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The Essay
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Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio. It is the poorest road, in the poorest county, in the poorest region of the state. To make things worse, the name Hickam is synonymous with trouble. Jimmy Lee hails from a heathen mix of thieves, moonshiners, drunkards, and general anti-socials that for decades have clung to both the hardscrabble hills and the iron bars of every jail cell in the region. This life, Jimmy Lee believes, is his destiny, someday working with his drunkard father at the sawmill, or sitting next to his arsonist brother in the penitentiary. There aren’t many options if your last name is Hickam.
An inspiring coach and Jimmy Lee's ability to play football are the only things motivating him to return for his junior year of high school - until his visionary English teacher cuts him a break and preserves his eligibility for the coming football season. To thank her, Jimmy Lee writes a winning essay in the high school writing contest. When irate parents and the baffled administration claim he has cheated, his teacher is inspired to take his writing talent as far as it can go, showing him the path out of the hills of Appalachia.
Terrific characterizations, surprising revelations, gut-wrenching past betrayals, and an unforgettable cast of characters born of the dusty, worn-out landscape of southeastern Ohio make The Essay a powerful, evocative, and incredibly moving novel.
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Robin Yocum's novel The Essay is an inspiring and humorous story about Jimmy Lee Hickam, a kid who lives in rural Ohio. As Jimmy sees it, when he grows up, he'll either be locked up or boozing and working at the mill. A teacher shows Jimmy, though, that there just may be another way to get out of Appalachia. Listening to Fleet Cooper is a joy. He brings to life a variety of characters, from gruff drunkards to Jimmy's idealistic teacher. Cooper's performance can be anywhere from quiet and touching to loud and bellicose.
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- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 m
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Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....
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The Perfect Example
- De Sarah en 08-01-17
De: Tobias Wolff
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The White Boy Shuffle
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people".
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So beautiful
- De mp en 06-15-18
De: Paul Beatty
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Pay Dirt Road
- De: Samantha Jayne Allen
- Narrado por: Sandy Rustin
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction, Annie is lured into the family business—a private investigation firm—by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Leroy, despite the rest of the clan's misgivings.
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Great Narration
- De Cindy Buell NZ en 05-04-22
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We'll Fly Away
- De: Bryan Bliss
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Best friends since childhood, Luke and Toby have dreamed of one thing: getting out of their dead-end town. Soon they finally will, riding the tails of Luke's wrestling scholarship, never looking back. If they don't drift apart first. If Toby's abusive dad, or Luke's unreliable mom, or anything else their complicated lives throw at them doesn't get in the way. In a format that alternates between Luke's letters to Toby from death row and the events of their senior year, Bryan Bliss expertly unfolds the circumstances that led to Luke's incarceration.
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Great Story Except....
- De Willizz en 05-18-18
De: Bryan Bliss
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
- De: A. S. King
- Narrado por: Lynde Houck
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone - the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to? Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: Smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.
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Moving, disturbing, and humorous
- De Julie en 08-26-11
De: A. S. King
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The Flood Girls
- A Novel
- De: Richard Fifield
- Narrado por: Kathleen Early
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is "a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer" (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious and unforgettable cast of characters you won't want to leave behind.
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WOW! Just WOW.
- De chamilton en 07-09-16
De: Richard Fifield
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Rats Saw God
- De: Rob Thomas
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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By his senior year, Steve York has come through the worst two years of his life. His parents have divorced, and his girlfriend has betrayed him. Worse yet, after running away to live with his mother in San Diego, forays into the drug culture have turned his A-average into a thing of the past. Steve's only hope to graduate on time and avoid summer school is to write a 100-page paper for his guidance counselor. Unfortunately, he has to write about something he knows, and all he knows well are the last two years of his life.
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Real
- De Mary en 06-26-09
De: Rob Thomas
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Nine Lives
- Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
- De: Dan Baum
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings this kaleidoscopic portrait to life, showing us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved.
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Do not miss if you're interested in New Orleans
- De Kelly en 03-22-18
De: Dan Baum
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Fourth of July Creek
- A Novel
- De: Smith Henderson
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews, Jenna Lamia
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral 11-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.
