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Narrado por:
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Nancy Linari
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Peter Berkrot
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Tristan Wright
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Ben Lerner
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2019 New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
2019 NPR Best Book of the Year
2019 National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
2019 Vogue Magazine Best Books of the Year
2019 Time Magazine Top 10 Books of the Year
2019 NYT Outstanding Books of the Year
2019 The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year
2020 Folio Prize Shortlist
2019 Washington Post Best Books of the Year
2019 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year
2019 New York Magazine Best Books of the Year
2020 Pulitzer Prize - Finalist
2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
2019 Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year
2019 NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing
Named one of the most anticipated fall books by Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Vogue, Vulture, The Observer, Kirkus, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Week, Oprah Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Nylon, Pacific Standard, Publishers Weekly, Slate, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Guardian
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right.
Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart - who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father’s patient - into the social scene, to disastrous effect.
Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane’s reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan’s marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.
Cover photograph from The Wichita Eagle. © 1990 McClatchy. All rights reserved. Used under license. Kansas.com
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The Foundling tells the incredible and inspiring true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered via a DNA test that he was not who he thought he was - and set out to solve two 50-year-old mysteries at once. Along the way he upturned the genealogy industry, unearthed his family's deepest secrets, and broke open the second longest cold-case in US history, all in a desperate bid to find out who he really is.
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Prepare yourself for a journey that will take you to shocking places!
- De OUChris en 04-04-17
De: Paul Joseph Fronczak, y otros
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Animal
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Taddeo
- Narrado por: Emma Roberts
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child - that has haunted her every waking moment - while forging the power to finally strike back.
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Should come with a lot of trigger warnings
- De Quinn en 07-13-21
De: Lisa Taddeo
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Why I Stayed
- The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour
- De: Gayle Haggard, Angela Hunt - contributor
- Narrado por: Gayle Haggard
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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On November 2, 2006, Gayle Haggard's life changed forever when her husband, Ted Haggard, founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was publicly exposed in a scandal. In the days and months ahead, everything in Gayle's life was at stake—her beliefs, her marriage, and her relationship with the church community she had been a part of for more than 20 years.
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Speechless & Overwhelmed
- De Rosa Lydick en 08-30-19
De: Gayle Haggard, y otros
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A Likely Story
- A Novel
- De: Leigh McMullan Abramson
- Narrado por: Mia Barron, Cynthia Farrell, James Fouhey, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from Isabelle, but Claire made sure her childhood was always filled with magic and love. Now an adult, after many false starts and the unexpected death of her mother, she faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday alone and on the verge of a breakdown.
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Cute story
- De Loen Bradford en 01-10-25
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Libertie
- De: Kaitlyn Greenidge
- Narrado por: Channie Waites
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, had a vision for their future together: Libertie would go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie, drawn more to music than science, feels stifled by her mother’s choices and is hungry for something else - is there really only one way to have an autonomous life? And she is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother who can pass, Libertie has skin that is too dark.
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absolutely loved ir
- De kimberly eisner en 04-07-21
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The Shadow Land
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Kostova
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi - and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes.
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Mysterious and Beautiful
- De Mel en 04-23-17
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A Nearly Normal Family
- De: M. T. Edvardsson, Rachel Wilson-Broyles - translator
- Narrado por: Emily Watson, Georgia Maguire, Richard Armitage
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost 15 years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect.
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Interesting storytelling
- De Jenn en 07-02-19
De: M. T. Edvardsson, y otros
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The Music of Bees
- A Novel
- De: Eileen Garvin
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned out the way she dreamed. Even the beloved honeybees she raises in her spare time aren't helping her feel better these days.
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A little too many political agendas
- De Mike Thompson en 05-26-21
De: Eileen Garvin
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Housekeeping (40th Anniversary Edition)
- A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.
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A small and perfect novel
- De martin hall en 03-06-21
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Ararat
- De: Christopher Golden
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Christopher Golden's Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong - on a biblical scale. When an earthquake reveals a secret cave hidden inside Mount Ararat in Turkey, a daring, newly engaged couple are determined to be the first ones inside...and what they discover will change everything. The cave is actually a buried ancient ship that many quickly come to believe is Noah's Ark. When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses.
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Chilling then dragged on too long.....
- De Barbara en 05-17-17
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Her One Mistake
- De: Heidi Perks
- Narrado por: Kirsty Dillon, Julie Maisey, Sally Scott
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Charlotte was supposed to be looking after the children, and she swears she was. She only took her eyes off of them for one second. But when her three kids are all safe and sound at the school fair, and Alice, her best friend Harriet’s daughter, is nowhere to be found, Charlotte panics. Frantically searching everywhere, Charlotte knows she must find the courage to tell Harriet that her beloved only child is missing. And admit that she has only herself to blame.
