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'50sVille Vol. 5
- De: Paul Ibbetson
- Narrado por: Tom Kruse
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
Imagine a town where the people perpetually live in the 1950s, a place where time has all but stopped and where everyone loves his family, job, and life. In this strange place, only a select few people ever leave the city limits, and even then they leave reluctantly. This is what 15-year old Benjamin Granault faces as, through a string of amazing events, he finds himself living in a town where he can never talk about modern technology or current events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It dead, Freedom and Lost
- De Dennis en 11-18-20
De: Paul Ibbetson
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The Silent History
- De: Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman, LJ Ganser
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 72
It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Thought-Provoking Premise
- De Doug - Audible en 03-31-15
De: Eli Horowitz, y otros
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Learning to Die in Miami
- Confessions of a Refugee Boy
- De: Carlos Eire
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962 - a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born. In this enchanting new work, narrated in Eire's inimitable and lyrical voice, young Carlos adjusts to life in his new country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent memoir of a forgotten time in history
- De BRB en 03-23-15
De: Carlos Eire
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White Noise
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 838
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 736
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 734
When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- De RI in Canada en 10-15-16
De: Don DeLillo
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Bend, Not Break
- A Life in Two Worlds
- De: Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family. To be deported with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student. Ping Fu also knows what it’s like to be a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, a CEO, and Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true account as good as any Horatio Alger story!
- De Roy B. Paschal en 01-14-13
De: Ping Fu, y otros
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WWW: Wake
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jessica Almasy, Jennifer Van Dyck, A. C. Fellner, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,404
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,609
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,610
Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math - and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great, if Incomplete, Concept
- De Seth H. Wilson en 04-14-09
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Finding Fish
- A Memoir
- De: Antwone Q. Fisher
- Narrado por: Thomas Penny
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 84
Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his midteens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book will not disappoint you.
- De Joseph en 10-16-16
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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- De: Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, y otros
- Narrado por: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator sounds like Tony Danza
- De Sean en 03-05-16
De: Cory Doctorow, y otros
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The Upside
- A Memoir
- De: Abdel Sellou
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In 1992, Count Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo, on the heels of his wife's diagnosis with a terminal illness, suffered a paragliding accident that left him a quadriplegic. Forty-two years old, trapped inside his luxurious Paris town house, he was an outcast for the first time in his life. Abdel, an unemployed Algerian immigrant who had been an outcast for his entire existence, would become Phillipe's unlikely caretaker. Quick-thinking, unsentimental, and more than a little wild, Abdel surprises both himself and his employer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- De RockyDog en 01-31-19
De: Abdel Sellou
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'50sVille Vol. 2
- De: Dr. Paul A. Ibbetson
- Narrado por: Meral Mathews
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 26
Imagine a town where the people perpetually live in the 1950s, a place where time has all but stopped and where everyone loves his family, job, and life. In this strange place, only a select few people ever leave the city limits and even then, they leave reluctantly. This is what fifteen and a half year old Benjamin Granault faces as, through a string of amazing events, he finds himself living in a town where he can never talk about modern technology or current events, a place where being an outsider can cost a person his life and being part of the community may very well cost more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Getting Good
- De Hepcat89 en 11-15-20
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Emily the Strange
- The Lost Days
- De: Rob Reger
- Narrado por: Angela Goethals
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/ saxophone/ zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast.... and pointing and laughing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grrrrrrrrrraaattrt!!!
- De Vkatz76 en 05-20-23
De: Rob Reger
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Home Game
- An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 742
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 588
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 592
When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first, this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact they felt and did all sorts of things, then engaged in what amounted to an extended cover-up.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Michael Lewis gives his account of fatherhood
- De Adam Shields en 10-26-14
De: Michael Lewis
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
- Timmy Failure, Book 1
- De: Stephan Pastis
- Narrado por: Jared Goldsmith
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 97
The New York Times best selling cartoonist behind the nationally acclaimed comic strip Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis has won raves for Timmy Failure, the hilarious first book in a new series for young listeners. With the help of a polar bear named Total, Timmy Failure hopes to strike it rich by running the best detective agency around. The only problem is that our supremely confident hero is often more bumbling than brainy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good
- De Linton A Harrington en 05-14-16
De: Stephan Pastis
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Speak
- A Novel
- De: Louisa Hall
- Narrado por: Suzan Crowley, Christopher Ashman, Adrienne Rusk, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the 17th century to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human and what it means to be less than fully alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like nothing else
- De Anonymous User en 06-22-17
De: Louisa Hall
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This Is How I Save My Life
- From California to India, a True Story of Finding Everything When You Are Willing to Try Anything
- De: Amy B. Scher
- Narrado por: Amy B. Scher
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed late-stage, chronic Lyme disease, the best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and potentially terminal. Deteriorating rapidly, she went on a search to save her own life - from the top experts in Los Angeles and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis to a state-of-the-art hospital in Chicago. After exhausting all of her options in the US, she discovered a possible cure - but it was highly experimental, available only in India, and had as much of a probability of killing her as it did of curing her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great comfort
- De Sue en 07-07-18
De: Amy B. Scher
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Wide-Open World
- How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever
- De: John Marshall
- Narrado por: John Marshall
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
John Marshall had read about the growth of voluntourism, and frankly, it was the only kind of extended trip he could afford. He'd heard that some peoples' lives were changed by a week of overseas service - what might half a year accomplish for his family? His wife, Traca, was all in favor of it; his kids, especially his 14-year-old daughter, were strongly opposed. Wide-Open World is the totally engaging, bluntly honest story of the Marshall family's life-changing adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed every minute
- De Chris en 05-15-15
De: John Marshall