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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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Lone Stars
- De: Justin Deabler
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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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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Heartwood
- The Art of Living with the End in Mind
- De: Barbara Becker
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die? With a keen eye toward that which makes life worth living, interfaith minister, mom, and perpetual seeker Barbara Becker recounts stories where life and death intersect in unexpected ways.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The author’s compassion
- De Amazon Customer en 04-16-24
De: Barbara Becker
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He Came in with It
- A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness
- De: Miriam Feldman
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O’Rourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens off the conventional course. Like the 10 Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another: violence, evictions, arrests, a suicide attempt, a near-drowning - even cancer and a brain tumor - play against the backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Beautifully Written
- De Michael en 08-01-22
De: Miriam Feldman
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Native Country of the Heart
- A Memoir
- De: Cherríe Moraga
- Narrado por: Cherríe Moraga
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherrie Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherrie and her mother, and of their people, are woven together in a story of critical reflection and deep personal revelation as Moraga charts her own coming to consciousness alongside the heartbreaking story of her mother's decline.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must read for all chicanx
- De Rachel Barnett en 04-28-19
De: Cherríe Moraga
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
- A Novel
- De: Juliet Grames
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and her sister, Tina, must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misogyny at its worst
- De brenda en 01-15-20
De: Juliet Grames
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My Father's Paradise
- A Son's Search For His Family's Past
- De: Ariel Sabar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrative is compelling, unique and yet universal for those displaced
- De Anonymous User en 05-19-24
De: Ariel Sabar
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In the Shadow of the Valley
- A Memoir
- De: Bobi Conn
- Narrado por: Bobi Conn
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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Bobi Conn was raised in a remote Kentucky holler in 1980s Appalachia. She remembers her tin-roofed house tucked away in a vast forest paradise; the sparkling creeks, with their frogs and crawdads; the sweet blackberries growing along the road to her granny’s; and her abusive father. An elegiac account of survival despite being born poor, female, and cloistered, Bobi’s testament is one of hope for all vulnerable populations, particularly women and girls caught in the cycle of poverty and abuse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard Pass
- De Kathryn Liggett en 06-13-20
De: Bobi Conn
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As I Knew Him
- My Dad, Rod Serling
- De: Anne Serling
- Narrado por: Anne Serling
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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To Anne Serling, the imposing figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week, intoning cautionary observations about fate, chance, and humanity, was not the father she knew. Her fun-loving dad would play on the floor with the dogs, had nicknames for everyone in the family, and was apt to put a lampshade on his head and break out in song. He was her best friend, her playmate, and her confidant. After his unexpected death at 50, Anne, just 20, was left stunned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Beautiful Tribute to a Wonderful Man
- De Becky en 04-12-20
De: Anne Serling
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The Undocumented Americans
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrado por: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer's phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants—and to find the hidden key to her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw, heartbreaking - we can do better by others
- De RapaciousReader en 04-11-20
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In the Time of Our History
- De: Susanne Pari
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
- De J. E. Jordan en 05-23-23
De: Susanne Pari