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wow!
- De lisa en 03-04-19
De: Heidi Perks
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Of Bone and Thunder
- A Novel
- De: Chris Evans
- Narrado por: Todd Haberkorn
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
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In this strange, new world deep among the shadows under a triple-canopy jungle and plagued by dangers real and imagined, soldiers strive to fulfill a mission they don’t understand and are ill-equipped to carry out. And high above them, the heavy rush of wings slashing through the humid air herald a coming wave of death and destruction, and just possibly, salvation.
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Good war story witty fantasy involved.
- De Stacy S. Gottschalk en 05-09-22
De: Chris Evans
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Notes on a Silencing
- A Memoir
- De: Lacy Crawford
- Narrado por: Lacy Crawford
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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When Notes on a Silencing hit bookstores in the summer of 2020, even amidst a global pandemic, it sent shockwaves through the country. Not only did this intimate investigative memoir usher in a media storm of coverage, but it also prompted the elite St. Paul's School to issue a formal apology to the author, Lacy Crawford, for its handling of her report of sexual assault by two fellow students nearly 30 years ago.
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Everything about this book is magnificent
- De swimmergal en 08-15-20
De: Lacy Crawford
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City of the Lost
- A Rockton Novel (Casey Duncan Novels, Book 1)
- De: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: When she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster, and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives.
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I wouldn't want to live here!
- De shelley en 03-11-18
De: Kelley Armstrong
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- sean
- 01-07-20
Fugue Ease
One of the narrators pronounced the name of the Fugees incorrectly as "Fugue Ease" and I think the author would be ashamed, considering it is a coming of age tale set in the late nineties.
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- Gordy
- 01-22-20
Another amazing Lerner
Really loved it. Great narrators. Wildly complex and beautiful story. I say listen to it right now.
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- J. Sachs
- 11-25-20
The best book I’ve listened to in years.
This has been the most enjoyable book to listen to that I’ve heard in years.
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- chetyarbrough.blog
- 01-23-20
BULLY FOR YOU
Ben Lerner is a writer with academic and literary awards that attest to his intelligence and accomplishment.
“The Topeka School” makes one wonder what makes a child become a bully. Does affluence have anything to do with it? Is it because of superior intelligence? Is it because of genetic pre-disposition? Lerner creates a boy’s childhood that suggests some bullies do come from the aforementioned.
The structure of “The Topeka School” is disconcerting and may make some reader/listeners put the book down. The book will lose some who cannot identify with Lerner’s characters because of their social status and accomplishment in life. The struggles of the Gordon family seem distant from the lives of many people who do not come from families as smart or financially accomplished as those in Lerner's story.
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- Housepants97
- 02-14-20
Great novel, narration flawed...
A beautiful novel, a beautiful writer. The story was graceful and quiet but moved swiftly, I couldn’t put it down. I felt like it was moving towards something major with the Darren character but it kind of didn’t— regardless of that I still thought it was great. One note is that one of the narrators should know how to pronounce popular musicians names/musical acts, such as Brian Eno (it’s pronounced “eee-no”) and for crying out loud, The Fugees are world famous and pronounced like slang for word “refugee” and not like “FOO-GEES.” How did no one notice this during editing? Embarrassing. It’s 2020 come on.
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- Joanna
- 05-24-21
Droll
I listened to this book and still have no idea what it what’s about. There were several points of view...and I have no idea why. The ending was a bit baffling, seeming to come from nowhere, and the main point of the story is completely lost on me.
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- Gretchen
- 01-10-20
interesting, unique and compelling
A strong investigation of language, meaning and noise. Not as political as other reviewers complain.
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- Kathryn G
- 05-31-20
challenging
it took a long time (I was almost done) for this book to teach me how to read it. I found the application of multiple literary gimmicks disorienting, but by the time I got to the end, I suspected the author intended exactly that effect. When I got it, I was impressed by the depth and richness with which the story explores its themes.It is probably worth a second read,, but i doubt I will.. I felt like it was an overwhelming indictment of our expectations of modern masculinity with no glimmer of hope or path foward, which made me sad.
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- Golanka
- 08-05-20
Great Family Drama--And More!
A really fantastic story dealing with life in the latter part of the 20th century. I really liked the multiple perspectives (different characters POV and at different times). The "whole" story slowly comes into focus.
Lerner creates characters and settings that feel "real" to me.
I thought the narration was good albeit with a few pronunciation bloopers.
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- V.R.
- 08-09-20
Sooo gooooood
I loved this book. Almost everything about it except when the narrator said fuGees with a hard g- duuuude
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