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When a 1950s rural Mexican family of nine is forced to resettle in an urban American metropolis, its cultural clash is hopeful, exhausting, and thorny. Hear all about it in Of Dreams & Thorns.
This audiobook is not a woe-is-me, immigrant, life-is-so-unfair kind of story. There are no victims here. Rather, it is a portrait of the character and passions of one man, his family, and his fellow life-travelers in an immigrant community. It is also a landscape or tapestry that captures the splendors of this collection of characters that only comes from an intimacy with their various human dimensions - warts and all.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law, Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's six brothers, one sister, and numerous wives and children.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Eye Opening... Difficult Listen... Honest
- De Paul Mullen en 06-24-08
De: Irene Spencer
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The Godmothers
- A Novel
- De: Camille Aubray
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 751
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 666
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 661
Meet the Godmothers: Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family's favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy French girl from upstate New York, escapes an abusive husband after falling in love with Johnny, the oldest of the brothers. Lucy, a tough-as-nails Irish nurse, ran away from a strict girls' home and marries Frankie, the sensuous middle son. And the glamorous Petrina, the family's only daughter, graduates with honors from Barnard College despite a past trauma that nearly caused a family scandal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Easy Enjoyable Read
- De Bunny en 06-23-21
De: Camille Aubray
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
- A Novel
- De: Juliet Grames
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 682
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 595
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 595
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and her sister, Tina, must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misogyny at its worst
- De brenda en 01-15-20
De: Juliet Grames
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Say I'm Dead
- A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
- De: E. Dolores Johnson
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Fearful of prison time - or lynching - for violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's Black father and White mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo. Her mother simply vanished, evading an FBI and police search that ended with the declaration to her family that she was the victim of foul play, either dead or sold into white slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply meaningful important read
- De A.M.Rousseau en 12-21-21
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16 Lighthouse Road
- Cedar Cove, Book 1
- De: Debbie Macomber
- Narrado por: Sandra Burr
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,624
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,213
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,221
"You don't know me yet, but in a few hours that's going to change. You see, I'm inviting you to my home and my town of Cedar Cove, because I want you to meet my family, friends, and neighbors. Come and hear their stories - maybe even their secrets!"
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very Light Chick Lit
- De Leslie en 03-02-11
De: Debbie Macomber
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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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The Shop on Blossom Street
- De: Debbie Macomber
- Narrado por: Linda Emond
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 620
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 418
There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle called A Good Yarn. You go there to buy knitting supplies and patterns, and now it's offering a knitting class. The first lesson: how to knit a baby blanket.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shop on Blossom Street
- De Christine en 07-30-05
De: Debbie Macomber
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- De: Lucette Lagnado
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything and departs with the family for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Touching Memoir of a Jewish Family in Egypt
- De Brustar en 06-10-20
De: Lucette Lagnado
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In the Shadow of the Valley
- A Memoir
- De: Bobi Conn
- Narrado por: Bobi Conn
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 296
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 250
Bobi Conn was raised in a remote Kentucky holler in 1980s Appalachia. She remembers her tin-roofed house tucked away in a vast forest paradise; the sparkling creeks, with their frogs and crawdads; the sweet blackberries growing along the road to her granny’s; and her abusive father. An elegiac account of survival despite being born poor, female, and cloistered, Bobi’s testament is one of hope for all vulnerable populations, particularly women and girls caught in the cycle of poverty and abuse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard Pass
- De Kathryn Liggett en 06-13-20
De: Bobi Conn
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The Secret Life of Sunflowers
- De: Marta Molnar, Dana Marton
- Narrado por: Kendra Murray
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,079
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,007
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,007
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Nothing like a expected…
- De LOVETOQUILT en 05-06-23
De: Marta Molnar, y otros
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After the Last Border
- Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
- De: Jessica Goudeau
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 67
The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries - yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the 21st-century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Content. Odd Structure.
- De Susan Stillings en 02-10-21
De: Jessica Goudeau
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Virgins of Paradise
- De: Barbara Wood
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Jasmine and Camelia Rasheed grow to womanhood under the watchful eye of their grandmother inside the walls surrounding a beautiful house on Virgins of Paradise Street in exotic Cairo. They come of age in society in which the subjugation of women is assumed - they must wear veils, are forbidden to leave the house, have no independent rights, and are circumcised to ensure purity and obedience.
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- De C Ohana en 11-13-08
De: Barbara Wood
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The Wanderer
- Thunder Point, Book 1
- De: Robyn Carr
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,678
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,283
Nestled on the Oregon coast is a small town of rocky beaches and rugged charm. Locals love the land’s unspoiled beauty. Developers see it as a potential gold mine. When newcomer Hank Cooper learns he’s been left an old friend’s entire beachfront property, he finds himself with a community’s destiny in his hands. Cooper has never been a man to settle in one place, and Thunder Point was supposed to be just another quick stop. But Cooper finds himself getting involved with the town. And with Sarah Dupre, a woman as complicated as she is beautiful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4.5 The Wanderer Stars
- De whatcha.listening.to en 11-09-17
De: Robyn Carr
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To Love a Prince
- True Blue Royal, Book 1
- De: Rachel Hauck
- Narrado por: Louise Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 171
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 148
Daffodil Caron is not a princess, even though she once dreamed of being one. After all, she grew up as a playmate to royal princes, running through the halls of Perrigwynn Palace and dining with the queen. But the day she stumbled upon a royal secret, everything changed. Flash forward 18 years, and Daffy’s living a sweet, non-royal life. A skilled art curator for the Royal Trust, she has friends, a flat in the heart of the city, and a handsome, successful fiancée. The last person on her mind is Gus, a prince she once called her best mate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easy and light hearted
- De Anonymous User en 02-12-21
De: Rachel Hauck
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Two Crosses
- Secrets of the Cross, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth Musser
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
The glimmering Huguenot cross she so innocently wears leads her deep into the shadows. When Gabriella Madison arrives in the French village of Castelnau in 1961 to continue her university studies, she doesn’t anticipate being drawn into the secretive world behind the Algerian war for independence from France. And the further she delves into the war efforts, the more her faith is challenged. The people who surround her bring a whirlwind of transforming forces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Faith, Romance, Spies, and Fascinating History
- De Amazon Customer en 05-02-19
De: Elizabeth Musser
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Bring on the Blessings
- A Novel
- De: Beverly Jenkins
- Narrado por: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 237
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 235
Bernadine Brown is a woman with money to spend. Henry Adams is a town in desperate need of cash. But after Bernadine puts up the money, she has some ideas about how the town should be run. Will the townspeople be willing to shake up their comfortable lives to share the gift they’ve been given with others who really need it?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not my idea of a Christian story
- De DJ Stevenson en 04-12-21
De: Beverly Jenkins
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Re-Creations
- De: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 71
Cornelia Copley's plans to finish college and get her degree in interior decoration are thwarted when she is unexpectedly called home due to her mother's illness. Heartbroken at the interruption and not understanding why her father can't see how important her education is, Cornelia soon finds there is plenty of trouble at home: Her mother has had a breakdown and is in a sanitarium; her father has lost his job and taken a lower position; and her brother Carey is going with a wild crowd.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorites!
- De Tc en 08-18-20
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Tomorrow Will Be Better
- De: Betty Smith
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Tomorrow Will Be Better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy but joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work, poverty, and pain has worn them down. Her mother's resentment toward being a housewife and her father's inability to express his emotions result in a tense home life where Margy has no voice. Unable to speak up against her overbearing mother, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartfelt and Heart-wrenchingly Real!
- De M. Ryder en 02-16-22
De: Betty Smith