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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrative is compelling, unique and yet universal for those displaced
- De Anonymous User en 05-19-24
De: Ariel Sabar
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Tomboyland
- Essays
- De: Melissa Faliveno, Joey Soloway - introduction
- Narrado por: Melissa Faliveno
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It's a place of rolling prairies and towering pines, where guns in bars and trucks on blocks are as much a part of the landscape as rivers and lakes and farms. Where girls are girls and boys are boys, where women are mothers and wives, where one is taught to work hard and live between the lines.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Embrace the Quirk
- De Lorraine S. en 07-26-22
De: Melissa Faliveno, y otros
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The Yellow House
- De: Sarah M. Broom
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,013
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,005
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book. I wish the pictures had been included.
- De Lindsay en 02-28-20
De: Sarah M. Broom
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Govt Cheese
- De: Steven Pressfield
- Narrado por: Steven Pressfield
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 159
People who have read my books, particularly “The War of Art” and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey of a particular solitary guy, wracked with guilt and riven by self-doubt, as he struggles toward his destiny as a writer. But they have only the scantiest conception of the particulars of that journey. These particulars I’m hoping may be of use to others as they wrestle with their own version of that same odyssey. So let me try to strip it down. Let me tell the parts I normally leave out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Work by a great storyteller
- De Vales Tales en 12-11-22
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Home Baked
- My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
- De: Alia Volz
- Narrado por: Alia Volz
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 65
During the '70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Exhilarating, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreaking, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family, taking us through love, loss, and finding home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book
- De m.workman en 05-20-24
De: Alia Volz
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The Last Resort
- A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa
- De: Douglas Rogers
- Narrado por: Kevin Hanssen
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of White farmers living through that country's long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim White-owned land and Rogers' parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great storytelling
- De MsKit en 12-20-23
De: Douglas Rogers
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- A New Zealand Story
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story
- De Pumpkin99 en 12-24-22
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Dalva
- A Novel
- De: Jim Harrison
- Narrado por: Chris Henry Coffey, Stacey Glemboski
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born, and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at 45 she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Male fantasy of women
- De swiss miss en 10-09-23
De: Jim Harrison
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The Lost Boys of Montauk
- The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
- De: Amanda M. Fairbanks
- Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 171
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a married father of three young boys, was the boat’s owner and leader of the four-man crew, which included two locals and the blue-blooded son of a well-to-do summer family. After a week at sea, the weather suddenly turned, and the foursome collided with a nor’easter. They soon found themselves in the fight of their lives. Tragically, it was a fight they lost. Neither the boat nor the bodies of the men were ever recovered.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Little substance.
- De Mary Katherine doyle en 06-05-21
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Mukiwa
- A White Boy in Africa
- De: Peter Godwin
- Narrado por: Peter Godwin
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 103
In unforgettable tales of innocence lost under African skies, we follow Godwin's awakening to the often savage struggle between Whites and Blacks, his horror when he is forced to fight in a civil war he detests, and his experiences as a journalist covering the country's violent transition to Black rule as Rhodesia's colonial era comes to an end and the new state of Zimbabwe is born from its bloody ashes. Mukiwa is a poignant, compelling memoir and an invaluable addition to the literature of southern Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating, poignant memoir.
- De Nakaale en 10-04-20
De: Peter Godwin
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse
- Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
- De: Dan Barry
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disabilities and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than 30 years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our Brothers' Keepers?
- De Gillian en 12-01-16
De: Dan Barry