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Excellent coverage of the dynasty
- De Junaid Qurashi en 04-26-21
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This Child Will Be Great
- Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
- De: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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The first elected woman president of an African country, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was also listed as one of the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes. This evocative memoir recounts Sirleaf ’s childhood upbringing and rise to political power in Liberia. More than a simple biography, Sirleaf ’s account details how she stood firm in the face of physical abuse early in life and carried that strength over into her career as a young economist in Samuel Doe’s regime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a powerfully strong woman!
- De Gary en 10-18-11
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East West Street
- On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
- De: Philippe Sands
- Narrado por: David Rintoul, Philippe Sands
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 290
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When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- De lori en 05-07-18
De: Philippe Sands
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Mengele
- The Complete Story
- De: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
- Narrado por: Bruce Mann
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession).
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1 out of 5 stars
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ONE OF THE WORST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ
- De PAUL en 08-02-20
De: Gerald Posner, y otros
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 29 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Real Life Dystopian Nightmare
- De Timothy en 08-31-18
De: Orlando Figes
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Catherine Ho
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through 100 years of wars, revolutions, and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. All three sisters enjoyed tremendous privilege and glory, but also endured constant mortal danger. They showed great courage and experienced passionate love, as well as despair and heartbreak.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating reading
- De David L. Jones en 03-26-20
De: Jung Chang
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Children of Nazis
- The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others - Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy
- De: Tania Crasnianski, Molly Grogan - translator
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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In 1940, the German sons and daughters of infamous Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or 10 years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time, they eventually discovered the extent of their fathers' occupations: These men were leaders of the Third Reich and would later be convicted as monstrous war criminals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Anonymous User en 12-30-22
De: Tania Crasnianski, y otros
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Prague Winter
- A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
- De: Madeleine Albright
- Narrado por: Madeleine Albright
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 430
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Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia—the country where she was born—the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. Albright's experiences, and those of her family, provide a lens through which to view the most tumultuous dozen years in modern history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History from a Personal Perspective
- De Jeanette Finan en 02-22-13
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A Man of Honor
- The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
- De: Joseph Bonanno
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 417
Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Joseph Bonanno found his future amid the whiskey-running, riotous streets of Prohibition America in 1924, when he illegally entered the United States to pursue his dreams. By the age of only 26, Bonanno became a don. He eventually took over the New York underworld, igniting the "Castellammarese War", one of the bloodiest Family battles ever to hit New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read
- De E. Orlando en 05-03-17
De: Joseph Bonanno
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Hitler's Forgotten Children
- A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity
- De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2. Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second phase of the Final Solution.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story.
- De Brad Bowles en 04-08-16
De: Ingrid von Oelhafen, y otros
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Lioness
- Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
- De: Francine Klagsbrun
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 32 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The persistent mispronunciations of Hebrew and Yiddish words ruined this performance
- De YH-O en 12-30-18
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True Believer
- Stalin's Last American Spy
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then, a pawn in Stalin's sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Misplaced Loyalty
- De Joanne en 04-08-18
De: Kati Marton
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There Was a Country
- A Personal History of Biafra
- De: Chinua Achebe
- Narrado por: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe's people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than 40 years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Audible Edition Is a Disaster
- De Olu en 11-28-12
De: Chinua Achebe
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Those Who Forget
- De: Geraldine Schwarz
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
During World War II, Géraldine Schwarz’s German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; they were merely Mitlaüfer - those who followed the current. Decades later, while delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Schwarz discovers that in 1938, her grandfather took advantage of Nazi policies to buy a business from a Jewish family for a low price. Weaving together the threads of three generations of her family story with Europe’s process of post-war reckoning, Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what it purports to be
- De DPM en 10-10-20
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Where the Jews Aren't
- The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Jewish World of Our Ancestors
- De Roberta L. Ruben en 06-16-18
De: Masha Gessen
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- De: Anthony Everitt
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,411
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,254
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,250
In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life here as a witty and cunning political operator.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An eloquent man, and a patriot
- De Darwin8u en 01-19-15
De: Anthony Everitt
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
- De: Anita Anand
- Narrado por: Anita Anand
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate 20-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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more interesting history
- De Autodidact en 09-07-19
De: Anita Anand
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Palestinian Walks
- Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
- De: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth, and ancient monasteries built over 1,000 years ago. Shehadeh’s love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Recommend for anyone and everyone
- De Carole en 06-01-21
De: Raja Shehadeh
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Language of War, Language of Peace
- Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
- De: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East. Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the borders, checkpoints and so-called "Separation Barrier".
