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- De legacy329 en 04-30-21
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
- Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Aunjanue Ellis
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 629
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African-American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writer - Great Reader
- De Avid Listener en 09-09-20
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London Belles
- De: Annie Groves
- Narrado por: Anna Baatz
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 20
London Belles is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.United by chance, bound together in times of needWhen tragedy strikes, Olive is forced to seek lodgers. Three girls come knocking at her door, each in need of a roof over their heads.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice, Enjoyable Listen!
- De Carmen en 01-13-12
De: Annie Groves
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Once Were Warriors
- De: Alan Duff
- Narrado por: Jay Laga'aia
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 53
Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4000X better then the movie
- De Amazon Customer en 02-15-18
De: Alan Duff
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Bloody Jack
- De: L. A. Meyer
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,450
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,760
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,763
Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of 18th-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas. There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes it clicks
- De Terry en 12-09-09
De: L. A. Meyer
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Cold Sassy Tree
- De: Olive Ann Burns
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,908
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,903
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That is the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, elopes with Miss Love Simpson, a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Feel-Good Story
- De Chrissie en 07-13-13
De: Olive Ann Burns
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Desire Under the Elms
- De: Eugene O'Neill
- Narrado por: Paul Adelstein, Orson Bean, Amy Brenneman, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Eugene O’Neill’s tale of Ephraim Cabot, greedy and hard like the stone walls that surround his farm, the family patriarch brings home his new young bride, Abbie. His grown sons dissaprove; one leaves but the other stays to fight for the family fortune. What follows is a tragedy of epic proportions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A raw and modern take on a classic
- De Maria en 08-06-10
De: Eugene O'Neill
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
- A Novel
- De: Peter Troy
- Narrado por: John Keating, Allyson Johnson, Marrie Kreinik, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban destitution; he is among the first to join the famed Irish Brigade and becomes a celebrated war photographer. Marcella, a society girl from Spain, defies her father to become a passionate abolitionist. Mary and Micah are slaves of varying circumstances, who form an instant connection and embark on a tumultuous path to freedom. All four lives unfold in two beautiful love stories, which eventually collide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Four passionate performances give wings to story
- De Cheimon en 04-26-12
De: Peter Troy
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Ironweed
- De: William Kennedy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 158
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally – and fatally – dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Darkly Lovely
- De Michael en 07-22-17
De: William Kennedy
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The Gospel Singer
- De: Harry Crews, Kevin Wilson - foreword
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
A gifted, idolized singer returns to his poor hometown and a life and family he is so far removed from he now holds them in contempt. The Gospel Singer reveals the absurdity of blind religious faith and idol worship and the hypocrisy that results with the offering of money or sex. Crews grapples with race, gender, religion, and place and steps back to divulge the secrets of his characters - including a dead girl awaiting the gospel singer’s melodious eulogy, his dysfunctional family, a murderer, the zealous town residents, and a traveling freak show.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The gospel singer
- De L. Welsh en 07-13-22
De: Harry Crews, y otros
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The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA
- De: Brenda Woods
- Narrado por: John Kroft
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 33
On Gabriel's 12th birthday, he gets a new bike - and is so excited that he accidentally rides it right into the path of a car. Fortunately, a Black man named Meriwether pushes him out of the way just in time, and fixes his damaged bike. As a thank you, Gabriel gets him a job at his dad's auto shop. Gabriel's dad hires him with some hesitation, however, anticipating trouble with the other mechanic, who makes no secret of his racist opinions. Gabriel and Meriwether become friends, and Gabriel learns that Meriwether drove a tank in the Army's all-Black 761st Tank Battalion in WWII.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s good
- De Bharath en 02-01-21
De: Brenda Woods
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Of Mice and Men
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Gary Sinise
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,335
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,830
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,805
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of George and Lennie on stage and film, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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KETCHUP
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-11-17
De: John Steinbeck
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,344
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,859
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,848
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- De Jefferson en 02-13-11
De: Walter Mosley
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- De: Harper Lee
- Narrado por: Sissy Spacek
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 47,150
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41,875
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41,726
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A gift to be treasured
- De David Shear en 07-09-14
De: Harper Lee
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The Homeplace
- Singing River, Book 1
- De: Gilbert Morris
- Narrado por: Judith West
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
As the year 1928 begins, 14-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has bright hopes for the future. Her father has launched a new business, and her mother is expecting her fifth baby. Lanie has dreams of going to college and being a writer. Then tragedy strikes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow to start. But hang in there. It’s worth it
- De paula wright en 02-24-19
De: Gilbert Morris
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The Librarian of Boone's Hollow
- De: Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Narrado por: Kate Forbes
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 121
During the Great Depression, city-dweller Addie Cowherd dreams of becoming a novelist and offering listeners the escape that books had given her during her tragic childhood. When her father loses his job, she is forced to take the only employment she can find delivering books on horseback to poor coal-mining families in the hills of Kentucky. But turning a new page will be nearly impossible in Boone's Hollow, where residents are steeped in superstitions and deeply suspicious of outsiders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected Surprise!
- De Avid Amazon Customer en 11-10-20
De: Kim Vogel Sawyer