In the Land of Good Living
A Journey to the Heart of Florida
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A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls "America Concentrate".
In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell - broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure - set off to walk across Florida. Mythic, superficial, soaked in contradictions, maligned by cultural elites, segregated from the South, and literally vanishing into the sea, Florida (or, as he calls it: "America Concentrate") seemed to Russell to embody America's divided soul. The journey, with two friends intent on filming the ensuing mayhem, quickly reduces the trio to filthy drifters pushing a shopping cart of camera equipment. They get waylaid by a concerned citizen bearing a rifle; buy cocaine from an ex-wrestler; visit a spiritual medium.
The narrative overflows with historical detail about how modern Florida came into being after World War II, and how it came to be a petri dish for life in a suddenly, increasingly diverse new land of minority-majority cities and of unrivaled ethnic and religious variety. Russell has taken it all in with his incomparably focused lens and delivered an audiobook that is both an inspired travelogue and a profound rumination on the nation's soul - and his own. It is an audiobook that is wildly vivid, encyclopedic, erudite, and ferociously irreverent - a deeply ambivalent love letter to his sprawling, brazenly varied home state.
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Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith's wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu's North Shore - a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger, and crime. For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, swarms of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, and Europeans flock to Oahu's paradisiacal North Shore for surfing's Triple Crown competition. Smith reveals how this influx transforms a sleepy strip of coast into a lawless, violent, drug-addled, and adrenaline-soaked mecca.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chas Smith is a jerk, but he writes well
- De Kevin Degnan en 12-15-22
De: Chas Smith, y otros
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1 Dead in Attic
- After Katrina
- De: Chris Rose
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor - in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still Makes Me Hurt
- De Gillian en 02-27-15
De: Chris Rose
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Forty Signs of Rain
- Science in the Capital, Book 1
- De: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim, Kim Stanley Robinson
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 194
The best-selling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital - and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Its all
- De steve en 01-07-09
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Walking to Listen
- 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
- De: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Narrado por: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 353
At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcends the typical trekking story
- De barefoot rabbit en 08-07-18
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Lost Memory of Skin
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Scott Shepherd
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 244
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 201
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks’s uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing "Must Read" Tale of (In)Justice in America
- De Ellen H. Anderson en 10-15-11
De: Russell Banks
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The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea
- Monuments, Missteps, and the Audacity of Ambition
- De: Russell Rathbun
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
We've been building and making things ever since we stumbled out of paradise. Some of those things are incredible continuations of God's creation, while others are nothing but ambitious catastrophes. We continue making, says Russell Rathbun, but we've lost ourselves in the process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narrator
- De Tammy en 03-17-18
De: Russell Rathbun
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The Longest Road
- Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
- De: Philip Caputo
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 107
Philip Caputo, who had just turned 70, his wife, and their two English setters took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered 17,000 miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than 80 Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 03-25-18
De: Philip Caputo
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The Company You Keep
- De: Neil Gordon
- Narrado por: Donald Corren, Hillary Huber, Kirby Heyborne, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Set against the rise and fall of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties. When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook of the Year
- De connie en 05-13-12
De: Neil Gordon
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The Not-Quite States of America
- Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
- De: Doug Mack
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Everyone knows that the United States of America is made up of 50 states and, uh...some other stuff. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands are often neglected, but they are filled with American flags and national parks and US post offices and some four million people, many of whom are as proudly red-white-and-blue as any Daughter of the American Revolution.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile Learning
- De Bessie Mae en 05-02-23
De: Doug Mack
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Visit Sunny Chernobyl
- And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
- De: Andrew Blackwell
- Narrado por: Ax Norman
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth - Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It’s rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada’s oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better than I predicted
- De Paul Luthi en 08-23-13
De: Andrew Blackwell
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Love, Africa
- A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
- De: Jeffrey Gettleman
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past 20 years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling his teenage dream of living in Africa. Love, Africa is the story of how he got there - and of his difficult, winding path toward becoming a good reporter and a better man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book!!!