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5 out of 5 stars
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From an Israeli Jew - read this book
- De ari en 04-03-19
De: Raja Shehadeh
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A History of the Arab Peoples
- De: Albert Hourani
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood in the West. One reason may be that, for more than half a century, there has been no up-to-date single volume work that chronicles the story of Arab civilization - until now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Daunting quantity of information!
- De Tim en 07-09-05
De: Albert Hourani
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Going Home
- A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation
- De: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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In Going Home, Raja Shehadeh, the Orwell Prize-winning author of Palestinian Walks, takes us on a series of journeys around his hometown of Ramallah. Set in a single day - the day that happens to be the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank - the audiobook is a powerful and moving record and chronicle of the changing face of his city.
De: Raja Shehadeh
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The Other Side of the Wall
- A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope
- De: Munther Isaac
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27
Christians have lived in Palestine since the earliest days of the Jesus movement. The Palestinian church predates Islam. Yet Palestinian Christians find themselves marginalized and ostracized. In the heated tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the voices of Palestinian Christians are often unheard and ignored. This remarkable book provides an opportunity to hear the realities of life on the ground from a leading Palestinian pastor and theologian.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Following Christ in the Holy Land
- De Amazon Customer en 04-22-24
De: Munther Isaac
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Where the Line Is Drawn
- A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
- De: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
In what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his treks through the hills surrounding Ramallah over a period of three decades under Israel's military occupation. In Where the Line Is Drawn, Shehadeh explores how occupation has affected him personally, chronicling the various crossings that he undertook into Israel over a period of forty years to visit friends and family, to enjoy the sea, to argue before the Israeli courts, and to negotiate failed peace agreements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must-Read
- De Amazon Customer en 02-01-21
De: Raja Shehadeh
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Palestinian Walks
- Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
- De: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth, and ancient monasteries built over 1,000 years ago. Shehadeh’s love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Recommend for anyone and everyone
- De Carole en 06-01-21
De: Raja Shehadeh
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Language of War, Language of Peace
- Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
- De: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East. Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the borders, checkpoints and so-called "Separation Barrier".
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5 out of 5 stars
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From an Israeli Jew - read this book
- De ari en 04-03-19
De: Raja Shehadeh
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A History of the Arab Peoples
- De: Albert Hourani
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood in the West. One reason may be that, for more than half a century, there has been no up-to-date single volume work that chronicles the story of Arab civilization - until now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Daunting quantity of information!
- De Tim en 07-09-05
De: Albert Hourani
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Going Home
- A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation
- De: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
In Going Home, Raja Shehadeh, the Orwell Prize-winning author of Palestinian Walks, takes us on a series of journeys around his hometown of Ramallah. Set in a single day - the day that happens to be the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank - the audiobook is a powerful and moving record and chronicle of the changing face of his city.
De: Raja Shehadeh
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The Other Side of the Wall
- A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope
- De: Munther Isaac
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27
Christians have lived in Palestine since the earliest days of the Jesus movement. The Palestinian church predates Islam. Yet Palestinian Christians find themselves marginalized and ostracized. In the heated tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the voices of Palestinian Christians are often unheard and ignored. This remarkable book provides an opportunity to hear the realities of life on the ground from a leading Palestinian pastor and theologian.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Following Christ in the Holy Land
- De Amazon Customer en 04-22-24
De: Munther Isaac
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Where the Line Is Drawn
- A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
- De: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
In what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his treks through the hills surrounding Ramallah over a period of three decades under Israel's military occupation. In Where the Line Is Drawn, Shehadeh explores how occupation has affected him personally, chronicling the various crossings that he undertook into Israel over a period of forty years to visit friends and family, to enjoy the sea, to argue before the Israeli courts, and to negotiate failed peace agreements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must-Read
- De Amazon Customer en 02-01-21
De: Raja Shehadeh
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Gate of the Sun
- De: Elias Khoury
- Narrado por: Rami Medina
- Duración: 20 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Gate of the Sun: Bab al-Shams is the first true magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Through the passing of the beloved midwife and matriarch of the Shatila refugee camp outside Beirut, the listener enters a world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. A doctor tells a story to a man in a coma in an attempt to keep him alive. The patient, Yunes, is from Galilee, where he left Nahla, the love of his life. The novel unfolds at his bedside through Dr. Khalil’s intimate and haunting flights of memory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deserves a Nobel Prize in Literature
- De Theo Horesh en 03-27-24
De: Elias Khoury
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The Biggest Prison on Earth
- A History of the Occupied Territories
- De: Ilan Pappe
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts. Using recently declassified archival material, Pappe analyses the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians-and the decision-making process itself - that laid the foundation of the occupation. Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world's largest "open prison".
