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The families behind America’s astronaut heroes are just like yours...sort of. This is the hilarious true story of one of those families. While many children grow up wanting to become an astronaut, Patrick Mullane grew up the child of one. In his memoir, The Father, Son, and Holy Shuttle: Growing Up an Astronaut’s Kid in the Glorious 80s, Mullane shares his hilarious coming-of-age story. It’s a story about his quirky and death-defying father, a mother with a secret, and a cast of characters from his extended family who showed their love for him in often bizarre ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great personal story! Entertaining and funny.
- De Alex MacPhail en 01-10-22
De: Patrick Mullane
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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 1,182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,008
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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As I Knew Him
- My Dad, Rod Serling
- De: Anne Serling
- Narrado por: Anne Serling
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
To Anne Serling, the imposing figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week, intoning cautionary observations about fate, chance, and humanity, was not the father she knew. Her fun-loving dad would play on the floor with the dogs, had nicknames for everyone in the family, and was apt to put a lampshade on his head and break out in song. He was her best friend, her playmate, and her confidant. After his unexpected death at 50, Anne, just 20, was left stunned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Beautiful Tribute to a Wonderful Man
- De Becky en 04-12-20
De: Anne Serling
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If My Heart Had Wings
- A World War II Love Story
- De: Nadine Taylor
- Narrado por: Nadine Taylor
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
At the height of WW2, 22-year-old Nina Raff learns that her beloved pilot husband has been killed in plane crash. To escape her grief, she upends her life, moves across country, and plunges into another marriage far too soon. For the next 20 years, she buries her sadness and ignores the past to appease her jealous alcoholic second husband. But when her teenage daughter discovers a long-hidden wedding photo, an unforgettable story of love, heartbreaking loss, oppression, and family secrets tumbles out, compounded by a mystery the daughter is determined to solve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully done!
- De Cdg en 07-10-20
De: Nadine Taylor
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Miracle Country
- A Memoir
- De: Kendra Atleework
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But it came at a price.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best memoir I've read
- De Patricia en 08-15-20
De: Kendra Atleework
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Lone Stars
- De: Justin Deabler
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4.5 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
Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read for bookclub but fell in Love
- De Ericka Lawson en 09-11-22
De: Justin Deabler
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The First Man
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
In The First Man, Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus's aesthetic powers and moral vision.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
- De Sean Patrick Stevens en 07-31-21
De: Albert Camus
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Tomboyland
- Essays
- De: Melissa Faliveno, Joey Soloway - introduction
- Narrado por: Melissa Faliveno
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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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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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- De: Charles Pellegrino
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 60
To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Pica-Don
- De Tad Davis en 09-07-20
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My Father's Paradise
- A Son's Search For His Family's Past
- De: Ariel Sabar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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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What Stands in a Storm
- Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
- De: Kim Cross
- Narrado por: Tracy Brunjes
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
April 27, 2011, marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through 21 states in 3 days, 7 hours, and 18 minutes. It was the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history, which saw 348 people killed, entire neighborhoods erased, and $11 billion in damage. But from the terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes, neighbors, and strangers who rescued each other from hell on earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Offensive Narration
- De Tesla Russell en 05-10-17
De: Kim Cross
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A Mighty Long Way
- My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
- De: Carlotta Walls Lanier
- Narrado por: Peter Fernandez, Lizan Mitchell
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In 1951, Carlotta Walls Lanier was one of the nine African-American students to integrate Little Rock High School, and the first to earn a diploma. Here she provides a firsthand account of her experiences - including the bombing that rocked her home, the constant threats she and her classmates faced, and the pressure and bullying her parents endured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful book
- De karen feek en 01-05-21