- De Benjamin en 05-26-17
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To Shake the Sleeping Self
- A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
- De: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Narrado por: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,921
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,911
On the eve of turning 30, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent 16 months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates his adventure - the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world - as well as the internal journey that started it all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Different that I expected
- De Sabrina en 02-21-20
De: Jedidiah Jenkins
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A Bright Shore
- The Eden Chronicles, Book 1
- De: S.M. Anderson
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 434
The West's own governments are giving up, have already lost, or are leading the charge to something else. This doesn't sit well with those who believe in liberty. This is the story of a people who have lost the political fight, they've lost the culture wars, they haven't seen a level playing field in a generation, and they are about to be made serfs. None of that matters. They're leaving....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Take on Dystopian (socialist) Future
- De VaDavid en 08-04-20
De: S.M. Anderson
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Govt Cheese
- De: Steven Pressfield
- Narrado por: Steven Pressfield
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 186
People who have read my books, particularly “The War of Art” and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey of a particular solitary guy, wracked with guilt and riven by self-doubt, as he struggles toward his destiny as a writer. But they have only the scantiest conception of the particulars of that journey. These particulars I’m hoping may be of use to others as they wrestle with their own version of that same odyssey. So let me try to strip it down. Let me tell the parts I normally leave out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Work by a great storyteller
- De Vales Tales en 12-11-22
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In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond
- In Search of the Sasquatch
- De: John Zada
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
On the central and north coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, containing more organic matter than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. The area plays host to a wide range of species, from thousand-year-old western cedars to humpback whales to iconic white Spirit bears. According to local residents, another giant is said to live in these woods.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a relatable book
- De RJK en 07-14-19
De: John Zada
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Road Dog
- Life and Reflections from the Road as a Stand-up Comic
- De: Dov Davidoff
- Narrado por: Dov Davidoff
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Road Dog is comedian, actor, and writer, Dov Davidoff's unflinching memoir told through reflections of twelve months on the road. Davidoff travels across the country from college campuses to local theaters doing stand-up comedy and telling it like it is. He's been known to wax poetic about everything from encounters with large fake breasts, to people who have too many kids, to magnum condoms the size of CD cases. He is hilarious and relatable and will have you laughing at yourself in no time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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dark, real, & exceptional
- De Luis F Rodriguez en 11-22-17
De: Dov Davidoff
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The Deep Blue Good-By
- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 1
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 6 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,908
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4,353
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,361
He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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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 1,019
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 874
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 870
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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What do doctors actually think about when you list your problems in the consulting room? Are they really listening to you? Is the connection all in your head? Every day for 10 years - even while his hospital became the set for a reality television series - clinical neuropsychologist A. K. Benjamin confronted these questions, and this book is his attempt to tell the truth about what happens in these rooms in hospitals the world over.
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Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith - a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer - shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed. Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates (there are thousands of edible varieties in the sea!).
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Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish-American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia’s mother - Agnes Miller Christie - is a beautiful African-American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Each character is quite a character.
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In 1958, Riva is one of the first children born with spina bifida to survive. Her parents and doctors are determined to "fix" her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring countless medical interventions, Riva tries her best to be a good girl and a good patient in the quest to be cured. Everything changes when, as an adult, Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building Disability Culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best disability themed books I’ve ever read
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Sleeping with Strangers
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In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies - and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another good read from David Thomson
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Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life - and for poetry - than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters - a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love Unknown, Thomas Travisano, founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society, tells the story of the famous poet and traveler's life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love the book, just OK with the narration
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Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish-American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia’s mother - Agnes Miller Christie - is a beautiful African-American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Once More We Saw Stars
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As the story opens: Two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading up to her death, Once More We Saw Stars quickly becomes a narrative that is as much about hope and healing as it is about grief and loss.
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It will open your heart if you let it.
