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Carrying Albert Home
- The Somewhat True Story of a Woman, a Husband, and Her Alligator
- De: Homer Hickam
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando, where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed, and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields, married to Homer.
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Absolutely Delightful!!
- De Sharon en 03-01-16
De: Homer Hickam
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If I am Missing or Dead
- A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
- De: Janine Latus
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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In April 2002, Janine Latus' youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. "Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved", it read, "but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me...."
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All About Janine
- De Ellen en 07-02-07
De: Janine Latus
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My True Love Gave to Me
- Twelve Holiday Stories
- De: Stephanie Perkins - editor
- Narrado por: Various
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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You're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.
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Nice Holiday Read
- De Doha en 11-23-16
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Too Close to the Falls
- A Memoir
- De: Catherine Gildiner
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the middle of the 1950s in Lewiston, New York, a small and sleepy American town very near Niagara Falls. No one is divorced. Mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon and children pop Pez candy and swing from vines over a local gorge. But at the tender age of four, it becomes clear to her Cathy's parents that their rambunctious daughter is no ordinary child and they soon put her "to work" at her father's pharmacy.
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Brilliant and funny and touching.
- De Kindle Customer en 11-07-19
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She's Come Undone
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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Really disappointing narrator!
- De Jessica Williams en 01-21-12
De: Wally Lamb
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The Lost Husband
- De: Katherine Center
- Narrado por: Amy Rubinate
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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"Dear Libby, It occurs to me that you and your two children have been living with your mother for - Dear Lord! - two whole years, and I'm writing to see if you'd like to be rescued." The letter comes out of the blue, and just in time for Libby Moran, who - after the sudden death of her husband, Danny - went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country.
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wonderful story. narrator kind of a sad sack.
- De Susan Reynolds en 07-24-19
De: Katherine Center
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Orange Mint and Honey
- De: Carleen Brice
- Narrado por: Cherise Booth
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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After grad school, Shay Dixon feels like she's had enough for awhile. Inspired by her spiritual adviser - a soul-soothing blues player named Nina Simon - Shay calls her estranged mother Nona for the first time in years, and shocks herself by asking if it would be okay to come home for a while.
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One For The Money
- De DiaRose en 09-25-17
De: Carleen Brice
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Among the Lesser Gods
- De: Margo Catts
- Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally set as a child to her mother's abandonment and now an unwanted pregnancy, she knows better than most that small actions can have terrible consequences. Yet when her grandmother calls and asks her to watch over the children of a recent widower in a small, isolated town in Colorado, she takes it as a chance to finally organize her life.
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Without a doubt...
- De RueRue en 10-07-19
De: Margo Catts
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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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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
- A Novel
- De: Ruth Emmie Lang
- Narrado por: Piper Goodeve, Peter Berkrot, Cassandra Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Stopping a tornado was the first of many strange events that seem to follow Weylyn from town to town, although he doesn't like to take credit. As amazing as these powers may appear, they tend to manifest themselves at inopportune times and places. From freak storms to trees that appear to grow over night, Weylyn's unique abilities are a curiosity at best and at worst, a danger to himself and the woman he loves. But Mary doesn't care.
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An Accidental Wonder!
- De Brandy Pendergrass en 02-16-18
De: Ruth Emmie Lang
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Shade of My Own Tree
- De: Sheila Williams
- Narrado por: Patricia R. Floyd
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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When Opal Sullivan walks out on an abusive husband after 15 years, she has only her dreams in her pocket. Her new beginning starts in a graceful but dilapidated house. Like Opal, the house is worn-out and somewhat beaten up, but it still stands proudly and deserves a second chance. Opal opens her doors - and her heart - to a parade of unforgettable characters. It is one of these people who helps Opal understand a funny thing about life: You can't move forward if you keep looking back.
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Im not sure if I wanted this book to end
- De Nichole F. en 05-10-19
De: Sheila Williams
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- De: Emily M. Danforth
- Narrado por: Beth Laufer
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Cameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident. Their deaths mean they will never learn the truth she eventually comes to - that she's gay. Orphaned, Cameron comes to live with her old-fashioned grandmother and ultraconservative aunt Ruth. When she’s eventually outed, her aunt sends her to God’s Promise, a religious conversion camp that is supposed to “cure” her homosexuality. At the camp, Cameron comes face to face with the cost of denying her true identity.
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A very worthwhile Read!
- De TENA en 11-02-14
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The Red Umbrella
- De: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
- Narrado por: Kyla Garcia
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States - on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life?
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The performance
- De Luca en 04-05-24
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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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Great
- De chris en 04-11-08
De: Tobias Wolff
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The reader ruins it.
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It's the little things that count.
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It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to serve overseas, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob’s wife, Naomi, as well.
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The depth of the characters
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For the past 30 years, their lives have been defined by cramped spaces and gossipy neighbors. But when Mr. Jha comes into an enormous sum of money - the result of an unexpectedly successful internet venture - he moves his reluctant wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to the super-rich side of town, ultimately forcing them, and their son, to reckon with who they are and what really matters to them.
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A Struggle
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December 2008. A heavy snowstorm is blowing through Manhattan and the economy is on the brink of collapse, but none of that matters to a handful of guests at a posh holiday party. Five years after their college graduation, the fiercely devoted friends at the heart of this richly absorbing novel remain as inseparable as ever.
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20-something Friends in New York, circa 2010
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- Pam H.
- 09-13-18
Missing any real emotion
Placing the prejudice toward Native Americans in the voices of the characters was confusing. It had no place in the story line and left the racism hanging without any redemption or explanation. It's hard to believe that the author grew up in South Dakota, she missed a deep knowledge and feeling for the people and places.
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