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Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country
Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility—something to offer the community and impress the spirited girl he has come to love.
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All light in Chattana is created by one man - the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the world outside is no fairer than the one behind bars. The wealthy dine and dance under bright orb light, while the poor toil away in darkness. Worst of all, Pong’s prison tattoo marks him as a fugitive who can never be truly free.
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Amazing story brought down by narration
- De Kim en 05-20-21
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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Overly ambitious
- De Turtle en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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Under the Wave at Waimea
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 18 h y 20 m
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Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his “stoke.” The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. One night, while driving home from a bar after one too many, Joe accidentally kills a stranger near Waimea, a tragedy that sends his life out of control. As the repercussions of the accident spiral ever wider, Joe's devoted girlfriend, Olive, throws herself into uncovering the dead man’s identity and helping Joe find vitality and refuge in the waves again.
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Really enjoyable and surprising novel.
- De kristina en 05-04-21
De: Paul Theroux
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A Grain of Wheat
- De: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.
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One of Kenya's Great
- De Afro History fan en 07-31-19
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Whose Waves These Are
- De: Amanda Dykes
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose...and rocks. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes. Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help.
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Great Story
- De Rita N. Bulington en 07-08-21
De: Amanda Dykes
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Exile and the Kingdom
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom.
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The Latehomecomer
- A Hmong Family Memoir
- De: Kao Kalia Yang
- Narrado por: Kao Kalia Yang
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States, all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family's story after her grandmother’s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together.
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Great Hmong history, lousy literature
- De Isadore Ducasse en 10-12-18
De: Kao Kalia Yang
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The Past Is Never
- A Novel
- De: Tiffany Quay Tyson
- Narrado por: Devon Sorvari
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot, and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water - until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes...not drowned, not lost, simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.
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Intriguing Southern gothic tale
- De Robert Jason en 03-11-20
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The Parted Earth
- De: Anjali Enjeti
- Narrado por: Deepti Gupta
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations.
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Riveting
- De MSE en 05-14-21
De: Anjali Enjeti
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A Girl Is a Body of Water
- De: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- Narrado por: Tovah Ott
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and - most importantly - how they find their way back to each other. In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small Ugandan village of Nattetta - her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts - but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow.
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African narrators for African novels!
- De Lynn en 04-24-21
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The Chinese Groove
- A Novel
- De: Kathryn Ma
- Narrado por: James Chen
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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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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A delightful surprise
- De R. Glynn en 02-01-23
De: Kathryn Ma
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Users
- De: Colin Winnette
- Narrado por: Justin Price
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts receiving a series of anonymous death threats.
De: Colin Winnette
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Ozark Dogs
- De: Eli Cranor
- Narrado por: Eli Cranor
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt.
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Riveting story with unexpected twists!
- De Corbey Dukes en 07-31-23
De: Eli Cranor
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Age of Vice
- A Novel
- De: Deepti Kapoor
- Narrado por: Vidish Athavale
- Duración: 19 h y 28 m
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New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family.
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Fascinating, Ferocious, Fantastic!
- De Coco likes books en 01-08-23
De: Deepti Kapoor
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The Wildest Sun
- A Novel
- De: Asha Lemmie
- Narrado por: Imani Jade Powers
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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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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delightful, quirky story!
- De Redpen en 03-08-24
De: Asha Lemmie
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A History of Burning
- De: Janika Oza
- Narrado por: Lipica Shah, KP Upadhyayula
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African Railway. Far from home, Pirbhai commits a brutal act in the name of survival that will haunt him and his family for years to come. So begins Janika Oza’s masterful, richly told epic, where the embers of this desperate act are fanned into flame over four generations, four continents, throughout the twentieth century.
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Slow burn
- De Workin'Grrrrl en 06-15-23
De: Janika Oza
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The Chinese Groove
- A Novel
- De: Kathryn Ma
- Narrado por: James Chen
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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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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A delightful surprise
- De R. Glynn en 02-01-23
De: Kathryn Ma
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Users
- De: Colin Winnette
- Narrado por: Justin Price
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts receiving a series of anonymous death threats.
De: Colin Winnette
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Ozark Dogs
- De: Eli Cranor
- Narrado por: Eli Cranor
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt.
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Riveting story with unexpected twists!
- De Corbey Dukes en 07-31-23
De: Eli Cranor
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Age of Vice
- A Novel
- De: Deepti Kapoor
- Narrado por: Vidish Athavale
- Duración: 19 h y 28 m
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New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family.
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Fascinating, Ferocious, Fantastic!
- De Coco likes books en 01-08-23
De: Deepti Kapoor
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The Wildest Sun
- A Novel
- De: Asha Lemmie
- Narrado por: Imani Jade Powers
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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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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delightful, quirky story!
- De Redpen en 03-08-24
De: Asha Lemmie
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A History of Burning
- De: Janika Oza
- Narrado por: Lipica Shah, KP Upadhyayula
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African Railway. Far from home, Pirbhai commits a brutal act in the name of survival that will haunt him and his family for years to come. So begins Janika Oza’s masterful, richly told epic, where the embers of this desperate act are fanned into flame over four generations, four continents, throughout the twentieth century.
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Slow burn
- De Workin'Grrrrl en 06-15-23
De: Janika Oza
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Brotherless Night
- A Novel
- De: V. V. Ganeshananthan
- Narrado por: Nirmala Rajasingam
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K’s invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority.