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Get Real, Get Gone
- How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever...
- De: Rick Page
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Rick's recent appearance on Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild chronicled his budget lifestyle and adventures aboard Calypso, and introduced the idea of budget sailing to a whole new audience - an audience who may have never considered the possibility that such a dream could be made a reality, on such a small amount of money. This book is for them and for any experienced sailors who want to cast off the yoke of consumerist yachting and get back to what really matters at sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book, but even better narrator
- De ChrisC en 10-05-22
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A Beginner's Guide to America
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Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice", Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Un believable book
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All the Lives We Ever Lived
- Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
- De: Katharine Smyth
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death - a calamity that claimed her favorite person - she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf’s most demanding and rewarding novel.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Surprised I Finished This
- De Amazon Customer en 03-25-22
De: Katharine Smyth
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The Good Hand
- A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown
- De: Michael Patrick F. Smith
- Narrado por: Michael Patrick F. Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota, five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa, and the Philippines. They ate and drank together, argued like crows, and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's aim was to find the hardest work he could - to find out if he could do it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Memoir in a Decade!
- De Jennifer T Platt en 02-22-21
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Stronghold
- One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
- De: Tucker Malarkey
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey’s eye-opening account of one of the world’s greatest fly fishermen and his crusade to protect the world’s last bastion of wild salmon. From a young age, Guido Rahr was a misfit among his family and classmates, preferring to spend his time in the natural world. When the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest began to decline, Guido was one of the few who understood why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtakingly Brilliant
- De Stephen Victor en 08-21-21
De: Tucker Malarkey
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Fierce Poise
- Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- De: Alexander Nemerov
- Narrado por: Alison Fraser
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fierce Poise
- De adnil en 06-16-21
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This Ordinary Stardust
- A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
- De: Alan Townsend PhD
- Narrado por: Alan Townsend PhD
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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At a time when society’s relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, THIS ORDINARY STARDUST offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational and touching!
- De Grace M en 08-18-24
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Five Days
- The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
- De: Wes Moore, Erica L. Green
- Narrado por: Wes Moore
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Other Wes Moore.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Ms Moni en 07-06-20
De: Wes Moore, y otros
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Chasing the Thrill
- Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
- De: Daniel Barbarisi
- Narrado por: Daniel Barbarisi
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Adventure!
- De Smartypants en 05-25-21
De: Daniel Barbarisi
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The Wild Silence
- A Memoir
- De: Raynor Winn
- Narrado por: Raynor Winn
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband, Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. And despite Moth's terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds, he seems revitalized in nature - outside, they discover that anything is possible. Now, life beyond The Salt Path awaits. As they return to four walls, the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great book!!
- De Anthony Mayfield en 01-04-23
De: Raynor Winn
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A Place in the World
- Finding the Meaning of Home
- De: Frances Mayes
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. From her travels across Italy to the American South, France, and Mexico, Mayes examines the connective tissue among them through the homes she’s inhabited.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lovely meditation on the meaning of home
- De Pamela F Roper en 02-19-23
De: Frances Mayes
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- Anonymous User
- 07-22-20
Unique
I enjoyed having the author read his funny, sad, scary and charming book to me.
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- Erin Rollo
- 05-26-22
Laughed & learned
As a fellow Floridian, I was thoroughly interested in the history of the state. The observational humor had me laughing out loud. The performance was perfect. I was most impressed with the structure of the book, seamlessly weaving the misadventure with the history while reflecting on the humanity of it all.
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- Jack Jernigan
- 10-28-21
Fantastic
As a third generation Floridian, this book perfectly encapsulates why I had to flee. Funny as all hell, this band of philosophical peripatetic clowns.
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- 08-11-20
Wanna be writer and other fools
These idiots set out to find "characters" in the real Florida and missed the entire state and it's beauty. The panhandle and Tallahassee in particular is one of the undiscovered jewels of Florida don't let this book be a guide to anything.
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