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Daniel Lefferts
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“Deadly serious in ambition, wildly entertaining in execution, Ways and Means is a remarkably accomplished debut.”—Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury Pictures Presents and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“A work of enormous wit, humor, and passion that captures life in turbo capitalist America with compassion and grace.”—Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends and Super Sad True Love Story
A searing debut novel about a striving finance student, the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era Alistair McCabe comes to New York with a plan.
Young, handsome, intelligent, and gay, he hopes to escape his Rust Belt poverty and give his mother a better life by pursuing a career in high finance. But by the spring of 2016, Alistair’s plan has come undone: His fantasy banking job has eluded him, he’s mired in student debt, and in his desperation he’s gone to work for an enigmatic billionaire whose ambitions turn out to be far darker than Alistair could have imagined. By the time Alistair uncovers his employer’s secret, his life is in danger and he’s forced to go on the run.
Meanwhile, Alistair’s paramours, an older couple named Mark and Elijah, must face their own moral and financial dilemmas. Mark, nearing the end of his trust fund, takes a job with his father’s mobilehome empire that forces him to confront the unsavory foundations of his family’s wealth, while Elijah, a failed painter, throws in his lot with an artist-provocateur whose latest project transforms the country’s political chaos into a thing of alluring, amoral beauty. As the nation hurtles toward a breaking point, Alistair, Mark, and Elijah must band together to save one another and themselves.
Propulsive, exuberant, and profoundly observed, Ways and Means is an indelible, clear-eyed investigation of class and ambition, sex and art, and politics and power in twenty-first century America.
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As Lan lies dying, she makes a promise that binds her long into the Beyond. A decade later her teenage granddaughter is caught up in an international storm of outrage that unleashes the rage of a whole, failed generation. For one shining fragment of time, the world is with her. But then the backlash begins, and soon she and her family are besieged by the press, facing the all-powerful wrath of the old establishment whose only understanding is power-over, not power-with.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Smart, powerful, intense
- De Nature girl en 08-30-24
De: Manda Scott
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Some Strange Music Draws Me In
- A Novel
- De: Griffin Hansbury
- Narrado por: Petey Gibson
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14
It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel’s dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia’s presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back in Swaffham, he must navigate life as part of a fractured family and face his own role in the disasters of the past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reads like a memoir
- De tribe8fan en 01-06-25
De: Griffin Hansbury
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All Our Yesterdays
- A Novel of Lady Macbeth
- De: Joel H. Morris
- Narrado por: Angus King, Ell Potter
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother’s death and the weight of an unknowable prophecy. When she is married, at fifteen, to the Mormaer of Moray, she experiences firsthand the violence of a sadistic husband and a kingdom constantly at war. To survive with her young son in a superstitious realm, she must rely on her own cunning and wit, especially when her husband’s downfall inadvertently sets them free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent read and performance
- De Christine Stolz en 03-30-24
De: Joel H. Morris
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The Wildest Sun
- A Novel
- De: Asha Lemmie
- Narrado por: Imani Jade Powers
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest—spanning from Paris to New York’s Harlem, to Havana and Key West—is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway, a man just as elusive as he is iconic. She desperately yearns for his approval, as both a daughter and a writer, convinced that he holds the key to who she's truly meant to be.
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4 out of 5 stars
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delightful, quirky story!
- De Redpen en 03-08-24
De: Asha Lemmie
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Hard by a Great Forest
- A Novel
- De: Leo Vardiashvili
- Narrado por: Luke Thompson
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Saba is just a child when he flees the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for asylum in England. Two decades later, all three men are struggling to make peace with the past, haunted by the places and people they left behind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Evocative and deeply moving
- De 2Rivers en 04-11-24
De: Leo Vardiashvili
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Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
- Essays
- De: Joel Golby
- Narrado por: Joel Golby
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first book, he presents a blistering collection of new and newly expanded essays - including the achingly funny viral hit "Things You Only Know When Both Your Parents Are Dead." In this audiobook, he travels to Saudi Arabia, where he acts as a perplexed bystander at a camel pageant; offers a survival guide for the modern dinner party (i.e. how to tactfully escape at the first sign of an adult board game); and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely a five (5) star audiobook experience
- De Manatee en 03-20-19
De: Joel Golby
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Perris, California
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Stark
- Narrado por: Alex McKenna
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and by the transformative love of another teenage girl, Mel, who sees through Tessa’s tough exterior to the loving woman inside. When she suddenly loses Mel, too, Tessa stumbles into a kind of refuge with Henry and his mama, becoming a mother and finding herself in a familial existence that somehow carries her into adulthood—until the day she runs into Mel, who has just returned to Perris after years away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get ready to cry!
