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Hound of the Sea
- Wild Man. Wild Waves. Wild Wisdom.
- De: Garrett McNamara, Karen Karbo
- Narrado por: Rudy Sanda
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara set the world record for the sport, surfing a 78-foot wave in Nazare, Portugal, in 2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge and promise of bigger, more difficult waves, this adrenaline-fueled loner and polarizing figure travels the globe to ride the most dangerous swells the oceans have to offer, from calving glaciers to hurricane swells. But what motivates McNamara to go to such extremes - to risk everything for one thrilling ride?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome Story and Narration.
- De oregonlife en 10-16-18
De: Garrett McNamara, y otros
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A Girl Named Zippy
- Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
- De: Haven Kimmel
- Narrado por: Haven Kimmel
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 539
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 376
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of 300 people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period - people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, beautifully read.
- De shopgirl en 03-06-08
De: Haven Kimmel
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The Ride of Our Lives
- Roadside Lessons of an American Family
- De: Mike Leonard
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At 87, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of 60 years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite - pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike, thinking when he took a sabbatical from his job with NBC News so he could pile these two world-class originals along with three of his grown kids and a daughter-in-law into a pair of rented RVs and hit the road for a month?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious!!!
- De TurtlesRMe en 03-06-07
De: Mike Leonard
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A Whole Nother Story
- Whole Nother Story, Book 1
- De: Dr. Cuthbert Soup
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
The Cheesemans are a family on the run. Mr. Cheeseman and his late wife invented a device so powerful and amazing that all sorts of evildoers want to get their greedy hands on it. Mr. Cheeseman and his three children must keep their identities secret and stay one step ahead of the villains as they run from town to town, escape dangerous situations, even change their names. Luckily, though they may not have the names they were born with, they do have their smarts — and quite a bit of good luck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De kate en 10-13-21
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Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul: Character-Building Stories to Read with Kids Ages 5 - 8
- De: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
- Narrado por: Leslie Bellair
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Today's children live in a world filled with adventure, mental stimulation, topical issues, and personal challenges. The values they learn now, between the ages of 5 and 8, will shape the rest of their lives. Through this collection of heartfelt true stories about family ties, helping neighbors, and lasting friendships, children will see how other kids their age have learned valuable lessons from the choices they've made - and most of all, they will realize that they are not alone in dealing with some of the difficult issues in their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My kids love these
- De shrockin en 12-22-15
De: Jack Canfield, y otros
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Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter
- De: Melissa Francis
- Narrado por: Cris Dukehart
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the world’s most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie. But behind the scenes, her success was fueled by the pride, pressure, and sometimes grinding cruelty of her stage mother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book - really enjoyed it.
- De Jane C. Bailey en 11-16-12
De: Melissa Francis
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Fragile Beasts
- A Novel
- De: Tawni O'Dell
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Laural Merlington
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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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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Learning to Die in Miami
- Confessions of a Refugee Boy
- De: Carlos Eire
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962 - a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born. In this enchanting new work, narrated in Eire's inimitable and lyrical voice, young Carlos adjusts to life in his new country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent memoir of a forgotten time in history
- De BRB en 03-23-15
De: Carlos Eire
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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
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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
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Christmas with Tucker
- De: Greg Kincaid
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 181
In this heartwarming novel, Greg Kincaid, the best-selling author of A Dog Named Christmas, revisits the early life of one of that book’s protagonists and brings us a holiday tale of redemption, hope, and forgiveness. It’s 1962, and as Christmas approaches so does one of the worst snow and ice storms in Kansas history. Without utilities and emergency services, it is a dangerous time for the residents of Cherokee County. For the McCray family, it is even worse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Snow Days on the Farm
- De Debbie en 12-02-14
De: Greg Kincaid
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She Got Up Off the Couch
- De: Haven Kimmel
- Narrado por: Haven Kimmel
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 187
When we last saw Zippy, she was oblivious to the storm that was brewing in her home. Her mother, Delonda, had literally just gotten up off the couch and ridden her rickety bicycle down the road. Her dad was off somewhere, gambling or "working." And Zippy was lost in her own fabulous world of exploring the fringes of Moorland, Indiana.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great fun !!
- De Kim en 04-20-11
De: Haven Kimmel
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The Boy Kings of Texas
- A Memoir
- De: Domingo Martinez
- Narrado por: Emilio Delgado
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 357
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 323
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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3 out of 5 stars
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It was Okay
- De DebKoo en 05-17-13
De: Domingo Martinez
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles
- Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
- De: Karen Piper
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and - when she needed summer jobs - herself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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DNF on chapter 10 when Piper is 10
- De NMwritergal en 08-15-18
De: Karen Piper
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Too Close to the Falls
- A Memoir
- De: Catherine Gildiner
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the middle of the 1950s in Lewiston, New York, a small and sleepy American town very near Niagara Falls. No one is divorced. Mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon and children pop Pez candy and swing from vines over a local gorge. But at the tender age of four, it becomes clear to her Cathy's parents that their rambunctious daughter is no ordinary child and they soon put her "to work" at her father's pharmacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and funny and touching.
- De Kindle Customer en 11-07-19
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I'll Be There
- De: Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir - despite her average voice - is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight they are connected. Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run. He and his little brother, Riddle, have spent their entire lives constantly uprooted by their unstable father. As Sam and Riddle are welcomed into the Bells' lives, they witness the warmth and protection of a family for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needs to be a film!
- De TreasureHunter en 06-25-16
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Love in Every Stitch
- Stories of Knitting and Healing
- De: Lee Gant
- Narrado por: Dawn Harvey
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
As an employee of three different yarn stores, a teacher of countless knitting classes, and a volunteer with at-risk youth, Lee has had the opportunity to gather diverse stories. The stories she shares about herself and fellow knitters from around the world illustrate how each stitch and purl can comfort and calm, heal and renew. This book includes stories of women, men, and teens who have experienced profound change and enlightenment through knitting and crochet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring!
- De Lindsay en 02-06-16
De: Lee Gant
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The Source of All Things
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy Ross
- Narrado por: Tracy Ross
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
A loving and devoted step-father, Donnie introduced Tracy Ross's family to the joys of fishing, deer hunting, camping, and hiking among the pristine mountains of rural Idaho. Donnie was everything Tracy dreamed a dad would be: protective, brave, and kind. But when his dependence on his eight-year-old daughter's companionship went too far, everything changed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Testimonial
- De Anonymous User en 02-10-20
De: Tracy Ross