How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
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Barbara Kingsolver
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In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times best sellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous.
In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with “how to” poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying.
Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins.
Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders—birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and 1,000-year-old beech trees—all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves.
Altogether, these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. It’s all terribly easy and, as the title suggests, not entirely possible. Or at least, it is never quite finished.
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- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 2 h y 59 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Barbara Kingsolver has written these five short stories with the same wit and sensitivity that characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees. Spreading her characters over a variety of colorful landscapes, she tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another great book by Kingsolver!
- De Rosemarie en 01-09-12
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High Tide in Tucson
- Essays from Now or Never
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 132
With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book, but not unabridged...
- De Kathy Roberts Forde en 04-20-20
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The Bean Trees
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: C. J. Critt
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,283
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,959
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,965
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity of putting down roots.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Barbara, can we have a "re-do?"
- De Nancy en 02-22-12
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Unsheltered
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,292
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3,804
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,805
Brilliantly executed and compulsively listenable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred - whether family or friends - and in the strength of the human spirit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Spring for a professional narrator, please!
- De Gail D. en 11-05-18
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
- A Year of Food Life
- De: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,439
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,440
When Barbara Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally-produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle follows the family through the first year of their experiment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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mixed feelings
- De pterion en 11-15-07
De: Barbara Kingsolver, y otros
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Animal Dreams
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,498
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,355
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,347
Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world. At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."
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5 out of 5 stars
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She reads my heart
- De Sue Spahr Hodges en 08-03-18
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Prodigal Summer
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,176
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,425
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,422
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches them from an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and her solitary life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Lily en 10-12-08
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Pigs in Heaven
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 2 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee Nation begins to investigate the adoption—their new life together begins to crumble. Depicting the clash between fierce family love and tribal law, poverty and means, abandonment and belonging, Pigs in Heaven is a morally wrenching, gently humorous work of fiction that speaks equally to the head and the heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't realize it was the abridged version
- De David Andrews en 02-27-15
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A Sand County Almanac
- And Sketches Here and There
- De: Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver - introduction
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 501
First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great in some ways; in others, wtf!
- De RG en 06-22-20
De: Aldo Leopold, y otros
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Flight Behavior
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,339
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,697
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,709
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at 17. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A poignant literary work of art.
- De criswithcurls en 02-08-13
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The Poisonwood Bible
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Dean Robertson
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,680
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12,287
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,309
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Listen to the sample first!
- De Cheryl D en 07-30-08
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 31,117
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28,162
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28,096
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- De Billy en 10-25-22
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Meryl Streep
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17,038
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15,764
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,750
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So incredibly boring
- De Rhonda Morrison en 08-05-23
De: Ann Patchett
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Sugarland
- De: Tom Fontana
- Narrado por: Dean Winters, Mark Ryder, Fern Cozine, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,460
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,444
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,444
Sometimes the darkest mysteries are homegrown. When Zephyr Nelson returns home to look after her ailing mother, she discovers that her younger brother, Cotter, has become obsessed with a malevolent influencer on a mysterious voice app. Just as a series of puzzling deaths begin plaguing their small town of Sugarland. With the help of her college best friend and occasional lover, Teddy, Zephyr unravels truths about Sugarland that are impossible for her to accept ...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent thriller, but too much weird sexual stuff
- De Aimee Safford en 04-03-25
De: Tom Fontana
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Three Days in June
- A Novel
- De: Anne Tyler
- Narrado por: J. Smith-Cameron
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 667
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 627
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 627
Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple, Enjoyable, performed 5 stars
- De PM en 02-14-25
De: Anne Tyler
Kingsolver's own reading is our gift. I plan to purchase this hard copy as gifts for others who care - some who will act - and, for those who remain indfferent.
Superb
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A Joy to Read
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