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Thomas Leverett
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These are short stories that proved very popular with English (ESL) learners. They have a personal touch and are timeless. They should be easy to listen to and should not take long.
©2005 Thomas Leverett (P)2020 Thomas LeverettLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alcoholic PI
- De Karwyn en 05-17-18
De: Kristen Lepionka
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The Last Refuge
- De: Chris Knopf
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 872
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 868
Sam Acquillo is at the end of the line: he's a middle-aged corporate dropout living in a ramshackle cottage in Southampton's North Sea. But then the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub, and it seems that Sam is the only one who wonders why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A hero who doesn't work and play well with others.
- De Cholmondeley en 04-04-13
De: Chris Knopf
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Before She Was Helen
- A Novel
- De: Caroline B. Cooney
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn't there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her cell phone and makes the irrevocable error of forwarding it. As the picture swirls over the internet, Clemmie tries desperately to keep a grip on her own personal network of secrets. Can 50 years of careful hiding under names not her own be ruined by one careless picture?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun
- De Mary H en 09-13-20
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The Bikini Car Wash
- De: Pamela Morsi
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
After Andrea Wolkowicz abandons corporate life to help care for her sister, she quickly wears out the want ads in their rust-belt hometown. Time to be her own boss. Every mogul knows the best idea is an old idea with a new twist. So Andi proudly revives her father’s business: an old-fashioned car wash...staffed entirely by bikini-clad women. That ought to get traffic—and blood—flowing on Grosvenor Street!
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narrator; Great Story; Elegant Insights
- De EGrace en 07-31-10
De: Pamela Morsi
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The Upside
- A Memoir
- De: Abdel Sellou
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In 1992, Count Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo, on the heels of his wife's diagnosis with a terminal illness, suffered a paragliding accident that left him a quadriplegic. Forty-two years old, trapped inside his luxurious Paris town house, he was an outcast for the first time in his life. Abdel, an unemployed Algerian immigrant who had been an outcast for his entire existence, would become Phillipe's unlikely caretaker. Quick-thinking, unsentimental, and more than a little wild, Abdel surprises both himself and his employer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- De RockyDog en 01-31-19
De: Abdel Sellou
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 297
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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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When a Stranger Comes to Town
- De: Michael Koryta
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay, Janina Edwards, Fajer Al-Kaisi, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrators are outstanding here.
- De Jennifer Baratta She/Her en 05-16-21
De: Michael Koryta
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Tagged for Death
- A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery
- De: Sherry Harris
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Starting your life over at age 38 isn't easy, but that's what Sarah Winston finds herself facing when her husband CJ runs off with a 19-year-old temptress named Tiffany. Sarah's self-prescribed therapy happily involves hitting all the garage and tag sales in and around her small town in Massachusetts. But after returning from a particularly successful day searching for yard-sale treasures, Sarah finds a grisly surprise in one of her bags: a freshly bloodied shirt...that undoubtedly belongs to her ex, CJ, who now happens to be Ellington's chief of police. And Tiffany has gone missing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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frustrating book
- De Anonymous User en 01-08-23
De: Sherry Harris
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The Cubans
- Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
- De: Anthony DePalma
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Anthony DePalma
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 44
Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The real Cuba
- De Tinkerbell en 10-11-20
De: Anthony DePalma
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The Shanghai Free Taxi
- Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
- De: Frank Langfitt
- Narrado por: Frank Langfitt
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
In this adventurous, original book, NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt describes how he created a free taxi service - offering rides in exchange for illuminating conversation - to go beyond the headlines and get to know a wide range of colorful, compelling characters representative of the new China. They include folks like "Beer", a slippery salesman who tries to sell Langfitt a used car; Rocky, a farm boy turned Shanghai lawyer; and Chen, who runs an underground Christian church and moves his family to America in search of a better, freer life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too political
- De dah551 en 06-26-19
De: Frank Langfitt
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This Is Chance!
- The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 146
In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis - the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. This Is Chance! is the thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster - and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together.
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4 out of 5 stars
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amazing story
- De Dani L en 02-07-21
De: Jon Mooallem