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A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation - few of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great representation of the time
- De AvidReader22 en 06-07-19
De: Alysia Abbott
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
- A Memoir
- De: Nadja Spiegelman
- Narrado por: Nadja Spiegelman
- Duración: 11 h y 22 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 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers - French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly - exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and "began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand", their relationship grew tense.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Aweful
- De Haley Abreu en 07-05-17
De: Nadja Spiegelman
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The Night Ocean
- De: Paul La Farge
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 117
Marina Willett, MD, has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Frustratingly Uneven Due to Clumsy Plot Structure
- De Adam en 06-15-17
De: Paul La Farge
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Where the Past Begins
- A Writer's Memoir
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Amy Tan
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 158
Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narration Issues
- De Sara en 12-14-17
De: Amy Tan
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Abandon Me
- Memoirs
- De: Melissa Febos
- Narrado por: Melissa Febos
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection - with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This journey is captivating to say the least!
- De Ilanna en 08-11-17
De: Melissa Febos
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- De: Xiaolu Guo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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must read
- De Jeff Darlington en 10-22-17
De: Xiaolu Guo
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Things We Lost in the Fire
- Stories
- De: Mariana Enriquez
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
An arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great short story collection
- De Gatster en 06-15-17
De: Mariana Enriquez
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Last Evenings on Earth
- De: Roberto Bolano, Chris Andrews - translator
- Narrado por: David Crommett
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolano. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. "The melancholy folklore of exile", as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these 14 haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid Character based Stories
- De Michael en 06-06-24
De: Roberto Bolano, y otros
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They Said They Wanted Revolution
- A Memoir of My Parents
- De: Neda Toloui-Semnani
- Narrado por: Neda Toloui-Semnani
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic Republic. With the new regime came international isolation, cultural devastation, and profound personal loss for Neda. Her father was arrested and her mother was forced to make a desperate escape, pregnant and with Neda in tow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I learned so much. Great pacing, felt like I time-traveled
- De Jess Fuchs en 02-07-22
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Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
- A Memoir
- De: Nicole Hardy
- Narrado por: Nicole Hardy
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Book Spoke to Me
- De Allison en 04-08-14
De: Nicole Hardy
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Bitter in the Mouth
- De: Monique Truong
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
Growing up in the small town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the 70’s and 80’s, Linda believes that she is profoundly different from everyone else, including the members of her own family. “What I know about you, little girl, would break you in two” are the cruel, mysterious last words that Linda’s grandmother ever says to her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"Tasting Words" made this hard to hear!
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De: Monique Truong
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Modern Loss
- Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.
- De: Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner
- Narrado por: Meredith Mitchell, Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it's clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map. Let's face it: Most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We're awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Was Expecting
- De Bessie Mae en 03-01-23
De: Rebecca Soffer, y otros
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Learning to Die in Miami
- Confessions of a Refugee Boy
- De: Carlos Eire
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 11 h y 59 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 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962 - a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born. In this enchanting new work, narrated in Eire's inimitable and lyrical voice, young Carlos adjusts to life in his new country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent memoir of a forgotten time in history
- De BRB en 03-23-15
De: Carlos Eire
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
- A Story of War and What Comes After
- De: Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 643
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 547
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 545
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator detracts from story
- De Laura en 01-16-19
De: Clemantine Wamariya, y otros
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Between Two Worlds
- Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
- De: Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Zainab Salbi was 11-years-old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move. As a palace insider, Zainab offers a singular glimpse of what it is like to come of age under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle". She watched as Saddam pitted friends, spouses, and even children against each other to compete for his approval.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An excellent history lesson
- De Ella en 12-01-09
De: Zainab Salbi, y otros
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The Unspeakable
- And Other Subjects of Discussion
- De: Meghan Daum
- Narrado por: Meghan Daum
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide", Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Complaining about her dead mom.
- De Erik Hermansen en 11-23-14
De: Meghan Daum
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I'm the One That I Want
- De: Margaret Cho
- Narrado por: Margaret Cho
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
I'm the One That I Want, based on her show of the same name, is filled with dead-on insights about the experience of being a woman with attitude, of flowing with the highs and lows of life, and of creating one's own identity and acceptance. It is every bit as hilarious, shocking, and irreverent as she is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious and deeply engrossing
- De Ling en 04-10-03
De: Margaret Cho
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Above ground, the sandhogs - black, white, Irish, Italian - keep their distance from each other until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow diggers--a bond that will bless and curse the next three generations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Tom en 06-14-21
De: Colum McCann
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Old School
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he’s achieved and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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listen to this
- De Surf en 11-18-20
De: Tobias Wolff
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Black Light
- Stories
- De: Kimberly King Parsons
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows - those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow
- De Steven Cain en 10-01-24
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Daughters of the Dust
- A Gullah-Geechee Novel
- De: Julie Dash
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 61
Drawing from the magical world of her iconic Sundance award-winning film, Julie Dash’s stand-alone novel tells another rich, historical tale of the Gullah-Geechee people: a multigenerational story about a Brooklyn College anthropology student who finds an unexpected homecoming when she heads to the South Carolina Sea Islands to study her ancestors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My BFF Bahni...
- De Lillian Collins en 12-31-22
De: Julie Dash
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Queens of London
- De: Heather Webb
- Narrado por: Amy Scanlon
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
1925. LONDON. When Alice Diamond, a.k.a. “Diamond Annie,” is elected the queen of the Forty Elephants, she’s determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She’s ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her “family”—it’s how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she’s now the target for one of Britain’s first policewomen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don't worry about the dog!
- De Kristyn Rose en 04-11-24
De: Heather Webb
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The Making of Her
- A Novel
- De: Bernadette Jiwa
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Dublin 1996. Joan Egan lives an enviable life. She and her husband, Martin, and daughter, Carmel, are thriving in Dublin at the dawn of an economic boom. But everything changes when Joan receives a letter from Emma, the daughter who she and Martin gave up for adoption thirty years before, asking for a life-or-death favor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No one really knows what makes a person
- De Shelly Alli en 11-14-24
De: Bernadette Jiwa
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Our Kind of People
- De: Carol Wallace
- Narrado por: Suzanne Barbetta
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 144
Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into society. From the upper crust herself, Helen's unconventional--if happy--marriage has made the girls' social position precarious. Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live, but will it ruin the Wilcoxes first? As daughters Jemima and Alice navigate the rise and fall of their family--each is forced to re-examine who she is, and even who she is meant to love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listened to it three times
- De Antoinette en 09-30-23
De: Carol Wallace
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Paul
- 08-20-22
Hypnotic
I couldn't stop listening to it. One profound observation about the human condition after another, such as, "Identity is a story someone tells you about yourself." Or something like that.
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