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The Last Resort
- A Memoir of Zimbabwe
- Narrado por: Patrick Doherty
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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Captivating, poignant memoir.
- De Nakaale en 10-04-20
De: Peter Godwin
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- De: Peter Godwin
- Narrado por: Peter Godwin
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 65
After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the listen.
- De SEE en 09-06-21
De: Peter Godwin
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Embassy Wife
- A Novel
- De: Katie Crouch
- Narrado por: Marni Penning
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia, takes her job as a representative of her country seriously and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive a range of problems: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s general counsel but instead a secret agent in the CIA. She takes the new trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Have narrator re-record this book
- De Amazon Customer en 09-30-21
De: Katie Crouch
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On the Plain of Snakes
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Joseph Balderrama
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A 40-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A pedantic, poorly narrated, 20 hour lecture
- De Birdshot en 11-16-19
De: Paul Theroux
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Fast Times in Palestine
- A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
- De: Pamela J. Olson
- Narrado por: Julia Farhat
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Pamela Olson, a small town girl from eastern Oklahoma, had what she always wanted: a physics degree from Stanford University. But instead of feeling excited for what came next, she felt consumed by dread and confusion. This irresistible memoir chronicles her journey from aimless ex-bartender to Ramallah-based journalist and foreign press coordinator for a Palestinian presidential candidate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Palestine from the Inside—and Out
- De Susie en 11-04-13
De: Pamela J. Olson
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What You Have Heard Is True
- A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- De: Carolyn Forché
- Narrado por: Carolyn Forché
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 320
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 281
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 281
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story
- De Norhilda en 05-09-19
De: Carolyn Forché
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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
- Versión completa
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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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The Beast
- Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
- De: Oscar Martinez, Francisco Goldman - introduction, Daniela Maria Ugaz - translator, y otros
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martinez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Phony accents
- De Gina en 05-17-22
De: Oscar Martinez, y otros
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Unforgetting
- A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
- De: Roberto Lovato
- Narrado por: Roberto Lovato
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 76
An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time - and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to hear but important to know.
- De M. Lindquist en 12-18-20
De: Roberto Lovato
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
- De: Michael Koryta
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay, Janina Edwards, Fajer Al-Kaisi, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrators are outstanding here.
- De Jennifer Baratta She/Her en 05-16-21
De: Michael Koryta
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What It Takes
- The Way to the White House
- De: Richard Ben Cramer
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 54 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great political book
- De Hebern en 09-11-20
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Alburquerque
- De: Rudolfo Anaya
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Abrán González always knew he was different. Called a coyote because of his fair skin, the kid from Barelas found escape through boxing and became one of the youngest Golden Gloves champs. But the arrival of a letter from a dying woman turns his entire life into a lie. The revelation that he was adopted makes him feel like an orphan and sends him on a quest to find his birth father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Alburquerque
- De Paul Hernandez en 04-29-20
De: Rudolfo Anaya
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The Naked Don't Fear the Water
- An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
- De: Matthieu Aikins
- Narrado por: Nick Nikon
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story, horrible narration
- De AB en 02-25-22
De: Matthieu Aikins
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Dancing Bears
- De: Witold Szabłowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist, Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intelligent, entertaining, & insightful
- De Kait en 07-23-19
De: Witold Szabłowski, y otros
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America Is in the Heart
- De: Carlos Bulosan, Elaine Castillo - foreword, E. San Juan Jr. - introduction, y otros
- Narrado por: Ramon de Ocampo
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the US pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish-American War of the late 1890s.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pointless, wandering narrative poorly performed
- De B. Bartok en 08-15-20
De: Carlos Bulosan, y otros
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Pesos
- The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
- De: Pietro La Greca Jr., Rebecca Paley - contributor
- Narrado por: Tony Dalton
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Pietro La Greca Sr. was an intimidating Napolitano con man dubbed “Mexico’s real-life Don Corleone”. He ran Mexico’s biggest money-laundering scheme during the worst economic period in the country’s history. His was a world of fast cars, mansions on the water, and VIP treatment at Las Vegas casinos. His exploitation of Mexico’s financial free fall made him a wealthy man. But while he was running his criminal empire, his son, Pietro Jr., a.k.a. Picho, was learning his father’s tricks—if only to bring the man down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read Story
- De April Wells en 11-04-22
De: Pietro La Greca Jr., y otros