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Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and fans alike fell in love with the voice of 99-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 20th century, when she was 15 and her husband was 50. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dated.
- De edie butler en 04-06-21
De: Allan Gurganus
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The Other Side of Paradise
- A Memoir
- De: Staceyann Chin
- Narrado por: Staceyann Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 174
Stacyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.
No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible life, incredible performer
- De RyRy en 10-21-19
De: Staceyann Chin
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Fallen Angels
- De: Patricia Hickman
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
During the Great Depression, Jeb Nubey is running from the law when he meets three abandoned children. With nowhere else to go the group passes a stormy night in a comforting church. When they are discovered, a case of mistaken identity ensues. It seems the congregation has been waiting for their new pastor, a widower with three kids. Looks like more trouble for Jeb. Yet the chance for a steady job and three squares a day is too good to turn down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching
- De Christina en 11-11-04
De: Patricia Hickman
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Whistling in the Dark
- A Novel
- De: Lesley Kagen
- Narrado por: Lesley Kagen
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 505
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 468
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 468
Sally O'Malley made a promise to her daddy before he died. She swore she'd look after her sister, Troo. Keep her safe. But like her Granny always said, actions speak louder than words. And Sally would have to agree with her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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One of the worst books I've read in a long time
- De Dianne en 08-13-21
De: Lesley Kagen
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The Hollow Ground
- De: Natalie S. Harnett
- Narrado por: Luci Christian
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 469
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 472
The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced 11-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung-stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disfunction makes a good read
- De NHull en 05-30-14
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A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl
- Pearl Spence Novels, Book 1
- De: Susie Finkbeiner
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 213
Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1935. The Spences have their share of misfortune, but as the sheriff's family, they've got more than most in this dry, desolate place. They're who the town turns to when there's a crisis or a need. Pearl is proud of her loving, strong family, though she often wearies of tracking down her mentally impaired older sister or wrestling with her grandmother's unshakable belief in a God. Then a mysterious man bent on revenge tramps into her town of Red River.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intense
- De VickyJ en 02-07-21
De: Susie Finkbeiner
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What Happened to My Sister
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Flock
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Nine-year-old Carrie Parker and her mother, Libby, are making a fresh start in the small town of Hartsville, North Carolina, ready to put their turbulent past behind them. Violence has shattered their family and left Libby nearly unable to cope. And while Carrie once took comfort in her beloved sister, Emma, her mother has now forbidden even the mention of her name. When Carrie meets Ruth, Honor, and Cricket Chaplin, these three generations of warmhearted women seem to have the loving home Carrie has always dreamed of. But as Carrie and Cricket become fast friends, neither can escape the pull of their families' secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking
- De Pink Amy en 03-11-24
De: Elizabeth Flock
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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Rush Home Road
- De: Lori Lansens
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
When a 70-year-old woman finds a five-year-old girl abandoned on her doorstep, she is thrust into a sorrowful past that can only be conquered with the help of the girl who opened her memory - the very girl she is trying to save. This first novel, according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard, is one of "exquisite power, honesty, and conviction...quite nearly without flaws."
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1 out of 5 stars
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filthy language and violent content
- De Anna en 12-16-11
De: Lori Lansens
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Homesick
- My Own Story
- De: Jean Fritz
- Narrado por: Jean Fritz
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. During this time, foreigners were becoming more and more unpopular, and evacuation at a moment’s notice was imminent. Although Jean appreciated the beauty of China - the mountains, the countryside, the sea - she knew she belonged in America and longed to make her home there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De R. SEVERSON en 10-19-18
De: Jean Fritz
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Caramelo
- De: Sandra Cisneros
- Narrado por: Sandra Cisneros
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip - a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels - from Chicago to “the other side”, Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the “healthy lies” that have ricocheted from one generation to the next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love, family, history, and fantasy, Caramelo
- De Michele en 08-07-20
De: Sandra Cisneros
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Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 258
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
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The Land of Forgotten Girls
- De: Erin Entrada Kelly
- Narrado por: LuLu Lam
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living with their stepmother in Louisiana, fight to make their lives better in this remarkable story for listeners of Cynthia Kadohata and Rita Williams-Garcia, and for anyone searching for the true meaning of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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beautiful
- De Marion en 11-10-20
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 639
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 571
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 575
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she' s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she' d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy' s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For Literary Lovers
- De M. Shipe en 04-25-14
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
- A Novel
- De: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Narrado por: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 627
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 559
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 557
Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
- De Amazon Customer en 12-12-18
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The Penny
- A Novel
- De: Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford
- Narrado por: Emily Janice Card
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer she's 14, when she makes the decision to pick up a penny embedded in asphalt and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting someone who changes her life forever: Miss Shaw.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absoultly wonderful
- De Debbie en 08-05-07
De: Joyce Meyer, y otros
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Kiss Carlo
- De: Adriana Trigiani
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 457
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 460
It's 1949, and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the postwar boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: Business is good, and they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother, Mike, and their once-close families sets the stage for a rematch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!!
- De MCMAK en 07-16-17
De: Adriana Trigiani
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- 11-06-16
I adored this book.
I just love children who have old souls. It drew me in from the first chapter and kept me listening the rest of the day. Such a nice book and funny and sweet. It has enough in it to keep old and young listening. I just couldn't put it down.
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