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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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On the Plain of Snakes
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Joseph Balderrama
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A 40-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A pedantic, poorly narrated, 20 hour lecture
- De Birdshot en 11-16-19
De: Paul Theroux
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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 42
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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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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Manhood for Amateurs
- The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Michael Chabon
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as a father, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible
- De Ken en 10-14-09
De: Michael Chabon
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The Yellow House
- De: Sarah M. Broom
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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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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Broken Glass
- Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece
- De: Alex Beam
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time—unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began spending weekends together, talking philosophy, Catholic mysticism, and, of course, architecture over wine-soaked picnic lunches.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Tedious and disappointing
- De Deborah McGarr Hutchins en 02-03-23
De: Alex Beam
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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Oak Flat
- A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
- De: Lauren Redniss
- Narrado por: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the Southeastern Arizona desert, 15 miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story
- De Amazon Customer en 11-23-21
De: Lauren Redniss
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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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 Undocumented Americans
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrado por: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer's phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants—and to find the hidden key to her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw, heartbreaking - we can do better by others
- De RapaciousReader en 04-11-20
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West of the West
- Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
- De: Mark Arax
- Narrado por: Mark Arax
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West", and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it.
De: Mark Arax
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Reclamation
- Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
- De: Gayle Jessup White
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors - both the enslaver and the enslaved.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow start, eventually a worthwhile story
- De ChocolateDweller en 12-17-21
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Remembering Shanghai
- A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
- De: Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao
- Narrado por: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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touching stories of resilience and family
- De Rodger en 01-17-21
De: Isabel Sun Chao, y otros
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One Blade of Grass
- Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
- De: Henry Shukman
- Narrado por: Henry Shukman
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
This is the story of how a meditation practice gave Henry Shukman a context for integrating a sudden spiritual awakening into his life and how his depression and anxiety were gradually healed through this practice. In sharing how he grew into a Zen teacher, Shukman demystifies Zen training, casting its profound insights in simple, lucid language. Along the way, One Blade of Grass guides listeners on a journey of their own, into the hidden treasures that contemplative practice can reveal to any of us.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De Joe en 09-10-20
De: Henry Shukman
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Because Our Fathers Lied
- A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
- De: Craig McNamara
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright, Craig McNamara
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late '60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate picture of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history. Because Our Fathers Lied is more than a family story—it is a story about America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Does Not Reflect Scope of the Book
- De Amazon Customer en 07-15-22
De: Craig McNamara