- De LaAnd en 01-13-25
De: Rachel Stark
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All the World Beside
- A Novel
- De: Garrard Conley
- Narrado por: Pete Cross, Garrard Conley
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister’s words a love so captivating it transcends language. As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't listen to any more preaching!
- De Swellguy22 en 04-20-24
De: Garrard Conley
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More than I Love My Life
- A Novel
- De: David Grossman, Jessica Cohen - translator
- Narrado por: Gilli Messer
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
More Than I Love My Life is the story of three strong women: Vera, age ninety; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at thirty-nine is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother and daughter pair, though Gili—abandoned by Nina when she was just three—has always been close to her grandmother.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De T. Imaging en 11-30-21
De: David Grossman, y otros
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City on Fire
- A Novel
- De: Garth Risk Hallberg
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman, Tristan Morris, Bronson Pinchot, y otros
- Duración: 37 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 698
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 621
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 628
The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's largest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Incendiary "Bleak House" in 1977 NYC
- De W Perry Hall en 10-22-15
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The Cloister
- A Novel
- De: James Carroll
- Narrado por: James Carroll
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked when he sees a friend from his seminary days named Runner Malloy at the altar of his humble parish in upper Manhattan - a friend who was forced to leave under scandalous circumstances. Compelled to reconsider the past, Father Kavanagh wanders into the medieval haven of the Cloisters and stumbles into a conversation with a lovely and intriguing docent, Rachel Vedette.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reading Cadence
- De Barbara en 05-16-18
De: James Carroll
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Family Meal
- A Novel
- De: Bryan Washington
- Narrado por: André Santana, Bryan Washington, Jake Choi
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 25
The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's life, won't leave Cam alone. He follows Cam from LA back home to Houston, his visits wild, tender, and unpredictable. But Cam has changed, and when he reenters the orbit of his childhood best friend TJ and his family's bakery, neither Cam nor TJ is sure how to navigate their charged estrangement. Searching for a way past all the wounds and secrets—a way to be okay together, maybe for the first time— the pair find hope and sustenance from the most unlikely source.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic.
- De Quinn en 10-11-23
De: Bryan Washington
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The Book of Essie
- A Novel
- De: Meghan MacLean Weir
- Narrado por: Robbie Daymond, Tara Sands, Erin Spencer
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,309
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,307
Esther Ann Hicks - Essie - is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie's mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show's producers: Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Do they pass the child off as Celia's? Or do they try to arrange a marriage - and a ratings-blockbuster wedding?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hope for the future 💗
- De Amazon Customer en 06-23-18
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A Wild and Heavenly Place
- De: Robin Oliveira
- Narrado por: Angus King, Katy Townsend, Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Hailey MacIntyre seems conjured from the depths of Samuel Fiddes’s loneliness. Caring for his young sister in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland, Samuel has known only hunger, while Hailey has never known want. Yet, when Samuel saves Hailey’s brother from a runaway carriage, their connection is undeniable. Through secret meetings and stolen moments, their improbable love grows. But then the City of Glasgow Bank fails, and Hailey’s bankrupt father impulsively moves their family across the globe to Seattle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sleepless in WA Territory
- De Alesia Weiss en 02-26-24
De: Robin Oliveira
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The Chinese Groove
- A Novel
- De: Kathryn Ma
- Narrado por: James Chen
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father’s grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng’s tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the “Chinese groove,” a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delightful surprise
- De R. Glynn en 02-01-23
De: Kathryn Ma
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The Brothers K
- De: David James Duncan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 28 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just couldn't go on
- De Susie B en 03-14-24
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Song of a Captive Bird
- A Novel
- De: Jasmin Darznik
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 279
All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel - gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer of 1950, Forugh's passion for poetry takes flight - and tradition seeks to clip her wings.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I really wanted to love this book, but...
- De Susan en 06-25-18
De: Jasmin Darznik
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Dixon, Descending
- A Novel
- De: Karen Outen
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
When Nate suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, his younger brother Dixon can’t refuse. The two are determined to prove something—to themselves and to each other. Dixon interrupts his orderly life as a school psychologist, leaving behind disapproving friends, family, and one particularly fragile student. Once on the mountain, Nate and Dixon are met with extreme weather conditions, oxygen deprivation, and precarious terrain. But as much as they’ve prepared for this, Mt. Everest is always fickle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well researched and throughly amazing
- De Lil Momma Reader en 04-03-24
De: Karen Outen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Ways and Means
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- Justin L. Conforti
- 03-04-24
Wow!
This is a fantastic story and well performed by the narrator. A twisty slow-burn literary thriller.
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