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Heartbreaking
- De Aruna V. Sarma en 02-11-23
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Pomegranate
- A Novel
- De: Helen Elaine Lee
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams, Janina Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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Ranita Atwater is “getting short.” She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. Ranita is regaining her freedom, but she’s leaving behind her lover Maxine, who has inspired her to imagine herself and the world differently.
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Powerful, Human, and Moving
- De Newlawgirl en 05-02-23
De: Helen Elaine Lee
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When Crack Was King
- A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
- De: Donovan X. Ramsey
- Narrado por: Donovan X. Ramsey
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan’s war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey’s exacting analysis traces the path from the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement to the devastating realities we live with today: a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality.
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Essential chronicling of man-made epidemic
- De Amazon Customer en 07-18-23
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Symphony of Secrets
- De: Brendan Slocumb
- Narrado por: Chanté McCormick, Brendan Slocumb
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world’s preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern’s help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED, he jumps at the chance.
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Engaging and clever
- De BookJunkie en 04-22-23
De: Brendan Slocumb
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River Sing Me Home
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- De: Eleanor Shearer
- Narrado por: Debra Michaels, Eleonor Shearer
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs.
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Good debut.. with a few quarrels in my opinion
- De Alize en 07-24-23
De: Eleanor Shearer
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The People's Hospital
- Hope and Peril in American Medicine
- De: Ricardo Nuila MD
- Narrado por: Ricardo Nuila MD
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People’s Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila’s stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care.
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Niche perspective
- De Kathleen Garcia en 05-07-23
De: Ricardo Nuila MD
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Parasol Against the Axe
- A Novel
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Dorje Swallow
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she’s arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it’s being listened to and who’s doing the listening, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present.
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Narrator’s Czech accent sounds like a low budget Dracula
- De Nina S en 04-23-24
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Swift River
- De: Essie Chambers
- Narrado por: Shayna Small, Janina Edwards, Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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It’s the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she and her mother hitchhike everywhere they go. But that’s not the only reason Diamond stands out: she’s teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop’s been gone, she is the only Black person in all of Swift River. This summer, Ma is determined to declare Pop legally dead so that they can collect his life insurance money, get their house back from the bank, and finally move on.
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Fascinating characters
- De Jenn1968 en 06-13-24
De: Essie Chambers
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Lone Women
- A Novel
- De: Victor LaValle
- Narrado por: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone.
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Amazing story, Phenomenal Narration
- De Frugalshopper en 04-02-23
De: Victor LaValle
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In Memoriam
- A Novel
- De: Alice Winn
- Narrado por: Christian Coulson
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting.
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Amazing
- De Henry en 03-21-23
De: Alice Winn
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The Trackers
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office.
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So Good
- De Ray Stewart en 04-28-23
De: Charles Frazier
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Good Night, Irene
- A Novel
- De: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik, Luis Alberto Urrea
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France.
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- De Sara en 07-10-23
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- G. Griffith
- 06-22-23
An exceptional piece of historical fiction.
The tension between the two major characters is finely wrought against the backdrop of the creation story of modern Singapore. Woven throughout is a cautionary tale of the unintended effects of climate change.
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- Silicon Valley Reader
- 11-09-23
Interesting historical fiction
Difficult at times to understand narrator. Also had to look up many non-English words to understand story.
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- MOL
- 10-06-23
Great historical fiction
I’m glad I got past the difficult narration. In the end, I understood why the narrator used a thick accent. It took a bit of understanding and getting used to. But it offered added authenticity.
I had read about the journey ti where Singapore is now. And I have always been a fan of how they have evolved to be a powerhouse among giants. There is a balance to individual rights and the common good they seem to have mastered. Other countries should follow this example, the US in particular, so that a society can still live sanely and safely.
I was waiting for one of the main characters to finally wake up and get beyond the childish magical thinking. Relieved this finally came. Otherwise, I would have discounted that part of the story as nothing but cheap drugstore paperback manufactured longing.
A worthy listen.
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- Geonn Cannon
- 04-12-23
Fantastic historic fiction, and a change of pace
I almost skipped this book because of a knee-jerk reaction to the phrase "WWII" in the description. There are about ten thousand novels about London/Europe during WWII, pretty much covering every single day of the war from every potential angle. It's exhausting. But this was something completely different. A whole new perspective on a war that's been exhaustively covered, from the point of view of characters you truly care about by the time the war rolls in.
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- Kristi Thomson
- 02-17-24
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I loved how the speaker had a fitting, solid accent for the book, it helped to make it come to life, and he paused in all the right spots to build drama.
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- joesgirl
- 06-13-23
Refreshingly different story
I enjoyed this story, the way it was told and the narrator’s voice. This Audible book really allowed me to escape, not just from my reality, but from all the previous books I’ve read or listened to with predictable endings.
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- Francis B Gularte
- 05-21-23
Interesting insight to changes in the Asian part of the world
A most probable glimpse of the changes that took place in that part of the world told around the life and family of a young person.
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- Richard G Murray
- 04-26-24
Great story, well written, good listen
Powerful characters. A story about a part of the world very foreign to me and events totally unfamiliar.
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- EDW
- 05-08-23
Truly Distressing
We start with a child's magical memories of family life in a primitive fishing village. The child grows up to be a monster who betrays family and friends instead of helping them adjust to the changing world. I don't understand why this is being lauded as a compelling coming of age story. On top of the difficult story the narrator (who is perfectly capable of communicating clearly based on other books narrated) adopted a strange slurred accent that was very difficult to follow. I wouldn't have stuck with the book if it hadn't been about such an interesting historical time and place.
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