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De: Ava Dellaira
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
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City of Night
- De: John Rechy
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 17 h y 57 m
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When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international best seller, and 50 years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge.
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A seminal classic
- De Robert Simmons en 09-22-19
De: John Rechy
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The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
- De: Rebecca Wells
- Narrado por: Judith Ivey
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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A tale of family and friendship, tragedy and triumph, loss and love, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder features the warmth, humor, soul, and wonder that have made Wells one of today's most cherished writers, and gives us an unforgettable new heroine to treasure.
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Loved it, Ya'll!
- De Ella Gracen en 08-11-09
De: Rebecca Wells
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Chanel Bonfire
- De: Wendy Lawless
- Narrado por: Wendy Lawless
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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By the time Wendy Lawless turned 17, she'd known for quite some time that she didn't have a normal mother. But that didn't stop her from wanting one.... Georgann Rea didn't bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She went through men like Kleenex, and didn't like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine and the cold heart to match.
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Not an Engaging Listen
- De Sobriquet en 03-13-13
De: Wendy Lawless
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Without a Map
- A Memoir
- De: Meredith Hall
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood.
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Not Your Average "16 and Pregnant"
- De Susie en 12-11-12
De: Meredith Hall
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The Real Animal House
- De: Chris Miller
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Animal House, the film adaptation of stories Chris Miller published in National Lampoon about his experiences at a Dartmouth fraternity, is among the most beloved and successful comedies of all time. In fact, its portrayal of college party life is still imitated on campuses across the country: toga party, anyone? Now Chris Miller can finally answer the fans who all want to know one thing: was it really like that? The answer: yes, but much, much more out of control!
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This book makes the movie look tame.
- De Arthur en 08-31-12
De: Chris Miller
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The Far Empty
- De: J. Todd Scott
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff's deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly returned to his hometown.
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I really wanted to like this
- De Sandy en 01-09-20
De: J. Todd Scott
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Always Running
- La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
- De: Luis J. Rodriguez
- Narrado por: Luis J. Rodriguez
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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By age 12, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
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Book for all educators
- De Heather M. Vitz en 03-15-15
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A Good Idea
- De: Cristina Moracho
- Narrado por: Alex McKenna
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Finley and Betty's close friendship survived Fin's ninth-grade move from their coastal Maine town to Manhattan. Calls, letters, and summer visits continued to bind them together, and in the fall of their senior year, they both applied to NYU, planning to reunite for good as roommates. Then Betty disappears.
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An absolute must listen/read!
- De Mel en 03-05-17
De: Cristina Moracho
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Outer Banks
- De: Anne Rivers Siddons
- Narrado por: C. J. Critt
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
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Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig. They came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding early friendship, they spent two idyllic spring breaks at Nags Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weather-beaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea.
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Rather Depressing Tho Good Storyline
- De Gracie en 02-16-18
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The Source of All Things
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy Ross
- Narrado por: Tracy Ross
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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A loving and devoted step-father, Donnie introduced Tracy Ross's family to the joys of fishing, deer hunting, camping, and hiking among the pristine mountains of rural Idaho. Donnie was everything Tracy dreamed a dad would be: protective, brave, and kind. But when his dependence on his eight-year-old daughter's companionship went too far, everything changed.
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Brave Woman
- De Ray Stewart en 06-23-24
De: Tracy Ross