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The Ghost of Tom Joad & the Wrath of Grapes
- De Mel en 06-30-14
De: Smith Henderson
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Brighton
- A Novel
- De: Michael Harvey
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Kevin Pearce - baseball star, honor student, the pride of Brighton - was 15 when he left town in the back of his uncle's cab. He and his buddy, Bobby Scales, had just committed heinous violence for what they thought were the best of reasons. Kevin didn't want a pass, but he was getting it anyway. Bobby would stay and face the music; Kevin's future would remain as bright as ever. At least that was the way things were supposed to work, except in Brighton things never work the way they're supposed to.
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Mystery gets no better.
- De William H. Harrington en 10-27-18
De: Michael Harvey
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Rain Dogs
- De: Sean Doolittle
- Narrado por: Basil Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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It was one hell of an inheritance for former Chicago reporter Tom Coleman: a broken-down pickup truck, ramshackle campground, a canoe livery - and one pot-smoking, barely working employee he doesn’t need, doesn’t want, and can’t afford. But the truth is, after losing a child and a marriage, Tom doesn’t really care.
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- De Karen Martin en 03-09-21
De: Sean Doolittle
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Chasing Spring
- De: R.S. Grey
- Narrado por: Alia Tavakolian, Ricco Fajardo, Jeannie Tirado
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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I thought I'd left Blackwater, Texas, behind for good. I didn't belong in the small town, but my dad wouldn't listen. He dragged me back home in his beat-up truck and dropped a bomb along the way: Chase Matthews was moving in with us. He was the golden boy of my high school, my former best friend, and the last person I wanted sleeping across the hall. His presence was too great a reminder of the ghosts I was trying to forget.
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This book bummed me out.
- De Lauren Helms en 07-06-16
De: R.S. Grey
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Marlena
- A Novel
- De: Julie Buntin
- Narrado por: Emma Galvin
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify.
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A Brilliant, Agonizing Portrait of a Young Woman
- De Sudi en 06-06-17
De: Julie Buntin
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When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch-blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl. The killing only magnifies Temple's ongoing troubles: a formidable opponent in the upcoming election, the repugnant burden of enforcing farm foreclosures, and his wife's lingering grief over the loss of their eight-year-old son. As the sheriff and his young deputy investigate the murder, their suspicions focus on a teenager, Carmine, serving with the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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- K Lauver
- 08-28-21
What a story! Love this author
Amazing writer, fabulous narrator. Could listen to this over and over. So glad I did
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- doug jones
- 06-26-21
Loved it!
Great listen. Survival and self elevation and overcoming the odds. Found myself rooting for the main charachter
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- SarahUSA
- 05-07-22
A NEW Book for me to add to my Top 20 List!
Amazingly written and told!
What a beautiful story, touching on so many levels and life lessons careful presented…there is a lot to think about and discuss. I believe this text would be a great class read / literature book for 8th-12th grade as well.
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- Coby
- 07-10-22
Hard to 'put down'
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Am fast becoming a fan of the author. Narrator was excellent and easy to listen to.
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- Emma Rae Martinez
- 07-19-22
Exceptional
This is a coming of age that speaks to the human spirit. Story and Narration was great.
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- Dianne
- 10-02-22
excellent excellent excellent
at first I had my doubts about this book but I hung in there and I'm so glad that I did. have you ever had somebody who believed in you that changed you and turned your life around into a different trajectory? I have, this was a great reminder how we can overcome and be successful regardless of your upbringing. This is a book that you will be glad that you read., cheering all the way for the underdog or underdogs in this read.
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- mary miller
- 10-08-22
Book of the Year
A wonderful story of a family that suffered, and survived a family member that drank and abused the whole family. The thing about one that gives the abuse doesn’t suffer in the same way as the person giving it. This story showed that if you persist and keeping your eye on the ball, good will win. There was so much thought and preparation put into every paragraph, the story was very believable. I couldn’t put the book down. I loved it. I didn’t want it to end! This is a great book for everyone, but young people that have suffered abuse there’s help, don’t give up. Look until you find what you need! I give this book a 10 for sure!
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- Pam
- 09-28-22
Wonderful story!
Interesting characters and great story line. I don't like reviews that give anything away so I'll stop there. But, well worth the listen!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-28-22
Best book I've listened to in a long while...
I can't believe I've spent so much time and money on audio books of lesser quality. This book had me by the heart strings.
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- Katie Johnson
- 09-05-22
Amazing!
It was amazing. I did not want to stop listening! I will be listening to another of his! Bravo
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