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Zane Grey
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"The Shortstop" is a novel by Zane Grey a baseball insider about a 17 years old boy, who fights his way to success, and saves his mother and brother out of poverty.
Excerpt from the book: "I am going to be a baseball player." He waited quietly for her refusal, her reproach, her arguments, ready to answer them one by one. "I won’t let you be a ball player." "Mother, since father left us to shift for ourselves I’ve been the head of the house. I never disobeyed you before, but now - I’ve thought it out. I’ve made my plan." "Bah. Players are good-for-nothing loafers, rowdies. I won’t have my son associate with them." "They’ve a bad name, I’ll admit; but, mother, I don’t think it’s deserved. I’m not sure, but I believe they’re not so black as they are painted. Anyway, even if they are, it won’t hurt me. I’ve an idea that a young man can be square and successful in baseball as in anything else. I’d rather take any other chance, but there isn’t any."
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Chris Von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the St. Louis Browns, the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important - and funniest - figures in the game’s history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Well written and extensive research but just not interesting
- De Samuel C en 07-30-20
De: Edward Achorn
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Paper Lion
- Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
- De: George Plimpton, Nicholas Dawidoff - foreword
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when 60 high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still great, after all these years!
- De D. Lichtenstein en 06-15-17
De: George Plimpton, y otros
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One of Ours
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Kristen Underwood
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Claude Wheeler resembles the youngest son of an American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cather's writing is impeccable
- De Kelly en 12-20-19
De: Willa Cather
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
- De: Flannery O’Connor
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pride goeth before the fall
- De Ryan en 08-14-13
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Great American Stories
- De: Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce
- Narrado por: Patrick Fraley, Patrick Hagan
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Here are 10 unabridged stories by the greatest American authors. These treasured stories from the most influential authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries were selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Classic Stories
- De kutzkai en 03-13-21
De: Mark Twain, y otros
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The Road
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: T. Anthony Quinn
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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In The Road, Jack London embraces the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism through his autobiographical account of his time riding the rails of Canada and the United States. The author of White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and Sea Wolf, relays the time leading up to turning point in his life - a perfunctory trial and a 30-day imprisonment in the Erie County Penitentiary for the crime of vagrancy - an experience so degrading that he turned to a career in writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Charming, insightful, mind blowing.
- De Grover M Smith II en 05-27-20
De: Jack London
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The Invisible Wall
- A Love Story That Broke Barriers
- De: Harry Bernstein
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 421
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This enchanting true story, written when the author was 93, is a moving tale of working-class life, the social divide, and forbidden love on the eve of the first World War. The narrow street on which Harry grew up appeared identical to countless other working-class English neighborhoods, except for the invisible wall that ran down the center of the street, dividing the Jewish families on one side from the Christians on the other.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Powerful Tale
- De Sara en 11-29-13
De: Harry Bernstein
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,592
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,333
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,265
A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading from a new perspective
- De jb en 11-10-16
De: Mark Twain
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A Separate Peace
- De: John Knowles
- Narrado por: Scott Snively
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,350
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,115
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,122
Now a modern classic, this story of two boys' friendship at an exclusive New Hampshire prep school as it parallels the inescapable and escalating atmosphere of World War II, is intense and engaging to the last word.
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4 out of 5 stars
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How can one fault a Classic like this?
- De Theodore en 06-02-13
De: John Knowles
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat, Jessica Almasy, Victor Bevine, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 18 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 192
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This complete collection includes all of the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Good For Audio
- De Yennta en 06-18-12
De: Eudora Welty
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Twelve Mighty Orphans
- The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
- De: Jim Dent
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 260
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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In the 1930s and 1940s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites - a group of orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in spite of being outweighed by at least 30 pounds per man, were the toughest football team around. They began with nothing - not even a football - yet in a few years were playing for the state championship on the highest level of Texas football. This is a winning tribute to a courageous band of underdogs from a time when America desperately needed fresh hope and big dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story!!
- De Damian McKeon en 06-14-21
De: Jim Dent
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The Virginian
- De: Owen Wister
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 16 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 248
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He is the Virginian-the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks the birth of a legend that lives with us still.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could have read it better
- De Emily Adams en 09-29-20
De: Owen Wister
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The P.G. Wodehouse Collection
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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This title includes not only the entire audiobook of Right Ho, Jeeves, but also all of the P.G. Wodehouse titles in the current Classic Tales library. It also includes a Jeeves short story only available in the collection: "Extricating Young Gussie". The complete running time is over 15 hours. All titles have been remastered, and have never sounded better!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy this version of the wonderful Wodehouse stories
- De K Bell en 11-05-16
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Destry Rides Again
- De: Max Brand
- Narrado por: J. P. O'Shaughnessy
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 87
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Harry Destry was a rough-and-tumble fighter who never lost a battle. But after six years in jail for a robbery he didn't commit, he comes back a changed man. The townsfolk believe he's beaten. They think all the fight's gone right out of him. And that's exactly what Destry wants them to think....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unabridged doesn't mean unedited
- De Chris Haynes en 08-15-13
De: Max Brand
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The Sound and the Fury
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,858
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,398
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,396
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hang in
- De W.Denis en 07-11-05
De: William Faulkner