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No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen, she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the wry, rebellious, and vision-haunted heroine of this exhilarating novel may sometimes seem to be living a magnolia-scented Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Blanche McCrary Boyd's The Revolution of Little Girls is a completely original and captivating work.
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book. I wish the pictures had been included.
- De Lindsay en 02-28-20
De: Sarah M. Broom
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The Paper Palace
- A Novel
- De: Miranda Cowley Heller
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8,064
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,034
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7,023
It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a 50-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace” - the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: Last night, Elle and her oldest friend, Jonas, crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The story has too much child abuse discription
- De DTurek en 07-14-21
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I sure tried.
- De A.C. CALLOWAY en 01-28-24
De: Joy Williams
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The Past Is Never
- A Novel
- De: Tiffany Quay Tyson
- Narrado por: Devon Sorvari
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot, and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water - until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes...not drowned, not lost, simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing Southern gothic tale
- De Robert Jason en 03-11-20
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Before the Storm
- De: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrado por: Abby Craden, Kris Koscheski
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 246
Laurel Lockwood lost her son once through neglect. She's spent the rest of her life determined to make up for her mistakes, and she has succeeded in becoming a committed, protective parent-maybe even overprotective. Still, she loosens her grip just enough to let Andy attend a local church social-a decision that terrifies her when the church is consumed by fire. But Andy survives...and remarkably, saves other children from the flames.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book...HORRIBLE performance
- De Andrea en 03-10-15
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Embassy Wife
- A Novel
- De: Katie Crouch
- Narrado por: Marni Penning
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia, takes her job as a representative of her country seriously and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive a range of problems: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s general counsel but instead a secret agent in the CIA. She takes the new trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Have narrator re-record this book
- De Amazon Customer en 09-30-21
De: Katie Crouch
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June Bug
- De: Chris Fabry
- Narrado por: Chris Fabry
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 172
For as long as she can remember, June Bug and her father have traveled the back roads of the country in their beat-up RV, spending many nights parked at Walmart. One morning, as she walks past the greeter at the front of the store, her eyes are drawn to the pictures of missing children, where she is shocked to see herself. This discovery begins a quest for the truth about her father, the mother he rarely speaks about, and ultimately herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get Out The Box Of Tissues
- De 20eagle16 en 07-03-21
De: Chris Fabry
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Lone Stars
- De: Justin Deabler
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read for bookclub but fell in Love
- De Ericka Lawson en 09-11-22
De: Justin Deabler
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The Story of Arthur Truluv
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Berg
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,375
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,195
Three people find their way back from loss and loneliness to a different kind of belonging in this deeply moving novel. Arthur, an old widower struggling to overcome his grief, meets Maddy, a troubled teenage girl who avoids school by hiding out where Arthur goes every day for lunch. The two strike up a friendship that draws them out of isolation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sickly Sweet
- De Amazon Customer en 01-19-18
De: Elizabeth Berg
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The Time Traveler's Wife
- De: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrado por: Fred Berman, Phoebe Strole
- Duración: 17 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,793
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,255
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,274
Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36. They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was 31. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite books
- De Joey en 01-13-08