a thing of the past. Steve's only hope to graduate on time and avoid summer school is to write a 100-page paper for his guidance counselor. Unfortunately, he has to write about something he knows, and all he knows well are the last two years of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Real
- De Mary en 06-26-09
De: Rob Thomas
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Beautiful Addictions
- De: Season Vining
- Narrado por: Susannah Jones
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
Josie Banks is a girl without a past. After being found unconscious with no memory, she was shuffled in and out of foster homes where she suffered years of abuse - an experience that left her broken, damaged, and clinging to drugs and meaningless hook-ups to numb her pain. When Josie disappeared years ago, she took a piece of Tristan with her. She’s the girl he thought he lost forever - the one he’s never been able to forget. Now a twist of fate has brought them back together, and he never wants to let her out of his inked arms again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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you will feel so many emotions threw out this book
- De sydney en 06-12-14
De: Season Vining
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Ain't She Sweet?
- De: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 211
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But 15 years have passed, and now she's come home - broke, desperate, and too proud to show it. The people of Parrish don't believe in forgive and forget. But none of them have reckoned on the unexpected strength of a woman who's learned survival the hard way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderfully read
- De older reader en 06-14-20
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Laguna Heat
- De: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Laguna: a place where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence - with a fiery vengeance - and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery. It reaches back across 40 years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- De Stacy en 02-24-09