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5 out of 5 stars
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crucial read on Palestine
- De Xjarn en 11-15-23
De: Ilan Pappe
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Shell-Shocked
- On the Ground Under Israel's Gaza Assault
- De: Mohammed Omer
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years. It was also the most deadly. By the conclusion of hostilities some seven weeks later, 2,200 of Gaza's population had been killed, and more than 10,000 injured. In this book, journalist Mohammed Omer, a resident of Gaza who lived through the terror of those days with his wife and then three-month-old son, provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel's assault.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Devastating firsthand accounts
- De Faliiza en 01-25-24
De: Mohammed Omer
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Minor Detail
- De: Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette - translator
- Narrado por: Siiri Scott
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people - and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims, they capture a Palestinian teenager, and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very powerful
- De Phillip Straghalis en 04-09-21
De: Adania Shibli, y otros
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Mother Country
- Good Intentions Collection
- De: Etaf Rum
- Narrado por: Ariana Delawari
- Duración: 1 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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A daughter and mother: two women miles, years, and dreams apart. One defies traditions and expectations. The other conforms to them, even in a new land. Their emotional distance grows while the daughter, now a wife and mother herself, comes to better understand the woman she’s become and why, as she ruminates on inherited trauma, the need to forgive, and the lengths she’ll go to free herself from the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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beautifully tragic
- De Amazon Customer en 03-10-24
De: Etaf Rum
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The End of Drum-Time
- A Novel
- De: Hanna Pylväinen
- Narrado por: Philippe Spall
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse’s daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something that ultimately crosses borders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Best Stories ever written!
- De Anonymous User en 06-09-23
De: Hanna Pylväinen
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Temple Folk
- De: Aaliyah Bilal
- Narrado por: Amir Abdullah, Chanté McCormick, Soneela Nankani, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16
In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- De Amazon Customer en 04-25-24
De: Aaliyah Bilal
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The State of Israel vs. the Jews
- De: Sylvain Cypel, William Rodarmor - translator
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
More than a decade ago, the historian Tony Judt considered whether the behavior of Israel was becoming not only "bad for Israel itself" but also, on a wider scale, "bad for the Jews." Under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, this issue has grown ever more urgent. In The State of Israel vs. the Jews, veteran journalist Sylvain Cypel addresses it in depth, exploring Israel's rightward shift on the international scene and with regard to the diaspora.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Knowledge about USA limited about Israel excellent
- De Sergen en 08-14-23
De: Sylvain Cypel, y otros
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Behind You Is the Sea
- A Novel
- De: Susan Muaddi Darraj
- Narrado por: Rasha Zamamiri, Ali Nasser
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh confronts his father in an effort to protect his younger sister for “dishonoring” their name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Suzanna en 04-25-24
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The Rediscovery of America
- Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
- De: Ned Blackhawk
- Narrado por: Jason Grasl
- Duración: 17 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book marred by poor reading
- De Nathaniel Sterling en 03-04-24
De: Ned Blackhawk
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Blackouts
- A Novel
- De: Justin Torres
- Narrado por: Ozzie Rodriguez, Torian Brackett
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay—playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized—has a project to pass along to this new narrator. It is inspired by a true artifact of a book, Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, which contains stories collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The narration quite nearly out me to sleep.
- De Edward J Greulich en 03-27-24
De: Justin Torres
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Ordinary Notes
- De: Christina Sharpe
- Narrado por: Christina Sharpe
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we hear them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through this book always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good…
- De lawrence fauntleroy en 10-01-23
De: Christina Sharpe
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
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- J. Khader
- 12-18-23
Great historical story
Loved the personal, family story of the Palestinian experience prior to 1948 and since. For anyone who thinks Palestine was “a land without a people “, they should read this story. It is so sad what has happened to Palestine & the Palestinian people!!!
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- malita
- 11-28-23
Historical facts I didn’t know
Liked learning this part of the Palestinian-Israel history . So much I did not know about the role Jordan played in the first years of Palestinians displacement
Saddened by the tragic events and suffering of so many people that decades later still continues
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