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"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." (LitHub)
For Hala Alyan, 29 is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past - memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith - winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife. This collection summons breathtaking chaos, one that seeps into the bones of these odes, the shape of these elegies.
A vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love, and joy, The Twenty-Ninth Year is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.
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- Narrado por: Andrea Gibson
- Duración: 1 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 113
You Better Be Lightning ranges from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliance! Pure brilliance.
- De Lilly en 05-14-24
De: Andrea Gibson
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Above Us Only Sky
- De: Michele Young-Stone
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. Growing up in Los Vientos, Florida, Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm So Glad I Listened to It!
- De Elizabeth en 08-22-16
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Magical Negro
- Poems
- De: Morgan Parker
- Narrado por: Morgan Parker
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics - of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of time
- De Lida en 07-19-20
De: Morgan Parker
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Caramelo
- De: Sandra Cisneros
- Narrado por: Sandra Cisneros
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip - a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels - from Chicago to “the other side”, Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the “healthy lies” that have ricocheted from one generation to the next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love, family, history, and fantasy, Caramelo
- De Michele en 08-07-20
De: Sandra Cisneros
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I sure tried.
- De A.C. CALLOWAY en 01-28-24
De: Joy Williams
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Falconer
- De: John Cheever
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 78
A convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man while inside a nightmarish prison. Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unsettling and beautiful
- De Darwin8u en 01-21-13
De: John Cheever
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Mother Tongue
- De: Demetria Martinez
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
A nameless El Salvadoran man, fleeing torture and imprisonment, arrives in the United States - his only hope for asylum. The American woman who has volunteered to help him is searching for something to add meaning to her life. When these two lonely people meet, their haunting relationship fulfills their hearts' desires, but it also gives life to their darkest dreams.
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Bone
- De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon - foreword
- Narrado por: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonates to the core of what it means to be human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visceral,blood hot, thrilling poetry-prose
- De Pam en 12-28-22
De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, y otros
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
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Mecca
- De: Susan Straight
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Patricia R. Floyd, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Johnny Frias has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Spanish settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days working for the California Highway Patrol pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man who was in the midst of assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who proceeded to run away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An eye opening read
- De Anonymous User en 10-10-22
De: Susan Straight
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Magic Lessons
- A Prequel to Practical Magic
- De: Alice Hoffman
- Narrado por: Sutton Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,319
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,919
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,902
Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Nameless Arts". Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Alice Hoffman Never Disappoints
- De Elle Estee en 10-07-20
De: Alice Hoffman
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In the Country
- Stories
- De: Mia Alvar
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Don Castro
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere - and sometimes turning back again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My introduction to Filipino literature and culture
- De Amazon Customer en 03-28-16
De: Mia Alvar
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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- De: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, y otros
- Narrado por: Garrison Keillor
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good, but. . .
- De KSmith en 01-27-11
De: Emily Dickinson, y otros
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Citizen Illegal
- De: José Olivarez
- Narrado por: Jose Olivarez
- Duración: 1 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
In this "devastating debut" (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between.
De: José Olivarez
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Orange World and Other Stories
- De: Karen Russell
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In “Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a 2,000-year-old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors”, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. Plus much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wild Ride
- De Georgia en 02-07-20
De: Karen Russell
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Salt Houses
- De: Hala Alyan
- Narrado por: Leila Buck
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 288
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Palestinian Family in Exile
- De zaina en 08-25-17
De: Hala Alyan
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The Arsonists' City
- De: Hala Alyan
- Narrado por: Leila Buck
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
The Nasr family is spread across the globe - Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they’ve always had their ancestral home in Beirut - a constant touchstone - and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new patriarch, has decided to sell. The decision brings the family to Beirut, where everyone unites against Idris in a fight to save the house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing
- De Kindle Customer en 05-07-22
De: Hala Alyan
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You Exist Too Much
- A Novel
- De: Zaina Arafat
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: "You exist too much," she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, we trace her progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is distractingly bad
- De K. Tannous en 09-11-20
De: Zaina Arafat
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Minor Detail
- De: Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette - translator
- Narrado por: Siiri Scott
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- De: Hala Alyan
- Narrado por: Hala Alyan
- Duración: 1 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.
De: Hala Alyan
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You’re Not a Girl in a Movie
- De: Hala Alyan
- Narrado por: Hala Alyan
- Duración: 34 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 867
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 783
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 772
You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Arab American Book Award in Poetry and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In these nine extraordinary poems, Alyan wrestles with the intimate themes that have driven her acclaimed body of work to date: the aching loss of homeland, the image and worth of women, and the violence of love. In Beirut, Brooklyn, and roads in the American West, she unravels the effects of decades of war and displacement on love and human worth and identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am going to have to listen again...
- De James en 12-23-20
De: Hala Alyan
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Salt Houses
- De: Hala Alyan
- Narrado por: Leila Buck
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 288
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Palestinian Family in Exile
- De zaina en 08-25-17
De: Hala Alyan
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The Arsonists' City
- De: Hala Alyan
- Narrado por: Leila Buck
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
The Nasr family is spread across the globe - Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they’ve always had their ancestral home in Beirut - a constant touchstone - and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new patriarch, has decided to sell. The decision brings the family to Beirut, where everyone unites against Idris in a fight to save the house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing
- De Kindle Customer en 05-07-22
De: Hala Alyan
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You Exist Too Much
- A Novel
- De: Zaina Arafat
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: "You exist too much," she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, we trace her progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is distractingly bad
- De K. Tannous en 09-11-20
De: Zaina Arafat
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Minor Detail
- De: Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette - translator
- Narrado por: Siiri Scott
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- De: Hala Alyan
- Narrado por: Hala Alyan
- Duración: 1 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.
De: Hala Alyan
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You’re Not a Girl in a Movie
- De: Hala Alyan
- Narrado por: Hala Alyan
- Duración: 34 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 867
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 783
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 772
You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Arab American Book Award in Poetry and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In these nine extraordinary poems, Alyan wrestles with the intimate themes that have driven her acclaimed body of work to date: the aching loss of homeland, the image and worth of women, and the violence of love. In Beirut, Brooklyn, and roads in the American West, she unravels the effects of decades of war and displacement on love and human worth and identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am going to have to listen again...
- De James en 12-23-20
De: Hala Alyan
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So vivid and evoking.
Absolutely loved everything about this. The self-reflection was poignant, evoking and so relatable, even with such a chasm between our life experiences. Just beautiful.
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The depth
Peering into the souls of the various writers, I find connection in depth of different human emotions across a span of time I don’t occupy. This was inspiring. Beautiful.
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