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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
- Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Aunjanue Ellis
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 613
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African-American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writer - Great Reader
- De Avid Listener en 09-09-20
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Bullwhip Days
- The Slaves Remember: An Oral History
- De: James Mellon
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Brad Sanders
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 72
In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable compendium of selections from these extraordinary interviews, providing an unflinching portrait of the world of government-sanctioned slavery of Africans in America. Here are 29 full narrations, as well as nine sections of excerpts related to particular aspects of slave life, from religion to plantation life to the Reconstruction era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Norficia Overton en 10-23-17
De: James Mellon
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The Known World
- De: Edward P. Jones
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 906
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 478
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 478
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A meandering audiobook...
- De Daniel en 09-03-04
De: Edward P. Jones
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,352
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,940
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,926
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile.
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3 out of 5 stars
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skip the introduction!
- De Earin en 10-16-18
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The Sound and the Fury
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,819
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,364
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,362
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hang in
- De W.Denis en 07-11-05
De: William Faulkner
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- De: Harper Lee
- Narrado por: Sissy Spacek
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 46,647
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41,421
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41,272
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A gift to be treasured
- De David Shear en 07-09-14
De: Harper Lee
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Mark Twain Collection
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: John Greenman, Phil Chenevert
- Duración: 22 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Sound interesting? Listen to Mark Twain Collection and experience the compelling world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I understand it was written in a different time
- De Chris en 08-16-21
De: Mark Twain
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The Ponder Heart
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Sally Darling
- Duración: 4 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Originally published in The New Yorker in 1954, The Ponder Heart is easily Eudora Welty’s most comic novel, a lighthearted burlesque that rivals Caldwell’s Tobacco Road for capturing rural idioms, and the novels of Mark Twain for high farce.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great reader
- De Patricia B. en 03-12-17
De: Eudora Welty
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Bob Neufeld
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840 in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime. Although overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is considered a masterpiece of American literature.
De: Mark Twain
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- De: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrado por: Tonya Jordan
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 476
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 399
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- De Susan en 11-11-08
De: Ernest J. Gaines
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The Homeplace
- Singing River, Book 1
- De: Gilbert Morris
- Narrado por: Judith West
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
As the year 1928 begins, 14-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has bright hopes for the future. Her father has launched a new business, and her mother is expecting her fifth baby. Lanie has dreams of going to college and being a writer. Then tragedy strikes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow to start. But hang in there. It’s worth it
- De paula wright en 02-24-19
De: Gilbert Morris
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Ava's Man
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 645
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 443
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 440
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving
- De Kate en 08-12-03
De: Rick Bragg
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The Gospel Singer
- De: Harry Crews, Kevin Wilson - foreword
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
A gifted, idolized singer returns to his poor hometown and a life and family he is so far removed from he now holds them in contempt. The Gospel Singer reveals the absurdity of blind religious faith and idol worship and the hypocrisy that results with the offering of money or sex. Crews grapples with race, gender, religion, and place and steps back to divulge the secrets of his characters - including a dead girl awaiting the gospel singer’s melodious eulogy, his dysfunctional family, a murderer, the zealous town residents, and a traveling freak show.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The gospel singer
- De L. Welsh en 07-13-22
De: Harry Crews, y otros
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Mudbound
- De: Hillary Jordan
- Narrado por: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 962
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 968
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- De Betty en 03-25-12
De: Hillary Jordan
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The Moonflower Vine
- A Novel
- De: Jetta Carleton
- Narrado por: Natalie Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
On a farm in western Missouri, during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy’s fate will be the family’s greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive - and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want it to end!!!
- De Amanda H. en 01-20-21
De: Jetta Carleton
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Bound for Glory
- The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer
- De: Woody Guthrie
- Narrado por: Arlo Guthrie
- Duración: 2 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Legendary folk singer and activist Woody Guthrie left us with this funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, rounding an America going rotten from the top downwards. During the journey of discovery that was his life, Guthrie composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs are merely part of his legacy. Woody Guthrie left us this remarkable autobiography.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shame on Audible
- De Fig Newt en 01-03-22
De: Woody Guthrie
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
- A Novel
- De: Peter Troy
- Narrado por: John Keating, Allyson Johnson, Marrie Kreinik, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban destitution; he is among the first to join the famed Irish Brigade and becomes a celebrated war photographer. Marcella, a society girl from Spain, defies her father to become a passionate abolitionist. Mary and Micah are slaves of varying circumstances, who form an instant connection and embark on a tumultuous path to freedom. All four lives unfold in two beautiful love stories, which eventually collide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Four passionate performances give wings to story
- De Cheimon en 04-26-12
De: Peter Troy